4bbf4d No.16044362
Been a while since we last had one of those.
>What're ye buyin?
>What're ye playin?
>Unity Shovelware - the last nail in the coffin for horror games, or are there hidden gems in the sea of piss?
>Layers of Fear 2: Going for another walking simulator?
>Routine: Dead or deader than dead?
>Junji Ito? (Y/N)
>And where is the Dr-, I mean, Rule of Rose R34?
286f0a No.16044379
suggestions for game with hyper realistic blood?
:^)
705178 No.16044383
>>16044362
Try Fear & Hunger.
Its okay if you can overlook the meme difficulty and the cockgobbling cockgoblins that defend said shit design.
cd3339 No.16044402
I'm playing the penumbra series, and holy shit, why is it anyone likes it? I'm currently on black plague and I'm just breezing through it with little effort.
I played overture several years ago and back then I found it cool, tense as fuck and the puzzles were challenging. Now it just seems boring and piss easy. I'm just jumping around from puzzle to puzzle while the gay monsters chase me fruitlessly since you outpace them and even if they catch you you can tank 3 or 4 hits before dying, hell you can even bully them with crates.
tl;dr it's a fucking walking sim littered with moderately easy puzzles, handholding and not meh horror.
9c1c3d No.16044418
I bet nobody on this board is actually playing REmake2
4b3b23 No.16044442
>>16044379
Amnesia had some pretty bloody visuals. Considering they went and put out a hardmode recently it might be worth a replay.
>>16044402
I don't disagree, but they were far more effective at being horror than most other late 2000s games. They've aged pretty poorly and the fact the first few were made by like five Swedish guys really shows.
4bbf4d No.16044452
What about horror games with some old-fashioned, HP-draining parasites in them?
286f0a No.16044466
>>16044452
Splatterhouse, although they don't drain your hp they just latch onto you and there's aliens that come from bubbles that do the same thing as well
aeebfb No.16044475
>>16044402
This was the most memorable part of Penumbra for me. Been 5 years and I still haven't played the sequels.
86d133 No.16044494
>>16044418
Of course not. It hasn't been cracked yet.
808d7c No.16044542
I played Ao Oni recently. It had good puzzles, a good premise and good mechanics, but I don't get it, it explains nothing, the plot is "You got away and that's it", and even though that's normal in horror, I found the game pretty mediocre. Why it is so popular?
cd3339 No.16044557
286f0a No.16044597
>>16044492
the crack was released ages ago
4bbf4d No.16044897
>>16044542
Early RPG Maker craze. See also: Yume Nikki et. al.
Which is kind of sad, given that there are some genuinely good RPG Maker horror games (i.e., the Crooked/Boogeyman series). Doubly so considering they somewhat keep the point & click tradition alive while it's effectively dead in most mainstream games.
bb54af No.16044910
>>16044362
>>16044362
>>16044362
Name three games that do horror well and don't rely on jumpscares.
808d7c No.16045005
>>16044557
>>16044582
Yeah, I get it, but I was trying to look for "lore" to see something more and I realized a few things
>The game changes quite a lot depending on the version
>THERE'S A FUCKING JAPANESE MOVIE BASED ON THE GAME
So I doubt it is just youtuber bait, seeing how it is also really popular in japan to have a movie, and seeing the different version I thought I was playing the wrong version or something.
>>16044897
I actually went in expecting something vague like Lisa or Yume Nikki. I don't consider those terror, just abstract, and they are enjoyable on their on. Ao Oni was just convoluted puzzles with jump scares out of it's ass. Shit like Ib at least had a mediocre story, Ao Oni is below that.
I guess it does have charm, though, reminds me of that flash game with 3 parts that never got finished.
0a2aef No.16045052
9c1c3d No.16045085
But will THAT Leon eventually develop into the Leon everyone liked in RE4 or is he gonna be going in a completely different direction now? Art style aside, I just don't see how REmake Leon will become our Leon.
03fb1f No.16045101
>>16045085
To be honest I hope we get a a reboot universe that sees more of Raccoon City and the surrounding area. Maybe even delaying or stopping the nuke or just visiting neighboring cities dealing with their own outbreaks.
That path could show Leon growing into his RE4 self or just not have him end up that way altogether.
0a2aef No.16045110
>>16045085
NuRE2 Leon is still as much of a dweeb as he was in the original. The only thing really off-putting about his character in this game is how much he swears. Claire is a lost cause. She's loud and angry a lot and swears more than Leon. I don't understand Claire's characterization in the remake.
d58b67 No.16045143
>>16045042
Does leon not get the magnum early in numake 2? You could drop that fucker with a full magazine in the original, and the magnum has no other real use anyway so it's not like it's a waste.
0a2aef No.16045263
>>16045143
You can get the magnum pretty early on if you know where to look. I got magnum ammo about two hours before getting the magnum, myself. I don't think I got the magnum before encountering Mr. X, but it's not like he's all that hard to avoid. The only time he's really a problem, or any enemy for that matter, is when you're in a narrow corridor. Enemies have strangely long range in the remake. Ammo is a little scarce for the magnum if you don't make more. I think I collected maybe 30 rounds throughout my entire Leon A playthrough, and I missed very few items in that playthrough. I saved my magnum ammo for the Mr. X fight at the end.
cd3339 No.16045323
>>16044402
update on this: I just beat black plague, I'm playing requiem now and holy shit it's twice as bad as the previous two so far. why the fuck am I solving portal tier puzzles in some fucking super secret underground bunker where everyone was wiped out? bullshit I tell you. can anyone tell me if it's worth finishing? because I'm on the verge of dropping it.
9c1c3d No.16045330
>>16045110
Yeah, cussing wasn't really all that "in" in 1998. It must have been done to be relatable to foul mouthed millennials.
d58b67 No.16045357
>>16044362
>buying games
Gonna play the first yomawari on my vita, i heard the second game has a lot of jumpscares so i'm skipping that one.
Ito is great, only tasteless faggots dislike him.
f04a01 No.16045360
>>16045085
RE4 fags are shit.
Leon is a rookie cop that got dumped by his gf and noone listens to in the original game.
03fb1f No.16045368
>>16045323
That's the whole game, man. I was surprised too but I finished it because a horror themed puzzle platformer was interesting enough to keep me going. If you don't like it now, drop it.
9c1c3d No.16045379
>>16045360
>Leon is a rookie cop that got dumped by his gf
Nigger, after 2 every woman he meets is his gf.
The Ada thing is fucking stupid.
d58b67 No.16045399
>>16045330
It's the western pozz, resident evil characters didn't swear even in resident evil 5, which was released in 2008, so the script writer had to come up with creative, sometimes cringe worthy insults to get shit done "Wesker, you are pitiful", "Game over", "Saddler, you are small time", "You're right hand comes off?", "Do you get all your ideas from comic book villains?", and that was part of resident evil's charm, they didn't go full retard until Revelations 2 though, where ms. anorexic potty mouth can't go a single sentence without swearing.
cd3339 No.16045407
>>16045368
>That's the whole game, man.
are you saying I'm just gonna teleport from puzzle to puzzle with no spooky bits, chase sequences, environmental storytelling and notes reading? well fuck this shit then, what a waste of time
9c1c3d No.16045416
>>16045399
Could you ever imagine somebody like Wesker dropping an F bomb in the first place?
f04a01 No.16045541
>>16045379
But thats bullshit, hw gets rejected by hunnigan and ada pussywhipes him constantly, claire friendzoned him and the only women that want him he ignores (elephant ears and that swat woman from degeneration).
Chris is the one that gets the ladies.
>>16045416
Nah, hes an intelectual, smug cunt.
d58b67 No.16045570
>>16045399
>put two RE4 insults there
Fuck me, i meant to put a funny RE3 insult there, "You want STARS? I'll give you STARS" was great, it still makes me laugh.
>>16045379
>The Ada thing is fucking stupid.
Put yourself in leon's shoes.
>199X, just got a job in racoon city as a cop
>the day before i move to that city my gf dumps me most likely because i am a meek, introverted faggot who smokes like a chimney
>fucking devastated, spend the entire day getting drunk and smoking cigarettes in a shady bar
>suddenly realize it's like 4AM, go to a shitty motel to get some sleep so i can barely get to racoon in time
>don't make it in time thankfully, i would have been zombie food if i had even though i'm going above the speed limit in a desolated highway
>there's a body lying in the middle of the road, goddamn
>get off my jeep and ask if she's okay
>a bunch of shambling corpses step out of the shadows, woman wakes up and wants to bite my ankles
>shoot them a few times, they don't die
>haul ass to a nearby diner, find a cute teen being chased by a zombie, decide to show off my skills so i tell her to duck so i can shoot that fucker in the head
>tell her i'm a cop and that the police station should be safe
>steal a car, give her a gun so she doesn't get eaten
>a truck crashes into my car, forcing us to be separated, dammit
>meet a qt azn girl
>she's looking for her boyfriend JUST and needs my help
>agree, do everything in my power to help her every time she asks, even though she treats me with contempt and ignores the badge
>somehow manage to repel several ten foot tall abominations with little more than a custom deagle and a jury rigged shotgun, even though i have no real experience with ANYTHING
>but it's ok because ada started warming up to me once i took a bullet for her
>dumb bitch bandaged my clothes and didn't get the bullet out, but it's alright because she's gonna become my wife, she'll have plenty of time to "compensate" for her fuck up
>except not really, because she dies in my arms, at least i got a love confession and a kiss from her
>balls finally drop in that exact moment, decide to become a hardass so my heart never gets broken again
>adopt shitty one-liners whenever i kill a gigantic monster
>annihilate everything in my path so i can get the hell out of there with the biker girl and a blonde little girl she found there
>managed to get out safely, turns out the little girl is the daughter of one of the scientists who caused this entire shitshow, she has no other relatives so i am forced to work for the government to keep a close eye on her
He got dumped a mere day before racoon city went to shit, so it's no wonder he became infatuated with ada, if they hadn't gotten separated it would have been claire instead, or hell maybe even take the lolicon route and go with sherry if he had found her first.
596ce0 No.16045594
You know I have never actually played Yumi Nikki. Should I give it a go?
2ce057 No.16045600
>>16044910
Admittedly, REmake2 does terror pretty well, when Mister X is stomping around looking for you. The scariness is lost when you realize that he can only catch you if you run into a dead end or something.
aeebfb No.16045602
>>16045594
Do you like slowly walking back and forth between every room in the game, mashing the "examine" key on every tile so you can find the thing that changed?
cd3339 No.16045641
>>16045594
it's an ok game despite having little "game" in it. it has a great atmosphere, decent bgms and weird as fuck visuals. the gameplay revolves about exploring and finding items, you find everything and you win. the "plot" is cryptic as fuck and nearly all speculation. honestly speaking it entertained me for a while and I really enjoyed the atmosphere it set, it was a calming and kinda freaky experience for the most part. it manages to make you curious enough to keep exploring to see new areas and shit. I got pretty annoyed by the fact some shit is really hard to figure out and it's hard as fuck to get your bearings like this anon mentioned >>16045602 but getting lost is kinda part of the charm of it. one thing I can tell you is that when I finished with it I was kinda bummed out that I was done with it and there wasn't any more to see, so make of that what you will.
also know that there's a lot of things you can miss even if you gather everything required to "clear" the game
8076b1 No.16045656
>>16045594
>Proto Undertale
No
f825e3 No.16045784
>>16044362
>What're ye buyin?
On the lookout for a copy of RE Outbreak File 2 for cheap, planning on importing a European copy of Gun Survivor 2 and obtaining either Gaiden Boxed or RE2 N64 Boxed
>What're ye playin?
REmake 2
>>16045085
I mean, according to some people over at Project Umbrella, the Leon in RE4 is completely different from what the Japanese subtitles showcase him as, apparently being much more similar to his film and RE6 counterparts.
b10b44 No.16045804
>>16045656
Ive been waiting for someone to blame YN for inspiring garbage like undertale. Its sad really.
d9928e No.16045806
>>16045804
b-b-b-b-b-but they are both pixelshit anon!
8076b1 No.16045808
>>16045804
It was a shitpost, you probably have a good few years before people actually mean it.
Is that the 404 girl's sister?
9c1c3d No.16045854
>>16045784
Leon was fine in his cg movie counterparts barring degeneration which just kinda made him look demonic. By 6 he was fucking old and sick of chasing the thrill of monsters. Also friends with the president for some reason.
e0f972 No.16046016
>>16045357
>Gonna play the first yomawari on my vita, i heard the second game has a lot of jumpscares so i'm skipping that one.
1t's not about screamers so much as the game constantly putting you into instakill situations you have to react to quickly, and Y1 is definitely more reliant on that. The second one varies its approaches, and you should never consider skipping it for the world as it's a perfect example of a sequel that does everything better.
f825e3 No.16046902
>>16045854
>friends with the president for some reason
He did save the former president's daughter and is one of the most important members of the CIA thanks to the Kennedy Report
0c8870 No.16050649
>>16045399
I think its the Resi7 writers mostly who im sure some were new. They had the monsters calling you a shitcock, which actually wokred maybe once or twice for the shock value but still kinda eh.
127b79 No.16052766
>>16044402
I swear, if it turns out you were playing it in a well-lit room while watching something on a second monitor, and couldn't even be arsed to try and pay attention to the story…
Likewise, the 'combat system' in Overture is designed to be clunky and borderline unusable, only to be used as a last ditch attempt if you are in serious trouble. I wish they would make a remastered version of the Penumbra series in their new HPL engine, and add a disclaimer at the beginning like they did with Amnesia, so that players can experience the game like the devs intended it.
>>16045323
>>16045407
It's an expansion pack with Portal-esque puzzles that adds some minior details to the story/lore - exactly like it says on the tin. What were you expecting?
ef2fc3 No.16052791
>>16045330
>Yeah, cussing wasn't really all that "in" in 1998
People swore more back then, then "millennials" as you beta cucks call them, do now. No one uses the term millennial unless they're a delusional oldfag
8bf2a4 No.16052868
>>16044910
Alan Wake, Dead Space, & Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
5d7faf No.16053068
I'm playing the RE2 remake and I'd say it's more tense than scary. Scariest thing so far is Mr. X chasing Leon in RPD HQ, but once you know the rooms he won't enter, it's more annoying.
e0f972 No.16053079
>>16053068
Tense being what remains in objective gameplay mechanics after you outgrew being young enough to be scared of every shadow, I don't see the problem.
ff6155 No.16053190
>>16045085
>our Leon
>implying everyone is a RE4fag
RE2 dweeb Leon is best Leon.
cd3339 No.16053213
>>16052766
>I swear, if it turns out you were playing it in a well-lit room while watching something on a second monitor, and couldn't even be arsed to try and pay attention to the story…
you swear what? I was and that shit could only scare a 12 year old.
literally only the first encounter with the monsters is sorta tense because you don't know what to do how they act and shit but once you realise the dogs can be killed effortlessly after you manage to hit them ONCE because they go limp like sacks of shit and you can even teabag them waiting for them to get back only to get whacked again to the shadow realm, and that the alien penis-in-stomach monsters are total slow ass pushovers and fucking disappear for good once you enter a loading screen door, you just end up running and jumping around without a care in the world, they're useless and they cannot hurt you.
also the game showers you with painkillers but hp restores automatically, not like it matters considering enemies, when they happen to catch you, deal shit damage. requiem is fucking shit, the puzzles are all lame and easy, hell portal is better in that regard.
ALSO
>muh story
yeah that's really epic it's words words words words words gay ass lore while the gameplay is running from chore to chore with the mosquito tier enemies annoying you. I'm sure back when they came out the lighting and physics seemed impressive, and they still are rather nice, but the rest is oozing.
5d7faf No.16053254
>>16053079
I just thought it'd be a sliding factor of fear to intensity, with Leon being at the fear end and HUNK being at the intense end. Most of the fear came to zombies that wouldn't stay down, and that's only because I'd go to another room and they'd follow me.
a5531a No.16055314
>>16044910
I'm assuming you mean games that are of the horror type. Some games have some incredibly terrifying segments but they aren't horror. That said:
>Blood Bath Bay
A free game, your goal is to platform and collect 30 snails. The water is murky and pretty big fish wanna eat you, so mind your step.
>Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Did that statue just turn to look at you? is the room suddenly blood? Better save just in case. This game is good at keeping you paranoid about EVERYTHING.
>Alien Isolation
A surprisingly solid game, though I personally favored encountering the alien as opposed to 3 paranoid people armed with guns.
4aca76 No.16055353
>>16045042
I laughed at the revision thinking IGN Fucked up until I played the game. Leon and Claire take 90% identical paths. There's very few differences and it's just pathetic in how little work they put into the B scenarios. They're just the A scenario with an extra boss at the end. They speed things up a little by giving you an item early that unlocks most the area. Mostly because Mr X isn't only in the police station any more. And Leon B makes no sense when Claire A shows Mr X getting his ass kicked by Birkin. Post care park Claire A was golden. Nice nostalgia with some tense moments. Go there with Leon and it turns into The last of us and a DLC promo. It's a real shame.
>>16045399
Leon's killing of Birkin is DmC tier. He screams fuck you as he stabs him. It really needs to become a meme.
>>16045570
Ada's voice actress is flat too. She's just a cunt to Leon and is in no way redeemable.
<Recommend me a horror game faggots.
I want something with good monster designs. Not a walking sim and not one of the obvious (Silent Hill, RE, Eternal darkness etc.). I'm thinking of playing Aliens : colonial marines modded to hell and back.
ed6a35 No.16055386
>>16045804
But Yume Nikki did influence Undertale in certain ways. It’s incredibly obvious, and to say it didn’t is factually, objectively incorrect.
That doesn’t make Yume Nikki a worse game.
9c1c3d No.16056827
>>16052791
Not outside of their own closed doors they didnt.
Were you even sucking air in the 90s?
4aca76 No.16056999
>>16056827
Depends where you live. Swearing isn't unique to this decade but it wasn't as common to hear it as it is now. It's like sexual advertisements have become the standard not the exception. Societal decay in manners means more swearing.
1d1750 No.16057402
>>16054855
alien isolation was great at recreating the original movie aesthetics, but the fact that all the enemies know where you are, and stay "close, but not too close" really takes the tension and fairness out of the game. also AAA titles all add too much shine to cover up bad mechanics and this game is no exception
1d1750 No.16057411
ef2fc3 No.16057418
>>16055314
>consolefag playing an FPS
Disgusting
ef2fc3 No.16057419
>>16056827
Were you faggot? Plenty of cussing everywhere
406e99 No.16057695
>>16057402
This is a problem with all chase mechanics in modern games. None of them act as actual creatures would. If I can fit behind a desk and be unseen then I should be considered unseen. They shouldn't just stalk me to my exact location over and over. It discourages using good path finding to lose them away from you.
1dec93 No.16057710
>>16057695
It's doubly infuriating when you're a stealthfag and are used to observing and slipping through enemy routes.
b01d91 No.16058196
>>16044362
>>What're ye buyin?
Nothing, I've bought enough games for a couple years. I did get Darkstalkers as my most recent acquisition though so I think that loosely counts as Horror?
>>What're ye playin?
Resident evil Remake for the GC. Will be playing the GC port of RE2 after this. Then Code Veronica since I don't own Nemesis. Leading into RE4 and I think I'll call it at that.
>>Unity Shovelware - the last nail in the coffin for horror games, or are there hidden gems in the sea of piss?
Just like RPGmaker it's shovelware and shit all the way down with a few occasional good games that I've yet to experience.
>>Layers of Fear 2: Going for another walking simulator?
Never played any of them
>>Routine: Dead or deader than dead?
Never heard of this
>>Junji Ito? (Y/N)
Y
>>And where is the Dr-, I mean, Rule of Rose R34?
How about we just get a port of Rule of Rose so the damned British can't scalp me on prices?
29ad1e No.16058771
>>16053213
Ah, you are retarded. That explains it. Maybe Outlast is more to your liking? Or something with even less boring story/text to confuse and annoy you? If so, one of the Slenderman games ought to be a perfect fit for you.
d11ba0 No.16058836
>>16044362
>What're ye buyin?
I'm not sure if it classifies as horror but I bought Agony recently and I was actually happily surprised by it. I haven't played a hell themed game since Dante's Inferno and games like these are pretty rare.
>What're ye playin?
World of Horror and maybe some Dark Corners of the Earth later since I never finished it due to a bug last time I played it.
>Unity Shovelware - the last nail in the coffin for horror games, or are there hidden gems in the sea of piss?
There are still decent horror games getting made, just not in Unity.
>Layers of Fear 2: Going for another walking simulator?
The only thing that spooked me about Layers of Fear was the autosave. I mean it was fairly well put together and looked kind of neat but the scares and stuff was lame, it didn't really pull off the atmosphere either.
>Routine: Dead or deader than dead?
Absolutely dead, I think Alien Isolation getting released killed most of their motivation as the concept has already been done as good as it can be now.
>Junji Ito? (Y/N)
Y, I wish he had gotten to help make Silent Hills.
6fcad6 No.16061217
>>16058771
>duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuur huuuuuuuuur if u no liek gem u R STOOPED
>heres other end of spectrum shit game u like this cuz u RETART
>not one argument
no you're stupid, your game is shit and I explained why, fuck you
1dec93 No.16061768
>>16061217
If you're going to admit defeat, at least do it gracefully.
b6d757 No.16066695
>>16061217
Well, you don't play horror games with something turned on on the side, like wtf.
But i understand the story part. If a game isn't fun why should i bother with its story.
e90571 No.16066726
>>16044362
i still need to play the hangedman so that i can finish the strange men series
931bbf No.16066790
>>16045085
The fanmade RE4 HD mod is almost done so atleast we have that
http://www.re4hd.com/
d745ae No.16066795
I've been thinking about getting REmake 2. Is it good? is it fast or does it have an unnecessary long story? Can you unlock weapons and costumes?
9bcb37 No.16071144
>Deep Sleep
The game was great up until the ending of the third part where the story goes YOU WERE THE MONSTER ALL ALONG
Even though three felt too short, I liked the fact that the second one was almost like the first game for the first half, which I've played probably more than 5 years ago. It was lefting me confused but at the same time intrigued
>ywn be eaten by a walking giant vagina blob of death
61e90e No.16075363
>>16052766
>playing in a well lit room with something else on the side
I fucking hate when people do this shit. Just enjoy the game without any distractions and if it's a horror game then of fucking course play it in the dark.
I feel this is the reason some retards didn't find Silent Hill 1,2 or 3 scary or creepy at least. Best way to play those games would be
1. In the dark
2. Plugged Headphones into TV if it allows you
3. No distractions like a phone
61e90e No.16075412
>>16066795
I liked it a lot. The crack is out if you want to give it a shot. Some people have a problem with the game being too short but I feel like it kinda fits with the old games also being pretty short once you learn all the routes and which way to go first.
5f7553 No.16075423
>>16075412
>It's short once you learn the game
How retarded are you? You can't say a game is short if you've invested 10 hours playing through it to learn the paths. Especially not when the game is designed to be finished fast to unlock rewardsinside it. You get 2 8-10 hour campaigns, plus 2 additional gameplay modes and soon several DLC campaigns for free too.
How is /v/ so full of retards these days?
61e90e No.16075477
>>16075423
>You can't say a game is short if you've invested 10 hours playing through it to learn the paths
I don't see why you're getting flustered over what I said. I said that the games are short "ONCE" you learn all the routes. I don't have a problem with it since you're right that the game is designed to be finished fast to unlock things.
The "some people" are retarded journalists who were expecting a 10-15 hour epic cinematic experience.
5f7553 No.16075487
>>16075477
>Some people have a problem with the game being too short
Your post is right above yours, don't lie like a pleb.
>Muh emotions is the only reason I could be wrong
And "some people" are literally getting a 10-15 hour epic cinematic experience when you combine Leon and Claire's campaign together.
61e90e No.16075527
>>16075487
Some people have said that though. Is that too hard to believe? I'm only saying that the game is short once you know all the routes.
5f7553 No.16075707
What's some good action based horror for cheap on PC? i.e. not a walking sim.
6e8cdf No.16075733
>>16075487
You should actually finish reading a sentence before responding.
>I feel like it kinda fits with the old games also being pretty short once you learn all the routes
e5d0cb No.16075953
>>16044362
>what're ye buyin?
Haven't found anything recently that I would dump money into. Considering Lost in Vivo, though it looks kinda janky. Should look up some gameplay videos to get a proper feel.
>what're ye playin?
recently replayed Deep Sleep after OP reminded me of its existence. Hard to believe a fucking flash game has more atmosphere than the latest shovelshit.
>unity shovelware - hidden gems in a sea of piss?
Maybe. It's usually the developer that's at fault for making garbage with what they're given. Now it's a torrential flood of diarrhea these days with ease of access.
>Routine: dead or alive?
Probably dead.
>Junji Ito (Y/N?)
Yeah, he's alright for that unsettling horror aspect. Could probably make some sort of adventure or action game with those themes.
87e7c1 No.16076543
What did you guys think about SOMA? So far it's one of my favorite games. The setting and story are just really dark and interesting to me, and it feels like there's tons of lore to find as you make your way through the stations. I guess that's kinda what I want in horror games, to get immersed in the story and setting rather than having to constantly run away from some unkillable enemy. SOMA has those too, but it's not like they're around all the time so you do have chances to kinda explore and figure out what happened.
d11aa3 No.16077957
>>16076543
I thought it was pretty shitty tbh. There's a really hard cut between stealth sections and walking sections which ruins the atmosphere cos half the time you know you're safe, the environments are extremely claustrophobic so you're crouching round a table like a benny hill skit but then you also know where the enemy is at all times so there's no surprises. The guy you play as too is such a fucking retard. His constant lack of understanding of even the most basic concepts was annoying at best.
I also didn't find the setting or premise anything special and I don't think they utilised it very well. I remember there was some evil ghost that haunts you later on that represents the infection or w.e and you get a choice to unplug its sphere and I don't remember it mattering at all or really coming up again and it never really came up before.
d58b67 No.16078194
This has been a terrible year for horror, at least for me.
Last week i gave up on Yomawari after the piece of shit crashed 10 fucking times, all in the same spot, i downloaded it many times from both pkgj and nopaystation and it still crashes, and i don't want to start over, sasuga NISA.
Today i decided to play the PS2 version of Silent Hill 3 in hard mode face it, the PC port is ass even with patches, i got to the first boss fight in the game and when i pressed L1 to move to the side while aiming heather just stood there shooting the worm and got eaten, when i reloaded the save and tried strafing i found out the L1 button is broken even though it was working fine just a few days ago then again it is a shitty translucent bootleg dualshock 2 that i got for 7 dollars on some flea market, i don't know how to solder and i don't have a spare controller so SH3 will have to wait until next week. I ordered a wireless controller from amazon for $13 and it should be here in 2 days, but i'm still keeping the old one in case i need to cannibalize the buttons or something.
At least i found a copy of Code Veronica X in good condition for cheap, it came with the manual and a blue ps1 memory card with a LED that lights up when you save, there were also a few beat up dualshock 2s in there but i didn't know i was going to need them, if they're still there next friday i'll grab a couple.
d58b67 No.16078202
>>16078194
Yesterday i meant
J U S T
61e90e No.16078279
>>16078194
I hope you get a working controller soon because SH3 has some of the best locations in the series. sh2 is still my favorite though
7f1430 No.16078310
87e7c1 No.16078320
>>16077957
personally I dislike "stealth" sections in horror games because I feel like they become very easy to cheese through once you understand how the AI works. Once you learn the route or what to do, they become trivial and just kinda annoying, so horror games the rely of invincible enemies tend to fall flat after a time or on repeated playthroughs. Invincible enemies are a thing in SOMA, but like you said, you're not always being chased or hunted. Which I think is cool, because it lets you explore and figure out what happened rather than just run from safe area to safe area and miss most of the map. That's kinda why I've avoided Alien Isolation for now, I don't want to have to sit around and wait for X minutes every time the bad guy shows up, I want to feel immersed and creeped out by the world I'm in.
The MC being an idiot and not understanding the premise is sort of irrelevant. I found the plot and lore behind it all to be really cool and interesting. I do wish your choices in the game actually mattered, but they don't really, outside of what you imagine happens after the game. It could have used more puzzles too, as it is it's a bit of a walking simulator. But still, I love the lore too much to dislike it just based on that. The interaction between Simon who doesn't really understand what's happening vs Catherine who understands everything but is unwilling to explain fully creates a lot of tension, because over time the player figures it out and you realize why Catherine is holding back. On the first playthrough I think most people fall on Simon's side, but afterwards you realize what Catherine was doing and why she obscured things.
The WAU subplot is one of the most disappointing things, because you really have to read terminal entries to understand why you might want to kill it. If you just listen to Catherine and ignore everything else, killing it is meaningless. And whether you kill it or not, the game doesn't really change. That and killing yourself are the two real choices you get in the game that might possibly have an impact on the ending, but neither changes anything really.
aa6e14 No.16078325
>>16078194
Assuming you're playing blind, every boss in SH3 is a huge bullet sponge on hard mode, ESPECIALLY the final boss. Hoard everything for it, because there's almost no supplies in the entire last area. I found that out the hard way and was confident enough by that point that I didn't have a backup save.
d58b67 No.16078446
>>16078279
I hope i get a working controller too because i've been scammed by amazon before, and the first game is my favorite, 2 felt tedious to me. Probably because i can't sympathize with james, killing your own wife because you couldn't fuck her due to her terminal illness? Just hire a whore in the meanwhile and make sure she spends her last days happy, then marry someone else or just sleep around. Maybe i just don't have the balls to kill a loved one, not even my dog, i've never even considered it.
>>16078325
>Assuming you're playing blind, every boss in SH3 is a huge bullet sponge on hard mode, ESPECIALLY the final boss.
I've played it at least 5 times, but never in hard mode, i don't think ammo will be an issue though, the katana is so fucking good i can kill everything with it, even god, without getting hit that much, he only gets me with the arm sweep, i mean you need to do exactly that in order to get the beam saber in new game plus, the only boss i use a gun to kill is alessa and even then only because i find her annoying.
>Hoard everything for it, because there's almost no supplies in the entire last area
Really? Maybe it's because heather doesn't get a rifle and thus has to waste shotgun ammo on bosses? The rifle was more or less the dedicated boss killer ala resident evil's magnum, you didn't get much ammo for it but the few rounds you got were enough to put down every single boss in the game.
aa6e14 No.16078518
>>16078446
On hard I'm pretty sure you can count the total amount of SMG mags on one hand. The church has 2, and that's pretty much the only ammo there, and it barely makes a dent in God's health. I think God melee attacks much more often on hard, making it nearly impossible to avoid getting caught eventually. And you can die in a couple hits, while it's going to take several minutes for the katana or maul to kill it. However, there is a trick where its arm swipes will pass through you if you stand in a certain spot, I think around its left wrist as close as you can get. It's absurdly precise though.
f7b164 No.16079151
d11aa3 No.16080010
>>16078320
Soma would have been a lot better if they took out all the monsters. Because the environments are so small learning the AI is very easy and its really just time consuming more than anything. They also all have pretty terrible designs, I feel like the infection ruins a lot of the body horror because all the monsters just look like a jumble of random parts glued together for no real reason rather than strogg style body mods or hellraiser cenobites. The first monster you bump into is some dumb lumbering thing with legs and a flashlight for a head but you can't really see a person underneath so it just looks like a dumb robot.
The MC I just found really annoying, I hate it in games when the character you play understands less than you do as the player and it's the basic stuff he doesn't get that annoyed me the most. He just doesn't understand the difference between copy and paste and cut and paste, it's not that complicated dude.
There are some cool concepts in there and the way the WAU treats "preserve life" is one of them but like most of the game it doesn't go anywhere and they don't really play around with it through interaction. It feels a lot more like a book where you're just being told about these concepts but you never get to really take part in them other than one maybe 2 cutscenes, if that even counts.
As a side note SOMA looked way cooler with its pre-release trailer. It looked a lot more giger biomechanical and alien. It somehow became a lot more toned down and boring human facilities.
baf09d No.16080092
>>16076543
SOMA was pretty cool design-wise, but I honestly wish they would have put in more puzzles or other forms of actual gameplay other than the peek-a-boo monsters you face every once in a while.
87e7c1 No.16081405
>>16080010
>>16080092
fair points, but I still really like it.
61e90e No.16082334
>>16078446
>can't sympathize with James
I agree to some degree because I've never had a gf at all. I've lost a close friend before so I felt it just enough.
Also this is huge spoilers to anyone who hasn't played the game yet but it's 18 years old at this point so whatever
I'm pretty sure James killed his wife not because he couldn't sleep around (in fact It's heavily implied that he's done exactly that) but due to the stress and emotional/verbal abuse she kept putting him under.
Getting super stressed out from abuse will make you do some regrettable shit man
Then again SH2 is left up to interpretation (which is why I fucking love it) So that's just my way of seeing the events.
bd4b7b No.16082342
>>16082334
>SH2 is up to interpretation
i always loved it for that reason, but for some reason a couple of weeks ago i checked out the silent hill wiki. it's really depressing how lorefags have attached some retarded "meaning" to each and every single thing in each and every single game. those stupid fucking hammerhead monster things from Homecoming? they weren't the creatively bankrupt thought-vomit of some dumb bastard trying to live up to silent hill's legacy, they were to symbolize like duality and schizophrenia and other shit man hell yeah DEEP MEANINGS
19a349 No.16082363
>>16078194
>Last week i gave up on Yomawari after the piece of shit crashed 10 fucking times
The game isn't even worth finishing, none of NIS' "horror" walking sims are.
8a018a No.16082382
>>16082342
Speaking of faggots that take shit further than they should, I absolutely hate how Pyramid Head became the mascot for the series. They took a dude that was most likely meant to be solely for James' guilt and multiplied his importance to an autistic degree. I miss when he was just some random executioner, not some teenage girl's wet dream.
bd4b7b No.16082559
>>16078446
>i can't sympathize with james
have you ever had a pet that has gotten really, really old and sick? it's remarkably similar; you look at it, interact with it, and it isn't the same thing you fell in love with, but you can't bring yourself to do what needs to be done and put it out of its misery because you're not ready to say goodbye. now imagine that pet is a person you loved and committed to spending the rest of your life with, and while dealing with the pain of watching them die you also have to deal with the pain of wanting them gone, as well as the pain they inflict on you because they're hurt and scared and can't accept that their time is up faggot.
e2e842 No.16082637
>>16078446
I agree with >>16082334 I thought James' deal was a bit more complicated than just lack of sex. It's been a while since I've played but I remeber there being flashbacks/callbacks to Mary lashing out at him. I've never known anyone who became terminally ill way too early in life, but… no one signs up for that shit. James married a happy, healthy, beautiful woman and the disease transformed her into someone angry and sick that he couldn't physically love, and he just had to deal with it as a loyal husband. Mary was the one who became ill but they both got screwed. I interpreted that his main priority for killing Mary was a desperate attempt to get his own life back, and "mercy killing" her was a flimsy excuse to justify what he did.
Angela had the most depressing arc by far. "For me, it's always like this."
e4beb9 No.16082681
>>16076543
The only good monsters was the angler fish bait and the last guy because he's on your ass the whole time and you actually have to manually close the doors and turn off the lights. Then his menace is ruined by a simple ladder. Otherwise the story is basically an introduction to the concepts of singularities and not really having any true substance beyond that.
5f7553 No.16082728
>>16082334
Lets be deep and hipster about this. People who identify with James are idiots and not getting even 10% of that games true emotional interaction. Not because James is emotionally stunted or he's a murderer, but because James is not the character who matters in the story as much as Mary does.
Mary is a woman who loves someone so damn much but is sick, she's a burden and knows she's holding back the person she cares for most in the world. He's going to be alone and he's struggling to deal with it, struggling to deal with a problem he isn't responsible for but can't walk away from. When you hear Mary's letter in the ending and she's apologosing for being sick it resonates extremely hard with people in a similar situation. Any one with a disability, chronic or terminal illness hears that voice in the back of their head speaking. The one that tells them to go become a hermit and distance themselves from everything they care about. To prevent yourself tormenting what you care for most you have to hurt them and walk away and then they will hate you for it and drag you back as hard as they can. It's perfectly written, it's very well delivered and it rips apart a very sensitive nerve that you don't want touch and only ever explore in your darkest moments.
It's one of the few actual moments in SH2 that has depth. Not a flaming stair case or some fat guy in a meat locker. Real world, actual reality depth that doesn't have to rely on stupid gimmicks in a game or get ruined by a boss fight afterwards. It's not some self imposed depth that totally didn't com from a 3 hour youtube video about lamp posts representing Jame's dick. It's raw, emotion with no way to read around it or spoil it's meaning. It's just a dying person saying what all seriously sick people feel deep down and keep closed off from the world.
90837d No.16085609
>>16044418
Bought it, Loved it, and currently playing Claire hardcore 2nd run. want to get the unlockables.
>>16045042
lol Millenials cant play games without hand holding
ca593a No.16085727
>>16082728
Anyone with a disability that feels that way can be considered emotionally abused. Otherwise guys like you are rightfully seen as condescending assholes.
eacbca No.16086083
>>16086046
>speech impediment
>disability
It's like being 1/35th cherokee, it doesn't really count.
8a018a No.16086095
>>16082728
I can sort of see what you're talking about. I've got asscancer, so I've had thoughts several times that I've been on a burden on friends and family but not once have they ever told me I was. I will tell you that Mary's letter hits me much harder now than it did in the past, before the cancer.
eacbca No.16086470
>>16086232
A disability as livable as a speech impediment doesn't really have any place to talk in a discussion about the guilt a crippled and dying person might feel about the people they directly rely on to survive.
333112 No.16087822
>>16082728
>Any one with a disability, chronic or terminal illness hears that voice in the back of their head speaking.
That's true, getting a shitty deal in life automatically means you feel like a piece of shit sucking the life out of everyone around you. It's true of having terminal cancer, but also of having any disability! Self respect and will to live just stops being an option the very instant you stop being a normalfag.
87e7c1 No.16090225
>>16082681
i never knew the proxies were blind until I read the wiki after I beat the game once. If you play like they can see you it's pretty tense. Overall though I think the monsters just add tedium to certain sections because of how cramped everything is. But that's part of the reason I dislike invincible enemies in general in horror games, they usually just railroad you in a certain direction and force you to run by so many places you want to explore. They're scary, but usually just because getting caught means dying and having to replay areas over and over.
I thought the story was the main high point of the game, because it seems kinda plausible to me. It seems somewhat grounded in tech that could actually work some day. It's not so simple as to be boring and cliche, but not so advanced that you can tell the writers were intentionally making it sound complex to avoid having to explain it. The story, combined with all the terminal entries and notes, it all fleshed out the last few months of life in the desolate place and it just felt so creepy and hopeless and depressing.
e4beb9 No.16090242
>>16090225
> If you play like they can see you it's pretty tense.
They have a psychic sense to know when you are looking at them or their general direction.
d58b67 No.16091903
>122 replies
This thread can still go on for another week, so i'm bumping it with an useless blogpost.
My wireless dualshock 2 just arrived and it's not the one i ordered, i was supposed to get one that looks exactly like a legit controller, but i got this "3-in-1" piece of shit that has old PC controller buttons 1 to 4 instead of the PS2 layout or even the Xbox's and had some pieces inside loose the rumble motors, i was surprised that it even came with those, anyway it supposedly works with PS2, PS3 and PC, but i am not gonna use this for anything but my PS2 so i swapped the face buttons from my broken controller to this one and fixed the motors, it works surprisingly well, however it uses AA batteries instead of the advertised AAA, so i have to buy another pair of eneloops.
I was expecting all the buttons to be digital and the thumbsticks to have massive deadzones, but i used a padtester homebrew, GT4 and ACZ to test it and the controller works almost exactly like a legit dualshock 2, how do i know this? Because it turns out i did have another controller: the one that came with the slim PS2 i bought in 2010 that i never used, but after trying a wireless controller i can't go back to a wired one, still it's nice to have a brand new dualshock 2 in 2019.
5f7553 No.16094471
>>16085727
Only someone who hasn't experienced it would consider that. There's 2 more posts in the thread by people who are seriously ill and they get it. If people are 100% supportive and caring you will feel like shit for them wasting their efforts on you. There is no way to prevent people feeling this way at points because it's reality. You are a burden, you do make things worse for people, you can't not do this. It's part of the package and it's no ones fault.
>>16086095
Hope you recover mate. Wouldn't want you to suffer the same fate as Total biscuit. No one should spend their entire life reviewing PC menus
Chernoblite looks interesting. Survival in The zone with spooky shit could be cool.
e4beb9 No.16094519
>>16094471
>Only someone who hasn't experienced it would consider that.
Since my family is destined to succumb to a degenerative disease or illness half the time (two sides of the family) that will kill them I've already seen the attitude shift Mary makes and every time it's because others in the family encourage them to blame themselves, or they say nothing at all and let everyone stew in resentment as they seek outlets to not feel useless. A healthy family discourages that attitude or helps with acceptance since my family is shit I'm well aware how wrong you are.
5f7553 No.16094583
>>16094519
>I have no experience of this problem
>Let me discuss this personal problem from an outsiders perspective.
Okay Mr Mind reader. I'm sure you're the one people turn to in their darkest hour. You're totally the one who understands the inner feelings they keep to themselves.
Do you think people haven't experienced those exact scenarios? "Oh you're not a burden ^_^" when you first start dating someone, then 6 months later when your illness gets a bit worse you can see the sparkle leaves their eye and they're worn down by it. Or when you have a serious episode and you see your family exhausted afterwards, because they watched helplessly as someone they cared about suffered? "It's okay, you're not a burden ^_^" doesn't mean shit to you when you see it in their eyes. And it's not resentment, anger or anything of the sort. It's someone suffering watching someone they care about suffer and having no way to make it better.
Pro tip faggot. I've been on both sides of it. I know you're full of shit and have nothing to do with the day to day care of the family members you're probably making up. Seeing them at barmitzvahs doesn't count as having sick family members.
fce1d9 No.16094591
>What're ye buyin?
Headgaskets
>What're ye playin?
The game where you change your headgaskets in your driveway in a snowstorm
61e90e No.16094598
>>16091903
Thats good to hear anon. Now you can play SH3 the way it was meant to be played.
e4beb9 No.16094639
>>16094583
>I'm sure you're the one people turn to in their darkest hour.
Who says I am? I've done the same thing out of spite, my family is shit I'm no exception.
> family members you're probably making up.
Me (soon it's genetic), Dad, dad's dad, Dad's mom is dead so not a clue about her, Mom, mom's dad, Mom's mom, aunt (mom's sister), all my cousins from my aunt's side plus they have some sort of degenerative muscle tissue going on (childhood friends) but that stopped in early childhood. My mom in particular was slowly dieing from her body not absorbing iron and wasn't even aware of it because she already had other problems so she didn't notice until she lucked out with a not shit doctor. Incidentally I am apparently a Jew so that explains a lot.
So far the only healthy people I know in my direct family that i keep in contact with more then just one family gathering a year is my brother because my mom's a bit of a whore and people who married into the family.
But enough blogposting, you don't shit about what a true James is like.