Why aren’t there any games that explore the theme of cosmic horror?

Who can say

>>712721605 (OP)
Hard to finesse when an inherent element of cosmic horror is exposure to the profoundly incomprehensible.

>>712721605 (OP)
Does Freespace count? An unknowable super race dead set on wiping out all other intelligent life.

>>712721605 (OP)
>Moon wakes up
>Starts pogging
>Does a cute little flip
>Starts eating Earth's ass (africa)
What did they mean by this.

I want a Hellstar Remina movie. Melancholia was halfway there.

>>712721605 (OP)
Only gods know, the mind of man was not meant to ponder such deleterious endeavours.

>>712721605 (OP)
but there are

>>712721605 (OP)
Games are power fantasies, cosmic horrors are about being powerless

>>712721605 (OP)
There have been, though a lot of them are indie games that end as soon as the spooky cosmic thing shows up.

>>712721892
>american wakes up
>sees a picture of the moon
>instantly thinks of eating out black ass
Many such cases!

>>712722165
Worse, I'm a leaf. Also thinking about it, I think india would be the world's asshole, so ignore that statement.

so what is this?

>>712721605 (OP)
deadspace 3, faggot
it was shit.

>>712722315
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkIQTX71GnU

>>712722028
What if you play as the cosmic horror? Like "Worshippers of Cthulhu", but you're more directly Cthulu rather than its worshippers.

>>712722446
Only if I can customize my character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgDXefk51Lw

>>712722435
You know what, with Millennials who just seem to mistake splatterhouse for horror, I'll give it to the zoomers they're at least trying to do creative shit with the genre even if executions are pretty terrible.

>>712722753
Best girl alert!

>>712721605 (OP)
>Hey
>Hey Apple!

>>712721605 (OP)
>aww look, he's smiling!

>>712722446
They should make a metroid game where you play as a metroid larva, but late game the game turns on you when Samus comes to hunt you instead.

Cause what am I gonna do?
Shoot the Moon to death?
Build additional pylons and send my units to attack it?
Get 8 other faggots and raid the Moons lair?
Go bing Bing wahoo and stomp on it?
Video games need relativity and cosmic stuff is too grand in scale for most. Unless the player is in charge of something of equal size

>>712722943
Dating sim. Just seduce the moon!

>>712722435
so this is supposed to be scary these days?

>>712721605 (OP)
outerwilds was kinda scary despite not being a horror game

>>712722227
>cosmic horror moon takes a bite outta India
>reconsiders its plans for this cycle

>>712723031
Or have the moon seduce you.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD2jFMw6juU

>>712723031

>>712721605 (OP)
>pic related
I decided to watch that series on a whim and it was fucking garbage. The average /x/ spooky greentext story or creepy pasta reading video is far more scary than that slop.

>>712722943
You could try and find 4 depictions of it and try to communicate in the hopes that it may help (it wont)

>>712723269

>>712721605 (OP)
There are few distinct types. Here's how I like to call them.

>IT WAS ME BARRY!
You play through an otherwise normal game and suddenly the final boss or mysterious manipulative characters throws off his mask and hearken! It was the fearsome Nyarlapipi (or homebrew entity) underneath! I rate these surprises on the same level as Doom: Repercussions of Evil. They can still be nice if they recontextualise the whole earlier game. DUSK comes to mind.
>Fanboy
You can see that the devs have read Lovecraft and really, really, really liked the lore. And the names. The names keep dropping. And how other people said they behave and look like. So you will meet Xinfoteph the Unmutable planning to drive away the Yiddites from planet Atlantis before "Great Shadow of the Dark Cloud" descends upon Arkham City. Then a tender tendril spurs up from a crack in space and the whole cast shouts in unison "TEKE-LILI! The great destroyer Sup Nigga'rath is here!" I rate these somewhere along a school essay project and SCP page. See most anything that advertises itself as "cosmic horror" or "lovecraftian"
>"What the fuck is this? Is there even any cosmic horror going on?"
Something is very clearly wrong. Or at least right in the wrong way. It could be the strange phenomenon in the atmosphere. Or it could be something powerful and sentient twisting things. Okay, that sequence was most definitely a dream.... probably. Is the whole game just a dream or story? The game might even insist that there are no niggermen involved and the complex being full of clones of you that seem to have equipment of your earlier characters is because the singularity of the power plant is malfunctioning. The biggest problem with these is that they are often NOT tagged lovecraftian or similar due to the subtlety. E.Y.E and Alan Wake are probably the best ones of these I have played.

>>712723387
Very good.

>>712723269
>>712723241
What if the Sun gets jealous?

>>712721639
where the road goes

Dead space.

>>712723120
>outerwilds was kinda scary despite not being a horror game
Outer wilds doesn't have much cosmic horror except the dark bramble planet with that weird regressive maze.
It's more like "babys first existential crisis philosophy game" where you contemplate the inevitability of death and what you do with your limited time.
>whoaaa the sun is gonna blow up no matter what???

>>712723570
It wasn't the concept, it was the delivery

Cosmic horror isn't scary for the same reason I don't give a shit when nuclear powers start fighting. If the threat is so far over my head that there's literally nothing I can do about it then what's the point of being scared?

>>712723821
I personally derive fear from it if the thing in the sky is just after me, specifically. Like a giant eye looking doing at just me. Freaks me out a good bit.

>>712721892
>>Earth's ass (africa)
That's India though.

>>712724175
Yes I corrected myself in the replies.

>>712721605 (OP)
>>712722835
>So, a lot of you guys tagged me in this video...

>>712723821
>If the threat is so far over my head that there's literally nothing I can do about it then what's the point of being scared?
For me it feels like some kind of primal survival instinct trying to take over, even though its futile. It would be like if you were walking through the woods one day and all of a sudden you realize you're surrounded by 10 siberian tigers. You're probably dead, but that doesn't stop your adrenaline from kicking in.

Only the biggest millennial edgelord would sit on the ground and go
>heh. why even bother being scared

>>712724343
it's a normal rational analysis

only dumb people get freaked out about stuff they have no control over

>>712721605 (OP)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1069160/SKALD_Against_the_Black_Priory/

Super Robot Wars. You fight cosmic horrors with cosmic horrors(Getter, Ideon, Eva, Mazinger ZERO!

>>712724407
So a bomb goes off in close proximity to your home, and you're just going to go "heh, nothing i can do about it." and not feel the least bit emotional in any kind of way? Sure buddy

The dumb face ruins it.

>>712724407
I forgot it was summer already

by understanding cosmic horror is about spooky tentacles from space but the more subtle notion of everything you ever believed in was a lie, that the universe is a cold, hard, uncaring or outright hostile place on top of normal scary stuff like spooky space tendrils or horned stalkers in the woods

>>712724506
hey thats some really cool artwork
i wonder what the actual gameplay looks like
holy shit no way am i playing this slop

>>712724343
Retard. Atleast if you were walking in the woods you being surrounded and killed would atleast have had some rationale behind it, and you could be frustrated and scared because there was something you could have actually done and even if the chances are slim you maybe could survive if you get extremely lucky.
The idea of "this thing happens and it kills and rapes everyone and it can't be stopped" is completely different.

>>712724552
how can you even think a whole sentence when a bomb goes off in your proximity????

>>712724718
It's a good game. I've liked it.

Why are americans obessed with when someone was born.

>>712724718
Egg spotted.

>>712721605 (OP)
>emojis are actually eldritch gods worming their way into reality through symbols depicting them
aw shit here we go again

>>712721605 (OP)
>Amateur 3D slop
>Zoomers clap
Please press the button, Israel

>>712721605 (OP)
>pic
That's just Majora's Mask.

>>712722753
i like the idea that if you wouldn't get mauled by horrible monsters you could theoretically blindfold yourself (or just be blind) and walk outside with impunity

>>712722435
>1 month ago
>content mill farmers have already run it into the ground

>>712724794
A lot of people in the us take marketing terms (gen x, boomers , millennials) seriously.

>>712721605 (OP)
Quake and Half-Life both are based on LoveCraft.
Star Trek games with the Borg also use cosmic horror themes.
Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy include themes of cosmic horror and sense of doom.
Mass Effect has the Reapers, and Halo features the Flood—both bring in cosmic horror
StarCraft and Warcraft both use cosmic horror
Other games that do this well include:

Dead Space – Classic space horror, full of terrifying creatures and isolation.

Alien: Isolation

Prey (2017)

System Shock
etc

/v/ slept on this but it's quite literally one of the best horror games ever made.
It's certainly the best Lovecraftian plot ever put in a game.

>>712721928
>Hellstar Remina
you know I've kinda always wanted something like that but from the perspective of an interstellar civilisation and how they would react to their homeworld getting eaten

>>712721605 (OP)
>draw a happy face
>add sharp teeth
>call it horror
Zoomer horror 101

Thread theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLxPIOxgkM0

I hate modern cosmic horror because it doesn't explore the inherently race conscious themes that it was founded upon, like how the foreign is inherently evil and ugly and how it creates mentally ill leftists by derooting them and removing God. Everytime there is a satanic summoning circle it's white poeple doing it instead of nogs and jews, and Lovecraft would have hated this.

>>712726370
>frogposter
>schizo babble

I had a dream awhile ago where there was a giant sea dragon from subnautica orbiting around the sun.
>>712726486
It's one of Rapeape's indian goons that is trying to make every board like /pol/. Ignore it.

>>712726565
Cosmic horror is /pol/core, Lovecraft was the /pol/poster equivalent of the 1800s

>>712726370

bring it on

>>712725441
I just finished s1 of this, is it worth watching the next two? I hear s4 is complete worthless dogshit though

>>712726831
>just finished s1 of this,
same here so not a clue
I hope there's less cheating cuckshit drama at least

>>712721605 (OP)
OP, your picture perfectly sums up the video game Majora's Mask. So don't say there are no games about it. Lol.

>>712724943
That is literally birdbox (the book).
The monsters can still attack directly but it's rare and there needs to be a lot of noise to draw their attention.

>>712721605 (OP)
>The Annoying orange (Forma de luna)
>OH MY SCIENCE ITS SO SCARY

>>712727115
Lil' orange fella.

>>712726881
Its good to establish they are all pieces of shit, just that they were hunting far worse monsters than themselves

>>712726486
>>712726565
Summer posters go home. That anon is right, you reddit 'heckin cthulu' faggots, the whole point of cosmic horror from the start is rightful fear of the unknown.

christ this is peak midwit horror

>>712722435
*smooch*

>>712727447
You know, for there supposed appreciation for media literacy, it seems to only apply to the metaphysical and epistemological beliefs for which they share, otherwise if the author is diametrically opposed, it's the "Death of the author".

>>712721605 (OP)
did you miss all the recent Look Outside threads anon?

>>712725276
Mass Effect tried cosmic horror and immediately made it not cosmic horror by having Sovereign have a conversation with Shepard. And, no, the "You are not Saren," line does not change that. True cosmic horror doesn't hold conversations, and it especially doesn't say, "Whoa, we are so totally unknowable to you!" If cosmic horrors were to deign have something approaching a conversation it would be to pass on terrible, sanity crushing comprehension, not just, "Our motives are mysterious, ooooOOOohh. Just ignore we are speaking in your native language without any difficulty."

Cosmic horror is not just about something being more powerful. It is about absolute insignificance and disregard as a sentient being in the face of whatever the horror is. As soon as the horror stops to have a chat the significance of being a sentient being is acknowledged. At that point it is not cosmic horror, it is just politics.

Wasn't there some sort of Subnautica-like game but it's in outer space and there are big space creatures, like planet-sized whales or something? Or was that just one of my schizophrenic delusions

>>712724974
Honestly, it's almost impressive on how fast content farmers oversaturate the website with every single "unique" thing

>>712728245
Only thing I can think of with stuff like that is Starsector's newest update (Pic-related is not that, it's from a dead mod), but it doesn't really fit your description

>>712728307
i was kinda dissapointed that there was no spongebob or elsa from frozen collab

>>712726651
Fuck you, /pol/fag.

>>712721605 (OP)
Looks like the fucking Annoying Orange

>>712722943
In Illusion of Gaia, two kids fuse and then beat up a sentient comet that mutates living things, so there's always that option.

>>712726370
>Everytime there is a satanic summoning circle it's white poeple doing it instead of nogs and jews
might be becaue white christian people enslaved and destabilized almost the entire world, caused hundreds of millions of deaths, stole trillions worth of resources, and the only reason they aren't doing it to the same extent to this days is because those pesky tankies started to stir up too much trouble for them

>>712728245
Underspace

>>712729137
Truke. White Anglos created Israel.

>>712723061
It's ventured into comedy, sci-fi, body horror (minor) lately. Once Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus encircle Earth, they send probes up to Jupiter and Saturn but claim that "Of course, no one wants to get close to Uranus".

>>712726370
I don't you understood anything.
Cosmic horror is largely the exaltation of personal experience to mythological levels. It is, for example about the anxieties of being a stranger in a closely knit community and the process through which you become a part of it and how this experience changes you, not just on a mental level, but physically warps your body in some fashion.
Lovecraft, often times, uses racism, not as literal racism, but as a method to express his own personal fears of the world and his anxieties in interacting with the people around him. What makes Lovecraft and his contemporaries interesting is that they wrote fiction that didn't really exist in this form until the advent of modern horror film. Where again, the horror, is a representation of real anxieties and fears. The fear that your neighbor is a serial killer, the way being locked in a giant hotel in the over the winter while drinking yourself to death is going to fuck you up.

It's not about literal race.

>>712728245
Underspace, made by a dev from here

How is a bunch of smiling moons and stuff supposed to scare?
Who is the pussy that made this?

>>712729631
can't wait to see the stands with wake up moon plushies on every fair

>>712722943
Give a certain hedgehog seven colorful rocks and he'll take care of the problem.

is the moon dead then? what was its purpose
why didn't they just kill the grey in ep4, they were like 3 people with guns

>>712721605 (OP)
What if we gave the moon a big planetoid sized bouquet of flowers and called her pretty? Do you think she would still eat us?

>talk about cosmic horror
>post something that was comedy gold
Seriously that video was so damn funny that I had no idea if it was supposed to be serious or not
>moon wakes up
>does a cute stretch and a yawn
>it has a goofy muppet like face
>proceeds to glomp Earth with a :D face
>astronaut gets launched into space for no reason
>view of more goofy muppet planets flying in to party
I laughed

My favorite genre of zoomer horror is one where the protagonist has to do a job/task correctly, having disipline and responsibility is one of the most horrifying things for them.

>>712726831
Season 2 is complete garbage
Season 3 is pretty good but not as good as season 1
Season 4 is as you heard, worthless dogshit, though it can trick you into thinking it might be okay with the first couple episodes since it's such an interesting setting

>>712722412
It was shit but the moon shit was pure ludo of the highest order and I really hope they keep that as a concept. Dead Space is honestly fucking phenomenal cosmic horror.

>>712730998
it should have been far more gradually built up to.
they jumped the gun and scaled it up way too fast.

>>712731176
I somewhat liked the vibe of it just being a sheer cosmic force beyond your control that you can only gaze upon in awe but on the other hand I think it would work better with it being more of a mystery built up to with the final form of the necromorph being something conceptual rather than it actually happening.

>>712721605 (OP)
The writers are even bigger hacks than the rest of the grok powered jeet staff these days.

>>712730623
You realize why right? Because Five Nights at Freddy's

>>712730623
A lot of those stories are just normal short horror stories. The titles are only like that because they're usually from somewhere like no sleep where they have some sort of rule where the story has to be presented as "real"

>>712730623
I remember stumbling on a reading of one that was meant to be a about a guy working at a scp prison and it just turns into a bunch monsters who are basically an 11 year old's idea of a cool OC having a battle royale.
Shit was ridiculous.

>>712729246
>cosmic horror
>game is about how you can specifically kill and fight back against these things

>>712721605 (OP)
The first Mass Effect pulled it off and then threw it away for the two following sequels.

I watched this shit the other day and it was so fucking corny
zoomers (or gen alpha in this case?) are going to have absolutely no quality standards

>the theory that our whole universe is inside of a black hole

>>712721605 (OP)
This was the dumbest shit i have ever seen

>>712732564
>our universe is just one cosmic god doing a goatsee at another cosmic god

>>712721605 (OP)
who would win?

>>712721605 (OP)
Cosmic horror is hard to explore through the mechanics of games. Even good ones like Control still drop the ball in terms of the combat, because for all of the cool and terrifying things going on in that setting the majority of gameplay is still just getting into gunfights with soldier enemies.

>>712723991
>~1 volume a year
>Still in that island after last volume
Liking this manga is pain.

>>712732170
Joe Biden. Wake up.

>>712732981
Even Lovecraft had shitty little guys that weren't actually much stronger than a human. Control and Alan Wake do it well where the cosmic horror isn't something you're really actively fighting against and more things you simply try to escape or survive against.

>>712722943
You get a BFG and blow the fucking thing up retard

>horribly "animate" a bunch of characters made with makehuman
>have the writing "skills" of a middle schooler
>use AI voices unable to express any kind of emotion
>put a VHS filter on it
>that'll be millions of views in a single day + patreon sissies

is it really that easy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwNpFeJIh8A

That moon from some really old short or movie or something that gets a rocket stuck in its eye always freaked me out more than this.

>>712723991
>>712733181
What manga? Does the monster girl actually stay a monster?

>>712725276
How is 40k cosmic horror exactly when humans have become worse than 90% of the things in the universe and can defeat any threat ?

>>712721605 (OP)
Cause tards can't write for shit

Cosmic horror is something that's really hard to pull off. It's very easy to fall into the "le planets with a goofy XD face" trap. I did enjoy this one though https://youtu.be/WY9CTDM3l4M?si=sIi17lUIq_FiIcLI

>>712733703
Apparently so judging by the rest of the clickbait on youtube that gets millions of views. But can you live without your soul is the question.

>>712733718
>What manga?
Kaiju girl caramelise
The premise is that it's about a girl that turns into a Kaiju whenever her emotions get out of control, but she falls in love with a handsome guy.
>Does the monster girl actually stay a monster?
She flips between human and Kaiju form.
Last part where the manga stopped we've found a couple where that woman got stuck as a Kaiju and is unable to turn back, which may be her future.

>>712723462
Is that a Deimos Jugulus from Warframe?

>zoomers are terrified of an alabaster retard

>>712734079
>that
a*

>>712733423
In terms of lore yeah, I just wish that the combat and enemy variety was more interesting than simply getting into shootouts the whole game.

There's cool stuff in Control's side-quests, like fighting your reflection after stepping into a mirror, or meeting the Former, but I thought fighting possessed soldiers was a slog.

>>712729631
Not scary, looks like a child with severe skin condition. And you DARE make fun of him?

>>712725441
>Boring interpersonal drama
>Like two scenes where cosmic horror is a thing
I was suckered into watching this fucking series.

>>712722435
Would be scary if it was something like ABADOX

>>712733745
Because it all depends on the story and the writer.

>>712734586
If the horrors were more present, everyone would know about it.
The whole point, and the reason its good, is that its deniable its even real. It could all be in the schizo addicts head.

>>712730623
I miss when Creepypasta had short and punchy titles. Fucking retarded redditors weren't happy enough to clog up 90% of the story with worthless character writing for a story where they don't matter, they had to inflate the fucking TITLES too with WORDS WORDS WORDS

I don't get why you dumb retards are so scared of the moon. It's just a circle with a face.

>>712733703
I mean good on him for the success but man that episode was just silly as fuck

>>712726831
>>712730772
At the time, fags on /tv/ tried so hard to pretend s2 was good. theres literally no point watching it or any of the others. I dont even think its even the same writers as S1

>>712721605 (OP)
Does picrel count?

>>712734849
No one is actually scared, the viewers are just curious and wish to see the bizarre story goes. It's spectacle watching.

>>712722435
Meh

>>712735083
She cute.

>>712734985
In all likelihood he never meant it to go beyond the one episode but the response encouraged him to make more without having a pre-planned story so he's just coming up with whatever random shit he can think of on the fly.

>>712735083
>There is more

>>712722772
yes anon, sentient planet cosmic horror has never been done before, truly a genius

>>712733707
You're thinking of Journey to the Moon from 1902 by Georges Melies.

>>712721605 (OP)
Majora's Mask of course. What else can they really do? Most cosmic horror stuff would just result in all people being annihilated instantly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHrPvju9EIM

>>712731379
Exactly.
They wrote themselves into a corner with 3 and the only ways forward from there were bad ones.

>>712734484
I guess we'll see how Control 2 ends up. I wouldn't mind if it was closer to AW2 though it's funny in the night springs episode Jesse gets an automatic pistol and effectively infinite resources too

>>712721605 (OP)
There are, but it's just Lovecraftian fish people and purple tentacle slop all the way down.

It's grim really.

>>712735146
Hellstar Remina started off pretty cool but like every Junji Ito story, it got way too ridiculous later on and turned into more of a comedy than horror

>>712735491
none of this is cosmic horror, it's like calling jumpscares in five nights at freddies psychological horror

>>712725475
> Lovecraftian
....do explain why you think so

The Majora's mask moon was scarier

>>712735901
The part where they flew around the world was soo goofy, holy shit

>>712733703
>I'm mr meeseeks, look at me

>>712736075
everything past that point was dumb as fuck, including blasting the protagonists off into space in a bunker at the last second, Junji Ito has no fucking clue how to end his stories properly, every single multi-part manga of his turns into shit midway through

>>712736214
kek

>>712721605 (OP)

>>712736214

>>712735417
Thank you.

>>712736214
I tee-hee'd.

>>712734642
Oh, and I was the only one to mention Abadox in a thread about cosmic horror.

>>712735901
the "survivors" fate was the most uncomfortable, not just the horror of Remina's surface but this family who'd sacrificed everything to get there trying to convince themselves everything will be okay

>>712724974
>ten quadrillion pieces of zoomer horror in existence
>not one mascot as scary as slenderman
>not one story as scary as the ancient /x/ and /k/ greentexts
How did millenials do it?

>>712736075
I think everyone who recommends Hellstar Remina subconsciously forgets the part where the whole of humanity chases after a woman by flying through the air. It goes from dreading the apocalypse, to loony toons shenanigans and back to the former, but by then you've been too flabbergasted to take anything seriously then.

>>712736207
>>712736214

>>712722412
>THE EARTH DRAWS NEAR
>EVEN NOW WE CAN FEEL IT
>TEEMING WITH LIFE

>>712729631
Todd im not gonna buy skyrim a 20th time no matter how creepy you become

>>712736752
Those stories were made genuinely and to have fun instead of trying to appease algorithm and generate ad revenue

>>712736774
hellstar remina had potential but yeah, it goes full retard by the end

>>712721605 (OP)
Cosmic horror doesn't really have the same impact today because most of us learn from the young age that we weren't created by God in His image to inherit the Earth and the cosmos, we're just a bunch of hairless apes and if aliens exist, they're probably not like us and are vastly more powerful and different.

It just doesn't hit like it should, like if you were raised religious and then the science does its thing and reveals how vast and uncaring the universe truly is.

>>712723415
I liked Sherlock Holmes: Awakened where you stop a group of cultists before anything crazy supernatural happens aside from a sudden unexplained storm, but when asked about if the cultists might have actually done something if their ritual had completed, even Holmes was like "dude I don't know this shit is way too uncomfortable to think about"

>>712736752
I still think about that one skinwalker greentext about the black kid camping in Alabama sometimes, something about the way it described things really stuck with me. Legitimately super eerie

>>712724343
it's nothing like 10 tigers, it's more like seeing a nuke rocketing towards your position
you'll feel a kind of fear associated with death, but more feelings like "i wish i could say bye to my loved ones" rather than "oh no i'm gonna die what do I do"

>>712726651
lovecraft married a kike
>inb4 dude that's actually le based xd

>>712723570
I never saw it as a existential crisis game, since the message I took away from it was very much "Everything ends eventually, but that's OK because what you do matters for what's to come in the future", which is doubled down on with the expansion

>>712736214

>>712736752
>>not one mascot as scary as slenderman
imagine having the audacity to criticize any genre of horror while calling slenderman scary

>>712736774
kek I forgot how retarded this shit gets by the end

>>712736214
motherfucker

>>712736774
that's literally the only part anyone remembers

>>712721605 (OP)
I mean, Dead Space 3 was shit but it had some of the most fucking horrifying save me niggerman stuff I've seen in a run of the mill horror game in some time.

>>712728307
That really hurt for Sirenhead since he was probably the last "Oh fuck me" big monster creation that actually had a wrong feel to it for me, then everyone and their mother made a siren game and it lost its spooky factor quick

>>712737850
I swear I've watched so many analog horror vids where THE MOON is evil, you really have to wonder how influential DS3's story was.

>>712727886
Genres evolve. There is nothing wrong with chatting. That having said, leviathan dlc and the explanation or reapers was hilariously depressing

>>712736635
Shmups have awesome spooky space shit. The Nemesis from Metal Black, The Bydo from R-Type, the BioMetal. All of those are great horrifying concepts.

>>712729137
Uh huh, and I bet you blame white Christians for the Atlantic slave trade too, retard

>>712738017
It'd be really sad if it was the main source of inspiration for those babbi-horror-tier ai-generated videos. I mean, if you were to go for mainstream examples, Remina would be a much safer bet.

>>712736752
They focus too much in the scary (face) and not enough in the unnerving. The fun of internet horror is the idea of something horrible that may be true hiding under the veneer of "this is just a internet story".
The idea that something you read may be true and out to get you, not a scary face that appears for a second in a viral video.

>>712722435
It's kind of stupid but it's at least a bit creative. Though the last video has ceased any pretense of being serious and delved completely into humor which is disappointing.

>>712730623
It's a shame since "spooky shit happens while you're working in bumfuck nowhere" is a fun genre. Bonus points if there's an alt ending where you just leave when the spooky shit starts happening like somebody with a lick of common sense

>>712721605 (OP)
Cobra Commander has already shown us how to defeat the moon!!

>>712721605 (OP)
It's boring

>>712736214
Not funny. Make it a snoystation instead.

Same energy

>>712735083
That's the Visitor?

>>712733423
The Champion of Light has this in the bag. Trust. He'll beat The Dark Presence

>>712735689
>I wouldn't mind if it was closer to AW2
Please, God, no.

>>712738925
skill issue

>>712735083

>>712739532
We're getting a lot of gold this thread.

>>712739532
oh grandpa....

>>712739532

>>712733703
It does seem silly watching the first 3 eps.
I’ll try to watch the new one later.
I doubt this has the staying power of skibidi.

>>712730623
>zoomer horror is rules
The Holders series did this like 15 years ago

>>712722412
For all the faults the game has it did allow us to make a stasis gatling nailgun and had one of the best example of co-op schizo implementation in a game.
For those I can forgive it.

>>712739532

>>712734484
>Base game Former: mysterious exiled member of the Board
>DLC Former: friend :)

>>712739532
absolute classic

>>712733703
For every one thing that lucks out on the algorithm, there are dozens if not hundreds that utterly fail.

>>712739440
Yeah, by Kyle Rowley. Already ruined Alan Wake, I don't want Control to take anything from it.

>>712740159
This is true. It's like when you see some random channel and they have one or two videos with 1 million+ views or more whilst everything else they have is 4 or 5 digits at best.

>>712740116
Former doesn't get referred to as an exiled member of the board until the dlc

>>712733703
>have gun
>stare at monster trying to grab you instead of shooting you
wat

>>712740116
Admittedly I didn't work with the Former in the DLC because I'm pretty sure he used a fridge to eat that poor guy.

>>712740420
It's implied by its name, the way it tries to communicate, and the space it occupies.

>>712722412
The game was shit but the moon being the final boss was fucking awesome
Best ending in the series

>>712740720
its not the final boss.
its moons plural already arrived at earth.
its just saying "lol u lose"

>>712740496
I like the theory that the Board feeds on worship. That's why they latched onto the Oldest House, revealed it, and made it look like they've been around since the stone age. After Former was exiled, it starved and had to latch onto some altered objects to make them behave more dangerously so that the staff would pay more attention to them.

>>712740791
I did my best to forget the DLC they really screwed up the story with that one
The base game ending was good and then they had to tack on that pointless extra chapter changing the situation for the whole setting and ending it on a cliffhanger what a piece of shit

>>712722435
I hate this channel. It's always a retarded zoomer idea of "what if the moon was evil smiley? What if space whale ate Earth!?" IT'S RETARDED EITHER WAY, YOU RETARDED CHILD. It's not scary if it's too stupid for even Hollywood to think of it, but what did we expect of the generation that invented that gay as fuck backrooms nonsense? AAAAAH AN EMPTY ROOM! Just imagine the retardation alphas will shit out...

>no bloodborne
>no darkest dungeons
>no eternal darkness
Do any of you retards even play video games?

>>712740965
>and made it look like they've been around since the stone age
I mean they probably have been

>>712741392
>gothic dark fantasy slop

>>712721605 (OP)
>The moon is smaller than Earth
>In this scenario it would die too
Why would it happily ram Earth in that case? It's not really made of magic bullshit impervious to astronomical impact events. I refuse to ruin my youtube recommendations by clicking on the full thing but I can assume the comments are full of spastics claiming this is horrifying and some such without thinking for a split second.

>>712741425
Tell me you didn't finish the game without saying you didn't finish the game

>>712740467
that would be too easy and not scary of course

>>712741673
How is this supposed to refute the post you're replying to?

>>712722435
>there's more "episodes"
This is the next skibidi toilet isn't it?

>>712721605 (OP)
>The Moon takes three days to reach by rocket
>It just closes the distance in seconds because muh scary face monster
And yet zoomers think they can pipe up with their uninformed crab in a bucket whining whenever they want. Fuck off and die in a war already.

>>712721605 (OP)
>Zoomer horror consists of "SCARY THING IS SUUUUUUUUUPER HUGE TOO BIG TO DEAL WITH AAAAAAA"

>>712741463
>claiming this is horrifying
But anon, it has a scary face! That's all you need in horror nowadays.

>>712739532
>>712739680
>>712739698
>>712739816
I don’t get it

>>712721605 (OP)
Surprised no one made Kirby boss jokes

>>712741734
Dummy, anyone who played Bloodborne knows that the game drops all pretense of being a Gothic Horror game after you kill Rom. Or if you delved deep into the Chalice Dungeons.
But of course, the Gothic Horror slop with:
>alien women who drive you insane just by looking at them
>indescribable aquatic abominations who spit poison at you
>countless Hunters and scientists going insane trying to understand the Runes and the Old Blood
>inbred fishmen
And who could ever forget
>THE GODDAMN GREAT ONES YOU FIGHT AS ENDGAME BOSSES

>>712742161
Xbox is pretty big

>>712739532
>You end up having a meaningful conversation with this and it's upset its presence is causing a worldwide catastrophe
Ruins the game, to be honest. The monster being some unimaginably giant abomination only to be capable of humanlike reason and being upset over harming humanity is pretty soi and silly.

>>712742338
literally all of those are in gothic horror novels when gothic horror was new retard

>>712742161
'Hueg Like Xbox' - Old meme where people made fun of the Xbox's large, bulky appearance, which gave way to humorous overexaggeration. Had a bit of a resurgence with the Series X.

>>712741463
It's especially stupid because at the end of that animation, they show off a "living" Jupiter too. Why not just start with that one?

>>712741392
Eternal Darkness you actively make the old gods eat fucking shit though

>>712734513
coincidentally you just described true horror. Watching your species devolve due to their unwillingness to trim the fat

>>712722412
Dead space 3 is so funny cause the entire time you're on that fucking planet it's unbearable 360 slop but before that and after it's so fucking good

>>712742573
You should get off of /v/ and apologize to your parents for being a mongoloid ape. You are a lost cause.

>>712737358
He posted a wojak, I don't think he has self-awareness.

>>712742806
you're the one who literally doesn't know what gothic horror is and are pretend like bloodborn is doing anything new and isn't just slop made for people like yourself who've never read a book on purpose

>>712741463
Not even that, if they dumb little zoom zoom who made it actually knew anything other than bugging an AI to do his work for him he'd know the moon would disintegrate into a ring system if it did that. Youtube and its zombie users are braindead and poor mimics of actual humans.

>>712721605 (OP)
This is a soijack.

>Lovecraft is gothic horror
>OH YEAH WELL YOU'RE BROWN!
I hate you.

Games for this feel?

>>712742161
The Xbox for its time was a MASSIVELY sized console compared to all other consoles. People would compare other big things to it calling those other big things
>this is xbox huge

>>712721605 (OP)
Warframe is unironically a cosmic horror game.

>>712736214
>Cosmic horror about a entity who likes collecting lesser intelligent races like they're Funko Pops

>>712743207
https://youtu.be/TZWzBncwVtQ

>>712721605 (OP)
>It's over, moon! For I have already depicted you as the soijack and Earth as the chad!

>>712743207
seems impractical

>>712735901
Aren't Ito's stories always like 50% comedy, 50% horror? Like, some monsters are straight up comical, like that whole stuff about land sharks or the grease stuff.

>>712734079
>She flips between human and Kaiju form

>>712741734
Calling something slop is not an argument.

>>712743273
What's truly horrifying is how hard they've removed any semblance of threat and intimidation from the Man in the Wall in recent patches. I fucking hate the current redditor writers so much.

>>712722435
they look too cute to be spooky

>>712725475
Rebirth is fucking shit compared to The Dark Descent.
At least The Bunker redeemed the devs somewhat.

>>712743790
Yeah it's blatantly on purpose, every story is pretty tongue in cheek absurdism. Like the holes.

>>712743823
Posting something that supports the position you claim to be against isn't really an argument either.

>>712743913
I like when some anon regularly posted his manga on /v/.

>>712741245
>that gay as fuck backrooms nonsense?
I still think the concept has potential for a short story or something.
Its the retarded thing about internet trends where too many people codify too many parts of it to the point where all sense of mystery is squeezed out of it like a towel at the beach.

Backrooms originally
>You accidentally end up in a liminal space between spaces through no fault of your own. You don't know if you can ever get out and there's no food or drink. Its just facet of our reality that this could happen to anyone, anytime.
Backrooms after 4 years of the internet messing with the concept:
>errmmm on level 234-A you could run into entity Zeta which is a spooky clown that just follows you around and level 16-ASS is an infinite pool of crotch sweat

There are ways for these things to spooky, but the problem with amateur writers is that they're amateur.

>>712743324
In Canada this was called Shadow Raiders and it was fucking cool as shit until it abruptly ended when they teleported the Beast Planet away but didn't actually deal with it. It was going to keep coming for them forever.
I think it was animated by the same people that did Reboot and Beast Wars.

>>712744140
>Its the retarded thing about internet trends where too many people codify too many parts of it to the point where all sense of mystery is squeezed out of it like a towel at the beach
This but for SCP

>>712744345
Yeah Mainframe animated it I think. All three were pretty good shows. Reboot especially was excellent from season 2 on.

>>712722435
Fucking stupid

>>712743857
Yeah him just possessing some half dressed thot is a pretty boring twist.
I want more stuff like the labs when they open up to the creepy desert and cliffs dimension.

>>712742909
>Moon does something that defies physics
>WTFFFF THIS ISN'T ACCURATE TO PHYSICS!!!
Are you retarded or something?

>>712743857
>Man in the Wall
What did they do to him? I stopped playing when duviri came out.
>they've removed any semblance of threat and intimidation
Isn't it the case for pretty much every antagonist in warframe? Like Vay Hekk became screaming mecha bird, Nef turned into comic relief atm-man and Salad V went full retard.

>>712721605 (OP)
I actually watched this because it kept showing up in my recs for some reason and it's just the dumbest thing ever.
>WHAT IF THE MOON WAS ALIVE AND EVIL ALSO THE WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM IS EVIL TOO

>>712743273
WF is a directionless mess

>>712743857
and Sentients were supposed to be scary and the biggest threat but then became a total joke

>>712744708
Thats zoomer humour nowadays
>Take thing
>Make it evil
>It has a hateboner for the cameraman

>>712744697
He basically possesses some rando half-dressed slut in the new "area" after you get sent back in time and meet all the Warframes before they were sleek tacticool armors (basically an excuse to give them ugly fucking faces for no reason when NOBODY wanted that) and no joke, shows up for like two cutscenes to basically play the crazy ex-gf part even going "IF I CAN'T HAVE HIM NOBODY CAN!" before getting blown up.

The new patch was fucking cringe teenager High School Musical tier and I'm not even kidding.

>>712744960
>humour
I mean horror, I'm too tired today.

>>712745031
All of that sounds retarded. Bravo, Rebecca.

>>712732170
It's joever

>>712745031
>meet all the Warframes before they were sleek tacticool armors
I honestly don't know why you even tried to answer him, given you paid so little attention that you don't know whats going on at all.
The protoframes aren't the original warframes. Albrect Entrati brought strains of the Warframe virus back in time and infected people with it. They have nothing at all to do with the original Warframe's origin. The only reason he does this is to give you the tools to stop the Man In the Wall/Indifference with the Power of Friendship by making friends with all the protoframes the Indifference is making use of to set off a nuke or something.
The plot is still fucked, especially the more they play with time travel. But you being retarded doesn't help.

>>712732242
It's cosmic horror, not cucksmic horror

>>712745505
I've tuned out of the retarded story after the game sent us back to talk with the heckin' witty robots in Deimos pal, I just assumed they were trying to retcon Frames into not being Ballas' wacky chemistry class experiments.

>>712735901
Haven't read Hellstar yet but my big gripe with Ito is he rarely ever can end his stories. They're not even cool ambiguous endings most his material feels like he ran out of ideas and just abruptly stops it.

>>712745719
Naw they aren't touching that lore. Yet at least.
Protoframes were literally added because Reb wanted to shlick to hot Warframe boys and threw us a boon with being able to date the women.
Also what robots in Deimos? Do you mean the people with their heads detached on Venus, or do you mean the uplifted animals in the Deimos labs, or the infected people in Deimos proper?

>>712724718
kino isn't meant to be enjoyed by all

>>712722435
This is real horror. No jumpscares. No nudity. No gore. Nothing but pure terror from an unsettling concept that shakes you to your bones.
>>712723061
>>712741245
>>712744546
Go stick with your goreslop Terrifier "movies".

>>712729246
>shaky cam
stop that

>>712746001
Loid. I hated the robots ever since Deimos was introduced (hell I hate the whole Family to be honest) and I knew going back to talk to them would spell doom for the story the moment I saw it on the objective list.

Imagine my fucking face when the Cavia were introduced. At least the Murmur seeping into the labs had a strong aesthetic to compensate.

>>712721605 (OP)
still wakes the deep is probably the best one that came out recently

>>712736292
Uzumaki ends pretty well imo.

>>712746276
Man it looks goofy
Nintenbabies flailing their arms at Majora's Mask or Kirby's final bosses have a better argument in their favor

>>712746436
I actually like the Family and Cavia. Loid is whatever since once you get passed the main quest he's a glorified vending machine.
Although the fact that Albrecht is both the Father of Mother AND a faggot with living Loid is a strange choice
To me they're a nice little bit of story that can be safely ignored if you don't like it.

>>712737329
I don't know, I mean in the grand scheme of things yeah I agree, but the m.c is like mid 20's along with a planet full of kids and other people who's lives are just beginning, only having the horrid luck of being born at the end of the universe. They didn't even know what was coming, only the m.c and that one lazy guy on the tornado planet were able to comprehend that this was it for them.

>>712723415
Where does Bloodborne fit in? It's basically Fanboy except all the names are changed to not be infringing, but it's also an actual game.

>>712724794
Why are you obsessed with where someone was born? Because both the location and the timeframe in which you were raised influences the culture you were brought up in and the ensuing mindset that informs your behavior

>>712721605 (OP)
Play the Fear and Hunger games for kino cosmic horrror.

>>712734586
The fact that the cosmic horror is deniable if its even real or just a bunch of bohemian grove pedophiles larping is part of what makes it a solid story and not just horror slop

>>712738659
An extremely small part of it

>>712723415
>>712748013
Most fanboy, Bloodborne included is basing more off of Derlethslop who pushed his horrible cthulu mythos multiverse franchise garbage after Lovecraft died where there's shuggoths just around everywhere and there's absolutely no uncanniness or subtlety or slipping reality. It's very blatant and in your face and has no ambiguity at all.

>>712736214
Underrated

>>712743412
Its meant to be, he's Satan

>>712721605 (OP)
Just Look Outside

>>712721605 (OP)
What game is this???

>>712723415
Steam could probably use a Weird Fiction tag for type 3 and similar. Those are definitely my favorite type.

>>712748860
You aren't a janny

>>712721605 (OP)
This is fucking retarded. The moon wouldn't wake up because it's still night.

>>712721605 (OP)
>zoomer “horror”.jpg
creator and audience are millennials thoughbeit

>>712748496
>It's very blatant and in your face and has no ambiguity at all.
But it isn't.
Bloodborne is subtle, Bloodborne hides what's going on quite deeply and it's never states it explicitly, unless you actually beat the final Chalice. I am not exaggerating, the final encounter of the game recontextualizes virtually everything, including the Moon Presence and all of the endings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEaYOSk2SA
what are some type 2 games?

>>712749963
>Bloodborne is subtle,
You fight a giant werewolf within 30 seconds

>>712721605 (OP)
me eating the pizza I just ordered

>>712750093
Yes but that's the premise.
You go to a town and there's werewolves. It's very classic gothic horror.

>giant werewolf
It's a normal sized werewolf, since it's about the size of a were (man).

>>712725475
All I remember about this is some indian cunt who wouldn't shut up and her autistic brother.

>>712749963
It's incredibly in your face half way through the game and just constantly shows you NIGGERMAN SAVE ME tentacle fuckers
You can find one in the first area anyway
It isn't nearly as subtle as people make it out to be, there's always this underlying "something else is going on here" vibe from the start

>>712750267
Which classic gothic horror has people fighting a city full of werewolves with folding saw swords?

>>712729246
i summon trainwiz

What was the title of those faux VHS videos showing the moon changing into something?

>>712750536
Gothic horror: spooky things exist, but they're not the norm, they're aberrations in God's perfect world.
Cosmic horror: spooky things are actually the norm, we and our way of life are an aberration in a cold, uncaring universe.

>>712750049
Isn't Control precisely like Type 2?

PS2 Echo Night Beyond, but it was too much trial and error for me personally.

>>712750526
It really doesn't. There's very few tentacles in the game. The mostly show up towards the end and as items you can use.

>there's always this underlying "something else is going on here" vibe from the start
Yes, but that is normal. The question is "What is going on" and it very careful to not reveal too much at once and to give you several false outs to answer this question.

Yharnam Sunrise is the only good ending btw.

>>712750841
Did you reply to the wrong post or something

>>712721605 (OP)
Because I don't want there to be

>>712751214
You find a tentacle dude in Yharnam almost right away. Ignore tentacles completely if you want, the amount of supernatural insane shit is rapid fire and in-your-face. Subtle ain't the word.
Sure you aren't given an answer to it, but that's not the same as something being subtle. It would be subtle if it was very indirect and not constantly shoving the lovecraftian horrors right at you.
The fact that Bloodborne isn't subtle is what made me enjoy it anyway, the fact that it gets so unambiguously absurd is the fun part.

>>712742461
I think it's an ok spin. A mundane thing plus horror is always neat. Imagine a Qu like force that sees humanity in a way we see for example ants. You know they are there and live their weird lives but you pay very little attention to them. Then imagine one day you accidentaly pee on the anthill(those of lesser kind). For you it's a thing you did (you might feel bad even) but then you go doing your thing and forget it. But for ants it was an apocalyptic event.

>>712751412
Fighting werewolves isn't cosmic horror in itself. They're a classic gothic horror monster.

>>712722435
Nothing says chilling horror like outright titling your video "(cosmic horror/astrophobia animation)", that really gets me so immersed.

>>712751825
Which classic gothic horror has people fighting a city full of werewolves with folding saw swords?

>>712751667
>It would be subtle if it was very indirect and not constantly shoving the lovecraftian horrors right at you
But it is. The "Lovecraftian horrors" are subtle. As you pointed out yourself, tetancle dudes and evil, early 20th century creepypasta dudes is Derlethslop.
But Bloodborne has much more and it is very subtle in the way it handles these things, especially early on, it's very subtle about the supernatural shit that goes beyond Gehrman's "You're sure to be in a fine haze about now, but don't think too hard about all of this. Just go out and kill a few beasts.

>>712722435
Oh mY GYATTT!!!!
Chat is this real?!?!?!

>>712723415
I'd argue there's another type, though it might fit in one of your others, thats up for debate
>Cosmic Horror masquerading as just regular religion
If you just look at what is going on its just a regular old Fantasy version of regular religion. Clerics might even be casting spells directly sponsored by their patrons. But if you do more than a basic surface read, you start to notice that the entities everyone is worshipping want some weird shit. Like child sacrifice or for you to glimpse deeper secrets of the universe. Eventually you come to realize that these gods are gods of a sort of definition, but they are more outside entities influencing the world for their own ends and mankind's worship is just a side gig or means to an end. For risk of summoning the haters, Elden Ring and Bloodborne does this really well, and so does Fear and Hunger.

>>712722435
this shit is fucking stupid

>>712746103
>>712724740
>>712724506
Can someone explain to me the plot/ending of this game?

>>712750716
Local 58?
Those were pretty good.

>>712721605 (OP)
bloodborne?

>>712729246
>cam shakes while in the middle of space
Don't tell me that you can also hear it's sounds

>>712726831
Second season is a top tier, almost phenomenal, cop procedural... But it's just a (HBO tier) cop show, it has nothing on the weird and spooky vibe the first season had. If you have even an inkling of fondness for Law & Order shit you'll enjoy it, but DON'T expect first season 2.0: electric bogaloo.

>>712751667
no bloodborne is very subtle
it shows you a lot of things and expects you not to think about them very hard, which is what most people do, and its very clear the game expects this as gherman literally says it to you and so much of the game is about "just go fight the beasts"

it preys upon your expectations of videogames and enemies just being enemies with the weird and strange being normal, tentacle monsters are not strange for video games, squid faced monsters are not strange for video games
like demon's souls has mindflayers in it, its not cosmic horror at all, none of what bloodborne presents you is at all absurd for the scenario or situation.

if you go in expecting cosmic horror and people are telling you about it, then yeah, you will fucking see it, that's the point, it plays with your expectations of a video game until it becomes undeniable that yeah, something IS going on, how did you miss all the signs type of deal where it recontextualizes a lot of the game.
your inability to get this is actually crazy, its a cornerstone of cosmic horror that characters see these things, not understand what they are, and just move on as if its fine and normal (which it is in video games) and puts you directly into that situation

>>712722227
>>712723178
What if the real horror was the streets we shat in along the way?

>>712753779
That's not subtle at all. You sound like someone who watches 7 hour video essays unironically.

>>712751879
zoomers need to be told what to think and feel

What went wrong with analog horror?

>>712753056
Thanks, that's the one.

>>712753936
It just doesn't work conceptually and because everyone realized that, it started to rely on spooky faces and original characters.
That and comedy horror in many parts.

>>712751879
>>712753879
It's done for the algorithm, so it can be easily found when people are searching for that kind of content.

>>712722435
Looks like fucking power rangers

>>712753936
99% of it is just copying Kris Straub and not actually a real genre. The best ones don't constrain themselves with following whatever made up rules the "genre" is supposed to have which again are just copying aesthetics from Local 58 and Candle Cove.

>>712734484
>Former
What an absolute bro
Control was a very good game for the record, I for one am looking forward to Firebreak. We should've gotten another Control dlc or two, exploring dimensions and planes through the slide projector

>>712753936
There are creators that know why it works and how like Local 58, and then there are people that don't understand it and fail on making anything spooky, but the worst are the ones that do analog horror ironically

>>712754306
People shit on this series but I still appreciate Urbanspook feeling like it's own distinct thing.

>>712753851
I don't think you know what subtle means.
You seem to think it means hard to see or stumble upon, when it doesn't mean that all, its subtle because it hides in plain sight and indirectly shows you everything without actually telling you. Having it hidden a way in some sooper dooper secret area and being a hush hush secret isn't subtle, that's just secret, if it isn't DIRECTLY presented to you clearly and unabashedly but you still miss it because of the way it is presented in, such as being normal, or in someway you can justify it as normal, then it by fucking definition cannot be subtle.

no, I don't watch video essays, but it sounds like you got told it was cosmic horror, went out of your way to look for it, and then complained you knew it about while ruining the experience for yourself, maybe stop looking up every detail about games (or other media) before you experience them and actually form your own opinion on things.

>>712754306
>>712754517
Greylock was pretty good from what's been shown so far. Though I'm not sure where it can go from here, so it might be concluded by now

>>712722943
Or you do it the same way we handle cosmic horror in tabletop rpg.
Have the said entity being just the intrigue and maybe get a cultist as the antagonist.
Nothing better than a puzzle instead than a fight for such entities.

>>712754774
I heard it's coming back. I hope it can still have the same impact.
I was kind of let down by the recent Local58

>>712749963
the final chalice is with the boss who is the ghost (or w/e) of mergos mother right?
there wasn't another dlc chalice I never did or something right?

>>712754517
Urbanspook would have worked better as like an indie horror game or flash game or something. The ultra edgelord stuff doesn't really bother me and yeah I think it is better than people give it credit (within the genre)
>>712754774
I think it's the most overrated one by far. There's no real direction or narrative. It feels like someone writing an autistic lorebook for a tabletop campaign more than any sort of actual story. It's basically the same exact setting as Mayfair Watcher's Society (Trevor Henderson's audio drama series that serves as a shared universe for his creatures) or any number of other location based horror series. It's not really novel or interesting. It's something I've seen hundreds of times before except now in a stagnant genre.

>>712753779
You sound like the type of retard in charge of video game movie adaptations going on about how Bloodborne invented video game stories and before it was just random enemies you killed for no story reason

>>712724552
Literally me, I don't care.
Once, I've been in an accident and had a few issues with my abdominal cavity (lost quite a few pieces in there), the surgeon came to me and told me I had less than 30% of survival.
I just told him to do his best but if he sees it's over, just wake me up and pump me full of drugs so I can go and jump in the bear's den (yes we have bear dens in our cities).

>>712742461
The whole point of the scenario is that observing and communicating with the visitor also imparts changes onto it the way that its own influence affects those it observes. If Sam were not a fundamentally good person, it probably would have gone much differently than this.

>>712754680
I think you're just a midwit who got your mind blown by your first game you realized has some sort of narrative like a teenager watching his first Nolan flick.

>>712727886
>As soon as the horror stops to have a chat the significance of being a sentient being is acknowledged. A
If it stops to have a shit, it's cringe.
If it tries to communicate but just wreck every mortal by doing it, it's cool.
I like making some eldritch beings like 4 dimensional children.
They are curious and sometimes they want to burn an ant or two.
Except we are the ants.

>>712722435
This is much closer to mascot horror than anything eldritch

>>712753779
What is the subtle part
Rom and onward is completely different from the previous parts of the game in terms of how batshit insane it is in terms of design, it's not normal at all. When I saw Amygdala in the Cathedral Ward it was fucking nuts, I didn't go "oh yeah another enemy, just like Cleric Beast!"
The game constantly gives you clues that something else is going on, that's about the only subtlety I can agree that there is but even that isn't very subtle.
Also when I saw a brainsucker early on I thought he was out of place. Demon's Souls on the other hand is just generic anything goes fantasy, I don't remember what I thought about mindflayers, but either way there's zero followup, so it's not anything to think about beyond that.
I can't see how constantly showing you crazy niggerman shit is akin to subtlety. It's just an odd word to use here. Iosefka's quest isn't subtle, Micolash's dialogue isn't subtle. I think I'd use the word "cryptic" since there is an outright unknown space alien thing going on that you can blatantly see but you piece together the exact implications and meaning through the missable content. The implication of subtle to me is that the crazy niggerman shit isn't immediately visible, and you only see clues or hints about it. Isn't Lovecraft mostly about people going insane the moment they actually comprehend the niggerman stuff? There may be bits or pieces that imply it, but once revealed, that's it. In Bloodborne half the game is the crazy shit being right in your face.

>>712722435
>>712722412
I am eternally mad at how badly EA fucked up the Dead Space series.

>>712721605 (OP)
>game reveals the planet is a prison where souls are reincarnated, and their suffering harvested by archons to feed on

>>712742671
You do score a victory against the elder gods, yes. But it took multiple millennia, the death, torture and suffering of dozens across those millennia just to make a chance of victory possible. And in the end it was really you exposing one elder god to another elder god capable of defeating it. And in the end, you ultimately played into the hands of another elder god who is now unopposed once all three of the other gods are destroyed.
On the bright side, Mantorok seems like a pretty chill god so maybe things will be okay with him being the only EG in town.
Eternal Darkness is a happy ending, but one that still underscores the sharp limits of what a single life can do against otherworldly cosmic power.

>>712736694
The one in the shuttle with the MCs isn't much bettter. Earth is gone, oxygen and food are limited and they might only live a few more days max before dying as well.

>>712736774
I really hated that part. It was cool up to that point, just to go full retard. Ruined the entire thing.

>>712751674
I think that understates the malice/autism of the Qu.
It’s one thing to piss on the anthill once in a whim, it’s something entirely different to exterminate nearly all ants in your city outside of specific parks, then genetically engineer the survivors into livestock, pets, living carpets, etc.
The Qu were just close enough to being understandable for their actions to be disgusting and abhorrent.

>>712721605 (OP)
>>712722435
diseased faggotry

>>712755070
The final chalice is where you fight the Queen, who is also Mergo's mother, who has a certain name.

>>712736774
kino as fuck

>>712755070
Pthumerian Queen Yharnam is the final boss yeah. I don’t have any idea what he means about it recontextualizing anything though, we already know Mergo is her child, is a child of Oedon, and was taken from her to beckon the old ones.

>>712721605 (OP)
When the spinning ball-Earth is finally exposed worldwide for the 400+ year deception it was, Earth's entire population will suddenly be faced with the reality that every government, every space agency, university, secret society, religious organization, mainstream and alternative media outlet have ALL been duplicitous in propping up a monstrous manipulation to fleece and control the masses. The resulting mass mental exodus away from the control system is exactly what humanity needs. Once the flat Earth truth gets out, these lying politicians, spokesmen, reporters and teachers suddenly change from being heralded voices of authority to being ridiculed, shunned and denounced as they deserve. Once the flat Earth truth gets out, these governments, universities, media outlets and other entangled organizations which have long been hard at work weaving this multi-generational ball-Earth myth, suddenly and completely lose all credibility. Once the truth of our flat Earth gets out, so does the truth of these few elite families/societies who have kept this most important and fundamental reality from us for these hundreds of years! Essentially, once the flat Earth truth gets out, so does every other important truth by proxy, because this "mother-of-all-conspiracies" holds under its umbrella literally ALL of the other conspiracies, and exposes them.

>>712755373
any games worth checking?

we already live in a cosmic horror

>>712722435
Eh I thought it was cute. I respect the effort and originality as opposed to simply shitting something out that’s been done hundreds of times before

>>712721605 (OP)
Shadow of the Comet
Prisoner of Ice
Chzo Mythos series
Cthulhu Saves the World
rain (PS3)

or were you thinking of the giant monster in space variety of cosmic horror? Boring

>>712744345
The ending is basically pic rel.

>>712757376
>The Queen lies dead, but her horrific consciousness is only asleep, and it stirs in unsettling motions.

>>712722435
These videos arent scary or even that well made but I cant stop watching them. They're so fucking goofy.

>>712757376
>is a child of Oedon, and was taken from her to beckon the old ones
What evidence is there for this?

>>712722435
It's stupid but eh it's creative enough

Prey 2017 is basically this. You spend most of the game fighting what are basically shoggoths. Except they also have psychic powers, and some of them are over a kilometer.

>>712736774
this part was kino and I don’t care if autistic weebs hate it

>>712721605 (OP)
Seriousposting here.
Cosmic horror is incomprehensible to humans by definition.
You try to comprehend it, you go mad.
You try to counteract it, you get outplayed.
You level the playing field by forsaking yourself and delving into unspeakable, and you only delay the inevitable a bit.
This is why Derleth's "continuations" of Nigger-Man's owner works suck so much.
Derleth wasn't a hack, but when you nuke a fucking Cthulhu, it's not a cosmic horror, it's "humanity fuck yeah".
A videogame is different from a book or a movie because it gives you agency.
To counteract this and retain the horror level, you've got to raise the stakes.
Then you can't raise the stakes anymore and your choices are "humanity fuck yeah" (say, Mass Effect 3) or "rocks fall, everybody dies" (say, Dead Space 3).
You can "live" with cosmic horror side by side not interacting with it that much, but these are usually weird and quirky games made by fags for fags.

>>712759351
>is a child of Oedon
Formless Oedon impregnates two other women over the course of the story.

>was taken from her to beckon the old ones
literally nothing and it's actively wrong, the Queen is one of them.

>>712724794
I have a Scandinavian friend and he won’t shut the fuck up about how old he is. Every sentence starts with “when I was your age” and “back in my day” fucking hell I was just asking what your favorite fetish is

>>712725475
Literally every other game in the series does it ten times better than Rebirth

>>712736774
Ito doesn't take his work seriously and just puts in things that he thinks are neat or fun. You shouldn't think too deep about it.

>>712759718
>You try to comprehend it, you go mad
disregarded here

>>712730062
kek

>>712755882
you can't see the amygdala in cathedral ward
you either need to have progressed far enough or gotten insight beyond a certain level, which there literally isn't enough in the game at that point you could have gotten.
you can only see it on the return to cathedral ward.

plenty of people online were talking and asking about the "weird thing" at cathedral ward where you get teleported, which you later discover is the amygdala picking you up and doing a thing.
yeah, it is followed up on later when you realize it is happening, no one said its subtle for the entire game, but it is absolutely subtle in early game and then shit escalates and it has a "how did we get to this point" type of feeling, where everything makes sense but at the same time is absurd, its pure cosmic horror, the knowledge of the things you see later completely recontextualize what you saw later.


You saying the mindflayers had no follow up in demon's souls and then saying 1 ayy lmao in yharnam being a dead giveaway is the funniest shit the world, the cognitive dissonance you are displaying right there is insane.
seeing one tentacle monster and then absolutely knowing the whole game will be like that is not a reasonable conclusion and you prove that by demonstrating how normal it is for a mindflayer, many mindflayer, a whole fucking level of them, with beastmen, a puppet boss, and more, but its all reasonable to just have a stage themed like that and follow up would be absurd, but a single tentacle monster immediately gives away that its cosmic horror? do you see how retarded what your saying is there
no, seeing a single ayy lmao in a back area of yharnam most people don't explore into isn't "obvious", its subtle, and in the same way you think nothing about tentacled monsters and more appearing in demon's souls as enemies is how a sane person who hasn't already been told what happens in the game sees that enemy.


the entire plot of BB is either ignoring what happens and surviving or

>>712722435
Mogs your space lore

>>712730623
Unrelated but I remember very recently I developed this weird fixation with hillbilly/swamp horror. And I looked up whatever I could find on youtube and I came across this channel with hours and hours of narrated horror stories. The narrator had this sort of brooding and almost romantic Southern accent, and each video was just him telling horror stories for eight hours. I thought I hit a gold mine until I realized there’s a damn good chance it’s entirely AI generated, from the voice to the periods in each sentence of the script

>unicron for zoomers

>>712755882
>>712760593
or seeing it all and not wanting to leave the dream, causing you to become trapped for what you have learnt, with the "secret" ending being where you really dive into all the cosmic horror stuff and follow it up causing you to become a literal slug.
the ONLY good ending is you just not seeing what it all is for, sticking to the original premise of it just being beasts you are hunting, and ignoring it all.

the first thing the game hints at and the reasonable secret you assume the game is hiding is that it is about you killing people not "beasts" as they are framed as dangerous monsters invading the city but are clearly transformed people, with many in a state of transformation.
it hints at a greater conspiracy about this, which yes, is what is happening, but this isn't the end of it and its barely a secret, but the game still goes out of its way to maintain this type of thought
you eventually stop fighting humans entirely in the game, why are you killing these things, what is the purpose, how does you hunting beasts have anything to do with what you kill.

it seems to me the people who don't think its very subtle and an excellent example of cosmic horror really just don't understand what even happens in the game and just treated it as an action rpg where you fight the enemies and move on, they are in cosmic horror stories too stupid to go mad and in bloodborne are blind to how they got there and seem to think the game is obvious when they look back at the clues but can't see how they are presented if you didn't have extra information. Or, like some have clearly outed themselves, just looked up everything about the game before playing it and probably do that with all media and are fucking retards solely on the basis of that.

>>712759718
Cthulhu got outplayed by a fishing trawler to the forehead

>>712724343
Arc Raiders

>>712755987
Dead Space Remake not selling 20 million and causing the series to be forever shuttered fucking infuriates me. Those guys were doing a new game, not a remake of 2. But no longer.

>>712761086
arc raiders is cosmic horror?

>>712721605 (OP)
hellpoint kinda

>>712722435
>Lofi distant big band music for no reason
It's insane how much the backrooms /x/ poster and The Caretaker shaped an entire generation's culture

>>712722491
need game where humans have to fight or hide from giant female monsters that look like this

>>712723330

Whats it from, like a new black mirror episode? (I stopped watching after awhile because it got too woke for my tastes)

>>712754517
I see Urbanspook more like a slasher movie than analog horror. I still enjoy the absurdity of it and the last episode was great.

>>712736774
I think thatd be fucking scary to be chased like that by so many people

>>712754373
All of the slides from the projector being destroyed felt like a huge wasted opportunity to me. Some things like the Not Mother are probably creepier if left to your imagination, but I still wanted to see those other worlds.

>>712723549
where the day flows?

Wow

>>712723178
>cosmic horror moon takes a bite outta India
>fucking dies

>>712721605 (OP)
Why are there are no sci-fi games where you blow up cosmic horrors with a Wave Motion Gun?

they need to make more horrors takin place in medieval times as a peasant
the only light sources are torches adn the weapons are pitchforks and clubs

>>712736214
accurate

Starbase.

It has been abandoned, picked back up, and abandoned, so it has terrible Steam reviews, but it's one of the best space games ever made.

It's a MMO sandbox space game where you play as robots. The ship building is objectively the greatest ship building in any video game ever.

The game never took off because there are no NPC's and no quests. It's a sandbox MMO. Think one giant minecraft server.

It truly is an empty ghost space for robots to tinker around, mine, travel thousands of kilometers with the threat of running into an asteroid destroying your ship.

It feels like a 1980's space anime, like you are in some abandoned solar system where the humans left 100 years ago, and it's just robots still living there, doing the only thing they know to do.

It's one of the greatest space games ever made, but the smoothbrains gave it mixed reviews at launch, because the tutorial sucked, and the game was complicated, so it never took off.

There's still about 100 players online usually, but they are so far away, you might run into 1 or 2 people at your origin station.

There are ship shops where a lot of the ships are now broken, but most of them still work. Probably 100 ships to browse. Or build your own.

For some reason, the devs still comment on Steam, so it's not some "abandoned" game, but it's developing at a glacial pace. It's unfortunate it launched right when covid was at it's worst, which basically fucked everything up. I still check on it every once in a while, and at launch it was definitely the greatest space game ever made.

Steam automatically flagged the store page saying "no updates in 2 years", but that's because they split the dev server into a separate app, so they are updating the test server app.

You can magnetize your feet and walk around the outside of your ship while you are flying.

Now comment on my "reddit spacing".

>>712736214
kek nice

>>712761318
No, but it creates that primal fear of being hunted.

>>712760593
Not him, but yes, a single tentacle niggerman is far more suspicious than a whole level of them. It's retarded they don't appear again in DeS and it really was just lovecraft prison gimmick, the fact it's a whole location full of them also shows that this is their zone and they made it with them in mind. A single ayy lmao in an area where he doesn't fit means it's either bizarre asset reuse or that he's gonna appear later in a more fitting location. IIRC he's close to the Byrgenwerth connection too, so you could justify it as something localized to there and he just wandered off, stop thinking about it and move on, but by then you also fight Rom and the game drops all pretense. I also don't think his placement is very hidden but that's just my experience
>it seems to me the people who don't think its very subtle and an excellent example of cosmic horror really just don't understand what even happens in the game and just treated it as an action rpg where you fight the enemies and move on
That seems more like your perspective, you're the one constantly mentioning how people will see lovecraft tentacle aliens and just ignore it because it's just a dumb video game and not a real medium (at least that's how your point comes across)
The good ending is ascension to slug btw

>>712763972
>The good ending is ascension to slug
The good ending, unambiguously so, is waking up.

>>712763461
Outside the 50,000km safe zone is absolutely terrifying. Going autopilot and crashing into an asteroid, or running out of fuel, can basically mean you lost your ship completely. At least you can "tether" yourself to home and return body, but there are actual fuel ships in the game, specifically designed to rescue people who get stuck 100,000km in deep empty space with no fuel....

This game has terrifying "cosmic horror" moments. I genuinely start sweating when I leave the safe zone. Inside the safe zone you can crash into stuff without taking damage. Outside, it's like real life. Don't bump into anything at 1000km/h. Flying through a roid field is palms sweaty.

Some of the ships are fucking huge. Like blimp sized capital ships. You can also build your own space stations.

Star Citizen is a fucking joke compared to this negatively reviewed Steam game.

>>712753936
What went right?
Literally the only good ones are local because it was the first and gemini because it straight up copied local

>>712724974
grim

>>712762498
>All of the slides from the projector being destroyed felt like a huge wasted opportunity to me.
That felt very much like a placeholder explanation: As soon as we needed to go beyond where no man has gone before, old and/or new slides would show up again.

>>712721892
>>Starts pogging
kek lost (yes this is a YLYL thread)

>>712763972
>That seems more like your perspective, you're the one constantly mentioning how people will see lovecraft tentacle aliens and just ignore it because it's just a dumb video game
bruh people were literally saying its obviously cosmic horror because you fight werewolves
as if werewolves or giant wolf enemies don't appear constantly in games (and that's what they appear as in BB, large wolf enemies)

>>712750093
>>712750536

no, seeing a single enemy with tentacles doesn't make a game cosmic horror nor does seeing a bunch of them, its not indicative of it
is baldurs gate 3 cosmic horror?

these types of enemies are common in the medium and it isn't indicative of anything, drawing a conclusion that a game must be X because it has Y enemies isn't very reliable.
so many games have zombies, skeletons, ghouls, and other undead as enemies in scenarios that otherwise don't fit.
the game clearly is fantasy, the game clearly shows beastly enemies, clearly shows mutated enemies, seeing a guy with tentacles isn't an immediate
>must be aliens
but a a far more reasonable
>its a fucked up mutant
>A single ayy lmao in an area where he doesn't fit means it's either bizarre asset reuse or that he's gonna appear later in a more fitting location.
>guy with tentacles
>must be an ayy lmao
>the game must be cosmic horror
>no way its one of the corrupted beast monsters we have seen
>those crows aren't mutants at all
yeah you will expect to see more of them later, but immediately going
>must be cosmic horror
is a huge leap

>>712737119
Same. That one always stuck out as my favourite

>>712765060
Those posts and the ones its replying to say gothic horror not cosmic horror.

>>712763972
it's a way to draw your attention, Bloodborne and Fromsoft in general are very competent at semiotics. The way they use imagery in their games to draw parallels to things you are familiar is genuinely very impressive and they have gotten a lot better at it over time.
Elden Ring has a whole narrative about Rome and early Christianity buried entirely in carefully laid out signs and symbols.
Bloodborne is much clumsier by comparison, but still uses the same techniques.

>>712726370
You have never read a single Lovecraft story and that's pathetic. Most are like 10 pages at most. Get a grip on your life, retard.

>>712726370
>frognigger
>makes a retarded post
Yup it checks out

>>712730623
"You have to follow the rules" is basic fairy story structure. Interesting how we've been telling that same story year after year and only recently under different names. Remember to leave a sugar cube in the center of your nearest fairy circle.

>>712728881
I never heard of that game till I was a junior and the emo invader zim girl mentioned it. I was shocked when I played it and it was kino of the highest order.

>>712765260
yeah those posts are saying the same thing I am saying
seeing a werewolf doesn't mean its cosmic horror, concluding its cosmic horror just from seeing a werewolf is retarded
which it is

seeing one guy with tentacles and concluding its cosmic horror is retarded

literally every single one of the souls games have werewolves as enemies and tentacles humanoids as enemies
but suddenly bloodborne having them means its OBVIOUSLY cosmic horror? no

if everyone can see the subtly but a few people seem to keep saying it was obvious to them because of this extremely super obvious clue which no rational person would jump to conclusions like that then its pretty clearly either those people are lying (to themselves too most likely) or they lack the capability to understand what they were thinking at the time and also are unable to see the game from a perspective apart from having full knowledge of everything
or I guess as I said early simply looked up a lot of shit about the game and then found these things obvious
>oh I guessed who the killer was right away
>you can tell from X and Y
>it has nothing to do with me looking up the ending of the book and knowing so I can easily retrofit that information
is dark souls 2 cosmic horror, is it obviously cosmic horror when you first meet aldia, who is a humanoid tentacle monster? it isn't, and jumping to that conclusion just because you see aldia is absurd
thousands of games use humanoids with tentacles and no sane person would make such a leap in logic that extreme.

>>712762498
>>712764754

The game is entirely predicated on being boring and generic as an intentional lore piece. The studio is too creatively bereft to do anything but ape 80's movies for their setting over and over again. Anything interesting and actually fun will remain outside of the scope of the actual game because bringing the world they describe which is actually full of wild, random, bizarre happenings is too much effort- but they'll happily continue saying, "Cool and interesting things are happening off-screen! Hope you like these next 10 waves of generic enemies!"

>>712760593
>you can't see the amygdala in cathedral ward
I'm saying when I did see it. It's so utterly out of place, the entire world at that point is clearly not normal. Any potential subtlety has gone straight out the window. I don't know all the answers, but I know it's batshit insane. Hence "cryptic" not "subtle".
>the knowledge of the things you see later completely recontextualize what you saw later.
Getting grabbed by something I can't see which is fucking insane and otherworldly later being revealed to be a giant niggerman monster is already otherworldly and insane.
The brainsucker is only one example. You're being a little autistic acting like that's my entire argument. You're given a plethora of clues and hints that come across as pretty fucking blatant when the rest is all pretty fitting. Demon's Souls already has mecha giants, magic manta rays, giant spiders, shit that's pretty hard to make tentacle mage guys seem out of place.
Bloodborne wasn't sold as a cosmic horror game, the trailers were all "badass hunter guy kills werewolves" so no I wasn't expecting to see a hooded tentacle guy. Also I don't even know how you would miss that guy. You could miss something like the aliens at Iosefka's place, something that is also pretty blatant. I think for you to miss these things before Rom would be more rare than seeing these things.
They don't spoil anything, but they remove this "subtlety" element. You saying I missed the point of the game by being surprised by seeing this stuff is just odd. I don't know who the fuck was playing the game and just thought everything was normal. If anything those people would be the ones that got spoiled beforehand.
I'm not the one talking about werewolves being cosmic horror or even immediately going "yep cosmic horror ayy lmao niggerman save me", just that it wasn't at all subtle when the game starts dropping all pretenses that it wasn't something else.

Why does it seem everyone is all about "dude the vast infinite unknown is terrifying"?
To me the vastness of space represents adventure and freedom, like in Harlock without the shitty non-ending or Space Dandy, not this le insignificance of mankind shit

>>712766298
SSo whta hppens in Blooborne?

>>712766339
>Space Dandy
>not this le insignificance of mankind shit
Space Dandy is a literal cosmic horror series, anon.

What actually scares you?

>>712766361
niggerman space aliens blood

>>712766430
The cosmic horror of people thinking the real show isn't down below?

>>712766453
the thought of losing those who are dear to me

>cosmic horror
>it's just Cthulhu again

>>712722491
Need a game where giant monsters that look like this try to eat you or shove you up their ass. and their insides are an optional level

>>712766453
Some might say "being alone forever" or "the ones close to me dying" but I think being trapped in a dungeon with no escape and being eaten alive by rats would be scarier

>>712766298
>Any potential subtlety has gone straight out the window
>subtlety has gone
so you are saying to me the game is subtle... then reveals information.... and stops being subtle as it has revealed that information when you obtain information about it
and that this is somehow not exactly the point of cosmic horror and how the information recontextualizes prior information

like wtf are you talking about?
you are complaining the game isn't subtle about the information it has revealed to that the big change in events that had clues in plain sight before you can suddenly see them with the information you have later in the game was somehow not subtle but still managed to do this?
are you expecting it to what, just never reveal anything? to never have it do anything but hint at the possibilities of things?
what kind of dogshit piece of media would do that, why set things up if there is no pay off or purpose, thats absurd.

>>712728245
Urth of the New Sun

Tangentially related, but I don't get why it's called "phobia"
A phobia is an irrational fear of something, but something like claustrophobia or arachnophobia seems perfectly reasonable and rational

>>712734079
>She flips between human and Kaiju form.
trash

>>712722165
It's 7 pm.

>>712721605 (OP)

t. Zoomer American who hasn't even bothered to look for something like that yet.

>>712766453
Being forgotten and forced to witness it
Not knowing what comes after death
The concept of pain without end

>>712766589
Didn't the ending say that every single episode is 100% canon, even the ones that end with everyone dying, and all the characters are somehow aware of this, or am I misremembering?

>>712742338
>get high insight
>get utterly spooked by that amygdala just hanging out on the wall near the church that was there the whole time

>>712722412
Dead Space 3 was shit but god i love the concept of the Brethren Moons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJQpb4QsD6U

>>712766758
yeah a lot of phobias are very reasonable and people act like its an unreasonable fear
>i'm afraid of falling off this building so I don't want to approach the edge
>oh no you are just afraid of heights, you can get over your phobia
>no nigger i'm rightfully afraid of falling off and don't want to take the risk, its not an irrational fear

claustrophobia is probably the absolute worst on people bring up, as if any sane person isn't uncomfortable with confined spaces they cannot move in, everyone just has it to a different degree
its like ocd, people call every idiosyncrasy someone has "ocd" and any uncomfortable feelings one has with confined spaces claustrophobia, when claustrophobia is being afraid to enter a small building because you think its too confined with not enough windows and might not be able to get out.

>>712766124

>>712751674
Guy looks like he's from Ultraman

>cosmic horror
>no one mentioned EDF
/v/ doesn't play games

>>712767010
It did, but it's also a comedy series about freedom and expression.

>>712766453
Everything scares me

>>712767517
BLEH!

>>712766696
no you dumb nigger he's saying the game isn't subtle because the way it reveals information is dropping a giant fucking boss ayy lmao so completely out of place in a gothic horror setting that you're immediately aware you're no longer in that kind of setting

>>712767563
>out of place
Anon....

>>712766298
>You're given a plethora of clues and hints
Just to list some cause I did like how BB handled them

Subtle ones
>Insight being a resource
>Gaining insight reveals things in new lights (IE the doll) or things you couldn't see before (the messenger)
>Insight reduces beasthood/frenzy res
>One way to gain insight is seeing a boss for the first time
>The hubworld is a dreamworld

More obvious ones
>The early brainsucker literally sucks out your insight
>You can gain insight via consumables called like the one called mad man's knowledge
>The invisible amygdala inflicts you with frenzy

>>712753194
>middle of space
>clear cloud and thus has a medium to transfer sound
Dipshit

>>712723821
It's not about the instinctual fear of, for example, being in the presence of a predator. It's the slow burn fear of having to recontextualise your existence to account for things that are actively hostile to human thought patterns.

Not everybody in Lovecraft's work is a gibbering, fear addled wreck. Most characters who have seen shit that they shouldn't have seen take a 'logical' approach to the cosmos after the initial terror has come and gone, which is how you get the cults and occult shit.

>>712767072
It wasn't even shit: It was a very ok ResEvil4-in-space, but expectations from the previous two titles and mere affiliation to the DS setting set it up to "fail" in normies' opion.
I enjoyed playing it and it even had some honest to God great ideas, like co-op and a more free-roam orientation. It was a good game, but much less so than the previous installments. Having a similar horror game where you investigate an spaceship graveyard, jumping onto and boarding abandoned ship(wreck)s, would be great.

>>712766758
>Why is it called an irrational fear? I can rationalize it just fine!

I see you have an irrational need to rationalize everything. You must have a fear of looking like a total fucking retard. But it's too late for you.

>>712766298
Yeah but you don't know what the tone of the game is an hour into it mate.
Demon's Souls has all these things but you only know that when you have played the whole game that it has a lot of different types of enemies, Bloodborne at this point is just yharnam and you are fighting beastmen, some werewolves, crows, a giant pig, and some schizo hunters, seeing an alien thing and just a single one is definitely strange for the stage.
How will you know if that is that strange for the game until far later? you don't know enough to make that kind of call at that point yet mate.

Idk about you but when I see an odd enemy in a game I don't sit there thinking about it for hours later while playing and wondering about strange that enemy was. I see it, don't see other stuff like it, don't really think about it until something triggers that thought, obviously its strange, but mate are you really trying to tell me you sit there dwelling on it and its strangeness and how even with newer enemies you are fighting it is still strange?

>>712768173
>it's irrational to be afraid of a tiny space with no movement where you can suffocate
>it's irrational to be afraid of disease spreading men wearing dresses
>it's irrational to be afraid of arachnids that can and will easily kill you

>>712722435
First episode was slightly unsettling at best, other episodes are just boring, it should've stayed as a oneshot

Is this guy literally whinging a game dare to be surprising?

>>712766453
Loud noises

>>712722435
Amateur short films are fun. Its the last bastion for goofy, original creation. You're not going to find that shit in Hollywood anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhufXt3AapU
My personal favorite

>>712768383
You know, here's a little behind the scenes. I wrote up three really big posts, each rewritten from a different angle of trying to explain to you like a dumbass what "irrational" means. But in the end I wrote that first reply, because I realized your dumb ass was posting that shit, and then this shit to follow up. Doubling down on being a dumbass.

If I told you again- repeating myself, really. That your attempts to rationalize this shit for no reason is totally irrational, would you actually stop to think about WHAT that means or would you continue being a dumb faggot?

>>712768928
you don't even understand what he is saying

>>712766453
Death
Women

>>712768928
I could easily kick your ass in Starcraft faggot

>>712729246
Underspace is just space Morrowind

>>712769030
What he's saying is retard babble. Actual thoughtless dumbshittery.

>>712769056
I bet you could but it doesn't mean you'd be able to fucking celebrate with anything more than guttural ape whooping afterwards with the kind of IQ you've got on display.

Anyways to get back to what "irrational" means. Say you have a closet. A walk-in closet, with a light inside. Fancy. There's enough room to you know, shuffle around, but not enough to stretch your arms out. You step in, and shut the door behind you.
Now, there's no lock on the door. No accidentally trapping yourself inside. There's no loss of oxygen. We'll say there's slats on the door too. Hell, we'll say that the door magically just opens from the inside if you push, no knob needed.
Now imagine all this and say, "Would I be extremely pants-shittingly scared if I was in this closet?"
Regardless of YOUR answer, someone, somewhere's answer is, "Yes." After we remove all danger. After we remove every single shred of what-if. Someone's answer will still be "Yes". And that's an irrational fear.

>>712766758
Depends where you live for arachnophobia
My country has no dangerous spiders at all, so jumping a meter into the air when a tiny garden spider happens to move into your line of sight is silly.

It's 'irrational' because it is overriding your decision making process in favour of a programmed response. That those responses might be similar in nature doesn't come into it, it's the difference between choosing to move away from the spider and doing so automatically.

Fear in general is an interesting physiological survival mechanism. Just imagine - Tens of thousands of years ago, just a little bit of fear improved the odds of survival enough that, over time, the instinctual fear of skittering things with too many legs was literally carved into you before you were even born.

>>712721703
We are programmed to feel caution or afraid of the unknown, and the known. Your post made me think about what typical things we dislike, like slimy fleshy gore, many thin pointy crooked teeth, small or lifeless multiple eyes, anything deadly pointy, etc. When it comes to space, however, what the heck would you design for humans to fear, or learn to fear? Probably a creature that can do something horrifyingly painful to a human, and have a design around that thought of how you want said human to die.

The main thing for me would typically be where it is completely out of anyone's control, like a massive creature... I always enjoyed stories of gigantic monstrosities.

>>712724943
>i like the idea that if you wouldn't get mauled by horrible monsters you could theoretically blindfold yourself (or just be blind) and walk outside with impunity

You literally cant, Jeanne didn't even look at the sky but got "sight touched" by the visitor.

>>712721605 (OP)
There's shitloads:

https://glitchwave.com/games/genre/lovecraftian-horror/

https://glitchwave.com/charts/top/game/all-time/g:lovecraftian%2dhorror/

>>712728348
Not gonna lie, this new...faction is pretty spooky.
Sure, we had the universe singing to us, we have hyperintelligent self replicant AIs going rogue, independent or unstable, but predatory interdimensional aliens that give the Luddites nightmares worse than chatGPT balls is something i wasn't expecting. Much less to be actually scary. Or this big.
Shit its actually bigger than than my space disco ball.

>>712721605 (OP)
starfield

>>712722943
Kingsway!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iFjxgGjvck

>>712735083
>>712739532
this FAT SALAD DODGING BITCH spends 5x the energy to move a single tentacle to eat than the fucking planet would nourish it when it reaches his mouth

>>712766453
Falling into the sky
Water deep enough where I can't see the bottom
Being unable to move as something horrific or dangerous slowly moves toward me
The dark

>>712766453
Being excluded from an important club that would protect me from an impending doom due to my own poor choices

>>712766453
Thinking I'm in a dream and doing something crazy but it's not a dream

>>712772874
Like being cringe?

>>712771058
no but she was staring out at the chaos of the streets for ten straight minutes
all of those weird, physically impossible, reality warping abominations and likely glancing out at the horizon anyways, or its reflection in shit
plus
>Do you think God is outside?
Father Andrew: I've been asked this many times. Could this be our LORD? Or perhaps an envoy of His Will?
>Father Andrew: Every day I walk to a window with my eyes closed, and... I can't do it. I am overwhelmed. My knees go weak. The thought that GOD may be on the other side, and that looking upon HIM may change me forever...

>>712766453
time