Cardiovorax posted:

Not saying it matters, just that there's no point in hoping for them to come back or even for someone to follow up on the series like they would have done, because they won't and never wanted to do anything further with it. You can re-interprete or reboot all you want, of course, but there's only so much leeway before you end up with something too different to satisfy the people who wanted something closer to the feel of Silent Hill than what they got. See Shattered Memories.

Personally, I think the best Silent Hill game in recent history is Deadly Premonition.

The Vosgian Beast posted:

I liked the angerfish, and I liked a lot of the setpiece puzzles.

The plot is about as deep as the nightmare you'd have after a night of watching old Star Trek stories while remembering a summary of Reasons and Persons, which isn't bad for a horror game, but I guess it sells better with goons than "Boo! Spooky Castle" and "Hey the industrial revolution was pretty hosed, amiright?"

SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:

I'm extremely behind on Steam and game pricing, don't quite know where else to ask: is $14.99 ($17.99 with the soundtrack) a good deal for Darkest Dungeon? I've watched the game streamed, love the art and sound design, and am fond of roguelikes even when permadeath is possible.

FirstAidKite posted:

It's also a shame since there is plenty to be said about child abuse and I'm sure that someone could make a game about the subject that delves into what awful things go through the minds of the kind of monsters who would commit such vile acts but this game does not seem seem to be nuanced in like... any way, shape, or form, and seems really damned ham-handed in its handling of such a serious subject.

Ineffiable posted:

What makes the monk annoying to deal with?

I really should sit down and play some ff1 one day.

Cardiovorax posted:

All the great and deep ideas in the world don't do you the slightest good if you can't think of anything to do with it in practice. I remember how the original Penumbra advertised itself with the depth of its physics engine and the player's ability to interact with it... only to be used for nothing more than stacking boxes and pulling open desk drawers.

They've got a bit of a history of letdowns in that regard.

Cardiovorax posted:

The obvious and rather laughable downside of the sanity stuff? Monsters can't see you if you can't see them, to the point where holding a drawer in front of your face is enough to be straight-up loving invisible to the monsters while literally jumping around right in front of their faces. Seriously, there are Youtube videos of this and it's as ridiculous as the descriptions would make you assume it is.

There's another downside of the "incompetent programmer" angle for you, I guess, because that's not a mistake someone with more experience in programming antagonist AI would have made.

Old Boot posted:

It helps that there are some legitimately decent ideas in there, but 'Ideas Guy: The Game' only has so much mileage. That said, I doubt people would still be passing them around if there weren't, so I'm not prepared to say 'poo poo, it's all poo poo,' or even that they're just bog-standard mediocre, outside of my own aforementioned 'can't death of the _SPAAACE author.'

Morpheus posted:

I kind of wish it didn't give away its premise within the first, like, five minutes of the game, but other than that yeah it's a neat game.

Cardiovorax posted:

Eversion is a love story, not horror.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

Kinda wishing there was a horror game that reveals early on before the 2nd act that you are a / the murderer, surprise, and the rest of the game is dealing with the fallout thereafter

Cardiovorax posted:

Shattered Memories' greatest problem were, I think, not really the chase scenes, it was that while it had a conceptually interesting gimmick, it's just not one that really works all that well in practice. The whole conceit that the game psychoanalyzes you, that sounds great on paper, but it's a whole lot less neat once you realize that it effectively punishes you for curiosity and choosing to actually examine the environment.

I mean, let's not kid ourselves, it's still a Silent Hill game and like all Silent Hill games, it thrives on making you look at every single random object in a room in the hopes that it's the key or a hint towards a later or current puzzle. When that leads to the game suddenly starts assigning you a character background of alcoholism and domestic abuse or whatever, simply because those are the tagged objects that are most prevalent in the game so far, then the game concepts clash into each other in a decidedly negative way. The need to go over the game with a fine-toothed comb and the players' desires not to in order to get their desired ending just didn't mesh.

Danknificent posted:

Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason (not sure if I'm remembering the title right) -- not an otherworld exactly, but it had narrative transitions and the cold was a big deal and pretty oppressive and well-realized.

The game itself was a mixed bag, but deserved a lot of credit for trying.

Oxxidation posted:

cryostasis was fantastic and extremely russian

SelenicMartian posted:

Black August posted:

Coming soon, the newest hit horror title, 'The Darkness FUCKS', in which you are a specialized matchmaker for horrifying entities who just need some downtime to recuperate and want to date before their next big job and death spree

Cardiovorax posted:

Speaking of SAW games, has anyone else here ever heard of this old RPG Maker game where you play as a serial killer and have to construct basement dungeons filled with traps and kill people you abducted so you can get internet likes? I think there was an LP of it. The entire concept is incredibly weird, but somehow story came together surprisingly well. The whole thing ends up making some kind of point about the value of art in the eye of the artist as opposed to how it is received by critics... or something.

Lunatic Sledge posted:

It's the *start* of a good idea

Not the Bees posted:

Haven't dug too deeply yet, but I've found a couple of decent horror games so far.

Bonbon has terrible controls (somewhat intentionally, you're playing as a toddler) and I encountered a game-breaking bug towards the end, but aside from that it was a really unnerving experience.

There's Tamashii, a "weird Luciferian puzzle platformer" which is quite fun and has a few effective mind-gently caress moments.

Babysitter Bloodbath is way too intense for me to try personally, but if you're into Puppet Combo's VHS slasher aesthetic and unforgiving gameplay then it's probably a must.

Manager Hoyden posted:

Where is this thread, I can't find it anywhere

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

That pretty much hits the nail on the head right there.

To be clear, the reason I'm not arguing with anything Blockhouse is saying is because nothing Blockhouse is saying is wrong. Thomas is a huge streotype, that is definitively true (also what he's meant to be a streotype of could be debatable).


I dunno, I thought it was a bold choice to have York spend half the game thinking he's actress Sissy Spacek.

Lifeglug posted:

From this review https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/deadly-premonition-2-a-blessing-in-disguise


Given apparently it has this, an inexplicably inverted y axis and it runs like poo poo I’ll be giving it a pass.

Mindblast posted:

Its quite interesting how divided people are on this game.

Cardiovorax posted:

I think it just lacks the same overall charm as the first game. The enemies are more generically zombie-ish instead of the eerie, human-like and alien nature of the Shibito of Siren 1. The characters also did not really grab me as much. By the end of Siren 1, I think you've well started to care about Tamon, Kyoya and Yoriko. I can barely even recall what the Siren 2 characters were called, although I played through it two or three times as well.

Oxxidation posted:

the first siren is unnerving but has a very weird and bad english voice cast, and is also one of the bitterly miserably unfun video games i have ever played. siren og hates you for playing it, hates you for living, and will make you regret both for every moment of the experience

i never touched the remake but heard that it's more user-friendly while also abandoning most of what made the first game scary/memorable

The Saddest Rhino posted:

Edith finch is objectively a way better game and story than Ethan Carter. It's almost satirical that Ethan Carter employs the "it's all in their imagination / dream!" and "am I the true villain??" tropes together to make it such a wholly terrible story. The subplot puzzles and environment were fun enough but that story certainly leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Have newer horror games gone past the need to make their protag a James Sunderland clone?