Whats the best game inspired by Lovecraft?
Cthulhu Saves the World
>>338156314
Among the best cents I've spent.
Shut the fuck up
>>338156314
this, because it doesn't even try to take itself seriously
lovecraft games don't work. the nature of lovecrafts best works is that they're beyond normal perception. you cant fucking render something in a videogame that accurately looks like something beyond perception.
also inb4 someone says Call of Cthulhu DCOTE, that game was garbage
>>338156245
Bloodborne
>>338156245
Stop making these god damn threads when you've gotten your answer like two days ago you faggot OP. It's such a small handful of games that you can literally google it and find the answers you are looking for.
>>338156436
>that game was garbage
kys
Isn't most horror these days inspired by Lovecraft to some degree?
>>338156507
this is the third thread today
yesterday there were also 4 threads about it
maybe its a new epik meme
Gonna go with bloodborne or bioshock
>>338156532
there was one good moment in the game, and thats when you get ambushed in the hotel. every other moment was complete shit, espeically the later hours of the game.
The Secret World. It's not all lovecraft though. It also has zombies, demons, sasquaches, etc. Alan Wake is pretty similar, and also very lovecraftian.
That gamecube game, darkness something. Fuck, i played it when i was 12.
Bloodborne or >>338156314
>>338156783
Eternal Darkness, yeah, it was pretty fucking great.
Is Cthulhu Saves the World actually good, or just one of the better shitty cthulhu games? I always thought it looked like low tier rpg maker garbage, but i never did bother to give it a chance.
>>338156245
Bloodborne.
Amnesia.
>>338156746
>yogg sothoth and the factory chase
>dagon boss fight
>the hydra fight where you literally destroy your ear drums to progress
>the bittersweet ending
while the game was mostly just a run-of-the-mill shooter, it definitely wasn't as bad as you're making it out to be
>>338157008
It's the very definition of a meme game
Shadow of the Comet
>>338157008
its one of the better indie dragon quest clones
To be completely honest
The Point Lookout DLC for Fallout 3 was decent, because the entire setting wasn't entirely ripped from Lovecraft and didn't devolve into either madness or tentacles.
Instead it embraced something Lovecraft truly feared - degenerate breeding.
Unrelated mostly, but to this day, I yearn for the survival horror game set in the Deep South, hiding from inbred hulking cannibal rapists squealing that they're going to hogtie you and let their harvest god plant his seed in you.
Quake
>>338157008
It just plays like old JRPGs, the only difference is it isn't up it's own arse like most games in the genre are.
>>338157359
There was also the plotline with the Necronomicon or whatever they called it. The evil forbidden book. And the mad scientist experimenting with brains and consciousness. Two more HPL cliches.
I like Deathstate.
God fuck. My fucking dark souls 3 crashes every time I open it. I've tried everything and it's still not working. I'm so salty, anyone know a fix?
>>338157531
The Necronomicon thing you're right about, but even then, there's no magic, just cultists, right until you get rid of it (which I thought was kind of cheesy). Still, it was in the background and not the focus of the whole thing.
In terms of the brains, that's not exclusively a Lovecraft thing, it's a pretty standard 50s sci fi cliche. You wouldn't say Old World Blues was Lovecraftian because you had brains in jars.
Basically you're getting Herbert West confused with the Mi Go.
Quake
>>338156245
Darkest Dungeon
Dead Space ended up being a lot more faithful somehow even as a sci-fi third person shooter.
>>338157978
I don't see how that's relevant to the thread but alas, it is impossible to tell what's wrong without knowing more information, such as hardware, OS, the steps you've taken to attempt to resolve the issue thus far, if you're playing a cracked copy or not, if it has ever worked before, etc etc
>>338158171
I never finished DS1 and didn't play DS2 but DS3 coop was fucking great with all the shit where they showed different things to the two players. So where I'd suddenly start flipping out and screaming what the fuck was that my friend had no idea and then the opposite happened.
The game did somewhat boil down to a mindless shooter but it had some highlights with the horror.
>>338158171
I never really thought of Dead Space being especially lovecraftian, why do you think so?
I guess I can see that being the case with insanity being a big theme in the game, along with many of the enemies (though especially the bosses) being kind of lovecraftian in nature, if only due to their excess of tentacles.
What did you have in mind, though?
>>338157359
Outlast 2 is looking to fit that bill.
Bloodborne, Amnesia, Alone in the Dark, Silent Hill, Sunless Sea
>>338158913
Man had an overbite you could land a 747 in.
>>338158171
Dead Space was literally The Thing in SPESS starring miner Gordon Freeman
>>338159602
dead space also drew influence from event horizon i believe
the whole appendages growing out of infected bodies thing was hugely inspired by the thing though, i'd imagine
>>338159602
Isaac was an engineer.
>>338158572
The entire thing with the Unitology cult screams Lovecraft, and it puts on the forefront something most Lovecraft copycats ignore - the Old Ones are from space, they are aliens.
Lovecraft had both a deep fascination and strong distrust of religion, which is pretty omnipresent in his works.
>>338159761
Mining engineer, whatever
>>338159602
>>338159736
I'd argue there's also a good amount of Alien influence, especially with backstabbing on orders of the company in order to seize an alien artifact.
>>338156436
>the nature of lovecrafts best works is that they're beyond normal perception. you cant fucking render something in a videogame that accurately looks like something beyond perception.
You can't describe something that is beyond natural perception in literature either, since reading and abstracting concepts are still within the realm of "natural" perception.
Drakengard. No other game has this 'you're fucked and have no chance to defeat these time eating babies' feel.
>>338159838
He was just a regular engineer. He didn't even have any mining tools, and his main job was to repair the ship, not blast holes in rock.
>>338160007
And yet, your weapons are mining tools
>>338156746
this, I've played it recently. its good up until you escape innsmouth for the first time. then it just goes to shit. You actually cant beat the game because of all the game breaking bugs.
it had potential, could've been something really great. but it sucks
>>338159070
>tfw same style overbite
>parents didnt get me braces because 8 year old me didnt want them
>actually listened to me
not even sure who the dumbass here is
>>338159959
Of course, but Lovecraft did his best by obfuscating everything with antiquated descriptors.
While his overly flowery descriptions aren't always good, they do achieve a sense of conveying that what they are seeing is not normal to see. It isn't scaly - it's squamous.
>>338160091
You mean the things he has to pick up, and did not bring with him as part of being an engineer?
The shit he has to find the schematics for just so he could buy the damn things?
>>338160317
Been a long while, i don't remember shit
>>338160091
I can use a dent hammer to bash someone's head in, that doesn't make me an auto body expert.
>>338159923
the whole futuristic yet not too distant in the future architecture of the ship is reminiscent of Alien as well
>>338160091
that's because the ship you crash land on (the USG Ishimura) is a planetcracker vessel which does as its name implies and then presumably leaves its personnel to go out and mine resources out of the hundreds of thousands of chunks of debris that come from the planet's explosion
heck, Isaac picks his first weapon up (and purchases his other weapons from the ship's STORE), a plasma cutter, from a dead Ishimura crew member, and if you read the logs and weapon descriptions they're all explicitly described as mining tools apart from the pulse rifle
>>338156245
Eternal Darkness, Bloodborne, and the first half of Cthulhu: Dark corners of the Earth are the best lovecraftian games
There's a certain type of uncertainty and mystery that comes with lovecraft, which is really difficult to convert into mechanics, which are by nature patternized and mechanical, but these games pulled it off quite well
>>338160221
You can still get braces now, you'll just require a lot more surgery to adjust your jaw since it's now fully developed. Plus it'll cost a shitload of money.
Might as well contribute a bit
>>338157376
>>338158101
>this
no one else even agreeing to this, /v/ is a joke
>>338158913
He looks like a school child hiding gum from the teacher.
>>338160508
They only nail the aesthetic, not the feeling of Lovecraft.
The closest that does that is Silent Hill, which ultimately doesn't match Lovecraft stylistically outside it being a foggy New England town.
>>338160679
People do agree, just not everyone cares enough to post. Some people believe that posting something that's already been posted in the thread is pointless.
>>338160221
Don't 8yo's still have baby teeth?
>>338157978
Don't bother
-You'll solve the crashing
-but then the controller won't work for some fucking reason
-then you fix that
-but there are constant micro frame freezes (by micro I mean up to a second)
-you pray a patch fixes it
-but then you get invaded by a scripkiddie and he soft bans you
Glad I got the PS4 version right after. I'd rather play at 25-30fps and be comfy than face new problems with every patch
>>338160953
People's teeth falls out at different ages, there's full grown adults that never lost some of their baby teeth, meanwhile some people will start losing them at around 4.
>>338160642
At 23 im afraid ill look like a fucking doofus with braces. The money cost and what I think will mean having a retainer the rest of my life just makes it seem like a chore. I can live with a slight imperfection
>>338160679
>needing to agree on an Anonymous™ Chinese image board
Eternal Darkness
>>338161106
It can get worse and can result in issues chewing food, that's only a "can" though, there's always a chance you'll have no real issues at all.
>>338161069
Glad I got the PS4 version too. I don't trust japs with PC games and Das 2 and its fucking durability bug was the nail in the coffin.
>>338160953
I don't think so. Could have been a bit older too.
> 66 Replies
> Only 2 mention Eternal Darkness
I'm disappointed.
>>338161106
better to look into it now than possibly having issues with it in your later years
>>338161302
>>338161454
Shit thats a tad scary. Yeah will do. Ill be keeping an eye on it. Thanks anons
>>338161421
At this point I think (and hope) its a bit of a given
Eldritch. Cute little randomized indie game. Pretty fun.
>>338161069
PC master race everyone.
just be glad pc got the game at launch and not like 3 years later like with most other games
pc is a joke
>>338161673
>game is a bad port due to developers inexperienced with the PC platform
>HURR PC SUX
Fuck off back to your console war containment threads, you shitehawk.
>>338160173
Don't listen to these idiots. The moments on the ship where the deep ones are chasing you is fucking great.
Play it yourself, it's definitely worth it. Awesome game and the best Lovecraft experience there is.
>>338158147
Fucking this. I don't understand how these threads have anything else mentioned. It's very clearly inspired by Lovecraft and is generally competent all-round.
>>338164260
It's a fairly niche game and a lot of idiots avoided it like the plague because it was on Early Access, they think that EA = DOA but they fail to realise that occasionally you can find diamonds in a sea of shit.
>>338164260
>>338165885
Hey, anons, I recently got Darkest Dungeon but haven't started playing yet due to work and just general game backlog. I was just wondering what would you recommend to someone completely new to the game, what rookie mistakes to avoid and such.
