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Xenomrph posted:Tomorrow evening a couple friends and I will be doing a simultaneous Twitch stream of the three of us playing the Outlast 2 demo for the first time. My friends don't play many horror games so I'm looking forward to them freaking the gently caress out, because I'm an rear end in a top hat.
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I'm extremely behind on Steam and game pricing, don't quite know where else to ask: is $14.99 ($17.99 with the soundtrack) a good deal for Darkest Dungeon? I've watched the game streamed, love the art and sound design, and am fond of roguelikes even when permadeath is possible.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:I'm extremely behind on Steam and game pricing, don't quite know where else to ask: is $14.99 ($17.99 with the soundtrack) a good deal for Darkest Dungeon? I've watched the game streamed, love the art and sound design, and am fond of roguelikes even when permadeath is possible. That's the price I bought it at originally, and I can certainly say I thought it was pretty worth it. So long as you go in with the expectation that this isn't a roguelike you can pour several hours into at a time. It's honestly very stressful to play, though that's sort of the point in a way. My fiance who hates roguelikes even enjoyed playing it for a session, which to me says a lot about its mechanics' approachability. I've yet to beat it to this day, but it drips with so much good art and atmosphere and is easy enough to pick up for small sessions that I have to come back to it every once in a while to make some more slow progress on my Hamlet. It's good, just pace yourself with it.
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Rely on Horror is doing a charity stream marathon of all the Silent Hill Games this weekend. I was invited to guest but I'm just too drat socially worn-out to do any marathony streams right now.
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Oct 29, 2016 16:56
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Jmcrofts posted:So I beat 90% of Until Dawn in one night. Here's some more videos of my playthrough, the last chunk will be coming over the weekend. I loved Until Dawn so much. It's one of the few games that has the "Your choices matter" gimmick where that's kinda true. I watched Harshly Criticals play through after I finished mine and the story played out much differently in a bunch of ways to how mine did. I appreciate that freedom the game gives in how much you can actually shape the interactions with the characters. When I started, I played it with an Italian Giallo in mind so little moments, like hitting the bird with the snowball was a neat little moment that felt perfectly in line with the idea I had. It's pretty cool to see the Jock character is capable of not being a gigantic dickbag, because that's how I played him and I hated him with a passion. I really want an Until Dawn 2. Doesn't need to follow the previous story at all, and if they wanted to keep with the "everything happens at night" from the original I think a UD vampire story could be pretty cool.
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I agree that a new until dawn game definitely needs to be a totally new story. I would love to see more (ending spoilers) folklore-based monsters, and a new set of kids.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:I'm extremely behind on Steam and game pricing, don't quite know where else to ask: is $14.99 ($17.99 with the soundtrack) a good deal for Darkest Dungeon? I've watched the game streamed, love the art and sound design, and am fond of roguelikes even when permadeath is possible. It's an excellent 20 hour game stretched out into a 30-40 hour game. I think it's worth it and then some, but I'll lay out my problems too. The main problem comes when you hit the endgame dungeons, where every upgrade is vital and insanely expensive, and every dungeon run becomes brutally unforgiving. It takes too drat long to grind up enough characters to beat the game, and losing a hero at that point (and you will probably will lose a few) makes it worse. That said, the actual dungeoneering is a fun risk/reward game (your supplies and treasure both take up the same limited inventory space), the difficulty of the fights makes it tense when combined with the permadeath, and the narrator makes what would otherwise be a pretty basic combat system immersive. Nothing beats barely eking out a win against some giant monstrosity, and as you lay the desperate final blow getting the line "ghoulish horrors, brought low and driven into the mud!" Narrator dude really helps you feel the triumphs and failures. tl;dr It's overlong and can get a bit tedious, but worth it imo.
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Has anyone tried Hard West http://store.steampowered.com/app/307670/ I like me some weird west and turn based strategies but I've never heard of it until just now.
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Len posted:Has anyone tried Hard West http://store.steampowered.com/app/307670/ I like me some weird west and turn based strategies but I've never heard of it until just now. I reviewed it awhile back. Great setting, great concepts, but for me the gameplay just doesn't work out.
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Apologies for the delay, thread... we can finally get back to talking about dicks. 1. DISTRAINT 2. Shadowgate 3. Miasmata 4. SOMA 5. Haunt the House: Terrortown 6. Oxenfree 7. Vlad the Impaler 8. Condemned: Criminal Origins 9. The Last Door: Season 2 10. Shadowgrounds 11. The Last NightMary 12. Kholat 13. Fran Bow 14. TRAUMA 15. Alan Wake 16. Dark Fall 1: The Journal 17. Nightmares from the Deep: The Cursed Heart 18. Gabriel Knight - Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition 19. Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion 20. The Swapper 21. Monstrum 22. Serena 23. Cry of Fear 24. Black Mirror II 25. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl 26. Anodyne 27. Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden 28. Noct 29. Outlast    Everyone has their limits with horror. Some draw the line at jump scares, others with excessive gore. Outlast is the kind of game that goes straight out looking for that line, and holds nothing back in pursuit of it. The way it goes about shocking you might not work for everyone, but for those it does it's one of the best. You take on the role of Miles Upshur, the world's most unfortunate journalist, as he sniffs out a scoop at the remote Mount Massive Asylum. Armed with naught but his camcorder and his razor wit, he finds his way inside only to discover that the inmates are running the show. With escape cut off, survival means healthy portions of skulking through the shadows and hauling rear end down the blood-soaked halls. The adventure and story take all sorts of turns from this auspicious beginning, but rest assured you're going to be crawling over every inch of this wretched place. If anything, I'm underselling just how awful the asylum is. Red Barrels went above and beyond the call to make Mount Massive a literal house of horrors, everything from flickering lights to fountains of viscera, from ransacked offices to moldering cells. Every room is grim, dingy, and feels like the least safe place on Earth. And indeed, you'll never know quite when you're safe, at least at first. Some of the misbegotten patients are quite benign, but others are out for your blood. More than that, just about anything could be waiting around the next corner to mutilate you. Much of the asylum is pitch black, leaving you to grub around in the dark using the night vision on your camera until something gets in your face. This is the still-beating heart of Outlast's horror, the jump scares. Don't get outraged just yet, these aren't the screaming Poser models of the indie horror gutters. Like many modern FPSes, Outast models your character's body and takes great pleasure in manhandling it at regular intervals. You'll be thrown through windows, dragged through doors, tied to things, and so much more. The game is rife with these scripted scenes, often coming at the least opportune times to make you jump and curse. The rest of the horror lies in the atmosphere and the enemies. Like I said, the asylum is a palpably terrible place to be thanks to superb audio and visual details. You're going to feel gross and uncomfortable the whole way through, which adds immeasurably to the shocks and threats when they arise. As for the enemies, well, they provide the necessary threat of death, but are probably the weakest part of the formula. It won't take long for your foes to become predictable, not only in their patterns but in their appearances. Once you get used to racing past them or losing pursuit, they'll be more like padding than actual threats. This is really the crux of what Outlast is, and what will determine if you love it or hate it. It's very much a haunted house ride, moreso even than other guided horror games like SOMA or Condemned. Your path through the asylum always follows the same track, has the same spooks and shocks in the same places, and threatens you in the same ways. There are notes, of course, files to pick up and memos recorded by having your camera up at key points. But these are all on the main path, or a single room or hallway off from it. While I wouldn't say the experience becomes boring or repetitive, I definitely felt more comfortable with it in the last hour than I did the first. Don't take that as a dismissal of what Red Barrels has accomplished here, though. Outlast is one of the most aggressively unsettling and brutal horror games out there, and as long as you let yourself be drawn in it's a hell of a ride. Terrible things are going to happen, accompanied by sharp graphics and a phenomenal orchestral soundtrack. The story goes crazier than I expected but ended in a good place that should entertain just about everyone. It's not the smartest or the scariest horror game out there, but it works hard to shock and does a drat fine job of it.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:I'm extremely behind on Steam and game pricing, don't quite know where else to ask: is $14.99 ($17.99 with the soundtrack) a good deal for Darkest Dungeon? I've watched the game streamed, love the art and sound design, and am fond of roguelikes even when permadeath is possible. It definitely has a few caveats as already outlined though. They updated fairly recently with an option to make it so that once you upgrade, you have a chance of recruiting higher level characters straight off the stagecoach, which cuts down the grind somewhat. It still really stings to spend a lot of time grooming up a batch of your favorite characters and then having them wiped out, but that comes with the territory in this sort of game. If I had to start all over again (and I have a few times at this point, just fired up a new save and started from scratch), I'd just make one save slot and stick with it. The game doesn't really ever let you lose, so you can lose as many people as you want to the learning curve, and just keep raking in the upgrades and learning better tactics until you get to the point where you're ready to progress. It's definitely the kind of game you can burn out on, but what game isn't really. Even though I still haven't come close to getting to the end, I keep coming back to it. It's at a sweet spot for me now where it's the perfect game to jump in and play a mission or two at a go, especially now that I don't have that much time lately.
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With the Halloween sale, is The Evil Within worth 10$? What about the DLC? I remember hearing kind of mediocre things about it when it came out.
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TEW is worth at least ten dollars in my opinion. Haven't played DLC
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Outlast was an odd duck for me in that it was too *silly* to really be scary (usually). Like, the one bit with the Twins where you jump out of the window and they deadpan about how you're just too clever for them, darn it was crackup funny, but I wouldn't exactly call it an exercise in terror
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Relax Or DIE posted:With the Halloween sale, is The Evil Within worth 10$? What about the DLC? I remember hearing kind of mediocre things about it when it came out. It's like if RE4 had a ton of technical issues and an incomprehensible story and bad game design. It's probably okay at $10 but it's not great.
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You can't suplex monsters so it's automatically worse than RE4
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Thanks for the input.Sakurazuka posted:You can't suplex monsters so it's automatically worse than RE4 This is true of most games, I agree
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The Evil Within's story is perfectly comprehensible, just totally unsatisfying. I'd like to say it's worth $10 but even that's kind of a stretch. I've described it before as one of those games that actively resists all of your attempts to have fun with it.
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If you're looking for something similar to RE4, RE: Revelations is a good game. It's inferior to 4 but its fun.
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Thanks for the Darkest Dungeon recs, I'll be picking it up. Also thanks to the person that pointed out everything on special on Steam because I found out Eldritch is $1.49 this weekend (yet another "you're gonna die a lot and lose all your progress" game but I enjoy them done right).
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Accordion Man posted:If you're looking for something similar to RE4, RE: Revelations is a good game. It's inferior to 4 but its fun. On top of that, the multiplayer in Revelations is just fan-loving-tastic. Wonderful good fun
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Is Dead by Daylight worth the sale price right now? I always thought the idea was great but now that there's the Halloween DLC I really want to run from Michael Myers, or kill with him.
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Relax Or DIE posted:With the Halloween sale, is The Evil Within worth 10$? What about the DLC? I remember hearing kind of mediocre things about it when it came out. It's one of those games you'll either like or hate. It's very divisive. I myself wasn't too fond of it, it relied far too much on instant death trap bullshit for my liking that RE4 paced brilliantly but RE5, RE6 and TEW do all the goddamn time but I can see why others did like it. The DLC also has some really tense moments, including a boss fight which is basically a horror themed ripoff of the Mr. Freeze fight in Arkham City. It's probably worth $10 at least, just be aware that the opening chapters are a bit like the beginning of RE4 while later chapters are all about crazy action and avoiding instant death bullshit.
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Thinking of Until Dawn, I blasted Emily so fast and can't say I felt one bit bad afterwards, especially after seeing an LP later obviously going the other way. It was one of those choices where as soon as I saw the option I knew what had to be done. 
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Oct 30, 2016 10:57
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Yardbomb posted:Thinking of Until Dawn, I blasted Emily so fast and can't say I felt one bit bad afterwards, especially after seeing an LP later obviously going the other way. You monster.
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Len posted:You monster. She survived entirely too long in my playthrough. I eventually purposefully failed a QTE to kill her. Then I found out she can have an even worse death if she'd survived. I really hated Emily. The other two girls (besides Sam  )eventually grew on me but due to mishaps they also died horrible deaths.
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Yardbomb posted:Thinking of Until Dawn, I blasted Emily so fast and can't say I felt one bit bad afterwards, especially after seeing an LP later obviously going the other way. gently caress you bro, leave bae alone.
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Len posted:You monster. Jmcrofts posted:gently caress you bro, leave bae alone. An abusive cheater gets smoked and not a thing redeemed her elsewhere when I watched other people either. 
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Yardbomb posted:An abusive cheater gets smoked and not a thing redeemed her elsewhere when I watched other people either. Agreed. Emily was the bitchy character you want to see die horribly in the horror movie. Poor Ashley didn't deserve to die due to me investigating something I shouldn't have 
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joylessdivision posted:Agreed. Emily was the bitchy character you want to see die horribly in the horror movie. Yeah but nothing I had found indicated that could happen. That was a straight up bullshit horror movie death. Emily wasn't that bad. Y'all are monsters for popping a woman who obviously has severe insecurities and at least on personality disorder in the face. And he'll just because she cheats doesn't mean she deserves getting blasted in the face. Again lemme say... You monster.
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I'm not gonna psychoanalyze why Emily is such a bitch, but she's a fictional bitchy character and I enjoy watching fake bitchy people die. I also like slasher films.
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Len posted:Yeah but nothing I had found indicated that could happen. That was a straight up bullshit horror movie death. Nah. She got ett. It was pretty cool. Tired Moritz posted:I'm not gonna psychoanalyze why Emily is such a bitch, but she's a fictional bitchy character and I enjoy watching fake bitchy people die. I also like slasher films. Yup.
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Relax Or DIE posted:With the Halloween sale, is The Evil Within worth 10$? What about the DLC? I remember hearing kind of mediocre things about it when it came out. The Evil Within is a pretty cool Resident Evil 4-esque game. Definitely worth $10. Just make sure you play on easy mode unless you want to be totally brutalized. You get next to no resources on normal mode and up and it's really easy to get stuck in an unwinnable situation no matter how conservatively you try to play. The game also plays rather fast and loose with cheap instant-kill deaths, so be wary of that!
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Anyone know if Until Dawn will ever be coming to PC? would really love to play it
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FirstAidKite posted:On top of that, the multiplayer in Revelations is just fan-loving-tastic. Wonderful good fun It boggles my mind that Rev1 only has co-op in Raid Mode, and Rev2 only has local co-op for the campaign
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Tired Moritz posted:I'm not gonna psychoanalyze why Emily is such a bitch, but she's a fictional bitchy character and I enjoy watching fake bitchy people die. I also like slasher films. I don't like watching anybody die, namaste
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GlyphGryph posted:Anyone know if Until Dawn will ever be coming to PC? would really love to play it It was published by Sony so it seems really unlikely.
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