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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Alien Isolation but the xenomorph is replaced by this Not-Slender Man?
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FirstAidKite posted:Also only semi-related since it is about art but in the original Alone in the Dark trilogy, there was always a shot near the beginning where the camera angle was done so it'd look like the protagonist was being watched from far away by a monster and I always loved those specific shots and wish more fixed-camera horror games used them. Truly, the gun is the real monster 
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Jun 26, 2022 12:23
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It's amazing how there was one good Alone in the Dark, two direct sequels that doubled down on the parts the game engine was least capable of doing well, and then everything else related to the IP has veered even further into poo poo. Just a consistently and thorough failure to do anything good with the IP.
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Jun 26, 2022 14:23
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The 2008 game really tried to be a good reboot and even though it stumbles more often due to technical reasons I suggest anyone with a ps3 still sitting around to try Inferno the definitive edition that will never be ported elsewhere but I hear ps3 emulation is pretty good these days.
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Jun 26, 2022 15:36
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al-azad posted:The 2008 game really tried to be a good reboot and even though it stumbles more often due to technical reasons I suggest anyone with a ps3 still sitting around to try Inferno the definitive edition that will never be ported elsewhere but I hear ps3 emulation is pretty good these days. Alone in the dark Inferno is on the ps+ premium streaming service which works on a ps4, ps5 and pc I believe. Its got a bunch of neat ideas. It is still very janky but they were trying to be very innovative for the time.
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I've played that a ton of times already lol Nightmare Creatures 2? Joking aside I can't think of too many games that take place in that period. What about Bloodborne? It's got the whole Gothic Victorian thing going on.
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New Nightmare also had the window shot, sans the hands. It's also a decent game imo.
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Disposable Scud posted:New Nightmare also had the window shot, sans the hands. It's also a decent game imo. Ugh the atmosphere in that game was wonderful
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Disposable Scud posted:New Nightmare also had the window shot, sans the hands. It's also a decent game imo. I think it had like heavy breathing during that shot as well. And a neat touch that once you triggered the camera angle once it didn't do it again.
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Not a legitimate window shot if there aren't any hands  I'll post it anyway though because I forgot about it  Alone in the Dark 2 and 3 aren't as good as 1 but there are definitely good things about them, like the weird voice acting in 2 is hilarious, there's one enemy voice clip that sounds like the enemy is trying to flirt with you. The part where Carnby dresses up as Santa Claus and starts killing all of the mafia pirates with a frying pan and tommy gun absolutely rules and Alone in the Dark 3 just has a really good soundtrack and excellent use of jaw harp. FirstAidKite fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Jun 27, 2022 |
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7c Nickel posted:Here's your first post in this thread, from 8 years ago. lmao
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Evil Kit posted:I would unironically play and enjoy such a game. I love spiders with no irony or reservations. Arthropods are adorable to my horrible brain
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FirstAidKite posted:Alone in the Dark 2 and 3 aren't as good as 1 but there are definitely good things about them, like the weird voice acting in 2 is hilarious, there's one enemy voice clip that sounds like the enemy is trying to flirt with you. The part where Carnby dresses up as Santa Claus and starts killing all of the mafia pirates with a frying pan and tommy gun absolutely rules and Alone in the Dark 3 just has a really good soundtrack and excellent use of jaw harp. Alone in the Dark 2 is weird because it's less horror and more... well, odd, and then 3 I feel does a good job of mixing the styles of 1 and 2 (the yowling cats when you defeat an enemy are actually creepier than they really have any right to be). And then you get to the final boss and discover his plan and it goes full 2. Edit: I really love Alone in the Dark, it'd be nice to get a new, good game. catlord fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Jun 27, 2022 |
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I remember getting stuck right at the start of the first Alone in the Dark. Carnby starts in the attic, but I couldn’t get by either of the gargoyles guarding the stairs,’so that was as far as I ever got.
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The_Doctor posted:I remember getting stuck right at the start of the first Alone in the Dark. Carnby starts in the attic, but I couldn’t get by either of the gargoyles guarding the stairs,’so that was as far as I ever got. I got stuck there as a kid til a friend explained it to me- take the mirrors in the locked dresser draw in the adjacent bedroom (the key's in the vase by the bed, which you'll need to throw to break) and place them on the statues by the nightgaunts. There's actually a clue in the room with the cavalry sabre, but it's easy to not realize it: 
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I really like Alone in the Dark's ambition as it tried to be what is basically a modern 3rd person game with platforming and complex actions in a 3D space that even Resident Evil didn't attempt. I mean Resident Evil is a better game overall but it just sucks Atari is poor keepers of the franchise.
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al-azad posted:I really like Alone in the Dark's ambition as it tried to be what is basically a modern 3rd person game with platforming and complex actions in a 3D space that even Resident Evil didn't attempt. I mean Resident Evil is a better game overall but it just sucks Atari is poor keepers of the franchise. THQ Nordic recently got the rights from Atari, so at least we won't have to deal with them.
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Pope Guilty posted:I got stuck there as a kid til a friend explained it to me- take the mirrors in the locked dresser draw in the adjacent bedroom (the key's in the vase by the bed, which you'll need to throw to break) and place them on the statues by the nightgaunts. And if you had the mirrors in your inventory and got hit by the gargoyle, the mirrors broke and you were stuck.
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Pope Guilty posted:I got stuck there as a kid til a friend explained it to me- take the mirrors in the locked dresser draw in the adjacent bedroom (the key's in the vase by the bed, which you'll need to throw to break) and place them on the statues by the nightgaunts. Oh wow, yeah I was a kid too and I definitely didn’t get that.
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Man of Medan is one of the PS+ games for July. Any good?
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Professor Wayne posted:Man of Medan is one of the PS+ games for July. Any good? i didn't know they were announced yet, got a link?
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Len posted:i didn't know they were announced yet, got a link? Looks like a leak? Crash Bandicoot 4 is also on the list.
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Read After Burning posted:Looks like a leak? Crash Bandicoot 4 is also on the list. oooh kay
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Professor Wayne posted:Man of Medan is one of the PS+ games for July. Any good? It's not as good as Until Dawn, but still pretty entertaining. It introduced the ability to play online with a friend, where the two of you play different people simultaneously, which adds to the experience quite a bit when you talk about what you saw afterwards.
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Morpheus posted:It's not as good as Until Dawn, but still pretty entertaining. It introduced the ability to play online with a friend, where the two of you play different people simultaneously, which adds to the experience quite a bit when you talk about what you saw afterwards. Oh nice, for some reason I forgot it was made by those guys. I'll definitely check out that online play.
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Alone in the Dark: Illumination was so bad. Not in an interesting way like a Clock Tower 2 either.
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Disposable Scud posted:Alone in the Dark: Illumination was so bad. Not in an interesting way like a Clock Tower 2 either. I'm tempted to say it's better than '08 (the base PC version, not Inferno), but purely because it wasn't anywhere near as ambitious and jank. Say what you will about '08/Inferno, but it had ambition. Illumination is a mediocre to bad Left 4 Dead knock-off (after the final patch I ended up enjoying it a bit, but I would not call it good), but '08 reminds me a lot of Trespasser in what they wanted to do.
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Was going to ask about Last Year: The Nightmare but now have read that the developer has closed and the game is no longer available? Sounds like some dodgy stuff went down with the founder in the past.
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Last Year was great when it wasn't being complete poo poo.
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al-azad posted:I really like Alone in the Dark's ambition as it tried to be what is basically a modern 3rd person game with platforming and complex actions in a 3D space that even Resident Evil didn't attempt. I mean Resident Evil is a better game overall but it just sucks Atari is poor keepers of the franchise. I'd say Resident Evil 1 was overall better, but I preferred the aesthetic, atmosphere and puzzles in Alone in the Dark. RE1's rooms are really bright and look like Microsoft 3D Movie Maker. I'd love for a modern remake of AitD, but not in the "really dark and moody" look of the later titles.
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AitD remake but it’s cel shaded and looks like a dark comic book. Ecstatica had beautifully detailed animation for its time.
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Just gotta get nightdive to do some modernized releases of the original trilogy
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going through my discovery queue on Steam today and what the actual gently caress https://store.steampowered.com/app/606160/ROUTINE/
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Zetsubou-san posted:going through my discovery queue on Steam today and what the actual gently caress it got announced at one of the faux-E3's last month, it was a whole thing
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That which is eternal cannot die
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And with strange aeons even vaporware comes by
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The itch.io bundle for reproductive rights has some good indie horror stuff, including Bloodwash, Lakeview Valley, Lost in Vivo, Pigsaw, The Glass Staircase, Night of the Consumers, Sucker for Love, Spookware, and some stuff from the Dread X Collections, including all of Torple Dook's games, Phili Hesselback's Axis Mundi, and corpsepile's Submission (the last two of which are absolute standouts of the Collections). Great bundle if the indie stuff is your jam. (It's also got Catlateral Damage, if you just want to be a kitty knocking stuff off of shelves for a bit.)
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Those Lakeview games popped up on my steam recommendations during the sale and look neat. Have any of you played them?
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Jolo posted:Those Lakeview games popped up on my steam recommendations during the sale and look neat. Have any of you played them? They’re very neat but not super intuitive, especially the later more complex ones. Definitely worth trying for cheap.
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Saw House of Ashes in my Steam recommended feed after glancing at The Quarry, tried it out and liked it quite a bit (even more so since it was on sale). It plays on a lot of tropes of the first Iraq War - military blunders, bad intel, racism, war crimes, missing WMD, etc. The setting worked pretty well for the storyline, which I overall liked (in spite of getting a little weird at the end with the space vampires and subsequent government coverup. It's not so much a game as it is an interactive story with occasional button mashing, but it provides good entertainment for its 9ish hours. I might go through it again and kill everyone except one person just to see how they handle the ending. Will wait for The Quarry to come down in price, there's no way I'm paying $60 for a similar game/runtime.
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