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Night10194 posted:I'm replaying an old polish strategy survival horror game. Gorky 17, as part of my own spooktober stuff. I've never seen anything quite like it since, and I love the dumb thing. A group of NATO commandos investigating a polish town that had an old Russian base nearby find it swarming with weird cybernetic mutants and you fight turn-based scripted battles with them as you creep around the town trying to find ammunition and baseball bats to get through it. Because in true survival horror tradition, of course they sent the three heroes in with like 12 bullets, a can of pie, and a knife to begin with. I tried playing this ages ago but found it just got too hard - the limited resources, the fact that you get better at stuff the more you do it so you need to specialize into weapons, no way to get stronger if a fight is kicking your butt. Maybe I just sucked at it, or was doing something wrong.
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woodenchicken posted:I've been thinking about it myself a lot recently! Does it hold up. I'm definitely still enjoying it. I've finished it before and I feel like it's kind of refreshing that it gets fairly brutal, as opposed to the usual reverse difficulty curve. I find using tranqs and the taser really essential to minimizing damage to save resources.
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Gorky 17, just from the way it looks, reminded me of a long-forgotten game that I want to revisit: Abomination (1999) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abomination:_The_Nemesis_Project Unfortunately, it isn't on GOG or anything.
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Just looked up Gorky 17 and I might try it. It's cheap on Steam Thanks for the suggestion
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The one thing is on modern systems there's a persistent bug with disappearing characters. I was able to fix it by setting the game's exe to run in Win 98 compatibility mode and telling it to use the software renderer, and now it runs fine on the steam version.
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So with Switchback having a 30% discount at the moment, is that worth picking up, now that it's been patched?
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Kona II out now, since it was a topic a couple pages ago.
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Lucca Blight posted:Kona II out now, since it was a topic a couple pages ago. Early Steam reviews seem to indicate that it's a major downgrade from the first game, exploration-wise. Also I found this: A review from Techraptor posted:For one thing, the game is now a first-person shooter. Combat was a rare and ill-advised option in the original Kona, with distractions like throwing meat at wolves providing more of a wide berth than being overcome with fear and missing your shots. In Kona II, however, Carl’s experience as a Vietnam war vet has turned the game’s combat into Cabela’s Big Game Hunter, with all manners of wild animals being no match for your buckshot. Oh noooo. 
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Your Uncle Dracula posted:https://youtu.be/pZzk-Fk07ug?si=KSIxyjs3lyzKQOA3 Note this isn't even really a "game". It's a web series with some amount of audience interaction. Of the new Silent Hill projects, it's the one I have the lowest expectations for, even less than Bloober's remake. I might watch a bit of it eventually, out of morbid curiosity, but not at launch. I've got so many better options for how to spend my Halloween.
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Morpheus posted:Third Birthday is not a "major drop of quality" from PE1, that would imply it has any level of quality at all, or in fact anything to do with the series aside from some names. It has the distinction of being the only game I know off that has retcon'd a character into being a pedophile
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Yuppie Psycho on sale for $6.71. Going to pick it up.
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Strawberry Panda posted:Yuppie Psycho on sale for $6.71. Going to pick it up. good price good choice
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Boy does the last area in Gorky 17 become a bastard of a place. You find crazy powerful energy weaponry, except most of the mutants are immune to it. And they're often immune to the taser or tranq gun. You have to rely on an LN2 sprayer to stun them temporarily, and if you set them on fire after using it they automatically unstun immediately.
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glitchwraith posted:Note this isn't even really a "game". It's a web series with some amount of audience interaction. Of the new Silent Hill projects, it's the one I have the lowest expectations for, even less than Bloober's remake. I might watch a bit of it eventually, out of morbid curiosity, but not at launch. I've got so many better options for how to spend my Halloween. I wouldn't mind it being whatever "interactive" web series they are doing but giving us yet another "I may have killed my loved one!" plot is certainly a choice
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If a Silent Hill game is going to be a barely interactive movie then it should go the Dragon's Lair route and just be a bunch of QTE rooms with 90% of the budget spent on fail sequences. In other games with a lot of budget spent on death sequences, I finished The Callisto Protocol, and it was solidly OK for a game that I got "free" as part of my PS+ subscription. I think if you pay more than $20 for it then you will be angry, but it had pretty decent pacing and the core gameplay was solid enough that I was decently engaged for the ~8 hours or so, although the final fight was bad. It's also has some good technical visuals. but I have not played Dead Space Remake yet (gamepass later this month), and haven't played the original in a few years at least (and haven't beaten it in like a decade); the point is that Dead Space isn't particularly fresh in my mind, but Callisto clearly is trying to make me remember Dead Space. Callisto Protocol desperately wants to be Dead Space to its complete detriment, because the core gameplay, while fun enough if you invest in melee, is anti-scary, and the visuals, sound design, story, and many gameplay elements all feel like a weirdly polished but very obvious knock-off of Dead Space. There was clearly real talent in some of the elements - it sounds good, there are some very good visuals with strong art direction, gameplay... plays fine, again not scary though because of the melee - but all of that is completely wasted badly aping DS instead of making a different game that wasn't aping DS and putting that talent to better use. Hell, it probably would have been better if they copied DS even harder because at least then you get closer to the much better DS.
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The thing that makes me want to play Callisto Protocol the least is that I have to play as Josh Duhamel.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I wouldn't mind it being whatever "interactive" web series they are doing but giving us yet another "I may have killed my loved one!" plot is certainly a choice I love silent hill 2 but god drat did it ruin the franchise forever by being good and thus ensuring everyone forever more would just copy its various iconic bits.
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I just finished The Excavation of Hob's Barrow. It was quite enjoyable and I only found a couple of bumps along the way but that was more me not seeing things I could pick up. I really appreciated the Colour blind friendly text option.
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Me when I'm a silent hill character and I can't stop killing my loved ones
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Tired Moritz posted:Me when I'm a
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Holding votes to determine what the next FMV scene is for cowards. They should have dropped actors into a town and let people Twitch Plays Pokémon them around. "I forgive you husband, for killing m- hey can you stop walking into a wall real quick"
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Re-finished Gorky 17. The last area is kind of a bastard of weird exposition and mandatory betrayal, all your stun equipment stops working, and the actual ending is kind of nonsense to set up a sequel that never happened. But still, the game itself is really fun. Fighting weird cyber-horrors in turn based resource conservation combat is an approach you just don't see often in survival horror, and I like all the battles being scripted. You have X problems, you need to solve them using Y resources is a good formula for survival horror.
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Nuebot posted:I love silent hill 2 but god drat did it ruin the franchise forever by being good and thus ensuring everyone forever more would just copy its various iconic bits. It didn't just ruin the franchise, its had a large negative impact on the whole genre due to all the imitators. But at least its not bad as PT, which turned looping hallway into an entire genre of game.
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The high fidelity found footage game of you looking for your dog (that isn't lost in vivo) isn't out yet but if it is a hit I think we can see what kind of horror games we will get in the 5 years after that
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The Saddest Rhino posted:The high fidelity found footage game of you looking for your dog (that isn't lost in vivo) isn't out yet but if it is a hit I think we can see what kind of horror games we will get in the 5 years after that A generation of games where depending on the ending, it turns out you killed your dog, lost your dog in a looping corridor, or watched your dog get bitcrushed. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Oct 19, 2023 |
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Nuebot posted:I love silent hill 2 but god drat did it ruin the franchise forever by being good and thus ensuring everyone forever more would just copy its various iconic bits. Remember in Silent Hill 3 where they took an different approach to personal horror and made an entire game about bodily autonomy and fear of personal violation? No, you don't? Just 'no James you are the murderer' forever then
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they tried with some serial killers mom is an apartment but it didnt stick
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Speaking of SH2 I just finished my spooky month replay of it and just want to say there is no way that Bloober will make me feel half of what I feel during the letter during the Leave ending. I like SH3 the most because Heather rules but SH2 is such a great game even though the most incurious people seem to think it's the only type of story that can be told in horror.
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No Dignity posted:Remember in Silent Hill 3 where they took an different approach to personal horror and made an entire game about bodily autonomy and fear of personal violation? No, you don't? Just 'no James you are the murderer' forever then tbf I'm very glad that horror game devs decided not to make that a trend. there's a lot that can go wrong with a hack at the wheel of a game about those particular subjects.
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CharlestonJew posted:tbf I'm very glad that horror game devs decided not to make that a trend. there's a lot that can go wrong with a hack at the wheel of a game about those particular subjects. True, it was more meant as in there's lots of ways you can use horror to externalise psychology, you don't need to always to go back to repressed murder-guilt
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DreadX is doing an indie horror showcase in about an hour. Hoping to see some cool stuff there, i really like the DreadX collections
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I played through Faith. That was really good, I don’t think I got the full scope of the story (didn’t get all notes, didn’t do all the secret stuff) but still it was awesome
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Evil Within is free on the Epic store if y'all want some bad action horror schlock third-person shooter I really didn't like Evil Within, but I've gathered I'm in the minority
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Oct 19, 2023 16:53
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Evil Within 2 is a ton of fun but i never played the first one
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A lot of the first one is great and then there's a lot of really frustrating parts.
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TEW 1 is a mess but it's a glorious insane mess that should be experienced as long as you can stand playing it.
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I'll grab it when I'm on my computer later. I don't expect to actually play through it all, but I've been curious about it as a Resident Evil 4 successor for a long time without ever actually checking it out.
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Its the dark souls of RE games in a sense that it really wants to kill you but once you learn its tricks its not actually that bad imo. It also looks really cool. Good monster and environment design WaltherFeng fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Oct 19, 2023 |
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TEW1 is so bad it made me reconsider Shinji Mikami as a game designer. Actually baffled so much of that game got through any kind of quality control. Possibly the worst character animation in a modern AAA game, Sebastian looks, feels, and controls horribly. There's one part in particular where there's a shot for shot call back to the zombie head turn in RE1, a sequence that Mikami didn't come up with (totally different guy designed the main characters, story, weapons, and puzzles). I hate it! But it's still worth playing because it's very imaginative and Inception + Resident Evil is a really fascinating combo. TEW2 is safer, but absolutely smokes the first game in terms of fun factor and playability and it's not even close.
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