New Lovecraftian game in the works
Bloodborne is the only Lovecraftian game that actually came out and wasn't shit
>>339923462
hi millenial
Eternal Darkness, Dark Corners of the Earth are unknown to you?
>>339923462
faggot, DCoE was amazing
>>339923328
Oh shit, it's based on the Mountains of Madness.
>>339923576
Prisoners of Ice, and Shadow of the Comet are unknown to you?
aren't there like 3 Lovecraftian games in the works right now that look god awful?
>>339923661
well known
>>339923328
>Hey G'thuwa'r'vvv'n, long time no see! What do you do these days man?
>Oh me? I just sit around in a dark corner kneeling for visitors all day long.
>>339923576
>>339923627
ED plays like shit and DCOE is a buggy, unfinished mess.
>>339923328
played Darkness Within from those guys, it's very good
New Lovecraftian game in the works
>>339923328
>hundresds of lit candles and torches in dank 'abandoned' caves and hallways
who the fuck lights these
who the fuck keeps maintaining them
>>339923823
>>339923823
>american flag
dropped
>>339923823
There's two.
Frogwares is working on The Sinking City while Cyanide is working on Call of Cthulhu (which was originally being made by Frogwares but got passed off to Cyanide to finish so Frogwares could start working on the new one).
With this added that makes it 3 Lovecraftian games being made.
>>339923791
>DCOE is a buggy, unfinished mess
it's top tier survival horror even with bugs, and Xbox HUEG version didn't really had any
bloodborne will spawn a whole bunch of mediocre lovecraft games, won't it
jesus christ
>>339924083
>shoving in your garbage memeborne
Kindly fuck off, Darkness Within is older than your meme game.
>>339923328
>MORE fucking lovecraft old one old god ancient space evils
It's fucking boring now
>>339923931
DIS A GREAT TIME
TRANSCEND
Why can't you fucks just post the name of the game along with the screenshots so I don't have to fucking type it into google and can just highlight and search. Jesus fuck.
>>339924149
>using meme to describe a game
>believes his opinion matters
please, off yourself.
>>339924618
You sound fat
There's also a Call of Cthulhu game in the works. The few screenshots they showed off looked really great and the atmosphere seems to be on point. But of course they could just be bullshots, I'm aware. But I can be cautiously optimistic, right?
>>339923462
>Bloodborne
i dont think everydthing dark and edgy is lovecraftian
>>339925272
>i've never played past the first half of bloodborne
hej
>>339925534
i've never played bloodborn
is lovecraft the only author you know ?
>>339923462
>can kill Great Ones
shitty wannabe Lovecraftian atmosphere in an admittedly fantastic game.
>>339925662
no I know a few authors
>>339924618
it's in the corner of the screenshot.
>>339925707
Note that none of the bosses are actual Great Ones, only humans trying to become as such.
Okay, Moon Presence may be an actual Great One, but it is a fledgling, having not reached full maturation.
Anyway, Bloodborne does not claim itself to be a Lovercraftian piece of work.
>>339925707
You do know one of Lovecrafts books has a bunch of fags on a boat wrecking a Great One?
>people are finally getting over the "darkness is edgy" meme
Fucking finally. I remember if you didnt like games that were nothing but rainbows and sunshine, people always mocked you with "im a mature gamer hurr durr".
>>339925969
this, amygdala is a babby, he doesnt even have tentacles coming out of his face and shit, moon presence be a babby as well, you dont kill mergo directly but merely kill his nurse, and you can hear from the cries its a babby
>>339925969
>Okay, Moon Presence may be an actual Great One, but it is a fledgling, having not reached full maturation.
[citation needed]
and the drooling fanboys braying about it being the best Lovecraftian game ever are (like the guy I responded to) are who I was talking to.
>>339926061
>le boat meme
epic, so you don't understand anything about Lovecraft, thanks for confirming.
>>339923929
Read a book.
>>339923328
I think this looks amazingly cool. I've never played Bloodborne but this kind of style makes me rock hard. And I didn't even know it: is this style truly called Lovecraftian?
>>339923328
I love the idea of Lovecraftian games. Is there even one (BB was too combat oriented) that exists?
>>339926246
read the thread retard
>>339926246
Well, there's this one coming: http://callofcthulhu-game.com/
It seems to be about investigation and atmosphere. We don't really know much about it since all we have are some screenshots. But I'm at least curious.
>>339926134
>Memeing and belittling
You know less than me
Speaking of lovecraftian games,is the Sunless sea any good?
>>339926246
http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Lovecraftian/#p=0&tab=NewReleases
>>339926428
You used the boat scene from Call of Cthulhu (THE most entry level Lovecraft story) as an comparison of actually killing Great Old Ones like you do in Bloodborne. You don't know shit.
>>339926387
Seems interesting! I'm not sure though if they should restrict themselves to Cthulhu, a story doesn't need to directly reference Lovecraft to be Lovecraftian.
>>339926134
>epic, so you don't understand anything about Lovecraft, thanks for confirming.
What are you even talking about? I simply described what happens in one of his book. Putting "meme" in front of the situation isn't an argument.
>>339926505
>>339926061
Didn't the boat just knock back the fucker into the building it came from?
I'm pretty sure it didn't kill it
>>339926505
>BLOODBORNE ISN'T LOVECRAFT BECAUSE YOU KILL GREAT ONES
>One of Lovecrafts own books has something similar
>SOMETHING SOMETHING ENTRY LEVEL
Kill yourself
>>339926681
Congratulations, you know more about Lovecraft than the average BB fanboy on /v/ does!
>>339926443
It's okay but there's some grinding involved and there's no clear story, rather everything seems like a separate story and they aren't that engaging.
>>339926723
In which lovecraft book do they kill a great one?
They always just prevent it somehow.
Killing a minion or demon is not the same as killing a god from another dimension
>>339926723
It's okay that you don't know anything about Lovecraft.
>something similar
See, you still don't get it.
>>339923929
Lovecraft is Boston.
>>339923328
no miyazaki no buy
>>339926919
More like New England
The region is more prominent than the city
>>339926957
epic
>>339923328
Can't wait. It'll be based off of Mountains of Madness. Fucking hype, hope it's not shit.
>>339923462
That's just plain wrong.
>>339923929
retarded bait
ayy lmao just say lovecraftian video game. gets all the pseuds going.
>Game takes place during an Antarctic expedition called Upuaut (meaning “Opener of the ways” in ancient Egyptian) and story revolves around a group of 4 scientists trying to pass beyond the limits of traditional human experience; transcending human conscious by using an artificial device called Conarium. Their firm rational approach towards the physical life is questioned as they experience a metaphysical world beyond using the mysterious Conarium.
Hmm.
>>339925272
...have you ever played watched/any footage of Bloodborne? Goddamn. Do you know who H.P. Lovecraft is? Have you read a single one of his stories?
>>339926902
>HURF DERF I LIKE 2 MK IMAGES WITH
>DIRECTIONS ON POSTING LIKE A DICKHED
>ND U R ALL CANCER
Fuck off back to /b/
>>339923576
Nigga I don't usually go out at night, even more so to the dark corners of the earth.
>>339923328
Bitch and meme all you want but this looks way too much like "We want the Bloodborne audience" with those statues, the lighting and candles everywhere.
Same as all those mediocre Dark Souls coat-tail riders like Lords of the Fallen, Salt&Sanctuary and whatnot.
>>339927164
kys
>>339926902
>ITS OK TAHT U DUNT KNOW ANTHNG ABOUT MUH LOVECRUFT
Nice argumentation faggot. Back to /lit/
>>339926902
So first you attempt to refute the comment by putting "meme" infront of it and now you post an ebin MS Paint tier reaction pic.
Flawless. Try reading some Lovecraft some time instead of parroting conjecture
>>339926894
>prevent it
Exact same in Bloodborne. Your demise is inevitable and each ending is a bleak one for your Hunter. You end up played by the Great ones either way
>>339926505
>Entry level
Raising your "I read books" flag at every opportunity like Lovecraft is actually a good writer.
Seriously, Lovecraft had very good inspiration and the imagery he created is incredible, but as far as writing goes even I could do better. Have your really read any of his works? His work is littered with redundancies, stupid descriptions that could not even scare my eight-years-old brother and hilariously blatant racism and misanthropy.
For something to be "Lovecraftian" is not a seal of quality. It's just a a subgenre of horror that emphasizes cosmic horror.
A few days ago a Lovecraftian game called Stygian released on Kikestarter, it's doing pretty good so far, even Obsidan backed it.
It looks promising, with some very cool details and tries something different with the art style.
Also you can have the Outsider in your party. That's fucking nice.
>>339927303
>statues and candles and dark lighting were invented by Bloodborne
HOLY SHIT
Is there anything Miyazaki cant do?
>>339926902
>>339926894
>>339926505
>>339926681
>>339926134
>>339925272
In Call of Cthulhu the titular Cthulhu eats 1d3 sailors and is then knocked out by a boat. In Dunwich Horror the three wise men use magic and shotguns and a dog to kill the spawn of Yog-Sothoth dead. In Lovecraft's stories it was impossible to permanently defeat the Great Old Ones - eventually they'll just win because they are immortal and can wait forever for humanity to die out. But a temporary victory was absolutely feasible.
Bloodborne was a great adaption of Lovecraft mixed in with traditional Souls gameplay.
>dude bloodborne is gr8 m8 it's totally lovecraft :^)
>>339927589
>barely survive with their spawn
>t-temporary victory!
top kuk
in bloodborne you absolutely destroy everything, become the most powerful being in the universe and literally ascend to become a great one, it's literally all power fantasy japanese crap
>>339927589
That's a nice copypaste from a superbunnyhop video. You unoriginal faggot.
>>339927714
>in bloodborne you absolutely destroy everything
So you never played Bloodborne? Good to know
>>339927758
Not an argument
>>339927589
>They use shotguns and a dog
Shotguns were useless,and the dogs ran away.
They used some magic chanting and the powder that made the spawn of Yog-Sothoth's follower's spawn dead.(Which would have died either way)
And it was 1 guy who knew the magic chants,the other two just followed him since they were collegues.
>>339926919
That explains why he was a huge bigoted racist.
>>339927903
An Anglo-Supremacist
>>339927480
Nah, senpai, Lovecraft isn't even the best author to use his themes or mythos, that's probably Howard who STILL only wrote pulpy schlock. You expect me to reveal my power level more than I have to when Lovecraft is the topic at hand? Get real.
>>339925662
Not that anon but Bloodborne is literally an homage to Lovecraft specifically, there are so many allusions to virtually all his works from Dunwich Horror to Dream Quest and Color Out of Space. Easter eggs everywhere too, and thematically it more closely fits with his ideas of cosmic horror than most other horror writers.
>>339927589
>>339927758
haha oh wow its even the one of the top comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voMAx-lKfIw
>>339927452
>Try reading some Lovecraft instead of parroting conjecture
Rich coming from a BBfag.
You kill Great Ones multiple times in BB, it totally misses the point and whining about the argument or images I picked doesn't make this less true.
>tfw can no longer talk about Lovecraft on /v/ without the thread turning into bloodborne shitposting
Lovecraft was a racist who didn't write any of the work he came out with. He forced his black sevent to write him stories because he couldn't think of anything. The more you know.
>>339927714
>become the most powerful being in the universe
that might be true
but you can still be fucking murdered by any old peasant very quickly
also in bloodborne, you're able to kill great ones because the blood infusion almost puts you on the same level with them. you'd probably never have a chance if you didn't have access to hunter powers
even though you can kill most of the great ones you encounter, and many of them are dead, Bloodborne is still one of the most faithfully inspired lovecraft settings
>lovecraftian
despite loving his works this has been abused so badly now it's on the same tier as kafkaesque and great gatsby of X
throwning it around like that just comes off very juvenile
>>339928196
fromdrones ruin everything
>>339927785
You do though. You slaughter shitloads of majorly infected beasts, and Great Ones themselves all on your lonesome.
You don't get to pull the "hurr you never played it" card in regards to killing the eldritch beings in BB because everybody knows it anyways.
>>339923328
>lovecraft thread is made
>the first post is about how bloodborne is the best lovecraft game and all others are shit
Like clockwork.
>>339928161
Oh no, a writer from late 19th century / early 20th isn't a sjw. Fucking terrible. Burn his books.
The Night Land > Lovecraft
>>339928443
I mean...
They managed to remove his bust from the World Fantasy awards.
Burning books is the next step in our Cis-kristallnacht.
>>339923576
lets be honest, the only ACTUALLY good part of DCOTE was the first few hours
then it becomes a really weird shooting game with clunky controls
>implying any bloodborne fan has actually read lovecraft and isn't just aware of the tropes
>>339928180
>You kill Great Ones multiple times in BB, it totally misses the point and whining about the argument or images I picked doesn't make this less true.
You kill literally one great one and the exact same thing happens in numerous of his books.
In the end of every Lovecraft book the Great Ones win, just like in Bloodborne.
Stop shitposting
>>339928307
How the fuck do you become the most powerful one when you literally get rekt by the Great Ones in the end? Have you even played the fucking game?
>>339927587
You know full well I was talking about the style as a whole and that it looks very reminiscent.
Don't pretend to be retarded.
>>339928180
>You kill Great Ones multiple times in BB
>Rom
>Celestial Emissary
>Mergo's Wet Nurse
>Living Failures
Not Great Ones.
>Amygdala
>Ebrietas
>Moon Presence
Lower gods, not really higher-dimension beings.
>Orphan of Kos
This one's the only actual Great One, and it's an actual infant when it's killed.
Regardless of the Hunter's works, the world is still fucked and hopeless due to the nature of the Great Ones. It's combat oriented, for sure, but it still fits well with Lovecraft's themes and it's demonstrated even in the endings and throughout that man will never be able to overcome the Great Ones. All of man's best efforts to even understand them have caused atrocities, madness, and physical maladies.
>>339928749
>Lower gods, not really higher-dimension beings
Nice semantics familia
>>339928583
>They managed to remove his bust from the World Fantasy awards.
Fuck, I googled it. It's true. I'm sad now.
>>339928307
>you become the most powerful being in Bloodborne
Not even close to true.
Ending 1 - You get rekt by Gehrman and essentially submit to the Great Ones
Ending 2 - You reufse to submit yet get taken over by the Moon Presence and forced to take over Gehrmans place as the Great Ones lap dog
Ending 3 - You become a Great One
Either way, you never defeat them and you're not even close to the most powerful person in BB
>>339928807
In the Lovecraft mythos there are even denominations between gods of varying levels. There are even lesser gods in his works that are earth-bound, same as Ebrietas and Amygdala.
>>339928749
Orphan of KoS doesn't even get killed, it gets released back into the sea to be reborn at another time.
>>339928662
Fag, I played Bloodborne, and YEARS before playing it, I read a shit ton of his stuff, even the ones people never talk about like The Music of Erich Zann.
For what it is, Bloodborne is a good adaptation of Lovecraftian themes in an action game. It's disgusting that you uppity elitist faggots get so hung up on "buhbubuh you can kill bosses in an action video game" that you look past the general themes of madness, dangerous knowledge, and the looming threat of something that is completely unknown. There's also thematic references to works of Lovecraft that heavily deal with dreams being their own realities.
>>339928954
Who are you quoting? That's two retards quoting something I never said.
You destroy every Great One and all of their minions you meet.
>>339928448
Thanks for the rec, just downloaded the librivox audiobook.
>>339929030
And the earthbound Lovecraft gods would still wreck the face of a little human, which is why a big fucking ship was required to ram Cthulhu back asleep for a little while longer.
>>339928749
Where do people get this shit? The game specifically referrers to some of those bosses as great ones. I would seriously like to know how you came to these conclusions when the item descriptions flat out contradict it.
Darkest dungeon and Grim Dawn are also well done lovecraftian games
>>339928954
doesn't ending 3 make you the most powerful being in bloodborne then?
>>339928583
Fucking degenerate americans.
>>339929141
Which version? I highly suggest you get A Story Retold.
>>339929232
https://librivox.org/the-night-land-by-william-hope-hodgson/
>>339929306
Yikes. Hope you're ready for some heavy purple prose.
>>339928615
I liked the ship part. I love it when a game is not purely about running around shooting.
>>339928197
WE WUZ LOVECRAFT N SHEIT
>>339929387
Can't be more purple than all the middle english romance stuff I read.
>>339923576
Eternal Darkness was good, but HEAVILY flawed.
>>339929492
kek
>>339929141
>librivox
>>339929151
Cthulhu is not really a Lesser God. That ramming him with a boat managed to put him back in his dormant state, even if for just a little while, even if he had only just waken up, is still a pretty damn feat. I think that Lovecraft wrote himself to the wall with his narrative and couldn't think of anything else.
But still, a human could, with a combination of luck and skill, overcome a Lesser Being. Depends on the Being, the situation, et caetera, but it's possible.
Anyway, if the point is to say that Bloodborne is not Lovecraftian because you can kill Gods, well suit yourself, but it's an action rpg so of course it won't have the same type of narrative than a horror novel.
>>339925707
>>can kill Great Ones
By the time you kill your first Great One you're on the path to becoming one yourself. The only way you can even face the strongest Great One is by becoming one. You overpower it with your own inside eyes.
>>339929062
You don't destroy a single Great One. You beat the Moon Presence (not a true great one) and Orphan of Kos (the only true great one and you don't "destroy him" as he gets sent back into the ocean to be reborn again. He doesn't die).
>>339929186
You become a lesser Great One (you essentially become the new Moon Presence), the Moon Presence isn't even close to the most powerful being in BB
>>339929186
it turns you into a retarded baby slug
>>339929603
>Lesser God
Cthulu is an outright great one
>Lovecraftian
maybe its cause i play a lot of board games but i have been so sick of this shit for so long. the last videogame i played that did it properly was latria tower in demon souls. it wasnt to heavy or forced and was only for one world. this "lovecraftian" buzzword needs to die on all mediums. videogames are shit because they are always years behind everything else other than tv
>>339929723
>muh des
fuck off fromdrone
>>339929639
All the bosses referred to as Great Ones are Great Ones. They just have varying levels of power.
Compare Amygdala to Moon Presence. They have a similar ability, the power to travel between dimensions. However, Amygdala's power is limited, as it can only transport other things and has to view the other planes through its minions.
Moon Presence, however, has the power even to create new dreams and nightmares.
Mergo is the most powerful Great One there is, which is why you have to kill it before it can mature. Orphan of Kos is probably third strongest after Mergo and Moon, and then probably Ebrietas, though she seems very weak by the time we fight her.
>>339929603
Cthulhu is beneath Nyarlathotep much less Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, or Shub-Niggurath
He is very much a small fry when it comes to the 'Gods' of Lovecraft.
>>339928701
No shit the style is reminiscent, but that style isn't BB exclusive. It's been done before.
>>339929837
he is not you fucking kid.
>>339929186
Being a Lesser Great One does make you more powerful than any human, but your are still under the influence of the Old Great Ones, the likes of Oedon.
>>339929796
Actually, now that I think of it, Oedon is probably more powerful than Mergo. It's kind of implied that Oedon is behind most of the events.
>>339923328
The only way a lovecraftian game could work is if it was a visual novel where you play a private eye doing private eye stuff. If it has guns, shooting and some sort of character progression (that is not descent into madness), then it's shit and not lovecraft at all.
>>339929960
Yes, he really is.
>>339929943
I liked Bloodborne because it came up with a unique universe based on Lovecraft, rather than just being lazy and being set in Innsmouth, like every other 'Lovecraftian' game.
>>339923882
>in the works
>literally nothing but concept art
cant wait to see the kickstarter in 2 years
>When, long ago, the gods created Earth
>In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
>The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
>Yet were they too remote from humankind.
>To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
>Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
>A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
>Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.
Lovecraftian game in the works when?
>>339930038
>the DLC was Innsmouth with the serial numbers filed off
wooooow
>>339926919
Providence actually. Lovely place too.
>>339928196
I'm actually very upset by this.
>>339929987
It pisses me off, the Cthulu game was fantastic at the start only to become a by the books FPS game by the end
>>339929034
The biggest Lovecraftian theme running through BB is that the true nature of humans is something disgusting, perverse, and bestial, and anything you might think of as better, more powerful, or more enlightened than humans is going to be equally repulsive.
Lovecraft is literal fucking garbage
>>339930156
Fishing village had a full backstory completely different to Innsmouth.
Fishing Hamlet was the result of Byrgenworth experimenting on the inhabitants after finding that they worshipped a Great One.
>>339923462
Quake too fucking obscure to you kiddo?
>>339930229
THERE we go, that's some thinking out of the box.
>>339930250
hence why I didn't say it was "literally" Innsmouth
It's still very much Innsmouth
>>339929837
As smalltime as he is among the Greater Gods, he is still a Greater God. Far more powerful than the Dunwich Abomination, or even the Innsmouth Creature.
>>339930347
Inspired by, yes.
You think it's a bad thing to come up with your own world? Do you prefer every game just literally being set in the Lovecraft mythos?
>>339930018
No.
I want a game that takes inspiration from M.R James.
Let's talk about real Lovecraftian games.
>>339929796
>Mergo is the most powerful Great One there is, which is why you have to kill it before it can mature
I just realized that the plot of Bloodborne is basically identical to Earthbound.
>>339929034
>It's disgusting that you uppity elitist faggots get so hung up on "buhbubuh you can kill bosses in an action video game" that you look past the general themes of madness, dangerous knowledge, and the looming threat of something that is completely unknown
This anon gets it. Anyone who dismisses Bloodborne because you kill Great Ones doesn't know shit about Bloodborne or Lovecraft. There's more to it than "dude tentacle monsters that are invincible lmao".
>>339930347
I do not think this is true except on a very basic level of "fishman village worshiping a sea god". Innsmouth is a LOT more normal-looking than the Fishing Hamlet. Lovecraft spends a lot of time describing how it could be just any shitty little New England fishing town. There's a fucking bus that runs there for god sake. It's hardly a flooded hellscape of barnacle encrusted shacks, full of dead fish and ten foot tall whalemen beating you with anchors. It's a crappy, impoverished squat dominated by a fucked up cult who dont like people prying into their affairs. Fishing Hamlet design has at least as much to do with Pirates of the Caribbean's Flying Dutchman as it does with Lovecraft.
dude tentacles lmao
>>339929709
No, anon, Cthulhu is just a harbinger for the great ones, a high priest in their temple if you will. He's not a regular mook like deep ones or mi-go but still not anywhe on the scale of azathoth or nyarly
>>339926505
What about the time when a bunch of old losers kill the chosen spawn of yog sothoth with magic and a dog? Oh wait I forgot that anything which isn't "On The Creation of Niggers" is "entry level"
>>339930527
Fuck off with your gay ass anime shit
>>339930805
>chosen spawn
Whateley, get off the Internet.
>>339930267
Anon, just because the final boss is named shub-niggurat doesn't make the game lovecraftian.
>>339930870
B-but Al Azif is cute!
>>339928265
>blaming fromdrones
it's the faggots who come into every thread claiming that BB isn't lovecraftian that shits up these threads
>>339929151
>>339929603
the only reason Cthulhu went back to sleep was because the stars weren't alive yet
It's like if you set an alarm to wake up for something important, and some noise wakes you up but you realize it's not time to get up yet and go back to sleep
>>339930216
blame Bethesda >>339923956
>>339931160
>it's the faggots who come into every thread claiming that BB isn't lovecraftian that shits up these threads
The very first post in this thread says otherwise.
>>339928196
yeah I was thinking the very same.
and I actually played and enjoyed bloodborn
>>339923328
cool so what is it called?
>>339931290
Transcend.
>>339928196
Funny how the most recent and one of the best Lovecraft vidya is talked about most in Lovecraft threads.
>>339923576
Eternal Darkness scared the shit out of me when I was 11. Fucking bathtub jump scare.
>>339929960
he literally is just a priest of the really powerful creatures in the lovecraft universe.
cuthullu is only a thread to humanity because should he ever awaken he would call his masters and direct their attention to earth
>>339930906
There's a couple more surface level references to Lovecraft than that, but I would say the game is on some level trying to project an atmosphere of a hostile, unsettling alien world that has reached into our own world and perverted its order. And that's very Lovecraftian concept, even though the game's response to this is basically "now strap your double barreled shotgun on and fuck some elder shit up with it, faggot"
Its like a bit degenerated Bob Howard-esque take on Lovecraft's cosmic horror, but its definitely beyond just the surface influence, if not much so.
Is Lovecraftian the new fedoracore after steampunk went to the normalfags?
Could Hawkeye beat Ultron?
>>339931834
i cant imagine how much of a failure and disgrace of human life you would have to be for this question to mean anything to you
>>339931834
>>339931897
>thread finally devolves into full-blown shitposting
You cunts are the worst.
>Lel, I got nothing to say that's relevant to the discussion at hand
>better start flinging shit
>>339931940
Is that the famous Nigger Man?
Is it true that Lovecraft was so racist even the average racists of the day were like "Damn dude calm down"
>>339932112
I just think it's silly that BB should follow some imaginary rules from Lovecrafts writings when they are not officially tied together in any form.
>>339930746
Thats because nyarlethotep and azathoth are outer gods. Lol no fucking great old one compares to them. The true extent of cthulhu's power is vague, considering the last time he did battle was hundreds of millions of years ago when he btfo the elder things for trying to mess with him.
>>339931834
Do you need something to feel elitist about? Might I suggest taking an interest in politics?
>>339928928
>>339929201
He was super racist. Embarrassingly so; committed to an infantile infatuation with his ow culture and people (as opposed to a more mature love of blood and culture), and whining about the vices of people he could not possibly have been bothered to understand.
>>339932636
What the fuck are you babbling about nigger lover?
>>339932727
If he's an embarrassment to the WFW, what do you expect them to do?
>>339931834
it was the new fedoracore a few years back
>>339928448
A shame there will never be any good vidya about it, it's such a bleak setting.
>le lovecraft maymay
>so edgy so dark
>DUDE INSANITY LMAO
>you cannot even comprehend
>LIGHTS, CAMERA, INSANITY
>dude cthulhu dude tentacles woah squids dude
>le sickdark
>ancient ayliums
getting sick of this meme already
>>339933243
>>DUDE INSANITY LMAO
Why the fuck did I laugh at this
>>339933406
You're stupid
>>339933537
>>339932198
>>339932636
People think Lovecraft was racist. This is true. Very, very true. But most people don't really understand what Lovecraft's racism was.
The common theme throughout his work isn't the kind of basic, garden variety "the blacks are going to rape our women, immigrants will undermine our country racism." It was "everyone except the purest Anglo-Saxons are knuckle dragging subhumans who can barely string together sentences much less harm proper society." The only time they're ever a danger to society is when some white guy thinks their crazy barbarian magic is keen and uses it and them to their own ends. The villains of any actual note in Lovecraft who are the crazy gods, are evil white men making use of darkest magic.
He was at his core basically deathly afraid white people might want to pal around with non-whites. Their danger is not any kind of concrete, "they're going to overrun and kill us all" thing in his stories, it's a vague, ephemeral tone. Where their mere existence is a symptom of way the present sucks and pre-20th century Providence was super cool. Even the miscegenation stories are amusingly practical affairs. An explorer marries an ape goddess from some secret African ape city. Cultists summon a god so he can impregnate a girl and use his kids to do weird shit. Fishing village marries fish people so they can get fish. Sex is barely even acknowledged, and certainly not that any one, even the alien monsters, might do it for something beyond a consensual, contractual arrangement to produce kids (though it's been awhile since I read Dunwich, so I don't exactly recall the circumstances there).
In a very basic way, he was super racist even for his time. In another way, his racism is amusingly quaint and completely divorced from any political or realistic stance that it's hard to really treat it as anything but an odd quirk of his.
>>339932636
He was pretty racist even for his time but since when have we ever spurned artistic creations because of their personal beliefs? Birth of a Nation is still one of the best pieces of cinema ever created despite being horribly racist to compared to our modern sensibilities.
>>339932636
kys
>>339932636
>WAHHHHHHHHHHH HES WAYCISS WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH KILL WHITEY
t. liberal
>>339932134
No idea, but I doubt it as Nigger-man was presumably a black cat.
>>339933623
This isn't exactly true. Lovecraft realized there wasn't anything actually innately superior about Anglos. Racism was his way of squaring his sense of a meaningless cosmos with his basic human need to love and safeguard his ego.
>In a cosmos without absolute values, we have to rely on the relative values affecting our daily sense of comfort, pleasure, & emotional satisfaction. What gives us relative painlessness & contentment we may arbitrarily call “good,” & vice versa. This local nomenclature is necessary to give us that benign illusion of placement, direction, & stable background on which the still more important illusions of “worthwhileness,” dramatic significance in events, & interest in life depend. Now what gives one person or race or age relative painlessness & contentment often disagrees sharply on the psychological side from what gives these same boons to another person or race or age. Therefore “good” is a relative & variable quality, depending on ancestry, chronology, geography, nationality, & individual temperament. Amidst this variability there is only one anchor of fixity which we can seize upon as the working pseudo-standard of “values” which we need in order to feel settled & contented — & that anchor is tradition, the potent emotional legacy bequeathed to us by the massed experience of our ancestors, individual or national, biological or cultural. Tradition means nothing cosmically, but it means everything locally & pragmatically because we have nothing else to shield us from a devastating sense of “lostness” in endless time & space.
The fear and hatred of blacks that his stories evince is all about blacks as a missing link between white people and apes. Blacks remind Lovecraft that there's nothing good about people and ultimately they are just animals. They serve the same purpose in his stories as sea-creatures: no matter how highly whites think of themselves, things like the deep ones remind them that they came from the sludge.
>>339927903
kill yourself babbyboy
>actually wanting a game about le meme squid god
>>>/r/eddit
>>339934801
HOL UP
>>339933623
>Not based in reality
>South Africa
>The west today
No his concerns were more or less foreshadowing moreso than illegitimate.
>>339934801
SO YOU ARE SAYIN
>>339923328
"Tͪ́͛̚͘͘R̷ͫA̡̔̐͂̾̊͂͑̾̀͟N̡͋ͯ͘S̨ͤ̌ͨͣ͐̀͘C̄͐̽̈́͊̋̕͜͜E̷̢̾̈̅ͣͫ̍ͭͬN͋̓͂D̔̇͊ͭ"
Wow, very subtle there.
>>339923823
>tentacles in the very title
God damn it.
Not going to judge the game's quality but their target audience doesn't need to be pandered to in the fucking font of the title. Everyone gets it.this is nitpicky as shit, but still...
>>339928196
It's one of the most recent. It's by far the most popular. And by most accounts, one of the best within this niche. It also mixes its own themes as a bait&switch to the lovecraftian core, so it's not 100% recycling/adapting his work (although it also does that)
What do you expect? Honestly.
Do you make a military shooter thread and get pissed when Ace of Spades gets less mentions than Batllefield or CoD?
>>339934801
WE WUZ SLUDGE AND SHIEEEET?
*smacks tentacles profusely*
>>339934801
Fair enough. I've really only consumed his fictional work, and not all of it either. Someday I'll get around to his ludicrous amount of letters.
This might also be a good branching off point to mention that while people beating alien gods is a bit anti-Lovecraft, shitters who harp on about the heroes winning at all are being just as dumb. Not even just with gods, but a lot of his horror stories had the heroes not only triumphing, but overcoming whatever sick shit they saw. Usually through good old manly pluck. They were often left disturbed for their whole life, but no more than it being an event they wouldn't speak of. Otherwise the survivors tended to actually just keep on.
A lot of villains were human as well, and their attempts to truck with the things man was not meant to know didn't work out so well for them either. There was often a common fear of ancestral disease and sin. For all Lovecraft loved the past, he was deathly afraid of it coming back to haunt people. His own familial history gave him ample stuff to worry about. There was a lot of dark secrets in his characters' family histories, not always of the monstrous variety.
"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" is a great story people should read if they want a look at what other kinds of stories Lovecraft wrote that don't neatly fit into the Cthulhu and Fish people pigeonholing his work has gotten. He didn't think much of it, but it's probably his best written work. "The Rats in the Walls" is another in a similar vein.
There's other genres too, especially weird dream stories. "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" is a straight up fantasy adventure, featuring numerous callbacks to previous stories. Dreams featuring heavily in Bloodborne was a very pleasant surprise, given how often this very prominent feature of Lovecraft's work is ignored. Everyone should read "Sweet Ermengarde" becauseit's just a straight up comedy story with no super natural elements.
>>339935656
>you will never slowly warp your mind and body into that of an eldritch abomination
Why even bother living?
>>339935876
>he doesn't know
>it's the Lovecraft/Eldrich age of vidya
I am absolutely in favor of this.
>>339935876
shieeeeee-
*jojo's around while contemplating his misfortune*
>>339923862
That's the spoopy
>>339936216
I actually really wish I could play Bloodborne. Atmosphere and lore wise it seems to have the potential to be my favorite by far souls game, but sadly I really can't justify buying a PS4 just for it.
One day, perhaps.
>>339936496
It really might be. Imagine your whole life being a series of situations and environments specifically prepared just for you by some unfathomable entity. Sadly it has been done already many times because it fits the videogame narrative so well.
>>339931834
Nah, he was too racist for that to happen.
I know like 3 people who tried to get into his works to be le quirky and dropped it after first hearing about Niggerman.
>>339936558
just be sure to not ruin your experience by being impatient and watching a youtube playthrough, even if you only get a PS4 a decade from now. It's well worth it (playing the game, that is, not buying a console for a single one).
>>339936558
Don't do it. Wait for the ps4k or however it's called. You can play the game with maybe more than 15-20 fps.
>>339930876
Underrated post
>>339937580
FromSoft are in no obligation to patch the game for PS4K, only those released after Oct 2016 will be obliged to. So it'll still perform the same in a PS4K as it does durrently on PS4. Unless, of course, FromSoft actively works on it.
The anon should wait regardless but not for that reason. Once PS4K comes out the base PS4 will get a price cut, so it's a win-win for him.also it doesn't constantly run at those framerates, stop shitposting.
>>339938152
Feels like it when I play it.
One of the more reasons why I can't go back and replay that good game.
>>339939241
Mayhaps you're simply not used to unlocked 30fps anymore. Because in terms of console performance, BB isn't close to being the worst:
DaS2 > BB = DaS3 > DaS1 > DeSanyway this is going off topic
There should be a game where you start as a lower-level eldritch creature (physical, spectral, shapeshifting, cosmic, for example), and by destroying and consuming other creatures of ever-increasing strength, you expand and develop your own powers.
Alright you fellas got me pretty hooked on some cool shit, What are so cool eldrich horror esque games that i can get my hands on? And no bloodborne, I cant afford a PS4.
>>339925707
BB Great Ones don't stay dead, are arguably never alive to begin with and have a real problem with existing on multiple planes.
Most you do is banish them from a single plane.
>>339928615
I came here to post this but I was too late:
>>339923956
>>339940009
>Slither.io
>>339941096
Pretty much, but more tentacles/sludge/mist.
I love Eternal Darkness, but "Lovecraftian" is practically a meaningless buzzword in the context of video games. I wish I had a dollar for every time a video game claimed to be "inspired by Lovecraft" just because it contains something spooky or supernatural. It would be nice if some game developer could manage to make a psychological horror game without namedropping Lovecraft all the time.
>>339928749
Moon Presence was absolutely a Great One, what the fuck are you talking about? Flora was bar none the strongest boss lore wise in the game
>>339928749
Wet Nurse and Flora are Great Ones, if we're talking the distinction because "natural" Great One and Kin.
Ebrietas is not, since she bleeds paleblood. And takes Kin damage. Flora is absolutely a higher dimension being on top of that.
Not sure what the fuck your criteria is, here.
>>339941235
Yeah it's suffered the same fate as "roguelike" but not to the same extent. There has to be something anti-anthrocentric and mysterious in a horror story for it to be Lovecraftian. You can't just explain away something, there has to come the realization that man is too insignificant to properly grasp the magnitude of the madness that they've been subjected to. We're supposed to be the insects that have made up explanations of all-powerful gods about the huge shadowy figures that walk all over us, and the outer gods are the entities that are beyond the perception of even those giants.
>>339940009
It would be awesome if you had no single clue how to navigate through the interface of the game and had to experiment and figure it out as a kind of meta game to simulate the type of madness that humans would experience when trying to unlock the mysteries of eldritch beings. It would probably be horribly annoying and stupid but that's one part of Lovecraft that's nigh impossible to depict.
>>339923576
Millenials are anyone who wasn't atleast 18 by the most recent turn of the century. Get real, man.
>>339942548
Ideally, how you hunt and consume things would be different depending on the type of creature you were and how you evolved. A spectral horror, for example, would need to possess or influence a host and have it decay slowly over time.
>>339923328
Fifty bucks says it's going to be a reskinned Evil Within with more tentacles and bog monsters.
>>339933087
Yeah, I've been reading those other stories written by other authors that expand on the whole setting. Most of them tend to be really good.
My favorite was one with the space-ship.
>>339935876
what game is that?
>>339940009
>There should be a game where you start as a lower-level eldritch creature
-You get infused with the blood of a great one 30 seconds into the game, for all intents and purposes you are an immortal ethereal dream/realm cosmical traveling low-tier eldritch creature/servant
>and by destroying and consuming other creatures
-You gain power (level up) through the blood of others (or memories, hence Blood "echoes") and get closer to true nature of the cosmosand literal eyes inside your head(gaining insight) by witnessing, getting second-hand accounts of, stepping into the presence, or killing:
>other creatures of ever-increasing strength
>you expand and develop your own powers.
-By the end, through climbing up the chain,and eating a handful of baby umilical cords, just for fun, you get to overcome a Great One.
SHIT, I think you're onto something
>>339943410
Not exactly what I meant. I've played Bloodborne, and you have a point. Hell, Hunter is only a "human" name for them. They're called Echo Fiends.
>>339943534
yeah I was just fucking around, but strangely enough it actually fits your description
>>339943153
NWN2 on Sigil:City of Doors PW
>>339923462
How about you stop posting you fucking faggot.Sonyfags are literally the only people on /v/ that go out of their way to shitpost in every thread.
>>339923328
>New Lovecraftian game in the works
shill your kickstarter elsewhere
>>339944986
thanks anon
>>339935089
Are you 12? Everyone knows Lovecraft was a sperging racist. Is the American education system really this fucking bad?
>>339945087
and you're obviously a fanboy of some other team if you genuinely think that.
As an idort it's very easy to see that everyone shitposts and falseflags.
>>339945814
The American education system never touches on Lovecraft, and if they did wouldn't talk about how racist he was. Americans have to "discover" him while looking for an interest that is "unique" and "geek chic."
