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That's kind of a weird list. I don't really know how anyone would classify Velvet Assassin as being even remotely horror-related, and Scarygirl is just a lovely platformer with vaguely Invader Zim-like art. Shuggy's just kind of a generic looking puzzle game.
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Oct 8, 2014 01:01
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Roelosaurus posted:I'm to scared to play horror games, how can I get rid of my "scaredness"? Stop being babby
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Oct 8, 2014 15:15
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The Cheshire Cat posted:It is so much dumber than that you won't even believe it. Watch the LP - it's great. Seriously, I believe there's a case to be made for Illbleed legit being one of funniest games ever made.
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Oct 9, 2014 16:53
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Neo Rasa posted:Is the FF2 remake really a "remake?" I thought they just went with it because it's universally praised and plays better than the first. Path of least resistence like most ports. Yeah, it's just a port. There's no real reason why they didn't re-release all three as a trilogy. I personally don't find 2 to be massively superior.
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Oct 9, 2014 21:28
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Deadly Premonition wishes it was half as good/funny/weird as Illbleed.
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Oct 11, 2014 11:29
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Evil Within has been really good so far. Early goings and all, but it seems super ambitious and they really nailed that grungy 80s horror atmosphere - it's very Clive Barker, and it looks incredibly gorgeous. I can already tell the story is gonna go in some weeeeird directions.
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Oct 14, 2014 02:43
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I remember the Horror games thread complaining about the unkillable Baron von Blubba ghost in the trailers for The Evil Within. Is it as annoying a mechanic as it may seen? The game is very rigidly divided into chapters so I'm thinking it's a specific mechanic for a section of the game, but I'm just assuming here, 'cause I haven't encountered it yet.
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Oct 14, 2014 03:15
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They aren't. I don't know which version that is, but it's flat and drab as gently caress. The PC version actually looks incredible. Here's a random screenshot I took. http://imgur.com/QYFswtE
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Oct 14, 2014 03:24
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Well, it does look better in motion than whatever random screenshot I took without really thinking much.
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Oct 14, 2014 03:28
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Evil Within's biggest flaw is that they didn't use the Japanese title PSYCHO BREAK
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Oct 14, 2014 03:37
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Daylight is one of the worst games I have ever played, definitely the worst horror game. It's so loving badly made in every respect, some of the worst procedural generation I have ever seen, the scares are entirely predictable and purely annoying, you literally spend the entire game just running forward and never stopping, the loving writing, ugh. gently caress that game.
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Oct 19, 2014 10:24
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Maybe portraying mental illness as a violent psychopathic nightmare scenario is played out as gently caress, but I don't think it's inherently destructive. It isn't an ignorance thing; most people know asylums aren't actually dilapidated horror mansions. I also know wars aren't actually cool buddy sweet headshots gently caress yeah situations, but I don't consider that portrayal in action games or movies necessarily problematic unless they're deliberately trying to mislead you, which most often is not the case. Like, I'm pretty sick of it because it's SUCH a common trope, but I don't see it as being actively harmful. If you think the opposite is true, I'd like to know why that is. I can't deny that many of my favourite horror movies/games actively try to incorporate some form of insanity, mostly because not knowing what's real and what isn't is legitimately one of the most terrifying things imaginable. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Oct 19, 2014 |
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Oct 19, 2014 13:50
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Improbable Lobster posted:Outlast doesn't avoid sexual violence and rape at all though? Sure, it's not against women but it uses the threat of homosexual rape and genital mutilation for cheap horror in the dlc. That's actually kind of a subversion, though. I haven't played that DLC, but the fear of rape and murder of women is one of the most common tropes in horror in general, and I can't think of many examples where a male character is treated the same way.
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Oct 19, 2014 19:30
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Len posted:So it really was people just hitting the panic button based on one contextless video. Yeah, it turns out the game has a bunch of other flaws people are constantly harping on  (I love this game)
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Oct 20, 2014 11:47
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Clever Spambot posted:Real talk: as someone who generally hates overly actiony AAA horror games will i enjoy evil within at all? Maybe? It's actually kind of a deliberate departure from those types of games, RE4 especially. Although it has some sections where you're forced to fight, it's not really an action game, and you're pretty much always outnumbered and outgunned. It's clunky for sure, but I love what it's trying to do, and assuming you can live with some of its weird quirks, you'll probably dig it. You will have to endure some inevitable frustration since the game does not hold your hand at all and isn't always super intuitive. Edit: It hearkens back to the days when the fear of being stuck at a bad save with no ammo and low health was far worse than any actual enemy you would encounter. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Oct 20, 2014 |
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Oct 20, 2014 12:31
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woodenchicken posted:I played it somewhere halfway between release and present day, so it kinda half-worked for me, but couldn't finish most chapters. There's a petition going on Gog for them to put it up in their store, but I suspect even their top wizards cannot get it to work reliably. Nocturne was loving unreal for its time. Not only was the atmosphere fantastic, the fact that each level was its own entire vignette dealing with a different setting with completely different themes, characters and enemies was super impressive. And then you went back to the spookhouse after each chapter and you could go around talking to people. Goddamn that was a cool game.
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Oct 20, 2014 14:03
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I'm a big SNES collector, and I'm super surprised I've never heard of Majyuuou. It looks awesome though, so I'm definitely going to import it, thanks a bunch!
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Oct 26, 2014 00:20
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I don't think Kuon is middling at all. Considering the time it came out, it's at least on the same level as the Fatal Frame games in my mind. It's way loving better than Rule of Rose either way.
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Oct 28, 2014 09:10
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Ijuuin Enzan posted:
I actually bought Theresia at the time because it looked and sounded really cool, but for some reason I never actually played it. Is it good?
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Oct 29, 2014 17:27
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I love how the developer is named "Pure FPS" and their first game is a third-person shooter.
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Nov 4, 2014 10:33
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Yodzilla posted:That was The New Nightmare. I think it's supposed to be a reboot of the franchise and I remember it receiving middling reviews when it was new http://store.steampowered.com/app/259190/ Yeah, at the time it was alright, but nothing special. It falls squarely into that middling survival horror game category that plagued the late 90s/early 2000s, e.g. Galerians, Countdown Vampires.
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Nov 5, 2014 09:55
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Nintendo have done stranger things than digging up an old IP. If they can get a competent developer to make it I don't see why it couldn't theoretically happen some day.
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Nov 11, 2014 15:18
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I remember being so psyched about Homecoming 'cause there was so much cool stuff they could do with a war veteran in that setting outside of Jacob's Ladder, but of course they just aped the movie and SH2 a bunch and called it a day. The main problem with Silent Hill post-4 is just creative bankruptcy.
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Nov 17, 2014 09:03
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Silent Hill is kind of like Sonic at this point. Those first three games were incredible, but ever since then everyone has just been constantly stumbling over their own feet trying to recapture that magic, but no one has any loving idea how to do so, and fans are equally divided over what even made those original games so good in the first place.
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Nov 17, 2014 21:20
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Well yeah, but let's pretend they are generally well-liked.
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Nov 17, 2014 21:24
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Improbable Lobster posted:Everyone always forgets that the vast vast majority of Sonic games are very bad. No, no I don't think so. But then I'd argue the vast majority of Silent Hill games are very bad. Book of Memories or the dumb arcade game are pretty apt equivalents to Shadow.
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Nov 17, 2014 21:32
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I don't come to Silent Hill to hear dramatic performances. Complaining about the performances in original SH 2 is missing the whole point. They fit the tone of that game perfectly.
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Nov 18, 2014 21:23
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Basically I loving hated every moment of playing SH4, but I still look back upon it fondly because it did so many cool things with its atmosphere and setting. It's a failure as a game, but there's something really compelling about it in spite of this. I would probably still take it over better playing, but far more generic games like Homecoming,
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Nov 19, 2014 02:41
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DeathChicken posted:Random question, but does anyone know who sang the version of Amazing Grace used in Deadly Premonition? That was purdy. Plus the scene that accompanied it was loving amazing. Looking it up it seems to be a Japanese singer named REMI. I can't really find much info about her though.
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Jan 17, 2015 18:08
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Clever Spambot posted:The remake doesnt have the same lovely b-movie feel, but its quite good. Oh yeah it loving does. The dialogue isn't like "created by non-English speakers" bad, but it's still plenty b-movie.
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Jan 20, 2015 17:50
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al-azad posted:Combat is the worst feature of any horror game. Condemned 
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Jan 21, 2015 18:10
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I think the early Silent Hills did combat pretty well. Like it wasn't good combat, but because the monsters were so prevalent and legit frightening to run into, you wanted to kill them whenever you got the chance (plus the radio as mentioned above), and doing so wasn't so hard it became annoying and it didn't take very long either. Like you don't need the best melee combat in the world as long as it isn't disruptive and it serves a purpose. And in a world as horrifying as Silent Hill, you needed those moments of levity and satisfaction from killing everything in a room.
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Jan 21, 2015 19:03
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:I liked that Condemned 2 went batshit, because, for a large part of the game, I was convinced my character was too. Only thing I didn't like was at the end, when it turned into Dragonball Z and I screamed at a man until he fell off a hobo tower. Condemned 1 is a tighter game, but I like how balls-out 2 went in pretty much every direction. There were a lot of things that didn't work but then there are things like the loving bear segment. It's awesome.
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Jan 22, 2015 16:43
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I'll argue Demon's Souls is straight up a survival horror game with RPG elements. But yeah I really want From to make a new first person game. Is the first Shadow Tower worth playing? Everyone talks about Abyss and never the original. For the record I love the original King's Field so low fidelity graphics/controls aren't an issue.
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Jan 24, 2015 14:52
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RightClickSaveAs posted:Wow, REMake is old school hard. I had some idea going in, but this is pretty unforgiving. I should probably go Easy (Nature Walk or whatever) instead of Medium (Hiking) but I'm stubborn. If all you're playing on is medium don't worry TOO much about it. Just don't be frivolous, you will get more stuff as you go on. It is better to avoid zombies altogether when possible since leaving them dead just leaves open the possibility for crimson heads.
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Jan 25, 2015 16:03
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I kind of gave up during the chapter where you turn into that Goro thing and you have to solve all sorts of abstract puzzles without really knowing why. I'm sure I could've figured it out, but it still went really off the rails at that point.
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Jan 29, 2015 17:02
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Niggurath posted:It's wonderful, albeit a bit short. It's a super atmospheric game and teaches you about Nordic folklore, and it's just a lovely tablet port. How does the PC version handle the companion app stuff? Because that's almost the coolest part.
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Jan 30, 2015 00:27
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The Vosgian Beast posted:The sequel totally improves everything but gets silly, so people are down on it. Yeah in terms of just gameplay systems it's definitely much better. It has some gunplay in it that isn't very good, but otherwise yeah I think Condemned 2 gets a lot more poo poo than it deserves just because the story is total loving nonsense. I definitely like 1 more too, but 2 is absolutely an awesome game.
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An ACE Team Condemend would be magical. Just make it even weirder I don't care.
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