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I kind of view Scorn as a mature extension of Out of this World, another game that's ostensibly an action platformer with lovely platforming and action segments but it's all about the vibe of being trapped in a hostile alien world. It at least had saner checkpoints...
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Horror Fans we EATIN' this week: https://twitter.com/RE_Games/status/1582129468134473728?s=20&t=OSCP7zKDb2Ntysl89KaWjQ
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al-azad posted:I kind of view Scorn as a mature extension of Out of this World, another game that's ostensibly an action platformer with lovely platforming and action segments but it's all about the vibe of being trapped in a hostile alien world. 
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Noob Saibot posted:Horror Fans we EATIN' this week: Oh hell yeah. RE4make and 8lage DLC??? Sign me the gently caress up
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al-azad posted:I kind of view Scorn as a mature extension of Out of this World, another game that's ostensibly an action platformer with lovely platforming and action segments but it's all about the vibe of being trapped in a hostile alien world. I'd disagree with that comparison. Out of this World was basically an interactive sci-fi action film - from the moment the game starts you're given so few moments where you're not being chased, shot at, or hunted, and the parts that do have platforming are mercifully short and just one tiny piece of the game (there's, what, the water caves and the beginning when you need to leap over the leeches?). Hell there's a sequence in which you're essentially mashing every button on a console just to try to have something - anything - get you out of your predicament. Clunky combat, however, is something I'd agree the games have in combat. The shield/shoot strategy was waaay overused in OotW.
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While I dont think they're particularly similar, Another World was the first thing I thought of when I started mashing alien buttons trying to figure out what they did.
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Pretty sure scorn put me in an unwinnable state with that bafflingly stupid tentacle remover thing. I’m pretty much at the point where I am starting to loving despise this game. Everything about it seems to hate the idea that the player might accidentally have some fun and experience anything but boredom and annoyance.
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Oct 18, 2022 07:53
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Looking to play a few during October, top 3 all time horror games?
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Agent Escalus posted:10 years after release, IMSCARED got an update that's equally surprising and significant! Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention.
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veni veni veni posted:Pretty sure scorn put me in an unwinnable state with that bafflingly stupid tentacle remover thing. I’m pretty much at the point where I am starting to loving despise this game. Everything about it seems to hate the idea that the player might accidentally have some fun and experience anything but boredom and annoyance. I thought that too, I'd missed a health station behind you when you're looking at the second tentacle remover thing, it's really tucked away in a corner.
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drat. I loaded my last save and it was at the beginning of the chapter. I think I am just done with it. Zero interest in replaying that. Really just kind of hit the point where this game doesn't feel worth my time anymore.
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Oct 18, 2022 08:24
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I have no real interest in Scorn bc I already played the original glistening brown world full of tunnels. That’s right I’m talking Clive Barker’s Jericho
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calcio posted:Looking to play a few during October, top 3 all time horror games? Not all time but 3 of my faves that released in the past couple years, all on steam. Mundaun In Sound Mind Au-Delà
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Basic Chunnel posted:I have no real interest in Scorn bc I already played the original glistening brown world full of tunnels. That’s right I’m talking Clive Barker’s Jericho The levels that Scorn goes to rip off Geiger and Beksinski is honestly impressive though. Like, it really looks remarkable, as well as having top notch audio design and animation. I love looking at it. That got me all the way to the point that I quit (which I afaik is literally the end). But now that I'm sitting back and reflecting on it. I think as a game, it might be literally one of the worst games I have ever played. It's aggressively unfun. I don't even know if I can blame incompetence. It almost feels like they set out to make a game that isn't enjoyable at all. If that was their goal. Congrats, they succeeded. I think the closest thing to resembling fun I had in the 5 hours I played was doing edgy versions of children's sliding block puzzles. Everything else about the gameplay is irredeemable.
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I don't know if Darkwood is a top 3 game, but it's not one that gets talked about that often, and I definitely think it's one of the best horror games of all time if we're just going by pure grade spooks.
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I wanted to like Darkwood but I couldn't really vibe with it. I keep restarting it lately but I always just get sort of bored.
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Oct 18, 2022 09:31
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Who’s Lila is my favorite this year and if you like imscared and other meta horror games don’t miss it, everything about it is a spoiler but also it’s a game you need to use community features and a side loading app to complete.
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I haven't finished Who's Lila yet but I've gotten a few endings and it's intense. Absolutely incredible sense of dread, relentlessly oppressive atmosphere, it's miserable. I hate it. It is one of the best horror games I've played in years.
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How's the difficulty/checkpointing in Amnesia Rebirth? I know there's a safe mode of sorts, but unlike the one in SOMA, it sounds like it makes significant changes to the tone and level design that make it less of a horror game, which isn't really what I'm looking for.
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Been a long time still I played it but I don't remember anything too hard or bad checkpoints. You're mostly either safe or just running away from stuff iirc.
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Barry Convex posted:How's the difficulty/checkpointing in Amnesia Rebirth? I know there's a safe mode of sorts, but unlike the one in SOMA, it sounds like it makes significant changes to the tone and level design that make it less of a horror game, which isn't really what I'm looking for. I don't know why they would even have a safe mode for it. It's really hard to die in Rebirth even playing normally. It leans way more towards becoming increasingly disorienting than outright fail states. I think I died a handful of times in my entire play through, and iirc the checkpoints aren't harsh or anything.
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I'm still the most excited for the FAITH game
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I played the Call of Cthulhu game from a few years ago and it basically placed itself in that top tier of horror indies by not committing itself too hard to any one thing. The RPG elements are there and they do sometimes make a difference. There are puzzles but they're not too hard. There are "hide from the one hit killer" sequences that are rudimentary and short, a few mundane sneaking levels and a single gunplay scene that is as simple as it gets. All of which is to say that the gameplay is above average and no one thing lasts long enough to try your patience or fall prey to its own simplicity. Characters animations are beyond jank, otherwise visuals are decent enough. Narratively and writing-wise I will say it does more than what an innately risk-averse genre like Lovecraft homage typically allows. The characters are actually pretty engaging and there are twists you don't necessarily see coming. You can see the rocky development and cut corners here and there but they carry it fairly well. Absolutely worth checking out on whatever gamepass it's available through. If nothing else the level art it just really hammers home how subtly Dishonored threaded gloomy coastal New England / cyclopic imagery into its fantasy universe. Plus there's the whaling connection. I'd be interested in screenshots and maybe a tech demo of Scorn but when you're into horror games you really really need to do above the bare minimum with gameplay even if you're doing style over substance. Basic Chunnel fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Oct 18, 2022 |
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Basic Chunnel posted:I played the Call of Cthulhu game from a few years ago and it basically placed itself in that top tier of horror indies by not committing itself too hard to any one thing. The RPG elements are there and they do sometimes make a difference. There are puzzles but they're not too hard. There are "hide from the one hit killer" sequences that are rudimentary and short, a few mundane sneaking levels and a single gunplay scene that is as simple as it gets. All of which is to say that the gameplay is above average and no one thing lasts long enough to try your patience or fall prey to its own simplicity. played this for my October horror gaming last year. Definitely a case of an indie dev's reach exceeding its grasp, but still worth playing as long as you can accept that sort of jank. however, if you're playing on PC, I recommend using a trainer to get through the stealth sections more easily. Most of them aren't too bad, but there's a particularly godawful one in a portrait gallery midway through, where no matter how closely I followed a walkthrough, I couldn't seem to avoid the monster except by dumb luck. That one probably would have driven me to give up on the game altogether had it not been for the trainer.
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hahahaha oh nooooo https://twitter.com/SHNHorror/status/1582426296616857600?s=20&t=_ObIAQw6V30LoOe4W7NqNQ
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They're gonna really expand the Wall Market section of Silent Hill 2.
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Part 1 is just the regular world, we're not getting the spookier stuff til later
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The one silent hill that could actually use a remake is the original why butcher SH2. It would be like writing sequels to watchmen
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Just make it like other recent "let's take this ps1 game and turn it into three games" remakes, stretch the first act that takes place all in one location into a 20 hour game. Then just after you reach the end of Brookhaven the game comes to a climax and you fight Sephiroph
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Dusk golem doesn’t want to give anything away but is suggesting the possibility that silent hill 2 part 1 is the remake and part 2 is an all new sequel developed by shovelware manufacturer Bloober Team
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god willing tomorrow will put all of us out of our misery one way or the other
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Noob Saibot posted:Dusk golem doesn’t want to give anything away but is suggesting the possibility that silent hill 2 part 1 is the remake and part 2 is an all new sequel developed by shovelware manufacturer Bloober Team A sequel to silent hill 2 would be hilarious. Where do you go from there? The good ending was the same as silent hill 1, so you just do silent hill 3-2? Is Bloober team going to cut every ending except In Water out? Is James going to have to face his responsibility for putting horny nurses in every future SH game just because he was jacking it ten time a day? Is Angela going to make an appearance just to get assaulted again as a metaphor for the cycle of abuse or some tone deaf horseshit? Who knows!
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Blooper Team SH2 will definitely argue Mary was the bad guy.
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CuddleCryptid posted:A sequel to silent hill 2 would be hilarious. Where do you go from there? It follows up on James' abduction and the aliens' subsequent takeover of Earth
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Silent hill 2-2 is just silent hill 2 again with all the side characters gone because it follows up on the ominous Maria ending, including smothering Maria with a pillow then suppressing it.
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Silent Hill 2 Part 1 is clearly a prequel showing James and Maria’s entirely pleasant, uneventful vacation to Toluca Lake. There will still be several dozen irrelevant film references and the casual normalization of rape.
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Discendo Vox posted:Silent Hill 2 Part 1 is clearly a prequel showing James and Maria’s entirely pleasant, uneventful vacation to Toluca Lake. Maria wasn’t James wife
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Silent Hill 2 Part 2 will follow the In Water ending, and Bloober team will rename themselves to Blub Blub Team
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https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1/status/1582437733850836992?t=e76G3lcgqNZmwRoEWFjkaA&s=19 Good thread Vv yuuuup TheWorldsaStage fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Oct 18, 2022 |
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