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Rush_shirt posted:I asked in the chat, but maybe this thread would be better: is anyone else playing White Night? I've been enjoying it so far, despite some frustrating cheap deaths.
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2015 23:06 |
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# ¿ May 9, 2024 03:43 |
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A. Beaverhausen posted:The series is cursed. We're never going to get another great Silent Hill game.
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2015 00:03 |
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It's kinda weird to consider Del Toro a presence in the horror world since things like Pan's Labyrinth and Devil's Backbone were made quite some time ago; and in the interium....well he's been making garbage or slapping his name onto garbage in a producer setting (such as Mama or 'Are you afraid of the dark'). I don't know, it's just odd to me how much people read into things regarding Silent Hills. I mean people were making assumptions about Junji Ito having some hand in the game just because he had lunch with Kojima at some point. I guess I just never had any real faith in Kojima or Del Toro suddenly making an amazing Silent Hill game based on a great demo.
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2015 21:32 |
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Mr. Fortitude posted:2 and 4 have weird bugs on modern PCs including some key items just vanishing into a black hole in your inventory if you aren't careful. Silent Hill 3 still works out of the box just fine and you can push the rendering resolution up to almost 4K if I remember right, it was stupidly futureproof.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2015 03:34 |
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catlord posted:Holy poo poo yes. I need to finish 2, it's one of very few games that's freaked me out.
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2015 01:06 |
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Accordion Man posted:It's Tecmo, they've always been like this.
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2015 20:02 |
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JordanKai posted:Ugh, I didn't even know about this. Also I still highly doubt that either del Toro or Kojima could make a satisfying horror game, and that while PT was interesting and spooky, it was probably no way indicative of what the end product was going to be.
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2015 20:14 |
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Was playing some Uncanny Valley over the weekend expecting something akin to a watered down and dull Lone Survivor, but it was a lot better than I expected. The premise is common enough being in a foreboding, isolated place but there's plenty of bizarre dream sequences to catch you off guard and just this overwhelming sense of dread that permeates the game. It's seriously pretty good and it's got a reasonable amount of replayability, though there are quite a few bugs currently that the devs are working out.
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2015 02:52 |
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woodenchicken posted:I tried to play it but it demanded that I unplug the controller from the PC before the game will even start. The dev says that he's fixing a controller-related crash and it will get better soon, but what was he thinking putting it up for sale in this state? Is there even anyone left playing PC games in the year 2015 who doesn't have a game pad plugged in? And they have been pretty quick to help people and get fixes out, so I'm not too bothered. Especially if I compare it to the glacial pace of Dreadout....poo poo that game makes me so sad.
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2015 18:11 |
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Skyscraper posted:Giant Bomb's quicklook of this made it look seriously amazing, I bought it and I'm going to start playing it as soon as I finish up Sunless Sea.
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# ¿ May 1, 2015 00:04 |
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Basticle posted:http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/05/27/perception-horror-irrational-veterans-kickstarter/ MockingQuantum posted:I thought this was the same article I was looking at earlier, but it's not. I swear there are at least three games in development that are all claiming to be the "PT replacement" with suburban hallway settings and a creepy woman with prominent teeth. I'm not sure how to feel about horror game bandwagoning in an attempt to ride PT's coattails.
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# ¿ May 27, 2015 19:42 |
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FirstAidKite posted:Can we talk about Clock Tower 2/Clock Tower Ghost Head real quick and about how loving stupid that game is I still have no idea how people would want to kickstart something with any association to Clock Tower. A franchise of one good game that then got remade followed up by two absolutely awful games. The Cheshire Cat posted:The saddest thing is that they won't realize that this has already been perfected: http://store.steampowered.com/app/356670/
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# ¿ May 27, 2015 21:06 |
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Junk posted:And all of this works in favor of the literal nightmare setting that the game established. Encountering the ghost enemies who could not be killed, chased you through walls, and could hurt you just by being close enough to give you a psychic migraine, was the first time I was legitimately frightened by a Silent Hill enemy since the realization that you can just run past the majority of them in 1-3 with the comfort that if I had to kill them, I could. The golf clubs were the only melee weapons that could break, the trade-off being they did high damage for the time you get to use them, and the game is littered with them. It is a really oppressive game and it succeeds in being scary. I did enjoy the settings for the most part in the game and it was a neat idea that tried to break away from SH 2. So I'll give it that.
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# ¿ May 28, 2015 00:12 |
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Mr. Fortitude posted:I've not played Evil Within but from what I understand, it goes from Silent Hill in the first three chapters to Resident Evil 4-2 for the rest of the game. And the reason it's like Condemned....cause it's entirely from the first person and it's super weird.
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# ¿ May 28, 2015 22:41 |
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Mr. Fortitude posted:That actually sounds... pretty interesting actually. Would you say it's worth it at 50% off with the DLC or would say I should wait for a bigger sale? If anything I just appreciated the fact that the story DLC really still tried to mix things up and like the first half or so of the story DLC has your character completely unarmed and defenseless. It was pretty terrifying and tense, and I never really felt that way during the main story.
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# ¿ May 29, 2015 02:02 |
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Skyscraper posted:Wow, I'd had no idea that the DLC was actually good for Evil Within. I'll pick it up next steam sale. Thanks for the tip! Also on a not Evil Within note, but is Dreadout worth re-installing to play Act 2? I haven't heard much about it and the long delay kinda killed my interest, but I was thinking that it might be worth playing the second episode.
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# ¿ May 29, 2015 02:56 |
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blackguy32 posted:The Evil Within kind of fucks up because it introduces a bunch of mystery and then never really does poo poo with it. Like the stuff with your family or the nurse. Relin posted:But Sebastian still gets that migraine that was established to only happen to people who were within the similacrum
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# ¿ May 29, 2015 04:45 |
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Relin posted:good start to dreadout, got totally stuck within 10 minutes and had to look up a walkthrough to know there was a hidden wall
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# ¿ Jun 4, 2015 02:37 |
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Captain Yossarian posted:Will have to check this one out! Is it any good?
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2015 02:35 |
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Skyscraper posted:I haven't played the first one, or heard of this game until today.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2015 01:57 |
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I'm weary to be excited for Until Dawn if only for the fact that it's been in development for a number of years, and even if it was only to switch from PS3 to PS4, it doesn't usually bode well for something to be stuck in development limbo for that long.
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# ¿ Jul 22, 2015 02:43 |
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Yeah, my issue with Evil Within is that it tried to be very "mindtrippy" but ended up just being nonsensical instead. Even now I am sitting here trying to remember what was even the objective of the game at the halfway mark. Something about chasing a guy, who had something to do with crazy mind experiements? I am intentionally leaving out details about the man and experiments, but they aren't even relevant because there's really not a lot of drive to do it aside from "it will progress the plot". I'm not trying to say that the game doesn't have it's weak spots (like pretty much all the city sections near the end of the game), but some of the complaints people have about the game are pretty strange, like: blackguy32 posted:The Evil Within is a game about a misplaced protagonist. Sebastian barely has anything to do with the narrative. The woman's story seems much more interesting.
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# ¿ Jul 31, 2015 18:39 |
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Morpheus posted:I know I loving hated the motion-detecting mines that straight-up ignored enemies. I was expecting to use them as a cool trap, but nope. I think the cheapest death I remember was in the mansion section where you're walking down a hall and suddenly you're grabbed by something and dragged towards a grinder trap.
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# ¿ Jul 31, 2015 18:54 |
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Not sure if anyone of played the fan translated DS game Nanashi no Game, but an English fan patch just came out for the sequel. It's a pretty interesting DS horror game and improves quite well off of the first game. So if you wanted to give it a try, then now you can: https://gbatemp.net/threads/released-nanashi-no-game-me.357565/ Also if you do enjoy it, make sure to give a big pat on the back to goon How Ingratiating! for doing the translation. She's a super swell person for doing it.
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# ¿ Aug 21, 2015 23:49 |
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Macaluso posted:I think I would kind of prefer it if there was a "horror" game that involved exploration and puzzle solving that didn't involve a monster that could kill you at all. I mean like drat, if you are exploring a creepy abandoned hospital at night in real life, you're gonna be creeped out even though you know there's not gonna be a ghost or monster attacking you. I think too many of these horror games rely on you being in actual danger of something killing you when really all you need is just really good atmosphere. You can still have ghosts and scares, but a scary game can be scary without something on the hunt for you. I didn't particularly like the bits of Amnesia where you deal with a monster because those parts aren't scary. They're stressful in that you need to get away from it, but the parts I was scared the mosts were parts where I was perfectly safe but the environment around me was creepy as gently caress
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# ¿ Aug 28, 2015 22:49 |
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weekly font posted:Anyone checked out Layers of Fear? It looks pretty interesting.
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# ¿ Aug 28, 2015 23:28 |
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Len posted:I couldn't stop getting choked. ):
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# ¿ Aug 29, 2015 02:32 |
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So I just finished up what's currently available for Layers of Fear and I have to say it was pretty good all around. I was reading one of the negative reviews and it was pretty much 'I guess I'm just jaded, but none of the game really scared me', and it kinda made me expect that I was going to end up feeling the same but it did enough interesting things with the scare setups that I didn't mind the obvious jump scares. Like it had a couple of situations where a door would disappear once you looked away and something would pop up when you turned back in the previous direction, and it was so seamless that it just left me smiling. I definitely look forward to seeing the ending.GANDHITRON posted:I played a bit of Cosmology of Kyoto this weekend. It was definitely eerie and unsettling, but also very informative. It was pretty neat for a walking simulator.
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2015 01:50 |
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InsanityIsCrazy posted:layers of fear is good Also does anyone have an idea of how long Fran Bow is? I wouldn't mind picking it up, but I worry about running into another Neverending Nightmare situation and having a game with an interesting aesthetic that's inevitably only two hours of shallow of game play.
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2015 01:56 |
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GANDHITRON posted:And if you like Japanese ghost stories where there seems to be no moral, watch "Kwaidan," it's a beautiful and eerie film.
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# ¿ Aug 30, 2015 02:16 |
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So do you have $2 and a spare two hours, then please do give a try to Stray Cat Crossing. It's a wonderfully surreal RPG maker game with a great art style and a nice story; not entirely straight horror but still had well worth the price of admission.
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# ¿ Sep 1, 2015 06:15 |
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DreamShipWrecked posted:I am kind of afraid (heh) of getting it for that reason. It seems like one of those games where it is spooky at first but then just turns to weak jumpscares
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# ¿ Sep 3, 2015 20:49 |
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oldpainless posted:gently caress the keeper from the evil within. gently caress him right in his 7 foot box headed rear end
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2015 04:34 |
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Tired Moritz posted:Can anyone recommend me a good horror game that isn't "first person perspective, walking around spooky area and then you have to run from monster"? Also pretty excited for Dropsy to drop tomorrow. Seems like a good hell ride full of hugs.
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# ¿ Sep 9, 2015 23:10 |
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Synonymous posted:Anyone gotten into Layers of Fear? I'm enjoying it, but I'm only like 30 mins in. Also if anyone is looking for some cheap horror, Stray Cat Crossing is in there for a reasonable price: https://www.indiegala.com/ (along with Oniken which is a pretty fun retro game) and Uncanny Valley is pretty cheap in this bundle: https://www.indiegala.com/trekker. Both are great, somewhat short indie horror titles.
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# ¿ Sep 19, 2015 01:37 |
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Relin posted:there is one, i'm the only one who posted in it
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2015 02:05 |
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So did you like Teleglitch but wish it had better graphics (kinda) and multiplayer, well then you should check out Noct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHBPeijIBiQ. Now while I did enjoy Teleglitch, the lo-fi pixel graphics didn't do the game much favors and this looks to be much in the same vein. Just a bit surprised I had not heard of it before.
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2015 04:59 |
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Yeah, been enjoying it so far but I forgot that these games just set up tension at first without really putting the player in danger. So I'm having to calm myself down and tell myself that I'm not going to suddenly be murdered by whatever is waiting behind a door or slamming through vents...at least not yet anyway.
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2015 09:44 |
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I think my biggest problem with SOMA so far is that I never really feel threatened. I've had to hide kinda from maybe two monsters, and both of them had horrible AI (the first one would seriously walk right up to me while crouching and just look at me and then walk off). I guess I might still be early on in the game but I swear even Amnesia gave you the possibility to die earlier than this, or at least some possibility of danger. Also speaking of killer robots and possible horror, has anyone heard of P.A.M.E.L.A cause it looks pretty nifty:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdpTjLEueq4
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2015 01:31 |
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# ¿ May 9, 2024 03:43 |
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GreyPowerVan posted:It's more of an expansion for the second one I thought, but I'm actually starting that one tomorrow. I haven't read any reviews or anything, but I'm assuming from the way you said that, that it sucks.
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2015 06:53 |