e2adaa No.13968964
have there been any new games that have captured Lovecraftian horror?
8e0efb No.13968979
If you've turned any of Lovecraft's works into something other than more written or spoken word, congratulations, you've failed to "capture Lovecraftian horror."
>I know, let's just take this unknowable, vaguely described creature and just
>you know
>DEPICT IT
4c0e96 No.13969000
e2adaa No.13969019
>>13969000
nice trips, and I figure new as in the last two years. There was a phase where soyboys were trying to jack his work and throw it into every indie game they could, but since then they've dropped his lore due to being problematic so I figure there might be a chance some game with a small team might have done his stuff some justice and also be fun to play.
c37358 No.13969021
>>13968964
There weren't any old either.
>here is some eldritch horror
>if you whack it with the stick long enough it can die lol
>>13968979
Pretty much this.
Maybe if there was a game that never shows this shit, then it could possibly do that, but alas we gotta have polygonal monsters in there.
b4aba2 No.13969023
>>13968964
I want more cosmic horror vidya
f4fb92 No.13969029
9a41aa No.13969036
>>13969029
>shitty puzzle game with Cthulhu tossed in near the end to attract more Kickstarter shekels
No thanks.
c37358 No.13969037
>>13969029
>>13969023
This is what I'm talking about.
Once there is some fish monsters that pops outta somewhere the entire atmosphere goes to shit.
It's just a video game monster, you either kill it or run away from it.
0aba93 No.13969058
I hate the Souls genre, but I can appreciate the lore and especially Bloodborne's.
e256ba No.13969070
Conarium. Don't recommend buying it though, it's very short.
a7d09e No.13969076
>>13968979
>lovecraftian horror cannot be expressed visually
you're a lazy fucking moron
you could think of interesting ways to create completely alien designs
is that ever done? no, you usually just get fish people and some octopus shit, but it could be done
the point of most of lovecrafts works were to represent your unimportance in the face of things so great you can't comprehend them, sure, but people attached to the monsters, they became stars, characters
I'm sure people imagine all the time what they may have looked like, to see something so incomprehensible you're driven mad, its interesting to think about, and no doubt was one of the points why they're written as such
theres nothing wrong with trying to translate that into a visual medium, its just that no one is thinking outside the box enough to do it well
e2adaa No.13969242
>>13969023
>>13969058
You have no idea how bad I want to play that one, but aside from the Yakuza remake and Bloodborne I've got no reason to own one.
>>13969070
Doesn't look to bad, guess I'll track down a torrent and give it a shot.
b597d5 No.13969627
>>13968964
Try playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Because you messed around with some relic, the universe itself is trying to kill you. It doesn't have a corporeal form, but it noticeably follows you everywhere. Leaving the walls all goopy and shit. Like all good Lovecraftian horror, it makes you feel like you're dealing with a force too destructive and unfathomable to even comprehend
b7072f No.13969644
>you don't understand Lovecraft, real Lovecraft is [stuff popularized by the tabletop RPG that isn't particularly prominent in the guy's actual work]
Every time.
7c0e8e No.13969681
>>13969023
This picture grossly exaggerates bloodborne's impact. The game is at its best and most disturbing on the werewolf stage, everything that has to do with the nightmare (just a normal place with some fucked up walls for effort) and the kin (deeply silly monsters) is underwhelming at best. Even the Orphan of Kos, literally the unborn spawn of a great one, is just some dude that fights with a placenta. Fuck it, it'll do. He'll look like some other NPC because muh lore > monster design. Shit, the chromatic aberration is the most disturbing part.
Gameplay's great though. A solid 7/10 overall.
a0ccdb No.13969709
Lovecraftian horror is a meme that isn't even present in most of Lovecraft's stories.
>indescribable entities
<many of Lovecraft's stories clearly describe the monsters
>totally beyond us, unfightable
<Cthulhu is defeated when the protagonist drives a boat into him
96ddd1 No.13969715
>>13968979
I can't believe I have to explain this every fucking time a Lovecraft thread comes up.
Lovecraft's predominant theme was not
>Oooga booga space monster you insane now
It was the exploration of mysteries and ultimately uncovering dark secrets that once known could not be unknown, but were so unbelievable that no one would ever believe you, giving off the impression that you were insane.
He explores, forbidden science and gives local superstition dark alien origins. What does it mean to be a man and discover that everything you've ever worked for is a lie, is for naught or is actually damaging your chances for success and there is nothing in your power you can do to change it.
bfc58e No.13969750
>yet another "is there any new games that" thread
No, fuck off.
96ddd1 No.13969765
>>13969709
Wasn't a half-breed child of Yog-Sothoth killed by dogs, and something that he managed to summon was shot to death?
a0ccdb No.13969848
A lot of Lovecraft's stories were just about weird bullshit. Not even necessarily horrors from beyond space.
>wannabe Edgar Allen Poe stories without any monsters at all.
>guy goes down to a crypt. Hears a spooky voice. That's it.
>Frankenstein rip off where a guy makes zombies. Not much else.
>magical fantasy stories with islands of talking cats.
>incestuous family's inbreeding devolves them into albino monkeys over the course of generations.
>Harry Houdini fan fiction.
>some guy cheats death by mastering chemistry.
>deformed child lives in a tower.
4d5c81 No.13969852
>>13968964
A broader term to not get bogged down in all the autism about Lovecraft would be cosmic horror/comsicism. When you say Lovecraftian you immediately get posts like the first reply with "hurr you can't depict it".
>>13968979
Nigger not everything in Lovecraft's works was some unknowable being, you have stuff like Elder Things and Shoggoths which are described fairly clearly. On top of that the "unknowable" nature of Old Ones isn't really that horrific, the main points of cosmicism/cosmic horror are:
1: The innate human fear of the unknown, which rooted deep in the lizard brain.
2: The utter powerlessness of humans in the face of beings and powers beyond comprehension.
3: The way the second point undermines human beliefs such as faith or dedication to a higher cause, making one feel insignificant and pointless.
I'd certainly agree that at the point you just kill Old Ones for shits and giggles it undermines the premise somewhat, as it empowers the player, such as in Bloodborne. Depictions of creatures either need to be really well designed to be visually dissonant enough to give you that feeling really evil sounding discordant music does (something le generic tentacley old one completely fails to do) I think the established design of the Elder Thing nails that pretty well. Or be more abstract by depicting a being's physical manifestation as something like fog.
86d92c No.13969860
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The only good one is Eternal Darkness, as it's truer to the spirit of Lovecraftian horror (humans are mere pawns, the elder Gods cannot be defeated by anything other than another one, the horror is so deep that it transfuses to the real world with the random effects on your tv screen etc).
a0ccdb No.13969877
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One of my favourite Lovecraft adaptations. Captures the weird vibe of the story great in a visual format. The archaic stop motion effects might actually help here.
d1b9f0 No.13969947
>>13969765
It wasn't a summon, it was his twin brother, but yes. The story was the Dunwich horror.
020f86 No.13969966
>>13969848
>incestuous family's inbreeding devolves them into albino monkeys over the course of generations.
I was under the impression one of them actually just fucked a monkey at one point.
I always wondered about that story and what Lovecraft said about it. Was he implying he had similar ancestry?
a0ccdb No.13969988
>>13969966
Lovecraft was deeply disturbed by the revelation that he had some Welsh ancestry.
e2adaa No.13970150
>>13969988
That "tainted blood" aspect of his horror is always lost and it's disappointing that it is.
ecb2ea No.13970154
>>13970150
That's why we can't have modern Lovecraft stories. The implicit racism is just too triggering.
e2adaa No.13970193
>>13969860
I do need to beat this and it has been on the backlog forever. I'll get something good to drink and play it tonight.
does it emulate alright?
cd5aba No.13970202
>>13969852
>>13969715
Best posts in the thread.
e00514 No.13970225
>>13970205
You have shit taste.
37cbd3 No.13970230
>>13970205
He is not the greatest writer, not even close but far from shit.
96ddd1 No.13970240
>>13970234
>This post
You're trying way too hard to fit in friendo.
599271 No.13970244
>>13970234
>s-see, I like more racist authors!
You sound like a kike.
639b20 No.13970266
You can't actually capture the feeling Lovecraft's work in a game.
A large part of Lovecraft's horror was a fear of the unknown and powers beyond human understanding, that doesn't work well in the medium of video games
ecb2ea No.13970285
>/v/'s quality isn't declining by the day goys, nothing to see here
e2adaa No.13970316
>>13970285
The baiting and shitposting has been getting pretty bad recently. Perhaps Winter Break is in full effect?
a0ccdb No.13970354
>>13970266
Except when it was actually about albino monkeys and fish men.
5899e9 No.13970385
>>13968979
>DEPICT IT
You're a faggot. There are plenty of ways to avoid this. Like really vague shadows or silhouettes, a monster that is chasing you but you can't never see, strange sounds, weird scenery that isn't consistent. Take Eternal Darkness for example, I think that shit captures Lovecraftian horror pretty decently.
>>13969021
>if you whack it with the stick long enough it can die lol
In the original Alone in the Dark you had to escape the mansion because there was not a single thing you could do against all the weird shit going on on the mansion. Sure, there were common enemies that you could "kill", but they just disappeared, and they were stuff like Zombies and really abstract things, if you tried to escape directly you were engulfed by this estrange eye thing with a mouth. Again, I think that was pretty good when it comes to lovecraftian horror, since you don't really kill or stop the "main thing that is fucking everything up", you just escape and don't mention it to anyone ever again.
37cbd3 No.13970402
>>13970234
You are cringey.
e2adaa No.13970415
Mark, if you're gonna 404 half the shit derailing the thread don't leave the other half.
>>13970385
It's still a damn shame the Alone in the Dark remake was cancelled, especially considering how faithful to the original it looked.
154cee No.13970417
>>13968964
1. Call of Cthulhu
To a lesser extent, Bloodborne.
>>13968979
Hi George Lucas, you know you can make moving images about something without depicting or fully depicting things right? RIGHT?
e2adaa No.13970423
>>13970417
Call of Cthulhu was great… up until you get a gun. After that I just sort of lost my momentum and never found a reason to return. Also getting it to work on modern computers is a pain.
a0ccdb No.13970429
>you can't depict Lovecraftian monsters
We've just been over this. Yes you can. Many of his stories describe the monsters in detail. The idea that every Lovecraftian monster was unknowable is a meme.
45a6e1 No.13970446
Why does it sound like most people who argue about the guy's work have never read any of it?
154cee No.13970464
>>13969681
Bloodborne works naturally with Lovecraftian horror, although I'm not saying they captured a decent chunk of it.
In dark souls, many people, especially girls, feels extremely stressed at progressing, to the point of quitting, the stress comes from the unknown, and the unknown gets populated by all sorts of monsters all at the limit of the subject's own imagination, so in theory, they can just slap a few lovecraft references and copy the base game and they already have a lovecraft theme game about being extremely anxious at the unknown. But people who know the formula, or are not especially the neurotic type, won't get that feeling of deep horror where the one that scares you is you.
00354d No.13970470
>>13970446
It's usually just to shit up a thread like this anon >>13970234
a0ccdb No.13970480
>>13970479
Fuck off, Autist.
a0ccdb No.13970486
Are you mentally ill, or just a cunt?
639b20 No.13970489
>>13970486
He's a shitposter, that's all.
Just report and filter him and don't reply; shitposters thrive off replies.
e2adaa No.13970492
>>13970446
I used to listen to his audio books every day while working, then a few years back I found a really nice collection of all his works at Barnes and Noble, snatched that up, and read through them again. There's only a few of his stories I really don't like, and those are usually his early works.
Now if people want to talk about books and authors that get a lot of unwanted love, my vote goes to the King in Yellow. I still don't get why people like that one.
639b20 No.13970498
>>13970492
What's the appeal to listening to a book over reading it? I much more prefer to imagine what the characters sound like and what their inflections are than to hear somebody else interpret it.
36ca80 No.13970500
>>13970193
It's a great game. Just note that it's more "psychological horror" than "survival horror", with both the characters and the player being affected by what they see as things get worse, and each character having different constitutions (some have more mental fortitude than others, for instance). Not sure how it emulates, you might try asking here >>13904022 .
a0ccdb No.13970508
>>13970498
Sometimes you can add something to a story with a good voice performance, or some ambient music. It's also nice to listen while working or travelling.
00354d No.13970511
>>13970498
IMO there's no real appeal except to just listen to something interesting while doing repetitive or mundane tasks.
e2adaa No.13970513
>>13970498
Same reason you'd listen to a good story teller around a camp fire I suppose, and it's nice being able to do other things while listening to something.
>>13970500
yeah, I played it up till the knight guy a long time ago, enjoyed it a lot, then just got busy and forgot about it. I'll boot it up here in a bit.
639b20 No.13970524
>>13970501
>>13970514
Don't fucking reply. Are you retarded or some shit?
>>13970511
You might as well listen to a podcast there, though. Whenever I have to clean my house I turn on random economic podcasts.
45a6e1 No.13970526
>>13970524
The guy replying to him is shitting up the thread just as badly. Just report them both.
ecb2ea No.13970536
>>13970429
You can but you mainly shouldn't for the same reason any good horror movie hides its creature.
5899e9 No.13970538
What the fuck is wrong with these cuckchan-tier shitposters?
639b20 No.13970543
>>13970538
I think it's one guy shitposting (ID 3bf8c2) then replying to himself with a VPN (ID d0bfd1).
Report them both, they're both breaking rule 8.
e2adaa No.13970549
>>13970536
It's a balancing act. If you don't reveal enough it seems half thought and will leave people unsatisfied, reveal to much and you take away the horror from the unknown.
639b20 No.13970555
>>13970549
Well, his work wasn't entirely about the unknown. Sometimes it was more about strange events or strange people, like that one story about the old man with the viol.
0aba93 No.13970556
Ban this cuckchan filth now
639b20 No.13970560
>>13970556
3bf8c2 was already banned. Just report d0bfd1 and his posts will probably be wiped as well.
669e2b No.13970562
>>13968979
So you don't think a game can capture fear of the unknown or cosmic horror? Hell, I'd argue some hipster walking simulators are perfect examples of Lovecraftian horror since simply gazing upon their sheer stupidity can drive a person insane.
e2adaa No.13970566
>>13970555
Nice trips, and I know, I was just throwing my two cents when it came to good horror monsters and such. I think there should always be a little something left to the imagination.
669e2b No.13970571
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>>13968979
Also posting this since some replies don't get what this post is probably getting at.
Traps are gay.
dbdf5b No.13970582
I can get provoking arguments with furfags/monsterfags and shitposting at them but what does arguing with youself do?
639b20 No.13970588
>>13970562
What makes me so annoyed about those damn walking simulators isn't that that they throw away any semblance for story, but rather than the story is always absolute shit. The sole exception to this is The Stanley Parable.
Walking sims fail on all aspects.
639b20 No.13970592
>>13970588
*any semblance of gameplay for story
e2adaa No.13970594
>>13970582
>get triggered by "thing"
>try desperately to reach bump limit and limit discussion
That's usually the goal
639b20 No.13970599
>>13970593
A horror only few can truly comprehend
b06aa5 No.13970614
Clive Barker's Undying and Grim Dawn both flirt with being Lovecraftian but I would not call them truly Lovecraftian.
a0ccdb No.13970616
>>13970588
I thought Soma had a decent story. Not mindblowing by any means, but it would make an okay sci-fi movie.
639b20 No.13970623
>>13970616
The MC is unbearably stupid.
The entire game he's told that you can't directly transfer consciousness, but even when the ending comes about he still doesn't get it.
b06aa5 No.13970625
Also MARK WILL YOU FUCKING GET RID OF THE SPAMMING AUTIST SOMEHOW, PLEASE.
142dcb No.13970626
>>13970193
It emulates perfectly, I finished it on Dolphin myself a year ago.
639b20 No.13970636
>>13970625
Report & filter, don't give him any attention.
>>13970193
It emulates really well.
The cutscenes render at 16:9 instead of 4:3 which can cause some funny moments like seeing characters going into T-post at the edge of the screen, but other than that there are no problems.
a0ccdb No.13970637
>>13970623
That's such a common thing in fiction I hardly notice it though. I kind of expect protagonists to be dumbasses.
b06aa5 No.13970655
>>13970637
In horror genres protags are dumbasses about 90 percent of the time, so yeah.
e803d3 No.13970662
>>13970498
Being able to enjoy a book in a car when you have motion sickness
e2adaa No.13970677
>>13970614
I really need to play Undying, especially considering how much I like Jericho and that's not even a good game.
>>13970636
>>13970626
That's good to hear, looks like I'll be having fun in a bit.
b06aa5 No.13970692
>>13970677
Undying is decent, not great by any means. Gameplay and storywise it kind of falls off a cliff when you get to Bethany's world and the final boss is shit but it's a decent ride up until then.
b06aa5 No.13970710
>>13970708
why the fuck are you feeding him (you)s you fool
45a6e1 No.13970714
>>13970710
Because he's been shitposting from the start. Don't reply, report, hide.
e803d3 No.13970783
So when do hotpockets start doing their job and save a perfectly fine Lovecraft thread?
Also Darkwood.
62525c No.13970788
>>13970783
when you refresh
4a1721 No.13970790
>>13968979
>t.doesn't understand what cosmic horror is
If anything bideo gaymes are a better medium for this.
639b20 No.13970798
>>13970677
I just want to tell you now that there's a puzzle near the end of the game which unlocks the best weapon. If you skip it, you can never get it again.
I won't tell you exactly what it is, but be aware it exists.
ecb2ea No.13970808
>>13970790
Maybe, but not with the current crop of "Le tentacle monsters xD xD" devs.
e803d3 No.13970819
4a1721 No.13970831
>>13970808
Obviously, but thats just retards not knowing what lovecraft is about. Game world are technically a far a space of fucking nothing and the player is stuck in a small pocket made by some other entity. The fast nature of computer code makes its so you never know what actually is.
4a1721 No.13970838
e803d3 No.13970841
Any cosmic horror stories that do not have eldritch abominations in them but just mysterious forces beyond human comprehension? I know those do overlap but I mean a cosmic horror story in which a force is not personified as a God/monster/etc
639b20 No.13970842
>>13970808
Those are people who read the Wikipedia synopsis of Call of Cthulhu, you should always ignore the garbage they put out.
ecb2ea No.13970843
>>13970831
Considering the avenues some entities take to access our world, yes, you could make a pretty neat Lovecraftian game in the form of a computer program. I suppose things like ANATOMY and Pony's Island fall into such a category.
ecb2ea No.13970869
>>13970841
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. Scientists try to make contact with an alien organism only to ultimately fail because the differences in consciousness are too big.
a0ccdb No.13971111
>>13970841
At it's core cosmic horror is really about man's helplessness in the face of something infinitely larger and more powerful. Lots of stories are like that. Stories of natural disasters, war, political dystopia.
bfc58e No.13971231
Thread has been alright despite OP being a faggot, don't know if this has been posted but enjoy
f0e0fb No.13971364
>>13970498
I listen to audiobooks even though I hate listening to audiobooks because it lets me "read" while I'm doing something that requires me to be looking at it. Found out people have uploaded basically the full entirety of Pratchett to Youtube recently and I've been working my way through the discworld series.
71505f No.13971444
I've been listening to audio books lately, I think you could easily do Lovecraft justice. The Horror at Red Hook could be a quest chain in any WRPG. Dungeon crawling in the Mountains of Madness seems pretty straightforward.
If you need a way to depict otherworldly horrors maybe start with optical illusions.
b7b90f No.13971460
>>13970492
I have that book, it smells really nice.
ecfea7 No.13971478
Oh, hey. To the mod that banned me for an hour for posting at the spammer one time, fuck you too asshole.
>>13971444
Lovecraftian themes require the player descending into madness and having an unhappy ending tho. The problem with lovecraftian quests is they require someone other than the protagonist being the focal point and that person losing it and either dying horrifically, or becoming mad or worse. Even then, it's tenuous at best,since the protag is still fine.
68df20 No.13971496
>>13969966
>I was under the impression one of them actually just fucked a monkey at one point.
Pretty much it. The first Jermyn went to the Congo and fucked the queen of a civilization of white apes, returns home with it and the mongrel. It's basically a story about racemixing and shit.
71505f No.13971623
>>13971478
>Lovecraftian themes require the player descending into madness and having an unhappy ending tho
Several stories are the protagonists recounting events - Lovecraft wasn't that formulaic, there's no requirement the main character dies or goes insane.
83ecab No.13971636
I know that bloodborne is a lowball answer but its still the best answer because of how the horrors are all hiding in plain sight and that if you try too hard to comprehend them (insight) you can lose your fucking mind. Most other uses of lovecraft themes are just fucking normalfag memers "haha dude cthulu lmao". Normalfags are getting scared to meme lovecraft anymore cuz he was racist though.
32097b No.13971683
>>13971478
>Lovecraftian themes require the player descending into madness and having an unhappy ending tho
a4e79a No.13971984
>>13971636
I'm still bummed that insight never played a more significant roll in how the game plays out. I was hoping that the amount of insight you had would determine what ending you would get, but nope.
a4e79a No.13972001
>>13971984
Shit, I can't grammar today. *role
5899e9 No.13972115
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>>13971478
You can have 2 protagonists playing simultaneously and dealing with the whole situation in different ways while also being affected by it in different ways, you could have it as one dying for the sake of the other while the other keeping the secret forever because he can reveal it, and being accused of murder or something like The Statement of Randolph Carter or From Beyond 2 of my favorite ones along the temple and the transition of Juan Romero.
Or they can go the way Silent Hill goes with a protagonist just going through things he can't understand with other characters that are a reflection of it's psyche or outsiders that torment him.
>>13971683
Shit, Yume Nikki is something funny.
>If Madotsuki dreams are indeed dreams then she is just a tormented person whose unfortunate dreams lead to suicide
>If her dreams are more than dreams then she is a person being tormented by things outside of her reach that ultimately leads to her suicide
Pretty neat that there never was an explanation for anything at all.
263305 No.13972185
>>13971636
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5899e9 No.13972196
Also, I found this site with a pixel shit game that looks interesting. Seems to be a simple point and click, if not a blatant walking simulator. Sadly, the links are down. http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=25043
42ef0e No.13972218
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>>13968964
There have been some unofficial indie games but I've not heard of any of them are good or shit.
The newest Lovecraftian horror game that is coming out is Call of Cthulhu and there are some rumors that it's the same folks that where behind the other Call of Cthulhu game on xbawx and PC.
From the trailer it looks cool but who knows how it will turn out.
3073bc No.13972416
Where's my Dreamcycle CRPG? Having to roam in tormented day trying to find drugs and long forgetton relics to stay in the land of slumber. Exploring the seas as captain of the white ship, escaping certain doom because you just happened to invest enoug points in language(cat), having Nyarlathotep show up with a bunch of ordinary black guys playing trumpets as his entarouge, eventually realizing a universal truth that you are but one of the many and possessing an alien body and returning to earth because you forgot how to change form at will. Tons of cool one offs and events that could be done with the dream saga shit.
639b20 No.13973341
>>13972185
That looks like a reference to Rubber Johnny.
ecb2ea No.13973351
>>13971960
You run around an invisible level until you either progress or die of starvation?
e9c87c No.13973357
>>13972218
>it's the same folks that where behind the other Call of Cthulhu game on xbawx and PC.
If true it's going to be shit. Dark Corners of the Earth had some good moments but any game that has you firing a cannon at Dagon must be considered an absolute failure as a "Lovecraftian" work.
5d7b68 No.13973364
>>13972218
Devs are confirmed hardcore sjws last time I heard, I wouldn't get my hopes up
31397d No.13973393
>>13969765
Yea and the Mi-Go drown in flash floods and another either gets mauled by dogs or gets shot, I forgot which was which.
c3fd44 No.13973616
>>13972185
But those are actually humans injected with the blood of Great Old Ones by a mad scientist attempting to ascend to godhood using the same technique
b1b45f No.13973750
>>13968979
Lovecraftian horror can be depicted and still work. The core element of eldritch horror is how everything just doesn't make sense and literally everyone but the person experiencing it (the reader/main character/player) just sees it as something normal.
Eternal Darkness is a good example, the story is nothing new but the way it fucks with the player is what makes it unique. The player himself ends up being a character in this story of meta-spooks through fourth wall breaking, which is exactly what makes it eldritch horror; because the player and the character are supposed to not be the same entity, as in the player is supposed not to be directly affected by the game other than through the character, when the game starts doing shit like apparently fucking with your TV settings and deleting your saves the player becomes a character and experiences the upsetting emotions that form the game, which design-wise makes absolutely no sense.
b1b45f No.13973756
>>13969709
><Cthulhu is defeated when the protagonist drives a boat into him
The guy rams the boat into Cthulhu, Cthulhu then proceeds to ignore the absolute existance of the boat and go about his world destroying business because to him being rammed with a boat is like a small mosquito biting a person.
726d91 No.13973767
>>13973756
>The guy rams the boat into Cthulhu, Cthulhu then proceeds to ignore the absolute existance of the boat
Bullshit. Quoting the short story,
<Knowing that the Thing could surely overtake the Alert until steam was fully up, he resolved on a desperate chance; and, setting the engine for full speed, ran lightning-like on deck and reversed the wheel. There was a mighty eddying and foaming in the noisome brine, and as the steam mounted higher and higher the brave Norwegian drove his vessel head on against the pursuing jelly which rose above the unclean froth like the stern of a daemon galleon. The awful squid-head with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bowsprit of the sturdy yacht, but Johansen drove on relentlessly. There was a bursting as of an exploding bladder, a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish, a stench as of a thousand opened graves, and a sound that the chronicler would not put on paper. For an instant the ship was befouled by an acrid and blinding green cloud, and then there was only a venomous seething astern; where—God in heaven!—the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form, whilst its distance widened every second as the Alert gained impetus from its mounting steam.
fa5fb6 No.13973777
>>13969627
That's it until the monster shows up and it's the most goofy shit imaginable and with retarded AI so you can neuter it with a bunch of boxes on a door
96ddd1 No.13973781
>>13973393
Is that the one with the brain in a jar where the guy keeps getting an increasing number of guard dogs?
b1b45f No.13973785
>>13973767
>the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form, whilst its distance widened every second as the Alert gained impetus from its mounting steam.
Yeah, your point? The guy rammed the boat, Cthulhu's head sunk in, before going back to place and going about its business.
ce99cd No.13973820
>>13973785
Have you even read what you're talking about? This is the last paragraph -
<Cthulhu still lives, too, I suppose, again in that chasm of stone which has shielded him since the sun was young. His accursed city is sunken once more, for the Vigilant sailed over the spot after the April storm; but his ministers on earth still bellow and prance and slay around idol-capped monoliths in lonely places. He must have been trapped by the sinking whilst within his black abyss, or else the world would by now be screaming with fright and frenzy.
Lovecraft preserved the ambiguity of the story, but at the same time proving that the Alert did tangible damage to it so that it was forced to retreat back into its prison and wait for better timing. How do you not get this?
96ddd1 No.13973842
>>13973785
The boat rammed an awakening Cthulhu and drove it back to sleep. They literally knocked out Cthulhu. How are you that bad at this.