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FreudianSlippers posted:A game that's hyper realistic Unreal Engine 6 type poo poo except the monsters are low-poly sprites. Modern day graphics for the house haunted by the guys from the Money For Nothing music video
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There's a game called Worse Than Death that I've not heard anything about, but just saw a trailer of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqt8IZo7WR0 Anyone have thoughts on it? It doesn't seem particularly long (there's a no-commentary longplay that's just about 2 hours) but looks like it could be a decent experience.
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Aug 18, 2020 15:20
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I do think horror games are pretty well suited to the "Courage the Cowardly Dog" effect of mixing discordant art styles to create unease, as described. I imagine a 2.5D doomlike or something that just so happens to have the monster as a fully rendered 3D object could be pretty effective. Art direction in general could really play up that sort of thing.
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Aug 18, 2020 21:04
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Morpheus posted:There's a game called Worse Than Death that I've not heard anything about, but just saw a trailer of:
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Aug 18, 2020 21:51
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Dreadwroth2 posted:The thing in Observer is probably the closest to what encountering a truly alien intelligence night be like, that game is super great but also not horror.
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Aug 18, 2020 21:57
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Hel posted:Hanging non to the monsters as glitches thing, is there any game that makes monsters or things seem off by having them animate at different frame rates than the rest of the game? Would that even work without gamers complain about it being buggy? The ghost of Richard in SH4 has this kind of thing going on; he's animated really strangely, at seemingly random speeds and occasionally even in reverse, and he just sort of zips and flits around even to the point of vanishing out of existence sometimes. It's really odd and unsettling because nothing else behaves like him at all. e: the gallery at the bottom of this page has some good gifs
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Aug 19, 2020 00:10
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Can someone tell me if there are any jumpscares in Painscreek Killings? I think it might be a fun game to play with some friends of mine, but they can't really do games with jumpscares or intense chase sequences. I just saw the figure in the woods (Sofia?) that appears right after you leave the burned house with the pentagram thing in the bedroom, if it's generally about that level of "scary" I think they'd be fine.
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Aug 19, 2020 01:49
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MockingQuantum posted:Can someone tell me if there are any jumpscares in Painscreek Killings? I think it might be a fun game to play with some friends of mine, but they can't really do games with jumpscares or intense chase sequences. I just saw the figure in the woods (Sofia?) that appears right after you leave the burned house with the pentagram thing in the bedroom, if it's generally about that level of "scary" I think they'd be fine. Not really. There's some scripted stuff that happens but I don't remember any jump scares.
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Aug 19, 2020 02:14
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SardonicTyrant posted:What even is that thing that can kill you in Observer? You only ever see it in people's memories (and the last level, but by that point what's real and what's hallucination gets blurry) Oh god I just realized I was actually talking about Observation! The thing in Observer is a spoiler for sure, but it makes sense really.
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Aug 19, 2020 04:08
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Decided to finally plow through Lost In Vivo. It's really tense.
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Aug 19, 2020 06:54
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MockingQuantum posted:Can someone tell me if there are any jumpscares in Painscreek Killings? I think it might be a fun game to play with some friends of mine, but they can't really do games with jumpscares or intense chase sequences. I just saw the figure in the woods (Sofia?) that appears right after you leave the burned house with the pentagram thing in the bedroom, if it's generally about that level of "scary" I think they'd be fine. The end sequence is startling but not too intense, the rest of the game there’s nothing but ambient sounds.
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Aug 19, 2020 12:19
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Morpheus posted:There's a game called Worse Than Death that I've not heard anything about, but just saw a trailer of: I decided to snag it. It's a fairly light puzzle game, did it in about two hours. Story was okay (relies a fair bit on inspecting the environment), it didn't resort to the "and then YOU were the MONSTER all along" plot twist. I thought I got $5/hour worth of entertainment out of it but it's not a must-buy and you could reasonably wait for a sale to check it out.
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Aug 19, 2020 12:48
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So you would say that it's better than death, then?
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Aug 19, 2020 13:20
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al-azad posted:The end sequence is startling but not too intense, the rest of the game there’s nothing but ambient sounds. There’s one jump scare that’s just power going out at one point.
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Aug 19, 2020 13:42
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Anyone here play House on the Hill? That game is a real trip. It really does the bait and switch into total weirdness well.
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Aug 19, 2020 14:36
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Vampire Bloodlines 2 looks to be a walking corpse, and not the cool or sexy kind. Paradox fired the creative directors today out of the blue and replaced them with a Ubisoft guy. They'd just delayed the game to 2021 but given where it was apparently at, it doesn't make a ton of sense to fire the creative leads unless a full ground-up rework is in the cards. Really, firing any director-level people in the middle of a project is a death knell in any kind of business.
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Aug 19, 2020 17:45
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 I wasn’t expecting it to come close to the original but was hoping for an averageish sequel.Not looking forward to assassin’s creed: vampire.
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Aug 19, 2020 17:52
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My guess is because of COVID the project kept missing deadlines despite a really big marketing push last year gearing up for a release in the forever cursed date of March 2020 so they pulled a Disney and brought in a guy known for finishing poo poo.
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Aug 19, 2020 18:02
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Dang VtM video games must be cursed or something.
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Basic Chunnel posted:Vampire Bloodlines 2 looks to be a walking corpse, and not the cool or sexy kind. Paradox fired the creative directors today out of the blue and replaced them with a Ubisoft guy. They'd just delayed the game to 2021 but given where it was apparently at, it doesn't make a ton of sense to fire the creative leads unless a full ground-up rework is in the cards. Really, firing any director-level people in the middle of a project is a death knell in any kind of business. tbh it wasn’t looking that great anyway
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Aug 20, 2020 01:55
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Does anyone know about The Church in the Darkness? It's $5 for Switch and sounds like an interesting time
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Aug 20, 2020 02:28
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This might be a weird tangent for this thread, but out of curiosity, do folks here have recommendations for good "spooky, but not scary" games? Like family-friendly "horror" games that I could play to celebrate spooky-season with my scaredy cat family members? Luigi's Mansion is like PERFECT for this specific thing, but I'm curious how many more games are out there up that alley.
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Aug 20, 2020 04:39
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Zombies Ate My Neighbours
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Haunted House on Steam?
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Aug 20, 2020 05:10
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Illbleed
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Aug 20, 2020 06:08
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Illbleed This is mean
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Aug 20, 2020 07:19
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Spooky's House of Jumpscares, maybe? It's very cartoony and does have some tense moments, but in a way that also makes fun of itself. Might not be great for playing with family for gameplay reasons, though.
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Bert of the Forest posted:This might be a weird tangent for this thread, but out of curiosity, do folks here have recommendations for good "spooky, but not scary" games? Like family-friendly "horror" games that I could play to celebrate spooky-season with my scaredy cat family members? Luigi's Mansion is like PERFECT for this specific thing, but I'm curious how many more games are out there up that alley.
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Bert of the Forest posted:This might be a weird tangent for this thread, but out of curiosity, do folks here have recommendations for good "spooky, but not scary" games? Like family-friendly "horror" games that I could play to celebrate spooky-season with my scaredy cat family members? Luigi's Mansion is like PERFECT for this specific thing, but I'm curious how many more games are out there up that alley. Kentucky Route Zero but I don't think that's what you're looking for. Dead Rising?
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Dead Rising is a good suggestion. It's a schlocky zombie movie, heavy on the humor.
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Aug 20, 2020 08:38
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WAIT WAIT WAIT I got it The Darkside Detective
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Aug 20, 2020 09:13
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Yess Darkside Detective is great.
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Aug 20, 2020 09:54
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Finally played SOMA, what a fantastic game. Now I can't wait for Amnesia Rebirth.
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Aug 20, 2020 12:29
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Isn't that what the FNAF series is all about? My 12 and 10-year old niece and nephew love those games and I don't think they've actually ever played one of them.
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Aug 20, 2020 12:30
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Fran Bow/Little Misfortune, depending on how much gore you can tolerate. Little Misfortune is more family friendly but has a few swears and drug references.
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Aug 20, 2020 12:36
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exquisite tea posted:Isn't that what the FNAF series is all about? My 12 and 10-year old niece and nephew love those games and I don't think they've actually ever played one of them. FNAF is all about the jumpscares though. There's no gore in them but they're definitely straight up horror games about getting murdered by killer animatronics.
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Aug 20, 2020 12:43
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It depends a bit on which game you're playing. The first one is more of a spooky time management game with jumpscares. Others go a bit more into conventional horror.
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Aug 20, 2020 12:44
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Bert of the Forest posted:This might be a weird tangent for this thread, but out of curiosity, do folks here have recommendations for good "spooky, but not scary" games? Like family-friendly "horror" games that I could play to celebrate spooky-season with my scaredy cat family members? Luigi's Mansion is like PERFECT for this specific thing, but I'm curious how many more games are out there up that alley. There's a chapter that sticks out in "A hat in time" like this. Seems like there are lots of movies like this but not that many games, The suggestions here are either scary but not spooky or just gory and not family friendly, Luigi's mansion games are the only ones I can think of. The Saddest Rhino posted:Illbleed No
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Bert of the Forest posted:This might be a weird tangent for this thread, but out of curiosity, do folks here have recommendations for good "spooky, but not scary" games? Like family-friendly "horror" games that I could play to celebrate spooky-season with my scaredy cat family members? Luigi's Mansion is like PERFECT for this specific thing, but I'm curious how many more games are out there up that alley. I enjoyed Ghostmaster a long time ago, not sure how it holds up today though. https://www.gog.com/game/ghost_master
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Ghostmaster is fun, but I don't think it would be fun to play with multiple people like that. It's an often very slow strategy game. Still really good, though, I replayed it a bit only a few months ago. Oh, how about the Ghostbusters game? It was pretty well-received and Ghostbusters is the epitome of "spooky but not scary" Halloween movies.
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