What are some games in the style of H.P. Lovecraft? Preferably more obscure, but all are welcome.
Lovecraft's spirit is antithetical to the spirit of games. Games are all about employing mechanics within delineated systems of rules to achieve a desired goal. Lovecraft's fiction is all about how nothing works, life is a horror, and you're never going to get what you want unless what you want is death. "Lovecraftian" games are by and large just aping the superficial sci-fi trappings of his work.
Darkness Within is a good one.
>>344909424
>Lovecraft's fiction is all about how nothing works, life is a horror, and you're never going to get what you want unless what you want is death.
So basically, E.Y.E?
>>344909114
fallout 4, far harbor
>>344909114
Earthbound
>>344909114
I heard he was racist as fuck.
>>344909897
Everyone from his time was racist as fuck.
>>344909897
You heard right. He was so racist he doesn't even like Welsh people.
Here are a few:
-The Last Door
-The Lurking Horror
-The Hound of Shadow
-Anchorhead
-Alone in the Dark (original game)
-Shadow of the Comet
-Prisoner of Ice
-The Dark Eye (1995 adventure game)
-I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
-The Black Mirror series
-Scratches
-Darkness Within parts 1&2
-Eternal Darkness
-Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
-Chzo Mythos series
-Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
-the Penumbra series
-Amnesia: The Dark Descent
-Eversion
-Sunless Sea
-Darkest Dungeon
-Bloodborne
>>344909114
Penumbra series, highly recommended
Bloodborne is probably the best Lovecraftian game on the market.
>>344909897
Xeenophobic more like, a condition he was aware wasn't the norm, even at the time where racism was the casual way of the world.
Married a Jew, softened with age, loved his cat Niggerman, etc.
>>344910005
nice
>>344910164
>my face when revisionists called him Tiggerman
>>344909685
Maybe if Giygas actually couldn't be beaten.
>inb4 some autist says Bloodborne isn't lovecraftian because ayys and insanity
>>344909897
In one story he implies black people lay eggs. In Reanimator he describes a black boxer who dies and it's like he's talking about something completely not human. Though he does give him a fucking sweet boxing name:
The Harlem Smoke
>>344910127
this, also the new sherlock holmes game coming out next year seems like it's gonna go heavy into lovecraft themes.
Call of cthulu is obvious, it starts off great then kinda shits the bed, but it's worth a shot if you can get it to work.
Have any anons played sunless sea? I heard that's pretty love craftian inspired, but i don't like boats, so i haven't looked into it at all.
>>344910396
Fuck off, Cthulhu gets punked by a ship.
>>344910552
Cthulhu is shit-tier.
>>344910446
>dark souls or bloodbourne
>lovecraftian
love this meme. just lets me know everyone here is underage and think lovecraftian = weird fish monsters
do you know what actual "lovecraftian" shit looks like? Xen in HL1 is a good start
>>344909897
Most people are racist. They just didn't hide it back then.
>bloodborne is not lovecraftian
>>344910446
It's inspired by Lovecraft, but it isn't very Lovecraftian. It's too "pulp" for that, seeing that you go around killing eldritch horrors with brawn. Lovely game, also love the Victorian Gothic and Universal/Hammer horror influences, both which aren't that Lovecraftian either, but compliment his influence nicely.
>in b4 THAT'S NOT REAL LOVECRAFT
Bloodborne is actually pretty great if you're well read in Lovecraft and not a retard who thinks it's because of tentacles.
Demonbane
>>344910472
It's alright, but slow as fuck. Half the game is captaining your extremely slow ship around and the other half is reading.
Why has no one else played Deathstate?
I'm the only person here that mentions it.
>>344910552
>>344910624
At least he had one good moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaVvKP-bPIo
>>344910735
The slaves should be Wojak
>>344910876
This is the most hipster thing i've heard all day. Game is basically the Shadow over Insmouth (The fishing village IS basically Insmouth), with elements of the Dream Cycle.
>>344909114
I've heard Bloodborne has some Lovecraft references.
But DESU I've never read any of his books.
Maybe someone can recommend me one of
his works??
>>344909897
Heard the same.
Did you know that an Ex-Nazi played a big role
in the invention of spaceships?
And that's one of the biggest inventions in human history if not THE biggest invention.
No on really wants a Lovecraftian game, they want a dark fantasy game with Lovecraftian aesthetics. Really, Lovecraftian is a visual genre now, more akin to steampunk than anything.
A real Lovecraftian game would be like Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, if you removed a ton of the action, added a lot of puzzles, and made the end bosses unkillable, unknowable, and you commit suicide.
It's more of a Beksiński visual style, but I figure it's close enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEE4yZgphFk
Still early in production as well.
>>344910931
What the fuck man thats cool
>>344910937
Agreed. Whoever made the image really missed that opportunity.
>>344910552
He wasn't defeated, he just must have thought "Fuck this shit, I'm going back to sleep for few more millennia"
Also Cthulhu doesn't matter, his job is only to kill mankind. Any being worth its salt could do that.
>>344910909
This.
>Ritual mating between old ones and humans
>formless alien species
>insight is learning eldritch knowledge
>frenzy is your brain being forced to learn
>dreamscapes being alternate realities
>>344911053
>with elements of the Dream Cycle.
This. When people think "Lovecraft", they think of stuff like "At the Mountains of Madness", while games like Bloodborne take way more from the dream cycle stories.
metroid prime series
>>344911108
Everything about that just seems really unpleasant.
>>344911053
Not that guy, but I think the game is a little more blunt force trauma than the themes in lovecraftian works.
Still takes tons from it.
>>344909424
For 400 dollaros. what is Silent Hill?
>>344911076
"The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" is a pretty good one if you liked the themes of nightmares and dreams that Bloodborne has.
Personally, I'd say the best story to start off with is either "Dagon" or "The Statement of Randolph Carter". Both are relatively short, and carry the themes Lovecraft is renowned for.
>>344911201
>I didn't lose, I just wasn't trying
Cthulu is literally That Kid
>>344911053
Where in the Shadow Over Insmouth did the main protagonist go around slaughtering the townspeople and then Dagon, only to walk to another equally horrible place for seconds?
Also, Lovecraft's Dream Cycle stuff included the whimsy of dreams as well, it wasn't all just madness and horror. It was his more fantastic work, influenced mainly by Lord Dunsany.
>>344911108
>It's more of a Beksiński visual style
Is this bait?
>>344909114
That game Yahtzee made recently, creeping shadow or something
>>344909114
lovecraft looks like a guy I went to highschool with
5spooky3me
>>344911374
That's kind of the point. Apparently I missed the pre alpha gameplay video that's up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBlBtP3-x_w
>>344911696
Giger is what comes to mind for some of the landscape, but a lot of it seems more biological than mechanical, namely the creatures.
>>344910034
SOMA is a sci-fi version ofthe Outsiderdeveloped by the same team.
>>344909114
Dead Space's Marker lore is really reminiscent of Lovecraft's work.
Its like an alien, futuristic version of the the shadow over innsmouth, where the culture of the marker and its religion consumes people into believing in a better end for your life, where in reality you end up being part of a hive mind of mutated corpsesthat will end up becoming a giant moon that eats planets
If that is not lovecraftian to you, i don't know what is
>>344911575
Nice, they're even on youtube as audiobooks in my
language.
Thanks, Anon.
>>344909114
Scratches is pretty good and has a nice Lovecraftian mood.
>>344910735
>Most people are racist. They just didn't hide it back then.
This.
I hate it how everything is politically correct now. You say one word that can be taken out of context and everyone will pick on you for it forever.
>>344912824
>being bitter AND racist
You sound like a real winner.
>>344912158
I was really disappointed with SOMA in that it only had one ending where none of the choices you made mattered whatsoever.
All the game I went through expecting something to come out of what I did, it's not that it's lazy to have only one possible end for a story based game, it's just that after all of the choices you make it's odd to not get at least a different cutscene.
Overall I thought it was alright for the atmosphere, but Outlast is much better if you like that sort of game.
>>344910164
Well, jews are almost whites after all.
>>344911606
If you want a great adaptation of Shadow over Innsmouth, play Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.
It's an unorthodox FPS survival game and it has you running around like a headless chicken for the first half of the game. After that you get guns and... it turns into a vanilla FPS game with a tedious healthbar system (instead of a healthbar, you get damage at different parts of your body, and depending on the severity of them you have to use different items to patch yourself up, health kits include Band-Aid, sewing kit, bandages, etc. Yes, you have to sit down for the character to sew up his wounds.).
It's still interesting as fuck though, and was the first time ever that a game actually scared me.
Unfortunately it is a bit too buggy... might not even be playable on modern machines, it's over ten years old. Xbox exclusive,also on PC.
Favorite Lovecraft stories?
Mine are probably "At the Mountains of Madness" and "Shadow Out of Time".
>>344909897
>lovecraft thread on /v/
>"B-BUT HE WAS RACIST? WAAH"
Fuck off, Lovecraft hated everyone
>>344909114
Try Resident Evil 4 for the "backward striving people in a village worship weird shit that you're there to stop" plot. Not true lovecraft though, but few things are.
>>344913469
Cool Air
>>344913829
Every time you post this I still can't comprehend your shit taste.
>>344912824
Funny thing is, here in europe, it's always white
lefties complaining about racism and ''fascism''.
>>344913118
>Well, jews are almost whites after all
I consider ashkenazi's as ''white''.
Like Einstein or Freud.
They lived in europe for atleast 1000 years.
and they're mixed with euro's and fought wars
side by side with their countrymen.
>>344913469
the case of Charles Dexter Ward is the most memorable to me, even if perhaps not my most favourite. I actually had to read that two or three times back to back to understand that what is happening is exactly what I thought was happening - all the little details adding up, etc.
Shadow over Innsmouth also had a fitting ending.
I remember that one where a guy finds some underground catacombs and had a cat named Nigger - I think it was Rats in the Walls, don't remember.
I should re-read his stuff, I actually have all the books.
>>344909685
In that same venue, Bravely Default can become pretty lovecraftian too.
>>344913513
especially niggers and kikes
>>344912916
No, I just don't see the point of picking on someone for something he said years ago, especially if they are his beliefs.
>>344913469
Sweet Ermengarde
>>344909114
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is pretty gud.
>>344909897
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.
-HP Lovecraft, On the Creation of Niggers
>x isn't lovecraftian because you can fight against it in someway shape or form
right so its a nihilists' favorite writer, got it
>>344913469
I've only read some of his short stories so far.
I liked The Thing on the Doorstep a lot.
>>344909114
Infra Arcana
>>344913469
The Colour Out of Space, always. Top tier descriptions, immensely creepy, actual payoff but without explaining everything.
16 fucking storefronts in a row, jesus christ captcha
>>344913469
Rats in the Walls for Niggerman the cat.
Under the Pyramids for being the first one I read and for "Men should not have the heads of Crocodiles!"
At the Mountains of Madness for being the longform detailed meandering thing that it is, and for showing that it pretty much is the inspiration for all horror where an expedition of some kind goes wrong, providing us all with things that should come to be clichés.
>>344913469
Dagon and the music of Erich Zann
>>344915175
>>344914654
Good taste
Also good music to listen to involves Biosphere, William Basinski, Moordlust
>>344914759
>shouldn't matter because it was years ago
>but I believe it
And you contradict yourself too, good job. Way to perpetuate /v/ as the failed school ahooter stereotype.
>>344909424
What about the incredibly popular tabletop RPG based off of his novels? Where you go through the adventure the preconcieved notion that eventually everybody playing will die or go insane and thats ok because the game is about what happened before you got there. Games are a medium. They don't have to have any 'goal' to achieve. To be honest it would be fascinating to see some kind of Lovecraft inspired game that encourages you to survive as long as you can uncovering as much mystery as possible before madness inevitably claims you.
>>344915396
I'd be over the fucking moon to play something like that where I go in knowing that I am going to die. Not dark souls die-a-bunch-but-then-respawn but permadeath. I'd just have to know going in ahead of time.
Sadly, outside of a handful of indie games and weird foreign nuts like Ice-Pick Lodge most people making games make them solely to make the player feel good about themselves.
It probably wouldn't be 'fun,' and until we get people in the games industry and people who play those games to want things that aren't necessarily 'fun,' I don't think we'll get a true to form Lovecraft game.
>>344913469
Kadath was good, although a bit different.
>>344910164
Niggerman wasn't his real life's cat's name, but he was named after his cat, Nigger.
>>344914979
Stop being retarded. It's horror, it is in no way celebrating nihilism. If anything it paints just how awful a truly nihilistic universe is.
>>344913469
Literally all Dream Cycle stories (including The White Ship and Polaris)
The Strange High House in the Mist
The Temple
Through the Gates of the Silver Key
>>344909114
Infra Arcana is pretty great.
>>344909114
Infra Arcana.
>>344915886
>i want to play a game that isn't enjoyable
>>344916474
Don't give me that synonym horseshit, anon. I said fun.
The Void's one of my favourite games but I'd never call it fun. It's enjoyable, but it's not fun.
>>344916370
>Polaris
>"and through an opening in the roof glittered the pale Pole Star, fluttering as if alive, and leering like a fiend and tempter. Methought its spirit whispered evil counsel, soothing me to traitorous somnolence with a damnable rhythmical promise which it repeated over and over"
>>344915175
>16 fucking storefronts in a row, jesus christ captcha
Try legacy captcha.
It's much better.
>>344916706
>synonym horseshit
>enjoyable, but it's not fun
what do you mean
The Super Mario World mod
>>344911108
oh fuck i'd play the shit out of that
>>344917410
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>>344917543
If I start defining words we'll be here all night and while I got nowhere to be it's not the best use of anyone's time.
Most games are after fun. They want to make you feel good. Nothing wrong with that, that's great.
But fun's just a little slice of all the feelings that you can have. Requiem for a Dream's a great movie but it sure as hell isn't fun to watch. I can say that's enjoyable because I enjoyed the experience it gave me, but it ain't fun. I'm not having a good time. But I still enjoyed it.
There's a handful of games like that out there (Pathologic's probably the best example) but not many.
I know I'm in the minority of opinions on this board but I'd like to see more games go less for the 'fun' angle and more for whatever else. Make me feel like garbage, or hopeless, or nauseated but aroused. Or whatever else you can think of.
Not all games, mind you. Hell, only a small amount. I wouldn't want them to be the majority any more than I'd want batshit acid trip artsy Cannes films to be more prevalent than popcorn flicks. which is no, just so we're clear.
But I think it'd give some neat experiences, and it's the only way you'd get a real Lovecraft-esque game. It probably wouldn't be fun to watch the character you spent hours with go crazy and die and be unable to do anything about it. But it'd be a neat experience.
>>344909424
What? Did you confuse Lovecraft with Kafka or something? Lovecraft is all about the dangers of curiosity, the terrifying unknown, and the animal nature of man. Lovecraft never says that life is a horror, very few of his stories ever imply that life would suck for anyone who didn't happen to stumble upon the sleeping terror.
>nothing works
I don't see why you would think this. All of his stories imply that things DO work, we just don't understand them and don't want to. e.g. This is a nice apartment but for some reason the walls are full of rats / tentacles, and if I try to find out why they eat me. As long as I don't question it and maybe throw a couple dead dogs in my cellar every year I'm fine.
>life is a horror
I see what you mean by this, but I disagree. I would say that for life to be a horror it needs to be horrible no matter what, while in most of Lovecraft's stories life is only horrible if you look beneath the surface. Think about it this way, if any of his narrators had just followed his gut at the beginning, would his life suck now? The answer is almost always no.
>you're never going to get what you want unless you want is death
Absolutely not, most of Lovecraft's narrators would be perfectly fine if at nearly any point in the story they had just gone, "Ehhh, fuck this let's leave". (Though Shadow Out of Time is debatable here, it could be said that the narrator was forced to research the Yithians and cause his own demise)
TL;DR
Lovecraft formula: Life is great ->>> Hey what's in this hole ->>> Oh god it's horrible ->>> Well great now I'm traumatized / dead
Kafka formula: I am born ->>> No one understands me ->>> I struggle ->>> I realize that life is meaningless pain ->>> I stop struggling and die
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Come on, it literally has underwater city and a fucking kthulchu.
>>344919652
that games general theme is gothic, not dark horror
>>344909897
Everyone is racist. Some just dont like to admit it.
>>344916260
>you cannot fight against horror
my point still stands, why would something that fights against a cosmic horror cancel out something being lovecraftian? not all of his stories are like that afaik
>>344919501
best post itt, I was about to call him out on his kafka reference but you beat me to it
>>344909114
The Last Door
It's a point and click
>>344919501
Did anything even happen to the narrator of The Shadow out of Time? It's been a while, but wasn't the worst that happened to him was that he realized the Yithians were real when he found the message he'd wrote in the past?
>>344909553
I bought that game yesterday
Even though it is shit it is not shitThe only thing I think is actually shit in it is the Metastreum, the monsters just look fucking retarded as fuck and are ass to fight
I wish remedy would touch lovecraft.
They did a really great job of doing stephen king in alan wake.
>>344918943
What did you think of Spec Ops The Line? Would you say that's an unfun but enjoyable experience?
>ITT: meme games
>>344918943
It's not too abstract but the closest thing to that that I can think of is Persona 3. I don't think it was a very fun game but it was an interesting experience.
>>344911108
>that gun
Existenz got an adaptation ?
>>344920486
I didn't really hate the combat as much as some people did so I wouldn't personally call it unfun, but yeah that's another solid example.
It definitely wasn't made with the intention of making the player feel good, at least not after the first third or so. Regardless of how you felt stuff like the white phosphorus scene was handled.
but oh christ that is an argument that i do not want to touch with someone else's dick so let's not go there.
>>344915262
>the music of Erich Zann
You are an scholar and a gentleman.
>>344909897
To be fair though, everyone back then was racist
You can enjoy someone's work without agreeing with their personal views
>>344920224
he got possessed
>>344920779
You're right, they're talking about Lovecraftian trite.
>>344920224
He found the city (which by then had been covered in millions of years worth of earth), and he traced his way back to the library to find the book that he himself had written when he inhabited the Yithian body.
What would Lovecraft think of the modern era?
>>344909114
>what is Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
>>344909114
scorne. this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEE4yZgphFk
>>344922648
Considering there's always concept art threads and stuff where people endlessly wish for a H.R Gieger inspired game I would have thought that /v/ would have gone more apeshit over this game, but I have yet to see someone mention it.
>>344909978
He was next level though, he hated everyone who wasn't from nearly pure British decent.
>>344922924
so? man was a shut in sperg, of course he was like that.
the secret world directly references several lovecraftian stories and is a horror-based MMO
>>344922808
Same here I assumed like anything game related that /v/ knew all about this well before I did.
>>344910332
Bullshit.
>>344911076
Call of Cthulhu and The Colour out of space are must-reads but are kinda overrated. Rats in the Walls in my favourite imo.
>le bloodborne is not lovecraftian because you can kill gods!
C'thulu died from a fucking boat crash to the head
>>344923824
He didn't die, he just went back to sleep for a bit.
Cthulhu shit anyways, the Outer Gods are the real deal.
>>344923824
He just went back to sleep.
>>344923824
he didn't die, he just got pissed off and healed it back.
it's not that Lovecraftian horrors are immortal, it's that the "natural" way of things cannot be stopped
>>344921576
>trite
Please leave. I'll show you the exit.
Why do none of these threads have any discussion on the new Call of Cthulhu reboot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHbuE7rbDzs
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Elder SIgn
what vidya are the WORST ""adaptations"" of Lovecraft out there?
>>344912042
>>344911108
I don't know if this is Lovecraftian but it looks really cool, love this kinda bodyhorror stuff that'd probably make me puke for 30 minutes straight if I saw it in real life.
>>344909114
Eternal Darkness, some Silent Hill titles.
Other than that, you probably won't find too much. If you've read Lovecraft, the whole spin of his writing involves the protagonist trying to live out his life as he remembers it, but everything about the world behaves strange right up until the end, when it is revealed that the PROTAGONIST is the one strange and the reason for everything. It's all about the horror of you being the monster without knowing it, about everything you know of the world being wrong and everything you try to do ending up contributing the exact opposite effect.
His stories aren't exactly very re-readable. Unlike what most media portrays, his stories didn't involve Elder Gods/Cthulhu very often and most that did were actually ones not written by him, by other authors in the setting after he'd passed away. It's fairly hard to put that into a game, since it involves deceiving the player into not knowing what's happening in the setting and most times, setting up a linear story in order to resolve it the way you want to. There isn't much outside horror which does so well, and outside the above there are a few indie games which can give you a similar feel.
>>344909424
Lovecraft's thing was cosmic indifference - humanity doesn't matter at all and your individual life matters even less. There are things beyond human comprehension that make absolutely no sense to us because they're so different - we can't understand how they work, how they think, what their intentions are, where they come from, etc.
>>344924440
>implying the Lovecraftian meme isn't trite
>>344910454
Has any boxer used that yet, because it's a damn good title
>>344915886
Dorf Fort always ends in death.
Even if it's just your framerate.
>>344913469
The Colour Out of Space and The Shadow over Innsmouth for me.
I also liked that one story where the narrator is a lighthouse keeper and one day a ship arrives on the horizon and takes him across all these different landscapes, but then hefucks everything up for everyone and gets dumped back at home. Can't remember the name of that story though.
>>344910332
I've seen them rename his cat Mr.Black
I like the name for some reason, has a nice feel
>>344909897
"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."
—Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "On the Creation of Niggers"
>>344914979
>nihilistic
>when there are literally outer gods prancing around
Quake
>>344917410
force this as a meme on /pol/ I'm sure it'll get their attention and they even may stumble on some great literature in the process
>Great volumes of water serve as a bulwark that guards sleep, and an augur of the Eldritch Truth. Overcome this limitation, and seek what is yours.
>>344928329
why can't more people practice rhyming racism
it's so much more palatable
>>344909424
Wrong. Lovecraft is all about spooky tentacles. How do you not know this.
>>344912042
But Bekinskis motifs aped human approximation in a different way:
>Removal of occular/nasal cavities.
>Additional appendages.
>Skeletal appearance.
>Flesh and pigment reduction.
>Surreal overgrowth on geometry.
>Primeval architecture.
I mean I guess the humanoid figures are emaciated, and there's a similar isolation... But that's it.
>>344909978
Time-ist.
>>344928756
Everything is more palatable in verse.
You can insult anybody in any way you like if the rhyme is good. People love rhymes.
Can music be Lovecraftian?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBMhwWN_088
>>344909897
>HURR DURR HE WAS RACIS
Why does it matter?
Lovecraft was basically the Stephen King of his era
>>344929345
Yep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX-XAWfi3UE
>>344915262
>Eric Zann
Mah Niggerman
>>344930041
it sounds good, but it sounds too much like a representation of a "fair fight," if you understand what I'm saying. There's not much in there to evoke the feeling of "you just fucked up," or "what in the hell is happening right now?"
>>344929051
I suppose a better way to describe it would be a Giger world populated by creatures from a body horror, now that I look side by side at some of Beksinski's human-esque figures, they're desiccated, where Scorn seems to be filled with living breathing flesh.
Honestly Giger is a better comparison, but it just seems way too meaty.
>>344911575
>The Statement of Randolph Carter
his absolute worst tale. It being so short doesn't excuse anything, it's entirely worthless, most likely just something he jotted down to send his pulp publisher and get some money to eat.
The Rats in the Walls, The Whisperer in Darkness, At the Mountains of Madness, start with these.
>>344929345
Sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-aoACLcBP4
>>344930320
>roy andersson
Never fucking thought I'd see his gothenburger face on 4chan, let alone on /v/.
>>344909114
>>344910005
>>344910240
Add Consuming Shadow to that list.
>>344909114
If Lovecraft was still alive Bloodborne would be right up his alley. Until he learned it was made by gooks. But Bloodborne even give a nod to him in the DLC. It's clear he was the inspiration for the game.
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Sometimes I feel like im the only one that played this game for the Lovecraft mythos
>Have to get the Necronomicon
>Fight Cthulhu, Shoggoth , and even a Starface/Old one
>even recrute Randolph Carter
>the info on the enemy gallery even makes nods to works like The Shadow of Innsmouth and The Nameless City
>all of this with Henry Fleming from The Red Badge of Courage, the African American folk hero John Henry, the daughter of El Zorro The Fox, Tiger Lily from Peter Pan, Tom Sawyer, Califia based on the queen Calafia, Queequeg from Moby Dick, the Lion, Tin Man, The Scarecrow and Dorothy Gale from the Wizard of Oz, and Abraham Lincoln with his giant mech A.B.E. (Anthropomorphized Battle Engine)
>nobody bought it.
Such is life....oh well atleast theres alot of challenge modes to replay forever
>Del Toro will never make this into a movie
>>344920362Get the damocles, heavy armor, and go to the forgotten center level where you infiltrate bandits and get assigned to protect this guy at a console, you'll have some crazy ripping and tearing action that might change your mind
>>344931562
>he was set to make At the Mountains of Madness with James Cameron money
>mfw it was cancelled
>>344931562
>Del Toro
meme director
>>344931267
>>344930994
I forgot The Secret World as well. Anything else?
>>344931267
Bruh, just referencing Lovecraft doesn't make a game lovecraftian.
>>344931651
You should be happy.
>>344912824
>You say one word that can be taken out of context and everyone will pick on you for it forever.
Unless is against whites or Japan, then you are aplauded for being progressiveis still racism and i honestly dont know if they realize it
>>344931267
>and Abraham Lincoln with his giant mech A.B.E. (Anthropomorphized Battle Engine)
I would probably have bought a 3DS and this game had it been The Amazing Screw-On Head adaption.
>>344931651
The whole first half is way too similar with "the Thing" (which obviously was inspired by mountains of madness), but normies would all be like "this is a lame the Thing ripoff!".
>>344932456
The concern was that it was too similar to Prometheus, that's why the studio vetoed it according to Del Toro.
>>344931862
what makes a game lovecraftian then? it references the mythos and also features a shitload of monster from it.
also
>The "Abomination" in Chapter 11 is the Dunwich Horror
>the Prowlers are the Deep ones
>Yog-Sothoth is the boss of chapter 6 (or was it 7? i dont remember)
>>344932268
They said the comic book style was inspired by Mike Mignola and Jack Kirby. but yeah. Screw-On Head game when? hell anything Screw-On Head related when?
>>344932574
What kind of mental gymnastics were required to equate At the Mountains of Madness with Prometheus?
Quake 1
ITO game when?
>>344932664
>>>>>>>>>
>>344910927
I need more details before I buy anon
So wait, is Bloodborne """lovecraftian""" or not?
>>344932819
Silent Hill5 was cancelled :((((
>>344932709
>"An expedition to an unknown lands unveils existential and literal horrors"
Plus, studios are cautious around anything that isn't PG-13 and doesn't include a female cast (not to mention can be tied to "muh bogyman racism"). Then again, we and Del Toro might have lucked out. I remember a year or so before it was canceled, it was set to be PG-13, 3D, and to star Tom Cruise.
>>344932954
It has awful, headache-inducing, eye-rending filters and incredibly shallow gameplay. Not worth your time.
>>344933086
No. Just like Cthulhu Saves the World isn't Lovecraftian, nor is Bloodborne. Neither capture the mood of Lovecraft's works in any way, only referencing places, creatures, or events.
>>344933156
>PG-13, 3D, and to star Tom Cruise.
If that's true then we were spared from insanity.
>>344933086
It's heavily inspired by Lovecraftian motifs.
But it's not really that Lovecraftian seeing that you go around punching Cthulhus until you become one.
Edge of Nowhere was pretty rad, but short.
>>344914654
>had a cat named Nigger
God dammit 4chins, I find this much more funny than I should
>>344933291
>Neither capture the mood of Lovecraft's works in any way, only referencing places, creatures, or events.
"I wasn't paying attention to what was happening in Bloodborne, and just rushed bosses while I ignored item descriptions"
>>344909114
Nothing.
A game with a premise (story) where life is gud going ------> curiosity -----> curiosity kills cat (or cuts off cat's tail).
>>344933291
>>344933353
Bullshit. The lore of the game is totally in line with Lovecraft. Not to mention the atmosphere and overall feeling of the game.
How do you depict "unimaginable horror"?
You sperglords are so dense you can't see how cosmic horror only really works in books. A lovecraft game(provided you overcame the inherent problems) wouldn't be fun to play for one
>>344933353
>But it's not really that Lovecraftian seeing that you go around punching Cthulhus until you become one
yeah dude, literally traversing the Dreamlands and contending with maniacal cults who worship the Great Old Ones totally isn't a Lovecraftian setting!
>>344933597
>I didn't read the post I'm quoting
Nothing in Bloodborne captured the mood of his works, just like Cthulhu Saves the World does not capture the mood of his works. Item descriptions paraphrasing Lovecraft's work do not make Bloodborne Lovecraftian any more than having Cthulhu makes CStW Lovecraftian. The story can ape Innsmouth all it wants, if it fails to convey the mood, it is not Lovecraftian.
>>344933670
>The lore of the game is totally in line with Lovecraft
I mean, you can't have lore that is lovecraftian. The entire point of lovecraft's works generally appears to be "Don't fuck with it if you don't know what it is."
bb does not follow that in any way shape or form. It simply follows motifs and visual references.
>>344933731
You don't really have to show it, it's more about implications than painting a full, visual picture.
>>344933670
>lore
aping Lovecraft is plagiarism or homage, but not 'in line' with Lovecraft. The atmosphere is nothing like Lovecraft's works, have you never read his stories? Gothic Victorian is not Lovecraft at all, his stories mostly take place in New England or unnamed castles and catacombs.
Some of the undertones in Star Control 2 for sure.What happened to the Androsynth?
>>344933670
>Monsters are everywhere and everyone knows about them
>Knowledge is power
>>344933846
>>344933931
Have you never played the fucking game? The entire story boils down to people finding shit they didn't understand and fucking with it. The entire game becomes a crazy nightmare as the game progresses.
>>344933846
>Bloodborne is on par with Cthulu saves the world and Lovecraftian lore doesn't count
>>344933931
>The entire point of lovecraft's works generally appears to be "Don't fuck with it if you don't know what it is."
>bb does not follow that in any way shape or form
Fear the Blood
>>344933953
You literally kick Yogg's ass with no help(on zero guardians). Hero's in Lovecraft go insane just thinking about Lovecraftian mosters
>>344933843
>kicking ass and taking names and being more of a badass than the Duke is totally Lovecraftian, it takes place in a stolen Lovecraft setting!
>>344933086
It's a reversal of lovecraftian motifs, if anything.
Especially endings where you can either escape the madness of the Hunt or directly challenge Nyarlathotep in combat by evolving to his level.
>>344934060
>the atmosphere is nothing like Lovecraftian works
how the fuck is people traveling into alternate dimensions when they fall asleep not Lovecraftian?
>>344934165
>I am illiterate and cannot read posts I'm quoting further than 3 words in
No wonder you think BB is Loecraftian, you've never read his stories and are just parroting what you heard on /v/.
>>344910005
IHNMAIMS is more Cronenberg than Lovecraftian. There's no old gods and an egregious amount of body-horror with tech involved.
>>344934191
>being powerless is the one and only theme and feature of Lovecrafts works
>>344933731
bloodborne did it pretty well
>>344934267
Are you kidding me? Sleep being the gateway to other realities/dimensions/worlds was a thing THOUSANDS of years before Lovecraft, that trope does not belong to him at all.
>>344933353
To be fair you can only punch great ones because you're basically a proxy of an even more powerful one for 99% of the game.
>>344933670
Read the thread, we explain in further detail why Blodborne isn't Lovecraftian.
Or better yet, read some of Lovecraft's prose, or listen to it:
http://hppodcraft.com/podcasts/hppodcraftTheTemple.mp3
But to make a long story short, Blodborne lacks the human frailty ascribed to Lovecraft's protagonists when put against cosmic odds. If it were Lovecraftian, you'd play as one of its disposable madmen NPCs, not as an anime-esque Cthulhu slayer. That's more pulp, that's Robert E. Howard territory.
>>344934380
No it didn't, Super Bunnyhop
>>344909114
They Bleed Pixels was inspired by Lovecraft.
>>344934371
>pulp is Lovecraftian
>>344934556
>pulp
there's that meme phrase again
>>344912042
Looks fappable
>>344934517
I thought it was inspired by Super Meat Boy.
>>344934465
kek
it depicted lovecraft shit and was still enjoyable
I don't have much more to say. I thought it was a nice change of pace from dark souls
>>344933442
Fuck off normalfag, we don't want you here.
>>344934459
Except you either die in the end or you become a part of the cycle of madness. There is no scenario where you win. If that's not depicting the frailty of humanity than I don't know what is.
>>344934629
>I don't know what a word means or how it is applicable, I will call it a meme instead of using the power of the internet to broaden my knowledge, why use dictionary.com when I can spout meme and look like a total moron that has never read a story before
>>344922924
He might have hated me, but so what? Let his work stand on its own. I can disagree with people and still appreciate their different talents and work.
>>344934425
>Sleep being the gateway to other realities/dimensions/worlds was a thing THOUSANDS of years before Lovecraft, that trope does not belong to him at all.
well then neither does people fighting against supernatural forces far beyond their control and failing miserably, because the idea of a normal man fighting some invincible spirit/monster and getting BTFO is also a tale as old as time. It's all in the tone and presentation
>>344934714
Why? Because it had weird monsters and an insight/frenzy system? It's like the very bare trappings of the visual ascetic and nothing more.
Honest questions for Blodborne fans who insist that it's Lovecraftian: Have you read Lovecraft, not just about him and his stories, but his actual prose?
And why is it so important to you that the game is called "Lovecraftian" instead of "inspired by Lovecraft"? Because those are two different things.
>>344910454
That was caused by brain death, and happened with every non-fresh body he reanimated.
>>344934517
>>344934674
Right on both accounts. Lovecraft art direction and "plot," Super Meat Boy gameplay but with a rudimentary combat system.
I enjoyed it, mainly because of its save system and how the levels are designed around it. You get bullshit difficulty but have the means to practice it without taking laps through other shit.
>>344934796
>pulp: popular or sensational writing that is generally regarded as being of poor quality.
literally old-timey meme phrase for "I don't like the thing reee normies fuck off with your shit taste"
>>344934857
the fishing hamlet was literally fucking innsmouth, what more do I have to say
Why would you want to play a game where you couldn't fight back, or even win?
I love the tone, atmosphere, and aesthetic of lovecraft but not being able to kill eldrich horrors sounds boring
they were only seen as unstoppable, mind melting abominations because people from the 1920's were wimps and didn't have the internet
>>344934760
Except the PC is in no way depicting the frailty of humanity. The ending does not retroactively apply to the entire game.
>>344933731
>Player finds journal describing unimaginable horror
>player ventures deeper into environment
>monster can only be heard and only parts of it are seen through the darkness
>if the player rushes into the darkness the screen is filled with increasingly abstract shit for a few seconds and then a fail screen comes up saying YOU WENT INSANE or some shit
>>344934989
The fact that having a location does in no way make it a lovecraft game?
>>344934856
>It's all in the tone and presentation
I agree 100%, and that is why BB is not Lovecraftian.
>>344934856
good post, but he won't acknowledge it
>>344935073
are you saying it does not have lovecraft themes
it might not be lovecraft: the game but it definitely passes as one
and it's probably the closest we'll ever get to a high quality game of that nature
>>344934760
>If that's not depicting the frailty of humanity than I don't know what is.
It doesn't, because you or me couldn't be the protagonists of the game to begin with. Hell, Lovecraft's protagonists tend to be even frailer than your average Joe's, sensitive and prone to fainting. Anglophile everymen that stumble upon forbidden knowledge, strange lands and madness. Not Van Helsing inspired monster hunters. The keyword is "inspired by Lovecraft (among other things"), not "Lovecraftian".
The thing in Bloodborne that was truly Lovecraftian was Oedon, as it seems to somewhat omnipresent, has no physical form, cannot be killed by any means, and is responsible for a massive amount of the plot.
>>344934993
>PC is in no way depicting the frailty of humanity
He's nothing but a proxy of BB's version of Nyarlathotep for the entirety of a game which depicts his frailty really well. You don't have any choice, you're just a plaything of MP or any other Great One you can't see because you lack insight.
>>344910876
Lovecraft IS pulp. He wrote almost all his stories for pulp magazines.
>>344934967
the popularity and sensational writing, well, gameplay in this case, is where BB is pulp.
>always on offense unlike DaS, he who strikes first wins in most circumstances
>holy shit I can enter beasthood and kick ass and take names, I am wrecking face!
and the like.
>>344935073
except there's far more than that present
don't know why you're being so stubborn, if you played bloodborne you'd know it's more lovecraft than not
>>344935347
That's not frail, that's blind and unwitting.
>>344935295
>are you saying it does not have lovecraft themes
Yes, and you're way to thick to not understand why.
