What are some good Lovecraftian video games?
Splatoon
Bloodborne
>>333260475
Bloodborne
Bloodborne
>Bloodborne
>Sunless sea
>Dankest dungeon
I struggle to think of any other true lovecraftian games
>>333260475
Call of Duty Black Ops 3 Zombies
>>333260475
Bloodborne and Sunless Sea. Darkest Dungeon only if you want a good representation of Lovecraftian themes and the actual quality of the game comes secondary.
>>333260637
>>333260665
>>333260787
>>333260867
thats gothic you fucking fags
And Eternal Darkness
>>333260475
Shadow of the Comet.
Does Skyrim count?
Eternal Darkness.
I'm sick of these threads asking this.
>>333260475
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Pokemon
>it's a reposting old shit thread
>>333261247
OP did say good games. So no.
>>333261163
They all involve old gods, cosmic horrors of some variety and other shit Lovecraft writes about. Unless you want a straight videogame adaptation of one of his works, in which case you're completely out of luck.
Snails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pWJ5LX82D8
>>333260475
Call of Cthulhu, duh
>>333261163
You're a dumbass
2/10 made me reply
call of cthulhu dark corners of the earth.
Actually set in Arkham, based on Lovecrafts novels.
2 spooky for me to finish.
>>333261349
Literally unplayable.
>>333261318
Very edgy. And btw morrowind combat system sucks.
Too bad Dark Corners of the Earth turns into total boring, uninteresting garbage the second you leave Innsmouth.
Saya no Uta
>>333260475
There are no none.
If it's a good game then it fails at being a Lovecraftian horror.
XCOM: Terror from the Deep.
They help the aliens.
>>333261238
>>333261292
This is the only real answer, if you haven't played this game yet go and play it OP
Sequel never ever
>>333260475
World of Warcraft
Despite memegame status, Amnesia is still a pretty effective horror game dealing with extradimensional/cosmic themes. Probably obvious enough that you've already played it, though
Super mario world with that Lovecraft hack
Really good rom hack
>>333261163
>second half of the DLC is L I T E R A L L Y Lovecraft
>there are still people who deny Bloodborne's Lovecraftian status
Morrowind has some lovecraftian shit going on in it
So we're just going to ignore the fact that this guy was a huge racist piece of shit?
>>333262974
Who is ignoring it?
>>333262974
/v/ is full of closet racists, no surprise they love him
>>333260475
NBA 2K16,because blacks, the scariest monster Lovecraft could conceive of, feature prominently
>>333262974
I can't believe there exists people who really post things like this
>>333262974
Ignore? No, he was a huge racist pile of shit.
Who wrote great literature that drove the direction of not one but several different genres. Being a racist back in the early 1900s isn't that big a deal, every other person was a racist.
>>333260475
Call of cthulhu Dark corners of the earth
>>333263180
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Creation_of_Niggers
>>333262974
*race realist
>>333263170
>muh racism
grow up
>>333262974
Can we please stop trying to apply modern sensibilities to people that lived a hundred years ago.
>>333262974
who cares
not everyone is going to have the same values as you
>>333262974
>So we're just going to ignore the fact that this guy was a huge racist piece of shit?
>Implying there's anything wrong with being racist
>>333262974
Someone mentions this meme every time Lovecraft is mentioned.
Separate artists from art.
>>333262329
Lord of the rings is pretty cool.
>>333262974
whats that got to do with his talent as a writer?
hes over rated and memed by places and people like reddit sure, but racist or not hes still a pretty good author
>>333260475
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Penumbra Series
Eternal Darkness
Alone in the Dark
Bloodborne
Cursed Mountain
>Lovecraft is reduced to his racism
>>333262918
6th house shit is spooky as fuck
>>333260475
Crash of C'thulu
Eternal Darkness
Bloodborne
Hearthstone's new expansion looks tame but comfy though
>>333262974
Who gives a flying fuck you liberal faggot.
>>333260637
>>333260665
>>333260787
but in bloodborne you kill monsters instead of momentarily glimpsing part of one and then summarily slipping into madness as you realize the cosmic insignificance of your entire species
>>333263495
>caring about mainstream sci-fi, fantasy and horror
The SJW shit is even worse there than in video games. Just let go. Everyone who's a good writer doesn't acre about the Nebula Awards anymore.
Codename S.T.E.A.M. though it's kinda tame in the horror department.
>>333263369
>chinese crested
Unicorn?
>Bloodborne
>Call of Cthulhu
>Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
That's about it
Apart from the actual Lovecraft game, pic related has a similar themeclown car
>>333263717
>the you can't kill Lovcraftian monsters meme
Threadly reminder that Cthulhu's head gets smashed like a pumpkin in Lovecrafts Call of Cthulhu short, but that didn't save the main character.
The window!
THE WINDOW!
>>333263832
>Cuck fort
>Lovecraft
ahahahahahhah
>>333260475
Cthulhu saves the world!
>>333261520
>edgy
I don't think you know what that word means
>>333263858
Not when I read it.
>>333263992
Then you didn't read it.
>>333263821
>Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
Those games are maximum comfy
>>333263883
What's the issue?
It has tentacled eldritch horrors who live below the world and spill onto the surface when disturbed. It's a similar general theme.
Are you just trying to stir up shitposting to fuel your thread? Don't do that anon. Make quality content instead.
>>333263717
But insanity is a status in that. There are monsters who increase your insanity as you look at them until you die.
>>333264334
They didn't use this enough. And it was also kind of broken.
Buildup should've stopped if you looked away.
>>333264426
Yeah it could have been handled and used much better. It was an interesting mechanic that they just failed to handle well
>>333264426
I think it's suppose to be like you're dwelling on it even if you look away. Or maybe they have some mental influence over time.
Just dont play Darkness Within. Its so fucking bad.
>>333262974
He lived in the USA AND HE WAS FREE TO BE WHAT EVER HE WANTED TO BE
>>333263760
>Nebula Awards
What's this?
>>333260475
WHAT ARE SOME GOOD REPOSTING THREADS?
And Yes its a good game
>>333264807
Award for sci fi and fantasy books. The problem is that the award is slapped on pretty much evrything which makes the award mean nothing.
>>333264426
>if I look away I'll immediately forget about it
I too think the idea wasn't perfectly translated into gaemplay but I see their reasoning
>>333262974
He actually outgrew his edgemeister phase and became much more liberal and socialist in later life, once he had some experience of other people and the world in general. He supported the New Deal and wrote some stuff about the Republican Party where he tore them apart.
Not excusing his racism, but his views changed dramatically. Unfortunately he died just as he was becoming a much, much better person.
>>333262974
Nothing wrong with being racist.
>>333265031
I wonder why people nowadays are so overly critical about people from the past being racist.
Racism just was not very uncommen and people had a different mindset back then. That doesn't mean that racism is good but I think people just need to understand
>>333264807
This >>333264923 except he didn't say that the Award is given to anything that's progressive and has social justice values. It's like the Indie Game Awards except on a larger and more important scale. If you want to see what happens to video games if the SJW take over the whole industry then just look up the Nebula Awards and SFWA.
>>333262974
So was/is everyone that's pushed society forward.
Read origin of the species by Darwin, check out the man that unlocked the human genetic code James Watson, also a racist. The inventor of the liquid propelled rocket? A racist. - The list goes on and on, every major paradigm shift we have in tech comes from a racist.
>>333265228
It's just a very American mind set. It's like how some Americans today can't understand how different countries across the globe have different values than they do, and they have this strong and self-righteous feel that it's their duty to liberate the rest of the world so that they, too, can subscribe under their values. American Imperialism hasn't gone anywhere, it just changed it's name and face.
>>333265093
this t b h
>>333263383
So fez is a good game then
darkest dungeon has some lovecraftian themes,
also sunless sea
>>333262974
>You must be 18 to post here
Also, Sunless Sea is a damn good lovecraftian game
Says no Uta.
>>333265616
Loved the setting but the game itself was a boring piece of shit.
>>333263717
That's not really important. Take At the Mountains of Madness for example. The Elder Things weren't immortal gods who exceeded human comprehension, they were just squishy alien starfish who lived, died, and thought similarly to us. The horror comes from seeing how their great civilization on Earth fell and was forgotten and knowing it's the inevitable fate of our own. Cthulhu gets rekt by a boat in The Call of Cthulhu anyway. It didn't kill him but a few sailors and a boat were enough to stop Cthulhu's return or whatever.
>>333265454
Sunless Sea.
I've found the "snippets of lore" way of narrative to blend really well with the exploration and danger of the world.
It's the mostFUNI've had in a while with games.
I'm usually not that much into "story is more important than gameplay" bullcrap, but I really think this game makes the discovery of lore an actual core part of the gameplay.
If you don't mind reading (Lovecrafy approves) and sailing a lot this should be an awesome experience.
>>333265702
I was quite sure that the horror didn't come from their civilization being lost and forgotten, but from the realization that humans had come from these strange and grotesque elder things.
>>333263858
>>333265702
>le cthulhu is killable meme
>>333265031
The Republican Party of the 1920s was very different than the one we have today. When he says the "Republican idea" I have a feeling he means it in the sense of being part of a republic, since he had said he would have been a loyal subject of King George, if he had the opportunity.
>>333265031
protip: republicans in 1930 are not even remotely the same party or platform as republicans in 2016
>>333266284
I don't expect you'd know any better since you never read his stories, you only know what you've been told on the internet.
>>333264334
Frezy is not insanity. Insanity would be enlightment, that you get every time you see one of the bosses, and has an effect on the game world.
>>333262918
Is morrowind good? i've heard it praised but im still unsure. Theres a graphics overhaul out for it now as well isnt there?
>>333266883
In Japanese Frenzy was Insanity. It was a miss-translation I believe.
>>333260867
>Not Penumbra: The Black Plague
>Not Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of The Earth
>Not Eternal Darkness
>Not Darkseed
>Not Alone in The Dark
>Not Sherlock Holmes: Awakened
>Not Koudelka
Underage as fuck
Underage as fuck
>>333266351
>>333266307
By 1930s the Democrats were the clear liberal party in the US, while the Republicans were conservative and big business minded. Lovecraft showed his support of the New Deal, so it makes sense he would be writing this scathing attack in regards to those who opposed it, which were mostly Republicans who saw it as 'class warfare and socialism' -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)#History
>>333262918
No, it just has weird tentacle monsters sometimes. There's nothing cosmic about it, the story is entirely about petty elf politics.
>>333267117
Hey fuck you buddy. I'm tired.
>>333267067
Might be, but becoming mad as you get closer to the truth is a Lovecraftian theme, and Bloodborne has that with the enlightenment mechanics.
>>333267272
Oh I agree that Enlightenment makes way more sense for insanity. I was just pointing out why I called Frenzy insanity in the first place.
>>333267272
Well yeah, it sort of beats you over the head with it in places too. The first Insight most players will get is the Madman's Knowledge in the sewers, and the description of that literally refers to it being the skull of one touched by the elder ones.
Eldritch on steam
Chzo Mythos
Silent Hill 1-4
Should I get the Necoronomicon?
>>333260475
True Detective Season 2
Bloodborne
>>333265664
You sound like someone that got buttfucked by the first monster he met or ran out of fuel mid sea
>>333268383
Nice strawman you built there, chucklefuck.
>>333261520
>morrowind
You're the first one to mention it, underage.
>>333267038
It's good if you are willing to play it.
MGSO
Less Generic NPCs
Sotha Sil Expanded
Solstheim Rumor Fix
DarkBrotherhood Attack Delayed
and some stamina regen/magika regen mods
That's all you need.
>>333260475
none
Lovecraft doesn't work with visual media.
Your best chance is in radio dramas and audio books.
"something so horrible that describing it in detail would kill me and make you the reader lose your sanity" it doesn't work on games or tv.
>>333267904
Does it really have Cthulhu Mythos theme? Or just magic screens and all that jazz.
>>333269081
Sick, thanks.
>>333269092
He mostly quit doing that shit and started describing things in great detail in his later works.
>>333269092
This. Visual media and hell even AUDIO media doesn't work when the entire theme of the setting is 'words that can't be spoken, visions too wrong to comprehend'. On top of that, Lovecraftian horror is a VERY bleak setting in which, at BEST, struggling like crazy and losing tons of people/characters will delay the awfulness for a while longer. You don't win, there's no victory, and the universe is a cold place full of things that will one day devour us.
Not a great setting for any videogame.
>>333262974
If you start comparing people from the past with modern moralites... then everyone becomes a piece of shit.
>>333269234
Ah yeah one thing. Once you start installing MGSO if your system is not strong enough change load cells to 4 or 6.
>>333262974
great poem, i made my student read it out loud every year.
>>333269092
Disagree 100%. Lovecraft inspired stuff works better visually if the artists are creative (see: Bloodborne). I don't buy into this "it's so terrible that you can't even comprehend it!!" fluff that Lovecraft wrote. It didn't invoke much horror. It's shoddy writing and basically asking the reader to do all the work for him. The Night Lands did Lovecraftian bleak existential horror better and before Lovecraft was even a thing.
>>333262974
>THIS ONE ASPECT MEANS WE SHOULD COMPLETELY FUCKING IGNORE ALL HIS LITERARY WORKS WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT
Cucks, I swear
Eternal Darkness
>>333262974
Can we stop this racist is bad meme? Racist people done more for the world than non racist people.
>>333262974
You dumbass.
It's has nothing to do with ignoring who and how he was. It's a matter of why the fuck should it matter? It fucking doesn't.
If I want to name my cat Nigger-Man, it's none of you contemporary asshole's business!
>>333262974
Literally every Lovecraft thread.
It's practically copy pasta.
Silent Hill series. Cursed locations, incomprehensible creatures (closest I've seen at least in a visual medium), a sense of hopelessness (besides Heather, the best anyone does is escape), strange religions, the slow unraveling of the truth, and a constant questioning of the main character's sanity are all very common in Lovecraft's work.
>>333260475
>wanting a game of a racist
for shame.
>>333271023
i thought it was particularly spooky in 4 when that guy came out of the ceiling and was all like "KILL KILL KILL"
just imagining being in 4's situation is spooky as fuck
>>333267202
>There's nothing cosmic about it
While not Lovecraftian at all at it's core, the Elder Scrolls is all about Cosmic shit. In Morrowind the Sixth House is Lovecraft inspired but that's it.
>>333262974
You have loads of niggerloving sites to post on, just get the fuck out of here.
>>333263858
More like, gnat wakes up Cthulu, Cthulu swats at it briefly, gnat runs into face, Cthulu fucks off back to bed.
The point is humans are small and the universe gives -10 shits. In bloodborne the great ones are "sympathetic in spirit" and apparently bone women a bunch. This is odd.
>>333261520
and so does skyrims "combat"
>>333263717
see that's the one aspect of lovecraft that I always hated
people in his stories have the fortitude of a bean pod. One look at a fish monster and bam, he's a heroin addict who jumped out a window.
It's not their cosmic psychic powers that drive people mad, but an easily graspable concept that somehow drives them mad. Well not counting Nyarlathotep.
>>333260475
Can't believe so many people saying fucking bloodborne whith little to none saying Call of Cthulu, Lovecraftian doesnt mean Victorian just because it rhymes...
>>333260475
witcher 1
>>333272856
You're an idiot.
The Consuming Shadow
>>333261150
>Bloodborne and Sunless Sea. Darkest Dungeon only if you want a good representation of Lovecraftian themes and the actual quality of the game comes secondary.
Are you fucking implying that Bloodborne or Sunless Sea have better gameplay than Darkest Dungeon?
>>333272818
Knowing there is a cosmic thingie sleeping below the surface is pretty frightening, and knowing there might be even worse cosmic thingies somewhere that you don't know about is even more frightening.
Also, most of the dudes who kills themselves in those stories do so because said cosmic thingies are after their asses, and death is way better than whatever Dagon or one of his pals has in store for you.
>>333271518
>In bloodborne the great ones are "sympathetic in spirit" and apparently bone women a bunch. This is odd
Not really. The Dunwich Horror is all about a woman getting boned by old ones and some of Lovecraft's creation, like maybe the Yith, could be interpreted as sympathetic to humans.
Which is the best Lovecratian being and why is it the Colour Out of Space?
>>333273960
Not even that anon but yes. The gameplay is Darkest Dungeon is terrible. It's "grind this tiny, repetitive dungeon forever until you can move on and grind the next one" mixed with "whoopsie..start over!".
It's an okay game but seriously repetitive.
>>333265031
>being more liberal/socialist makes you a good person
kill yourself
>>333261163
What
Are you a FUCKING idiot?
>>333275876
>kill yourself
>haha that'll show him who the real nice people are!
He became a less hateful person towards the end of his life. Nothing to do with his political beliefs you fucking idiot.
