Do you think an abandoned mall would be a good setting for a horror game? What about an abandoned mallplanet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xMWvzDLl5c
>>333007493
Yes. Give me more of these pics.
>>333008285
>I don't know what abandoned means
Why am I not surprised...
>>333008881
>a·ban·doned
əˈband(ə)nd
adjective
1.
having been deserted
HURRR DURRRRR.
>>333008668
Nevermind, I remembered to use reverse image search. Great idea, though, especially if parts of it took place in the daytime so there would be light/dark contrast between the stores and hallways.
>>333008881
it is abandoned dumbass, it's no longer functioning as a mall.
Just because it still has electricity and isn't dilapidated doesn't mean it isn't abandoned.
If you were to leave your car in a field and walk away it's abandoned, it doesn't only become abandoned after some arbitrary period of time
>>333007493
Me on the right
Silent Hill 3 has a "mall level"
Pretty spooky
>>333007493
OH GOD YES
What was the name of this game idea?
>>333009474
It's only abandoned if you don't come back for the car.
Learn a bit about connotation
What would the story be? Generic "walk around from jump scare to jump scare listening to logs"?
>>333009149
It might even be creepier for the mall to be empty but not dilapidated. Like when you go to one right at opening time in the early morning.
>>333009724
nobody came back for the mall in dead rising, it was firebombed.
You're still wrong.
>>333009885
Destroyed=/=Abandoned
>>333009873
It could work out.
Like when you walk through an empty place that's usually full of people, it's really unsettling.
>>333007493
Condemned had a good spooky mall. That game wasn't really that scary though. Too aggressive and cliche for the most part. Decent game overall though.
>>333007493
Dead Center
How exactly does a mall get abandoned? I can't imagine all the stores within just suddenly closing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEN498DRDpY
>>333010047
they're not mutually exclusive terms retard.
>>333010693
That's what happens, then they are usually left abandoned for a couple of years until someone is willing to buy the land and demolish it.
>>333010693
eveyone in the town dies, maybe due to infection.
Kinda like, I dunno..DEAD RISING.
>>333010764
Why the fuck was the door open?
>>333010764
>music still playing
>>333010693
Rent is too high for the amount of actual profit generated by the stores. Big box stores and Amazon have killed many, many malls. I own a small vidya store that specializes in refurbishing old systems (like, the NES, SNES, etc) and repairing/reselling the things and games for the same. I make usually about 3000-4000 a month, and the storefront is the first floor of my row-house, so the rent is effectively my Mortgage, which is about 800 a month.
For a store front the same size in the dying mall about 2 miles from me, it would be 2500 dollars.
That's why they die, they are too expensive to support the businesses that they try to attract. The only ones that survive are places that are right on top of things like Air Ports; their exsistence depending on tourist traffic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zov7PEXdVZk&list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx7dwchPJGJ3IQ&index=12
There's a whole video series about this
>>333010764
why the fuck would they leave the power on
>>333010693
A different mall crops up somewhere else that people like more
Happened a few times in my city, poor regency mall
![173857faddc443a0acd352c9eed4a687[2].gif](https://i.imgur.com/0YnfT4a.gif "173857faddc443a0acd352c9eed4a687[2].gif")
>>333010764
>4:24
>>333011128
Couldn't you operate out of ebay why would you need a store to repair consoles and sell second-hand games?
>>333010764
>4:25
fucking creepy dude
If I had any work ethic at all I'd finish the horror game I started that was about a spooky mallwhich would be scarier to hide from, Ayyys, Cult followers, or Dover Demons?
>>333011168
Seriously this.
Who the fuck is paying for the electricity? Are they just getting it for free?
Why can't I find abandoned shit in Florida? I just want to go stalkan some time.
>>333011158
>7 cops to escort 1 guy out of an abandoned mall
What do you think would be some good mechanics for a spooky game based around an abandoned mall?
I really like the abandoned mall planet idea, that your character crash landed there and has to survive for a certain amount of time before help comes and progressively spookier shit keeps happening. I remember there was a thread on here about that idea years ago and people had some great ideas. Shame no one's ever implemented it.
>>333011390
Because people bring the things to me to sell after they go around to yard sales and good wills and the like, and I do sell stuff out of the store as well, and people bring me their shit to fix. I do sell a bunch of ebay though, yes.
>>333011523
>Florida
Don't go anywhere that seem sketchy unless you want to die.
this is why i love gmod, all those maps, all those empty maps that you can just autistically walk around and explore
>>333011494
There's a fusion core in the basement.
>>333011494
Probably no one has bothered to shut it off yet. I know some houses that have been abandoned for years still gets water and power, attracts all kinds of vagrants and shit.
>>333011565
>not realizing the cops are making sure they don't find the demons locked inside
>>333011565
>>333011709
we /x/ now
>>333011615
What would a sketchy abandoned-looking place look like? Not so abandoned?
>>333011612
>Because people bring the things to me to sell after they go around to yard sales and good wills and the like
Idiots, why not sell them on ebay and cut you out?
How long you been going and how long did it take for you to become profitable?
I'd like to do something like that.
Are there any ghost towns that aren't quarantined by the military? I want to explore a ghost town (including trespassing into abandoned houses) without getting shot or poisoned by an infinitely burning salt mine.
Okay so game idea.
You go to an abandoned mall to play some airsoft or paintball with some friends. You discover that the mall has inhabitants. Are they monsters? Ghosts? Hobos? Either way, they're fucking your shit up and you gotta find your douchebag friends.
Co-op included, but players start the game separated from each other.
If it's monsters and ghosts in the mall than crank up the mystic shit to 11 and have it so if you try to leave, like by opening a door, it just opens to the other side of the mall. You can peer outside the windows and things look normal, but the doors don't work yo.
>>333011595
You never see an enemy or another human beingKey at least being "see"
When you come back to an area things should be moved around. Because anonymess is scary.
>>333011868
There's nothing like that in Florida. Literally everything is private property. You will be shot or arrested. Anything that looks abandoned will be a meth house so you'll get shot there too.
>>333011912
Japan has some really fucking creepy places. Even villages and theme parks.
>>333011912
There are some places in Detroit like that. Entire neighborhoods foreclosed. Also Pripyat.
>>333011168
maybe some bums found the power controls and switched them on
the owner wouldn't be bothering to check on the site now and then
Literally every mall will be abandoned in the next few years due to the internet and big box stores. They will be a relic of the past like drive in theaters.
>>333007493
If I ever entered any of these places I'd be carrying some type of firearm. You never know who the fuck might be in there.
>>333011893
Been doing it about 5 years, took me 2 to get profitable. Ebay can be a pain in the ass to work with, and many people find it just easier to basically pawn the stuff, especially if it is broken.
No. Because theres too much empty space.
>>333012105
>>333011912
There are plenty of abandoned theme parks in the US too. I don't think they stay abandoned for very long. There's one close to me I've been wanting to check out. Also, you could probably go to regular theme parks in the off season but there might be security.
>>333011912
In the West there are a lot of boom and bust towns that have been abandoned. Lots of mines to explore too, if you are brave enough.
>>333011595
Probably Silent Hill set up, sibling/daughter/brother runs off into the mall, have to look around the spooky mall to find them.
>>333007493
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PywyZcclc28
>>333007493
>Capcom tried this first
>a mall with nothing but shit to use to wreck zombies
>make every weapon weak or terrible or too messed up to use
>escort missions coming out the ass
No, a mall is a terrible idea, even the king of the genre couldn't get that shit right.
What grit sandpaper should I use to sand down surface rust on a motorcycle frame? Get all the rust off it, spray primer, spray top coat?
>>333007493
Abandoned mallplanetsounds like an awesome idea. Something straight out of 60s fiction. If I had any talent or motivation I'd make awalking simulatorabout it.
>>333011039
dunno man, there are scene transitions and the music keeps going, don't think it's ever broken up.
it's spliced in to add some spookiness.
>>333011595
If you've ever played a game called Eire, I always wanted a game like that in a mall. Letting the player use spray paint to mark their path was a great idea and the monster was surprisingly spooky, except it had a horrible killing animation. I wouldn't want anything scripted, just the monster roaming. My plan was to base the monster's aggressiveness on how much time you were taking to progress, and the amount of noise you were making. Taking it slow would make the monster react slower, spending time stalking and watching, while rushing would cause the monster to attack on sight.
>>333011912
Nevada is what you're looking for. Huge amount of government land that is impossible to actually patrol. And there just so happen to be many ghost/boom towns on said unmonitored government land.
Be warned, the desert is cruel, and you never know what's out there.But I wouldn't worry about it :^)
>>333012295
damn, guess i'll stick with the dayjob.
>>333012501
>walking simulator
Just make maps for whatever game of choice to walk around. You don't have to balance for gameplay just walk around instead.
>>333008285
>full of zombies
yeah so scary xD
stop posting
>>333012623
it's just music, calm down
>>333012623
>full of literally nothing
yeah so scary xD
http://strawpoll.me/2639655/r
Brings me back to all the times /v/ made video game idea threads.
>>333012791
>i need ooga booga monsters everywhere to be scared
please never develop a horror game, you either >>333012683
>>333011912
China has massive cities that are just empty because they don't have anyone to live in them.
>>333012791
watch >>333010764 if you havent already
wasting a perfect location like this on zombies would be worse then no enemies at all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNkbMhCbFMk
>>333011158
>LONG LIVE ISRAEL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycWxCT6PSL8
>>333007493
>>333009149
These are from Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio. I grew up going to this mall. Had a fucking sweet arcade called "Aladdin's Castle"
>>333011565
they know what was inside. They needn't to contain it.they weren't even cops.
An abandoned airport is fine too
What the hell do you call it when there's an unnerving ambient but you can't actually see who your "enemies" are? Like that Signs movie, before they actually show the aliens and you end up feeling like the movie isn't as scary anymore.
>>333013409
Walking Simulator.
>>333011443
>Dover Demons
Play Condemned: Criminal Origins, you'll get a few ideas
>>333013409
Story of my life.
>>333013374
Abandoned anything. That's kind of the core concept of innawoods.
I'd kill for a mall map in Rainbow Six Siege. Shit's basically a horror game itself.
>>333013089
Getting some real Hotel California vibes
>>333013591
>siege
Or you could play a good game.
>>333013089
That's just fucking depressing.
>>333010776
fuck
>>333013342
I've been meaning to go there. I'm in Lorain County. How accessible is it? Is there security or hobos?
>>333013558
Except spoopy woods give off a very different vibe to a big, once populated building. Like all the people there just vanished for some reason.
>>333014007
>I've been meaning to go there
>>333011158
>>333011443
Has any game done dover demons?
We just had this thread on /pol/
>>333014016
I still consider urban exploring to be part of innawoods even if there's no trees.
What would you think of buying an abandoned mall and renovating it into an apartment complex?
>Only one person briefly mentioned Silent Hill 3
what the fuck lads, Silent Hill 3 has a huge, terrifying abandoned mall for the FIRST LEVEL
>>333013089
brutal
>>333009670
>>333014304
Do you know how much that would cost? And while I think it would be cool most people would prefer you just knock it down and build real condos.
>>333014304
I'd make it like an apocalypse theme park or a big airsoft/paintball arena.
Renting it out for cheap living could be cool though. It'd look like a post-apoc shantytown eventually. If you did it near a poor area and could actually pay for it, it might work. You'd probably end up losing more money than you'd make though.
>>333011443
I love me some cult shit done right.
>>333012462
>Implying the first Dead Rising isn't a 10/10
Fucking pleb.
>>333014471
>>333014517
I was imagining make it something hipsters and Vaporwave fags would eat up, just this pristine mall themed apartment. Have each store renovated into a suite, open the food court back up and the theatre, let the theatre be for rent and the owner can do as he pleases, show free movies to his friends or charge money whatever.
>>333013697
A game in an abandoned mall would be cool but I do feel like it needs some danger, walking sims are all well and good but they could lose their appeal quick.
What about something like, I don't know the story reason yet but say you got draged and trapped in an abandoned mall by a group of people, not to many but a good few, say...8 or something, and they've brought you here to hunt you, they are a group of serial killers and get off on hunting people down.
So the main gameplay would be stealth I suppose, trying to hide from these people, but they can also set up traps, some lethal, some not, or some that impede you in some way.
So, you could trip a wire that just sets off an alarm alerting them to your location, or maybe you step in a bear trap which slows you for a while and leaves a blood train till you bandage it.
Obviously the scares would be focused heavily on the mental side of things, so the hunters would have to have lots of dialog recorded so if you are hiding and they walk past you never hear repeats of what they say, and they should each have their own personalities and quirks and will split up into smaller teams or on their own, so you never know if its gonna be 1 guy or 3m or even all 8.
Their quirks can play into their killing techniques as well, for example say there was a "crazy docter" hunter, he would play stealthy like you, so he could get close and tranq you, if he does its not an instant death, you would wake up and be tied up at the pharmacy or something and would have a short time to rush, free yourself and leave before he cut you open.
But if you escape he won't be so willing to tranq you next time and might just kill you outright.
So yeah, something like that could be cool.
>>333014739
That... could work. Especially in Portland or something. Hipsters are idiots.
>>333009873
hahahha i live about 10 minutes from there, was about to post this pic actually
used to be called Irondequoit mall and was basically abandoned cuz of a bunch of shitty rumors circulating about it
like muggers who would hide under your car in the parking lot and then slash your ankles
used to be a great mall tho, 2 stories, huge cool fountain with a glass elevator overlooking it
lots of stores, like the one place i used to by all my pokemon cards
now a bunch of burst frozen pipes have ruined all the tile and theres pools of water everywhere
made for some interesting pictures tho
>>333013342
Tupelo, MS here. We had an "Aladdin's Castle" here at the Mall at Barnes Crossing, but now it's a
"Time Out".
oh man this was taken in what used to be the arcade, i remember exactly where it was.
forgot to mention it had a badass merry-go-round on the second floor right next to the food court that you can see from the highway thru the giant glass entrance
yea a game in an abandoned mall would be cool
>>333014874
>like muggers who would hide under your car in the parking lot and then slash your ankles
That's both hilarious and terrifying.
>>333014289
Depends how dilapidated the building is. If it's very dilapidated then it suggests it's been long abandoned and people/creatures have come and gone, to the point it's practically wilderness. If the building is in borderline pristine condition then the atmosphere is completely different.
>>333015370
I find it a lot creepier when it's pristine, it feels much more offputting and unnatural. The parts of the mall in SH3 where the lights all turned on and there was total silence and no monsters was practically scarier than monsters and darkness.
i loved the mall setting in silent hill 3 lit up bright orange by the setting sun, choice music as well
What are some game that feature non abandoned malls? Rainbow Six Vegas?
>>333010693
My mallhad a major supermarket.
That market shut its store (the supermarket had a whole floor of the mall)
Because they lost that business they had to raise the rent. Business couldnt affird it and moved.
It has 2 stores left now. Its gonna be abandones soon.
I find hospitals very similar to malls, or at least they could fill very similar gameplay rolls.
>ctrl+f "i remember that thread"
>no results
for fucking shame. mall planet thread had some great ideas.
>>333015643
What's that sliz?
>>333015586
I agree.
>>333010764
>Christmas decorations still out
creepy
>>333008881
>>333009149
>>333009474
>>333009724
>>333009885
>>333009114
abandoned means its haunted by ghosts retard
>>333015886
the mall's frozen blood
>>333015750
what the fuck is that
What if the abandoned mall was a giant alien space ship?
BLING BLONG
>>333009745
>story a top priority
>in video games
watch a fucking movie anon
>>333015894
There's a mall near my town that is practically abandoned, the last time I went was a few years ago and I seriously only saw one other customer there and half the stores are closed. Walking around the halls by myself seeing nothing but chained up lots was creepy as fuck, I never went back.
>>333015857
>>333015857
people have mentioned the game/thread, dingus
>>333014847
not a bad idea anon but I feel like the scares would wear off quickly after the first time or two you get caught
>>333016014
It's a door.
>>333007493
Isn't that a map from Doom?
>>333010764
It would be more scary with no power, and less silly music..
>>333015648
dead rising lol
>>333016072
What if the abandoned mall was aplanet
The mall doesn't need to be locked though.
It needs to let you go out, but then have procedural generated empty shit. Like you're actually fucking alone. For miles. With an empty ass fucking mall.
>>333016014
the containment chamber for the mall's obsidian obelisk core, has to be kept at a strict 204 degrees kelvin
>>333011128
>I own a small vidya store that specializes in refurbishing old systems
I don't know why, but that sounds comfy.
>>333010228
Silent Hill 3 did it, kinda. Freaked me out a whole lot.
I read a short story called "Eyes Exchange Bank" that has a really spoopy ending a mall/town in disrepair as well. Not 100% abandoned in the story, but enough so that it delivers the same kind of spoop as an abandoned place.
>>333010764
>That feel when men's warehouse, and H&M still have clothes, and the arcade still works, and you have free coins
Honestly that would be awesome to go with some friends, not alone though.
>>333015857
OP here, ctrl+f better nigger, that thread specifically was what I had in mind when I made this one. was hoping for similar results
>>333014582
>>333013504
>>333014149
Huh, didn't mean to post ayys, thought I changed that to Jersey devils. Either way glad to see some interest. I had three separate styles for each of them.
Dover Demons would be the most stealthy of them all, they would scuttle around and hide from the player until ready to strike. An idea I had for them is that they themselves are completely silent, no breathing or steps, and even if they touched something or bumped into something, it would still be quiet. To really see them, the player would flash their light, and you would see the reflection from their eyes.
Jersey Devils would be large and loud. They stomp around, huff when frustrated, and don't bother with avoiding things in their way. They also have glowing red eyes, so it'd be very hard to not notice one. However, they are fast and strong. While with other enemies you could potentially seal off an exit by locking the door, the Jersey Devil would smash on through.
The cult would rely on traps and numbers to catch you. They are the smartest of the three, but on their own the weakest. Unlike the other two, the cult knows you're attempting to escape. The other two will chase you, while the cult will wait for you. They leave out traps and bait the player with things like batteries, keys, food, health supplies, and weapons.
>>333010764
>Boscovs still open
how the fuck do you stay open when you are attached to a vandalized shithole?
>>333016243
It would be the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen...
no doubt by now the bitter acidic memories of a trillion berserker ghosts has rendered the aura and atmosphere of the place inhospitable and uninhabitable
surely would boil a man in seconds
>>333013089
My parents had a store in a mall that went bust due to lack of customers and this depresses the fuck out of me.
>>333010764
Had a place like this near my old workplace. Going in there for any reason would be like real life Condemned with how many mentally ill homeless folk were scattered around in there.
I always thought the scariest survival horror game would be locked in a consulate while muslims are breakin in to try to kill you and you gotta like barricade the doors and shit and use what you find
i had a dream about this and it was scary as fuck
first it was just dudes with bats and then we had to escape to the upper levels and barricade shit as they came in then it was ISIS guys comin in and holy fuck it was scary
I'd call it "Muslim:Isolation"
What about malls in the 80s?
>>333016431
I got goosebumps just imagining that, though I get goosebumps pretty easy when imagining creepy shit past midnight.
Sounds neat as fuck.
I think the player should have means to fight, but make them hard to pull off, weak weapon that aren't good against Jersey Devils, slow weapons bad at hitting Dover Demons, and the Cultists just have a numbers advantage over you.
Like let the player use a pipe wrench or something as a melee weapon.
>>333007493
>>333016873
it was 100x better than the
>/v/ makes a vault
threads
>>333016132
I didn't say every time you got caught you had to be captured, it would depend on the person that caught you.
The docter guy might catch you once(which you could still die from if you don't escape in time) but then outright kill you the second time he gets you.
The guy with the chainsaw might just run you down as soon as he sees you.
It would all depend on the character and how you've interacted before.
Like say, there was another guy who's first interaction with you is to capture you, like the docter, say in your first meeting you get away just by running without him capturing you, well then he might still try to capture you again the next time you meet.
But then lets say someone else played differently and in their first interaction with him they hit him with a pole or threw a brick at his head, THEN got away, well he would be angry and more likely to just kill you straight away.
So each hunter would do things differently, some might try to kill you straight away, some might want to capture you then kill you, some might try to capture you several times before giving up and just trying to outright kill you and some might want to inflict as much pain on you as possible first, like injure your legs so you can only hobble away before trying to kill you like a wounded animal.
Some would be better at tracking you then others, which is why if they are grouped together makes them deadlier besides just having more of a chance to kill you.
And I guess if there is gonna be an anger mechanic that should play into i for your gain as well right?
Like if they are in a blind rage chasing you it should fuck with them and make them more likely to fuck up.
Good trackers would have a harder time finding you, they would be more likely to run into their own traps shit like that.
>>333011158
>long live isreal
i think a cool idea would be the experiences of a janitor or groundskeeper who is the sole maintainer of an abandoned haunted mall who has over time learned and adapted to the various ghosts and their properties/habits
he documents everything he learns and knows what areas and ghosts to avoid
and theres probably one sealed off area he refuses to even write about deep in the epicenter of the place
im thinking something with the aura and ominousness of the hellish abyss from fatal frame 2
maybe you play as his successor
>>333016431
What about Mothman?
You need to have multifloor levels and open balconies to take advantage of the fact that they can fly.
>>333016814
id fuck those qts on the right desu
>>333010764
I'd totally squat there. Maybe break into the security office and take a uniform and then fuck about. Maybe do the same at clothing stores and fuck around with left over mannequins placing them in spoopy locations.
Too bad I don't live somewhere that's facing urban decay and a
>>333013360
Why contain it?
>>333017161
Shit dude are you alright?
>>333017243
hes died
>>333007493
>abandoned mall planet
Explain further.
>>333017161
Imagine all the cross dressing you could do with a fully stocked mall. Even a battery semi stocked store would still be a field day for dressing up.
>>333017161
>the mannequins got him
>>333017243
>>333017243
Kinda reminds me of Candlejack.
You know, how people would type his name then just sto
>>333016857
Glad to hear it. I plan on putting combat, which will mostly be melee based with one exception of a pipe gun which would only be obtainable by killing a cult member with one. The weapons the player begins with are usually pretty bad, like a nailed board or a PVC pipe spear. The cult would be the most combat focused while the Jersey devil would be the least. The cult would start with better weapons, though still of low quality, such as kitchen knifes, pipe guns, and tools like hammers and wrenches.
>>333017002
The Jersey Devil can fly somewhat, and the mothman never hunted or attacked, it was more of a symbol for upcoming tragedy
>>333017627
Candlejack was never funny.
>>333017627
lol xD rememebr candjack haha lol you say his name u gone hehehe teh candlejack
Yeah, fuck off with your shitty meme and go back to /b/, you fucki
i thought house of leaves was a pretty good horror story, sans all of the pretentious stuff.
i'd love to see that specific type of horror more often. that is, horror that is essentially just the product of rules of nature and laws of the universe that just haven't been discovered yet or are not fully understood
the metro games kinda did it in sense that its suggested that intense radiation could possibly fuse the soul of a person to a place, or some kind of quantum flux traps them in a parallel dimension
is there any other shit like that?
>>333015825
filename: snuff porn
Four words for you guys.
Abandoned
Escher
Mall
Megastructure
Whadaya think?
>>333017627
nice me
>>333017627
Back when it actually made sense because you just needed to hit post.
>candlejack grabs you
>but first select the four sandwiches
At least I use legacy captcha so I can get it done fas
>>333017835
>2011+5
>having a stroke because of a stale meme
>>333017945
reminds me of cube2: hypercube which coincidentally also ties into my post here >>333017938 as another good example of science horror
>>333014739
OH FUCK ME
god damn it I wish I had capital, I'd steal the shit out of your idea.
>>333013360The Mall is a SCP hiding in plain sight, those cops are actually MTF agents.
>>333017938
eh I always thought, in regard to house of leaves, that the navidson record would make a great short film/full length film/whatever. I could see it being a video game but yeah, wondered why no one explored it
>>333013591
How is it horror, I might buy it if it's any good
>working third shift alone at a gas station
>power outages have been happening in my town
>power at work flickered
>now this thread
This is too spooky guys.
>>333018090
Wasn't there a Cube fangame?
>>333017945
Do any games take place in Escherscapes?
>it's a click to verify once there are none left captcha episode
>>333018360
You better be carrying. I don't care if it's against company policy. I carry literally everywhere unless I plan on drinking.
>>333018382
Yeah I think it was a New Vegas mod.
>>333018382
dunno, if there is i hope its based on cube 2,
would be kind of like portal but with a theme of quantum horror looping infinitely
>>333018182
that sounds retarded
kill yourself
>>333012304
Just have most of the floors collapsed
>>333018382
There is a game I think on source called Half Dead.
Its basically Cube but with only like 4 different traps I think.
>>333017748
What kinda cultists would they be? I've always wanted a game with like eldritch cults and lovecraftian horrors.
>>333018469
It's a good neighborhood and my store is on the intersection of two main roads. It's also right next to the police station and cops get free drinks so they come in a lot on top of driving by a lot. There are also tons of alarm buttons and shit. I also have a knife. Can't carry a gun yet.
>>333007493
i'm sure slenderman has already ruined a few prime locations.
>>333010764
>dude is supposedly alone in the mall
>some door creaks open at 4:25
>>333018703
I'm very confused what Phantasy Star has to do with abandoned malls.
>>333018414
I'm making a game that features a tesseract mall you have to navigate. I originally planned on having it be mostly friendly and vaporwave-esque, but after this thread I realized I need some spooky abandoned sections.
>>333019195
In the early 1990s, in these malls' heydays, someone walked into one of them and bought Phantasy Star
>>333019331
Bullshit, that's just an urban legend.
>>333018632
I think the lovecraftian type of cult has been do e enough, what inspired me was a group of vegans that protested out of a deli I went too, made me think what if one of those green peace activists took it too far for mother Gaia. Cult activities would include keeping people captive, slicing parts of them open, then growing plants in the bodies while leaving them out to spread more. Imagine a body that had been dead for so long fungi was growing from the eye sockets.
>>333019910
>Dude what if there was a cannibalistic cult lmao
Original
>>333020029
Nothing about that was cannibalistic.
>>333007493
/tg/ had a huge thread about a horror game on an abandoned mall planet, it's on 1d4chan from 2009. Either way, it's a pretty neat idea in my book.
>>333020029
did you even read what I posted
>>333007493
I remember that thread, people saying the main enemy should be the AI that runs/used to run the mall, and there should be mannequins acting like those angel statues from Doctor Who. Absolutely terrifying.
>>333020029
>Dude being a confrontational asshole on 4chan lmao
Original
>>333012462
Shitting on Deadrising 1 is good for one (you). Spend it wisely
post the abandoned amusement parks in Japan getting reclaimed by the forests
>abandoned mall horror game
cool would play
>mall planet
am i missing something or is this idea fucking stupid? there's a planet somewhere where the entire surface is covered in one giant mall? or is it more like a floating space station? if you want an impossibly infinite mall just call it mall purgatory or something
>>333020359
That sort of happened in Shadowrun lore. Corporations built large megaplexes that contained everything one needed to live, from utilities, to living space, to stores, to offices and other work zones. One corp decides to leave the administration of such a place to an AI. AI goes rogue, shuts everyone in and prevents outside help. Slowly starts experimenting on everyone to find people who can become technomancers.
>>333012462
They key word in your post is zombies
>>333020584
Mall Purgatory
Tons of shitty stores and attractions with a few really interesting ones spotted here and there.
But you can't buy a single thing no matter how cool or how stupid it is.
>>333020618
Shit, thats great too, gonna take a look at Shadowrun, thanks.
>>333019910
Reminds me of the piggies from the latter Ender books. Fucking vivisections and having shit planted in your open chest cavity. Corpses laying in a greenhouse esque room, some still being kept alive with shit growing out of them. Fucked up senpai
>>333019910
When I was a young kid I was always afraid of getting attacked by mutant native Americans.
Because of that episode of the Simpsons where Mister Burns become a floating green alien at night because of radiation and other things like teenage mutant ninja turtles. And reading about how some people thought they burried nuclear waste under indian reserves.
>>333016078
story isn't the issue, hiring shitty writers who write shitty stories for vidya is an issue. Get that through your fucking skull already
>>333020691
and there are no toilets
>>333011443
Set every new file to shuffle through a random theme, some files have no enemies at all, some have only sounds, some have ghosts, demons, etc. Make every player experience something different for their first time.
>>333020698
Sadly, that section doesn't exist in videogame format, though I heard some guys were making it as a mod in SRR. It's alluded to in SR:HK.
>>333007493
>abandoned mall
you mean like in silent hill 3?
For a long time I had reoccurring dreams about living in a massive house, a really nice mansion, it was all a single floor and it was just an infinite sprawl. Doors and hallways and rooms all over stretching out forever.
I wasn't alone I'd run into other travelers too. I say travelers because we'd never settle down in a room, we moved through the house constantly like nomads, I don't know why we had to keep moving, we just did, and once we closed a door we would never go back through it, sometimes I'd join the other travelers and sometimes I'd be alone but we were all exploring this endless house.
The weird thing about this is that even though it was reoccurring off and on for a few years and had such a weird concept it never really made me feel afraid or unsettled it was just something we accepted.
I think it could make a neat horror game though.
>>333011975
This please, not knowing whats out there can be a lot more terrifying some times and would fit perfectly in a game centered around an abandoned mall feeling. If possible it'd be incredible with changing corridors that change right after you turn a corner or some such, like right after your first turn if you turned back to check the exit one last time and it was just a wall instead. Shit could be hecka spooky.
>>333021119
The problem with this is you cant create imminent danger with an enemy you cant see. Especially if the player realizes there is no physical enemy and they cant be forced to move.
>>333021101
Could be pretty great. For reasons you csnt be sure of, you just have an instinctive feeling that you must keep moving through the endless Mansion. There's no time limit imposed but you get audio and visual ques from the environment and other travelers thst you might be with that it's time to start moving.
Staying longer things start to get antsy with shit starting to happen. Nothing overtly spooky. Things start to not work, wierd audio, eventually ramping into shit outright dissappearING and shit.
Survivale mechanics with food and supply gathering. Occasionally running into other travelers who may be hostile or have lost their shit.
Needs to be some terrifying shit to go along with goING back into a room you left from.
>>333021101
That really is a great idea for a story.
>>333021980
>ING
this post is unnerving
>>333022134
The book House of Leaves is kinda like that.
>abandoned mall
>huge open spaces
>nothing left inside
Nope. There is a reason creepy places tend to be haunted houses and smaller areas.
>>333022369
i see it as combining the tense claustrophobic feeling of being in an abandoned building with the feeling being exposed and vulnerable from all sides. if there wasn't a ceiling it probably wouldn't be as scary
>>333021101
have you read house of leaves? I think you'd like it
>>333013089
I've got one of these near me. Used to be pretty lively when I was younger too. This makes me very sad.
>>333021714
Does a horror game really need imminent danger to be scary though? I mean sure danger can make it thrilling or startling and I guess that can be scary, but does it honestly need that?
>>333023110
>Does a horror game really need imminent danger to be scary though?
Danger ruins horror games imo. Teasing danger is what makes people truly scared.
>>333021714
What about hearing things like glass smashing or benches being thrown across the room when you're not in the area? That would be a clear indication that something aggressive is near and simultaneously keep the player from knowing what's in the building with them
>>333007493
im glad someone else has been on a dan bell kick
>>333023110
You at least need to convince the player that there is or may be danger.
Which would be pretty hard with the internet these days.
I can't see a horror game taking off without a possibility of a game over screen.
>>333010764
WE FALLOUT NOW
>>333023429
It has be something like that. There has to be a real sense of danger to work. Offscreen shit like that, things being thrown into your line of sight, things happening in the distance far enough to where you csnt really tell, or shit happening right behind you.
The Doctor Who statues are a fucking terrifying concept. Envionment manipulation and distorting the players sense of reality is great for an ever mounting sense of dread. The player has to be effected by whatever it is and eventually is going to have to get some sense of it
>>333023574
Simple. Mall starts out vaguely populated, and you go in looking for like, pizza or something
OBJECTIVE: FIND PIZZA
Then the further you go in, the more things deteriorate and fewer people appear and darker it gets till you freak out and turn around. Only what's behind you is no longer the same. And suddenly you hear slamming, mechanical screeching, low groans.
And then the lights behind you begin to flicker out
OBJECTIVE: ESCAPE
>>333011975
>exploring abandoned mall
>trash everywhere
>sometimes stores full of abandoned trashbags.
>keep exploring, someone hear shuffling among the larger trash piles, small bits of movement behind you that stops as soon as you turn around.
>start to notice trash bags in some places are stacked the same way. Realize it's been the same trashbags in every room.
>when you get close you hear the terrible screaming and moaning. Bags have the thin outline of humans, their mouths forever open in shock. They begin to slide against the ground in horrid spasms, crawling to get close to you. Slowly getting faster and faster.
We're all trash down here georgie.
>>333024346
Reminds of the end of metro 2033 book. There is a metro station full of "gunk" that swallows people and is implied to be a mass of people.
>>333007493
No, it's one of those things you can't do because it will inevitably be compared to Romero's Dawn of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead is unfortunately really, really, really good.
It's proper kino, your shitty videogame couldn't keep up, so it would be panned based on the fact alone that it is not as good as Dawn of the Dead, whether that comparision makes sense or not.
>>333023437
He sometimes is a fucking idiot. Why the fuck would you go into any place where crime is insanely high and gangs run the area without carrying any sort of gun?
>>333023110
It needs something to keep you progressing and add stakes.
>>333007493
Taris, never forget
I want a game like Fuel (RIP potential) that also has indoor areas like malls. It would greatly compliment the existing enduro gameplay.
Motorstorm Apocalypse had some tracks where you raced inside/outside/on top of buildings.
I remember playing an indie game a few years back on an old PC Gamer demo disc set in a mall.
It was top down; you played a kid that hid inside a mall until after closing time. You had to find keys to unlock the main doors to escape; but inside the mall with you was a monster.
It was a horror stealth before the idea was played out. You had to go around the mall finding the items you needed, but had to be mindful of noise otherwise the monster (constantly running around) would find you. You had items to distract the monster like things which would make noise.
You also had a fear mechanic; the more scared you got the more likely you might faint, and the more noise you made. You had to close your eyes to reduce your fear, but then you couldn't see anything. You could hear the monster's footsteps though.
Dude we had multiple threads about this a year or two ago.
Everyone pretty much agreed it would make a kick ass setting for a horror game.
>>333026056
Those people in the Undercity never found their promised land :/
Terry Pratchett's interpretation of malls was pretty good, they were a parasitic life-form that seeded itself onto planets, creating spaces where people would visit like a venus flytrap. The mall starts with bizarre markings which transition to poor Engrish then professional signage as the mall learns the native language.
Shopping carts were like an autoimmune system, protecting the areas where new space was being constructed by the organic tissue behind the walls.
>these dead mall videos
