I'm in the mood for some lovecraftian horror influenced games like these, anyone got some games with a really oppressive atmosphere?
bump :3
Penumbra was more Lovecraftian than Amnesia was. Have you tried it?
>>289402387
I played the first one and heard the others were really shit, but I guess I could give em a try
>Bloodborne
Seriously? I guess I have to get a PS4 sooner than I thought.
>>289401359
Scratches.
Made by euro devs, a pain in the ass to buy I think, and I think there is only one torrent out there on some russian forum, might be seedless now though.
Game's great and very lovecraftian, I think it even has some direct references to it.
sunless sea
Sunless Sea has a similar thing going on, but it's still basically a beta (not enough content yet)
>>289402771
Yeah, the atmosphere and story is really great
>>289402771
Bloodborne isn't lovecraftian as much as the other two. Sure, it has a dark post industrial style, but beyond the visual mood, it's way too action based and violent to be a proper lovecraftian representation.
>>289402640
I enjoyed Penumbra more than Amnesia.
>>289401359
what's lovecraftian about bloodborne?
>>289401359
Sunless Sea for Lovecraftian
They Bleed Pixels for more Lovecraft.
Victoria 2 for Grand Strat Lovecraft.
Dominions 4 for when you graduate from baby-tier Lovecraft and go full Elderlitch.
>formless ones on the battlefield trampling over troops of Ulm
>>289403149
Starts as Shadow Over Innsmouth, then goes into Rats in the Walls and the endgame is The Dunwich Horror + Colour out of Space.
It's really good if you're into Lovecraft.
>>289403149
I'd say all the cosmic themes, maddening stuff and humans seeking out old evil shit to become smarter and succumbing to madness instead, great ones and such
also imagined yharnam to be a lot like the village in The Outsider and other stories like that, also a lot of the bosses are clearly lovecraftian inspired
Might be a bit too actiony to be horror but the themes and atmosphere are still there
Eternal Darkness.
>>289401359
>anything in a victorian setting or has tenticles is automatically lovecraftian
die
>>289401359
The Last Door, brahski.
>>289401359
Bloodborne doesn't feel Lovecraftian at all, the influence is obvious tho.
>>289404410
>Bloodborne doesn't feel Lovecraftian at all
>the influence is obvious tho.
>>289402640
you heard wrong. second one is best one. third does suck though.
>>289404786
Same applies to metroid prime.
>>289404786
are you stupid?
>>289403070
All the people going mad and be hideously configured in to non human shapes, mentions of old gods and one possibly sleeping under a lake and underground ruins inhabited by foul creatures isn't Lovecraft enough for you?
>>289404786
have you ever played any lovecraftian game? do you even know what lovecraftian is?
>>289403839
Is it available on PC even? Or is it just for gamecube?
>>289405717
The devs put a lot of love into it?
>>289402771
The plot for the first third of the game is Shadow Over Innsmouth, then you get Dunwich Horror, Haunter in the Dark, Whisper in the Dark, Rats in the Walls and several other stories getting put in there. For fuck's sake Miskatonic University is a small level.
>>289403634
wow, somebody actually read lovecraft in this thread. totally not expected
>>289407417CoC sucks.
>>289407018
Underrated post.
>>289403961
>mysterious horrors coming from the veil of space and time isn't lovecraft
>>289403961
>a town full of hostile locals who are half monster from bloodmixing with aliens isn't Lovecraft
Lol.
Innsmouth no yakata
>>289407295
Been a while since I read Rats in the Walls, isn't that the one with the abandoned castle that has some portal to hell in the basement? How doest hat relate to any bloodborne level?
>>289405647
He said it's too focused on action to be a PROPER Lovecraft representation, meaning that while it is Lovecraftian is still a bit too video-gamey, there is nothing wrong with that, it merely shows the game wants to cater to a wider audience, and it seems they succeeded considering your level of comprehension.
>>289408459
>>289408175
>he thinks they're still aliens
someone hasn't gotten to NG++
>>289408782
You combined Rats with Red Hook in your head. Hidden underground city in Rats.
>>289408965
>CELESTIAL EMISSARY
>the sky and the cosmos are one
Bitch, please.
>>289407674
it was too short, but i agree. my favourites areAt the Mountains of Madnessandthe one about the underground city, i can't remember it's name
>>289407417
>being this naive in 1994+21 /v/
He just googled HP lovecraft after playing bloodborne and paired the generic settings of the different stories slapping them on the various phases of the game, a bit like miyazaki did, you fucking fags know nothing of lovecraft, you are just secondaries jumping on the bandwagon pretending to be fans when you are just cancerous souls babbies wanting to fit in with LE EBIN LE CHTULU LE TENTACLES XDD MAY MAYS, fucking kill yourselves.
>>289401359
>>289409220
Rats in the Walls, as I just said to another anon.
>>289409286
I haven't seen mad like this in a long time
>Any game where you are able to fight back to any meaningful degree and your actions matter by changing the outcome of the story
>Lovecraftian
>>289409467
no, not that one. the one with underground alien city, with living aliens
I guess Grim Dawn kinda counts?
>>289409642
Yeah, Lovecraft never wrote about a human fighting one of his abominations, not once. He totally didn't describe some dude stopping Cthulhu from rising by sailing a goddamn boat into his head, no sir.
>>289401359
Does They Bleed Pixels count?
>>289408965
The outsiders that opposed the cult of cthulu were not technically aliens either, but extradimensional beings that claimed divine status in the eyes of humans
>>289409660
>>289409467
oh, yeah, it was The Mound. He wrote it as a ghostwriter, that's why i couldn't find it in his bibliography
Darkest Dungeon has some light Lovecraft touches, but it is ultimately too hopeful to be considered cosmic horror.
>These nightmarish creatures CAN be felled, they CAN be beaten!
>hasn't played eternal darkness
Demons Souls literally has Cthulhu monsters
>>289408965
>tfw the game got easier on the NG++ levels
I guess I'll just wait for DMC4: SE then.. ;_;
>>289409759
>Thinking that is what stopped the awakening
>>289409965
>;_;
get hit by a truck and die scum
Nightmare Creatures on PS2 was as Lovecraftian as you can get. And if you can find a copy and dont mind the bugs, so is Hellgate London
>>289409220
The Colour Out Of Space and The Music of Erich Zann are pretty GOAT too, and I could totally see Erich Zanns story being played out somewhere in the Bloodborne world
>>289409878
>nolan
>face of genius
Bloodborne is better described as Victorian horror.
>>289409890
You mean the prison guards? Those were more based on D&D mindflayers than anything.
...Which are based on Cthulhu, so a secondary influence, I guess.
Tower of Latria definitely has that Lovecraftian vibe, though. Alien, oppressive, hopeless atmosphere and all that.
>>289409759
It has been awhile since I've read it, but the one who awoke Cthulhu merely ran away (by boat) and didn't kill him. Maybe I just don't remember correctly.
Reminder that the best Lovecraftian movie wasnt even based on Lovecraft mythos
>>289402640
>>289404965
This. Black Plague is the best one. Requiem is just some weird puzzles, I didn't like it either.
>>289409286
well aren't you just a special little snowflake
>>289410102
haven't read the music of erich zann, but i didn't like the coos because the whole story is based on a concept physically impossible, so i couldn't immerse myself.
>>289410275
Cthulhu started chasing the survivors out at sea, so they rammed him. It took him down long enough for them to escape, but they mention he was already visibly regenerating as they sped off, IRC.
>>289410190
>implying nolan isn't the single best creative mind working today
pleb
>>289407295
Oh great, now I'm actually tempted to buy a PS4
Reminder to watch In the Mouth of Madness by John Carpenter.
>>289410060
Then what did? Was Cthulhu just rolling over and whining "Just let me sleep for another millennium"?
>>289410275
"There was a mighty eddying and foaming in the noisome brine, and as the steam mounted higher and higher the brave Norwegian drove his vessel head on against the pursuing jelly which rose above the unclean froth like the stern of a daemon galleon. The awful squidhead
with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bowsprit of the sturdy yacht, but Johansen drove on relentlessly. There was a bursting as of an exploding bladder, a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish, a stench as of a thousand opened graves, and a sound that the chronicler could not put on paper. For an instant the ship was befouled by an acrid and blinding green
cloud, and then there was only a venomous seething astern"
>>289409642
It's funny because you're the one who actually has superficial knowledge of lovecraft :^).
>>289409286
You're just like those goth kids from South Park! I had to google that btw because I'm a poser who doesn't even watch it.
>>289410560
drawing similarities to lovecraft doesn't neccesarily man they are done well, or even in a way that can be considered interesting.
Bloodborne's visual design is pretty great for these bosses, but the game relies on a lot of horror cliches like tentacles and spiders, rather than actual weirdness, although it's still a semi-respectable effort.
I think that even in a game considered worse, demon of song still represents something more odd.
>>289410060
It did, reread the story
There is a greenlit game out there called "That Which Sleeps." Looks damn good. But it ain't out yet, I don't think. Maybe early access will start someday soon, since it seems they have a playable build together?
>>289410814
Stop talking as if you've played it because you clearly haven't.
The Secret World if you want MMO
>>289410330
fuck that movie was so good.
I need to watch it again
>>289411003
stop shilling your indie shit mr. developer
>>289409286
feels good knowing I will never be THIS MAD on an anonymous mongolian cartoon imageboard
>>289411003
Just googled it. A game where you play as an Ancient One actually sounds cool.
But it's also Kickstarter and Greenlight, so we'll see.
>>289410760
>>289410330
I love you guys so much.
>>289401359
>Bloodborne
>Lovecraftian
No.
>>289402889
>>289402986
Hivemind
>>289411259
>it's popular
>no
ftfy
>>289406668
I think it's possible to emulate it
>>289410783
Go ahead then. Name a single lovecraft story where the protagonist actually succeeds in turning the events unfolding around him for the better or even emerges from the experience unscathed.
Hint:Momentarily hindering something does not count as success.
>>289401359
ironically, the one who is literally lovecraftian game is the shittiest
call of cthulu was a mess...
a REAL lovecraft game when?
>>289411059
What?
Because I hold the opinion that this game doesn't really hold as much great "lovecraft" themes as people are making it out to?
>>289401359
Echo Night
by Fromsoft
>>289411410
Dunwich Horror
>tfw you will never play a dream cycle rpg
Also I quite enjoyed the work of this guy
http://mockman.com/category/comics-and-art/the-white-ship/
>>289401359
Infra Arcana
>>289411579
>From the developers of King's Field
I need to finish King's Field and the sequels.
>>289402838
I thought Scratches was Argentinian? Still good though
>>289407018
Anon that's just great. I love you.
>it is Lovecraft
>no it isn't
>yes it is
>no it isn't
OK. Someone define Lovecraft work for me.
>>289410558
Plebian
>>289411617
>Poo of Night
>Just a giant ocean of shit
>>289411493
I always found homage to be better than the real thing.
Dead Space was a pretty good "Alien" game and Demon's Souls a good "Berserk" game in that kind of sense.Although that PS2 Berserk game lloks fucking sick ;_;
>>289411604
I'll give you that one.
>>289411254
I fucking love how the movie has like 3 perfectly good opportunities to end but it just keeps going and getting better.
>>289407018
>>289408008
i dont get it
>>289410330
I watched it for the first time one night all alone at the age of fourteen.
Shit myself. Damn good movie.
>>289411941
Literally genius, in director, in film.
Shadow Tower
Shadow Tower: Abyss
>>289401359
>mfw you get blood to be a "werewolf" but you can only turn your hand into a werewolf claw instead of going full furry on an invader
AYY-team does it again
>>289411980
Speaking of Dead Space, it goes full cosmic horror at the end of the DS3 DLC.
At the moment, the canon ending to the series is Earth getting eating by the moons, and there was fuckall the protags could do about it.
Bloodborne felt too locked in a fantasy world to feel lovecraftian to me.
I can't help but feel more attuned to that style when there is a little bit of reality embedded in the game.
>>289401359
Saya no Uta
>>289411941
There needs to be a Uwe Boll tier below shit tier.
>>289401359
>games
All I see is one game and two walking smulators.
>>289411941
>Fantastic Tier
>David Lynch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg3F0zGyC6U
reminder that the best lovecraft movie is on youtube in full
>>289411941
move nolan and cameron higher
>>289411941
This is a really well made troll chart.
>>289412228
How is Shadow Tower? Is it hard to get into? I just want to know before I buy
>>289412614
Ah, so you never played Call of Cthulhu, did you?
>>289411941
>based Peckinpah in Fantastic tier
I'm cool with this
>>289411941
>John Carpenter and Romero that low
Shit list friend
>>289409220
I love the Colour Out of Space and the Rats in the Wall, as well as the sillier stuff like Cold Air and Herbert West: Reanimator.
>>289412472
then please play Echo Night by Fromsoft. It take place in "present times". Really enjoyed it.
>>289411941
>Kubrick on "Great"
>below Hitchcock, Lynch, Tarkovsky
How to spot pretentiousness: the list
If I wanted to try some Lovecraft books, where should I start?
>>289412963
just read all the cthulhu mythos in chronological order
>>289411410
Randolph Carter completed his dream-quest by overcoming several traps set by an otherworldly foe named Nyarlathotep and no harm befell upon him.
In fact, it could be argued that the only negative effects many of the main characters occur during Lovecraft's Dream Cycle are humanly ones, like homesickness, jealousy, or curiosity. Although there is also a great deal of madness and destruction in other stories in the Cycle, of course.
>>289401359
Have you tried Justine? If you haven't, I highly recommend you play it right now. In some ways it's better than Amnesia, only incredibly short. I tried the first Penumbra, but I was seriously frustrated by the controls. The recommendations here kind of make me want to try it again.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, though I don't think it's creepy enough. Also, Among the Sleep. Not exactly Lovecraftian, but it's definitely...unique. Try it for sure.
Also, Alan Wake if you don't mind shootan. Serena (free on Steam) is an interesting puzzle solver deal. You might like it. Lone Survivor, 2D pixel surviving. It has far more in common with Silent Hill, but the atmosphere is definitely oppressive. Sanitarium, old school adventure game, has some seriously bizarre atmosphere, but wouldn't really call it Lovecraftian.
My favorite LC's short story is The Thing on the Doorstep.
>>289411941
>David Lynch
>Fantastic
Do you get high off your own farts m8?
He's fucking trash
>Mullholland Drive
>LOOK AT HOW AMBIGUOUS MY FILM IS
>Never comments on what the film is about
>People form major philisophical interpretations of it
>few years later
>YEP, LEL, I TOTALLY MEANT THAT.
>>289402889
>>289402986
Except Sunless Sea is shit.
It's great for the first playthrough, but then you die.
And then you redo the same content.
And then you die.
And then you get the fucking point.
If I had savescummed my first playthrough, I probably would have liked it more.
It has some cool shit though, my favorite part is the sun machine in the bottom left, never thought someone could make the sun that spooky
>>289412823
you can emulate the fan-translated PS2 game from theisozone or play the PS1 game first on the emulator if you really wanna buy either. Although I don't see why you'd buy them.
Technically ST games are very similar to King's Field but with guns and more survival horror elements and with more weird alien encounters and caves etc, etc.
>>289402986
You should also add that the game is just a giant mess of lua triggers and flags. Easy to modify though so you should modify your save and just enjoy the story because its worth it (steal a lot from lovecraft and pratchett work) otherwise its grind and muh rougelike.
Also there's enough content for at least 8 hours of gameplay and that's without grind so don't worry about it.Just don't buy it
>>289413149
2Deep4U
>>289409759
Or how about Dunwich Horror where a bunch of scientists and some pissed dogs stop an old god from entering our reality.
Quake.
>>289413149
And don't forget fucking Dune
Blue Velvet is also awful YES I KNOW ITS THE TITLE OF THE MOVIE CAN WE STOP PLAYING THE DAMN SONG OVER AND OVER PLEASE
>>289411941
I wish you'd drop Godard into shit tier. that's the only place that faggot deserves.
Also, lift up Lynch and Hitchcock one tier each.
>>289413149
thats okay kid, you'll understand when you're over 18
>>289413169
I guess you would
>>289413210
>>289413326
Dune was destroyed because of the studio ripping it apart, not Lynch.
>>289412963
Shadows over Innsmouth
he actually didn't write too much. they only recovered a few pieces from letters, etc.
I think if he'd live today, he'd totally post on /pol/, based as he was.
>>289410078
why ;_;
>>289401359
Not exactly lovecraftian, but Pathologic has an extremely oppressive atmosphere.
>>289413702
How is this the case?
>>289413391
>>289413243
>>289403149
He means eldritch. Plebs don't know the difference.
>>289414001
Lynch originally was working a variation of Jodorowsky's script. The movie was supposed to be much longer. Then the studios wanted it to be dumbed down, cut a bunch of scenes, and added a few without Lynch's input. He had his name struck from the credits because he hated how it turned out.
Deadly Premonitions felt lovecraft like, from what i could stand of it.
>>289402838
It was made by Argentinians.
>>289411410
Easy. The curious case of Charles Dexter Ward.
>>289414209
Didn't Dino de Laurentiis mess with a lot of it?
>>289412963
Buy the Necromonicon and just start reading the stories that has the most interesting titles, that's what I did
>>289414251
Funny thing is most of what Lovecraft himself actually wrote didnt involve bad endings with everyone dying or going mad. It was mostly later writers who interpreted his works and added to them that added that little niche
Would Lovecraft waifu Nyaruko?
>>289414209
I still think it would not have been a great movie regardless.
Jorodowsky did not have a clue what Dune was about either. And I don't think having more footage would have made Lynch's better.
Heart plugs, cat milking, bald bene gesserit, stupid gross baron, an adult playing a kid in the first half of the movie, rain of Arrakis.
I am not saying a Dune movie should be strictly like the book, that would be impossible. Lynch stuck too much to it in some aspect and shouldn't have strayed in others
Thief 1
>>289411086
You mean an anonymous traditional mongolian sculpture board?
>>289412963
Just pick up any of the collections of his stories and get reading, none of them are particularly long so it doesn't matter too much where you start.
>>289413736
>I think if he'd live today, he'd totally post on /pol/, based as he was.
His views were largely consistent for the time period, but he'd definitely lurk 4chan if he were around today.
>>289414561
I've read a lot of his stories. Not all of them end with the narrator/protagonist in a bad situation, but a lot of them do. The one I mentioned is a pretty rare example where everything actually works out, if you don't take some ancient being coming back to life. But it didn't really appear malevolent, so whatever?
The Secret World is an excellent setting and story wasted on a mediocre MMO.
At least it doesn't have a monthly fee.
>>289401359
The only truly lovecraftian game is the third one.
Here is a Soviet Russia themed game instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncOI-7Y2qUw
>>289401359
>m-muh lovecraft
Fuck off.
>>289405717
>have you ever played any lovecraftian game?
Have you ever read any of his stories?
>>289412887
Classicism is cancerous, period.
>>289410760
watching it now. Thanks, anon.
Vanishing of Ethan Carter
>>289402771
All Souls games have "lovecraftian" influences, Bloodborne just leans more heavily on that.A friend of mine suggests that Bloodborne is DeS after the good ending, The Old One is put to slumber, the Soul Arts disappear and other entities seek to fill its vacuum.
The Miskatonic is being made, anything else has been posted above.
>>289413169
Spoil that shit you fuck.
I was wondering where that shit was
>>289413928
While there's no arguing that the engine and some of the mechanics have aged like milk, I really do think that if the first day wasn't such a fucking grind of fetching and exposition a lot more people would play/finish Pathologic.
>>289413204
Gotcha. The first ST just came out on PSN for like 5 bucks, but just wanted some insight into it. I'll emulate the first and then I'll buy if I like the first hour or so.
Thanks, brah.
>>289414673
There are people who wouldn't?I normally fucking despise haremshit, but Nyaruko somehow manages to be enjoyable to a degree. Is there going to be another season?
>playing video games instead of reading books or exploring old buildings while doing acid or going to africa dressed as a giant chicken leg or by having babies with an albino gorilla
Why was Cthulu the thing that become popular for Lovecraft? What about Cthulu has this mass appeal? I like the idea of a colour that we can't comprehend more than anything.
>>289401359
>>289401359
Demonbane
