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Just got through Dead Space 2, and it continued to be a very satisfying mix of some jumps and spooks with a good emphasis on shootin' stuff. I thought the presentation of hallucinatory Nicole was kind of striking as a horror element, she often has blinding light emitting from her mouth and eye sockets when you run into her. It's really neat looking, but it also felt familiar - is there some movie or something that it's cribbing from? It feels like it's right on the tip of my mind but I can't quite remember.
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Lo Pan from big trouble in little China shoots light from his eyes and mouth and so do angels from the show supernatural when they die
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Dec 29, 2021 00:14
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There's a scene in Dead Alive/Braindead where a woman gets a lightbulb stuck in her head and it looks a lot like that screenshot.
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Dec 29, 2021 00:16
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After thinking about it, there's a bit of it in the ending to Raiders of the Lost Ark too. I'm probably combining half-memories of a bunch of those.
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Dec 29, 2021 00:18
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Really digging Mundaun after a few hours. It takes a bit to get used to the visual style but it really oozes atmosphere and I love the weirdness.
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Dec 29, 2021 04:48
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Captain Hygiene posted:Just got through Dead Space 2, and it continued to be a very satisfying mix of some jumps and spooks with a good emphasis on shootin' stuff. Village of the Damned and the music video for M83’s Midnight City both have children doing the glowing eye thing. No mouth though.
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Dec 29, 2021 05:55
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Hypnosis, one of those paintings like Saturn Devouring His Son where if you see it in a house you're in a horror story.
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Dec 29, 2021 06:11
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I really wanted to say it was cribbing from The World's End but that movie came out a couple of years after Dead Space 2. It wouldn't surprise me if the eye glowing in The World's End was a reference to something older though.
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Dec 29, 2021 06:30
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Can anyone who has played World of Horror tell me why as soon as I press Investigate on the Spine-Chilling Story of School Scissors I die instantly? screenshots below  
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Dec 29, 2021 07:41
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bowmore posted:Can anyone who has played World of Horror tell me why as soon as I press Investigate on the Spine-Chilling Story of School Scissors I die instantly? You hit 100% Doom and GOIZO devoured everything in sight of a reflection, game over. Check out the game over screen- it tells you why you died. E: oh poo poo, 30 seconds play time? That's a weird bug. Tell the Discord and/or email panstasz.
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Dec 29, 2021 08:35
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Pope Guilty posted:You hit 100% Doom and GOIZO devoured everything in sight of a reflection, game over. Check out the game over screen- it tells you why you died.
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Dec 29, 2021 09:32
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Lifeglug posted:Funniest thing though is there’s no facial animation so you have people being killed and screaming with a total closed mouth blank expression. Isn't that not even out yet? It's not out on steam and considering they seem to be going for "high effort edge" i'd expect them to fix that before then. dogstile fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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Dec 29, 2021 12:44
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FirstAidKite posted:I really wanted to say it was cribbing from The World's End but that movie came out a couple of years after Dead Space 2. It wouldn't surprise me if the eye glowing in The World's End was a reference to something older though. Ahhhhhh there it is. I'm sure I was mixing in some of the other stuff mentioned, but that was the exact one I was centered on. Interesting that it's not even as old as the game, nowhere near as old as I was expecting.
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Dec 29, 2021 13:59
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dogstile posted:Isn't that not even out yet? It's not out on steam and considering they seem to be going for "high effort edge" i'd expect them to fix that before then. Oh gently caress I forgot to post the video didn't I? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vyzD3rZqWA But yeah, I'd imagine it'll get sorted, it's still pretty funny though.
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Dec 29, 2021 14:36
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FirstAidKite posted:I really wanted to say it was cribbing from The World's End but that movie came out a couple of years after Dead Space 2. It wouldn't surprise me if the eye glowing in The World's End was a reference to something older though. The facial expression and scream are themselves a reference to Invasion of the Body Snatchers I believe. The whole film is basically Body Snatchers.
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Dec 29, 2021 15:57
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The Bee posted:Its weird. Everything I hear about the characterization of the animatronics in FNAF Security Breach actually sounds pretty cool. Then everything I hear about the gameplay and story is like a deflating balloon. I almost wonder if the game'd be better as a mini movie or series of anomated vignettes. I thought everyone was done with fnaf after it came out that the dev is an extreme right wing fundamentalist
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Dec 29, 2021 16:10
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Improbable Lobster posted:I thought everyone was done with fnaf after it came out that the dev is an extreme right wing fundamentalist If people like a thing they'll generally overlook the faults of one/ones who made it.
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Improbable Lobster posted:I thought everyone was done with fnaf after it came out that the dev is an extreme right wing fundamentalist Not only are they not done, but people still seem to evangelize the creator as the One True Person who can do it right. Because of course people would rather support a Trumper fundie than a studio that dares rush the robot bear game.
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Dec 29, 2021 16:24
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TheWorldsaStage posted:If people like a thing they'll generally overlook the faults of one/ones who made it. It was kind of morbidly funny when the news broke (a second time) that he was an insane trump guy, seeing all the people with trans flag, BLM, etc in their headers rushing to defend Scott as "he doesn't know any better/let people have different opinions!!" Like geeze, he directly supports policies and people who want you dead!!!
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Dec 29, 2021 19:21
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Ibram Gaunt posted:It was kind of morbidly funny when the news broke (a second time) that he was an insane trump guy, seeing all the people with trans flag, BLM, etc in their headers rushing to defend Scott as "he doesn't know any better/let people have different opinions!!" Like geeze, he directly supports policies and people who want you dead!!! His reddit post defending the donations was really funny and stupid.
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Dec 29, 2021 19:27
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Scott was smart, he "retired" instead of doubling down and now other people make money for him.
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Dec 29, 2021 19:37
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Captain Hygiene posted:Ahhhhhh there it is. I'm sure I was mixing in some of the other stuff mentioned, but that was the exact one I was centered on. Interesting that it's not even as old as the game, nowhere near as old as I was expecting. You already figured it out, but my first thought was Helios's head from one of the original God of War games. 
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Dec 29, 2021 19:50
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I'm digging the new World of Horror update but I really hate the tedium and RNG nature of unlocking new characters or features.
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Dec 29, 2021 20:43
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Given how morbid the subject-matter is throughout in The Forgotten City, as it doesn't whitewash Roman values, it was surprising that the game has a happy canon ending. Definitely up there with Outer Wilds, though its timeloop mechanic is less noticible since there is no ticking-clock. Didn't like the Sexy Brutale as its last act and ending sunk the whole experience. Will never play 12 Minutes.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Given how morbid the subject-matter is throughout in The Forgotten City, as it doesn't whitewash Roman values, it was surprising that the game has a happy canon ending. Hello, fellow time-loop enthusiast! Have you tried Moon: RPG? Also, I've been meaning to check out Elsinore! As to Sexy Brutale, THAT SOUNDTRACK, THOUGH!
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Dec 29, 2021 21:43
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Got stuck in Elsinore a while back. Never returned. No achievements a mistake.
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Dec 29, 2021 21:54
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Pope Guilty posted:You hit 100% Doom and GOIZO devoured everything in sight of a reflection, game over. Check out the game over screen- it tells you why you died. Apparently disabling the opening cinematic fixed it 🤪
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Dec 30, 2021 03:46
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Lifeglug posted:Oh gently caress I forgot to post the video didn't I? I think I might be the only person who wanted a new Manhunt, and this just looks awful. I don't know how "Diaper Mutant stalks Torture Porn High School" was enough to make a game on.
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I think what made Manhunt work for me was having a good actor like Brian Cox voice the Director. I had the socom headset for my ps2 and it really made it an experience. Having him whispering in your ear telling you to do awful things was something else. Never played the 2nd.
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Manhunt 2 had a dumb, obvious Fight Club twist and was broadly speaking boring and bad, notable only for being the strawman the Jack Thompsons and Hilary Clintons of the age railed against. also it came out on psp which is a very funny joke. now you can murder/kill the innocent on the go.
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Hector Delgado posted:I think what made Manhunt work for me was having a good actor like Brian Cox voice the Director. I had the socom headset for my ps2 and it really made it an experience. Having him whispering in your ear telling you to do awful things was something else. Never played the 2nd. Oh! Neat! I didn't know who that was back when I was playing it. That's kind of on the nose, naming it Manhunt.
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Dec 31, 2021 00:05
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Bogart posted:Now you can murder/kill the innocent on the go. To be fair to Manhunt, I can't think of actually killing anyone 'innocent' in the series, 1 in particular I can definitely say that for, while 2 there might have been someone I'm forgetting, but pretty much everyone who gets it in both games is a monster. 1 it's James Earl Cash against the likes of white supremacists (The Skinz), crazed right wingers wanting to thrill kill (Wardogs) and murder cult style gangs (Innocentz) before you even get to the private security guys knowingly working for a big snuff film ring in the Cerberus guys. 2 you've got Danny Lamb and again pretty much anyone you kill is something like pseudo-CIA spooks as the Project black suit and mask guys and otherwise guys working on and around the not-MKULTRA plot, a return of right winger/white supremacist type militia gunmen hired to chase him down, corrupt cops just flat out and even the BDSM dudes on the club level are seemingly involved with the greater Hostel style Project stuff going on in the basement.
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It's been a very long game since I played it and I don't think I beat it, but at least Wikipedia suggests that there are civilians you can kill in 2.Wikipedia posted:An alternate ending is unlocked on the Hard difficulty or if the player killed too many civilians throughout the game, resulting in the final battle being played from Leo's perspective. He successfully destroys Daniel's personality and wakes up in control of his mind and body. Whyte, believing she is speaking to Daniel, asks him if he is okay, to which he replies he is keen to get back to work on the Bridge. As he looks at himself in the mirror, Daniel sees Leo's reflection looking back at him.
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Lifeglug posted:Oh gently caress I forgot to post the video didn't I? quote:From the creators of Agony 
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i thought the mechanism for determining which ending you got in manhunt 2 wasnt civilian deaths (which i dont remember any) but if you go for the red executions or not either way its a terrible game a shame because the first one rocked
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Bogart posted:It's been a very long game since I played it and I don't think I beat it, but at least Wikipedia suggests that there are civilians you can kill in 2. Ooooh looking it up, okay yeah there's a few like uninvolved in the bigger deal people around, some of them are kind of like setpiece kills almost, one of them's in the Hostel basement in an electric chair you can throw the switch on, the non-hostile Project victims in the opening asylum part, there's a few like strippers around and couple prostitutes when it comes to the seedy building bit I remember a bit of, a few hobos here and there in the city bit with the corrupt cops, then some more normal looking guys that show up in the levels where you're running through the suburban neighborhood from the militia guys, so I guess they are there, but at the same time I feel a little better about not immediately remembering them, because apparently a number of the 'civilian' models are also Project hunters at times in some levels, so I guess I rolled some of the more normal looking people models into thinking they were primarily enemies too. Friend or foe pornstache 
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Also how long until they pull the same shtick they did with Agony and go "THE drat ESSJAYS MADE US CENSOR THE GAME, PLEASE BUY THIS NEW HARDCORE VERSION, FEATURING THE TORMENTOR'S DICK SWINGIN AROUND IN GAMEPLAY"
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That's already being fostered in the comments of that video; I assume that Owning The Libs is the only way these guys can hope to make money.
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Dec 31, 2021 05:19
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do they seriously have like eight reveal trailers over the past month
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I adore the first Manhunt up until guns are introduced. The sequel has some gnarly kills if you played the uncut version with the mod that stops the camera from moving around during the kill. It isn't good though. The twist is so obvious that I was surprised it was presented as one? It's not even the part where nobody acknowledges your buddy, or how he gets past all the enemies you have to take out to progress. It's the part where he disappears and then talks to you like he's in your ear, without a radio or any other way of remote communication... Apparently the twist was added very late in development, which definitely tracks.
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