Sulphur on 22/4/2013 at 20:18
Quote Posted by faetal
This is the equivalent of having the game logo made into a belt buckle and then grasping people by the back of the head and hip-thrusting into their face while the twilight zone theme plays on loop.
I'd play that
catbarf on 22/4/2013 at 22:27
Quote Posted by dethtoll
This looks genuinely shit. It's not 1996 anymore, Mikami.
You linked to Cry of Fear, so I think a little clunkiness and unoriginality can be forgiven. I don't see anything here that looks awful, really there isn't much info at all to go on beyond the sheer hyperbole.
june gloom on 22/4/2013 at 23:26
It's a matter of degrees. Cry of Fear, while being essentially Silent Hill: Stockholm, tends to be more understated than... whatever the fuck this stupid thing is. It is the very definition of trying too hard. Cry of Fear in turn has a heavy emphasis on that creepy late-night atmosphere where it feels like an entire city clears out 15 minutes after COB.
catbarf on 23/4/2013 at 00:51
This is kind of incidental because I know it's not how this game is going to go, but I wonder if there's potential as a concept for a horror game that goes overboard and is 'trying too hard' as you put it, but with some level of self-awareness. Maybe a protagonist who knows horror movie cliches inside and out, or expectations that keep getting subverted in some fashion, something to shake up what has become a fairly straightforward, formulaic genre. I don't know, just thinking out loud here.
june gloom on 23/4/2013 at 07:48
lol
faetal on 23/4/2013 at 10:18
Quote Posted by catbarf
This is kind of incidental because I know it's not how this game is going to go, but I wonder if there's potential as a concept for a horror game that goes overboard and is 'trying too hard' as you put it, but with some level of self-awareness. Maybe a protagonist who knows horror movie cliches inside and out, or expectations that keep getting subverted in some fashion, something to shake up what has become a fairly straightforward, formulaic genre. I don't know, just thinking out loud here.
It could be called "Scary Game".
catbarf on 23/4/2013 at 15:25
I'd play that.
