So did the recent failures kill cthulhu games?

So did the recent failures kill cthulhu games?

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Cosmic horror is a retarded theme choice for a video game.

only time it ever worked IMO was Marathon Infinity

never understood the appeal of self-hating defeatist wankery that paints humans as insignificant

Is this a judge kavanaugh comic?

That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die.

Slow burn... bone chilling atmosphere... no jumpscares... fish people and tentacles... no, they don't make games like this anymore...

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There's always a bigger fish, user. We see a being like Cthulhu like ants see us: as beings of incomprehensible power and scope, that could annihilate us and our entire world without trying, or even intending to do so. It's role reversal.

I'm okay with that because it treats those things more or less as forces of nature, the same way that everybody is on some level more or less aware that mankind is insignificant on a cosmic scale and completely fucked if by some twist of fate the sun decides to explode tomorrow. It's not that we're insignificant, it's more that they're more or less completely apathetic towards us and we don't really affect things for them one way or another.
What REALLY irks me is when you go into genres of speculative fiction that are basically a species-wide snuff torture movie, along the lines of "we got into a war with a very powerful alien species and by the way we never had any hope of winning because they were too goddamn powerful so they went and took us and messed with our genome and turned us into amorphous blobs of blesh that they now use to process waste in the recycling sectors of their cities and spaceships".

based

>we got into a war with a very powerful alien species and by the way we never had any hope of winning because they were too goddamn powerful so they went and took us and messed with our genome and turned us into amorphous blobs of blesh that they now use to process waste in the recycling sectors of their cities and spaceships

It's not any different than what humans to do animals. Wiping them out because they're a nuisance, tampering with their evolution to make them more useful to us. I'm not a vegan nutter or anything but you can't really say humans have the higher ground.

>Lovecraft
>I saw something so unimaginably terrifying that to even begin to describe it would do it injustice, yet I am being paid by the word so I shall spend the next twenty lines pointedly not describing this indescribable thing.

>"Lovecraftian"
>DUDE TENTACLES LMAO


Why does nobody understand how to write cosmic horror properly?

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why do they like always pick cthulhu? there is plenty of other to choose monster.fandom.com/wiki/Category:H._P._Lovecraft

>dude fish guys
>guess I'm insane now

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Would fuck and marry desu
Need me a monster boyfriend

Lovecraft was racist retard, no wonder his games are failures

Because most people haven't actually read him:

>MUH BLACK PEOPLE

Darkest Dungeon 2 is still coming out

>why do they like always pick cthulhu?

Because he's basically the Mickey Mouse of the Lovecraft Universe.

>still asspained about Kavanaugh

>write stories about how things that defy your inclination to define and categorize everything are scary
>years after you die a bunch of autistic people make encyclopedias about the monsters in your stories and brag about how they know everything about them
why are lovecraft fans so shitty?

Because they either never read past Call of Cthulhu and even then didn’t pay attention or played too much Arkham Horror without reading the source material

This gets repeated each and every lovecraft thread, it's starting to be a little bit tiring, honestly.

im tired of horror games with no way to fight back and in this case have multiple endings that are just all bad.
We get it, their are no happy endings when it comes to Cthulhu

What would a Thomas Ligotti game be like?

It's not scary if you are not helpless and can fight back. You can shove in some body horror and some screamers but that's about it.

Bloodborne, especially when it was hidden for most of it's prerelease marketing

Bloodborne might have had Lovecraftian elements, but it’s not cosmic horror.

Neither did people who want """lovecraftian""" vidya and movies

>hate horror games because I don't enjoy being on the edge
>but horror games always have the most interesting themes and everything
And if it's not scary then where is the point when the gameplay itself is subpar? I always just end up reading everything from a game. For example the first dead space has really interesting enemies and weapons and the theme and gameplay in overall but I can't bring myself to play much of it

it's not scary if you can't fight back because you know there's some non-combat way to progress
this is why i consider Penumbra a diamond in the rough and Amnesia cheap trash

No, it's due to the source material being made by a wh*toid raycis

what's so good about penumbra?

I mean when i played aline vs predator as the marines i could fight back but was still very cautious.
This is likely due to already knowing the creature you fight but physiological horror in games just kinda meh.
I mean call of Cthulhu had one ending where you actually see Cthulhu for 2 seconds then everyone just goes crazy.
also hate horror games that discourage you from looking at a monster like soma or amnesia. I am playing the game to look at the monster, not to look away