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Finished Observation last night. I loved the hell out of the narrative itself, including the ending, but I'm 100% on board with the gameplay being a hindrance. Anything involving piloting the sphere made me nauseous on top of frustrated (I was stuck for an embarrassing amount of time in the mainframe after Jim's death because I just couldn't get in between his legs to leave). I'm horrible with directions in general, blasting me out an airlock to find a single hotspot on a giant space station or having me find a specific room in an unmapped arm was bound for failure. I felt legitimately dizzy and had to lie down after a particular chase. I'm getting old.
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I got a bit of a request, can anyone link a good LP of the original Clock Tower? I could have sworn SGF had done it at some point but I guess he just did NightCry and ReMothered. Clock Tower's one of those games that I love to watch for the visuals and music but looks absolutely miserable to play.
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Yo, thanks guys! Was looking for the SNES version but this looks like a lot of fun. Gotta start getting in the Halloween mood.
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Sep 27, 2020 02:21
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I'm having a blast with Phasmophobia but yes, the asylum is absolute garbage. Way too much ground to cover and not as interesting to explore as it should be. We got a poltergeist in there who did absolutely nothing for about 45 minutes while we slowly trudged through identical hallways until I finally snapped a pic of a dirty sink and bailed. It probably won't happen for griefing/exploit reasons but I'd really dig it if I could gently caress with people after I die. Not a lot, just light flickers, motion sensor tripping, maybe some ouija board stuff. It's fun watching ghosts hunt your teammates but even after you die, they can be a pain to track down until they suddenly disappear again.
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Oct 6, 2020 18:14
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Hey, thanks for the Discord link! I spent about 15 minutes straight getting booted from public Phasmophobia games because I'm level 10, I guess? Can't wait to start making some money.
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Oct 18, 2020 20:49
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Transference is a really neat experience that doesn't get enough love. It's stupid expensive at $25 for maybe two hours of gameplay, but I'd check it out if it goes on sale.
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DreadUnknown posted:Ohhhhh yeah the Elijah Wood one? I think I own that, it did look pretty interesting. Yeah, this one! SpectreVision's also responsible for Color Out of Space and Mandy so Transference has got a very similar art direction style, and some absolutely fantastic acting all around. The plot's well worn and the gameplay itself is very escape room, but the production value is off the charts and the delivery is spot on. I had a blast in VR and I hope Wood doesn't give up on producing games in the future.
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Nov 5, 2020 18:58
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The first 3/4 are honestly some of the most spooky, atmospheric good times I've had in a horror game. Then the last quarter happens. Apparently I'm in the minority that really loved the last boss, though. If there was a mod that cut the boat I think you'd have a drat near perfect game.
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Jan 22, 2021 17:13
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End of Zoe, Jack's 55th Birthday, 21, Bedroom, and Daughters are so great in entirely different ways. Family horror is my favorite genre and Daughters struck a chord, I just wish it could have had more build up.
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Jan 22, 2021 18:49
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Watched the first hour of The Medium, and more than anything else it's giving me serious Syberia/Still Life, early-aughts The Adventure Company vibes. I guess that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's much more dull than I'd expect from something that's making PC towers chug, poo poo themselves and catch fire.
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Jan 30, 2021 20:15
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The splitscreen effect looks really, really loving dumb when Mariann is talking to someone/picking something up/smoking/being choked out/etc. in one world and just mirroring the gestures in the other. So much effort for something that just looks poo poo. Also can't get over how bad the voice acting is. The plot is dumb and boring enough, but the garbage acting really drives home how shallow it all is.
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Feb 5, 2021 19:11
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I absolutely love garbage horror games, the only caveat is they can't be boring. The fact that I'll never be able to play Michigan: Report From Hell greatly pains me.
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Feb 8, 2021 17:37
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Selling Rule of Rose a couple months ago payed all my bills lolLen posted:Does it not emulate? Enemabag Jones fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Feb 8, 2021 |
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Feb 8, 2021 18:45
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Cardiovorax posted:It does! Here's a guide on how to make it run decently: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GDJlexFxJ_mBZwK6Qi-x7CRclKHdPXwSDjHWeFXvZ4w/edit
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Feb 8, 2021 18:50
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FirstAidKite posted:I like when horror games don't feel the need to be misery porn because goddamn are there some horror games that just lean way too far into the misery porn Real hard agree. I absolutely hated the first episode of Visage because it didn't even try to have a personality beyond "wow, hosed up, huh?" The second was a massive improvement just because it stopped taking itself so deadly serious and had some lines that aren't just "mom screams because kid dead." Like, At Dead of Night manages to be scary as hell without resorting to shock value, but creating tension actually requires work as opposed to starting with an edgy subject and writing your plot around that Enemabag Jones fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Feb 8, 2021 |
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Feb 8, 2021 19:33
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That's my one exception, I will accept misery porn as long as it comes in a late twist to an otherwise cute or normal game. It's cheap, but it's exactly the kind of cheap I enjoy.
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Feb 8, 2021 19:54
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I still love Phasmophobia but I want more small-to-medium maps. The bigger ones are fun for a bit but once the novelty wears off they can be a big ol' slog.
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Feb 9, 2021 15:23
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The controls on Little Nightmares 2 seem a lot tighter than the first. I'm dying a lot more to dumb impatience than just straight up not grabbing poo poo even though I PRESSED THE drat BUTTON in comparison to the first game. No idea who thought this series needed combat, though, it's not the worst but it doesn't actually add anything. I'm enjoying it a lot, although I'm giving a slight edge to the original just off personal preference. LN1 wasn't afraid to throw in some color now and then, and it had a nice little well-paced story that wasn't exactly masterful but was fun enough. I have no clue why Mono and Six are doing or going to any of the things and places that they are. Like wtf this school is dangerous as poo poo just leave lol
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Feb 19, 2021 21:02
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Going through the hospital now and disregard what I said, gently caress this combat. Aiming your slow rear end for small, fast and fidgety critters is scary at first, frustrating the fifth time. At least it's still pretty infrequent. The flashlight is absolute hell to manage with a Steam controller. I'm totally stuck on these mannequins and I might see if switching to a keyboard and mouse helps at all just to get past this. Danknificent posted:Nightcry Years later and I'm still in shock at just how incompetent that entire mess ended up being. Just the wrong decision made at every conceivable point. It's almost impressive how there isn't even a plot but still manages to be confusing. I can't even remember the last time I saw something squander that much potential (my monitor is on.) The Clock Tower model must be a helluva lot harder to do well than it seems. Remothered did it...okay? But it still suffered from having too much confidence in its storytelling abilities and, from what I've heard, the sequel is about a billion times worse. Enemabag Jones fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Feb 21, 2021 |
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Feb 21, 2021 20:14
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I want an Among Us ripoff under The Thing license, like, yesterday.
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Feb 24, 2021 18:23
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The new SH2 voices were extremely anime. It wasn't the worst ever, sure, but it lacked any of the charm or surreality the original had. Plus any redub that replaces an actual kid VA with an adult can gently caress right off, that poo poo is the worst, and SH2's replacement was particularly bad.
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Feb 28, 2021 20:51
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Two episodes in but the Detention TV adaptation is so bad I would almost believe it was made just to make Red Candle look worse after the Devotion fiasco. It made me reinstall Detention to make sure it was actually good, though, so I guess that's nice (it is still good). I'll also take this opportunity to say Devotion is the best bad dad game and is one of very few video games in general I've seen where the story is legitimately great, instead of just great for a video game. Probably the only game that took the right lessons from PT and now no one can play it either, lol.
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Mar 6, 2021 18:18
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Like any easy heartstring-tug, I think it could be used okay, but individuals who are gonna full-on animate animal death probably aren't thinking farther than that, and actual studios can't afford it if it fails. Like, even Bloober Team was like "if we kill this dog, this garbage will not sell." Actually, now that I think about it, You're Grounded did it pretty well. Your cat dies, but in the good ending you gently caress up the people responsible and become a sweet old crazy bat man. I can live with that. Enemabag Jones fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Mar 7, 2021 |
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Mar 7, 2021 03:15
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I guess spoilered because in Rule of Rose it's pretty ambiguous as to whether there was an actual dog to begin with, and even if he is a real, physical pup, you couldn't be too sure he died either way just going off of the dreamlike nature of the game itself. Very good dog game. Bad actual game, 1/Haunting Ground out of 5.
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Mar 7, 2021 05:17
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FirstAidKite posted:I'm gonna have to disagree here mainly because the whole game is already presented up til that point as a misery fest of child abuse so when that is first introduced my thought was basically just "oh they would pull this kind of horse piss wouldn't they." Like, You're Grounded isn't a masterpiece by any means but whoever made it knew their source material and has probably had some experience in the bad dad department.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:wtf. Rule of rose is great. Although selling it got me $600 that I desperately needed to pay bills, so I'm not complaining there. Enemabag Jones fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Mar 7, 2021 |
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Mar 7, 2021 05:23
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Lani Minella needs a medal or some poo poo for managing to be in pretty much every low-budget horror game released in the past 20 years like some kind of screen scream queen.
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Mar 7, 2021 21:00
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D2 is legit terrifying to me, for some reason. A lot of games try to capture the feeling of having really weird dreams but it's the only one where I had to go back and look at it to make sure I hadn't just hallucinated parts of it. The grandpa boss skeeves me right the hell out, I still think about that sometimes and get real creeped.
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Mar 7, 2021 21:36
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I can't emphasize this enough, if you like horror, you really owe it to yourself to pay the $16 to buy Devotion while you still can. It is ridiculously good.
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Played Devotion for myself instead of just watching a walkthrough, for the first time. Man. That ending does not get any easier to watch, what a loving punch to the gut. I also have a ridiculous fear of snakes and started getting legitimately queasy during the walk down the hall with the big gently caress off snake, ugh. Short but so, so good. I can't wait to see what else Red Candle comes up with.
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Mar 17, 2021 18:37
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Lmao who cares everyone with a little money already has your info if they want it, you weirdos. I'm more likely to trust the 2gb file Devotion came on than the 71gb file that is Fortnite, but whatever.
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Mar 17, 2021 22:22
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I just replayed DDLC and I'm hype as gently caress. Hoping they swap out the stuff that wouldn't work as well on consoles for some new spooks.
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I could forgive a couple of missteps if The Medium had anything else to offer but it really is just tone-deaf and boring as all hell. Reminded me a lot of those low budget Eastern European games The Adventure Company used to pump out in the early aughts
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Picked up Yuppie Psycho in the recommendations here and I'm enjoying it, but I really do hate save gimmicks. Sure, when I was a teen RE style saving was no big but when you're an adult that needs to be ready to drop everything at a moment's notice, it gets old fast. Doesn't help that pausing and coming back later invariably seems to break the game.
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Jun 25, 2021 21:39
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I played with two friends who went in blind and they both called what happened to Sayori extremely early on. Guess it helps that my acquaintance pool is depressed as gently caress.
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Jun 29, 2021 23:26
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Been a while since we moved on from Yuppie Psycho but I just finished it four or five times and dude, what a fun little gem. Definitely some rough bits (I hated the birthday party), but the sheer amount of effort that went into it and all the secrets was inspiring. The standard ending was alright, but the DLC ending was phenomenal. I can't think of any other game off the top of my head that completely changes the second half of the game based on a few secrets. The DLC ending is also just better in every conceivable way and pulls off the Clock Tower formula really well. I'd still scrap the witch paper mechanic (just inkjets would be totally fine), but it's a minor complaint overall.
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Jul 8, 2021 22:46
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Visage is pretty bog-standard "A Shudder Original" levels of edgy scary tryhardness but I will admit, the Brave Little Toaster section was a delight.
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I much preferred Downfall to The Cat Lady, personally, but I liked a lot about both. Downfall takes itself much less seriously (or if it doesn't, it's so over-the-top as to seem somewhat self-aware) and your partner is awesome, well-acted, and genuinely funny. Both games are extremely goofy but Downfall actually has some fun with it.
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Man, JJ fuckin' WRECKED me. Just a teary-eyed lil baby those last 15 minutes.
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