Why no new games based off Lovecraft's mythos?
lovecraft is old and busted
too many people trying to imitate it without fully understanding what made lovecraft so great.
not PC
>>340583320
how can you understand that you cannot understand
>>340582969
Why is that flaming duck so smug?
>>340583320
Enlighten me. Share the knowledge that was never meant for human minds to know.
>>340582969
There's this, but it may be vaporware now.
Darkest Dungeon is close enough
>>340584652
Darkest Dungeon was a very low point in my life.
>>340584880
Did you not learn when to use leper?
>>340585085
He ended up the only sane person in my party.
>>340585173
basically bring him on any non-boss missions to deal shit loads of damage, the cove bosses also fear his fuckhuge crits.
>>340585483
It's a game I desperately want to beat, but I'm certain I will FULLY lose every level 6 I send to the Darkest. My heart cant take it.
>>340583790
I don't know if you're serious, but what made Lovecraft so great was the fear brought about by a sudden jarring of how the main character interpreted the world. All of his best stories included some discovery that radically changed what it meant to be human or even just exist in general. Copycats fail when all they try to do is replicate the fear rather than the philosophy.
>>340582969
A real Lovecraft game would always end with the player character dead, dying, insane, or turned into something inhuman. No modern studio has the guts to sentence a player's avatar to bad ends as the only destination.
This is a Japanese Nyarlathotep
>>340585612
On the plus side if you pick it up again the town events are pretty nice, and I would suggest throwing some level 1s into the Darkest to get a feel for it and not lose anything of value
>>340585982
>town events
These aren't just another thing designed to fuck you over is it?
>>340585945
and this is a Japanese Hastur
Pic related just came out.
Noone fucking knows about it but fuck you i like it.
>>340586121
They can be good or bad, a nice feature overall since they got a fair number of them.
>>340585903
>i didnt read any lovecraft stories: the post
half if not more of his stories didnt end that way though, what the fuck are you talking about
>call of cthulu ends with the main character realizing hes next
>mountains of madness ends with the main character trying to save the other expedition
>the one with the well and the ratbeasts ending with the guy escaping
>>340585396
But BB is old as dirt
>>340582969
Bloodborne is only a year old.
>>340583320
bloodborne did it right, and probably better than any other "homage"
>>340586261
>dressed as bridget
>>340583320
oh come on, it takes like 5 seconds of search and two minutes of reading to understand the major themes of lovecraft
Lovecraft's stories aren't even that long. I don't know why people just don't read them.
>>340589847
It's more fun to just post fahnny cthulhu memes.
>>340582969
It would work best as an adventure game, or puzzle game or something. Some game where shooting your way out isn't really the idea.
>>340589847
cuz they are kind of shit
>>340590606
That fatty should lose weight.
>>340586859
To be fair, most Lovecraft stories do end with the main character dying, realizing they're about to die,or going mad. In Mountains of Madness, while the main character didn't go mad his partner did upon viewing Yog-Sothoth while they flew away.
>Lovecraftian influence
>Just tentacles and maybe a crazy person
>>340590948
I want GDT to make that movie so bad. So fucking bad.
>>340591295
tentacles are cool though
>>340582969
because video games are about wish-fulfillment and power fantasy, and lovecraftian fiction is about being utterly insignificant and powerless
>>340586402
looks like a bloodborne copypaste what's special about it ?
>>340589606
which almost all "lovecraftian" video games miss. they don't understand any of the reason behind why he wrote about this stuff while holding the beliefs that he did or the direction he was going with it. They just do oh shit i'm going insane by looking at stuff (which is fun for settings anyways but still).
>>340592552
They might also understand its tough to convey those feelings into fun and compelling mechanics
>ctrl + F Sunless sea
>0 results
disappointed
Because God hates us.
>>340592552
>They just do oh shit i'm going insane by looking at stuff
Here's a twist, what if they made you go insane in real life
>>340586402
>Bloodborne the Indie Version
>>340594547
never heard of it
>>340582969
Lovecrafts mythos sucks because It's actually Derleth's mythos.
>>340587494
>came out last year
>old as dirt
b8/8 made me reply
>>340585945
>>340586261
please tell me Shub-Niggurath has big titties, it takes a lot to feed all those kids.
Fallout 4 far harbor has a lot of lovecraftian influence
When it comes to recent Lovecrafitan efforts, I recomend The Last Door parts 1 and 2.
If you can get past it looking a tad bit too pixalated for its own good, it's one of the most atmospheric horror adventure games out there.
As for future games, Frogwares seems to be finally delivering on what they hinted to be capable of trough such efforts as Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened.
http://frogwares.com/sinking-city-news/
>>340596613
Did someone say Goat of a Thousand Young?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rd8Hqy_8Ao
>>340596445
You don't see Shub-Niggurath
Cthulhu has a good OL thing going for her though.
>>340596328
Only if you buy into his interpretations of the mythos without actually reading Lovecraft, or bastardize your understanding of his work further by going by such inanities as the Simon Necronomicon or the role playing game.
Darkest dungeon
>all the shit is there from the start
>think its just some spooky monsters like skeletons and meat men
>slowly find out that everything including yourself and your men are all eldrich creatures
>all made by the heart of the world
>the heart of darkness
>kill it, it goes back to sleep, you become the new ancestor after decades of knowing of this
>"Ruin has come to our family"
>>340597378
another subtle thing
>last area is open at the start
>try to attempt it
>everyone goes instantly insane
>>340590948
that's the thing, what you said isn't true. most of his stories don't end in the main characters death, though he is surrounded by it.
that being said, now that i think if it many of his most famous stories do result in the main character going bonkers or dead, such as:
shadow out of time
the other gods
he
the dunwich horror
the rats in the walls
>>340598527
I'd argue that a few of his others went this way as well: Dagon had the narrator hunted by the Deep Ones, Shadow over Innsmouth had the narrator become one, Celephais ended with their body dying but their mind being trapped in a dreamworld, Call of Cthulhu left him traumatized and paranoid about his future.
The Consuming Shadow is sort of one.
Fight off the horrors of a god invading our world, with limited time, resources andsanity, trust me, next to health, this is the first thing that goes.
>>340599080
dagon leaves things ambiguous enough to question if the narrator has just lost his mind though didn't it?
>>340597065
I don't know why anyone would sexualize Cthulu but it makes my dick happy
>>340597312
Lovecrafts idea of his own horrors were blatantly built upon their incomprehensibility and the sheer horror of mankinds mental limitations.
Derleth couldn't handle the idea because he was a super christfag and spoiled it with dualism concepts.
>>340599705
Which would fit it into the "___ goes mad" part of the three endings in Lovecraft: ___ goes mad, ___dies\is about too, ___is left otherwise broken. Very few of the stories end with the protagonist making it out fine.
>>340597508
Was this a recent thing? Haven't played in ages, but unless it was super hidden I haven't found this.
>>340600032
I didn't follow the reply chain all the way up. I just saw the poster talking about not everyone dying. but yeah insanity is pretty common in them.
>>340599993
I know. Derleth went as far in missing the point as to develop a cosmic "system" where every Old One was put in a role within the cosmos, "correct" or blatantly edit out things he disagreed with in Lovecraft's prose, and write posthumous "collaborations" with "Lovecraft" or even pose some of his stuff as that of Lovecraft's.
An argument has been made that despite his faults, Derleth saved Lovecraft's work from obscurity with Arkham House, but given Lovecraft's wide net of friends and correspondence, some who later voiced their displeasure on how Derleth jewed the publishing rights from the hands of Lovecraft's relatives and closer friends, it can also be debated that he did his legacy more harm than good.
>>340600998
He's literally "that friend"
>Hey anon you're writing a fantasy novel
>Well I think it would be really great if you added this generic satanic overpowered dark lord into your story!
>>340601264
More like an acquaintance of his actual friends that happened to be at the right place at the right time and learn of Lovecraft's death quicker than those who would have handled his legacy with more grace, getting the rights to his works for a song while the corpse was still warm.
>>340589275
Nah it's just another case of slapping tentacles on a game and calling it a day
>>340582969
The thumbnail looks like a really pissed off psyduck.
>>340594820
>>340592552
They really need to hire an autist fuck to transcribe the work of another autist fuck. Howard grew up confused and with his dreams crushed.
>>340599787
You call that sexualizing Cthulhu?
I heard that sunless sea has influences
Has anybody played it
>>340605665
show me a more sexualized one
>>340605857
Sunless sea fucked itself by having perma death combined with a slow paced game.
>>340605857
Yes. It's its own thing, as is Fallen London, the browser game it span out from. But overall the world building is dedicatedly Lovecraftian, albeit with a bit "zanier" touch to it at times.
>>340606272
That's not what I meant. I meant that if that green haired woman is Cthulhu then I'm a monkey's ass.
>>340582969
Obligatory "bloodborne is the best lovecraft game ever and all other games are shit" reply
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