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bman in 2288 posted:Who? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T4-N1jRuQA tl;dw: He's a satire of knock-off King/Koontz types.
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You should totally watch Darkplace, its only like six episodes and its great.
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Jul 2, 2016 17:59
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Xenolalia posted:As one of the comments on the third video points out, I am completely convinced that the professor is a disciple of Garth Marenghi. That's bad news for his student then. Hope she likes the Eastern Bloc.
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Jul 2, 2016 21:07
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"Do not miss a running head"  You gotta be fuckin' kidding!
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Jul 2, 2016 21:58
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Iceclaw posted:But Siren 2 is a bad game that pretty much destroy any kind of atmosphere the first one has. When you can club Shibitos to death with a little girl using a golf trophy, something went wrong. That's a fair criticism of Siren 2 actually. To me, Siren 2 is more fun to play if you like action games as well as horror games.. That said, most of the playable characters are overpowered, or they can just knock out a Shibito and steal their weapon (including the sniper shibitos). Yea, Siren's creepy atmosphere works when you have nothing to defend yourself with far better than when you have two soldiers shooting their way through an amusement park. But after a while of constantly dying and having to replay the same missions because you missed the mandatory secondary objectives.... well, I got frustrated more often than scared unfortunately.
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(Just kidding. I don't like the game, but if you do so, well, more power to you).
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Lamprey Cannon posted:"Do not miss a running head"  Oh God, why!?
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Jul 2, 2016 22:55
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what the gently caress is that from?
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everyone please watch john carpenter's 'the thing'
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Jul 3, 2016 01:05
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Johnny Joestar posted:everyone please watch john carpenter's 'the thing' The other two films in his apocalypse trilogy are interesting, too! They are Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness.
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That'd explain it, I changed the channel after the bit with the huskies.
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Johnny Joestar posted:everyone please watch john carpenter's 'the thing' Actually I did, about 3 days ago. I think I've easily seen it a good 30-odd times by now, it's just one of those films I can throw on and enjoy. Shame the Bluray doesn't have an updated commentary though. RedTonic posted:The other two films in his apocalypse trilogy are interesting, too! They are Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness. Prince of Darkness never gets any love, which makes me sad. And Mouth of Madness is basically forgotten by everyone, which is also sad, but less so.
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:Prince of Darkness never gets any love, which makes me sad. And Mouth of Madness is basically forgotten by everyone, which is also sad, but less so. They've both got their merits. Related, I just started watching Dario Argento's films and... wow. I didn't realize how blatantly Clock Tower and Nightcry drew on those movies. Right down to soundtracks, even!
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Godnnelg posted:But after a while of constantly dying and having to replay the same missions because you missed the mandatory secondary objectives.... well, I got frustrated more often than scared unfortunately. RedTonic posted:They've both got their merits. Related, I just started watching Dario Argento's films and... wow. I didn't realize how blatantly Clock Tower and Nightcry drew on those movies. Right down to soundtracks, even! Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Jul 3, 2016 |
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Accordion Man posted:Goblin was also a big influence for Castlevania's soundtracks too. Yeah, it seems like a lot of horror games owe a great deal to those movies and to Goblin -- specifically, Japanese games owing a lot to an Italian director and an Italian progrock band... It's an interesting convergence and I wonder how it came about.
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Accordion Man posted:Goblin was also a big influence for Castlevania's soundtracks too. Oddly enough, I once saw a video of scenes from Siren set to a Goblin track. Can't remember the song, but it was creepy as poo poo.
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Jul 3, 2016 03:33
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Kei's level here demonstrates a pretty neat part of this game, in that areas don't remain static between stages. The shibito's random activities, like the guy hammering on his house, and other stuff like things that the player does along the course of a level all do a really good job of giving you a sense of dramatic difference of an area across the timeline. One person might find their way through an area mostly unmolested, but the next person to come through five hours later might find a door boarded up where it wasn't before and have to find a new way around a wall as a result, and it keeps things from feeling boring just because this is the fourth time you've played through the same area now.
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i think there's a stigma about games reusing levels, most of the time for good reason, because a lot of the time the games in question will use it as an excuse to be lazy, but i think siren pulls it off well in that there's only so many overall areas you're going to go through but with the time element thrown in it takes the opportunity to mix things up quite a bit from level to level. it actually comes off as mildly 'realistic', for however much that word can apply to it.
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:Prince of Darkness never gets any love, which makes me sad. And Mouth of Madness is basically forgotten by everyone, which is also sad, but less so. Prince of Darkness is certainly the weaker of the three, but I always enjoyed it, the concept is neat and despite obviously being made on a budget, Carpenter as usual manages to make some creepy effects happen. And "In the Mouth of Madness" is really excellent, but in my experience it's REMARKABLY hard to find a physical or digital copy, or at least it was some years back when I was trying to hunt it down to show it to some friends. Which probably accounts for why so few people have seen it or heard of it. But seriously, everyone should go watch those three movies.
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PurpleXVI posted:Prince of Darkness is certainly the weaker of the three, but I always enjoyed it, the concept is neat and despite obviously being made on a budget, Carpenter as usual manages to make some creepy effects happen. And "In the Mouth of Madness" is really excellent, but in my experience it's REMARKABLY hard to find a physical or digital copy, or at least it was some years back when I was trying to hunt it down to show it to some friends. Which probably accounts for why so few people have seen it or heard of it. I have a copy of In The Mouth of Madness on HDDVD. No, not Blu-Ray, HD DVD.  It won't play in blu ray players. In all honesty though, all three of these movies are must watch, no matter your level of interest in that sort of thing, they are all excellent films with excellent acting and effects.
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I'm hoping Arrow Video get the rights to rerelease it, they've done some outstanding releases of cult movies like The Burbs, Society and the first three Hellraiser movies. A deluxe release of those two would be a day one purchase.
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:I'm hoping Arrow Video get the rights to rerelease it, they've done some outstanding releases of cult movies like The Burbs, Society and the first three Hellraiser movies. A deluxe release of those two would be a day one purchase. As far fetched and implausible it is, I kinda wish they would do an updated director's commentary for all three, since John Carpenter is still alive. I'd like to see what he thinks of his older films upon rewatching them. I'd especially like to at least see some sort of director's commentary of In The Mouth of Madness, since apparently the filming for that was something else, the main actress was apparently such a pain to work with they wrote her out of the last third of the movie, and then lampshaded it in the film itself. (I have no idea how much of that is true but it's what I've read on the matter at the very least.)
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RedTonic posted:Reading this made me wonder if I had just had a microstroke. fjladjfe youguy I think I'm haivng a micro strokeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedfZ
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IBlameRoadSuess posted:As far fetched and implausible it is, I kinda wish they would do an updated director's commentary for all three, since John Carpenter is still alive. I'd like to see what he thinks of his older films upon rewatching them. I'd especially like to at least see some sort of director's commentary of In The Mouth of Madness, since apparently the filming for that was something else, the main actress was apparently such a pain to work with they wrote her out of the last third of the movie, and then lampshaded it in the film itself. (I have no idea how much of that is true but it's what I've read on the matter at the very least.) The commentary track on The Thing is amazing, I'll note, it's just wonderful hearing how they executed all those effects with just, you know, practical effects, zero CGI. Also just generally a ton of funny stories about the shooting. I'd probably stab a man stone cold for a similar track on ItMoM and Prince of Darkness.
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Chokes McGee posted:fjladjfe youguy I think I'm haivng a micro strokeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedfZ landing succsfl Siren's aesthetic reminds me of the PSX game Vagrant Story's. Really atmospheric maps that are super claustrophobic. I have to say I like it more than Silent Hill.
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IBlameRoadSuess posted:As far fetched and implausible it is, I kinda wish they would do an updated director's commentary for all three, since John Carpenter is still alive. I'd like to see what he thinks of his older films upon rewatching them. I'd especially like to at least see some sort of director's commentary of In The Mouth of Madness, since apparently the filming for that was something else, the main actress was apparently such a pain to work with they wrote her out of the last third of the movie, and then lampshaded it in the film itself. (I have no idea how much of that is true but it's what I've read on the matter at the very least.)  What are you people talking about? There is a blu-ray release of In the Mouth of Madness, and it's got a director's commentary as a special feature. There is also a release of Prince of Darkness with director's commentary.edit 2: For god's sakes, they released it back in 2013. The blu-ray's been in the stores for two years. 
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And More posted:
Well that'll show me for not checking up on a particular movie release for two years and posting stuff on an internet forum. I guess I know what I'm spending my money on next time I get paid.
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"You will play as Kyoyo, you will not play as Kyoyo." The Stanley Parable went to a dark, dark place 
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Of all the excellent qualities pointed out that make this game so scary, I think the hugest contributor is the soundtrack and sound design. Just listening to the title screen creeps me the gently caress out. That siren doesn't sound right.
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I always enjoyed Egomaniac's big Siren LPs, but I think he ran into some personal stuff and couldn't do his remastered versions. I did like the original Siren the best, although Siren 2's monster design seriously creeps the gently caress out of me and Siren: Blood Curse does that too. Should be interesting to get another take on the series, since I'm absolutely unable to play these types of games at all.
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 P.5 - Questionable Choices
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So this hint is "Pay attention to the steps which start from the lower part of a river*". I think that was referring to that tree with the rotten base that we saw. Man, that's kind of obtuse.
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One on one, melee Shibito are no match for a melee equipped PC. Just, you know. Two of them are fatal and if a gun comes out all bets are off.
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It's beginning to dawn on me just how much the games I was playing at the time when Egomaniac's LP happened colored my perception of what was happening in the game/the LP.
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Jul 6, 2016 06:01
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The music on this stage makes me feel not okay. Thanks for mostly talking over it.
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I couldn't remember if the pillars were in this game or the sequel. IIRC, the sequel has something similar, but less sadistic. As far as this game goes, however, the pillars are pretty infamous. You'll see why as the game progresses.FAT BATMAN posted:The music on this stage makes me feel not okay. Thanks for mostly talking over it. If it's possible for music to feel 'sick', this game manages it. I really like it though, which probably says a few things about me.
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i guess in mild defense of that bit, it's always a good idea to look all around the little vistas you can find. i forget but i think the ledge can be seen before getting rid of the bush? it's still under puzzle logic of 'why the hell did you do that', but a lot of this stuff is usually poo poo you'd end up doing on repeat plays of the level when you figured out that it's needed.
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This is gonna be good. I, too, hope you get the chance to record the extended conversations. A note for video 1: "Ankoko butoh" refers to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butoh , an early form of abstract Japanese theatric dance. It's been a source of inspiration for a number of horror things. see, e.g.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUjhQLB0hXY The puzzles all make a certain degree of sense, for reasons that are spoilers.
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Fun fact: After learning that Miyako is blind, it can be surprisingly easy to miss that the dog she was crying over was her seeing-eye Dog. Literally, in this case.
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I like the Siren soundtrack a lot. I sometimes add it to other games, even (adding it to the dungeon tracks in Skyrim, that sort of thing). It's very creepy. There's an effective recurring vocal theme (we heard it right at the start of the game) that features in my favourite track, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8kMBksVo-I
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