What is the best Lovecraftian game out there?
>>338050051
Dark Corners of the Earth.
Splatoon
>>338050051
Lovecraft's books.
Bloodborne.
Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem.
Bloodborne
Quake.
>>338050268
>>338050315
downvoted
>>338050312
That actually is a pretty good game.
Played it a few months back on Dolphin and had a blast.
Majora's Mask
Still the best
>>338050312
This
>>338050051
Probably Bloodborne really. Dark Corners is good, Shadow of the comet is shit, Necronomicon: The Dawning Darkness (check it out on youtube) is great, and the rogue-like inspired Eldrich is great IMO.
dead space
>>338050312
Watched a let's play of this, and it looked boring AF.
>>338050604
It's only boring if you're a retard
And it's still the best lovecraftian game to date
This is a stretch, but The Stanley Parable.
Eternal Darkness
>Pious will never be in Smash
>He will never be acknowledged as one of the best villains in videogames
>You will never play a game where you're an evil warlock
>>338050190
this
or >>338050312
Darkest Dungeon is pretty good if youre into that kind of stuff.
is warcraftian lovecraftian?
>>338050267
I read these...
>>338050190
...and played this...
...and I was amazed at how many things the game took straight from such a large number of Lovecraft's works.
>>338050802
Categorically no.
>>338050268
>>338050315
>>338050502
>being vaguely Victorian and having tentacle monsters makes something Lovecraftian
>>338050267
This is the only correct answer.
Cthulhu mythos and good games are mutually exclusive concepts. If one is done right, the other will suffer in the process.
You either end up with a good game that features tentacle monsters or a decent horror-mystery with shit gameplay.
>>338050725
PARGON PARGON PARGON PARGON!
>>338050852
Woah it's almost like it's directly based on the works of Lovecraft
![17%20-%20arthur%20jermyn%20-%20300px%20-%20embed[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/LRTw9SU.jpg "17%20-%20arthur%20jermyn%20-%20300px%20-%20embed[1].jpg")
What are some games where the main villain is the concept of race mixing?
>>338050051
Real Life.
>>338050896
Overwatch by Blizzard™
Bloodborne
>Dreamscapes that you can travel
>Breeding between the old gods and humans
>Brain of Mensis is just a shoggoth
>Insanity is a gameplay mechanic
>Higher life forms that have questionable motives
And before you cry about killing gods, Cthulhu was taken down by a boat
>>338051076
dem yellow devils.
>>338050051
>Lovecraftian
When will this meme die? Lovecraft wasn't an original author.
>>338051063
What I mean is that instead of being loosely based on just Shadow over Innsmouth, it has all kinds of stuff from a dozen books.
>>338051359
>Cthulhu was taken down by a boat
And came back in 10+D10 minutes.
>>338051359
>Cthulhu was taken down by a boat
That was in essence him going "fuck this shit" and hitting the snooze button for another millennium.
>>338051571
>Lovecraft wasn't an original author.
He was. He was just really bad at conveying it through his writing. He wrote for pulp magazines after all.
>>338051359
Cthulhu was dazed for about thirty seconds, and even that was only because he had just woken up and the time wasn't right
The fisherman that was driving the boat looked up and realized that big C had already healed up. The daze had just barely given them enough time to get away before R'lyeh sunk back into the ocean and pulled him down with it
Had the time been right, the boat attack wouldn't have even done that much, and the story would've ended with Cthulhu eating them all
And besides, only idiots who don't actually read any Lovecraft think Cthulhu's a god
He's fucking small-fry compared to the big names like Azathoth or Nyarlthotep or Yog-Sothoth
Idiots like you, apparently, who only know the bullet points and parrot the same three wrong things about lovecraft in general
>cartoony game has child friendly lovecraft influences
other than Kirby, what games do this?
>>338051359
>>338050268
>>338050315
>>338050502
Being lovecraftian is not only about looks, but about the horror of finding inmortal and powerful gods with arbritary behaviour, that's why Dark Corners of the Earth is so good, because the protagonist finds himself powerless against gods and, in the end, decides to suicides(for those how would like to play it, this happens in 10 min in the games, it's common in Lovecraft books to have carachter suiciding early in the books, so the game does so too)
>>338051387
>>338050051
Lovecraftian themes are next to impossible to duplicate in video games because it goes much deeper than just muh tentacle monsters
That said darkest dungeon is by far the best implementation I've seen even down to the game's ending, I haven't played bloodborne but looks like that game pulls it off very well as well
>>338052307
>because the protagonist finds himself powerless against gods
He gives Dagon a naval gun to the face.
>>338051734
And Rom, Amydgala and Ebrietas come back too. You can defeat the physical forms of the Great Ones, but not completely kill them.
Half Life Series
>>338052464
Good thing Dagon isn't a god either
Dude's lower on the cosmic totem pole than Cthulhu, which is fucking saying something
>>338052307
Play the game. Then we'll talk.
>>338052464
Yea sorry I was wrong,the protagonist is not totally human, so he can figth thembut the game itself conveys the situation of being powerless, and that's the matter.
>>338050943
Yeah Lovecraft's books are about monsters beyond comprehension and how the protagonist can't do anything to affect what's going on and usually has no idea what's going on
>>338050312
ED is a first year English major's lovecraft fanfiction
>>338053363
It was still one of the best horror games of the 6th gen,
I could say that the main plot of Dark Souls games could be considered somewhat Lovecraftian. Atleast it's theme of being powerless against the cycle. Like something that Aldia decided to discover, but realised that there isn't the middle between or a way out of the cycle.
But it's just that bit of the story, really. There are not many games that could fit that criteria, sadly. Unless you're just looking to smash some tentacle monsters and shit. If that? Then yeah, Bloodborne. Alright game, that tries to fit the Lovecraftian theme, yet not too well. More focuses on shock value and spooky designs, really. Which are entertaining in a way.
>>338050051
The Secret World
The world is pretty much a combination of World of Darkness, folklore and Lovecraft.It's also an MMO.
>>338050051
Legacy of Cain
>>338053861
It kind of breaks apart the moment they let you actually fight and defeat Cthulhu, though.
>>338051359
Killing gods in BB is pretty well-explained given that you are gradually becoming god as well to the point you can fight a being that exists on higher plane of existence and pulls the strings behind all events in the game.
>>338053959
You mean the first dungeon boss? It's not actually Cthulhu; just modeled after it. There's still plenty of great Lovecraftian stuff in the game like the Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn questline.
Darkest DungeonHOW QUICKLY THE TIDE TURNS
>>338054349
Man it's been a while. I remember doing Kingsmouth and Egypt and going to Transsylvania and just.. stopping there.
The game just seems dead if you go anywhere that's not the nexus thing.
Kind of turned me away from it. Though I did enjoy Chaos/Claws.
>>338053095
But best Lovecraft books are about how niggers and white trash are disgusting degenerates.
>>338053959
Ur-Draug is not Cthulhu, thou. It's one of his minions/star-spawns most likely.
>>338050312
>Gamecube
ffs, it's always the horror games
>>338053959
>>338054349
>>338054513
I enjoyed what little I played but pretty much stopped in that starter town beset by zombies; is it worth me starting a new game and blazing through that?
>>338054409
Oh shit I forgot about this
Basically what you should be looking for
Also Eternal Darkness, Bloodborne and Demon's Souls. Clive Barker's Undying is an old but good one too.
>>338050051
Sunless Sea is the definition of Lovecraftian game.
>>338054667
I'd say yes, I enjoyed Egypt a lot more than Kingsmouth.
>>338050051
Define your requirements for "Lovecraftian" first and then I'll probably be able to list at least one for you that isn't Bloodborne.
>>338052307
>but about the horror of finding inmortal and powerful gods
Maybe read some Lovecraft? Because usually it's not about that.
>>338050051
Recommended games not already mentioned are The Lurking Horror, The Hound of Shadow, Shadow of the Comet, Prisoner of Ice, Anchorhead, Scratches, Darkness Within 1 and 2, Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Sunless Sea. I've also heard good things about Darkest Dungeon and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, and I'd put a soft recommend to Crawl for that old school Lovecraftian D&D vibe.
>people think Call of Cthulhu DCOTE was a good game
it was a fucking shitshow. it had some neat ideas but the whole package was just terrible.
>stand in front of a shotgun wielding enemy
>they miss you completely for a solid 5 seconds
nice game
>>338050464
This.
'Amnesia: The Dark descent' is also good.
>>338054821
A game with Cosmic horror that makes you scared/uneasy
>>338054693
>Clive Barker's Undying
One of my favorite games, but more Clive Barker than Lovecraft obviously. Still, if you like Lovecraft, chances are you like Barker.
whats best Kafkian/most kafkaesque game out there?
all that comes to mind is the fight w Kefka at the end of FF6
>>338050860
All is fair in Lovecraft and Warcraft.
prepare for sadness
>>338050190
>The best Lovecraftian game is the one where you go guns blazing and fight Dagon
Into the trash it goes
>>338050268
>>338050315
BB a shit when it comes to being Lovecraftian too. You're pretty much a Gary Stu/Mary Stu who kills several Great Ones and shit.
>>338054713
>pick street urchin
>goal is to find my dad's bones
>find them
>he's a fucking fish monster and now I keep getting this pop ups telling me to return to the sea
>my street urchin was actually a sea urchin all along
>>338055173
You do realize that the character you play in Bloodborne is slowly becoming a great one?
>>338052156
Sorry hipster
>>>/reddit/
>>338054513
The game isn't that great if you're craving for the typical MMO stuff. The best part are the DLC questlines they add every now and then. They cost additional money but some of them are pretty fucking greati.e. A Dream To Kill
>>338054667
Yes. There's much more than just zombies in the game.
>>338054861
I was pretty active on the forums at the time. It was a survival horror adventure game sabotaged by Bethesda who put pressure on Headfirst Productions to make it an Xbox FPS for them Halo kids. Only reason we got a PC version at all (despite that always being the intended audience from the get go) was because one of the team members holed himself in the offices when they were being evicted and worked 2 weeks straight on porting it without pay, despite being promised that in the contract.
There's a screencap floating around that further details this, can someone post it?
Don't Starve can be very good with some lovecraftian elements.
>>338054861
The Innsmouth part before the shooting mayhem starts is decent. The hotel chase sequence matches the book perfectly. I also think that a sea god vs a navy battleship is a neat boss fight. The rest of the game is pretty shitty.
>>338055292
>>338050458
That's not a bad answer.
>-ian
>-esque
Stop
>>338055404
ahh
>>338055162
nvm.
Silent Hill.
>No Demonbane
I'm disappointed
>>338051359
At the very least it's pretty blatant that concepts and parts of the game, and some enemies were blatantly inspired by The Dream Cycle
>>338055497
>using words
stop
>>338055298
And yet he's a manlet.
>>338050458
>>338055496
I'd call that a Dunsanian affair more than a Lovecraftian one.
>>338055162
>tfw It came true
>>338050190
This.
>>338055676
demonbane is fucking garbage
>>338055298
Only in one of the endings when you defeatMoon Presence. Outside that you're just a hunter who somehow can fuck everything up.
>>338055782
Watch this game be nothing but dude tentacles lmao
>>338050051
Majora's Mask.
Not even joking really. It has all the tropes of cosmicism, and there was also a sort of notion that there's an unknowable presence pulling all the strings even by the end of the game. The Happy Mask Salesman really added to the whole vibe too.
>>338054921
That's like the worst definition of Lovecraftian.
>>338055676
Any piece of media that turns eldritch horrors into Mechas and offers up a fuckable Nyarlathotep is blatantly un-Lovecraftian despite memetic references.
I'd say Saya no Uta is closer, but I'd rather describe it as Cronenbergian or Barker-eqsque seeing how it relies on graphic sexual body horror that's usually not present or only subtly hinted at in Lovecraft's own fiction.
>>338050943
What about a Lovecraftian VR game?
VR gives you that feeling that you're not just staring at a TV screen or monitor--that you're actually "inside". This gets people more immersed and gives developers a way to use tricks that they wouldn't otherwise be able to on a TV screen/monitor.
Lovecraftian themes revolve around the descent to madness. Incomprehensible horrors that slowly chip away at one's sanity. VR has the potential to work quite well with horror games like Lovecraftian games.
Devs can simulate shadows lurking just slightly within your peripheral vision, making you look but seeing nothing, only to be surprised when you look at the other side or behind you. They can simulate the feeling of being watched. They can simulate hallucinations or quick flashbacks to some gruesome scene.
If I had the resources or skills to make such a game, I would make it. I would make it so horrible that it would make people kill themselves as they reach their breaking point or induce heart attacks, whichever comes first.
>>338052134
>"There are my 'Poe' pieces and my 'Dunsany pieces' – but alas – where are any Lovecraft pieces?"
>>338056464
Yeah, he was pretty hard on himself, his own worst critic.
I like to imagine him somewhat happy later in his life when he started traveling, or at least until the cancer set in...
a lot of games take from lovecraft. gamers are unread filth so it's okay for devs to do this
>>338056410
>Game canceled after developers are found dead in their offices.
Yeah, even if you'd be able to achieve it, a great idea!
Do you guys think his cat, Nigger man, was a cute cat?
>>338050464
>>338050725
Seconded (or thirded). Of all the games that didn't get the sequel it deserved, this hurt the most. It certainly deserves a re-release, but that'll never happen either.
SUNLESS SEA
NO ONE PLAYS SUNLESS SEA
FU-THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THESUN THE SUN THE SUN
>>338056814
He loved that cat, even wrote it into some of his stories.
>>338050051
Saya no uta and bloodborne, eternal darkness is an honorable. Ive yet to see a game incorporate lovecrafts dream adventures while still being its own thing as well as bloodborne.
Marathon Infinity's entire plot revolves around the protagonist jumping through multiple timelines to prevent the awakening of an ancient entity that will turn the universe into a colossal mindfuck.
That's pretty Lovecraftian if you ask me.
>>338056814
Of course it was cute.
>>338056919
Sunless Sea? More like Funless Seaall joking aside it's a pretty enjoyable game
>>338056410
Pretty sure there in fact is some Lovecraftian inspired game in making for VR.It was in third-person.
>>338056919
I love its world, it passes the time during night shifts, but I often wish I'd be playing another type of game built around it.
The only games that I would call 'Lovecraftian' are games that include the Cthulu Mythos.
>>338056951
based
Cats>dogs any day
>>338050379
I like Quake but i don't think the use of Lovecraft in the game was done in a right way, at least i think that.
>>338052307
>how to spot a pcuck 101
>>338056919
I played the fuck out of Sunless Sea.
Still haven't done all the stories, yet.
>>338053095
Innsmouth has their entire reef blown to shit
Cthulhu gets put back to sleep
The Dunwich Horror is locked out and his brother killed
And another protagonist fucking kills the vampire thing with acid.
Charles Dexter Ward's asshole uncle got put down
The evil daddy from the Thing on the Doorstep gets shot in the goddamn face before the story even starts
Lovecraft protagonist CAN win, but it comes at a cost
>>338056269
>picture
There's an exceptionally well-actedYoutube creepypastacalled Horror from The Vault, and that picture reminds me of that. It has some ancient unknown monster that absorbs living matter from animals and humans, and builds a gigantic biomass made out of skin, organs and limbs in an empty wildlife reserve. Humans, birds, deer, all skinned and stretched over the forest landscape as a living carpet of flesh, with pulsating giant skin tags of hearts and blood vessels keeping the landscape alive. A lake of body fluids and blood in the middle. In the lake there are tentacles stretching for miles, built out of thousands of hands, legs and animal limbs. They drag things through the forest onto the meat valley and pull them into the lake to be assimilated into the biomass.
>>338050852
This. The whole "escape from the hotel" part was just perfect
Can any anons recommend a good Lovecraft story to start with? Also, is the Necronomicon any good? I've wanted to pick it up for ages, but never got round to it.
>>338056919
I keep dying way too early in it. It's super punishing.
Let me guess, the sun turned into some horrific, incomprehensible abomination, which is why it drives people insane?
>>338055696
The Dream Cycle and the whole concept of the Dreamlands is probably my favourite thing he's done
>>338056814
>>338056951
>>338057150
dogs are shit. it's like having to take care of a retarded child until it's old
>>338057429
just CE if you are much of a babby.
>>338052156
I have not read many his stories but wasn't Cthulhu just a guy that was supposed to wake up much worse things?
Hence not the Cthulhu himself but his "call" was important
>>338057639
People literally suggest people cheating to get over the shit gameplay.
>>338057119
I think I know exactly what you mean in your image; you know the feeling you get from the broken-up Jabu-Jabu island when the ghost ship is present?
Probably not, but recapturing that feeling of dread would be pretty cool, especially with the maritime theme.
>That's not REAL Lovecraft
Is there anything worse than Lovecraft hipster autists?
>>338057417
The Dunwich Horror or the Haunter of the Dark for the classics. Less well known ones that are very, very good are the Colour out of Space and Rats in the Walls
Fuck off, plebs. Read his books instead.
>>338057672
cthulhu is a high priest. That's it.
>>338057429
Not quite, the Unterzee basically has an absence of any sun aside from the dawn machi-THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN
>>338057639
I'll beat it the way it's intended. It's probably just going to take a fucking long time.
Hell, I haven't even beat Darkest Dungeon yet, but that's or less due to the fact that I rage hard and stop playing for at least a month when I lose a full party of lvl 6 heroes and a bunch of rare items.
>>338057804
He didn't write books, asshat
>>338057804
I have.
>>338052307
Wot.
There is gods in Bloodborne, not to mention a theme of insanity of being in other worlds.
At least know the game, your pcuck is showing.
>>338057790
There's also that one story that made it into Dark Corners of the Earth, where the family keeps a half-monster relative locked up in a barn or an attic or something. Which book was that? I seem to recall that it was pretty good also.
>>338057298
And often times it just feels like they're delaying the inevitable. Which makes it such a great contrast to the wish fulfillment pulp that was going around at the time and what those two opposing schools inspired.
Reading Lovecraft and his pen pal's, Robert E. Howard, stuff makes for such a fun contrast. One is all "humanity is fucked", the other is "fuck yeah humanity". Hell, they collaborated with a third writer in a writers jam on a short I've forgotten the name of and if I remember correctly, Lovecraft set it up for the doom and gloom of the protagonist consciousness being transferred into a horrific and alien slug-worm thing, things escalated, and when Robert got his hands on it he had the slug-worm thing conquer the worm planet in the name of humanity!
>>338050312
This is amateur-tier garbage.
What's up with the influx of lovecraft threads on /v/? Feels like some anon just figured out who he is and is nutting over it making the same thread multiple times daily.
Also bloodborne is probably the best one of these games with actually gameplay. There are quite a few good ones out there but most of them are graphic adventures.
>>338050051
your mom is some next level lovecraftian game.
lmao rekt boi xD
>>338057790
Just googled those; three out of four of them are in the Necronomicon. Settled it for me anon, I'll pick it up next time I'm out. Thanks!
>>338056919
I love Sunless Sea. Still haven't beaten it with the ending I first wanted (getting my father's bones). It's hard.
>>338056951
Lovecraft has gone on record to say that was a joke.
>>338058010
>Also bloodborne is probably the best one of these games with actually gameplay.
See >>338055173
The only way a Lovecraftian game works is an adventure game.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Creation_of_Niggers
how would you design a game based on his poem /v/?
>>338057150
Cats are for antisocial edgemasters, dogs are for normies.
>>338058040
what backstory did you choose?
>>338058098
I think horror-stealth like Alien: Isolation would work too.
>>338057672
>>338057825
Go read the short story. You guys clearly have no idea what you're talking about. I'll make it easy and provide a link, since google is probably beyond your skills.
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thecallofcthulhu.htm
>>338057298
>The Dunwich Horror is locked out and his brother killed
It's kinda funny when one of the greatest victories in all of his writings is the work of three college professors essentially winging it and hoping their spell works, somehow. At least they all walk away from it sane which is more than most of Lovecraft's protagonists can aspire to.
>>338057298
>>338057971
Yeah the victories are usually fleeting or only significant from the human perspective and usually at great personal cost. The example of cthulu , seems like a victory but from their perspective it's barely a pause
>>338054825
>Scratches
Does that game actually run on Win7? I've been trying to make it work, but no luck.
>no-one saying Grim Dawn
It's pretty lovecraftian. It pinches a few elements. Void monsters, bizarre creatures from other dimensions and all that jazz.
Nothing quite like shooting an eldritch abomination with chaos-powered bullets.
I understand it became too popular but Amnesia is definitely worth mentioning.
Chrono Trigger
>>338058239
And now tell me how this answers my question.
Have you even read that?
>>338054983
Killer 7.
>>338058209
First picked soldier trying to find his father's bones. Died a few times, did some grinding so I can get the items that give you permanent stat boosts for all playthroughs, but I don't consider myself to have beaten it yet.
>>338057825
Cthulhu isn't even a high priest is the point.
It is just worshiped as one by humansand other beingsunable to properly comprehend what it and beings above it mean in regard to themselves and the cosmos.
>>338058298
Well the Dunwich Horror was still half human/half abomination so it makes a bit more sense but I still found it odd reading it that these guys actually manage to pull off their plan and it works.
>>338057767
I don't see many hipsters here, just people that have actually read his work and those who haven't yet know what Cthulhu is because someone explained it to them with a meme.
>>338058451
Forgot that, sorry.
>>338050051
Dark Corners of the Earth
or
Penumbra
>>338050604
There should be a Board for "I watch let's plays" people.
>>338050051
Koudelka? Really captures the cosmic horror feel.
>>338058396
Read it, and you'll get your answer.
And yes, I've read it. Multiple times.
>>338058098
BB has so many major themes of Lovecraft that it's ridiculous, especially with the addition of the lesser known Dream Cycle elements. It has the degrading populace, lost woods, eldritch locations, a fishing village, time travel, cross breeding, insanity, corrupted blood, the whole shebang. The only thing that's prevalent in the game that is call non Lovecraft is the babies thing
As for beating the gods...you really don't. The endings are pure Lovecraft, you either wake up from the "dream" having accomplished nothing, get overpowered and made into a tool of one, or you descend so far into insanity that you become a monster yourself. There's no power fantasy there, just a disgusting descent into oblivion
Not knowing if your opponent has a god in their hand is pretty spooky.
It's like you're really getting obliterated by a cosmic deity.
>>338058098
You dont understand the plot or what is happenimg in the game if you think bb is about killing gods or being a mary sue. Let alone thinking your intentions are even good to begin with.
Mass Effect
>>338058548
thb you'd need to go pretty deep to find out specifics about Cthulhu. The books by themselves don't explain shit about shit. Because the unknown is the source of most of Lovecraft's horror. Explaining things would just ruin the mystery, and being able to comprehend some of the things would ruin the cosmic grandness of those mysteries.
>>338055173
Confirmed for absolutely not getting the point of the game.
The Dagon fight was the culmination of a pretty slow start that builds out carefully over the game. When you get to blast dagon with a damned ship's cannon, it's the big fight of the game.
It's like saying Call of Cthulhu is shit because they drive a ship through his head, the violence!
>>338050051
Lovecraft can seriously relate to most of 4chan.
>barely ever went outside
>his own mother said he was repulsive
>died a virgin
>extremely racist and had terrible anxieties
I love it
Have any of you negros listened to Lovecraft's radio dramas by Dark Adventure Radio Theatre? Good stuff and they're not just audio books, they put their own radio drama spin on them with amazing production values.
>>338058691
I read it before.
Now you can tell me what truth this contains that my mortal eyes cannot see
Daily reminder "cthulhu" is pronounced "kuh-lhool-u"
Why do people keep saying Bloodborne isn't Lovecraftian?
Aside from the obvious themes, it also has lesser known Lovecraftian concerns like the dangers of scholars going too far, and the obsession with 'purity' of bloodlines.also a general fear of women
>>338058806
>died a virgin
>After his death, Sonia Lovecraft told a Lovecraft scholar that he was a virgin when they married in 1924, aged 34. Before their marriage, Lovecraft reportedly bought numerous books about sex and studied them in order to perform on their wedding night. Sonia later said she had to initiate all sexual activity, saying: "The very mention of the word sex seemed to upset him. He did, however, make the statement once that if a man cannot be or is not married at the greatest height of his sex-desire, which in his case, he said, was at age 19, he became somewhat unappreciative of it after he passed thirty. I was somewhat shocked but held my peace."
>>338058797
Looking at you, Derleth
>>338057965
Somebody kill this subhuman.
>>338058548
Oh look, there's one of them
>>338058930
He threw away his wizard powers, that absolute maniac.
>>338050051
mother 2, maybe
>>338058085
Of course it was a joke. According to his friends he loved rustling their jimmies by acting the contrarian in order to get a rise out of them. People have this incorrect image of Lovecraft as this xenophobic shut-in that hated life, but he built himself an almost unparalleled network of friends and admirers trough active correspondence and traveled extensively across America in the later half of his life, visiting said friends and admirers whenever he could. Hell, there even is (or at least was) a debate over if his overt xenophobia was even in all parts genuine.
>>338058787
>Let alone thinking your intentions are even good to begin with.
What intentions? The most exposition you get on your guy is a note telling you to go looking for "Paleblood," something that is never elaborated on and never resolved. I had no idea what the fuck I was doing besides playing a video game for my own entertainment for the entirety of Bloodborne.
Hunniepop
You craft the best love.
>>338058806
Lovecraft and Poe had it pretty rough.
>>338059026
He have used his enitre magic on the stories,he had nothing to lose
A favorite subject for sure but that brings such conflicts. On one hand, a new and good Lovecraftian game would be interesting, but on the other, it would probably be less than expected.
I still think Eternal Darkness is the best example so far.
>>338059026
He wrote his best-known books after getting married, maybe he had seen all he needed to see?
>>338059057
He really was one of us
>>338050714
How so? I'm curious to see what you caught.
>>338052307
>bloodborne only has the aesthetic of lovecraft
>trying to start an argument about a game you didn't play and know nothing about on top of that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voMAx-lKfIw
>>338054825
There's an actual Lovecraft roguelike called Infra Arcana. It's pretty spooky as far as RLs go, and doesn't fuck around. I still haven't beaten it.
>aggro a tribe of bloodthirsty giant gorillas
>try getting away
>end up aggroing an entire tomb of crocodile-headed mummies
>all the while, a cthonian keeps turning up minding its own business, eroding my sanity just from being in my sight
>eventually a mi-go appears and fries me to death with his elec-gun
>>338058829
Reading comprehension is necessary. But if you're so lazy, what is it that you actually want to know? What's so obfuscated about that story that it leaves you wondering?
I wish his works weren't so samey because of the way they were released and serialized. They were basically never meant to be read in collection format.
>>338058918
That's one pronunciation offered by Lovecraft, the point being that its name was delivered to us by beings that don't share our human vocal cords.
>>338058382
Lovecraftian monsters is where it all ends.
>>338058729
So fucking what? There's not even a real hint of hopelessness in the game since you beat everything the fuck up.
So tell me, when I'm killing Great Ones and ESPECIALLY Moon presence - what am I actually doing?
>>338052307
The final boss of BB, the one pulling the strings, is literally nyarlytotep
>>338059332
>someone criticizes Bloodborne
>"Y-you didn't play it!"
Every time
>>338058823
I have your pic related and the At The Mountains of Madness one. Great stuff.
>>338058797
>thb you'd need to go pretty deep to find out specifics about Cthulhu
I think the books do a pretty good job at giving you the specifics. Cthulhu is a big octopus eldrich horror space god dude who lives in some temple under the Pacific Ocean that will end the world when awakened, but can be easily sent back to sleep by bonking him on the head with A FUCKING BOAT.
A FUCKING BOAT
A
FUCKING
BOAT
>>338059617
Never finished Mountains of Madness. Do the cucumber guys wake up?
>>338050190
Game keeps fucking crashing for me senpai.
>>338059383
There is nothing in Call of Cthulhu that tells you what Cthulhu is or what was his importance,except that he is giant monster,propably a ruler or a guardian of a sunken city and makes people all around the world mad
>>338059703
>Cthulhu is a big octopus eldrich horror space god dude who lives in some temple under the Pacific Ocean that will end the world when awakened, but can be easily sent back to sleep by bonking him on the head with A FUCKING BOAT.
Kindly, please, pretty please, begging you, STOP POSTING
Claim your Eldritch-fu
if there's one thing that awakens the autistic fury of /v/, it's lovecraft threads
>>338059852
Nigger the story called Call of Cthulhu fucking physically features his betentacled ass.
>>338057965
I'm black and I I thoroughly enjoy Lovecraft's works. I've read almost all of his short stories and even letters and while the racism is there it's not as obvious to downplay his brilliance. Most if his work doesn't even have racism in it and the ones that do are mostly descriptions, that at the time, had merit worth noting.
>>338059703
I kinda wish it had been one of the starspawn that got bonked instead of literally cthulhu himself
Bloodborne
>>338059464
I own this book, gotta try cop the other one that collects the stories not in this one
>>338059558
>someone says Bloodborne is good
>PCucks says it's bad
Every time
>>338059507
You're becoming one of them. You partake of their blood and corruption, descend into madness, traverse the dream frontiers, and eventually you're so far from human anymore that you exist as they do.
I mean, turning into the very monsters you feared as Shadow over Innsmouth, the Outsider, and in a round about way Charles Dexter Ward.
As I stated in a post earlier, Lovecraft protagonists DO win, but something is always lost and humanity never gains something from it. And that's what happens with Bloodborne. Especially in the "true" ending, in which you've totally
lost your humanity and become the very beings you fought against
>>338059885
Cthulhu is a fucking jobber in his own story it's hilarious.
>>338059703
>Temple is shifting, guess its time to wake up
>By Yogg, this headache, lets gets some fresh air
>mmm nice cool water, what is that, oh humanoids?
>wow go through me like that, no respect at all. Where are my Cultists?
>fuck that, better snooze, I'll make cosmic coffee before getting out next time.
>>338059973
And he roars,gets hit by boat and fucks off somewhere.
It tells nothing about what he really is
>>338059852
Then I would suggest reading more of Lovecraft's stories. Particularly those dealing with the character Randolph Carter.
Or you could just quit and forever be mystified and confused.
>>338059558
Are you dense? It's not the same critiscm as "oh you didn't like it so you didn't play it". He straight up said bloodborne isn't lovecraft and goes on to explain what it's missing but the catch is the game isn't missing any of that and he would have known had he played the game.
>>338060080
Wake up Lady Maria!!
>>338060172
The boat split his head open.
It tells you that he's a huge bitch.
>somehow it's easier to do a Lovecraft game than it is movie
Bloodborne's the game that probably gets it the closest while still remaining its own thing and is able to differentiate itself from its inspiration.
>>338050312
>>338050464
This.
I also think Sunless Sea works just fine.
>>338058142
It'd have to be a surprise twist at the end.
Make it a "BASED ON H.P. LOVECRAFT WRITING" game, some plot revolving around the subject of segregation.
End twist no John, you are the demon hitlers. Not a PC ending though, it would have to be hardcore. Proper shocker. I'd be lynched and go down in history.
>>338060243
You can't talk about Bloodborne here. You'll stir up everyones autismBloodborne is great but /v/ is a bunch of faggots
>>338058930
Being born to a father that went insane with the syphilis, your southern father figure grandpa nostalgic on the glory days dying all to soon on you, and your insane mother who most likely diddled you repeatably telling you that you were grotesque and should hide your face in doors might do that to a person.
That, and the shame of then loosing said mother to the Asylum that hosts your father.
>>338060231
Zzzzzzzzzz......whaaa...?
.........zzzzzzzzz
>>338059703
>big bad awakens in the modern day
>human nations get fleet of massive helicopters and planes
>fill planes with boats
>strap boats to bottom of helicopters
>bombard cthulu with hundreds of boats until he goes back to sleep
Easy.
Would boat-shaped missiles work? Those shouldn't be too hard to make.
>>338050051
whats in his mouth
>>338060172
If you actually read the story you plebs would all know he hadn't even formed physically yet. That's how the boat went through him you dolts. Fucking read more.
>>338060427
Now Lady Maria, who's gonna beat my ass if you don't wake the fuck up
>>338050051
probably Layers of Fear. Really evokes a "Rats in the Walls" feeling.
>>338060241
Modern movies are all about exposition and showing as much as possible, treating the audience like attention-deficient retards.
You couldn't do a movie about unseen stuff.
>arguing about shit that was made to not be understood
>>338060243
I never played Bloodborne so I cant judge properly but I know Lovecraft works and from what I get, the themes are right but people stop at the "combat" aspect of Bloodborne to justify it not being Lovecraftian.
I dont get why that particular aspect would void any relation. If they made Eternal Darkness 2250: Space Madness edition where you followed another family fighting against another trio of cosmic gods, but all that in space station / other planet, would it be not Lovecraftian because it looks less like his stories even if the essence of the thing is Lovecraftian? Mmm dont think so.
>>338060523
An entire orange.
>>338060207
He obviously didn't play it so his opinion wasn't worth consideration or reply. The idiots got baited though.
>>338060558
>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.
Kind of reads like he was physically put together, dude. Or at least his head was.
>>338060021
*in a singsong*
nigger nigger niggerrrrr
>>338060687
>omg so there was like this really big ancient monster that was so big and ancient that I literally cannot describe it but it was really scary and people went mad when they looked at it because it can't be described
>trust me, it was really spooky and you would go mad if I told you what it looked like
>>338059752
Two words:TEKELI-LI
>>338060874
thanks for confirming you dont understand
>>338060874
>going mad from seeing it
Way to misunderstand the creatures from the mythos. This never happens in any of the stories.
>>338060959
Don't
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