What games allow me to fight cosmic horrors?
>>335010208
not much of a "cosmic" horror if a player can plausibly fight it and win.
that being said, Bloodborne comes to mind.
>>335010208
Spead Dace
The Consuming Shadow, kind of?
Halo, though the games don't give you a good sense of it since the flood is only at relatively small scale infection levels.
>mfw the latter bits of the forerunner flood war are basically a far, far future cosmic horror version of the war of creation with stars being flung around as weapons and the flood tearing rips in spacetime and shit
everything in the forerunner novels sounds so dumb out of context but is the coolest shit when you actually read it. Too bad it kills a lot of the mystery in the lore
ff7
eo3
>>335010208
Persona 3
Gravity Rush.
>>335010208
Pretty much all of the "lovecraft inspired" games that are actually inspired by sheepfucker Derleth
bloodborne literally
If i were a deep one
Silent Hill games.
>>335010208
Most Kirby games
Dominions 4
>>335010208
Grim Dawn
Kingdom Hearts
bloodborne is actually the ONLY game that does cosmic horror right
WoW
Arkham Horror
Ruin has come to our family.
You remember our venerable house, opulent and imperial, gazing proudly from its stoic perch above the moor.
I lived all my years in that ancient, rumor shadowed manor. Fattened by decadence and luxury, and yet I began to tire of conventional extravagance.
Singular unsettling tales suggested the mansion itself was a gateway to some fabulous and unnameable power.
With relic and ritual, I made every effort towards the excavation and discovery of these long buried secrets, exhausting what remained of our family fortune in swarthy worksmen and sturdy shovels.
At last, in the salt-soaked crags beneath the lowest foundations, we unearthed that damnable portal of antedeluvian evil.
Our every step unsettled the ancient earth, but we were in a realm of madness. I alone fled, laughing and wailing at those blackened arcades of antiquity. Until consciousness failed me.
You remember our venerable house. Opulent and imperial.
It is a festering abomination! I beg you, claim your birthright, return to the manor, and deliver our family from the ravenous clutching shadows
Of the Darkest Dungeon.
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
so this is what it looks like outside observable universe
what kind of creature live here?
No Eternal Darkness? Seriously /v/?
>>335015729
REELING
>>335016824
Not mainstream enough.
>>335015862
see
>>335010460
Floodaka Precursors
Chrono Trigger
>Lovecraft horror is super scary you guys
>in the original story Cthulhu is a lazy asshole who gets run over by a boat and gives up
Ultimate meme.
>>335016906
DAZED
>CTRL + f Earthbound
>No matches
>28 replies
/v/ please
>>335018735
How would you feel about getting punctured by a boat also for me atleast the mystery took priority over horror in lovecraft stories.
So /v/.
Kos or Kosm?
>>335018735
>All Lovecraft is Cthulhu
Read Cool Air, Shadow out of Time and Rats in the Walls at least. Not every story he wrote dealt with huge things that drove you insane
>>335019909
ABOUT TO BREAK
>>335010208
star ocean 3
destroyers, enforcers
>>335013851
Interested because I dabble in Lovecraft-inspired fiction, why is Derleth a sheepfucker?
>>335022213
He ruined the mythos singlehandedly.
>>335022213
Introduced a Good vs Evil system to the mythos. more or less turned it into generic dark fantasy. It's telling that the two Cthulhu RPGs (Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green) explicitly ignore Derleth's additions
>>335022324
>>335022398
Ah, I think I understand what you're talking about. I personally feel like the mythos could have used some fleshing-out, but I agree it felt a bit bloated at the end with a bunch of misfit additions from unqualified authors. I'll have to do some more research. Thanks for the motivation.
>>335010208
world of warcraft
>>335010208
None.
You can't even face or come to grips with it without going batshit insane.
>>335010208
'Fighting' a cosmic horror is one sure way to remove both the 'horror' and 'cosmic' element, but sure, there's plenty of games that do this.
WoW has had you challenge several weakened cosmic entities over the expansions and Dead Space's underlying themeand nameis an unwinnable fight against cosmic-like beings.
>>335020070
ITS
KOS
IT NEVER WAS KOSM, KOSM WAS WHAT HE TOLD HIMSELF WHEN HE COULD FEEL A BREAKTHROUGH COMING TO HIM
KOSMOS, LOOK TO THE KOSMOS FOR YOUR GREAT ONES
STOP PUSHING THIS SHITTY FUCKING MEME THATS ON THE TIER OF THAT FUCKING DRESS FROM LAST YEAR
probably some gay anime shit, because the japs love to glom onto western culture and pretend like they invented it
Demonbane has you fight he entire cthulhu mythos or some shit
I feel like Path of Exile gets some of the cosmic horror feel right. A lot of the enemies you fight are twisted beings corrupted by powers beyond anyone's understanding. At one point you end up having to kill this thing simply called "Thr Beast" but you never actually directly kill it, only the guy that wants to use its power to re-shape creation.
Too bad most of the playerbase couldn't give two shits about the story.
>>335022563
Just read Lovecraft's works and stuff that inspired him. It's all you need.
>>335023160
Looks like the Overmind
>>335023719
PoE lore is actually really damn sweet, I like that you're an exile, I like Wraeclast being a beautiful but hostile, cursed land, a graveyard of civilizations, exploring the ruins feels great.
I'd legit play an actual RPG in the setting.Have you seen the true face of God, exile?
Terraria at the end
>>335015862
isnt that a pic of brain neurons
>>335023719
I know PoE is mostly a number and builds ARPG, but goddamn did I enjoy the setting. Being inside the Beast itself, a living mountain was great up until fighting Skeletor. I just wished the confrontation with Malachai and the beast was a little more abstract in a way.
>>335023953
They both kinda look the same.
>>335023953
>the universe is actually the brain of some creature beyond human understanding
>>335016824
Xel'lotath>Mantorok>Ulyaoth>Chattur'gha
>>335010208
Bloodborne.
>>335010208
Stellaris will do in the Endgame.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/stellaris-dev-diary-30-late-game-crises.921629/
>>335024204
>there could be universes within our brains
Wait
Wait a fucking second
Oh fuck
We are naught but a dream, the imagination of some poor sod.
>>335010330
Amnesia:TDD is the closest game I can think of to fitting that bill.
>>335015729
A man in a robe claiming communion with the divine....madness
>>335024461
I thought The Last Door did a surprisingly good job.
>>335018735
>be cthulu
>knocked out for hundreds, if not thousands of years
>finally wake up
>oh god my head hurts
>groggy as fuck, worst hangover
>crawl outside
>why is everything wet
>all of the sudden
>giant metal pole just slams into my forehead
>essentially breaks my head in half
>fuck this shit, I'm going back to sleep
>>335023719
>>335023912
>>335023986I'm still pissed that it wasn't actually the Beyond demons behind everything, even though Tora's dialogue and Atziri's drops' flavour text hinted it might be
>>335010208
R-Type
>>335010330
>not much of a "cosmic" horror if a player can plausibly fight it and win.
Cosmic evil was defeated in The Dunwich Horror, and it's servants were defeated in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, even Cthulhu was liquified by being rammed by a ship.
Freespace.
>>335025624
Cthulhu's fucking weaksauce though. He isn't even one of the outer gods. Someone could fuck him up easily given enough prep time. Abhoth on the other hand would probably end up absorbing anything coming his way.
>>335025624
>Cthulhu
>liquified
Have you actually read the books, reddit?
>>335010208
Darkest Dungeon
its very subtle, first fighting bandits and shit
Then undead
then eldrich
Then finally Cosmic entites
>>335010208
warhammer 40k
>>335026193
Every rpg does that kind of progression, though.
>>335010208
>Fight Azathoth.
>He wakes up.
>Game Over.
>>335025624
>I tried to ram him, but passed through him like he was mist. he didn't even notice me. if it weren't for the fact that the stars weren't right yet the world of mankind would have ended right there.
>lol a boat killed him.
>>335026348
The thing is thatEverything is eldrich, including you and your men, the planet itself is a cosmic entity waking up from its dream
>>335026384
the fight against azathoth is a rhythm game where you have to blast out the sickest trumpet symphony in the cosmos to keep him from waking up
>>335026683
>>335026384
Honestly, I'd play this.
>>335026061
My call of cthulhu core rule book says he turns into gas if you actually manage to damage him enough, which is almost impossible because huge health and armor values.
And then he recombines himself after like 2 minutes.
So you cant actually get rid of him forever.
>>335026615
>>335026061
"But Johansen had not given out yet. Knowing that the Thing could surely overtake the Alert until steam was fully up, he resolved on a desperate chance; and, setting the engine for full speed, ran lightning-like on deck and reversed the wheel. 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 squid-head 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; where - God in heaven! - the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form, whilst its distance widened every second as the Alert gained impetus from its mounting steam."
It was liquified, and being so was clearly involuntary - it wanted to devour them but couldn't due to having to recombine, T1000-style, after being splatted.
Mass Effect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvrIFIjTGt0
>>335027115
lol
>>335010441
Fuck off, Yahtzee, your games are shit.
Darkest dungeon, just find a red orb and stick a torch in it.
>>335026810Drakengard 3
This is a meme thread, right?
You literally described Bloodborne.
Nnnnnngaaaa!!!! I am *squeezing* the *juice*.
More and more *juice!*
You are *sick* for the last time!
>>335010208
Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, Shadow Hearts, Silent Hill 1 and 3, Forbidden Siren (2 significantly moreso than 1),
>>335025270
You never know. POE isn't exactly explicit in its storytelling. I wouldn't be surprised if they made an act 5 and made the beyond enemies the true big bad.
Problem with Bloodborne is that for cosmic deities, the Great Ones were fucking small.
>>335027643
I don't remember the Great Ones being salt giants.
That said, Drakengard 1/3's endings are great in a similar way. Cosmic horror without the cosmic horror, kinda.
>>335028137
That's because they're based off the Great Ones from the Dreamlands, not the Great Old Ones in the real world. The Dreamland gods were humanlike entities, which is still present in the designs of all of the Great Ones in the game (Ebritas' eyes, Amydagla's hands, the Emissary, Living Failure and Orphan's bodies, Kos' face). The Moon Presence has a humanoid form but since he represents Nyarlathotep the shapeshifter from the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, it's excused. Oedon, being formless and having a thing about impregnating women, is Yog-Sothoth.
>>335010208
It was released in beta, and was left that way.
>>335029056
Man I can't be alone in saying that Lovecraft's dream dimensions are more masturbatory over his own mythos and less about trying to encapsulate what makes cosmic horror so relateable a concept.
>>335029309
Dream cycle is comfy as fuck fantasy, it's not as dark as some of his other works but it's not supposed to be. It's dream-like (duh), escapist and mysterious.
>>335029487
Maybe I'm just sour because I spent months with those dream journals and didn't get shit out of them.
>>335016824
Came to post this.
Essential cosmic horror.
>>335018735
Cthulhu is literally a meme. Read the other stuff as well.
>>335029524
they are flat out not meant to be horror. they're just meant to be a surreal fantasy adventure in the same vein as Gulliver's Travels or the Seven Voyages of Sindbad
>>335029784
>in the same vein as Gulliver's Travels
Dream Cycle was most definitely not meant to be satirical.Also oh god, I've just remembered that he traveled to a land of sentient horses in one of those books and almost got raped by mindless humanoids who lived there.
>>335029913
>not meant to be satirical.
at least a few parts were taking the piss out of people Lovecraft knew.
>>335028137
To be fair, relative to humans "deity" is a flexible term when you deal with anything beyond out understanding.
>>335029309
He himself said he wasn't particularly thrilled with the idea of publishing them. He thought they were too zany.
>>335026941
The man asked you if you read the book. Like the actual book written by H.P. Lovecraft, not one of your shitty fanfic-tier roleplay
>>335030445
He literally pops like a balloon into stinky green fart gas in the book, shit-for-brains.
>>335015302
You could argue it doesnt, as you can overcome them. However 2 endings end with not solving any problems at all. The moon presence is still alive and guides everything. The other sees you turning into a great one and seeing to the universe as you see fit. I guess you can't really escape it at all,none of it is by your will.
>>335015302
Not really since you can kill the Moon Presence.
It's still one of the only ones that did lovecraftian right though, the game starting relatively tame with werewolves and ending with moon aliens was great.
>>335018735
Cthulhu is entry level Lovecraft and arguably one of his worst works.
>>335032010
The only true Great One you encounter in the whole game is the plain doll, and she can't be killed.
>>335032010
>Not really since you can kill the Moon Presence.
to be fair before you can kill the moon presence you have to overdose on third cords so you start to lose all humanity and became a old god yourself
