Deep sea is the scariest place that can exist. It has literal monster-faced fishes in a completely dark and enormous depth. When I think only 2% of known fish and sea animals live near the surface, it sends shivers down my spine. So why isn't there that much of deep-sea horror games? Or even exploration games where you dive into the abyss? I remember a game like that where you wander in the sea with your diving set, and you could go in the depths of the sea and discover all kinds of weird shit.
Reading Lovecraft made me think back on that theme, and if you know lovecraftian games be sure to share them here.
I've heard there was a game in preparation, made by the devs who made Styx. It's called Call Of Cthulhu, and from the trailers it seems interesting.
Lovecraftian/ Thalassophobic / Deep sea and Cosmic horror games
Here's the trailer I'm talking about.
Into the trash it goes. Everything is now """""LOVECRAFTIAN""""
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i didnt know that the author is working on the game
It's like the editor has no idea what Lovecraftian horror is. It seems nobody has any idea, similar to what says.
Have some fucking disgusting Cthulhu porn.
Call of Cthulhu is literally Lovecraftian.
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Now you'v dun 'er!
It's one of the many works Lovecraft wrote.
There is more to Lovecraft than the big, scary squid monster who eats people.
Lovecraft's themes in itself doesn't translate well, if at all, into vidya. How do you make a game where you're completely helpless, useless and subjected to images/emotions beyond comprehension?
Now that's nowhere near as disgusting.
Underrated post.
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I wonder what having sex with a Lovecraftian creature would be like
Personally my two favorites are Rats in the Wall and The Lurking Fear.
Niggers quit sexualizing cosmic horrors.
Sorry, I just began reading Lovecraft and for the moment all I've seen about him are related to sea. I've only read Dagon, The Call of Cthulhu, The Thing on the Doorstep, and I'm currently reading The Dunwich Horror. Just wanted to see if there was any games that talked about sea horror and stuff like that.
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Most everything by Lovecraft is a treat, but I happen to enjoy some of his earlier work when he was greatly influenced by Lord Dunsany.
I greatly encourage you to find a collection of all his works, it's great stuff.
The Cthulhu mythos is good, but I find the greater corpus is just as awe-inspiring.
smh lovefam
What are some games where I can summon Thamogorgos, Lord of the Abyss, to trample a degenerate empire with thousands of coursers?
i wish you fucking hipsters stopped describing stuff with this buzzword
It's the attempt of the Marxists to ruin Lovecraft and all he has done for us because they're upset an unrepentant racist is the most popular and influential horror writer of the 20th and 21st century.
For anyone who as already read several of his stories I would suggest Ibid. As it turns out Lovecraft had a rather good sense of humor.
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this isnt 4cuck we dont call everything racist here
I kind of wished for actual gameplay footage.
But after Styx and Aarklash Legacy I've kind of opened up to Cyanide Studios. Will keep an eye on.
Aren't there people going to make new entries in the lovecraft canon and they actually hate it because it was raycyst?
But everyone is racist here. And that's great.
Eternal Darkness got pretty close.
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You make a game set in San Francisco in the year 2016.
I'm all for shitting on san francisco, but that third image clearly fucking says "New York City" front and center.
I just typed in "disgusting faggots" and took the first few images that popped up.
I know for a fact there's a collection of even more disgusting and fucked up faggot images straight from SF around somewhere, but I'm too lazy to look for them.
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I though Silicon Knights died after they shat out Too Human?
Yes sadly.
My nigga.
The video feels like it's from some other planet. I can't imagine anyone saying something like that on TV today without getting his life ruined.
Fucking filthy homosexuals. Curing AIDS was a mistake.
I wish someone would make a cRPG set in Lovecraft's America. Too bad there are no artists insane enough to do justice to his abominations, nor any developer out there with the balls to make the setting historically accurate.
basically shivers but with inbreeding
That's about as close as you can get to earthly, human horrors but those pics do give off an almost other-worldly sense of revulsion I'll give you that
How so? Because he used the word nigger?
Shit he had some Mexican star in one of his stories. He died, but you get the point.
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Well hes not wrong. And it should be plain as day for people to see with all this BLM,& Travon shit over the last 2 years.
Funny thing I heard is that even his friends were a bit weirded out by his opinions on niggers and immigrations. He absolutely hated Italians too.
Yes actually, the leftists are on a warpath against Lovecraft because they are salty he is so influential and keeps being so, despite all the "bad". Recently they managed to get his bust, a reward for some literary achievement or other, replaced with something else because of his wrongthink.
Not that it helps them any. They lack the ability to create anything of worth, meanwhile Lovecraft's influence and ideas keep spreading and growing in popularity.
When did being right matter to the left? All they care about is that they are correct in the eyes of society, and fuck truth.
Because Lovecraft wasn't so much racist as he was an Anglo-Saxon supremacist. Not a white supremacist mind you, but specifically people with Anglo-Saxon heritage.
That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
THEIR TIME DRAWETH NIGH
Well to be honest Italians have a lot of middle-eastern blood since the islamic invasion between 700 to 1400, so it's a bit fair from his part.
Do we even know what was the tipping point for Lovecraft to become a pop culture symbol? Kind of like how Big Bang Theory popularized geekdom and ruined it in subsequent years. I want to find the thing that allowed monstruosities like pic related to exist.
The best Lovecraftian game reveals it as a surprise so I can't recommend it :(
Is Bloodborne's deal even a surprise anymore? I didn't even play it and even I know that in one of the endings you become an elder god.
Monty Python and their Life of Brian?
Not that game.
Now you got me interested. I don't care if it spoils what is the game?
Interested too.
Magrunner.
I've just seen that the game description actually states this and it has it in the screenshots, but it was a nice surprise for me when going in blind.
So Subnautica added "Le Ancient Atlantis Ayyliens xD" officially and I hate it now.
Apparently the Aurora was shot down by the giant cannon on the Mountain island because the Ancient Ayys quarantined the planet due to a super virus, which is why some critters have orange bits on them, and why the guys from the Degrassi were bitching about being sick when you investigate their Grand Reef habitat.
Though what I wanna know is **How in the ever loving fuck did Margaret subdue a Reaper Leviathan with only a knife and some Fart Gas Torpedoes."
Danke user. I hate it when it happens too.
Bitching at how terrible the Mythos are portrayed in vidya. Also who the fuck is Margaret.
Why can't they do something other than this
I mean the game is easy enough to end, just grab some drunk Scandinavians and steam boat and boom, one dead squidface
If you pick up the little datapads around the ruined bases there's like 3 people you're supposed to be rescuing but they fucking died already so who cares
Two dudes, a guy and his son with retarded ass names, and their bodyguard, named Margaret who fucking goes out and removes xenos on their own goddamned planet
Most people haven't actually read the Call of Cthulhu story, they just know the name. Which is kind of sad since most of his stories aren't even that long.
Face it champs, you neither get or like Lovecraft at all. What you want, is shooting B-movie monsters in the dark while your twitch pals circlejerk about how they're so sophisticated.
It's a shame too, I'd love some games based on other shit like Dunwich, The Nameless City or The Colour Out of Space. Hell, I'd love some Poe games too. Why are we doomed to have endless action shlock about Innsmouth and Cthulu?
How do you capture Lovecraft's horror in a game? How unbelievably monstrous and incomprehensible Yogg-Shoggoth is? How preciously small and insignificant humanity is in the face of these impossible creatures? How the greatest victories you can achieve are nothing more than delaying the inevitable and prolonging our microscopic existence for a short period? How these inhuman creatures see us as less than insects? The closest we have to beings who are almost benevolent are the Great Race of Yith and they are simply content body-snatching humans and keeping them locked up while their agents spread across humanity unknown to the general population.
I hate it. I hate how Cthulhu became a cutesy pop culture symbol and how suddenly anything slightly alien and scary is "Lovecraftian". I wish the term never entered video games ever.
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If we're recomending H.P. stories, I heartly recomend "The Haunter in the Dark" and "The Dream Quest for Unknown Kadath".
The first is great insight into some of the "laws" of dealing with cosmic monstrosities.
And if you read some of his stories and read that one again, you'll figure out that Haunter is an avatar of Nyarlathotep who got pissy some mortal saw more than he should and came back to retrieve those memories.
Only the rest of his mind comes attached to the memories.
Along with his face.
The second might be the biggest Lovecraftian story I've read from him and it's amazing at fleshing out and showing a lot about the Dreamworld. I advise people to read that story about Pickman first, can't remember the name. Pickman himself show up in Dreamquest too, and it's generally more enjoyable to find him there if you know who the guy is first.
Of course, a ton of other stories also touch upon the Dreamworld, but even if you read those after reading this one, they're still great and expand on an universe you've read before.
For something slightly unrelated, "The Music of Erich Zann" is also a great story. Takes a while to figure out what the fuck Erich saw in that window though.
Hint: it's the pipes.
And it goes without saying that "At the Mountains of Madness" will always be a classic, even if the pacing is a bit off at first.
Try sunless sea op. Has a lot of lovecraftian vibe to it. They recently added subs to the game, haven`t played it yet tho.
he must come in on Saturdays too and Sundays as well
Don't waste you money OP this the most pretentious love craft "game" out there.
well worth a pirate I`d say. I liked the pseudo-adventure gameplay.
Why does nobody ever draw Cthulhu the way Lovecraft drew him?
Wayne June (narrator from Darkest Dumgeon) has an excellent audio book with several Lovecraft stories. His voice really does it justice.
My nigga. This is my favourite work of his.
>muh subtle sense of horror doesn't translate well in an interactive medium
Because it's a fucking videogame you fucking moron and not a movie ,people that play it expect to be able to do something in it other than just watch the screen and hit a glorified pause button every time the on-screen prompt tells them to
The only way you could be this subtle in a videogame with Lovecraftian themes without shooting monsters in it would be to either leave exactly the hint of the insinuation of a bare-bones reference to something-something otherwordly as the only clue and explanation as a pay-off for the player as he aimlesly roams a world where every corner is potentialy hiding their demise with virtualy no way to defend themselves against that perceived threat (imaginary or not) , or take away any control from the hands of the player and make the game behave like a movie in order for the 'director' of it to be able to show the player viewer exactly what he wants him to see; the moment the player gains control it breaks that immersion since he can pretty much affect the world around him oftenly in unpredictable ways. It's not that the formula has not been tried before , it's that when it was it didn't work ; the first two pictures are from games people remember because they actually had a measure of success the third one is from a game people for the most part don't remember even though it followed the Lovecraftian formula closer than the other two and that's because it really wasn't a success
I'm guessing you do it the same way you make something genuinely scary in a game.
The game should have absolutely nothing to do with eldritch horrors.
You'd play whatever type of game it is and simply happen upon some unsettling occurrences that forebode something more.
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Get out of here, you communist cuck! I know that Hot Topic is one of your jewish marxist ploys to corrupt the youth with pseudo-intellectual academism and liberalism!
Subtle bait.
I would say Darkest Dungeon gets it right for the most part. Unfortunately you have to get to the final area to see the real "lovecraftian" enemies.
They were able to send Cthulhu back to sleep by ramming it's head with a steam ship or whatever it is that they used, you're obviously not going to kill something like Cthulhu or Dagon or Nyarlathotep but there is always a way to stave off or stop the formless evil sometimes found in his stories.
And that's just for the Old Gods or whatever, if I remember correctly the MiGo can be killed by "conventional" means, same for the citizens of Innsmouth, so much that the US Government was able to arrest and exterminate most if not all of them.
A good example of a game based off of the stories is Arkham Horror games.
Faggot you need to understand you will never get any recognition of ability and taste from playing vidya. You will end up a vidyagame reviewer if you keep on with this shit.
still beats being an audiobook reviewer from reddit, which by the vague bullshit claims ,complete lack of effort in your response and tilt of your nose so far is what i'm guessing where your area of expertise lies
That game is kinda charming, but its not that good
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We need to spread the info that Lovecraft hated niggers and his nigger poem to get these people out.
kill yourself
also, none of the fake nerds read lovecraft, that's why the only thing they know is the tentacleface
lmao. Those "fake nerds" might talk about him, but they haven't read it.
Read the "Call of Cthulhu book" for reference. Everyone did, including the fake nerds.
Then read a bunch of other books by him, realize that as good as CoC is, it's not even close to being the best written one.
Then happily shit on fake nerds who don't know the Vorish sign, can't tell you where the Pnakoptic manuscripts are hidden, or who wrote the Necronomicon.
Oh and don't forget this gem (happened to me).
Already common knowledge, the left has begun rewriting and "cleaning" his works of racism :^)
No, they just think the name is cool and "muh Cthulhu" I doubt any of them have really sat down and read his stuff
DD is also not that great of a game
You should start with "Rats in the walls"
I don't want to spoil it but, it's got quite a twist
Kinda off topic but do you guys read on your screen or do you still buy good old fashioned books? I'm going to get into reading again but I'm learning towards reading on my screen because I have no life or places to go.
screen for short stories.
books for bigger stories.
don't care enough so usually screen
Game had a pretty decent OST though
You know, I love the feel of a book in my hands.
That smell of fresh paper, and hardbacks are very confortable in my hands. And turning pages manually is a delight.
But I'll be fucked if I pay 30€ for a book mate.
Last year I had this idea of reading Game of Thrones since I don't dig series.
It's an alright series. Does a lot of things right, but I don't see why people are this hyped for it since it's not that great either.
Picture this:
I dunno about you, but 125€ is a lot of fruit.
So as much as it pains me, I read that as ebook. I only buy hardbacks if it's a single book, at least 600 pages long and has a nice cover to great me everytime I pick it up.
You know that rule about vidya:
"Never pay more than 20 bucks for a videogame."
Same thing goes for books, but it's more like 5 bucks. Some of the best books I've read to this day cost me 3€ to 5€. Anymore, and the publisher is just asking to jam an hot fork in your butthole. If it's a new book, the fork isn't lubbed.
I began reading his stories on screen, but I'm planning on buying a real compilation. I always prefered to have the book in my hands, it's weird but I have some difficulties reading long enough on screen.
here's to hoping they handle it right. The fact they didn't shove a colored female protagonist in just to stick it to him points to some alright things. The atmosphere looks good, we'll just have to hope they don't cut corners with the lore or shove agendas in there.
People keep saying this and yet there is no proof that it was ever Cthulhu that got hit.
Literally one of the easiest ways to spot someone who has never cared or read a lick of lovecraft.
Any opinions on Shadow of the Comet?
Don't remember it, but I love The Green Meadow.
"Rats in the Walls" is pretty good for starters, so is "The Lurking Fear" "The Horror at Red Hook", and "The Dunwich Horror"
Also If you aren't up to reading, listening the stories works too. There are a bunch on youtube that have that old radio show feel to them.
They are especially comfy on late night drives.
The Marvel-Activision-Disney thing killed them with their last game, X-Men Destiny along with the Shitaku shitpiece that wasn't verified fucked them up.
Good game, too bad the developer is a cuck who tips his fedora and hangs out in in neofag.
Nah, easiest is seeing someone talking about Cthulhu like it matters.
Mindblowing.
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Its going to suck. Modern devs with a good budget are fucking morons and have no idea what they are doing. As for the state of horror, Lovecraft is thrown on top for "street credit". Faggots now adays think Stephen Cuck King, Friday night freds, jump scares and gore porn is scary.
I agree. Lovecraft as a game doesn't really work. There is very little action until the climax, and he relies on slowly building a sense of dread in the reader.
It would be like making an Alfred Hitchcock video game. For example a Birds video game would consist of 2/3rds walking around talking to people and buying a birthday gift. With a tiny spurt of action horror at the end.
I can't think of any game that has done this to even a mediocre degree. With the closest thing being non-horror video games that have a horror section in them.
Porn artists are lazy pricks.
The abomination looked like a man without skin with really long arms and and odd looking sort of skull, which was long as well not big but long. I saw multiples of them and later fell into a room with six or so of them and they just watched me as I cowered in fear.
I'm not sure what it meant but I had dreams with them appearing every time, I'm still fatigued over it.
try to fuck them
be like the ayy girlfriend user: a pioneer
I couldn't do anything against them I just felt fear. Does it make sense I couldn't see their hands, mouth or feet?
It's not that it wasn't there I just don't recall what they looked like. Big eyes but I don't know about a color, a sort of elongated torso that had to scars, long arms and stubbly sort of legs. It's just that I saw them all night long and kept waking up feeling tense or afraid but they didn't do anything to me other than scare me.
the best way for a man to conquer his fear is fucking it
good luck
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Sound like skinswalkers before they steal your skinDo you live near the woods per chance?
Mine was in my head as I was dreaming every time. It was only when I awoke as I did several times through out the night to this crap that I had any sort of fear or dread. I thought my computer on my desk was a person though and flipped out for a few minutes.
I've having a great time playing and just soaking in all atmosphere. When I first tried SS it lost me pretty quickly, but when Zubmariner was released I played their browser game(it's kinda shit) until I found a torrent. It is at times frustrating how fleeting the game is with information but it definitely isn't going to ruin the mystique through over-explanation like a lot of games do.
I would definitely call the game influenced by Lovecraft's works, from what I've read from advanced Fallen London players the Echo Bazaar originally came from space and the Masters that run it are giant bat creatures that can travel between the stars and they've announced the sequel to Sunless Sea: Sunless Skies, where apparently the Traitor Empress, who sold Fallen London to the Echo Bazaar in exchange for the life of her husband and I would assume unnatural power, has expanded her empire into space which is where the game will be taking place.
Why can't we have nice things for once?
If I'm remembering correctly, and keep in mind it's been a really long time since I've read CoC, a huge plate tectonic shift brought R'lyeh up to the surface where the sailors started fucking about, Cthulhu woke up, got out, got smacked in the gob by the steam ship, but the stars weren't right to wake up the Great Old Ones (or whatever subgroup of infinitely old eldritch gods they were, there are so many they start to blend together to me) so he went back into R'lyeh, went back to sleep, and the plate shifted and brought the city back to the seafloor.
It was planned from the start, it takes place in the same universe as natural selection, and the fan speculation was initially the Khara were the ones who shot down the Aurora. Plus they had the Warpers as concepts from the beginning. Shoulda seen it coming from a mile away. Waiting until next update to play again (about 6 major updates behind)
I'm good I got a feeling those are males.
Small town nearby a clearing of diseased trees, it's a small outcropping that descends into total darkness at night. This was merely a dream, not a reality, so how could skinwalkers be what these creatures were?
That's why you should only give a shit about the stuff Lovecraft actually wrote and none of that fanfiction-tier garbage.
I had sleep paralysis once. Didn't hallucinate or anything, just woke up and couldn't move. Lasted only a little while. Freaky, but I was also very calm since I already knew what sleep paralysis is. Now if I'd been reading Communion beforehand, well…
Official means its licensed by the estate of Lovecraft. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt because there are plenty of people literally as stupid as I hope you're pretending to be.
I saw Cthulhu one of those pop-vinyl bobblehead fucking things the other day. I died a little inside.
You know what would work is if you took something like Antichamber with its glroious mindfuckery of non-euclidean geometry, dressed it up as a run-of-the-mill adventure/detective/puzzle game and then slowly, as the game progressed and the player uncovered more clues, start fucking with them more and more. Making hallways go on for ever, have the player turn right five times at ninety degree angles down corridors and end up somewhere completely different, have them walk from one room to another and find a massive fucking empty cathedral with nothing but still water that occasionally ripples like something massive is sleeping underneath, and then walk out and walk back in and it's just a small and empty room or corridor. You wouldn't even have to acknowledge this shit was happening, just let it happen and ignore it when it's passed. Really let the player wonder what the fuck is happening.
I think the reason a lot of people are hyped about Thrones is because it throws some of the conventions out of the window. The magic is (mostly) fairly subdued and subtle, like the omen in the opening chapter and whatnot, and the fact that Grim isn't afraid to kill off major characters (usually because they make mistakes, not like in the TV show where it's seemingly random).
Pipes, what the fuck are you-
OH.
That's quite the audience poor Zann picked up.
I recognize this is (((youtube))), but it was the quickest way to find it
thalassophobia moment at 1:45 it's giant enemy crab yamoto
Been enjoying it a ton. The writing is what makes the game, the gameplay is meh, not too bad, not too great (kinda reminds me of S.P.A.Z., and it helps if you like to roleplay though). Zubmariner oozes atmosphere though, shit like Nook and Hideaway have the right kind of Lovecraft leanings.
The atmosphere with the sonar and genuinely creepy terrain and enemies is pretty great, the Tides of Appetite have some creepy noises to go along with those strange, moving faces(?) but I haven't encountered anything extraordinary there.
Cyclopean
So it's shit?
Yeah my only complaints are that the combat is really weak and it's hard to check myself so that I don't explore too far and end up stranded, the ship speed is pretty slow but I want to explore damn it. Gotta love the game's humor though.
I would describe Sunless Sea and Fallen London as Flavor Text: The Game. Once I got past the shitty islands that are around London the atmosphere/lore/world/whatever really hooked me and I've been playing nothing but it for the past couple days.
If you're one of those fags who parades around screaming "GAMEPLAY IS ALL THAT MATTERS FUCK STORY" while masturbating to arena FPS (not that there's anything wrong with arena FPS) then you definitely wont like the game, actual gameplay can be described as a series of courier/fetch/trading quests, running away from enemies until you get good weapons, balancing resources so you don't fuck yourself over, and dicerolling against your stats while progressing quests or interacting with ports. Though I see it as an inverse to the usual method where the set-pieces is a vehicle to deliver gameplay, in Sunless Sea the gameplay is a vehicle to deliver the set-pieces. Which are great.
I find it funny that you immediately start attacking him for not caring about story.
Depends on what you like doing, honestly. The survival elements can make for interesting situations (or annoy you if it's not your cup of tea), random events, particularly tough enemies, etc build a cool little ship captain simulation in a pretty alien and cool setting (Victorian culture for the main faction, other factions include things like demons/Mongolian Khanate/anarchists/Splinter faction, sunlight can kill, steampunk tech, interesting locations to discover, Lovecraft nods and inspirations), but for the core of it there's generally two styles of play: merchants that avoid combat and find lucrative trade routes, and combat-focused monster/pirate hunting which is can be fun but is weak mechanically.
Combat is basically: Up to three different guns, one for the front, one for the rear, and one in the middle/deck, with their respective lines of fire, have to wait for your crew to find a firing solution, while steering the ship to try and keep away from the enemy/your lines of fire propped on them to damage them.
You find firing solutions faster when your ship's light is propped on the enemy but your enemy will also see you if they're unalerted (sneaking up for the first volley is the general strategy). Tools like flares let you avoid this, if your ship's hull is at half health, you start losing crew members in enemy attacks, when you're at half crew capacity, your ship can only move at a factor of 1 (it has a steam engine-type system where you can crank it from -2 to +2 respectively).
Early game is a pretty big drag where you generally avoid combat and don't do much risky stuff, but when you start getting better engines, guns, ships and stats, the game picks up in the combat side of things. The exploration is really what makes the game, the events that happen on different islands, the stories behind the places you visit, and the like really what makes it.
Note the "if" in that sentence. If he doesn't like story and atmosphere and only cares about gameplay I doubt he'd like it, which I figured might be the case from his post. Like I said I have nothing against games where the backbone is the gameplay like Doom or DMC but I've seen a lot of fags take an absolutist counterpoint against story when shitty walking sims started saturating the market.
well, yeah ; unless your idea of gameplay is 'i like to read books'
Neither The Thing on the Doorstep nor The Dunwich Horror are sea-related.
I feel like using that word reinforces the association and influences of HPL instead of diminishing it.
It goes even beyond that. You can play with the themes and for example Bloodborne did that pretty well in my opinion, but at least half of what makes a Lovecraft story is the impact findings and events have on the usually well-cultured, intellectual or academic protagonist and the 18th to 19th century world around him. The deep, sophisticated disgust with the degenerate, otherwordly, foreign and occult in Shadow over Innsmouth for example is essential to the atmosphere and effect of the story. Or the detachment of the exotic communities in Pickman's Model who inhabit the old districts as compared to the cultured white wealth. Without that, it's just weird imagery and scary monsters, which are so omnipresent that they have no impact on the jaded man of current year. You have to understand intolerance to understand Lovecraft.
There's nothing comfier.
I know but what I say is that I read very few of him and so far sea shit is very present in his work, at least for the first two I've read.
Haven't read many of Lovecraft's work as I have to get into that right mood to enjoy his writing style. At the Mountains of Madness was a great suspenseful read once it gains speed from the crawling build up.
I think I remember another one of his stories but I forgot the title but would like to remember it. It was about a pair of people experimenting with a device that weakened the boundaries between dimensions inside a room, so they could see strange creatures from beyond but couldn't touch, be touched or seen by them.
Putting it all in a game sounds very hard imo, as being able to place those themes into an interactive environment where instead the imagination of the reader is taken out and replaced by the interpretation and skills of the developer.
From Beyond. Here is a nice claymation video of it.
not sure if counts, but infra arcana is is fun little lovecraft themed roguelike.
I have never read call of cthulu or at the mountain of madness(yet), yet I mostly see people just talking about them. First story I read was the case of charles d ward when my friend recommended it to me. Loved it. Wanrted ever since to get my hands on more lovecrafts stuff. Then few years ago, I bought necronomicon, which contains lot of the storiesnot sure if it contains all of them. I think my favorite was music of erich zann. Tho' I love his stories, I find sometimes hard to understand the text, but I guess it's because I'm not native speaker or something.
The Japanese claymation based on Shadow over Innsmouth and a couple other stories is better.
Post it then.
I think it was the south park episode.
I assume from your file name that you too are a Finn? If so the newer translations published by Jalava are really good, but never ever read the older translations from the 90s, they are fucking horrible and filled with typos.
Thanks. I thought that was a nice adaption to the story.
yes I am. I'll keep that in mind, thank you.
What… is that thing? What other horrors can you find down deep?
Got a picture of what's in the Tides of Appetite?
hplovecraft.com
He was quite the prolific man. You should see what he wrote outside his stories.
Nice.
Pineal happiness is go.
looks like it messing with your head
Ganesha Cthulhu is best.
Fucking ayys blueballing us by preventing the Happening.
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Kinky things.
what happened to that game?
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I like the little things about this show. LIke Cthullhu being a nun(Great priest) that's really into vidya(new ways to maim and to kill). Like it's the little things.
Literally nothing about that webm was Lovecraft
They completely missed the point of lovecraft in that entire anime. Literally the only similarity is in the names of characters.
Shh you'll trigger the weebs
You must be blind to not see the literal abominations
Naming the characters after Lovecraft characters does not make it Lovecraft, at most it's a reference.
This is worse than those "tank" anime that act as if a schoolgirl named "T-72" is a tank.
i shogoth'd
They're only posting it because they absolutely hate everything Lovecraft related and want to make you angry.
The least they could have done is kept it closer to the story. That was a pretty half-assed retelling.
Ha didn't know that word! Always looking to expand my vocabulary. Stored in my brain for future use. Much obliged.
Then you clearly haven't read The Dunwich Horror, and nearly everyone ITT whinging and bitching about what is and isn't truly Lovecraftian probably has no more experience with his work than merely being familiar with the name Cthulhu- not to say that this game seems to capture the spirit of his works at all, because it doesn't.
I enjoyed the theme, visuals, and stories of Sunless Sea.
However I didn't care for the writing that much, I don't want to say it felt pretentious to me, but jesus I can't remember any characters with actual names. Everybody was just
I don't mind somebody being called 'Heroic Adventuress', but I it's not that hard to give people real names. I can sympathise more with a character who has a name.
Anyway, I think where most games go wrong with Lovecraft and that is isolation: Devs are allergic to leaving their players alone, they want the player to have a cast of other characters because otherwise they don't know how to make a story.
I'm desensitized to Jap retardation, it was just a waste of time watching that for me as I was trying to figure out what was lovecraftian about it.
the only people ever triggered by Nyaruko are lovecraftfags, it is just a mediocre ecchi anime
Here's Hastur, the writer of Nyaruko turned it into a trap.
Who else COULD be offended? It's their literature which is being grossly misinterpreted.
Hey can I ask you something: am I retarded or does The Hound and The Unnameable both read more like self-aware comedies than horror stories?
I'm more offended by people who are surprised that an author from the early 1900s might have some racially motivated tones in his work. Seriously have you seen what these "new" mythos writers have to say on it?
As much as they wish, they can't change was Lovecraft actually wrote.
Relax user, it is a harem story with aliens that got lovecraftian names slapped on the characters, its connection to any of Lovecraft's stories or his style is tangential at best. Something like Saya no Uta was much closer to Lovecraft's style made by the Japanese.
Nyaruko is barely ecchi and it's not mediocre, it's fucking shit. I have a high tolerance for shit anime and I could barely get through the first season.
Feels like it's taking more ideas from Dokuro-chan than Lovecraft's work, having basically the same premise but with none of the humor or over the top silliness. The Lovecraftian stuff is basically just borrowing a few names from the mythos and calling it a day.
Get a load of this normalfag.
Fucking kek Japan, you'll never have those colors.
I thought he was making fun of how retarded American copyright law is because the idea of the estate being an entity with full control over Lovecraft's works long after he has died is fucking retarded. Copyright law should be as it originally was: 30 years after creation, or at the very least it could just go back to being the life of the author.
If it was 30 years everyone would have the freedom to make cool Star Wars shit by now but nope, only Disney approved projects allowed.
I'm pretty optimistic about this tbh fam.
I look forward to Neil Gaiman's next Lovecraftian mythos story, about a Black Transgender Muslim taking down a cult of evil anglo-saxon misogynerds.
aids ain't cured, they can just keep you alive on anti-virals for 20 years. The US spends one percent of its GDP on these drugs. For perspective that's a fifth of their entire military spending and the US spends out the ass for military.
HEY HEY I DONT WANT TO BE ONE OF THOSE HIPSTERS WHO NEVER ACTUALLY READ HIS WORKS BUT WHO SPEWS THE TERM LOVECRAFTIAN IN ORDER TO MAKE THEMSELVES SOUND MORE INTELLIGENT AND WORLDLY THAN THEY ACTUALLY ARE, SO GIVE ME SOME OF HIS BOOKS IF YOU PLEASE, UNLESS OF COURSE YOU FAGGOTS ARE JUST THOSE HIPSTER TYPES I HAVE MENTIONED.
Haven't read the first in a while, but as for the second… duh? It's a comedy and commentary in one.
Here's a .pdf of "The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft". According to the preface,"The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft contains all Lovecraft's solo writings as an adult, beginning in 1917 with "The Tomb" and ending in 1935 with "The Haunter of the Dark." His collaborative works and revisions are not included."
That means it misses some of his earlier stories like the alchemist and the beast in the cave
Hey, thanks. Now, which to read first? Got any recommendations or should I just start in chronological order?
Chrono, faggot. Don't skip a one.
It's my opinion that you should always consume media chronologically, the way the author probably intended. I always see idiots on here asking, "which Metal Gear game should I start with?", and it pisses me off.
i think The Old Hunters did a good job capturing the concept behind it. The base game actually turned the lovecraft formula on its head where the church actually follows some unfathomable almost alien force (the great ones) instead of it being a cult on the fringes
I chose to interpret the Orphan as one of the first "humans" (or at least an ancestor) and that the corpse of Kos was lost in time when it showed up on the coast of the fishing village. People seem to think that the Church was just covering up the atrocities they did to that village of people but I don't think that's worth such an elaborate time bending conspiracy. I think the real thing they were covering up was that humans were not born from Kos, we were mere parasites that killed it and if the devout masses were to learn of this there would be panic and mass suicides.
My evidence is in the name and obvious humanoid appearance of the thing. I think they might want you to think the "Orphan" means it was born from it but it died, but if that were true then why is it "Orphan OF Kos?" If it is still OF Kos then it wouldn't be an orphan. If my mom died I would still be her son, I'd just also be an orphan. I think this means that it was one of the parasites that killed Kos and Kos accepted these parasites as its own thus making them it's orphan, which is why Kos is seen as the mother of humanity even though no one really knows what that means.
i don't know, the description of the Accursed Brew makes it pretty clear that Byrgenwerth scholars thoroughly experiemented on and possibly vivisected the residents of the village. Also the Orphan is also tied somehow to Gehrman because of the dialogue you get from the Doll suggesting that Gehrman sleeps more soundly after you kill the Orphan when you return to the dream. When the orphan cries in the opening cutscene, its identical to when Gehrman cries when you listen to him talk in his sleep in the dream - just with the levels changed.
so i think that the hunters are intimately connected with Kos and that Kos and its "relatives" cursed the Hunters and those associated with them as a result of their actions there - against the residents
Kill yourself. What OP described is LITERALLY Lovecraftian, and that's a correct use of the fucking word literal too. Deep sea horror was invented by that motherfucker.
Is that a demon smiling in the background over his left shoulder?
Reading by Morgan Freeman when?
That was a good one. Nice work not spoiling the real twist.
Really proves that some things in Lovecraft just wanna have fun.
Daily reminder for those who supposedly "know" Lovecraft and his views:
"what a complacent, self-assured, egocentric jackass I was in those days! . . . I can the better understand the inert blindness and defiant ignorance of the reactionaries from having been one of them. I know how smugly ignorant I was. . . . It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33—but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all."
—HPL in a letter to C. L. Moore, February 7 1937
He also married a Jew. I suspect most Holla Forumstists will do the same.
I have no idea what that letter is about nor is this thread about Lovecraft himself, it's about his work.
What're you going to do when Trump wins, leftie?
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Your point?
Kill me
Tell that to reddipol.
Grow up.
Not a leftist, but I'm going to laugh when it turns out he's even more of a bumbling moron than we thought.
go get raped by a fishman you tumblrcunt
Best wrestling organisation ever. But fuck Mean Gene, keep it together!
Think again, what other races are included in the anglo-saxon people? Isn't caring for one people in particular inheritly a "racist" belief?
Most are racist though. Who the hell doesn't prefer their own family and blood over some random nigger?
I wish I never deleted my Eldritch horror porn collection, it had almost everything.
Why don't they make horror shooters anymore? I Want a lovecraft themed FEAR.
Is that from pic related? If not, wanna tell me the name of the artist/comic please cause I can't find it.
It's funny that Lovecraft is most known for his worst stories.
why would you do such a thing
no, use your brains and reverse image search to figure out shit like that for yourself ; i ain't spoonfeeding you
maybe if you were familiar with his pottery attempts you'd know why even his worst stories get more recognition than it
I'm turned on. Wouldn't mind blowing that ancient horror.
He has really nice thighs.
I like elves more than eldritch horrors. Can I take one of them instead?
Because nobody understands what "horror" means anymore.
And also "Shooter", for that matter.
I dunno what your problem with Fungi from Yuggoth is. The poems are alright. The Dream Cycle was alright too.
Look at me jumping the gun thinking I recognised the art.
Well there's always Dark Corners of the Earth, but I regard the shooting the lowest point of the game.
There's Eldritch, but… yeah it's not anything near FEAR.
Condemned is pretty great, it's not got many shooting segments, as guns are supposed to be a hard hitting rarities.
I loved the dream cycle.
Only if you're not an orc, orc scum needs to die.
I started condemned because people told me it was like FEAR. Instead I got 15fps and bad detective mechanics.
I was in a bad mood, maybe I'll try it again.
Unless it was written by Lovecraft himself it's just fanfiction. Also, a liberal could never write lovecraftian horror.
Elf butthurt because she wasn't raped.
Says someone who doesn't understand that the Yogg-Sothothery was transmutable by anyone who wanted to write for it, HP Lovecraft accepted almost any story as canon, the only ones he rejected were the August Derleth ones because they tried to turn what he wrote into a religious body of work.
its not rape if you want it
So… bloodborne was about werewolves or about lovecraftian horrors?
I would love to have something involving classic monsters VS Lovecraft horrors.
Bloodborne began its origins as an adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and over time it evolved into what it is.
Everybody knows that it's the elves that do the raping.
Well, it doesn't sound bad, I just hate the soul's gameplay which is mostly a time sink.
it became less mystery and more Muh quirky clockwork deep sea thing
How can it be a time sink
Because you can be killed and have lots of souls to level up some of your points and then you can get killed by some bullshit and lose them all, then after being killed you only have half of your lifebar on you until you find a bullshit item or kill a boss in your weakened state.
would be less of a time sink for you if you got good at the game and actually learned the mechanics instead of just blindly running in
But the souls games are made so you can beat them at level 1 just fine, no idea about bloodborne though since I dont own a playstation
SL1 runs exist, yes, because parry/riposte is god in every Soulsborne game.
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fucking fantastic
And at the moment he is not around to do that anymore.
I wonder if anyone here knows that Cthulhu was a playable character in a game where Gods and shit beat the hell out of eachother
The thing on the door step was about that guy's friend who turned to goop, right?
Cthulhu used to be a deity in the Deities and Demigods book of AD&D1E before Arkham Printing House asked them to remove reference to Cthulhu from the book.
I feel like this webm is about From Beyond,
Yes.
How can they do that if Lovecraft is public domain?
Now it is, back then it wasn't. However Cthulhu as a title is now trademarked by Chaosium when it comes to usage in games and video games.
They present it as a pretty standard by the books horror game with spooky zombies, cackling witches, feral werewolves, and vampires in their castle but they give hints of something stranger going on regarding the church, then about halfway through the game most players will stumble into a locked away part of the starting area and find blue alien-looking dudes bumbling around. From that point forward pretty much every enemy is an eldritch abomination and the game goes full lovecraft. They intentionally didn't show any of that in it's marketing to make it all the more surprising when you learn that the game is about aliens.
Goddamn it
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the problem is that this particular collection they are only poems in name , they don't follow any conventions as far as most poetry did back then and still does today nor indeed like Lovecraft even did in some of his earlier poems before them ; now you could make the same claim for the rest of the body of his work but at least his stories had a format that a mainstream audience could understand and follow even if the setting and themes were distinctly otherwordly and strange .So it's no surprise that even his "worst" stories get more recognition but if you mention his poems you may find the occasional someone to quote Despair or find some hipster praying nobody brings up On the Creation of Niggers like this fag >>11022751 but not that many for anything else
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Underrated post
Streaman dat D2, the scariest, weirdest videogame of all time:
do not bully elfs or orcs
i have zero faith and that way I will not be disappointed when it sucks ass. so few people seem to realize what makes lovecraft good, and i am not putting any stock in a game feted at e3 being written by the kind of people who "get it"
You both are mentally retarded. Marxists and other leftists LITERALLY are at fault for everything wrong with the world. That's an objective fact that has been proven.
Fake quote. He remained wise till his death, never falling for the Jewish kool aid like you did.
Sounds like you're just bad at games. You won't die if you don't suck. There are no cheap deaths in Souls games, every death is a result of a mistake you made.
Darkness Within did a pretty good job I think.
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All of those cliches in a single trailer
Lovecraft's stories are scary because they mix cosmic horror with the everyday's life of the characters, it was never about spooky castles/island that are made to look scary
Also that fucking bland character, I wish it was more of something you could see in the 1920s, not fucking Hugh Jackman.
Go play the best (only?) Lovecraft game and one of the best text-based adventure if you haven't already.
Sunless Sea is alright but I would it is more Gothic horror than cosmic horror. Maybe a mix of both. I haven't finished the game yet and have yet to find scary sea monsters. Play it for the writing and atmosphere. If you like resource management that is a plus.
Like other anons are saying the combat is lacking and the main gameplay is making choices and managing resources. It's actually harder at the start (both combat and resource management) which is a retarded design choice.
Speaking of retarded design choices I think this game was designed to be an MMO. I haven't played Fallen London (their browser game) so I can't say much about that but I'm getting some Kingdom of Amalur vibes. It's like they they gave up on the MMO idea and just turned it into a single player game.
Read Invisible Cities if you like the writing of Sunless Sea and you're not a nigger.
Holy shit, is this weak bait.
Are you halfcucks really that mentally deprived?
Can we go one thread without some butthurt faggot from /ledditpol/ throwing a temper tantrum?
Shouldn't that text be red instead of green?
When you link to a board, it doesn't greentext unless it doesn't exist..
>>>/test/
The wish is father of the thought. Maybe we'll get lucky and meme leftypol out of existence.
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Another thread saw an user point to the Hunter's Nightmare being a version of Hell, with the big name hunters living out their own personal Hells. Laurence burns eternally for burning Old Yharnam, Ludwig has become the most disgusting of the cleric beasts, Maria watches over everything happening unable to do anything, and the user thought that the Orphan was a bit of Gehrman.
I had to stop reading when I got to the description of the Earth gods.
I'm now imagining that thing giving me head, god damn I don't even regret this boner.
I got Eternal Darkness a few days ago. Its pretty fun, I really dig the sanity effects.Granted I'm not too far into it and I think my disc may be a bit fucked up. Still pretty cool though.
The Quest of Iranon is best Lovecraft
you just replace the lion's body with a seprent , it's basically the same premise
Some tips:
There are a few optional items in certain chapters. So make sure you explore fully. In one chapter you'll need to backtrack considerably to get something that will be useful for the rest of the game. Then there's a sidequest that spans 3 chapters that will make the final chapter much easier.
Also, play through the game with all 3 ancients for the true ending.
Im not But the only Japanese lovecraftian thing I could find was this.
youtube.com
Sorry its on jewtube, someone could webm it and give it subs or something
why live
nvm, found it, make sure the subs are on. Its the whole thing.
did anyone say sex with an eldritch abomination from another dimension?
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I dated and fugged an SJW for a little while.
I did, in fact, nearly lose my sanity.
Pls no bully, I was unfamiliar with them at the time.
Did she have a tendency to slap your penis and call it problematic?
Did she peg you to establish dominance?
When the two of you broke up, did she claim you raped her?
Rape accusation happened to my brother, nothing came of it because she kept making rape accusations, even to people she had never met in person
Lovecraft's creatures seemingly have children with the people they fuck (for example: Wilbur Whateley's father was Yog-Sothoth), SJWs are hedoistic pieces of shit who usually don't want children.
Not a single game that I know of managed to capture Lovecraftian horror/feeling of completely incomprehensible bullshit.
BoF4 came pretty close, but then you actually start to talk to dragons and it's all ruined.
Oni has pretty good mixture of mystery/horror going on but it's all man-made and sci-fi, not mythical and eldritch.
The closest any game has gotten to "oh god what the actual fuck is even going on" for me is They Breathe. Don't even look up anything about it or you'll ruin it for yourself. Give it a pirate if you want a game to weird you out.
Not quite lovecraftian, but there's some real mind fuckery going on underwater with strange creatures so it's close enough.
i have a spare