Have there been any new games that have captured Lovecraftian horror?

have there been any new games that have captured Lovecraftian horror?

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If you've turned any of Lovecraft's works into something other than more written or spoken word, congratulations, you've failed to "capture Lovecraftian horror."

…Define "new."

No.

nice trips, and I figure new as in the last two years. There was a phase where soyboys were trying to jack his work and throw it into every indie game they could, but since then they've dropped his lore due to being problematic so I figure there might be a chance some game with a small team might have done his stuff some justice and also be fun to play.

There weren't any old either.


Pretty much this.
Maybe if there was a game that never shows this shit, then it could possibly do that, but alas we gotta have polygonal monsters in there.

I want more cosmic horror vidya

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No thanks.

This is what I'm talking about.
Once there is some fish monsters that pops outta somewhere the entire atmosphere goes to shit.
It's just a video game monster, you either kill it or run away from it.

I hate the Souls genre, but I can appreciate the lore and especially Bloodborne's.

Conarium. Don't recommend buying it though, it's very short.

you're a lazy fucking moron
you could think of interesting ways to create completely alien designs
is that ever done? no, you usually just get fish people and some octopus shit, but it could be done
the point of most of lovecrafts works were to represent your unimportance in the face of things so great you can't comprehend them, sure, but people attached to the monsters, they became stars, characters
I'm sure people imagine all the time what they may have looked like, to see something so incomprehensible you're driven mad, its interesting to think about, and no doubt was one of the points why they're written as such
theres nothing wrong with trying to translate that into a visual medium, its just that no one is thinking outside the box enough to do it well

You have no idea how bad I want to play that one, but aside from the Yakuza remake and Bloodborne I've got no reason to own one.

Doesn't look to bad, guess I'll track down a torrent and give it a shot.

Try playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Because you messed around with some relic, the universe itself is trying to kill you. It doesn't have a corporeal form, but it noticeably follows you everywhere. Leaving the walls all goopy and shit. Like all good Lovecraftian horror, it makes you feel like you're dealing with a force too destructive and unfathomable to even comprehend

Every time.

This picture grossly exaggerates bloodborne's impact. The game is at its best and most disturbing on the werewolf stage, everything that has to do with the nightmare (just a normal place with some fucked up walls for effort) and the kin (deeply silly monsters) is underwhelming at best. Even the Orphan of Kos, literally the unborn spawn of a great one, is just some dude that fights with a placenta. Fuck it, it'll do. He'll look like some other NPC because muh lore > monster design. Shit, the chromatic aberration is the most disturbing part.
Gameplay's great though. A solid 7/10 overall.

Lovecraftian horror is a meme that isn't even present in most of Lovecraft's stories.

I can't believe I have to explain this every fucking time a Lovecraft thread comes up.
Lovecraft's predominant theme was not
It was the exploration of mysteries and ultimately uncovering dark secrets that once known could not be unknown, but were so unbelievable that no one would ever believe you, giving off the impression that you were insane.
He explores, forbidden science and gives local superstition dark alien origins. What does it mean to be a man and discover that everything you've ever worked for is a lie, is for naught or is actually damaging your chances for success and there is nothing in your power you can do to change it.

No, fuck off.

Wasn't a half-breed child of Yog-Sothoth killed by dogs, and something that he managed to summon was shot to death?

A lot of Lovecraft's stories were just about weird bullshit. Not even necessarily horrors from beyond space.

A broader term to not get bogged down in all the autism about Lovecraft would be cosmic horror/comsicism. When you say Lovecraftian you immediately get posts like the first reply with "hurr you can't depict it".

Nigger not everything in Lovecraft's works was some unknowable being, you have stuff like Elder Things and Shoggoths which are described fairly clearly. On top of that the "unknowable" nature of Old Ones isn't really that horrific, the main points of cosmicism/cosmic horror are:
1: The innate human fear of the unknown, which rooted deep in the lizard brain.
2: The utter powerlessness of humans in the face of beings and powers beyond comprehension.
3: The way the second point undermines human beliefs such as faith or dedication to a higher cause, making one feel insignificant and pointless.

I'd certainly agree that at the point you just kill Old Ones for shits and giggles it undermines the premise somewhat, as it empowers the player, such as in Bloodborne. Depictions of creatures either need to be really well designed to be visually dissonant enough to give you that feeling really evil sounding discordant music does (something le generic tentacley old one completely fails to do) I think the established design of the Elder Thing nails that pretty well. Or be more abstract by depicting a being's physical manifestation as something like fog.

The only good one is Eternal Darkness, as it's truer to the spirit of Lovecraftian horror (humans are mere pawns, the elder Gods cannot be defeated by anything other than another one, the horror is so deep that it transfuses to the real world with the random effects on your tv screen etc).

One of my favourite Lovecraft adaptations. Captures the weird vibe of the story great in a visual format. The archaic stop motion effects might actually help here.

It wasn't a summon, it was his twin brother, but yes. The story was the Dunwich horror.

I was under the impression one of them actually just fucked a monkey at one point.
I always wondered about that story and what Lovecraft said about it. Was he implying he had similar ancestry?

Lovecraft was deeply disturbed by the revelation that he had some Welsh ancestry.

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That "tainted blood" aspect of his horror is always lost and it's disappointing that it is.

That's why we can't have modern Lovecraft stories. The implicit racism is just too triggering.

I do need to beat this and it has been on the backlog forever. I'll get something good to drink and play it tonight.
does it emulate alright?

Best posts in the thread.

Lovecraft is fucking shit.

Kill yourself, KIKE.

You have shit taste.

He is not the greatest writer, not even close but far from shit.

I like his more talented, more racist and more Aryan-centric contemporary and friend Robert E. Howard. The only good thing Lovecraft ever wrote was the nigger poem, the rest is totally irredeemable degeneracy porn for Reddit-loving brainlets (who do a bit of manletting on the side) that oughta neck themselves.


Total shit.

You're trying way too hard to fit in friendo.

You sound like a kike.

KILL YOURSELF KIKE

I don't even have to try, tbh. It comes to me naturally.


Such furious young men. I'm not appealing to it, I'm just saying that he had everything Lovecuck had going on and more, fucking Iranistan kills me to this day - that's some Conan shit if you didn't know because you wasted your time reading Lovecraft's books he somehow managed to squeeze out before dying in poverty because no one living at the time thought he was worth a fuck and they were right.

You can't actually capture the feeling Lovecraft's work in a game.
A large part of Lovecraft's horror was a fear of the unknown and powers beyond human understanding, that doesn't work well in the medium of video games

It's some shit, innit? To think, all I had to do was tell the truth.

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The baiting and shitposting has been getting pretty bad recently. Perhaps Winter Break is in full effect?

I came from half/x/ during GG, you've probably been told about it at some point prior to your migration from r/cuckporn, yes? It was a magical time. Imagine being this furious at your pure-blooded Aryan superior.
You're such a fucking embarrassment that had Lovecraft actually had fans like you (or at all) when he was alive he would have wished he didn't.

Except when it was actually about albino monkeys and fish men.

You're a faggot. There are plenty of ways to avoid this. Like really vague shadows or silhouettes, a monster that is chasing you but you can't never see, strange sounds, weird scenery that isn't consistent. Take Eternal Darkness for example, I think that shit captures Lovecraftian horror pretty decently.

In the original Alone in the Dark you had to escape the mansion because there was not a single thing you could do against all the weird shit going on on the mansion. Sure, there were common enemies that you could "kill", but they just disappeared, and they were stuff like Zombies and really abstract things, if you tried to escape directly you were engulfed by this estrange eye thing with a mouth. Again, I think that was pretty good when it comes to lovecraftian horror, since you don't really kill or stop the "main thing that is fucking everything up", you just escape and don't mention it to anyone ever again.

Do you even understand that, newfag? Also thanks a fuckton for being this autistic, could not ask for a better way to spend my morning.

You are cringey.

Mark, if you're gonna 404 half the shit derailing the thread don't leave the other half.


It's still a damn shame the Alone in the Dark remake was cancelled, especially considering how faithful to the original it looked.

1. Call of Cthulhu

To a lesser extent, Bloodborne.


Hi George Lucas, you know you can make moving images about something without depicting or fully depicting things right? RIGHT?

Call of Cthulhu was great… up until you get a gun. After that I just sort of lost my momentum and never found a reason to return. Also getting it to work on modern computers is a pain.

KILL YOURSELF SAMEFAG KIKE KILL YOURSELF

We've just been over this. Yes you can. Many of his stories describe the monsters in detail. The idea that every Lovecraftian monster was unknowable is a meme.

Has any author ever spawned more autism?

KILL YOURSELF SAMEFAG KIKE KILL YOURSELF

Why does it sound like most people who argue about the guy's work have never read any of it?

I happen to have screenies of it, I'm making a nice collage for a friend of mine who enjoys low-functioning autistics and their antics. Please, continue.

KILL YOURSELF SAMEFAG KIKE KILL YOURSELF

Bloodborne works naturally with Lovecraftian horror, although I'm not saying they captured a decent chunk of it.

In dark souls, many people, especially girls, feels extremely stressed at progressing, to the point of quitting, the stress comes from the unknown, and the unknown gets populated by all sorts of monsters all at the limit of the subject's own imagination, so in theory, they can just slap a few lovecraft references and copy the base game and they already have a lovecraft theme game about being extremely anxious at the unknown. But people who know the formula, or are not especially the neurotic type, won't get that feeling of deep horror where the one that scares you is you.

It's usually just to shit up a thread like this user >>13970234

Fuck off, Autist.

Are you mentally ill, or just a cunt?

He's a shitposter, that's all.
Just report and filter him and don't reply; shitposters thrive off replies.

I used to listen to his audio books every day while working, then a few years back I found a really nice collection of all his works at Barnes and Noble, snatched that up, and read through them again. There's only a few of his stories I really don't like, and those are usually his early works.

Now if people want to talk about books and authors that get a lot of unwanted love, my vote goes to the King in Yellow. I still don't get why people like that one.

What's the appeal to listening to a book over reading it? I much more prefer to imagine what the characters sound like and what their inflections are than to hear somebody else interpret it.

It's a great game. Just note that it's more "psychological horror" than "survival horror", with both the characters and the player being affected by what they see as things get worse, and each character having different constitutions (some have more mental fortitude than others, for instance). Not sure how it emulates, you might try asking here .

Sometimes you can add something to a story with a good voice performance, or some ambient music. It's also nice to listen while working or travelling.

IMO there's no real appeal except to just listen to something interesting while doing repetitive or mundane tasks.

Same reason you'd listen to a good story teller around a camp fire I suppose, and it's nice being able to do other things while listening to something.

yeah, I played it up till the knight guy a long time ago, enjoyed it a lot, then just got busy and forgot about it. I'll boot it up here in a bit.

Don't fucking reply. Are you retarded or some shit?

You might as well listen to a podcast there, though. Whenever I have to clean my house I turn on random economic podcasts.

The guy replying to him is shitting up the thread just as badly. Just report them both.

You can but you mainly shouldn't for the same reason any good horror movie hides its creature.

What the fuck is wrong with these cuckchan-tier shitposters?

I think it's one guy shitposting (ID 3bf8c2) then replying to himself with a VPN (ID d0bfd1).
Report them both, they're both breaking rule 8.

It's a balancing act. If you don't reveal enough it seems half thought and will leave people unsatisfied, reveal to much and you take away the horror from the unknown.

Well, his work wasn't entirely about the unknown. Sometimes it was more about strange events or strange people, like that one story about the old man with the viol.

Ban this cuckchan filth now

3bf8c2 was already banned. Just report d0bfd1 and his posts will probably be wiped as well.

So you don't think a game can capture fear of the unknown or cosmic horror? Hell, I'd argue some hipster walking simulators are perfect examples of Lovecraftian horror since simply gazing upon their sheer stupidity can drive a person insane.

Nice trips, and I know, I was just throwing my two cents when it came to good horror monsters and such. I think there should always be a little something left to the imagination.

Also posting this since some replies don't get what this post is probably getting at.

Traps are gay.

I can get provoking arguments with furfags/monsterfags and shitposting at them but what does arguing with youself do?

What makes me so annoyed about those damn walking simulators isn't that that they throw away any semblance for story, but rather than the story is always absolute shit. The sole exception to this is The Stanley Parable.
Walking sims fail on all aspects.

*any semblance of gameplay for story

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That's usually the goal

A horror only few can truly comprehend

Clive Barker's Undying and Grim Dawn both flirt with being Lovecraftian but I would not call them truly Lovecraftian.

I thought Soma had a decent story. Not mindblowing by any means, but it would make an okay sci-fi movie.

The MC is unbearably stupid.
The entire game he's told that you can't directly transfer consciousness, but even when the ending comes about he still doesn't get it.

Also MARK WILL YOU FUCKING GET RID OF THE SPAMMING AUTIST SOMEHOW, PLEASE.

It emulates perfectly, I finished it on Dolphin myself a year ago.

Report & filter, don't give him any attention.

It emulates really well.
The cutscenes render at 16:9 instead of 4:3 which can cause some funny moments like seeing characters going into T-post at the edge of the screen, but other than that there are no problems.

That's such a common thing in fiction I hardly notice it though. I kind of expect protagonists to be dumbasses.

In horror genres protags are dumbasses about 90 percent of the time, so yeah.

Being able to enjoy a book in a car when you have motion sickness

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I really need to play Undying, especially considering how much I like Jericho and that's not even a good game.


That's good to hear, looks like I'll be having fun in a bit.

Undying is decent, not great by any means. Gameplay and storywise it kind of falls off a cliff when you get to Bethany's world and the final boss is shit but it's a decent ride up until then.

why the fuck are you feeding him (you)s you fool

Because he's been shitposting from the start. Don't reply, report, hide.

Hey user, I disagree

true

So when do hotpockets start doing their job and save a perfectly fine Lovecraft thread?

Also Darkwood.

when you refresh

If anything bideo gaymes are a better medium for this.

I just want to tell you now that there's a puzzle near the end of the game which unlocks the best weapon. If you skip it, you can never get it again.
I won't tell you exactly what it is, but be aware it exists.

Maybe, but not with the current crop of "Le tentacle monsters xD xD" devs.

gods=GODS

Obviously, but thats just retards not knowing what lovecraft is about. Game world are technically a far a space of fucking nothing and the player is stuck in a small pocket made by some other entity. The fast nature of computer code makes its so you never know what actually is.

vast*

fast

Any cosmic horror stories that do not have eldritch abominations in them but just mysterious forces beyond human comprehension? I know those do overlap but I mean a cosmic horror story in which a force is not personified as a God/monster/etc

Those are people who read the Wikipedia synopsis of Call of Cthulhu, you should always ignore the garbage they put out.

Considering the avenues some entities take to access our world, yes, you could make a pretty neat Lovecraftian game in the form of a computer program. I suppose things like ANATOMY and Pony's Island fall into such a category.

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. Scientists try to make contact with an alien organism only to ultimately fail because the differences in consciousness are too big.

At it's core cosmic horror is really about man's helplessness in the face of something infinitely larger and more powerful. Lots of stories are like that. Stories of natural disasters, war, political dystopia.

Thread has been alright despite OP being a faggot, don't know if this has been posted but enjoy

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I listen to audiobooks even though I hate listening to audiobooks because it lets me "read" while I'm doing something that requires me to be looking at it. Found out people have uploaded basically the full entirety of Pratchett to Youtube recently and I've been working my way through the discworld series.

I've been listening to audio books lately, I think you could easily do Lovecraft justice. The Horror at Red Hook could be a quest chain in any WRPG. Dungeon crawling in the Mountains of Madness seems pretty straightforward.

If you need a way to depict otherworldly horrors maybe start with optical illusions.

I have that book, it smells really nice.

Oh, hey. To the mod that banned me for an hour for posting at the spammer one time, fuck you too asshole.

Lovecraftian themes require the player descending into madness and having an unhappy ending tho. The problem with lovecraftian quests is they require someone other than the protagonist being the focal point and that person losing it and either dying horrifically, or becoming mad or worse. Even then, it's tenuous at best,since the protag is still fine.

Pretty much it. The first Jermyn went to the Congo and fucked the queen of a civilization of white apes, returns home with it and the mongrel. It's basically a story about racemixing and shit.

Several stories are the protagonists recounting events - Lovecraft wasn't that formulaic, there's no requirement the main character dies or goes insane.

I know that bloodborne is a lowball answer but its still the best answer because of how the horrors are all hiding in plain sight and that if you try too hard to comprehend them (insight) you can lose your fucking mind. Most other uses of lovecraft themes are just fucking normalfag memers "haha dude cthulu lmao". Normalfags are getting scared to meme lovecraft anymore cuz he was racist though.

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Well that's interesting, someone just released this ZX Spectrum game like last year. I always wondered how this would go as a premise for a game.

I'm still bummed that insight never played a more significant roll in how the game plays out. I was hoping that the amount of insight you had would determine what ending you would get, but nope.

Shit, I can't grammar today. *role

You can have 2 protagonists playing simultaneously and dealing with the whole situation in different ways while also being affected by it in different ways, you could have it as one dying for the sake of the other while the other keeping the secret forever because he can reveal it, and being accused of murder or something like The Statement of Randolph Carter or From Beyond 2 of my favorite ones along the temple and the transition of Juan Romero.
Or they can go the way Silent Hill goes with a protagonist just going through things he can't understand with other characters that are a reflection of it's psyche or outsiders that torment him.

Shit, Yume Nikki is something funny.
Pretty neat that there never was an explanation for anything at all.

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Also, I found this site with a pixel shit game that looks interesting. Seems to be a simple point and click, if not a blatant walking simulator. Sadly, the links are down. ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=25043

There have been some unofficial indie games but I've not heard of any of them are good or shit.

The newest Lovecraftian horror game that is coming out is Call of Cthulhu and there are some rumors that it's the same folks that where behind the other Call of Cthulhu game on xbawx and PC.
From the trailer it looks cool but who knows how it will turn out.

Where's my Dreamcycle CRPG? Having to roam in tormented day trying to find drugs and long forgetton relics to stay in the land of slumber. Exploring the seas as captain of the white ship, escaping certain doom because you just happened to invest enoug points in language(cat), having Nyarlathotep show up with a bunch of ordinary black guys playing trumpets as his entarouge, eventually realizing a universal truth that you are but one of the many and possessing an alien body and returning to earth because you forgot how to change form at will. Tons of cool one offs and events that could be done with the dream saga shit.

That looks like a reference to Rubber Johnny.

You run around an invisible level until you either progress or die of starvation?

If true it's going to be shit. Dark Corners of the Earth had some good moments but any game that has you firing a cannon at Dagon must be considered an absolute failure as a "Lovecraftian" work.

Devs are confirmed hardcore sjws last time I heard, I wouldn't get my hopes up

Yea and the Mi-Go drown in flash floods and another either gets mauled by dogs or gets shot, I forgot which was which.

But those are actually humans injected with the blood of Great Old Ones by a mad scientist attempting to ascend to godhood using the same technique

Lovecraftian horror can be depicted and still work. The core element of eldritch horror is how everything just doesn't make sense and literally everyone but the person experiencing it (the reader/main character/player) just sees it as something normal.
Eternal Darkness is a good example, the story is nothing new but the way it fucks with the player is what makes it unique. The player himself ends up being a character in this story of meta-spooks through fourth wall breaking, which is exactly what makes it eldritch horror; because the player and the character are supposed to not be the same entity, as in the player is supposed not to be directly affected by the game other than through the character, when the game starts doing shit like apparently fucking with your TV settings and deleting your saves the player becomes a character and experiences the upsetting emotions that form the game, which design-wise makes absolutely no sense.

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Bullshit. Quoting the short story,

That's it until the monster shows up and it's the most goofy shit imaginable and with retarded AI so you can neuter it with a bunch of boxes on a door

Is that the one with the brain in a jar where the guy keeps getting an increasing number of guard dogs?

Yeah, your point? The guy rammed the boat, Cthulhu's head sunk in, before going back to place and going about its business.

Have you even read what you're talking about? This is the last paragraph -

The boat rammed an awakening Cthulhu and drove it back to sleep. They literally knocked out Cthulhu. How are you that bad at this.