Deep Sea Thread: Vidya Edition
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Who's hype for Narcosis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izY4sktOxOQ
Is this Soma 2?
>deep sea horror
what gets me about the open sea is how vast it is, not how horrid the creatures appear
It gives the idea of how incredibly small you are andhow massive other things could be
>>345255807
>there will never be a game about being in a deep underwater facility finding a way to escape from a giant sea monster
>>345256524
Well the issue is what is the game-play?
Is it a scripted first-person corridor-survival game (eg: SOMA)?
could it be a multiplayer game (eg: Depth)? How would you survive a giant sea monster?
I liked the idea that you have three coop players (Captain, Security, Engineer) who dive to the ocean to recover/mine things. The captain chooses where to go and can see "danger-zones" where certain size sea-monster may dwell. Security Is in charge of keeping large fish/small monster off the ship/crew during mining/recovery (turrets or small dive vessels with firepower he could command). Engineer repairs the hull, commands the miners and fixes dive ships/escape pods.
>>345257286
So the captain could go to a high risk zone to mine high-value loot (the miners would have to leave the ship to get to it, the engineer could go with to speed up the process) and risk killing his crew.
I even thought you could use the Pacific Rim category system to figure out how dangerous each sea monster is.
>category 0: small sharks, large non-predatory fish
>category 1: large sharks, large predatory fish
>category 2: largest known predatory fish, small monsters
>category 3: mythological monsters (how large you would expect a sea monster to be based on folk tale)
At this point you can no longer hope to fight these creatures and must flee if you encounter them
>Category 4: largest aggressive monsters you would expect (think Kraken / Charybdis)
>Category 5: Largest possible monsters that would probably be more an environmental hazard than a personal one
I've thought way too much about this while at work
>>345257286
SS13 is a good framework for it. Give each role a task but throw in round-based objectives like traitors, floods, sea monster attacks, Cthulhu cults and so on.
Barotrauma is a good attempt but way too simplistic right now.
>>345258319
>mfw category 5 includesanother human
>>345259194
See, to me there is nothing more horrifying about the abyss of the open ocean than the loss of the sense of scale you suffer
imagine a normal object in front of you. put it really close to your face and it seems huge but you know better than to think it is. now imagine it is just as huge to you, but far away and obscured mostly in the darkness
now make the object something unsettling (a maw, a creep face, staring bright eyes) and I can no longer deal.imagine such a horror on VR
If you want to see some fucking with scale you can check this tech-demo out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEBEQhwG-rU
good discussion going on, don't let the thread die
>>345260335
>That video
That's pretty neat.
