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2012/08/08 12:50:29
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Soladrin wrote:Damn you Chris, now I want a Chromehounds sequal...
I'd much rather have Bloodrayne 3 or System Shock 3 (or even better, both). Those franchises need a comeback. They both had something strong going for them, both had a lot of effort put into them, yet sadly didn't get that strong of a following.
I mean, poor System Shock is almost dead, and Bloodrayne is still reeling from those godawful movies.
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2012/08/08 13:06:15
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Don't you mean Dark Chronicle? I used to play it a lot as a kid, but never could beat the "final" boss. Hmn, must have been pretty dumb back then. XD
Flint 2, if you disregard it being related to the first at all (yay, sand cloaks). A great game for kids, even if the dark elements it was trying to get across are overshadowed by its silliness. ^^
Singularity....something that you've probably never heard of unless you pay attention to Steam sales. It wasn't the trickiest of games, but I enjoyed its timeline altering elements (like how you could optionally destroy a chart that showed how to stop a giant plant from taking over a research station....which would said plant to do just that when you go back to the future). The ending was probably my favorite bit, being able to set the timeline "right" and all. Eh comrade? =)
2012/08/08 16:56:44
Subject: Re:Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Soladrin wrote:Damn you Chris, now I want a Chromehounds sequal...
I'd much rather have Bloodrayne 3 or System Shock 3 (or even better, both).
Those franchises need a comeback.
They both had something strong going for them, both had a lot of effort put into them, yet sadly didn't get that strong of a following.
I mean, poor System Shock is almost dead, and Bloodrayne is still reeling from those godawful movies.
That Bloodrayne Betrayal 2D game was also mostly Meh. Good way to kill a weekend, but nothing of value after that.
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2012/08/08 17:34:53
Subject: Re:Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
orkydork wrote:Games I play that no one has heard of?
1. .hack
2. Disgaea
3. Harvest Moon
Forgot about Harvest Moon; I have Friends of Mineral Town on the GBA and A Wonderful Life for the Gamecube.
Anywho, brb, just about to go and renew my Man-Card...Wait, what do you mean declined?
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2012/08/08 18:21:41
Subject: Re:Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Soladrin wrote:Damn you Chris, now I want a Chromehounds sequal...
I'd much rather have Bloodrayne 3 or System Shock 3 (or even better, both). Those franchises need a comeback. They both had something strong going for them, both had a lot of effort put into them, yet sadly didn't get that strong of a following.
I mean, poor System Shock is almost dead, and Bloodrayne is still reeling from those godawful movies.
That Bloodrayne Betrayal 2D game was also mostly Meh. Good way to kill a weekend, but nothing of value after that.
Ai, but that's not a proper Bloodrayne game. No Laura Bailey, for one thing. They will make a Bloodrayne game for the 3DS, indicating that they are considering on somewhat restarting the franchise, but I'd much rather have a proper 3D game on the PC.
And before anyone brings this up, Dead Space and Bioshock don't count as System Shock revivals. They were a bit disappointing. Especially Dead Space, which, despite popular opinion, is not a horror game.
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2012/08/08 19:01:38
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
My favourite games of all time. Some were big in their day but not many seem to remember them now.
Masters of Orion
Sid Meier's Pirates
Alpha Centauri
Command and Conquer - Generals- Zero Hour
I still play Masters of Orion and Pirates from time to time. I would still play the other two (Alpha Centauri and Generals - zero hour) if I could get my hands on them. Sadly my copies got lost somewhere over the years
2012/08/08 19:43:46
Subject: Re:Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Previously mentioned:
Dark Reign - Oh how I would give my soul to get this game to work on a modern OS again.
Conflict - Some of the best turn based strategy fun I've ever had.
Not mentioned (or I missed it):
WWIIOnline - Had so many problems, but I still got addicted to playing that for 5-6 years.
Techmo's Deception and Deception 2 - Yay, I get to make the dungeon and kill the good guys!
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2012/08/08 19:48:06
Subject: Re:Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
CthuluIsSpy wrote:They were a bit disappointing. Especially Dead Space, which, despite popular opinion, is not a horror game.
I think of it as a Horror game, but not a "Thriller" game.
It's totally a horror game. The problem is that every encounter is a cliche, so you can see it coming a mile off.
Newbies, who haven't played RE or Silent Hill, are going to be surprised at the attacks. People who have only played CoD will be struggling with ammo availability.
It's only people who have played survival horror games before that think it isn't even a horror game.
Only people who haven't ever played a horror game before think that Dead Space is a horror game.
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2012/08/08 20:00:57
Subject: Re:Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Maelstrom808 wrote:Previously mentioned:
Dark Reign - Oh how I would give my soul to get this game to work on a modern OS again.
Actually, the GOG version works perfectly on a modern system.
Well, Ok, you do have to have all browsers closed to get to the game to work, but other than that it's flawless.
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2012/08/08 20:31:02
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
orkydork wrote:Games I play that no one has heard of?
1. .hack
2. Disgaea
3. Harvest Moon
Haha good ol .hack. That came and went real fast in the US anime scene. The game was funny when the realize "I'm the dude playing the dude, that's playing a dude.". When you broke te game down, it's a bit of a mind eff.
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2012/08/08 20:47:30
Subject: Re:Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
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Melissia wrote:Only people who haven't ever played a horror game before think that Dead Space is a horror game.
I haven't played Dead Space, and quite frankly I don't want to. I've seen screenshots of it and it made my stomach turn. Pregnant zombies with tentacles stuck to walls. It's like an insane sexual fantasy written by someone with severe psychosis and hallucinations.
Also, Blinx the Time Sweeper! Oh, such good times.
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2012/08/08 21:06:03
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Melissia wrote:Only people who haven't ever played a horror game before think that Dead Space is a horror game.
I haven't played Dead Space, and quite frankly I don't want to. I've seen screenshots of it and it made my stomach turn. Pregnant zombies with tentacles stuck to walls. It's like an insane sexual fantasy written by someone with severe psychosis and hallucinations.
Also, Blinx the Time Sweeper! Oh, such good times.
Silent Hill 2 was still worse in terms of sexual fantasies/psychosis. Pyramid Head anyone?
Blinx was awesome, it and Munch's Oddysee were the first two games I got for the Xbox.
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2012/08/08 21:11:43
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Squigsquasher wrote:I haven't played Dead Space, and quite frankly I don't want to. I've seen screenshots of it and it made my stomach turn. Pregnant zombies with tentacles stuck to walls. It's like an insane sexual fantasy written by someone with severe psychosis and hallucinations.
Well, the problem is that 'insane sexual fantasy' is the easy button for creating things that will disturb/horrify most westerners. As a result, it's easy to want to draw from that as a means of creating something you are trying to paint as a horror scene.
It's something I was thinking about a lot during an episode of Tosh.0 last night. They showed real footage of people bleeding all over the place. They had a girl with a bike handbrake impaling her leg FFS. Then they had a fake video of people at a sports event holding up a illustration of a particular region commonly found on a lady. Other people held up a illustration of a hand, and then began to, uh, animate the scene. The network apparently felt it necessary to actually censor this.
Sorry for the derail, but I mean, it really made me think. We as a people appear to be more disturbed by sexuality than we are of gruesome injuries.
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A Town Called Malus wrote:
Silent Hill 2 was still worse in terms of sexual fantasies/psychosis. Pyramid Head anyone?
Oh god and this. The Silent Hill series is the benchmark for which my horrorometer is calibrated.
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daedalus wrote:
Squigsquasher wrote:I haven't played Dead Space, and quite frankly I don't want to. I've seen screenshots of it and it made my stomach turn. Pregnant zombies with tentacles stuck to walls. It's like an insane sexual fantasy written by someone with severe psychosis and hallucinations.
Well, the problem is that 'insane sexual fantasy' is the easy button for creating things that will disturb/horrify most westerners. As a result, it's easy to want to draw from that as a means of creating something you are trying to paint as a horror scene.
It's something I was thinking about a lot during an episode of Tosh.0 last night. They showed real footage of people bleeding all over the place. They had a girl with a bike handbrake impaling her leg FFS. Then they had a fake video of people at a sports event holding up a illustration of a particular region commonly found on a lady. Other people held up a illustration of a hand, and then began to, uh, animate the scene. The network apparently felt it necessary to actually censor this.
Sorry for the derail, but I mean, it really made me think. We as a people appear to be more disturbed by sexuality than we are of gruesome injuries
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A Town Called Malus wrote:
Silent Hill 2 was still worse in terms of sexual fantasies/psychosis. Pyramid Head anyone?
Oh god and this. The Silent Hill series is the benchmark for which my horrorometer is calibrated.
It isn't the sexuality that disgusted me about Dead Space (the whole Insane Sexual Fantasy thing was an offhand remark) as much as the sheer grotesqueness off a deformed human female torso spitting tentacled blobs of flesh at you. The body horror is quite unbelievable, although there is an element of perversion of sexuality, from the aforementioned pregant Necromorphs to the way people are infected.
Silent Hill looks terrifying too though. (I'm not 18 so I can't play either).
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Coolyo294 wrote:Peter Jackson's King Kong... That was a really fun game and I like the fact that there's no HUD.
Feth yes! Best movie tie in game ever if you ask me.
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2012/08/08 21:50:27
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Melissia wrote:Only people who haven't ever played a horror game before think that Dead Space is a horror game.
Considering I've played everything from resident evil, to blair witch chronicles (which I liked very much, never tried the third game), to fatal frame, I can say that dead space is very much a horror game. Unless there's some game out there you deem spookier than fatal frame.
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2012/08/08 21:55:17
Subject: Games that you like...that no-one else seems to like or have even heard of.
Melissia wrote:Only people who haven't ever played a horror game before think that Dead Space is a horror game.
I suppose games like Silent Hill that have you fighting giant enemies with your bear hands (In the case of Downpour) is a true horror game?
I don't know about you, but that sounds like an awesome concept for a game. And Downpour is a terrible silent hill game. The enemies are way too normal and don't really symbolize anything.
Now whether or not its a good horror game is up to personal opinion. I think its decent. Granted, I never had a chance to play it, but it looks nice. (Yes, I know I already passed judgement on it not being a good silent hill game, but really, look at the monsters and the symbolism. Does it really look like something from Silent Hill?)
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