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naem
May 29, 2011

option a:

a lovingly handcrafted highly original game experience using older technology on purpose by a team of guys for whom this is a passion project, that they spent 7 years of the free time on while starting careers and raising families, that no one notices and is quickly forgotten and buried on some obscure online service

option b:

a copy paste clone of an existing unpopular generic game involving hallways reskinned with different lighting that is inexplicably wildly, wildly popular with gen Z who make it into a core cultural memory

some random RAAWR sound effect that gets looped badly becomes a beloved meme and for the the next 20 years the RAAWR loop evokes nostalgia and is used constantly in advertising to everyone under 40

“RAAWR!” says adult gen z to their own children years from now as they tuck them into bed at night, chuckling, with no need to explain the cultural reference

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naem
May 29, 2011

one of the female characters has a pretty nice butt

the artist obviously spent a lot of time on it and it’s really shapely and realistic

it’s a very specific type of butt too, and not the current standard of butt that is considered the best kind of butt, it’s just been so lovingly sculpted that you can’t help but notice how great and inviting it looks and it’s on the screen almost constantly just pointed right at you

this butt shape is imprinted on by the current young generation that has unconsciously make it a deep, core cultural artifact (along with the RAAWR sound effect)

plastic surgeons start changing models to have a more RAAWR butt heave and cleft and multiple porn sites have names now like RAWERBUTTZ©️™️

the character is a clown

naem
May 29, 2011

a moody noir nostalgic period piece set way back in the retro olden days of the 2010’s

relive your childhood as a mystery unravels, with hints of something darker in the background, as you use such old fashioned technology as an iphone 4s and physically plugging an aux cable to play music in a car that doesn’t yet have a mandatory backup camera in order to find clues on an obscure social media site called “The Facebook”

“I love these old timey retro settings! So quaint!! It’s just like Stranger Things” raves 20 year olds

“Wait that wasn’t that long ago” writes everyone over 30

naem
May 29, 2011

the maker of Hallway Simulator (originally a looping backrooms game demo with some filters over it) (known to legions of fans as RAAWR BUTTS) is discovered to be a weird gross antisocial guy who let it go to his head when his game got popular and made awkward passes at women online asking if they like clowns or hallways or bending over a lot

a class action lawsuit is filed alleging the creator expected employees to wear wigs and that the dev office space had been remodeled to have yellow backrooms-colored cubical walls with really low shelving you had to stoop to get into

the massive multinational corporation that stepped in to produce the sequel knowingly ignored his many politically incorrect behaviors online and off for years due to a contract,

and brings in a new studio to develop the third game which features roaring female clowns in tight pants that can jump really high and there are only hallways in the opening cutscene and a vocal subset of fans are enraged that the female clowns are shown to be strong and empowered and one of the lady clowns is now a different race than in the first game

“9.9 stars!!” says game review website

naem
May 29, 2011

several minor characters with their in-game mechanics are put into a mod that makes the game a turn based online team strategy where once you collect a certain amount of resources your online team can’t not win and you get to dunk on your opponent nonstop unless they rage quit (called RAAWR’ing)

anyone unfamiliar with the original game (aka everyone over 30) will be confused by the hallway looking backgrounds or clown wigs or the fact that most of the characters have their butts pointed at the camera, or the fact most of the top leaderboard player base are korean now

“We have to heavily monetize this, 9.9 stars!” says big game developer

naem
May 29, 2011

a mysterious cloak posted:

You spend the game working your way through a surreal labyrinth, dodging shadows just at the edge of your vision, the pace presses you forward faster and faster until,at you come to a complete dead end. Knowing you are about to die you begin laughing hysterically, you mind slipping away.

The camera pans around to your point of view.

It's Joe Pesci from his role in Goodfellas.

He says, "I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you?" and shoots you in the face.

Joe Pesci’s butt is lovingly rendered in 4k ultra in exquisite detail down the each visible hair follicle

naem
May 29, 2011

Disco Pope posted:

Do we have a team making sure that the gravel sound effects when you run between the house and the shed are really loving loud? Like a hand made out of Lego digging through a bag of doritos? Great. Okay, how many crow noises to we have?

RAAWR

naem
May 29, 2011

Nice Van My Man posted:

Whenever a monster spawns into the game it immediately begins looping the same scream sound effect while running directly at you ten times faster than you can move.

RAAWR

naem
May 29, 2011

you walk in to a series of mostly empty rooms in an unusual abandoned looking setting looking for clues

until you walk over a certain area of floor and that’s when the monsters jump out

it’s always one area of the floor in every room

there isn’t much else to do but gather some sparse power ups and the monsters are pretty hard but the jump scare is the game

find the trigger plate in each room and then restart each level as you spend a couple hours finding a spot the monsters can’t reach you and you shoot at them safely

or try to get multiple rooms worth of monsters to all run out into the hallway looking for you and realize they have like three animations and one noise the make as they clip through each other and have no programming to interact or acknowledge each other as you begin lose interest

will you chose the blue power up or the red? why is this factory in a victorian mansion? is that the same monster as last level but purple now?

naem
May 29, 2011

Applewhite posted:

You must carefully balance your hydration meter and your piss meter. If you piss too loudly you will alert the clown to your presence. If you become dehydrated you die.

patch one: the [PEE] IN [MOUTH] exploit has been removed

patch two: ok we didn’t stop to think who our userbase was going to be, it’s back

naem
May 29, 2011

a game that took over five years to make is steampunk flavored but started development right at the end of steampunk’s popularity and it’s too late now

there are supernatural elements and everyone wears old timely coats with like tails and collars and magic is all purple colored

the slow pace is meant to be atmospheric but really the budget is low and this is easier

central the the theme and tone is the idea that “English accents are sexy” but this is hampered by the fact that 1. the voice actress/actor (there are only two) dated and broke up halfway through and neither is very good and one of them is american and faking it badly and the tension and boredom is palpable and 2. English people are depressing not sexy

naem
May 29, 2011

the lady clown’s cockney accent is not an entertaining theatrical accent, they just hired a foreign trailer park person who’s genuinely unpleasant

naem
May 29, 2011

an Irish actor is hired to do an Irish accent, but is constantly told “No no, do it like THIS-“ and is given an over the top bad american version that matches expectations

the game is a surprise hit and the actor gets a lot more work now but hates doing stereotype voices

naem
May 29, 2011

in the long awaited big budget sequel press announcement, a really attractive A list actress over 35 is paid to say things like “this is a good game” and “you can have adventures with your friends” in a room of of fat guys

she is visibly weirded out by the fact that a bunch of hooter’s waitress looking models that all look like plastic, less attractive younger versions of herself are dressed in clown wigs and bikinis

on the screen behind the stage, clowns with meat cleavers clip through each other as cgi bodily fluid spray across the backrooms walls

socially awkward young men keep asking questions at the press event that require in depth knowledge of the game lore to which the actress replies “truly in the land of A’Zer’oth it is you, who are the chosen warrior” with a straight face

naem
May 29, 2011

actress on the phone with her agent after leaving the press event stage

:furious whispers:

Is that my rear end?? Is that, my loving rear end? Kevin? I mean, it LOOKS like my rear end!!”

:pause:

looks at clown

Well is it SUPPOSED to be my rear end?? Because it’s going to look like, my loving rear end now KEVIN. Did we negotiate this?? What’s my percent??

:eyes widen:

“HOW many copies sold?? Ok so CAN it be my rear end? Get my trainer and nutritionist on the phone and let’s do photo shoots where I wear the ping pong motion suit then. YES ping ping my rear end NOW. gently caress I bet there’s going to be a Netflix adaptation let’s plant some seeds, YES i want the part!!”

:smiles and mugs for camera next to fat guy:

naem
May 29, 2011

Lawman 0 posted:

Did anyone do elon musk mars colony neuralink headquarters yet?
You are failed test subject but lived because of the concentrated hater energy. All your implants are broken and buggy and you need to fix them while dodging other failed experiments and security while managing the wild weather on the terraforming red planet when you do Eva's. The game politics end up being a message about the power of voting for some reason.

the end boss is Elon who wants to impregnate you with a horse

naem
May 29, 2011

the same game but the “creep” player thinks he’s just playing a retail employee simulator, dealing with difficult customers

naem
May 29, 2011

the clues you pick up are all photos or vhs tape home movies of a family living a really, really comfortable lifestyle

the nostalgia of it being set in the past or the spooky “what happened” feeling is offset by the fact this suburban home has as much square footage inside as a walmart

naem
May 29, 2011

*flashbacks to the victorian era feature VHS filter*

naem fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Feb 14, 2023

naem
May 29, 2011

what if the victorian era only, meat hooks

naem
May 29, 2011

foreverially clowned up and loving it

naem
May 29, 2011

1. who built this victorian mansion and then filled every room with Meat Hooks
2. Meat Hooks and other farm implements next to nice furniture?
3. one area is just a slaughter house, but in a mansion?
4. why the clowns
5. aren’t these clowns 1940’s era clowns why are they mixed with people in old timey victorian clothing
6. ok that’s a like renaissance ruffed collar that def doesn’t belong
7. I don’t think they had cassette tapes in any of these past eras
8. ok so, wait, why is there an oil painting of the mansion owner holding a Meat Hook, in a family portrait?? sure yeah decent into madness and all that but he hired someone to spend 80 hours painting him holding one?
9. sepia toned vhs filers doesn’t just mean “old timey” it should be like a phonograph

these and other questions def will not be answered in Hallway Simulator, Decent into Madness©️™️

naem
May 29, 2011

an accidentally hilarious indie horror game becomes wildly popular for how bad it is and generates beloved memes

the big budget sequel takes itself deadly serious with no humor whatsoever

naem
May 29, 2011

gen alpha and gen z join millennials and gen X as the forth generation in a row for whom clowns are primarily a horror movie bad guy

vampires, werewolves, zombies, clowns = monster

naem
May 29, 2011

Meat Hook Mansion 3©️: return of Countess Buttcula a subsidiary of Hallway Simulator Games™️ Cinematic Universe©️™️ produced in conjunction with Big Bored Studio That Bought Us Three Years Ago and Didn’t Do Much With The Franchise

naem
May 29, 2011

a nostalgia pastiche of the 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000’s,

but as remembered by someone under 30 who is nostalgic for media that was celebrating the 80’s and 90’s of their own childhood which was like 7 years ago

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naem
May 29, 2011

https://youtu.be/Fg4wf8bK17w

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