What are some good Lovecraftian games, /v/? Are there any that actually, properly adapt his work?
>>341872773
>Do any games capture the depth of [literature]
Nope.
>>341872879
what comes the closest?
>>341872773
Bloodborne and Darkest Dungeon have some good Lovecraft elements, with Bloodborne having more of the cosmic horror elements
Persona 2
darkest dungeon is pretty good
also this ones coming up, looks decent so far: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1698219403/stygian-a-lovecraftian-computer-rpg
>>341873009
>>341873074
>Darkest Dungeon is lovecraftian
explain further
>>341872967
No idea
But this might help you find something
http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Lovecraftian/#p=0&tab=TopSellers
>>341873275
read rats in the walls
Nothing really quite encapsules the theme of cosmic fear of unknown in video game form but if you just want to experience to superficial elements then Dark Corners of Earth is a fun experience
>>341872967
Shadow of the Comet?
Eternal Darkness?
Cosmic horror isn't really used in to many videogames.
>>341872773
Why does he look so autistic?
>>341873009
>Bloodborne
>lovecraftian
>when it lets you KILL cosmic entities, as a puny human
no
>>341873275
>inherit mansion with horrors inside
>fight against eldritch enemies that challenges your sanity
>dead characters stay dead, no savescumming, no easy modes.
>narrator is Wayne fucking June who has done Lovecraft books in the past
>dev name is red hook studios
>>341873880
That's the face of racism (or realism as I like to call it), not autism.
>>341873880
Lovecraft would be a /pol/ poster in today's time. The guy was pretty awesome. Granted, he might of just off'd himself seeing how many liberal cucks obsess over his "The Call of Cthulhu", which even he disliked.
They Bleed Pixels takes directly from its work, though someone who had never read any of his stuff would never know that.
>>341872773
Alone in the Dark (the original DOS game, not the sequels or remake)
Bloodborne.
>Fishing Hamlet is Shadows over Insmouth
>Cosmic entities
>Insanity as a gameplay mechanic
>Gods crossbreeding with humans
>A shoggoth protecting Nightmare of Mensis
>Forbidden knowledge
>Carryl Runes are inscribed words from the Gods
>Tangible dream worlds
It isn't the absolute best but no other game gets that close.
>>341874526
>killing Great Ones and actually ascending to their level
>not immediately going mad as soon as you start seeing eldrich shit
not that close
>>341872773
I'm sure you heard other people saying this but, Bloodborne.
It has a sanity meter, with less insight your "beast transformation" lasts more and deals more damage, or if you have a lot of insight you start seeing the world as it truly is, and Frenzy affects you more. It also has a really good atmosphere.
The only thing that can be a problem if you are a more hardcore fan is that in Bloodborne you eventually gather enough power to kill the beings.
>>341874091
Wasn't Lovecraft considered unusually racist, even among his own contemporaries?
>>341872773
CoC: Dark Corners of the Earth, if you can get the fucking thing to not crash or lock up.
CoC: The Wasted Land, if you want an impossible to beat turn based strategy game.
CoC: Prisoner of Ice. piss poor adventure game with a lovecraft theme.
CoC: Shadow of the Comet, another piss poor adventure game but with memes.
Penumbra/Black Plague, Lovecraft inspired game with the engine named after HP Lovecraft, halfway decent.
Then you have some random CoC game coming out ass end of this year or next year which will probably just be a rip off of outlast.
>>341873954
My interpretation of the game might be wrong but i saw it as literally "just a dream" created by the great ones to manipulate you. whenever someone or thing dies, it just awakes (like you submit ending)
you are mostly breaking free from their control, not killing them (and even then, the final boss wanted someone who could stand to him, as it triggers some form of transformation and turn you into one of them)
>>341873954
You only kill one and that is by transcending into a cosmic entity.
>Rom is the husk of a brain dead great one
>Amygdala are just normal creatures
>Brain of mensis is just a brain
>Ebreitas is an abandoned spawn
>Moon presence only dies because you become a Great One
>>341874628
Frenzy is your brain rapidly learning forbidden knowledge. Insight is learning it safely. You can have knowledge and not go insane.
>>341874795
>but with memes
Go on...
>>341874747
Oh without a doubt, I'm not kidding when I say he's pol incarnated
Here's one of his poems:
When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Iove'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.
>>341874795
>Then you have some random CoC game coming out ass end of this year or next year which will probably just be a rip off of outlast.
There are actually 3 of them. The Sinking City, Call of Cthulhu and some other I forgot.
>>341873954
>he thinks that you actually kill Great Ones in BB
you're fucking adorable anon
>>341874885
IMO I think that it's more that since Great Ones have a transcendental existence, even if you kill their body in one reality, they can still survive in others. See: Great Ones living in the CDs after you kill them in Yharnam/the Nightmare
>inb4 the CDs are on the same plane of reality as Yharnam
>>341872773
>ctrl+f "Quake"
>no results
Quake, you faggots.
>this fag's books hyped up
>try reading them
>they are unbearable, filled with autism, the same elements reused in every story, 5 adjectives for every verb and noun.
>compares blacks to monkeys
can we forget about this racist autismo already
>>341873954
>when it lets you KILL cosmic entities, as a puny human
Try including that shit into a game whitout having to kill them then. What would be the point then?
LMAO LE SPOOKY MONSTER THAT KILLS YOU EVERYTIME XD
>>341875036
>Rom, Amygdala, Ebrietas
all legitimate Great Ones, check your trophies
>Brain of Mensis
legitimate Great One, read the Living String description
>Soulsborne cucks already sniffing their own farts
Kill this thread NOW
>>341875138
why do people choose to live with such irrational hate? being so angry all the time doesn't sound fun, it sounds exhausting and miserable
>>341873880
he was.
>>341875167
One is being made by that really shitty English game team that have made nothing but shit.
The other is being made by the dudes who make all the Sherlock Holmes games and they only ever made 1 decent Holmes games and The Awakened was fucking horrible.
>>341875374
Because I was denied the life I should have had.
>>341875267
It isn't the best. I understand from a gameplay mechanic that dying of insanity to a boss wouldn't be fun.
Still, Cthulhu got rammed by a boat and he fucked off
>>341875374
You don't find it hilarious?
>>341875670
being racist ironically for laughs isn't what I'm talking about, I'm talking about people who are genuinely consumed by rage like Lovecraft was
>>341875351
>pcucks mad because they will never ever get to play the best lovecraftian game available
Some pretentious walking similator that end with a bunch of literally sub-human dark skin humanoids worshipping a forbidden idiol.
It'd fail due to Lovecrafts ideas about blacks.
>>341873954
>Cosmic entities
>Powerful
They are just weird and humans go crazy if try to look at them. They are pathetically weak phisically. A fucking WW1 boat with a couple mines killed fucking Cthulhu.
>B-but he can regenerate cause of the stars and shit.
Yeah, in about a million years.
People will say Bloodborne, and they're right, it's an excellent "Lovecroftian" game. But the moments passed and if you go into it after having it recommended for that reason you will likely be disappointed.
Bloodbornes story and "twist" (if you can call it that) work because it played in tandem with the gameplay and was a ruse. No one expected cosmic horror, the marketing and pre-release footage focused entirely on a Gothic style game with werewolves and other similar types of genre conventions you'd expect from Van Hellsing.
When we finally played the game that stuff was all there, no false marketing or trickery (ala MGS2), but there was obviously something more going on than a Plauge of Beasts, and early game you get a few hints with references to Great Ones and some otherworldly archetiture that just gives off unsettling vibes. If (aka WHEN) you get dropkicked into Insta-kill by a Snatcher it becomes even more apparent that something is amiss, spoopy Latin chanting, statues of full blown Ayy-Lmaos and mummified corpses wearing cages on thier heads. From there it goes further and further down the rabbithole, traversing nightmares/dreams and unveiling fucked up nature of the Church, even meeting actual great ones.
Coming back to my other point, the story ties into the gameplay, it's not just scary because of the story, as a player you are always one mistake away from death and death can be devestating since lanterns are so few. Plus there's no map, or direction of any kind, you're lost and each step past where you made it last time could unveil a new horror, both storywise (I.e a disgusting monster that is repulsive to look at) or Gameplaywise (repulsive monster kills you in 2). This is doubly true because the game subverts expectations, if you went in expecting werewolves and zombies, and suddenly find a octopus man that Litterally slurps on your brain, you start expecting ANYTGING to be around the next corner.
"The fear of unknown" etc...
>>341875374
Everyone's always angry about something
>>341876282
>A fucking WW1 boat with a couple mines killed fucking Cthulhu.
A steam boat rammed a gods avatar that was checking if his alarm was due to go off, which it wasn't.
>H.P 'Nigger-man' Lovecraft
>>341876348
>traversing Central Yharnam
>killing werewolves and townsfolk
>"yeah, Victorian Souls is pretty cool, I guess"
>pick up item
>MADMANS' KNOWLEDGE
>See a slug made of stars flying out of a broken skull
>read about how eldrich wisdom of unknown entities called the Great Ones drives men insane
>crush it and hear ADFAJALKCJGFDC;AHDF;LKJ in the background
>gain insight
best foreshadowing of all time
>>341875138
>muh black racism
Lovecraft hated fucking everyone that wasn't from England, cause he had a solid steel hard-on for the Brits. He shit on blacks, arabs, rednecks, eskimos. Hell, half of his non-deific alien races were backwards ponces that fucked themselves into oblivion.
And at the end of the day, so fucking what? People act like he was out stringing minorities up on a daily basis and living the unrepentant high life, when in reality he was an antisocial sperglord who wrote a few offensive poems and was so fucking poor it literally killed him. It's like picking on that stuttering fat kid in high school who never bathed and everyone hated, except everyone waited a hundred fucking years after he died to insult him.
>>341878168
Jesus christ dude, I wasn't fucking attacking him for it. I was just pointing something out. Chill the fuck out, you fucking autistic.
Hey is it PC to call niggers 'Lovecraftian Pets'?
How do you depict indescribable horror?
>>341878551
probably, if not for any other reason that very few people would get the reference
>>341878643
*texture not found*
>>341878643
for visual media?
Don't focus on the DUDE TENTACLES LMAO aspect of it, focus more on the "madmen commit atrocities in their worship of these great beings" aspect of it
>>341878445
>reply to post
>d-don't single me out!
Autism, ladies and gentlemen
>>341878168
>You will never marry an assimilated Jewess
Why live...
>>341878643
Make it confusingly indescribable
Name a more Lovecraftian game to come out in the last 10 years than Bloodborne. Hard mode: no direct adaptations of Lovecraft
>>341879332
WoW has Old Gods in it desu
>>341879782
You mean Warcraft 3, kiddo.
>>341879952
No, I mean World of Warcraft
>>341880013
yeah ok kid
>>341879782
>WoW
>lore
lol ok
>ctrl+f "Saya no Uta"
>no results
You guys are a bunch of cunts.inb4 "vn's are not games"
>>341881370
wtf is this, anon? some guro porn vn?
>>341872773
You're looking for Eternal Darkness.
>>341881370
Virtual novels are not games.
>>341881493
piss off, clueless moron
>>341881493
It's a short (<5h) VN.
MC has accident in which his parents died and he now sees everything as some guro shit, including people and excluding some loli.
Atmosphere in it reeks of madness.
I really recommend that you play it.
>>341881715
There was no game produced in the last 3 years anon
>>341881834
>I really recommend that you play it.
Can't play what isn't a game. VN's are not games.
>>341881737
gb to your /vn/ general, jaded fuck
>>341872773
Only thing that remotely comes to my mind would be the secret world
what's the best story out of all of Lovecraft's works?
>>341882993
The Colour Out of Space, hands down
Darkest Dungeon. Quake. Amnesia.
>>341881834
>VN where everything is Guro
no thanks, that realm is too magical for me, anon
>>341882993
The Colour out of Space is probably his best. I'm partial to Charles Dexter Ward though but that's just a personal preference.
>>341872773Wildstar
>>341883297
It's not literary guro anon, and there are options to tone it down.
Codename steam is all about battling lovecraftian horrors, you even get Randolph carter as a team mate
>>341882993
The Thing of the Doorstep
>>341882993
At the Mountains of Madness
Whether you like the gameplay or not Darkest Dungeon captures the extreme hopelessness and depravity of a Lovecratian scene adapted to a fantasy universe very well. You can't even win the game.
>>341883883
what's she dreaming about?
>>341873954
it's fucking you again? Every single fucking time, this faggot creates a Lovecraft thread, and then everytime someone obviously names Bloodborne, he goes full fucking retard. Jesus pal, get a hold of yourself
>>341882993
Dream Cycle stories, especially The Strange High House in the Mist and Polaris.
>>341876282
Boat weapon in Bloodborne when.
>>341882993
>Rats in the Walls
>>341884073
corpses and thigns
>>341884295
isn't there a harpoon gun or something?
>>341884278
>The Strange High House in the Mist
I mean The White Ship, but The Strange High House in the Mist is one of my favourite non dream cycle stories
>>341882731
this looks like SCP
>>341873880
He may have been. His work was only popular after he had died, because whilst his work WAS groundbreaking, he had no confidence in himself to seek a publisher.
I have never read lovecraft
and can someone explain it to me in the way that even a retard could understand?hard mod no ayy lmao
>>341872773
Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth
Eversion
Magrunner: Darkpulse
>>341873954
Wilbur Wheately was born of a cosmic horror, yet he was killed by a security dog.
>>341884479
It's Radical Larry
>>341872773
Literally this TIGSource competition:
https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?board=23.0
Have fun. All of those titles are free. I would especially recommend Eversion.
>>341875374
Why do you think hating other ethnicities expends some kind of tremendous mental power or that it "consumes" a person?
It's pretty effortless to hate.
t. eastern yuro
>>341884526
incomprehensible things drive you insane.
just go read rats in the walls and stop being a pleb
so many generic kids go HRBRLHL cthulhu but shit like dagon and the hound are great
>>341884526
The universe is giant and full of things we could never ever hope to understand
Sometimes these things show up and fuck our entire mind up because they literally cannot exist in our minds
>>341884732
are you sure that all of the alcohol hasn't just dulled your capacity to feel, slavicanon?
>People actually like this racist white guy
It''s 2016, please grow up.
I'd argue that Bloodborne is not Lovecraftian since Miyazaki took the Lovecraft tropes and did a complete 180 with every one of them. This makes it anti-Lovecraft imo. The tentacled aliens are only a superficial similarity.
Devil Daggers is only 5 bucks and it has one of the best aesthetics in any game I've ever played, I can't recommend it more.
The monster designs remind me of Lovecraft's work a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzkRQwJK8bE
>>341884526
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg
>>341883454
dude
PURPLE
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO
fuck wildstar
>>341884526
The comsos is vast and uncaring to the irrelevant whims of a single man. Earth itself is only a small grain of sand in a never ending beach and we should not become so arrogant as to think that we are the most important or most powerful beings out there. That's pretty much the heart of it.
>>341884526
Shit's so fucked you can't even
and all the doors are locked.
>>341884526
This is the simplest explanation I could think of.
Step 1: Wow! This old town/house/diary sure is interesting!
Step 2*: Wow! This old town/ house/ diary sure is spooky!
Step 3: Madness
*Optional Step: Wow! These foreigners sure are disgusting!
SUNLESS SEA
NO ONE PLAYS SUNLESSTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUN
>le autistic racist and only recognised after death man
Why do people pretend his works are good?
>>341884913
How did he do a twist away from them? I don't see any twist
>>341885220
>le gay earless and only recognized after death artist
why do people pretend van gogh is good?
>>341885220
why do people pretend poe is good?
>>341884526
>and can someone explain it to me in the way that even a retard could understand?
"Great volumes of water serve as a bulwark that guards sleep, and an Augur of the Eldrich Truth. Overcome this limitation, and seek what is yours."
"The sky and the Cosmos are one."
"We are thinking on the basest of planes. What we need, are more eyes."
"Madmen toil surreptitiously in secret rituals to beckon the Moon. Uncover their secrets."
>>341885094
Only a small minded man would equate the value of something with its physical size.
>>341885476
>he compared van cough to sexcraft
Loool
>>341884526
visit fluffybooru dot com
imagine you're one of these creatures
>>341873880
Real answer: he has an underbite
People with underbites are very likely to be mouthbreathers.
>>341884896
>implying I'm not straight-edge
Alright, hatred might be too intense of a word, but I don't really see why would it be so incomprehensible to have a dislike of certain groups.
Stereotypes don't spring out of thin air.
>>341885005
this is fucked up
>>341878643
pull a horror movie and dont show the monster
>>341885589
It's a good thing he never said or thought that, then.
>>341884908
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting
>>341885894
my least favorite genre of horror
>>341872967
NieR and Drakengard
>>341872967
Silent Hill 2
>>341873954
The whole premise of the game is that you gain insight to be able to see the great ones and eventually kill them. The player isn't seen as a normal human, obviously. You can see what happened to the residents of Yharnam if you want to see how humans coped against the great ones.
>>341886312
I like the part of Nier where you're forced to read a book without being able to turn pages yourself
>>341885716
>think its some furry porn website
>go to it
protip: DON'T
>>341872773
by definition I don't think it's even possible to MAKE a good lovecraftian game
maybe put some elements and influence but not a true adaptation, choose something else anon
>>341884913
You're right about the last part. Bloodborne's similarity is in the less well known aspects of Lovecraft's work, from what I've heard. The emphasis on a single city to which the protagonist is an outsider, tainted bloodlines caused by people meddling in things they should not have and and the concept of insight are things that turn up again and again in his stories.
More than madness or insignificance, Lovecraft places a lot of emphasis on the idea of being permanently changed by outside forces; the idea of now knowing something and never being able to go back to your state of ignorance or worse, being physically corrupted by it.
does bayonetta count?
>>341872773
Dead Space. Sort of. The whole marker thing is something he could have wrote
>>341884526
unspeakable horrors
blasphemous ancient gods and their disciples
insanity
living dead
protoplasmic ghoststbusting
occultism
ayy lmaos
>damn
>>341886641
and NIGGER MONKEYS
>>341886587
how is Bayonetta lovecraftian? it's much more about Judeo-Christian themes...
>>341876430
+1
also protip: niggers arent just blacks, which is why wiggers is a thing
>>341886436
i said it describes cosmic horror the bestit actually does represent the intellectual and powerlevel gap between man and Great Ones
>>341886601
Dead Space 1 and 2 are some of the most fun/inventive shooters of the last generation. Also, the first was decently scary.
prove me wrong
>>341873009
>Darkest Dungeon
mah niggarev up them Narrator quotes
Fallout 4 far harbor
>>341887265
They weren't. There, done, what do I win?
Innsmouth no yakata
>>341874628
The Hunter ceased being fully human when he took the blood healing. For that matter, hardly anyone in Yharnam is purely human any more.
>>341873954
I've seen you in /tv/ threads too.
hello
>no mention of The Consuming Shadow
Come on /v/ it's fun
>>341887602
wow, that looks interesting, shame it nippon only
>>341887714
>The Consuming Shadow
but it's shit
>>341887265
dead space could be described as partially lovecraft with the marker and all
>>341887274
How fast the ocean currents change!
>>341872773
Shadow of the Comet
Prisoner of Ice
>>341887779
>it's shit
How so Anon?
>>341887719
did you even look at the gameplay? It's fukken garbo lmao.
>>341887215
This
Why do I love this game so much?
>>341887265
Even Dead Space 3 is carried by the story and the implications of the setting. But I'm probably the only person who liked it.
dragonborn dlc for skyrim is pretty good when youre in hermaeus moras plane of oblivion
Amnesia the dark descent was actually pretty lovecraftian.
Is there any way to integrate cosmic horror into a scifi setting?
>>341872967
The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone does it perfectly.
It's not like lovecraft is amazingly deep anyways, and the premise that video games don't do it is false.
>>341887982
What's "garbo" about it? It's a fun dungeon crawler with shooting elements.
Although I understand it might look unappealing for people who grew up playing with 6th gen onwards.
>>341888548
>165 replies before someone is called a shill
We're improving!
>>341878168
>white knighting for a dude that's been dead for 100 years
>>341888662
Actually I responded to post that was 5 posts above me.
>>341888538
yes
>>341884526
"My manifestations on your planet's extension, the Ancient Ones, have sent you as one who would lately have returned to small lands of dream which he had lost, yet who with greater freedom has risen to greater and nobler desires and curiosities. You wished to sail up golden Oukranos, to search out forgotten ivory cities in orchid-heavy Kled, and to reign on the opal throne of Ilek-Vad, whose fabulous towers and numberless domes rise mighty toward a single red star in a firmament alien to your earth and to all matter. Now, with the passing of two Gates, you wish loftier things. You would not flee like a child from a scene disliked to a dream beloved, but would plunge like a man into that last and inmost of secrets which lies behind all scenes and dreams. What you wish, I have found good; and I am ready to grant that which I have granted eleven times only to beings of your planet - five times only to those you call men, or those resembling them. I am ready to shew you the Ultimate Mystery, to look on which is to blast a feeble spirit. Yet before you gaze full at that last and first of secrets you may still wield a free choice, and return if you will through the two Gates with the Veil still unrent before your eyes."
>>341888538
Warhammer
>>341875374
>why do people choose to live with such irrational hate?
Because hate is a driving force. It's a reason to live. It's a way of life.
>>341875543
This. For most people. For most /v/irgins.
INFRA ARCANA, google it.
>>341888548
How about you kill yourself, how about that?
Do you think anyone that says something positive about an indie game on /v/ is a shill?
>>341887830
A STUNNING HIT TO PHYSIQUE AND MIND
>>341889403
You seem kinda mad shill, maybe your boss is not paying you enough for shilling shitty games?
>>341889578
Reminder that people like you are what is killing game discussion on /v/
Go back to your overwatch threads
>>341884526
Lots of people point to the whole "universe is big and incomprehensible and will drive you insane" thing, but I personally like the dream stories better. Those are more about the nature of reality. Everything else is about how foreigners fuck everything up.
>>341875543
Denied by who?
>guys what are some games that could be described as "lovecraftian"?
>well there's x, y, and z off the top of my head
>no just cause x has lovecraftian elements and enemies doesn't mean it's lovecraftian
>just cause y is a straight adaptation of a lovecraft story doesn't mean it's lovecraftian
>just cause z involves unknowable and immensely powerful alien gods and the insignificance and impotence of mankind in relation to said alien gods is a major theme doesn't mean it's lovecraftian
>lovecraftian is a completely arbitrary and subjective term that i alone, abdul al-hazred XVIII, foreign exchange student at miskatonic university, owner of a beach house in innsmouth, antarctic archaeologist and general lovecraft-ologist, am fit to use; all must defer to my baseless and personal judgements or i shall whine at them and nitpick over features and elements that would be contradictory if they actually existed at once in a video game
leave, please, i don't know how you're in every one of these threads, but you add to their quality about as much as does a puddle of runny, c. dif diarrhea to a white carpet
>>341889489
THE FLINT IS HIT. A BURNING SUN IS CREATED.
>>341889578
fuck off retard
>>341889783
>Everything else is about how foreigners fuck everything up.
AWAY
AWAY
I heard that Age of Decandence has some weird Lovecraft ending
Also, there is that new Call of Cuthulu game comin
>>341872773
Eternal Darkness was fun. Wish it would get a reboot.
>>341889023
>40kids
>>341889772
>>341889892
You retards, why do you keep telling obvious trolls that they are trolling you? What the hell do you think the outcome is? Do you think he's going to stop? NO. He's going to keep doing it. You don't even have to have been on this site for 20 minutes to know better. What the fuck is wrong with you?
>>341878168
achshully he treated arabs not so shitty with necronomicon and mad arab al-hazred
hindus made a brief appeareance as a disguise for an interdimensionary traveller
i guess orientalism was still a thing back in those days and 9/11 was far away
>>341889772
>>341889892
Kill yourself shill
>>341890226
>orientalism
What?
>>341890303
interest in eastern cultures prominent during 19th century and some part of 20th century. I should add tibetan and chinese themes are also found in lovecraft with little to zero shittiness
>>341890570
so Lovecraft would defend India from /pol/ and /int/?
>>341890661
They're dark skinned
>>341889812
Agree.
>>341890759
but they're eastern, and he didn't mind arabs
>>341874747
No he fucking wasn't.
I say this every goddamn thread, I feel like a broken record.
I live in Rhode Island, lived there all my life. It's always been full of extremely racist people. An autist like Lovecraft most likely just adopted the exact same personality as his contemporaries, but because no one these days wants people to know their ancestors are racist, they deny it. Fact is he hated fucking everything, to the point Shadow over Innsmouth's fishpeople were probably a reference to his neighbors, because 20s Rhode Island outside of some rich people areas was a redneck shithole full of inbreds who hated black people the same way people nowadays hate cockroaches.
>>341891000
>Fact is he hated fucking everything, to the point Shadow over Innsmouth's fishpeople were probably a reference to his neighbors
I can buy this.
In after faggots talking about Bloodborne.
Realistically, as shit as it may have been, Amnesia was probably the best adaptation of Lovecraft's early works. Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth (until you get guns) was probably the best of his creeping dread later work.
He's a bit of a meme but his writing is genuinely entertaining. It makes me sad that people think he's just "DUDE TENTACLES LMAO"
>>341891236
>(until you get guns)
thanks bethesda
>>341891236
whats wrong with BB?
>>341891000
To be fair, Turkey was always hated.
>>341891367
He can't play it.
>>341891367
Same shit all "BB isn't lovecraft!"-faggots say. >>341873954
Every. Fucking. Thread.
>>341872773
my favorite work of lovecraft
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.
>>341891000
>cockroaches
Brits are probably unaware but that's what they are called in Europe.
>>341884816
>the hound
Literally a meme story written as a joke
>>341872773
Who's the guy in the pic?
>>341890661
I doubt he ever met an indian or an arab in real life.
>>341885476
>why do people pretend van gogh is good?
I genuinely don't know.
>>341891846
Ben Garrison
>>341891846
Some racist author.
Trigger warning, do not bother looking into his stories, he is NOT /sjw/ approved.
>>341891846
Ben Garrison
>>341888587
>The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone does it perfectly.
DUDE FAUST LMAO
>>341872773
There is that shadow over innsmouth game, heard they are remaking it/making another one
>>341891367
That it's played out as fuck and everybody is aware of it.
It's like somebody wanting a game where you shoot demons and somebody says "GET DOOM DOOM IS THAT THAT'S DOOM LET'S TALK ABOUT DOOM"
We fucking know. It's been talked to death. Bring something new to the table.
>>341891418
>>341891731
I meant in the sense they probably rarely encountered them, but had a downright biological loathing of them based on everything they heard.
>>341892115
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6XDMIRaISc
>I have to stop it!
Oh. It's one of those.
>>341892239
>Call of Cthulhu
>The official videogame
>Official
What on earth
>>341892182
>>341887215
I would love this shit, but the goddamn boat is so damn slow.
>ctrl + f bloodborne
>14 results
that's so cute, let me guess: lovecraft = cthulhu = tentacles right?
the very point of Lovecraft is that humans are NOT the center of the universe, and the cosmos doesn't give a single shit about these hairless apes.
when the game feature ayy that come FOR humans, with a protagonist that become a supposedly "god", it's EVERYTHING but Lovecraft
>>341891978
>>341891919
You mean Ben "cattle tattoo for dindu" Garrsion ?
Actually, Halo comes to mind.
>>341873954
Happened in Lovecraft books faggot.
>>341878643
How would you describe pic related?
Yes, this is a Lovecraftian monster, Yog-Sothoth. Not all of htem need to be tentacle monsters, for fuck's sakes.
>>341892336
It's licensed for the CoC tabletop RPG
>>341874230
This is such an underrated platformer.
>>341892692
not that guy, but where?
Quake 1 you motherfuckers.
Space Funeral
Middens
>>341892864
they drive a fucking boat through cthulhus head in call of cthulhu
not that guy though
>>341892502
>that's so cute, let me guess: lovecraft = cthulhu = tentacles right?
You are such a condescending faggot.
FUCKING PLAY EVERSION YOU IDIOTS
IT'S FUCKING FREE
>>341893057
And Cthulhu starts regenerating almost immediately.
you can kill a ghost with nitric acid though
>>341893121
>indieshit (GONE SPOOKY!?)
nah
>>341893325
>indie game
>oh shit it's automatically bad
You are the cancer killing /v/.
>>341875543
>>341875670
>>341876430
>>341884732
>>341889101
>>341875374
What's wrong with being racist?
This place is worse than /co/, what the fuck happened?
>>341893557
excellent bait, youre probably going to get a lot of people with it
>>341893627
This isn't tumblr hun.
>>341892032
Faust didn't have to pay shit thought to be rejuvenated, the devil just came along and made him young again so that he could screw some bitches, then he went to heaven
>>341889812
>no just cause x has lovecraftian elements and enemies doesn't mean it's lovecraftian
>just cause y is a straight adaptation of a lovecraft story doesn't mean it's lovecraftian
>just cause z involves unknowable and immensely powerful alien gods and the insignificance and impotence of mankind in relation to said alien gods is a major theme doesn't mean it's lovecraftian
These can all be true for very valid reasons. The first one refers to plebs who think that putting tentacles in anything automatically makes said thing lovecraftian, when it really just makes things generic pulp sci fi. I remember reading these "lovecraft" inspired comic which was about these paranormal researchers who come across this occult inscription and basically through some way most of them end up dying after having to fight this giant blob with tentacles. The lovecraftian elements were only very vaguely there
The second is basically an extension of the first argument. A straight adaptation of a Lovecraft story doesn't necessarily mean it actually even matches the feeling of the stories, or the overall themes. Case in point, the Dreams in the Witch House adaptation for Masters of Horror
The last one can also be misused if the themes are not handled properly. The whole "powerful gods that just play with mortals" can be traced to something as common as Greek mythology, so just having "these powerful beings that are so above us and see us as nothing but dust in their grand scheme" doesn't automatically translate to being Lovecraftian
It's a combination of all these elements with a constant underlying feel of dread that really makes a work, whether it is film, literature or a videogame, feel Lovecraftian
Actually as a prime fucking example of literature that isn't Lovecraftian is anything written by that hack Derleth. The mythos written by him is nothing more than a bad attempt at recreating christian mythology using aliens.
>>341883297
It isn't literally guro porn. The MC just sees meatdungeons
What is Lovecraft's best "individual" (read: non-collaborative) work?
Bought this recently and I dunno where to start
>>341892864
Depends on if we are talking about smaller horrors or the big bad ones.
Minor Horrors:
Pickman's Model
The Things ad the Doorstep (probably)
Major Horrors:
The Shunned House
The Dunwich Horror
Quickly looked up at wikipedia, but I read more, I just don't remember allt heir names.
>>341894207
From the first page, usually
>>341887779
I'd say it's mediocre. I really wish it wasn't though, because in concept it's the closest we got to a good Lovecraft-inspired game.
>>341894207
I personally love Herbert West: Re-Animator, but other good stories include The Colour out of Space, the Statement of Randolph Carter, the Music of Erich Zann, Dagon, and At the Mountains of Madness
>>341882731
>no bobbing
so much for immersion
>>341872879
I hope youre not implying lovecrafts "literature" is deep in any form or fashion
your average stephen king story has more depth than the lovecraft meme, the only remotely good things lovecraft ever made were the color out of space and the shadow over innsmouth+ having a pretty interesting cosmic horror backbone on his stories instead of using more generic horror tropes
I'm pretty convinced at this point that these threads are made by the "BLOODBORNE ISN'T LOVECRAFTIAN" guy just so he can bait someone into saying it then spew his autism.
>>341894502
what if its multiple people?
>>341894284
>shunned house
Pretty sure that was some sort of vampire
>dunwich horror
Didn't exactly "kill" the thing. it was a hybrid spawn of yog sothoth that was just banished by a magic spell from the necronomicon
>>341894404
>bobbing
It's like you enjoy being motion-sick
