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Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

Disco Pope posted:

At some point, when escaping the clown and collecting VHS tapes, your character has to stick their hand in a box full of spiders, rusty razors and discarded needles.

"GUH!" They say in first person, as they lift their hand up to the screen and shake off the spiders, rusty razors and needles. "I don't wanna do that again!"

Their daughter is still missing.

Steam Tag: VR Support

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naem
May 29, 2011

the maker of Hallway Simulator (originally a looping backrooms game demo with some filters over it) (known to legions of fans as RAAWR BUTTS) is discovered to be a weird gross antisocial guy who let it go to his head when his game got popular and made awkward passes at women online asking if they like clowns or hallways or bending over a lot

a class action lawsuit is filed alleging the creator expected employees to wear wigs and that the dev office space had been remodeled to have yellow backrooms-colored cubical walls with really low shelving you had to stoop to get into

the massive multinational corporation that stepped in to produce the sequel knowingly ignored his many politically incorrect behaviors online and off for years due to a contract,

and brings in a new studio to develop the third game which features roaring female clowns in tight pants that can jump really high and there are only hallways in the opening cutscene and a vocal subset of fans are enraged that the female clowns are shown to be strong and empowered and one of the lady clowns is now a different race than in the first game

“9.9 stars!!” says game review website

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016

goatface posted:

Twelve haunted mansions, each with a harrowing past. Can you redecorate, market and flip them for a profit, all while avoiding or placating the increasing number of malicious spirits, dolls, murderers and children's entertainment professionals who are following you from one job to the next?

I’d actually play this one

Trillhouse
Dec 31, 2000

(japanese dev) the game's protagonist uses a perfectly modeled and textured Sig Sauer P210 (German Army stamped with original blueing and wooden grips). Half of the game's animation budget is spent on reloading animations and the protagonist loudly comments about how the improved trigger more than makes up for the lower capacity.

There are five enemies total in the game.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
We included realistic hydration requirements and detailed urination physics. It's all essential to the plot because while drinking heals you, the sexy werewolves can track you by your urine stains if you piss on the floor. But if you piss in a bottle or other container you might summon a piss-drinking clown who will chug it and then try to bite your lips off.

So it's all down to player choice.

naem
May 29, 2011

several minor characters with their in-game mechanics are put into a mod that makes the game a turn based online team strategy where once you collect a certain amount of resources your online team can’t not win and you get to dunk on your opponent nonstop unless they rage quit (called RAAWR’ing)

anyone unfamiliar with the original game (aka everyone over 30) will be confused by the hallway looking backgrounds or clown wigs or the fact that most of the characters have their butts pointed at the camera, or the fact most of the top leaderboard player base are korean now

“We have to heavily monetize this, 9.9 stars!” says big game developer

Junk
Dec 20, 2003

Listen to reason, man. Why make your job difficult?
the game is beat for beat the plot of silent hill 2 but with the lead dev's face and instead of his dead wife he's looking for his dead waifu

The Bramble
Mar 16, 2004

Introducing Mutt, a groundbreaking new game from Blueberry Field Games, a team of game makers who were unable to finish their degrees before the Department of Education shut Fullsail University down. Play as Trevor, a golden retriever / collie mix puppy left behind during a thunderstorm when the family went to go see a movie. Explore a lovingly recreated suburban home from the 90s as you bark at thunder and uncover a dark family secret (the dad is gay)

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
It's just like resident evil, only the whole map is underwater so all movement and combat is at 15% speed, and you have a very limited supply of air for your scuba rig.

The slow motion allows for a lot of processing and rendering power to be devoted to the water effects and small fish ai.

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

goatface posted:

It's just like resident evil, only the whole map is underwater so all movement and combat is at 15% speed, and you have a very limited supply of air for your scuba rig.

The slow motion allows for a lot of processing and rendering power to be devoted to the water effects and small fish ai.

P sure I saw someone actually making this on Twitter

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag
The game was ported to consoles without any testing and the text is so small as to be unreadable on a TV from couch distance.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
The central message is an ambitious treatise on the horrors of teenage menstruation while living in poverty in a theocratic society run by a colonialist patriarchy, written by a middle aged white man from Surrey.

a mysterious cloak
Apr 5, 2003

Leave me alone, dad, I'm with my friends!


You spend the game working your way through a surreal labyrinth, dodging shadows just at the edge of your vision, the pace presses you forward faster and faster until,at you come to a complete dead end. Knowing you are about to die you begin laughing hysterically, you mind slipping away.

The camera pans around to your point of view.

It's Joe Pesci from his role in Goodfellas.

He says, "I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you?" and shoots you in the face.

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL
(づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ♥(‘∀’●)

Chased through the Backrooms by a monstrous Kirk Johnson

naem
May 29, 2011

a mysterious cloak posted:

You spend the game working your way through a surreal labyrinth, dodging shadows just at the edge of your vision, the pace presses you forward faster and faster until,at you come to a complete dead end. Knowing you are about to die you begin laughing hysterically, you mind slipping away.

The camera pans around to your point of view.

It's Joe Pesci from his role in Goodfellas.

He says, "I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you?" and shoots you in the face.

Joe Pesci’s butt is lovingly rendered in 4k ultra in exquisite detail down the each visible hair follicle

A Fancy Hat
Nov 18, 2016

Always remember that the former President was dumber than the dumbest person you've ever met by a wide margin

You must collect all 666 tokens to summon the evil demon known as Clownphongo and achieve the true ending, where it's revealed that you've actually been trapped underwater and hallucinating all of this as you run out of oxygen.

Disco Pope
Dec 6, 2004

Top Class!
It's my old station wagon. Turning the key does nothing.

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag

Disco Pope posted:

It's my old station wagon. Turning the key does nothing.

Text generates at one character per second. This setting is fixed so as to not ruin the atmosphere and pacing.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Corridors of dread is a unique existential survival horror experience in which the player must progress down 30 miles of almost featureless corridor at a realistically slow walking speed in a single, unbroken VR session. Visual field phenomena are introduced only very occasionally to spice things up, but it's ok because your brain will start generating plenty more.

Can you get to the end while avoiding the crushing questions of "what are you really on this earth for" and "why are you wasting your life like this"?

Nigmaetcetera
Nov 17, 2004

borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins
You start in a dark maze that just gets darker and darker as it goes on. There is an evil clown somewhere in the maze but you will never, ever see them because the maze is far too large and dark. The clown can't see you either, but it hates you.

Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

Trillhouse posted:

The main monster is an Eldritch horror with Lovecraftian elements. It's so scary and unspeakable that you can't even look at it without going mad, your human mind can't comprehend such things.

In the third act you see the monster and it's just a whale with tentacles.

You are the developer of this game. Everyone makes fun of you for being cripplingly terrified of the ocean and oceanic life and people constantly hide toy fish in your cubicle desk drawers and tape up pictures of whales at eye level. You're trying to sneak out of the office before the mandatory team-building lunch because all the menu choices are seafood. If you get caught you wake up back in your cube.

goatface posted:

We included realistic hydration requirements and detailed urination physics. It's all essential to the plot because while drinking heals you, the sexy werewolves can track you by your urine stains if you piss on the floor. But if you piss in a bottle or other container you might summon a piss-drinking clown who will chug it and then try to bite your lips off.

So it's all down to player choice.

Half the reviews are "great game A+ but why is it tagged as horror??"

Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Feb 8, 2023

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

Indie horror survival game maker manager maker: Manage the exciting life and business of an aspiring indie game maker who is making an indie horror game maker manager

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

The Last of Our Funding

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
You wake up on an abandoned Nimitz class aircraft carrier. Navigate the passageways and machinery rooms of this creepy environment.

Your goal is to shut down the overloading nuclear reactor before the evil clown gets you.

Your tools are a hacksaw and a bottle of OC spray. The OC spray repels the clown temporarily but also makes your vision extremely blurred and slows your speed by 75% for the next 45 seconds.

Drink Monster energy drink to lower your madness level. Find ships logs to unravel the mystery of the ship (it was abandoned because the evil clown kept killing people).

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
New Game+ slows your walking speed by 50%

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
Alright first of all which one of you knows how to make video games? Nobody? Great!

Second have any of you ever played a video game before? Oh you have? I'm sorry Sally, you're overqualified. Please leave. We'll pay you for the day.

Ok that we've got our dream team assembled let's spend all the money on booze and pay my little brother what's left to make it for us.

Disco Pope
Dec 6, 2004

Top Class!
Do we have a team making sure that the gravel sound effects when you run between the house and the shed are really loving loud? Like a hand made out of Lego digging through a bag of doritos? Great. Okay, how many crow noises to we have?

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

There you are watching porn when th zombo breaks in the window ant attacks!!!

The Bramble
Mar 16, 2004

Play as a pregnant male werewolf in a world where pregnant male werewolves are considered second class citizens. Experience the thrill of having your SSDI application denied, of working minimum wage retail, and the constant threat of your stepdad kicking you out of the house while your mom stands silently nearby. Multiple endings based on your choices as a player.

Good ending: be the first pregnant male werewolf to win an academic award for having the most correct geometry homework

Bad ending: move in with your pregnant female human older sister while you wait to hear back from SSDI

Middle ending: find out that your pregnant with a vampires childe

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
You must navigate the abandoned trenches of WWI, pursued by a monster in a gas mask. You have a rusty bayonet that breaks after six uses. You can regenerate health by eating food found in old tin cans. Journals and vinyl records scattered around the area reveal the horrifying truth.

In the true ending of the game, you discover that the creature beneath the gas mask is an evil clown.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
Settings --> Graphics

Render Distance:

Extremely Low -------- Very Low -------- Low

Trillhouse
Dec 31, 2000

(japanese dev)
The final boss is the spirit of your parents and they're mad you decided to become a video game developer instead of going into finance like your older brother.

Trillhouse
Dec 31, 2000

(chinese dev)
You have sliders for both breast size and pussy mound size. The game inexplicably has an incredibly complex take on the sphere grid system from FFX.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
It's medieval England and you're a knight in heavy armor (so you move slowly and can't jump) you have the option of putting your helmet visor down for extra defense but that restricts your vision to a narrow strip. Your armor creaks and clanks very loudly.

You are being pursued through an abandoned castle by a maniacal jester.

naem
May 29, 2011

Disco Pope posted:

Do we have a team making sure that the gravel sound effects when you run between the house and the shed are really loving loud? Like a hand made out of Lego digging through a bag of doritos? Great. Okay, how many crow noises to we have?

RAAWR

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH
more jumpscares

Haverchuck
May 6, 2005

the coolest
in this PS1-style indie horror you have to survive a shift at [normal job] while spooky stuff happens. The whole game is 10 minutes just watch somebody play it on youtube.

Doc Fission
Sep 11, 2011



The jumpscare is a guy zoomed in real close and there's a sound cue and he's doing a little wiggle.

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

A Soft Nylon Bag
The Witness but with zombies

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Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
Who knows how people talk?

Yes

You know?

How people talk. Yes I know that.

That is good. Would you like the job of writing people talking with other people?

Ok I will do it. I will do the job of writing people talking with other people.

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