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Signalis is looking like the lucky winner of this year's Scary Month this is a tremendously unnerving game and manages it without a single jumpscare
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treat posted:there's some incredibly horrific IF out there that pulls it off without visuals or sound whatsoever. I would imagine someone who isn't experienced with horror IF would have a blast with it so long as they don't mind reading. Could you drop some recs for horror IF? I am interested and I think Anchorhead and some real real old stuff are the only horror IF I've played
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Started Little Hope as it's included with PS++ and lol yeah this was absolutely a Silent Hill game at some point. They even kept the bizarrely stilted and awkward dialogue!
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Could you drop some recs for horror IF? I am interested and I think Anchorhead and some real real old stuff are the only horror IF I've played One Eye Open - Creepy gorefest Dr. Horror's House of Terror - Goofy gorefest Divis Mortis - Zombies! Snatches - Plays out like a slasher film Fish Bowl - Short, surreal nightmare The King of Shreds and Patches - Lovecraftian horror Coloratura - Unconventional "reverse horror"; imagine if the game "Carrion" were based on a book. this is that book Some classic Twine stuff Terror Aboard the Speedwell - Alien (1979) that can go down any number of ways. Includes separate mini-Twines that flesh out the backgrounds of each character, I strongly recommend checking them out My Father's Long, Long Legs and The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo - Slumber party ghost stories Some older, bonified classics you might have played Theatre Shrapnel Shade There's also an IF thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3966237
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Shadow of Rose starts off kind of dull. I'm hoping it picks up soon. Also who could this mystery ghost writer be?! It's such a mystery. Michael, huh?
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veni veni veni posted:Shadow of Rose starts off kind of dull. I'm hoping it picks up soon. Ghost Barry?
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For anyone finishing Signalis get the gently caress in the dedicated thread we have for it so maybe you can tell me what the gently caress actually happened.
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Hey, panstasz is alive and he's dropped a new World of Horror patch! Good times. https://twitter.com/panstasz/status/1586450808257724416
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Pope Guilty posted:Hey, panstasz is alive and he's dropped a new World of Horror patch! Good times. https://twitter.com/panstasz/status/1586450808257724416 I still don't know if I like that game or not and I've put around 10 hours into it
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Montague Tigg posted:I still don't know if I like that game or not and I've put around 10 hours into it It is a combination of being really cool on the first run and then kind of tedious in the subsequent runs where it goes "yes yes, horrifying monsters from beyond the mist chopping my head off, let's run this again"
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Could you drop some recs for horror IF? I am interested and I think Anchorhead and some real real old stuff are the only horror IF I've played It's "horror" in a kind of abstract indirect sense but Eat Me is dark and weird and cool.
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I feel like World Of Horror would have been better if it wasn't so rigid. I know it's meant to be like a board game in that sense where everything is pretty set in stone just which events you get are random but some more variance would be nice. Like once you do the optional objective for some of the cases, and see that for some they're just straight up negatives (I think the mermaid one is just -2 sanity and doesn't have any bearing on the endings?) then you have zero reason to EVER try for it ever again which is just..goofy.
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It's rather Arkham Horror, with all the downsides that entails.
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Shadows of Rose really mixes in the good with the frustrating. There's some really creepy bits to be had, once it's done boring you with the the goopy castle. But I wish it would stop asking me to turn the difficulty down because none of my deaths have been caused by the combat. There's a lot of scenarios where it wants you to do something and do it before you get killed, and I have no idea what it wants out of me.
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It was overall pretty decent, but I was disappointed that it’s all environments recycled from the main game. I’d give it a 7/10. Probably only worth $20 of you plan to get mileage out of Mercs and third person mode.
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Haven't heard of this but it looks like a white people misunderstanding shamanism leading to eldritch horrors type of game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWszzzduOjc
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Flubby posted:There's some really creepy bits to be had, once it's done boring you with the the goopy castle But that was the fun part of it 
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Ibram Gaunt posted:I feel like World Of Horror would have been better if it wasn't so rigid. I know it's meant to be like a board game in that sense where everything is pretty set in stone just which events you get are random but some more variance would be nice. Like once you do the optional objective for some of the cases, and see that for some they're just straight up negatives (I think the mermaid one is just -2 sanity and doesn't have any bearing on the endings?) then you have zero reason to EVER try for it ever again which is just..goofy. yeah, for how much randomness is in play WoH never quite takes the dive into full blown rogue-lite territory and I feel like it should I don't entirely know what that would look like, but the repetition is a killer
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Haven't heard of this but it looks like a white people misunderstanding shamanism leading to eldritch horrors type of game Okay, this looks genuinely intriguing. The animations on the main character really sell it.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Haven't heard of this but it looks like a white people misunderstanding shamanism leading to eldritch horrors type of game Wow this trailer makes the game looks significantly different from the last. I assume the previous one was just a story trailer, but something about the way it was edited made it look like a narrative adventure a la Until Dawn, except maybe a few flashes of combat at the very end? Looks neat though
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Can't believe I've heard nothing about this game, it looks pretty cool. Control meets Hellblade meets Until Dawn. And it's coming out so soon!
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Haven't heard of this but it looks like a white people misunderstanding shamanism leading to eldritch horrors type of game This looks very neat and I'm surprised I haven't heard anything about it when it's apparently dropping in four days
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I've been keeping an eye on it for a while but lol I also didn't realise it had gameplay outside of Supermassive style QTE's and dialogue choices until I watched that.
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It all seems like my kinda thing so as long as it has an above-70 Metacritic I'll probably take a chance on it next week. I really gotta take some time off from work to catch up on all these new releases.
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A gameplay trailer for the Outlast Trials has been released, and it's, well, predictable.
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I finished Plague Tale:Requiem, and I feel like this was a game that really needed some fine tuning with the human enemy encounters. Too much required to you switch up weapons/items on the fly, and you weren't mobile enough to evade enemies, but outside of one safety hit with not near enough recovery time, essentially was a game over. A few cases I found encounters almost unwinnable due to using resources around the arena, and enemies just kept coming. In terms of story I understand part of the plot was Amicia coming to terms with Hugo needed to die to stop the Macula, since she was clearly in a saving him at all cost mindset from the start, but it goes on too long for outright death and destruction of a city/island to the point where it really feels like they needed to have a talk about it before. Also I'm not clear on what the whole point of the dream was, unless it was for Hugo to accept the Macula and kill everything, since the whole island trip at the end of the day was pretty pointless. The art and visuals are amazing though, and while it's not worth it for a full 60 dollar game it's probably worth it when it drops down to half the price.
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Oh and before I forget, the other problem I have with World of Horror is the combat is not very interesting. There's a bunch of options you can do but I honestly feel like there's no reason not to just prepare - > attack over and over. I know you can kill spirit enemies with a specific clap bow combo but you have to trial and error that every run or whatever which doesn't seem worth the resource drain.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Oh and before I forget, the other problem I have with World of Horror is the combat is not very interesting. There's a bunch of options you can do but I honestly feel like there's no reason not to just prepare - > attack over and over. I know you can kill spirit enemies with a specific clap bow combo but you have to trial and error that every run or whatever which doesn't seem worth the resource drain. It really doesn't. If it was fixed to types of ghosts and you could record what works then it could be interesting, but playing Wordle in the middle of combat every game isn't fun.
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Fun Faith Chapter 3 late game thing I didn't realize until someone else pointed it out John's entire drug trip sequence is visual representation of the lyrics to King of Pain by The Police, which was also sung by John in one of the trailers. I guess the dude just really likes Sting?
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Discendo Vox posted:A gameplay trailer for the Outlast Trials has been released, and it's, well, predictable.
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Don't judge me but I'd love to play Maiden of Black Water over the halloween season, should I get the steam port or the switch version? They're the same price and both have spooky jiggle physics as far as I can tell.
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Other than not trusting KT PC ports there's no difference as far as I'm aware.
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I got the switch version and it was fine, not sure about the steam one. For older games I tend to lean towards console because they *tend* to be more stable, although that's not a guarantee since you can't patch them manually.
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PC port is fine if somewhat barebones. You can always refund it if you run into issues though. The remake of the fourth game which never got localized is coming out March of next year too and I think it's a better Fatal Frame game too.
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Thanks for the advice, I'll try the PC port first! I was asking mostly for the performance since I don't care about the costumes/DLC exclusives if there are any, I just want some spooks and I loved the first four entries.Mr. Fortitude posted:PC port is fine if somewhat barebones. You can always refund it if you run into issues though. The remake of the fourth game which never got localized is coming out March of next year too and I think it's a better Fatal Frame game too. The fourth game is definitely underrated IMO, I even thought it was better than the third but that might be a bit controversial. I'll definitely buy the port, the fan translation was great but the performance on the emulator was a bit patchy at times. e: also having to change your settings just to play the piano was a pain, but it was definitely playable and enjoyable as is
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x420ReDdIT_Br0nYx posted:Thanks for the advice, I'll try the PC port first! I was asking mostly for the performance since I don't care about the costumes/DLC exclusives if there are any, I just want some spooks and I loved the first four entries. For what it's worth, the PC port does have a mod that adds in the costumes from the Wii U port of Maiden of Black Water.
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x420ReDdIT_Br0nYx posted:e: also having to change your settings just to play the piano was a pain, but it was definitely playable and enjoyable as is Spoilers for the final battle: my friends and I killed the final boss maybe three times trying to play that piano correctly using those controls
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I had some issues with the PC port desyncing audio in cutscenes after the performance patches but otherwise it was an ok if basic port. Speaking of patches, Atama got a patch that made it playable for me, so no more headaches from flashing or wrong camera movements, so I finished it and got one of presumably four endings(based on achievements). It's fine with a pretty decent atmosphere and basic puzzles cantered around the sightjacking, but the floating heads just makes it so goofy. Yes I know they are stolen from a Junji Ito story, but even there they were just grotesque not scary, and here they aren't even that. And while there is a level that does something somewhat interesting with them, it's also the sewer/mine level, were you have to navigate through a dark maze with twisting passages , all alike. Overall I'm not regretting buying and playing it, but it's also very clearly an early effort indie horror game.
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