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Dreams In The Witch House is a pro play for ppl into cosmic horror / “dark academia” and SCUMM games. There are some interesting long-term RPG elements with what you want your guy to pursue, but unless you go with Easy mode it is firmly in the time / resource management space, a lot like The Pale Beyond.
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Len posted:Still gonna lol at people acting like the epic store is some whole new system that they just can't access Oh i'll use it for free games, but if i'm actually buying something, i'm buying it on one platform. Same with the xbox app, etc.
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Dec 18, 2023 14:59
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James McCaffery has died. https://www.tmz.com/2023/12/18/max-payne-star-james-mccaffrey-dead-dies-cancer/
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Feels Villeneuve posted:James McCaffery has died. Oh no, I didn't even know he was dealing with health issues 
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God loving drat. The Max Payne games were a huge influence on me, and some of the first games I ever played just because I liked the story and acting so much. gently caress.
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Chillmatic posted:God loving drat. The Max Payne games were a huge influence on me, and some of the first games I ever played just because I liked the story and acting so much. gently caress. Yeah, I'm bummed. It was literally an offhand comment about him being in Control that got me into that and Remedy's games in general, after losing track of them since Max Payne 2. He was just such a distinctive presence.
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RIP trench/max you had a silky yet gravel-y voice. Epic game store is shittier than Steam yeah but the free games make it worth downloading alone and the aversion to having two launchers is so weird to me but maybe just cause I’m an old and remember having to pull out the red, yellow and white wires from the back of my tv/vhs combo to swap between consoles.
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I know lethal company is a hot new game but I read the less you know about it going in, the better. So having said that can someone give me an elevator pitch I can pass on to my friends to see if we want to try it
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I feel like I haven't seen much about Amnesia: The Bunker online for whatever reason, maybe just a product of the parts of the internet I actually pay attention to these days. I saw a couple of positive mentions in this thread when it came out, but I'd be curious to hear peoples' general impressions of it. I never finished Machine for Pigs because frankly I thought it was kind of boring, and watched part of an LP of the last Amnesia game but honestly nothing about it really made me want to rush out and try it myself. It sounds like maybe this one is closer in style/spirit to the original though?
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WHY BONER NOW posted:I know lethal company is a hot new game but I read the less you know about it going in, the better. So having said that can someone give me an elevator pitch I can pass on to my friends to see if we want to try it You've joined up with a strange salvage company to scavenge for items of value from abandoned moons. Do be careful because you'll run into [REDACTED]
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MockingQuantum posted:I feel like I haven't seen much about Amnesia: The Bunker online for whatever reason, maybe just a product of the parts of the internet I actually pay attention to these days. I saw a couple of positive mentions in this thread when it came out, but I'd be curious to hear peoples' general impressions of it. I never finished Machine for Pigs because frankly I thought it was kind of boring, and watched part of an LP of the last Amnesia game but honestly nothing about it really made me want to rush out and try it myself. It sounds like maybe this one is closer in style/spirit to the original though? a machine for pigs was a bizarre folly and not representative of the series while amnesia 2 suffered from an expanded scope bunker is just you, a small set of rooms and corridors, a gas-guzzling generator and a big scary hungry thing that really likes the dark. escape item 2 while supplying enough fuel in item 3 to keep item 4 from munching on you. much more focused and effective
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WHY BONER NOW posted:I know lethal company is a hot new game but I read the less you know about it going in, the better. So having said that can someone give me an elevator pitch I can pass on to my friends to see if we want to try it
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Oxxidation posted:a machine for pigs was a bizarre folly and not representative of the series while amnesia 2 suffered from an expanded scope Okay yeah that sounds much more appealing than Amnesia 2 looked. Not that 2 looked like a bad game or anything, just not what I wanted from Frictional in particular.
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MockingQuantum posted:Okay yeah that sounds much more appealing than Amnesia 2 looked. Not that 2 looked like a bad game or anything, just not what I wanted from Frictional in particular. It was developed by The Chinese Room and not by Frictional, who was just the publisher.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:It was developed by The Chinese Room and not by Frictional, who was just the publisher. machine for pigs was TCR, frictional did all the other entries
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IShallRiseAgain posted:It was developed by The Chinese Room and not by Frictional, who was just the publisher. sorry, by "2" I meant "Rebirth", I was just following on what Oxxidation called it and didn't realize it had a subtitle too. I pretty much knew Machine for Pigs wouldn't do it for me because basically nothing Chinese Room produces really does it for me.
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MockingQuantum posted:I feel like I haven't seen much about Amnesia: The Bunker online for whatever reason, maybe just a product of the parts of the internet I actually pay attention to these days. I saw a couple of positive mentions in this thread when it came out, but I'd be curious to hear peoples' general impressions of it. I never finished Machine for Pigs because frankly I thought it was kind of boring, and watched part of an LP of the last Amnesia game but honestly nothing about it really made me want to rush out and try it myself. It sounds like maybe this one is closer in style/spirit to the original though? The Bunker was my second favorite horror game I played during my October marathon. The gameplay loop is super satisfying as it combines Metroidvania and immersive sim elements together.
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MockingQuantum posted:I feel like I haven't seen much about Amnesia: The Bunker online for whatever reason, maybe just a product of the parts of the internet I actually pay attention to these days. I saw a couple of positive mentions in this thread when it came out, but I'd be curious to hear peoples' general impressions of it. I never finished Machine for Pigs because frankly I thought it was kind of boring, and watched part of an LP of the last Amnesia game but honestly nothing about it really made me want to rush out and try it myself. It sounds like maybe this one is closer in style/spirit to the original though? The Bunker is, by a pretty large margin, the best horror game Frictional has made, with far greater consideration to its game elements and none of the defects of writing that were prominent in previous releases- including that the story's just less important this time around.
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parasyte posted:You've joined up with a strange salvage company to scavenge for items of value from abandoned moons. Do be careful because you'll run into [REDACTED] Basic Chunnel posted:Much like PHASMOPHOBIA, it’s a scrappy indie that doesn’t reinvent the concept of a wheel but refreshes the ways by which existing wheels can provide players with panic and stress. Thanks guys, this is vague enough to pique interest
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The Bunker rocks, even as a player who doesn’t usually enjoy horror games. The monster long boy isn’t anything to write home about, but the way the game director / noise mechanics interact is great fun. You get a real sense of progression as you learn tricks and get tools to survive. Only real negative is that it’s a little short, but maybe that’s just me wanting more of a good thing.
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Bunker is good but from reading other impressions I think some of that enjoyment relies on going through the game in the "correct" order, which for the record I do not know. A couple of the last areas I did were pretty short which was good because by that time I understood the rules enough that the monster was less scary and more of a problem to be solved, and those shorter areas really highlight the problem solving versus spooky horror. I still think SOMA is their best game but it would go SOMA > Bunker/OG Amnesia >> Penumbras > Rebirth >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Machine for Pigs (yes I realize they didn't make it). Rebirth really needed some trimming and the psychological element was IMO too on the nose.
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Love this tweet thread https://twitter.com/_NoCode/status/1737932240741437748?t=ykFEhX9eLHpH94a2xQTXeQ&s=19 I love NoCode. If the person who knows the devs still browses here (my memory is poo poo, I'm sorry!), please tell them I cannot look forward to this game enough.
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Bunker is great, first game in a while that I've actually been afraid enough to be put off playing more of it. It's closer to Penumbra crossed with Alien Isolation than it is to any of the other Amnesia games, which are all a bit walking sim for me - well-done to varying degrees, but lacking in that mechanical depth that I need to really get a horror game's hooks into my brain. It's a really excellent budget title.
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I liked bunker but I really didn't like the parts where I missed a small item and spent half an hour rummaging through the darkness for it. The monster itself is cool, the rats can gently caress off
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drat, who's Lila is really good
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Who's Lila lives rent free in my head. Considering some revelations within the game, this is perhaps an ominous situation.
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Tired Moritz posted:drat, who's Lila is really good It slaps, op
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Got The Quarry for Christmas. Up to about Chapter 4. Really digging it so far. I know these games (Until Dawn, House of Ashes. etc.) are basically just interactive movies but I've really liked all the ones I've played (Until Dawn, House of Ashes, and The Quarry). Ryan should obviously be the sole main character but the others are also all pretty interesting.
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I was too good at Amnesia: The Bunker and would do my scouting runs so well that I always had enough gas in the tank to get in and get out without getting mauled to death by the mole man in the dark
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Whirling posted:I was too good at Amnesia: The Bunker and would do my scouting runs so well that I always had enough gas in the tank to get in and get out without getting mauled to death by the mole man in the dark I think I didn't understand the mechanics because even with the generator going, the monster would come out and kill me.
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Strawberry Panda posted:I think I didn't understand the mechanics because even with the generator going, the monster would come out and kill me. if the lights are on then its aggression is significantly reduced, but it'll still pop out for a snack every so often and will almost always react to loud noises like a grenade going off
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Tired Moritz posted:drat, who's Lila is really good It’s really great and has stuck with me for a year since I played it.
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I like how inarticulate and/or awkward everyone is in The Quarry while still trying very hard not to be. A good encapsulation of being young and dumb. I also love how the creatures are seemingly werewolves but more of the Wolfman variety than of the Manwolf variety. My favoured type of Werewolf. FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Dec 26, 2023 |
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https://twitter.com/KuuEater/status/1739808115397120300?t=JbnIqsW32MWSJVD22zWV7A&s=19
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Where are all the first-person indie horror protags looking at their hands saying "what have I done."
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Ubisoft stole them all
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Who's the hunk looking dude in that scale?
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the top left? thats the dude from soma
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Honest Thief posted:Who's the hunk looking dude in that scale? You mean Sebastian from Evil Within? If not either specify a position or clarify your tastes in men
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No way Ethan's below the halfway point on the failboy scale. He's a good dad, and he's got the achievements to prove it!
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