We need more games based on Lovecraft's work.
We need more games based on Lovecraft's work
Jacob Russell
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Luke Richardson
implying gaming hasn't been inspired by lovecraft all over the place, doesn't mean it has to bear the lovecraft license.
but yeah seriously though, more lovecraft games would be cool.
also a game based on the voynich manuscript.
Eli Green
Lovecraft wasn't about epic tentacle monsters with cool designs.
Julian Roberts
Vidya is a terrible platform for lovecraftian horror
Michael Perez
no we dont
god im so fucking sick of lovecraft
nobody cares
Hudson Walker
maybe not specifically, but "lovecraftian" can be seen everywhere in games, to various extents.
Gavin Perry
We need more games with fuckable eldritch horrors.
Anthony Peterson
No, Lovecraft is too problematic for the current years audiences
Liam Nelson
I feel like Lovecraft has to be biggest case of a broken telephone i've ever seen
Lovecraft wasn't about the fucking monsters but about the dread you feel and how everything is meaninless in the face of certain doom
You could literally show no monsters and still get the same feeling if you write it well enough. Every writer nowadays is like
>monster has no face
>monster has tentacles
>monster is an alien
>"SO LOVECRAFTIAN INSPIRED HOLY SHIT"
Jeremiah Cook
>monster has no face
>monster has tentacles
>monster is an alien
>"SO LOVECRAFTIAN INSPIRED HOLY SHIT"
A lot of Lovecraft's work is totally that though, why do people pretend otherwise? Stories like The Outsider and Rats in the Walls are more just exceptions. The quality of his writing is vastly overblown.
Austin Ross
Agreed.
Eldritch horror is about evoking that feeling you get when it is revealed to you that something you've known or taken for granted your entire life was not only a lie, but actively working against you the entire time. That sick feeling that everything is hopeless, has always been hopeless; the concept of such incomprehensible force that it simultaneously inspires awe and imminent doom at the same time.
Angel Thompson
lovecraftian
no really
Jayden Anderson
There you go.
Joseph Morgan
If you mean by narrative then Dad Space is a great candidate. DS2's endgame with the necromorphs gathering is probably the most unsettling "cosmic horror" concept whipped up in modern times.
John Long
Did somebody say Nyarlathotep?
Dominic Turner
i feel like darkest dungeon did a pretty good job in that regard, much more in the ending
More so when you realize all the things the ancestor did to the Hamlet/little Girls was all to try and Understand eldritch Horrors and then went insane thanks to it
Ryan Fisher
Hopefully the sequel holds up.
Ryder Reyes
The trailer seemed like it's carrying the torch. If the world doesn't end regardless of your efforts it'll probably be shit.
Anthony Butler
Luis Allen
Wrong, Bloodborne is more lovecraftian than even Lovecrafts original works.
Lucas Cruz
> Never get a Lovecraft game featuring Niggerman.
:(
Ryan Wilson
Too bad darkest dungeon has shit gameplay, otherwise it would be a kino lovecraft game
Henry Johnson
Personally, I would like a dating VN where you could dare all of Lovecrafts monsters
Matthew Stewart
For me, it's Shub-Niggurath
Evan Watson
>lol dude tentacles
Blake Smith
That's just Birkin from RE2
Zachary Rodriguez
nyarlathotep is actually based off a real deep sea creature, except its simply just a group of organisms Siphonophore that form a massive group of tentacles.
They were found as early as 1904
Eli Ward
For me, it's Yog-Sothoth
Jayden Ramirez
maybe it could be about trying to end the cycle? or searching a way toget that thing out of the world without exploding it?
And it all ends in "Sike you nig, there's no way to save the earth"
And then you get hit by wave after wave of monsters until you lose all your people
Christian Anderson
Best Persona antagonist.
Joseph Gonzalez
What plebs nowadays call «lovecraftian» is actually the work of Derleth who disfigured Lovecraft’s writings, pantheonizing gods, giving them a hierarchy and other non sense.
Juan Martinez
Sauce?
Isaiah Wilson
Nah they could do it, most devs are just idiots and don't understand what lovecraftian horror actually is and think its just spooky tentacle monsters.
Gavin Rivera
Dagon, it gets close but then completely dies when shit gets interesting like all lovecraft garbage.
Samuel Johnson
>Played darkest dungeon, then underrail and then grim dawn
Yeah I'm full of mostly lazy shoehorned lovecraftian stuff for a while sorry
Tyler Thompson
Bad movie that is still worth watching.
Brandon Harris
Lazy? Maybe grim dawn, the other two not really.
Kevin Ward
>implying that would make me stop
Anthony Rogers
It just feels a bit of a cheap choice as the Big Bad to me but I love the aesthetics so whatever
Benjamin Peterson
>that game you played as a kid that was actually full of eldritch shit
Jacob Myers
i wish i had a miskatonic university sweater or jacket
Jaxon Rogers
the best Lovecraft stuff is minimal on the ooze and tentacles, clever with (that is, even dares to mention)the politics, and somehow makes the gameplay minimize killing and winning.
looking forward to the sinking city!
Tyler Wilson
>Niggur
there's a reason she's called a goat with a hunderd children
HPL predicted Europe's future
Jackson Bell
Unironically Dusk
Eli Harris
>No horror game where as time passes and the longer time you take to not reach the final boss the world slowly turns itself into a giant monster that you all were a part of all along and it was just the giant monsters dream, that made a projection of earth and everything in it being a reality.
Asher Kelly
Please do not insult my oneesan
Ryan Martin
kind of The Consuming Shadow
Sebastian Martin
Gib eldritch gf. I wish to wife her and make hybrid babies.
If she loved me Id still hit it.
James Bennett
That's a bear, user
Gabriel Cooper
Alexander Perry
who did you expect at the end of all this?
Ian Kelly
I want to fall for Chiyo-nee's tricks
Xavier Thomas
she craves mc's dick in that movie because they both dream of each other before they ever met.
Thomas Bailey
i wish there were more rpg's with these kind of horror themes.
shame laplace's demon is so functionally broken.
Nathan Cooper
Bear. Monster. Eldritch horror. When a thing is made for breeding and wifing the details don't matter.
Ryan Howard
>not being turned on by that
lol what a fag
Oliver Barnes
saya is sooo good
Adrian Ross
Dark Corners of The Earth did its job. It has pretty cool sanity system.The more you look at forbidden shit, the more crazy you become, and this can result in game over.
It was a mixed bag though. First part of the game has some mystery and tension to it (hotel chase scene), but later you'd see Lovecraftian abominations running with Tommy guns, that totally killed the soul of the game.
Charles Harris
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Ethan Collins
This
Everyone in this board is a pseudo who doesn't know what Lovecraft is about.
The tentacles and eyes are minor details compared to the metaphysical battle.
Evan Gutierrez
I agree with you there
Are there any games that deal with the slow degradation of society into disgusting wretches? That was another theme Lovecraft loved. The only one that comes to mind is Dark Souls, but that's mostly because I love Dark Souls
Daniel White
Are there any games which are power fantasies until you meet eldritch monsters and then go into a horror game?
Zachary Fisher
good posts
Justin Baker
>That feel when you will never have an arm for a dick.
Evan Cook
What we need is devs stop jerking cthulhu's dick, he's not even that big of a threat
Jack Torres
>Lovecraft keeps getting referenced even after decades of vidya
>his stuff is only getting more popular
>nobody cares
Baka
Hudson Hughes
Seconding
Dusk is great
Tyler Evans
>love of your dreams
>craves your dick
>is cute
>turn her down because she has a tentacle, not wanting to fuck her even harder
is the MC a massive in denial gaylord or something
Easton Morales
I'm going to get it if I'm mistaken here, but isn't Lovecraftian horror the idea that what you can't see is more frightening than what you can?
Asher Williams
most games shouldn't go past that point honestly.
whenever they try to bring in anything that nobody should conceivably be able to deal with, it's hardly ever done in a way that's really satisfying.
even worse if they manage to beat it in a contrived way.
Levi Hernandez
my favorite is probably the lurking fear which has nothing to do with those fucking elder gods
Lucas Jones
Bloodborne is not just tentacles. It pulls in everything from pre-human civilizations and ancient things being inherently alien to us (Pthumeru), to invisible dimensions that lie right beside our own (the Nightmare/cosmos) to the fragility of human identity (beasthood/kinhood), the evils of the past welling up in the modern day (the Hunter's Nightmare, the Research Hall, etc.). And it's all perfectly cohesive. While it isn't strictly traditionally Lovecraftian ( would nehever write a story like Bloodborne, with monster fights and stuff), HPL was autistic enough in his love of horror fiction to appreciate things Bloodborne does outside of its grand narrative. The game tastefully employs pretty much every other Lovecraftian trope other than total helplessness in the face of horror really well.
Isaiah Thompson
>looks like shit for the sake of looking like shit
>no effort to even make it look good
wasted effort
Aiden Davis
We don't like Shub shaggers around these parts.
Xavier Phillips
For me, it's Atlach-Nacha
John Martin
shub before was cuter
an*me is an abomination
Julian Garcia
I aways felt it was about the horror of knowing that you’re fucked no matter what you do and if there is a god they either want to devour you for a snack or torture you eternally for funsies. Assuming they acknowledge you as anything more than an ant.
The horror of knowing that there is something utterly unknowable out there that is implacable, unbeatable, unable to be reasoned with, and while the endgame isn’t known they are most certainly fucking malevolent in intent.
It’s the same appeal that early 40K tyrannids had before GW just made them very hungry generic xenomorphs lore-wise with only the slightest hints of their original mood.
Julian Torres
Adam Flores
he has a gf and tentacle girl wants to sacrifice her
eldritch chan wins MCbowl in the end
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Chase Wood
Playing Quake with Shub-Niggurath!
William Young
Can mecha be eldritch horror?
Owen Davis
ye
Henry Peterson
Close, it more the idea that we simply don’t comprehend the world around or beyond us and that trying to comprehend it is nearly suicidal. It’s not about what you don’t see as much as what you can’t understand
Brandon Ross
It all depends on the portrayal
Tyler Roberts
CthulhuTech, but that's a mixed bag in and of itself.
Jason Richardson
Read Getter Robo.
Joshua Fisher
Matrix?
Brayden Jones
I wish I could play Quake with a qt anime grill.
>tfw no Chio-chan gf
Easton Phillips
Not a game, but Puella Magica Madoka plays out in exactly that manner rather rapidly at episode four.
Charles Morales
Watch Space Runaway Ideon.
Nicholas Nelson
>tfw no eldritch oneesan to welcome you home and clear out the pests
Carson Rodriguez
Bloodborne is definitely one of the best Lovecraftian games in terms of atmosphere, lore, setting. etc.
But Rain World is one of the best takes on the cosmic horror experience.
Ryder Evans
It's more about
>Imagine one day scientists find out that the sun is the feeding orifice of an inter-planar being and it siphons off the emotions of earthlings as it prepares to devour the cosmos when it collapses into what we know as a black hole - and there is no way to prevent it in physics
It's the feeling that reality betrayed you before you were even extant
Aaron Powell
Lovecraft's horror is built on the idea that what we call reality is just a bubble surrounded by a truer but more alien reality, and when that outside pierces our bubble it irrevocably changes whatever it comes into contact with. Madness in Lovecraft is not just going mad with fear of what those things represents, but also how society thinks you are mad too.
Andrew Brown
Looks like a resident evil creature. I thought Lovecrafts stuff was scary because it was incomprehensible, so assigning it a form doesnt really work.
Jason Young
>I thought Lovecrafts stuff was scary because it was incomprehensible
That's just a meme, Lovecraft's creatures are scary because they represent a complete overturning of human values, understanding, and reality. You don't go mad from seeing Cthulhu because he's a giant squid-dragon-man, you go mad because his existence is flipping your entire worldview on it's head.
Josiah Reed
>we have different mothers
>but the same father
>eldritch step-sis gf
this keeps getting better
Asher Wood
>tfw no creepy octopus gf that's weirdly into incest
Anthony Allen
This is false. You don't go mad for rationalizing its existence. You go mad because that's what eldritch terrors do, they turn people mad, including some people who don't even know about their existence.
Adrian Stewart
the game koudelka, and the shadow hearts series use quite a bit of the same style of horror that lovecraft and other authors at the time were known for.
koudelka had it the most, but that's because the guy who wrote the scenario apparently bought a crapload of old horror novels and read through them all before putting together the story and events.
the shadow hearts games still had a lot of weird horror in it, the first game especially, but it took a bit of a backseat the more it went on.
koudelka is kind of a hard game to play, but i enjoyed it, the shadow hearts games are great JRPG's in general.
Julian Price
why do i find this sexy
Elijah Cooper
>Neverwinter Nights: Mask of the Betrayer
Give it a shot.
Joseph Collins
you've ascended, brother
Charles Martin
>lovecraft
Nicholas Evans
Its low poly purposefully but it doesnt look like shit. All the textures are well done and the environments are lovingly crafted. Honestly its one of the best fps games ive ever played in terms of level design and pure gameplay.
to tell you the truth, i never liked quake. i thought a lot of the later levels were poorly designed
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Michael White
>they turn people mad, including some people who don't even know about their existence.
Name stories where this happened, especially for the latter.
Nolan Lopez
>lovingly crafted
whoa it's just like they are a love craft
Carson Moore
heheh
Alexander Bailey
the blasted heath
James Smith
>hating Sandy Peterson's levels
Shit taste detected. Episode 4 is great, and Palace of Pain, Elder God Shrine, and Nameless City are some of the best levels in the game.
Charles Rogers
In Colour Out of Space, and fair point in this example. But they didn't go mad from it's incomprehensibility. They went mad because it was draining their life force.
Lincoln Brooks
Me, I want to fuck the inhuman and terror inducing qts. Lovecraft was a basic bitch casual. The dick is stronger than any need for sanity.
Anthony Howard
>tfw no worm wife
eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alexander Jenkins
>Lovecraft hated foreigners, including the Jews
>Lovecraft marries a Jew
Perhaps he understood the appeal of inhuman qts, deep down.
Brody Garcia
supreme taste friendo
Lincoln Reyes
I wonder what her squishy spiky appendages feel like haha
Christopher Smith
FUCK YES
Mason Moore
Evangelion has some eldritch vibes into it
Also: Based H. R. Giger
Aiden Evans
>meme eldtrich-abominations
Wew... there are like 5 stories that is worth reading.
>The Music of Erich Zann
>The Rats in the Walls
>The color out of Space
>At the Mountains of Madness
>The Shadow out of Time
Brody Nelson
Aaron Cook
are these the worms that share a hivemind where they all share the pleasure they feel
haha
Eli Scott
dunwich and red hook
Hunter Watson
>not listing Nyarlathotep
>or Pickman's Model
>or The Festival
>or Haunter of the Dark
>or Dunwich Horror
>or The Call of Cthulhu
>or The Horror at Red Hook
>or The Whisperer in Darkness
>or Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
>or The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
>or Dreams in the Witch House
>or Shadow Over Innsmouth
>or The Thing on the Doorstep
The dude had a lot of Elder God-tier stories.
Hunter Scott
You forgot The Thing on the Doorstep, the Lurking Fear, Whisper in the Darkness, and Reanimator at least. You're right though in that most of Lovecraft's best works had very little to do with the edlritch monsters he became known for.
Jayden Bell
I wonder how many kids we could make in a day
Daniel Hill
You forgot:
-The Temple
-Dagon
-The Statement of Randolph Carter
-From Beyond
-The Outsider
-Herbert West–Reanimator
-Cool Air
-The Call of Cthulhu
-Pickman's Model
-The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
-The Dunwich Horror
-The Whisperer in Darkness
-The Shadow over Innsmouth
-The Dreams in the Witch House
-The Haunter of the Dark
And the Dream Cycle, which should be read as his take on Dunsany-esque fantasy.
Nathaniel Collins
So you want games that are more racist?
Eli Price
>tfw no fucking out world ancient one to mindfuck me into loving her conditionally for an eternity as her loving husband and father to her children
oh my fucking GOD WHY
Ayden Rivera
>the no MTG Eldrazi game.
Benjamin Mitchell
Because you haven't put in the effort
Henry Wood
how is that even....
Adrian Taylor
It's interesting how the very first endgame boss of WoW was a Lovecraftian monster hard enough to beat that a week passed without anyone in the world defeating it
John Evans
im trying my hardest
Carter Morgan
Stop.
Try doing it casually instead. Stop taking it so seriously. It'll happen quicker that way.
Jeremiah Jackson
>Lovecraft's work
elaborate OP
Camden Davis
is that ZeedMillenniummon?
John Garcia
Koudelka had an amazing horror atmosphere and was genuinely unnerving and intense at all times. The later games increasingly shifted away from that, and From the New World was hardly even recognizable.
Play that game on a PSP if you can; it deals with the load times and disc changes that were the game's biggest weakness on the PS1.
Cameron Ortiz
I see you are a faggot with the shittest of tastes.
Cameron Cook
Bump