Pathologic thread

'Here birdies, gather around the marble nest.' is actually a phrase that Nikolay heard in a dream, it means that someone is going to die in the context of that dream.
It's initially used in Knock-Knock:
knock-knock.fandom.com/wiki/Games
>Everything's alive
>This is a game to be played in silence. Two hours before sunrise, gather the guests. Everybody chooses a human for themselves. After that, the guests should move silently through the house. All the guests are focused on their own business. Sooner or later you will hear a voice: 'Here birdies, gather around the marble nest.' Then everyone should freeze in place. If the rustling continues, that means the game is over and you should stop immediately. The invisible one is among you.
And now, Bachelor seems to have that phrase attached to him as well.

Someone made a Neural Network that can replicate Peterson's voice. Similar to Rogan, he's uploaded so much content of himself talking that it's pretty accurate

Doesn't the writer/creator/director hate the players and making games?

Bachelor I suppose. Wouldn't consider it mandatory though. I imagine if you started with 2 it would be hard to go back to classic.

Never heard of that, more he had no fucking clue about vidya when he started out, with people hanging up on him when he asked what they meant by 2d and 3d.

It is worth playing because of how unique it is, but I'd recommend you play the second first due to how much more polished and accessible it is.

At very least he made Patho threads hit the bump limit.

Don't post spoilers please, or even pretend spoilers

Thank god

You'll get to see the bachelor campaign before it's official remake gets added to Pathologic 2, but the other two campaigns are unfinished and the game is a chore overall

>got it to work on my intel integrated graphics ass laptop
I feel fucking blessed
Been excited to play pathologic since I saw the trailer for the pre-HD original on steam maybe a decade ago. the first wasn't what I imagined it would be, but so far 2 is everything I dreamed of. Ice Pick Lodge may be the only "art game" studio that makes artsy games that aren't disappointing

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That's around 75k in profits right? That's not too bad

underwhelming, quite frankly

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Still better than nothing

It doesn't have gog sales either which was the primary link in the Mandalore video.

of course, I'm not complaining
at least he brought some exposure to it, and probably did mord marketing for them than what they've done alltogether by themselves
still, maybe it's my fault for being too naive, but considering his subscriber count and my - probably wrong - assumption that his fanbase seemed rather dedicated, I would have expected more of a rise instead of 25k to 26k

Nigga, Mandy's video is from 17th, August. That's 3k sales. The entire sales increase on your picture is his achievement.

bump

Daily reminder
twitch.tv/forsen/clip/EagerFrozenWolfPrimeMe

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Should I get Pathological 2 or Insurgency Sandstorm? What about Sunless Sea?

How am I supposed to finish day 6 of the bachelor route? I've acquire and examined all the blood samples but the quest doesn't register as finished.

does Yea Forums like this man?

what the actual FUCK

Forgot to clarify, HD Classic.

You go back to the Kains I think

marble nest is kino

listen id buy it.
but i pirated it to see how it runs and it ran like dogshit. i want to send kapital away from california and inot eastern euro for better vidya but they have to make good products.

once Sseth drops the nuke im sure they will sell more units.

9th Thread.
In which this particular actor probably fucked up numeration.
Also some foreshadowing shit blah-blah...

So if I give her some of my morphine stash will she put out

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How is the soundtrack?

I doubt that Sseth is invested enough.
Mandy said that he might try to break the game, but that's really it.

You can’t stop what’s coming. There are 458 posts left.

>he doesn't know that ownership stats on steam are fucked up ever since valve made steam accounts not show their games to non-friends by default
cringe

good but nothing special atmospheric in most places, amazing for certain parts/certain areas.

>good but nothing special
youtube.com/watch?v=_JUDG8F6AyY
youtube.com/watch?v=zm_1xeijw_g

user pls, reread the post. those are amazing but they play exactly once. sadly, the whole ost isn't like those two.

AHEM ATTENTION ALL STEPPE PEOPLE OR STIGGERS AS I LIKE TO CALL THEM

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>not knowing ownership stats are still fucked
>not counting the sales that kept it in the GOG top ten for five days straight
That’s still nearly 80k dollars dos in sales

>the WORST numbers displayed on steam through incomplete data alone are 3k sales at full price in less than a week
>not even counting the other outlets and the longer tail the game now has
Great news honestly

the bachelor and the cringeling are never coming to Pathologic 2. the game will no longer be updated.

source: pic related

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>nothing special
PLEBS PLS

youtube.com/watch?v=f1uFXytl9Zs
youtube.com/watch?v=TyET7K05tAs
youtube.com/watch?v=v6VuA5wnNt0

JUST TRYING TO BE REALISTIC HERE MY DUDES
I AM AWARE THE OST IS GREAT

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That man will finish it at all cost

>no 3000 iq autistic inquisitor gf
life is cruel

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>buy game
>is super comfy
>feel like I actually accomplished something when I went from getting beaten up on sight to being respected as a doctor who saved lives
>day 4 now
>barely keeping myself from starving to death
>always out of everything I need
>while simply trying to walk from one location to the next to buy food and stave off starvation for another 30 minutes I see crazy people attacking locals
>there's two attackers
>I go help
>we kill the attackers
>the man I helped then attacks me
>I have to kill him also
>I harvest their organs and blood because I need them
>break into a house in an infected district
>rummage around looking for something, anything, to help me
>suddenly a moaning
>immunity starts taking a massive hit
>there's a fucking infected person wrapped up like a mummy moaning and coming at me
>I run away like a bitch
>people I'm supposed to be looking out for are becoming infected
>I have no idea how to keep myself ahead of hunger and exhaustion long enough to make enough medicine to diagnose and possibly help them
>again, this is day 4, 4/12
AAAAAHHHHHHHH

It sounds like you're getting the intended first-time pathologic experience.

There's a lot of meat on the bull I bought, can I butcher it? That's easily two weeks' worth of food.

On day 2, first time playing. I know that water becomes contaminated later. Is it worth stashing a bunch in Ravel's house?

No, her house occasionally gets burglarized by looters. By Day 3 I think you'll have a permanent place to stash them once you unlock your "base" so to speak.

Cool. I'm on my way to my dad's house with the key. Also I'm considering killing that guy for his revolver.

Should I also note that while water becomes harder to come by, I was never dying of thirst in the game. I'd suggest always trying to keep at least a stack (10+) on hand, but I doubt you'll need to stash them.

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I don't know, I was too paranoid of being fucked over to buy the bull. The best strategy for food is to never buy it after the first day, it's too expensive. Instead trade with the kids you see around town. Little kids trade for nuts and teenagers trade for sharp objects like scissors. Also, make sure to do the hospital quest, you get paid in supplies at the end of every day.

at least the Haruspex accomplishes something, Bachelor route is 10 times the suffering for 0 success

He reviews niche shit in a concise and entertaining manner, and is too lazy to get a cane to help with moving around with his spinal injury, so he just hobbles around his house using a shotgun for support

Maybe now these threads can go back to being about the actual game and not a fucking circlejerk over this nobody.

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It feels weird, this and 2. I've never played it and yet the screenshots you post have this weird otherworldly feel to it.

>Benvenuto Cellini, who wrote a great autobiography, which you WILL READ.
I couldn't imagine anything more boring to waste my time on when there is so much interesting shit to read elsewhere, like the Russians and the recommendations from Ice Pick Lodge themselves. Cellini is just a narcissistic and sarcastic twat, but of course he was the first, big whoop.
Go read Chekhov or Dosto my man.

On;y halfway through day 2 but I'm really enjoying it. Reminds me of Lisa with how congruent the gameplay and the story are. It's not like a large majority of games were one is with odds with another. Everything just makes sense together, even when nothing makes sense. Just wish it didn't run like ass.

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Holy shit I wanna fuck Lara so bad.

>not Grace

That's disgusting actor.

thats not apart of the script.

It's a shame more games nowadays don't actually have their gameplay factor in with the story more thematically.

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wtf is the last part true

twitch.tv/mandaloregaming/clip/YummyPluckySalamanderCorgiDerp

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C'mon Dybowski hurry up so I can play as my bottom bitch.

He hates people criticizing his game for being bad, when its actually them misunderstanding the core themes and narrative.

>hates making games
>wrote a manifesto on their importance as an art medium and kept his studio churning out games for over 15 years

post dem blue characters

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>3k sales that they wouldn't get otherwise
>On Steam alone

Why, that's an absolute win

So is there ANY hope at all of them making the other routes?

>Doesn't the writer/creator/director hate the players and making games?
No. He once made a rather unfortunate statement about disliking gameplay in games, but it was a poor choice of wording rather than anything else. He meant that he dislikes the idea of player jumping through gameplay loops without it having any kind of narrative relevance or symbolic purpose.

If you look at IPL's game, you'll find that despite the studio being very heavily narrative and "artistic" focused, all of their haves were gameplay-heavy. They never took the cheap route out and never tried to diminish the very interactivity or challenge aspects of the medium.

They build their narratives THROUGH gameplay, see the two as inseparable. And they treat challenge as a meaningful way to create sense of urgency, and growth to the player.

TLDR: they make games, with actual focus on mechanics and challenges. They just design those challenges and mechanics to have narrative purpose as well as mechanical.

>In which this particular actor probably fucked up numeration.
Pathologic 2 will certainly be the most memorable of the three.

I really like sunless sea but most people say its slow as fuck. As with all fucking things: Make up your own goddamn mind and/or give us some specific criteria so we're not just stating our own likes at you, you schmuck.

I'm still not exactly sure how the fuck this happened. I never imagined I'd live in a reality where pathologic got an actual honest to god not just spritiual successor.

The real fucking question is:
How the fuck did Pathologic 2, a game ten thousand times more accessible, polished, complex and all around better made than Pathologic 1, managed to get WORSE scores and sales than Pathologic 1 or the HD re-release.
That is what absolutely baffles me.

Marketing. I've heard a lot of people who didn't even know the game is out.

Blame tinyBuild

Optimistically, because the first game was essentially ignored and unknown, then slowly came to obscure attention by its virtues, giving time for a mature review of its flawed but original character and unique existence, and the second hasn't had time to get there yet.

Realistically, because the first game was so not a fucking game the only people who could survive to effectively critique it actually had to appreciate its other virtues, and the sequel is just enough of a game that some of the philestines manage to muck through and talk about it as if it was some kind of...plebian interactive entertainment or some rubbish!

lmao wtf

None of the games had any marketing to speak off, so that is clearly not the issue.

I think the problem is reflecting a fundamental issue of the journalism, and illustrates the gradually dissolving competency for actual critical evaluation among majority of gaming journals. Pathologic 1 came out when there was a sufficient number of genuine game critics still out there. HD came out when these critics were largely gone, but their values have been still respected, and more-or-less out of that respect the game judged on the scores that the original was judged with.

Pathologic 2 came out long enough after the original generation of genuine game critics were gone that their legacy was forgotten, and clearly, the new generation of critics have become UTTERLY CLUELESS and incapable of dealing with titles that deviate from standard expectations.

Meaning that current state of gaming "academia" and discourse is no longer capable of preforming it's original fucking function. And ignoring that this may spell doom for what is arguably the most interesting and innovative game franchise of the past decade, it make me wonder how many other brilliant titles are we completely missing out on due to the fact that LITERALLY THERE IS NOBODY CAPABLE OF JUDGING THEM FAIRLY anymore.

This is making me so fucking angry. It feels like the industry is genuinely going backwards.

>WORDS BAD

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I liked what Mandalore said his review, that "journalists will come back to this game after 5 years and call it hidden gem". It perfectly sums up state of today's gaming journalism.

Oh yeah, and that is another thing. I like Mandalore and I respect what he did for the game, but he is just WAY too soft.
No, the way the game has been reflected in game journals is not "fair". If you go and say "the game is bad because it makes me engage with it it TOO MUCH and makes my decisions have IMPACT", it's not a fair assessment of the game. It means that the person doing the review has a fundamental misconception of what his fucking job involves in the first place. The core criticism towards P2 resonating through majority of reviews is that it's too much of a game.

Let that sink in. It's bad for a game to be a game. It's not something that we should pass with the words "well, fair enough, but I have have a counter-point".
This is "HOLY FUCKING SHIT DO YOU PEOPLE EVEN REALIZE WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY?!" kind of scenario.

>but he is just WAY too soft.
But that's how you play the game tho. You cannot let frusturation get to you and make over to top statements when you are in Mandalore's shoes. If you do that some people will react and you'll possibly have a needless shitshow in your hand. You need to be gentle but on point about it, which he did.

I'm not suggesting he should demand the head of Brendan Caldwell - frankly it's not his job, but then again saying the evaluation of the game is "fair" is just straight up not true. Pathologic 2 has not been reviewed fairly, and that is a fact. The arguments leveled against the game were everything but fair. The main reason why we are in this shit is because we tolerate clearly disfunctional models of journalism and criticism, and simply letting them continue to slide as "fair" is making the issue worse. Being gentle is not going to change anything. People like Caldwell will continue to have job, and be given the option to determine the future of entire studios while their judgement is going to continue being predicated on inherent HATE for the entire family of the produce they are paid to fairly judge.

I just don't think saying "that is fair enough" is honest or helpful in this situation.

As much as I appreciate the answers I already went ahead and bought Pathologic 2

I found a 2 hour video about Pathologic. Wish me luck.
youtube.com/watch?v=stH9JSnGH9Q

>SulMatul

Kino

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You fucking retard, it's mainly been talking about the game.

user that's steam, Mandalore only linked the gog version of the game in his video.

Specific tracks that play in some places (inside the workshop, the Crucible or the broken heart) or during certain events (intro, accepting your father's legacy, others I won't spoil). The stuff that plays while walking through town is decent but nothing special, and not as unique or memorable as the shit from 1.

>leaving town with some thot you knew for a few days compared to the children you've grown to care about
ISHYGDDT

What game is that?

This, didn't know until about five days after release, only learnt because I noticed a thread on Yea Forums and saw people were playing.

I remember thinking something along those lines when the RPS review came out, where after a while when the devs are fucking dead someone there would make a article going "Hey guys, ever heard of this obscure Russian game? It was actually really good!". I don't understand how game critics work, the guy who was reviewing it clearly didn't care much for the game so you'd think they'd get someone who'd actually be interested in reviewing that shit. Then again journos are always in a rush to get reviews out the door first so I guess they didn't care enough.

I mean he did post the skyrim/souls comparison from the review in the video, I think people can easily figure out from that how retarded it was.

>How is the soundtrack?
It has a LOT of tracks that are far more memorable, distinct and as far as I am concerned more fitting the game than the first one. Some people do point out that some of the less distinct background tracks were better in Pathologic 1, and I can see where they are comming from, but I think it may be caused by smaller music pool of Pathologic 2 altogether.

Overal, I'd say Pathologic 2 is better in quality, but weaker in quantity.
I had been listening to P2's music outside of the game for weeks now, which is not something that I did with the first game. Number of tracks - even though they are played only once or twice during the game, are so fitting and so beautiful that I literally cannot think "Pathologic" without those tunes playing in my head instantly.

All right I'm on the first dream at the end of Day 1 here, and I'd just like to know one thing:

Does losing the fight with three dummies that jumped you in the beginning actually change anything in the story? Or is it just the birds giving you a massive health penalty just to prove a point.

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>1 paragraph

I'm rustled.

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I don't think it changes anything. also return kindness to those who fed you yesterday.

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Press F to cry

It's dead bros. No Bachelor or Changeling ever.

Well fuck you too God.

>I think that, as in that situation, a small mobile game will save us. Only after that we will be able to take on the promised scenarios of the Bachelor and the Impostor - the studio simply will not have the ability to make them without money and people.
kill me

>I suppose that with this last money we will make a very small mobile project, and with the money that we will earn, we will complete the scenarios of the Bachelor with the Pretender - and we will do each in a new genre.

>shills and russian spambots eternally BTFO
Yea Forums was saved. Finally this endless circlejerking over e-celebs can end.

So I'm guessing I'm not going to get those backer rewards I paid for, what a waste of $200, is there any recourse or am I shit out of luck getting money back from russia?

imagine using your shared loss of parents to bond with lara

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Reminder that only people that opened the sarcophagus in VTMB dont buy the bull

>The team is likely to be reduced to 4-5 people. The money will go to fulfill our Kickstarter obligations.

based grimbeard. I think his newer videos are him rambling too much and losing consistency. Like how disliked pathologic, yet he managed to go through it with every character. He doesnt like pathologic 2, but he kinda likes it? He's too high on his own "im so disoriented lol" meme

I didn't back through kickstarter I bought it through their backersite.

Based nu/v/ zoomer

She said I should obtain her a water barrel so she can offer water to homeless people. Why is Lara such a sweetie?

That faggot fearmonger in the release threads jinxed it. I blame him.

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>The rescuer does not know if people are still alive under the rubble, but must work as if they were alive.
I-I'll buy your game as many times as it takes, Nikolay.

Same thing. KS backers also had to choose their rewards through the website.

>>475173101
>leave with her
>suddenly the train stops
>soldiers force you out
>blow her brains out in front of you
>have to walk all the way back

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lara is for handholding!

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Is this before or after the mandalore spike? Things might change with the sudden boost in sales.

Considering how lengthy the interview is, I assume it took weeks to make. Probably before.

>But what doed it have to do with me?
Why is Burakh such a self-centered prick?

It was only a few thousand units and tens of thousands of dollars, they would need hundreds of thousands of dollars to maybe make it through to next year.

Quick rundown? Is it kill?

Fuck, being hopeposter is getting more and more difficult.

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Creepy kid told me my bride is dancing in the cemetery tonight. Don't tell Lara.

Studio's getting downsized, backer rewards get sent, mobile game to be made to rake in more money

So no Bachelor or Changeling?

>dont put in a ravel romance route
>dont sell

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This is the only time i am actually sad that im not a multimillionaire who can just fund the game for his own pleasure.

she does not receive romantic love from the man she adores, so she has to find familiar love from the people she likes

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They're saying "next year at the earliest"

>you will never be a millionaire with more money than sense and drop a few million in IPL's lap
>you will never, as reward, be allowed to sit halfnaked behind nikolay as he has an interview

Trustfundies are only interested in pretentious Sanfran shit that pushes ideological beliefs from the same angle as themselves, and then there's Notch, rich enough to fund whatever he wants but still complains about video games, he literally has the power to make a difference but does nothing about it.

>342k views
>1000 units sold
Oh well.

The video was released on the 17th though, that picture is presenting false information

I forgot about that fat fuck. He's perfect to drop a few million on this project. has more money than he knows what to do with anyway

>2k sales
>From 24k to 26k
Welp, its a nice bump, almost 10%, but he wont carry the game on his back.

With his busted back, of course not

We need to somehow get Sseth to review Pathologic 2, it's right up his alley and he could easily get 1 million eyes on the game, if even 1% of viewers buy the game that's more than half of what they made from the Kickstarter before taxes.

It grates on me that someone able to make a difference doesn't.

1) mandalore said he wasnt interested
2) seth is more into the open world, make your own adventure shit, not this on rails stuff
3) they have a shared audience, so not a lot of new people are reached
4) there isnt really any memes abotu the weird shit you can do in path 2

It's not up his alley, Mandalore outright told us when he showed up in a thread that he played some of day 1 but wasn't that interested. Plus I doubt there's many opportunities for him to force in memes and the game is too story focused for him and not as easy to break.

we need pewdiepie, just have him scream like a bitch when an infected is lumbering towards him and the zoomers will blow their cash on the game, and hopefully dont refund

Would Notch really give a shit about a game like Pathologic?

Too busy playing minecraft now like all the other big boys, who barely plays horror shit anymore and mainly does videos about memes or YLYL threads otherwise. Not a chance he'd play it, especially with all the reading.

>And over the past two years of development, the scenario has been so difficult for me that it was black every day for me - with rare exceptions, when a long-awaited breakthrough occurred. Thanks to Alfina, who literally kept me afloat and periodically returned me from the world of the dead, like that Sami shaman from Kukushka. But the idea that the game would not be over did not even arise. I just mentally prepared for the fact that it would have to be completed several more years without money and without an old team.
Damn

1) mandalore said he wasnt interested
That's all that's needed, oh well.

Impossible.

Of course not, he's just a faggot that has the power to, and complains about a strong lack of good games, and complains about games not being what they used to be, well here's a full game without DLC that pushes story and world building in a way that most games wish they could.

Tens of thousands of dollars = MILLIONS of rubles, he was lamenting over a few hundred thousand not covering costs

>Not a chance he'd play it, especially with all the reading
I mean, having a look at his recent shit he did do a video on papers please of all things 2 months back. I don't think the reading would be a issue

I HAVE A SON?

I just accepted that there won't be other 2 characters and you should too.

That means dick all, the increase in sales is a small dent in the games profits overall, there's no way they they are a sliver away from being able to sustain themselves, it's more obvious that they are miles away from sustainability.
Unless someone has an actual plan we must accept that it's dead.

shut up immortel, there are people dying, this isnt a play.

I'm sad but I'm also glad you'll stop circlejerking about e-celebs and posting the same 15 images thread after thread after thread.

It's fucking dead anons, get over it. It released and failed spectacularly. Your e celeb didn't do shit.

Keep in mind that interview was likely made weeks/months ago since it involves people who already left. They’re OBJECTIVE:SURVIVE mode right now and the events of the past week can only help.

This, why the fuck are you retards trying to talk about vidya on Yea Forums?

Reminder you are being far too optimistic and setting yourself up for disappointment like the cybercuckfags did.

Actors, It's probably because you are all new but, this is a 'play'. We are just rehearsing, we know what will happen. You can calm down.

the fact that this game reminds me that no one cares about me whenever i enter a new area is just rude. more than that, how did they even know?

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So basically, even if Bachelor and Changeling come out, they won't be in the form that Haruspex's story is in? F, and fuck this retarded industry forever.

So you know this broken game is fucked but want to pretend it isn't?

Oh actor how new you are. I'm saying what I'm saying. Nothing more nothing less. Please proceed.

>bachelor is just a series of tile puzzles
I rather not see it released at all if so.

>steamdb changes/DOC being worked out
>old interview coming out now makes Yea Forums think development is just vanishing despite them having intention to continue even in the worst scenario

>bachelor is a porn game
Hyped tbqh

surprise surprise, pathologic players like being sad even if it doesn't make sense

The art people and the translator left because all the assets/story parts they need are completed. They have so many systems in place now that they can make the new routes for significantly less money compared to all the new shit they had to make it the first place.

>tfw you feel bad doing the ravel route since it feels like NTR

If you play pathologic you must enjoy the suffering to some degree.

desu i got suprised it released at all and in such a good state, never expected 3 characters in the first place but also didn't expect one character story be that good.

The ironic part is that Pathologic 2 legit is really good in almost every way. I sank 48 hours into the game and I still want more out of it, because it just does shit exceptionally well and feels tailor made for me - it's like a pre-2007 game released in 2019. No wonder it sold like shit, the industry isn't interested in good games.

Yeah, there was an update on marble nest dlc literally 15 min ago.

>be scared for horror games
>play pathologic anyway because it seems really interesting
>feel almost dizzy from tension whenever I go into an abandoned house to loot it
>scream whenever a plague zombie is chasing me in a house
>try to pace myself so my heart doesnt explode
>someone comes in through the door
>jump so much that i fall of my chair and he's all confused
>when I go to bed lay wide awake, listening to any sound that might indicate someone tries to come into my house and fuck me up
Why must I be born a pussy.

YOU MUST PRESS ON

TRANSFORM
LET THE EXPERIENCE TRANSFORM YOU, LIKE A COCOON

>Lara comes to you with nothing but the blue sweater she knitted for Burakh and a pair of scissors.
>"You wanna know how less I care about that blockheaded butcher, Danill?"
>Cuts her sweater in half, completely revaling her tits and pussy
Do it Dybowski, make a bull dlc too.

It just makes my dick harder

I just asked them if this was before or after Mandy's video gave them positive coverage and extra 3k sales and attention of other ecelebs + what's that branch they keep commiting into. They said the interview was before, and nothing else.

So calm the fuck down, everyone, and spam hbomb to make a review, too.

>see all the gravel posting itt
>just closed the game disappointed in myself because

'oh. i guess i didn't deal with the barrels in time'

i was almost at the fucking door of the building where bachelor was hanging out so i could get the water tested when the day ticked over what the fuck AAAAAAAAAAAA

3k sales is also the worst possible scenario. By default steam doesn’t show your games to other people anymore and the chart isn’t counting GOG where it looks like a massive portion of the sales were. So in the most bleak scenario they -only- made about 70-80kUSD extra over the week, a few million Russian rubles.

Learn to accept loss, it's even one of the key messages of the game.

>lara comes at artemy wearing blue underwear and nothing else
>showing herself off to try and make artemy take her
>artemy: why is your underwear blue
>lara: baka artemy, is that what you care about
>artemy: well you said that blue is the color of idiots, so Im just confused
>Lara: youre right, let me get it off then
>lara: what do you think if my lines, burakh
>artemy: why would you ask that, I dont see the need to operate on you
>lara: doesnt matter, just touch me, and trace my lines
>artemy. confused: so this line is where I make the first incision to remove the liver and...
>lara removes his clothing
>artemy; why remove my clothing, I can show you your lines just fine with them
>lara: I just want to see your lines as well
>lara removes his underwear
>Lara: hmm, nice scalpel, I have an incision to put it in
>artemy: what do you mean, that is my penis, it isnt for cutting
>lara sits down, forcing him inside of her
>a drop of blood leaks from their union
>lara: looks like you cut a line through my hymen
>artemy: my anatomy classes told me that often you can just stretch the hymen, no need to be so brute force with it, youre just hurting yourelf
>lara keeps forcing herself on artemy and artemy just lets out confused moans
>after artemy climaxes: why did you do that, that is something only married couples should do
>lara: well, its not like I like you or anything, you bluewearing idiot
>artemy: I know you dont like me, you told me before, and right now I dont wear blue, im nude

learn to suck me off

I hope you didn't buy the bull.

Hope lives faintly

Hope rides alone

rate my plan
>develop my own videogame
>become successful in the industry, further expanding my footing in the scene
>make my own studio, producing quality videogames
>from the success, I travel to Russia and make a proposal to Dybovski - I wanna buy out their studio
>with a new stream of money, I expect them to hire more people again and produce more quality shit like Pathologic 2 or the Void
>we enter a new era of gaming, challenging the golden age of the late 90s and early 2000s

They didn't answer the question about releasing Marble Nest in the interview. They could just be patching up stuff in there to get it out. I wouldn't hope for much.

>develop my own videogame
Never going to make it.

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>doomposting was over a minimum 15% increase in total owners in less than a week
They unironically have a chance to be saved. There’s no telling until they post news.

Literally me rn

>step 1 get rich
user...

help, it's day 1 and I'm dying of hunger

Do I buy the bull and eat it?

>day 1
jesus christ. might as well restart and try to do better. did you even loot bins?

>starving on day 1
Which publication do you work for?

Buy food brainlet

Except those few specific lines, as retarded as they were, were not the REAL issue with the review.
The issue was that Caldwell did not even consider the idea that gameplay could serve narrative or vice versa. He simply concluded that the two things should and MUST be kept separate, and criticized the game for not following that insanely backwards logic.

Ignoring the simple fact of incompetency (he died 10+ times over the course of first THREE DAYS in the original review), the fact that he simply does not even consider possibility of an overlap between the two domains, and interpret its existence as inherently negative, is the issue.

To put it simply, the guy was inherently mad that the game is a game. It's actually an inherently rather arrogant stance that he had. He had preconcieved expectations of how "story heavy game" is supposed to work. And anything that did not directly meet those expectations was unabigiously declared a failure of the game.

You'll get an achievement, and the game screws you over health-wise JUST to make a point.

>The ironic part is that Pathologic 2 legit is really good in almost every way.
That is the absolutely fucking worst part of it. Pathologic 1 was a fascinating game, but it was broken in so many ways.
Pathologic 2 is legitimately a solid game. And it's fucking Pathologic 2 that gets shat on. It's... fucking insane.

Im John Polygon, please help, when will i get a gun to shoot people?

This but unironically
Is 3k for the revolver a good deal?

Gotta love Twyrine track (aka original Stamatin's Pub remix).

Also, this unreleased composition by Andriesh Gandrabur requires more love:

Not really. It's handy at times but you don't really need it, just sneak up on guys with your knife.

youtube.com/watch?v=Jio8ogQv-08

It sucks a lot but unless you get it there, you pretty much won't get it at all so why not.

Not in the early game, no. Ammo ins't all that easy to come by, and it's another resource you'll have sink your trade points into. Most enemies can be easily avoided, and the gun is unreliable at the best of times. I frankly finished the whole game without shooting once.
Knife, scalpel and/or couple of low-durability lockpicks will serve you much better. If you have spare money, buy nuts and rasins in shops so that you ALWAYS have decent value for trades with little kids. As long as you do your garbage rounds and stop by groceries to buy nuts and rasins, you should never fear hunger or lack of medicines, which are going to be far more pressing through out majority of the game.

its good to trade away for some bread when youre starving

If you die to anything before day 4 you need to go back to school.

Can you ride a horse/shoot guns on a horse in this game?

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check em

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What the fuck is this?

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there's got to be a correlation between anime reaction pics and retardation

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You can ride worms

lol get dabbed on

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Chad Bachelor posture vs virgin Haruspeh slouch.

>Bachelor route will be a FPS game
>Changeling route will be an herb bride gacha game

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Even better. I think I'll be getting this game.

What can we do to save IPL anons?

Actually wont be surprised if they gonna say "fuck it you imbeciles" and make Bachelor a literal walking simulator game without anything other than walking and talking. Also sprint is removed.

I hope they make it walking and fucking

perform a miracle

Vlad Jr. has a well in his house, is this bad?

Slavbro here.
About Bachelor and Changeling. It will be finished. But first they need to get money. So they'll make a mobile game. The worst outcome possible, but damn, Russia is one kind of economic disaster not to mentioning the size of IPL team.
I really hope that they SOMEHOW managed to get money and finish Bachelor and Changeling properly. They said themselves that they don't want to make their stories just to finish development of the game. They want properly finish it, but right now in current state of their studio it's not possible. Team is tired, Dyboski himself said that he can't continue like this.
The only thing we can do right now - just wait for their announcement and hope that they will make through. I think that they should relocate to somewhere else from Russia but then again their main audience is here in fucking Russia. Ironic I must say.

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user, you're never getting the Bachelor

See
There's still a *chance* that this outcome is going to be avoided. No one knows until IPL fucking posts an update.

Fuck this shit. Nearly all my favorite games in last years bombed hard.

Maybe it's time to move on and stop playing altogether. I'm clearly not the target audience anymore.

Did this game come out in the late 90's?

> It will be finished. But first they need to get money.
I don't really expect them to finish it desu, they say thay they will but cmon.
Also "they will be different style of game" and how "apparently no one wants to play subpar survival game to see story" i kidna don't even see the point of finishing it if all the "survival" aspects are removed.

You have no idea how bad that is.

I think IPL got all of their rage out of their systems with CARGO!. They'll either stick to their principles, or they won't deliver anything.

The studio does not need saving. But the Pathologic franchise might.
I've been wreaking my head wondering what can be done, other than you know, not being an asshole in these threads and stuff. I can't figure anything. I have some drafts for some articles, analyzing what exactly went wrong with the reception, but I doubt they can help anything. If you know anyone - streamer, youtuber, that you genuinely think they might find it interesting, you can let them know. I'm really not versed in "gaming personalities" myself though.

This shit is fucked, slavbro. How big of a miracle do they need and do slavs like gacha enough to throw money at it?

Nothing unless you can buy like 30k copies of it yourself alone or something.

>he hasn't pull a ssr wonder bull in one pull
Lol lucklets

Swimsuit Anna fucking when?

She didn't fly so good!

anyone got leaks on the new swimsuit lara ravel?

They said themselves that they understand the reason why Pathologic 2 don't get much attention. Because industry changed. But they still want to finish it their way. Well I hope they will. It's still Russia, so no big dreams.
They need a miracle in size of Titanic filled with fuckton of cash in dollars.

Everything that was born in Russia/USSR fucking dies in short period of time. I don't like this. Pic related. Well everyone on pic related literaly died. I hope it'll not happen to Dyboski, i really like to listen his interviews and play his games (even if they fucking hard at fist, the void for example aka Typгop, they give you the experience you'll never get anywhere else).

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>ice pick makes a mobage
>it has tits so good it owerthrows fgo and whatever other shit that is popular right now
>becomes #1 mobage
>money aquired from gachaballs used to fund pathologic 2 devolopement with fuck physics and mechanics
>animations still junky as fuck though
a man can dream...

The cheap cost of living in russia compared to the foreign dollars now coming in might be what ends up saving them

fan remaking 1's Bachelor campaign in 2's engine when?

Hopefully never. Leave it to fans to fuck up everything that is not yet fucked up.

>Because industry changed.
But that is not true.
It's not the industry. It's the journalism. Tough games, strange games, survival games, experimental games still have massive audiences. The game is struggling because it was never introduced to its audience, because it was dismissed by critics. This is the best time for Pathologic to be released. The problem is in the gatekeeping of the industry.

>On the fifth day there is a quest where the hero needs to mark suspicious houses with crosses; initially it was conceived as a full-time mechanics, but in the end it survived only in one quest.
Well, RIP, then. I thought that might get a full roll-out in Bachelor's campaign.

>Many backers have not yet received material awards: flexible dolls of tragedians, masks, artbooks and so on. All these things are already being done, in our studio now the whole room is packed with blanks for masks and dolls, the art book is made up and is waiting to be sent to the printing house. We will deal with them after we receive winter royalties - for now there is simply no money to complete everything.
>winter royalties
Holy Christ, it's worse than I thought.
BREATH! BREATH, DAMN YOU!

No...

Femdom roleplay with Lara!

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Who are the people on this picture? The middle one looks like leader of the band Кинo.

> it was never introduced to its audience
No, it faled because it's not "artsy" and you have text you need to read instead of some visuals that blatantly tell you that the game is metaphor. And no cute animals/kids in scary places.
Any of those "this is such a deep game its so depressing can i get a despachito?" games where you move from left to right are more popular than pathologic because that's what people want: either skyrim, skyrim with guns, or to play a game someone told them is "very deep and emotional" so they can be smug about it.

>because that's what people want: either skyrim, skyrim with guns, or to play a game someone told them is "very deep and emotional" so they can be smug about it
Exactly.

I wonder how many people were scared off of buying Pathologic 2 because of it's eternally whinging fan base.

nigga Ice Pick Lodge was founded by theatre students, it's THE artsy studio which makes THE artsy games. Even other """art""" games are just mildly wacky compared to their stuff

>when you casually write one of the best tsundere cutes out there in a hardcore survival sim

how did htey do it

Viktor Tsoi, that's him. Guy on the left is Detsl, I think.

Yeah, It's cheap to live in Russia. But you don't want to know how 'big' payment here.
Do I need to tell you what games I usually talked about in slav segment. From top to down:
>Dota 2 & CS:GO
>World of Tanks/War Thunder
>PUBG (new generation mostly)
>Stalker
>Gothic (well it has really good voice acting in localization)
>... (other mainstream games)
>Total War
>RTS as whole
>IcePeak Lodge games
I fucking mean it. No one I talked to don't know what the fuck is Mop Утoпия (Pathologic) or Typгop (The Void).
The left - don't remember
In the middle - Bиктop Цoй (Viktor Tsoi), гpyппa Кинo (group Kino)
In the right - Mихaил Гopeшнeв (Mikhail Gorsheniov) aka Гopшoк (The Pot), гpyппa Кopoль и Шyт (The King and the Jester)
They're all great but dead.
Don't know about deep stories but I love this kind of games because of atmosphere of something unknown, alien, that you don't understand yet quiet familar. For those games are:
Pathologic 1/2
Darkwood
Sunless Sea
Planescape: Torment
Maybe EYE?
This. The founder of IPL NIkolai Dyboski have humanitarian education.

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>Stalker
I thought southwestern russia was a touchy part

pffft cool link bro

Did you know that even grandpops played Stalker. It's was really popular back then and even now. Even new generation is playing Stalker.

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Hey, what have you got against Gris, dude?

You can sense Nikolai losing all hope in the interview, I hate it so much.
>If they make more, it will probably be a different genre because no one wants to play this shitty game anyway right haha

Fuck man, the game's good! It's not your fault!
God
Damnit.

>What will happen to the Marble Nest? In my opinion, the move was excellent - to make a complete short story, break into core mechanics on it and at the same time get media publications. But since then, the game has changed a lot. “Nest” will sink into oblivion, or will you grind it and release it in some form? I would not want to fly into the summer - a very cool story has come out.
>Alfina : With your permission, we will answer this question in the spirit of V.V. Nabokov:;)
My opinion on what the Marble Nest SteamDB branch is just flipped.
I'll pay for that demo, I don't even fucking care.

>it's THE artsy studio which makes THE artsy games. Even other """art""" games are just mildly wacky compared to their stuff
They are artsy but they don't LOOK artsy. If pathologic was 3 hour long game that entirely consisted of "weird and spooky" visuals with platforming as gameplay it would probably make a bunch of money.

what did he even mean by this

I guess not having target audience or "one step core gameplay" biggest reason for failure imo. Usually you can summ up a game in couple of wolds: "its a farming simulator", "you run around fight bandits", "you shoot enemy in face", "you collect things and then craft stuff". What pathologic is? You walk around and talk to people...except its literally walking around so it's not a walking simulator, and then you fight but fighting not the point..and survival mechanics but can't craft anything.

Really i can't think of anything to compare this game to, and i bet people don't like to try new things they just want something they already know: walking simulator crowd doesn't want to play games, gameplay crowd doesn't want to read or think, going out of comort zone is not a thing in 2019. Pathologic2 really feels like it has no "gameplay loop" that people can repeat, see a number go up and think that they did a good job.
I know im talking about "regular players" sort of like a cattle, but they really do feel like that. Maybe if instead of sand plague the game had zombie virus people would go "oh yes i know zombies" and buy it.

That's because Stalker is one of the most straightforwardly good games once you fix the bugs. If it had been fully functional on release it would have become a mainstream success here in the west. It hits the same parts of the brain as far cry but does everything better.
Also, if you like dark, alien, and atmospheric games, there's a roguelike dungeon crawler for the sega saturn and psx called Baroque which you should look into.

The kind of arthouse indie games you're talking about don't make as much money as you think they do.

Thanks, and you are right about Staker. I guess I just rushed to post my wall of text.

>no cute childhood friend to discipline me in my dreams
Feels bad, man.

>One of your Bound has died, his smile unable to be protected

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>Day 5
>walk out of a warehouse
>get confronted by a worm I can't see
>combat begins
>I'm killed in one hit by a worm I can't see or react to
This was my first death and it felt oddly cheap. How the fuck could I have avoided this?

RagnarRox just said on a twitter he wanted to make a short video why everyone should play P2, but it turned out an hour long. Lets hope for another sales spike and that he'd rain hell on the heads of gaming journos.

>Lets hope for another sales spike
Unlikely.
>and that he'd rain hell on the heads of gaming journos.
Unlikely. Only way you'll get someone shitting on game journos actually having a impact is if someone big like Keep saying it shits on them.

Do you mean Pewdiepie?

switch fear for angriness
start hating each aspect of the game

I was referring to Dunkey with his video were he sjit on journalists.

Recent news from IPL:
>They are so financially fucked that they are preaparing to fire most of the team. Only arround 4-5 people will remain
>Their investors promissed them 2 million bucks to make the game, but abandoned them once economic crysis began.
>Dybowski explained that market for artsy games is oversaturated, thus they had troubles marketing their game.
>He was also work on novelisation of Pathologic and it will proubably come out somwhere in the next year.
>The rest of the team will be busy grinding money to finish the game and also port P2 to consoles, though it won't happen any time soon.

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We already know baka slav

>He was also work on novelisation of Pathologic and it will proubably come out somwhere in the next year.
Dumb Oynon, that's the book that was promised as a backer reward, not a "novelisation of pathologic".

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I have a toaster and this game looks graphically intensive. I remember people even with good computers reporting slowdowns and stuttering. Do I have any hope of running this game? I wanna support the devs (and I just finished my second Pathologic HD play through)

The problem for bad performance is it only uses 1gb of fucking ram for some reason.
>User/AppData/LocalLow/Ice-Pick-Lodge/Pathologic 2/Settings
>Open ExternalOptimizationSettings.xml
>Scroll to bottom
>Find
>Change MaxMemory from 1000000000 to X000000000 changing X to however many gb's you want
Still check the minimum requirement for the graphics before buying. I found doing above helped but it still had stuttering occasionally, mainly when I started playing.

>Day 5
>went through hell to finish my treatment of the patients at the hospital, took me until 18:00 to do so
>starving, no money for food
>about to collapse from exhaustion
>only have one bottle and even that is empty
>all the pumps are broken
>every street has muggers walking down them
>I managed to obtain two toolboxes but I'm missing one small cog to fix dad's lab equipment
Send help

that's not true. that parameter just distributes 1Gb of RAM into loading outdoors/indoors spaces, but that's not all tge memory it uses,and this fix won't always help.

>want to support the game because it seems interesting
>too much of a pussy to even get past the second day on Darkwood so I know I won't be able to handle it

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I've heard that 2 is both a remake and ordinary sequel
How does that work? Should I play all three characters in the first game before I play the second?

It’s not a horror game, don’t worry

There is absolutely nothing in this game that can hurt you.
Except disappointing your dad.

The "sequel" thing doesn't make a big role as you'd think. It's reimagining of the first game and it's better in basically every aspect. You don't need to play Classic to understand the story in 2.

It's a remake of sorts and if you're familiar with the original, there's a lot in there you'll get a kick out of. If not, you're not missing anything that would aid your understanding. I'd go investigate a playthrough of the first game rather than play it. It's very atmospheric but not a fun game in any way.

>sleep on Vlad's couch
>sell a bunch of grindstones and some twyre to afford ONE EGG to ward off starvation for a few more minutes
This is what the game has reduced me to.

I'm currently playing as Bachelor in the HD version of the first game and I'm enjoying it but that might just be because I'm on Day 4 and have started getting the hang of things but the true horror isn't setting in yet
I will definitely buy 2 in just a moment if anything just to support the devs a bit more because I am in love with the game

The "sequel" part comes from the idea that it's a second take on the same concepts acknowledged in-game

That's it

It's stressful, not scary. It gets tense at times but it certainly isn't horror.

Arguable but I’ll agree

im sure a horrorvirgin wont survive this kinda shit I know I dont

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Pathologic is more akin to Gothic literature than the Horror genre.

Everything is surreal, verbose, and unsettling; but nothing is outright scary, although most of the game is stressful for other reasons.

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How the FUCK do you even respond to this.

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What is this game all about?

>Responding to some overly dramatic whore who probably licks oynon's dumb snakeskin coat when he's not looking and is going to kill herself in the next month, if not within the week

Tell that bitch to do a flip if she can't find her purpose. You got kids to pick up from steppe school.

World's greatest dad simulator

Surgeon/depression/steppedad simulator.
H-Haha yeah, imagine being so dumb you don't know what your purpose is h-hahahaha...

You come back to your hometown in the middle of the bumfuck nowhere Russian Steppes. A plague is taking over the town and you are a healer. You have to save as many people as you can, but you won't be able to save everyone. Or maybe you will. It won't matter either way.

You tell her you don't need a purpose, because any choice is right, so long as it's willed.

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>...And I doubt I ever will.
Why is Artemy such a fucking incel?

I was really banking on that console release in order to play it. But that no longer looks possible

>But I used to.
Artemy "The Lying Beta" Burakh, everybody.

Pathologic is basically the vidya version of Andy Warhol's Empire. An 8 hour film of just the Empire State Building in shot. Both are testaments to a medium not needing to be engaging or entertaining to exist.

All in all, shit game

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you keep posting about all the movies you've seen as if the pretentious thing here is Pathologic and not you.

>keep posting
what

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>doesn't need to be engaging
>litters you with more quests than you can do in one playthrough

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>if I post a confused picture it will make him forget all the obvious tells I leave in all my shitposts
okay, moviefag

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>that guy in the other thread trying to make out the game has no story

he's in this thread too

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>every time he tries to do something he gets stopped by politics and intrigue
>every time something goes wrong he gets blamed for everything
Being Bachelor is suffering.

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>someone posts bad news
>discussion explodes, two simultaneous threads close to hitting bump limit
I hate this place. Let me leave already.

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>Being Bachelor is suffering.

Being a Bitchlord is suffering indeed...

Yeah, no wonder he bombs the shit out of town

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inaccurate pic, Bachelor is too tall and his shoes aren't the 6" platforms they should be

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Will RDJ play him in the inevitable movie adaptation?

Even the bad news is outdated and before Mandalores review caused more sales, but people are ignoring that it shitpost and doompost some more. At least this thread isn't too bad in comparison to the other, which is just nu/v/ trying to shit on the game like they do with every game Yea Forums liked.

>inevitable movie adaptation
surely you mean Netflix miniseries with no budget, ground-up rewrites to plot and characters, and spin-the-color-wheel-to-find-out-what-race-your-new-protagonist-will-be casting?

Mongolian Haruspex is fine by me.

Original game Khan was sexier. Those rosy cheeks...

>Harried by political and academic enemies Bachelor is desperate for a breakthrough
>Just when it seems like its within his grasp the guy gets killed on his arrival
>Despite the Bachelor explaining that he is no detective he is pressured into an investigation
>A plague hit, again the Bachelor explains that he is not an epidemiologist but is pressured into solving it
>He is promised unconditional support
>All he gets is lies and attempts at manipulation
>Cant get samples because muh tradition, people blatantly ignore the quarantine
>manages to set up a sickness ward and a hospital
>steppe tards break in and spread disease
>start killing each other in the streets
>army arrives and makes things even worse
>Inquisitor instead of helping is playing the blame game
>oh yeah the only person nice to him kills herself
>he is stripped of what little power he had, but still blamed and despised
>gets beaten to half-death
>doesnt even find the cure
the whole route is endless suffering with no reward

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BTW, wasn't Burakh supposed to be of an asian descent, since he's a stepp man? Dankovsky on the other hand looks kinda tatar.

friendly reminder that he deserves all of this

>full of Greek tragedy-tier levels of hubris thinking he can single-handedly beat Death itself
>is humbled and learns an important lesson
he picked a fight he didn't stand a chance of winning

Give me the tl;dr on pathologic 1.
It's not required to enjoy two, or so they say, but im worried about missing things if I just jump in.

what do you call such an user?
a shitposter, you call him a shitposter

Humbles please go and stay go

oh yeah his lab back in the capital gets wrecked too

no one will give you the tldr

If you play it at all, it's highly recommended you do the Bachelor's path, it's a good introduction to the town from the perspective of an outsider with no relation to the town's traditions and lore. You view everything through the lens of a college-educated skeptic among backwater idiots, and everyone for the most part views you through the lens of a nosy, pompous city dandy.

The original game has three different scenarios, one for each character, with considerably different changes to plot, how characters treat you and act around you, and what your goals are. 2 only has the Haruspex out so far, a local-born traditional surgeon with a lot more connections to the traditions.

tl;dr playing Bachelor route in 1 is a good intro but not required, if you think you can handle the jank of 1 you'll get an improved overall experience of 2. If you want the MAXIMUM BEST POSSIBLE EXPERIENCE, go for this. but it's really not required, you can jump right in to 2.

it's hard to tl;dr it without spoiling what happens in 2 because 2 is just the original game but more fleshed out.

>im worried about missing things if I just jump in
The only thing 2 doesn't really explain all that well is the power structure in the town. Basically, there are 3 families: Kains (the spiritua" guys of the town), Olgimskiys (control the heart of the town - meat factory) and Saburovs (administration, guards etc). Everything else you can get just fine from playing 2.

Traditional medicine using herbs and organs > faggy microscope
They'll just make Bachelor able to use blood samples and the like to make medicine like him and Rubin do in Classic won't they, and they'll work similar to Haruspex's tinctures right?

it explains it, just over the course of the first two days instead of right away

I tried playing Pathologic several years ago when there was an older translation out. It was too difficult for me to understand so I gave up. I heard about the demo of the new game being released and watched it, thought it was very beautiful and intriguing, and discovered a newer translation for the old version, so I picked it up and started to play. I fell in love right away, obviously. The characters and the dialogue go back and forth between being understated and heavy-handed in such a self-aware, almost tongue-in-cheek way. You go from this hyper-immersive, beautiful, mysterious world to a bunch of mimes breaking the fourth wall telling you about your role, etc, etc. There's philosophy and adventure and a lingering sense of dread. What's not to love?

So, with all the fourth wall breaking, you wouldn't think that the ending would be all that mind-blowing, but something about it just cheapened the whole experience to me? Maybe that's what they were going for? I don't know. I was completely invested in Artemy, in every last one of his Bound, in figuring out what was going on. And I loved the blank spaces, too - the mystery and Lore of the steppe and the Kin. And then you get the reveal and this sense of "lol nah there's no actual culture or mystery it's just weird because ." I didn't mind the tedium or the clunky design because I felt like it actually contributed so much to the nature of what the game was.... Until I realized it kind of wasn't. Really, what was it even about?

NEWS
```Good evening, good luck and joy to all.

Comrades! Judging by the first comments, you from this interview did not deduce a completely correct picture of what is happening.

Firstly, this interview has been almost three months old, there have accumulated answers from the time of the severe post-release syndrome to the present day.

Secondly, who said that we are stopping work? Exactly the opposite: it says that we will work until the end. That the current team is leaving is sad, but nothing tragic. As long as the backbone in the studio remains, it will work.

Thirdly: now the console version is in full swing, it involves both the backbone of the team and the third-party porting studio. We continue to work with tinyBuild. We are making an addon that will appear on Pax next week (spoilers) *. In parallel with this, a small mobile project will be launched, which is already at the stage of a working prototype.

The studio lives and works. It will stop working only when they take me to the cold.

We will fulfill obligations to backers in the very near future. This is number one priority.
```

I fucking told you nigs that you were all overreacting

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user, don't fall for that trap.
There's still a layer above that stuff, you find it when you save the bound of everyone. The playthrough of Changeling is centered around those things.

>The studio lives and works. It will stop working only when they take me to the cold.
My smile and optimism: Restored

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But it was fun and exhilarating, wasn't it?

That comes up with Saburovs reflection when Changeling asks you to visit, and you he felt it was his chance to prove his worth since compared to the other two he doesn't feel as important.

What are you implying? Totum revolutum.

Source?

Kafka was a literary genius and one of the most important people in the history of human thought.
This, however, is more or less the case of pearls before the swine.
You are not my audience. Fuck you - and have a whatever day.

Didn't the devs pull a Squenix and now sell the game in 3 parts? Will the other 2 even be made?

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Ha, you think he'll follow to this thread?
He probably will, what a banal ass.

Nah, you havent read Jewish storytellers, loser.

i gotchu pal

dtf.ru/gamedev/65410-inogda-vygodnee-proigrat-voynu-chem-vyigrat-ee-bolshoe-intervyu-s-ice-pick-lodge-o-more

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Give shit opinions, get shit on.

I just hope the comment that the other two characters will be done in a different genre cause "obviously no one wants to play a boring survival game" was an emotional response to bad sales.

Essentially at its core, Pathologic is a simulator of what you would do when put into a terrible situation where everything is falling apart around you. Hence the emphasis on calling the player "actor": in order to get anything out of the game, you have to be acting your part. This will only work if you at least act as though everything were real and had consequences. Hence the difficulty and harrowing survival mechanics.

What the fourth-wall stuff at the ending is meant to do, at least in my interpretation, is to get you to realize that was what they were doing: it's a simulation of what you would do in this situation. It wasn't real. Of course it wasn't, you're playing a video game. But if you acted as though it was, now you know what you'd do. You've learned something about yourself, something you can apply to the real world. This only works if they build up an incredibly engaging and believable world with engaging and believable characters. Otherwise you'll remember it's just a game lol and do whatever for meta reasons or for shits and giggles.

So no, I don't think learning that cheapens it or takes away from the experience in the slightest. I mean, it only ever was a video game. A good one, sure, with a fantastic world. And maybe it stings a little to have the illusion purposefully dispelled. But you and the game both knew going in that it was an illusion, you both just pretended not to for the sake of the play.

It's
"Get SHAT on"
You mouthbreathing retard, you can't write anything right.

Jewish storytellers build their narratives around gazillion of deus ex machinas (mentioning of something haven't been mentioned before) in order to give a middle finger to Le Tragedy and drive home the point the writer isn't in the least bound by any rules of internal consistency of the fiction (dra-ma-tur-gy) in order to fourth-wall-breakingly convey to the reader the point reader's freedom of will is the thing to consider? Because Kafka does just that. In Castle, not Metamorphosis, Metamorphosis is a much earlier work.

>get told to read more and learn humility

I don't need grammar, I just took a shit and now I'm going to read Rilke before giving my loving wife a creampie.

Enjoy living off your lumpen rage.

it's "get SHITTED on"
what are you, illiterate?

What the fuck are you talking about lmao they're bound in parables formed by Semitic tribes. There's never a deus ex because there's never a point of saving, there is only moral quandry.

You defined Jewish orality by Christian aesthetics, you'll never make it.

Shilling this game like a madman to my friends and seeing Ice Pick's immunity bar fill up by a pixel or two.

I'm just averting my eyes from the inevitable, aren't I?
There is no hope

No, no, it's "shotten"

>"Ah, yes, I watch the Yale YouTube series. How could you tell?"

Is the schizo even here or are people just yelling into the void?

Quick test: What are Pathologic 2's main influences?

there is no hope and that's why you must keep going

>We are making an addon that will appear on Pax next week
The Marble nest thing probably
>In parallel with this, a small mobile project will be launched, which is already at the stage of a working prototype.
What the fuck will it be?

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1. Yes he's saying Joyce is for retards and speaking in proper nouns

2. 90s eroge and Thief series

the schizo multiplied and his progeny are now here

Cargo 2

He is not bound in ducking anything, his entire point is the direct intentional opposite of being bound in anything whatsoever. KAFKA WAS A FUCKING INVENTOR, by treating him as a product of whatever you MISS THE FUCKING POINT OF READING KAFKA IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Your second point I think is the thing I most like about this game, its probably one of the only games that truly pushes that narrative of "the player character is you" that isn't just gimmicky

as my mam always said: "always shoot your shotten"

Nah he originally wrote his stories based off of drunken jokes he'd tell in Prague.

>he was not bound
Okay well then good thing the unheimliche bug lives in the end of the Metamorphosis, would hate to miss the point that hard

Shitposting is a tenant of Orson Welles. I am bound to serve

Knock knock but you're a resident stuck within a house that's being overtaken by the plague

Metamorphosis is a much earlier work. I elaborated on its point earlier. In other words: "Did you like the book? Oh, you didn't. Awww, I so very tried to be as expressive as at all possible on all the most mundane, trivial and unpleasant details which had nothing to do with nothing, as at all possible, didn't you rike muh REALISEM?"

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>I so tried to be as expressive as all possible

Yeah you almost sound like a character in Dubliners. Keep at it!

Cookie Clicker but you're the sand pest and every time you click a member of the Kin dies

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>Quick test: What are Pathologic 2's main influences?

Hamlet

Go to work, Jacob.

>I so very tried
rolls off the tongue a bit better.

can the Kafkafuckers fuck off

>Mobile app version of the boardgame with matchmaking and lobbies

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>earlier work

The Castle is just Rilke without musicality and Hemmingway with weaving of Jewish morality.

Unnnghhh I'm trying it's just such a big shitted unnnnghhhhhhh I'm gonna shotted mmmmpppphhh nnnghhh

holy fuck where can I get some schmowders its day 5 and notkin and andrey are both infected

Tone deaf, go to Yea Forums

Chug some twyrine, check stashes. Hunt down every little girl you find and dump your nuts all over her.

>The Bachelor and The Changeling routes will happen. Our company is 19 years old. We never broke our promises. There were delayes, but we never lied. Wait a bit, it'll happen.

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>Our company is 19 years old
Wait, really?

Based autistic Nikolay

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You are just grasping for straws in order to fit the person whose writing method basically originated fourth-wall-breaks, into your pathetic narrative, in which his inventions were all borrowed from some literary schucks like Walzer, some random rabbies, whomever and his uncle, just in order to confirm to yourself that everypne around you just as dumbfuck a cluster-quoting pseud, incapable of putting 2 and 2 together without having seen someone having done that, as you are.

The original Pathologic was released in 2004, 15 years ago, and was in concept production before that.

but they were founded in 2002
is dubowsky from the future?

No meat touching please!

Nothing to do with tone, everything with the rhythm.

>basically

Loser, read more books:

Don Quixote
The Tempest
Tristram Shandy
Arthur Gordon Pym

Go watch F for Fake and chill out

>recommending Poe
Ehehe.
Fuck off. No, really.

Dead item shop? (night).

He's a bad poet but revolutionized western fiction with Pym and the Purloined Letter. That really isn't up for debate, it's tactile fact.

Borges thankfully championed that throughout his career.

Can you tell us the last time you had an irl conversation with people that didn't end shortly thereafter, not including your therapist?

I got quite enough of him in his inane Eureka in order now not to give a flying fuck about searching for whatever primary source Pym's writing method was borrowed from.

Searching for the primary source for the Garden of Forking Paths (the story itself) is, however, on the menu.

None of your business. Satisfied?

you're a fucking brainlet
stop pretending to be Yea Forums and go away

What day does this happen?

Second day. Used her to loot some organs.

I hope you at least waited until the crowd had dispersed, you vulture

Release date for the video was 17th.

Pathologic is absolutely a horror game. A lot of it's imagery is very intense, plus many of it's moments made me freaked out.

>creator of Pathologic watched the same Newgrounds flash shorts that I did as a kid.
youtu.be/0UcnIixRi5s

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I still haven't completed 2, does it have Souffleur's wacky running animations?

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Of course, otherwise i would get mobbed. Leaving young, healthy women's body would be such a waste.

Did they really eat her?

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I have no idea why you think they aren't going to make other routes.

Of course not

This. And after you're done with her, you can always do an autopsy and harvest her organs.

>Nikolay, if your game was food, what kind of dish would it be?
>Puffer fish probably

fucking epic bacon dude

>console version

Doesn't honestly fill me with hope given how badly optimized the PC version is...

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Apparantly there's an update coming.

twitter.com/Demonocrat/status/1164968760459104256

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The addon is going to be announced at PAX West.

After leaving the abattoir you could read something about maneating habits of the residents in Burakhs thought map. Also on the last day haruspex warns Eve Yan about her being eaten by brides, when sees her join them.

I admit it, this game is terrifying. I played until day 3, got invested in it, then a black cloud slammed me. My clothes melted, my immune system ruined, a death loop. Couldn't pick it up again.

>expecting pathologicfags to lot love suffering

>simulation of what you would do if you were also a skilled surgeon who knew local remedies

BASED

>ADDON
ADDON
>ADDON
ADDON
>ADDON
ADDON
>ADDON
ADDON
>ADDON
ADDON
>ADDON

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>reading white people trash

Why would you do that? Just go read Ishmael Reed or something.

>The studio lives and works. It will stop working only when they take me to the cold.
Absolute madlad

Pal, it's kinda hard only until you start brewing tinctures. As you get enough tincture bottles, you're no longer need sleep, immune boosters, and always have plenty to eat. All you need is herbs and clean water. Make sure you stock up with bottles by the day 3 or so. Also collecting mats for upgrading inventory could help a lot.

It's just an updated Marble Nest

>What are Pathologic 2's main influences?
Pathologic 1 :^)

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>Bannerlord finally happening
>Changeling and Bachelor still happening
Fuck bros I'm so happy.

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Hey anons, one of you fellas gave me the game in the last thread, so I feel I owe 'ya an update:

Have not been able to play a whole bunch, but my save is just left off entering the bar at the end of the first day.

Already trying to make things decent for people, I'm getting shit on for it. The town wanted me dead for a murder they got not a clue why I'd commit, and are burning hoes at the stake. I did my best to say hi to everyone, talk things out to them, solve that Lika quest peacefully. All I got was a fucking leash and a kid turned into an actual furry, it was genuinely disturbing.

So then, Bad Grief sends me to Piecework or whoever, and I fucking lose it

I take his pockets
I take his organs
I take ALL of his organs
I take his FRIEND'S pockets
I take his FRIEND'S organs

and I'm now on the path to being sick of these fucking people.

I need a drink...at the bar.

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If I can run it through an emulator I'd honestly be interested in this.

I still use a potato [non-smartphone] so I'm not getting a phone just for one game.

Did you see best girl yet? Might want to do that before you die of exhaustion Khatanger.

Lara?

Yeah I saw her.

Ungrateful broad, didn't even wanna look me in the eyes. Took her fish and knife before she even offered it, and had to say hi to the fucking Changeling for her. I suggested they meet, if only in the hopes that one of them kills the other.

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>all the shitflinging ITT that spilled over from the other thread
I'll never forgive you if you lot permanently ruin the comfy pathologic threads.

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Game isn’t “about to die” anymore so shitposters moved on

Give her a break Emshen, her dad died only a year ago and after you left your group of friends fell apart so she's on her own in a big empty house. And her husbando is a dumb baka.

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The actual comment says nothing like that tho.

She's just in her tsuntsun phase.

Boт дид хи мин бaй зиc?

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Taking it to the extreme, huh.

proof?

Кaк игpa Дилдoвcкoгo в плaнe ceкca мм м нe cлышy

Drink with me, old boy

Source?

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Chatted with their ex-dev today. He said that Dybovsky played both Arx Fatalis and Okami before making Turgor/The Void, and in the very first draft, it was supposed to be a JRPG, with the publisher vetoed, because 'turn-based things don't sell'.

In other words, yes, The Void IS a hentai dating sim.

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>steamdb shows the update of some files called "Marble Nest" a couple days ago
gee user I dunno what it could be

>тoвapищ
Do people really still say this in Russia?
I barely speak any russian, but I once said this to a russian steam friend and he was all like "dude this isn't 1980 anymore".

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Кoнeчнo
A я y Дыбoвcкoгo пoд cтoлoм живy

Bce бyдeт хopoшo, CУКA БЛЯTЬ

>ex-dev
name

Hey buddy, I think you got the wrong door, The Termitary's two blocks down.

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My bad, mistook the other comment.
This is great news.

Could say family instead. We're kind of one big dysfunctional family...

Dildovsky

Just bought this game 4th time.
1 on steam, 1 on gog and twice for 2 of my friends. Fuck retarded journos.

TheLxr, he was pretty notable back in the day.

back to huikach, bydlo :3

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Nope
Some deepshits start to call you BRAT or bratishka.

DABovsky

Kyda blyat

That reminds me. In Russian worms use γ and θ to accentuate their strange pronounciation. Do they also do that in English version?

It's kind of pomp. In English it's analogous to starting a speech with "My friends!". You can use it in that context, but not to your actual friends.

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Dybovsky exactly a type of guy from 1980. Or maybe even 1880.

>TheLxr
based

ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Бурятская_письменность

Latinized Buryat doesn't have them.

Nope. You can use тoвapищ as "this fellow" with more derogative undertones, though, it doesn't sound that strained or old-timey.

This is nothing next to fabled UVAZHAEMYI.

Children of blood relatives, yes.

This threads been a bit if a rollercoaster.
Fuck you.

It's nice to be able to get fired up and passionate about something.

man some character in this game looks really cute, what do i need to know before playing it? any tips?

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You won't be able to save them.

La creatura...

thats okay, last i tried to play it, i really got lost and dont know what to do, do you have any tips what i should do?

Literally everyone is cute. Except Clara.

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Quiet Cocoon man.

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Approaching limit time to migrate to other thread

The theater plays a new pantomime.

When you start go
>Grief
>Rubin
>BUY THE BULL
>Dad's House
>Griefs side job
>Bad to warehouses
>Kids
>Lara
If you find a fingernail (fast travel currency) might be worth using so some fags don't kick your ass on the way to Lara's. After you get there sleep and next time you go outside her district and the nearby ones should be safe to walk in, and eventually they'll all be safe. Search trash while doing all this, and while they may seem unimportant, grab every broken ampoule and bloody bandage you find. Also the little girls like in image are properly the most important people to barter with, so always check with them first if you see them.

okay thanks, ill try give it another shot