Thread 712892668

Why does every creature in subnautica look stupid?

Speak for yourself
I want to fertilize a gasopod's eggs

>>712892668 (OP)
the curse of specevo
they try to make all the creatures super unique wacky frankensteins, which ironically makes them all mundane

>>712892668 (OP)
I genuinely think it's because they didin't want the game to be too scary
People already absolutely terrified of the reaper leviathan and yet it's one of the most retarded fucking designs i have ever seen in a game, like what the fuck is this even supposed to be

>>712892668 (OP)
Because you touch yourself at night.

>>712896101
Get rid of the crimson chin, fix the colours and it'll actually start to resemble a real animal

>>712896050
it's spooky as fuck when you're floating around in the darkness and this fucker suddenly chomps on your ship

>>712896230
It speaks to how great the game is when what looks like a rejected Lilo and Stitch background extra alien can become so frightening during actual gameplay

>>712892668 (OP)
Same reason most spaceships look stupid. Designed by artists.

Genuinely one of the worst designs for a creature I've ever seen.
Who is going to give a fuck about this stupid thing swimming around in the Lava Lakes?

>>712896998
Remake the arms so they resemble a crocodile's or a mosasaur flipper instead of being human for no fucking reason
Remove the random fucking tentacles and replace them with a tail with small athropied hind flippers
There, fixed the design, maybe change up the face too if you want to really go in depth

I actually wouldn't mind seeing a subnautica clone with more realistic, ane thus scary, deep sea creatures. But I don't see that game being made anytime soon.

>>712897226
Why do you think these games always go for the pastel fortnite aesthetic? it's much, much easier than going realistic

>>712896998
yeah these things fucking suck
the only fear you get from them is the thought of losing all your shit

>>712892668 (OP)
Honestly better than BZ's on-the-nose trying to be scary creature design

>>712896998
Tentacles are weird. Octopuses use them for pulling food towards their mouths, but the tentacles are around his ass instead.

>>712896998
the end of the game was obviously rushed
underwater lost izalith is terrible

>>712897374
Being built like an insectoid/crustacean but having scaly skin texture just makes it look like a cartoon character
Had this been an actual giant shrimp with those black soulless eyes they have it would've been kinda creepy

>>712897374
That would probably scare me since being in deep dark water is scary enough as it is. Looking at the design alone it doesn't make much sense.

>>712892668 (OP)
Having a defined silhouette against all lighting so you can recognize the threat immediately at a distance

You look like this.

>>712897402
Most character designers just pull random shit from animals without understanding it's function and why it's the way it is
If you design monsters you should be forced at gunpoint to get an autistic interest and knowledge in animals, their anatomy and how they work because otherwise you're just going to cough up dogshit

Okay, but what is the BEST subnautica creature design?

>>712892668 (OP)
It's spooky enough when you swim in the ocean

>>712897767
Ghost Leviathan is decent

i never liked the sound design of these faggots, why do they roar underwater?
my contention isn't even a realism thing it's just that even a generic bassy rumbling is a lot scarier than distortedlionroar.mp3
i liked the sounds for the moloch in legacy barotrauma, for example, i think it has a lot of character
https://files.catbox.moe/kdywwp.ogg

>>712896998
This is what happens when multiculturalism hits the octopus community.

>>712897820
Bioluminescent seethrough deep sea freaks are hard to fuck up, I feel. And the location it's in already multiplies the scare factor by 100000% (the map boundary one, not the cave one obviously)

>>712897767
Bladderfish no question

>>712897824
They really would be a lot scarier if they only roared when attacking like the ghosts, the moment i hear the reapers in the distance i know to pay attention to them.

>>712897638
humanity in subnautica is made out of libertine, apathetic mongrels living in a hypercapitalistic nanny state run by mongols and babysat by machines in everything they do. arguably the most realistic depicting of the future to date

>>712897824
>i never liked the sound design of these faggots, why do they roar underwater?
Because it's SCAAARYYYY
What they should've done is just send out a deafening sonic boom that reverberates throughout your ship and temporarily fucks with your electronics to echolocate you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuJVINmGQFU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0USXHVqJu64

>>712897824
I wish this game was more single player friendly.

>>712898034
>ending of the game
>PDA congratulates me on my survival
>and tells me im 9 trillion space dollars in debt to the company because of all the materials i 'took'
should have just stayed on the damn planet

>>712897767
Ghost leviathans and dook dook squids are both pretty decent. Still a bit dumb from a realism perspective but less dumb from a straight visual design

Retards ITT be like
>hurr why is the nose is so big lol
>and that overbite, this dude needs braces
>what a stupid fucking design

>>712898858
this but unironically

SLOPSLOPSLOPSLOPSLOPSLOPSLOP

>>712896050
Probably a Bobbit Worm that's not as wormy

>>712898858
that's a really disingenuous comparison

>>712898858
Comparing the beauty of nature with the same game that gave you >>712896998 is probably one of the best way to signal people that you're mentally retarded

>>712898858
It's an underbite
And we know why its snout is so big because it has a shitload of sensory receptors while being tough enough to impact fish at high velocity and being aerodynamic
You explain to me why the fuck the sea dragon leviathans has tentacles for propulsion. Hell, try and explain to me the evolutionary history that drove it to that

>>712898858
This is just a big tuna fish sharks don't actually exist

i've played dozens of horror games but can't play subnautica. it's the only vidya i've ever played where i genuinely get a pit in my stomach trying to go out into the depths.

it seems so cool too but i just can't do it.

>>712892668 (OP)
animals in the real world sometimes look stupid

>>712899408
that means you have atlantean blood
since they lived in the sea they developed thalassophobia

>>712896171
It's an alien

>>712896998
Looks like a donkey kong country enemy.

>>712899557
So is the xenomorph and yet it doesn't look like a cartoon

>>712899006
After looking this guy up online, yeah, it's most likely the biggest inspiration.

>>712899006
>>712899668
The main difference is that the bobbit worm doesn't have an angry cartoony face with big googly eyes

>>712898992
:D

>>712899783
a lot of designers lack the discipline not to add faces/eyes to things
they'll often avoid making something too "alien" even if reality is often stranger than fiction.

>>712899408
You stop being scared of the depths once you get the prawn suit.

>>712896101
I get it now.

>>712896998
I hate those goofy motherfuckers so much that I go out of my way each playthrough to kill them (provided I can actually reach them and they haven't clipped out of bounds again).

>>712900000
Actually, you stop being scared of the entire game once you realize the leviathans can't kill you in one hit, and take far too long to hit you a second time. And once you get a few upgrades, they need a third hit to finish you off. They are completely harmless.

I love the cyclops so much, even if i stopped using him after a while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrKEYfqtNWs

>>712898150
>>712897824
Would've been cooler if they bellowed like gators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A4ggEDsCqc

>>712900469
i never got all the pieces until the literal end of the game where you NEED to build it to finish the rocket

>>712899932
Pretty sure these things don't serve any necessary role in the food chain and their complete eradication wouldn't have a ripple effect on the eco system.

>>712900650
Traveling around with it can be fun but it gets old fast, i wish it had autopilot while you go do other things inside it.

So based on rants from couple years ago I shouldn't even bother playing Below Zero?

>>712900675
fuck you hagfish are kino animals and they scavenge on the sea floor, cleaning up the ocean

>>712900675
what makes you think that?

>>712899270
>being aerodynamic
Why the fuck would a sea creature care about being aerodynamic?

>>712900953
I thought that was a leech. I am retarded and rescind my statement.

>>712900953
>Hag lover

>>712900675
Many mouth breathing inbreds before you have had the same idea and caused incalculable damage to the ecosystem
You also picked what might be one of the most important ocean animals currently alive, it would be like decimating vultures and thinking that it wouldn't have disastrous ramifications

>>712899932
would

>>712901012
Because water is even denser than air, so being aerodynamic means you can also move faster through water.

>>712901606
:(

>>712892668 (OP)
>>712896050
Never understood how faggots can praise the Reaper. It looks goofy as fuck and those weird "claws" make no fucking sense. Even its behavior is just retarded swimming around and clipping into mountains for cheap jumpscares

They actually released a demo, huh
https://youtu.be/zvt3yRCFXr4?t=245

>>712901807
Is it about that stupid fucking giga leviathan that can't move properly in the game and constantly clips out of the ocean and into reefs?

>>712901847
yeah, they even scaled him up

>>712900675
their cousins lampreys are the parasitic ones.
hagfish are just scavengers.

>>712898072
In the end i liked these in my tank more than the cuddlefish.

>>712900000
Checked

>>712896101
https://youtu.be/cunMICmz1nQ

>>712902168
The first few seconds is actually a footage of my ballsack taken by ants that fell into my pants when I was jogging at the park.

>>712902350
Did it get ripped in half?

>>712902350
Still got no fucking idea how it just shapeshifts from the first form to the second

>>712902782
yeah all these animals were killed by the BP oil spill, thats what those probes are down there to look for

>>712892668 (OP)
Because you are the one looking at them

>>712902245
Well... If you don't like them, then...

so we're not the only species stupid enough to go RGB

>>712899932
>fpb
>ey
>sp
>spb
>mo
>tpb
>ga
>prt

What's he trying to say?

>>712903120
Fuck around and find out.

>>712903807
>I have a mouth, but I can't speak

>>712903790
I like how Big Friend was careful not to bonk the diver while spinning with them

>>712896050
its a mix of a bobbit worm and an oarfish

>>712896998
these ones genuinely suck
looks too much like a teresterial animal vs an aquatic predator

>>712903790
Dont they make a sound that kills people?

>>712904173
They can but I don't think it's happened but their clicks will blow your ears out

>>712892668 (OP)
its a shame the dev team is literally retarded and have seemingly no idea why people liked the first game

>>712904308
>fired the only competent guy over nothing

>>712904308
because their most competant guy got fired over twitter politics lol

>>712904589
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3brzUImE8EY

>>712904357
>>712904420
>man this game is awesome i sure hope they expand on the cool exploration and atmosphere in the next one
>WHAT YOU WANT NIGGER CHARACTERS

>>712904478
Is this a sea peacock? A seacock, if you will?

>>712904718
the best part is how forced the story is and the conclusion is your sister died because she was retarded. What the fuck were they thinking?

I love subnautica and it's like a comfort game where I'll just start up a new save randomly when I have literally nothing to do. I wish there was some sort of randomizer or something to really shake up its formula though. Every time you start the game, you know where everything is, every seed is nearly identical, everything is in the same spots, every biome the same area, reapers in the same areas. I don't think there is a mod for this

>>712904892
did he died?

>>712896998
>game set in the ocean which even irl is filled with the most alien, inhuman crazy shit you can imagine
>design a generic fps alien enemy as an ocean creature
what the hell is wrong with people.

>>712902042
Woah! They really move fast!

think thats alll i got for sea creatures

>>712905078
Tunas are such overdesigned pieces of shit

>>712892668 (OP)
have you seen sea creatures? many of them look retarded

>>712904162
What manner of beast be this?

>>712905304
The one with the expensive fish eggs

>>712905304
sturgeon

>>712897402
>Octopuses use them for pulling food towards their mouths, but the tentacles are around his ass instead.
Can't you draw a simple conclusion? This just means this thing pulls dildo shaped submarines into its ass

>>712892668 (OP)
Really only the dragons and gastropods look silly to me.
The game was carried by its sound design; Shame they fired the guy that did all the sounds because he made an attack helicopter gender joke.

>>712905007
They can sleep underwater so probably not.

>>712897638
I'm genuinely happy I learned about THIS just recently, years after I finished the game. I always thought the MC was White and I actually enjoyed the game. It was alright. Boring at times, but I had fun
And just recently I learned the MC is a nigger. I wouldn't have played the game if I knew it back then

>>712897638
No I look like THIS.

imagine subnautica but japanese so that designs arent shit

>>712905638
I doubt that

>>712905638
Like this?

>>712903120
>come to my door, lose your claw

>>712897824
>their roars aren't scary
>dinoroar.mp3
Hmm, yeah, okay, sure, let's hear your ideas
>posts some gay ass flute sounds
Hahahahahah
Fuck off, nigger
You seriously get scared by that? Hahahahahahahaha
>i think it has a lot of character
The character of a first grader practicing blowing into a flute hahahaha

>>712905942
What an asshole

Make way, make way! Coming through!

>>712906410
The shrimp that scurries by doesn't look real

>>712906572
The video is sped up.

>>712903062
What purpose does this creature fulfill?
>Yea im just a living porch ornament so what?

>>712901012
Damn anon, hit the books.

>>712898034
Realistic if they were all still on earth living in giant slums.
A browned world isn't going to be inventing interstellar travel any time soon, or anything else.

>>712904478
Zelda enemy

>>712902042
Man, fuck the ocean

>>712907576
Good thing your jellyfish lives in space

>>712892668 (OP)
because the ocean is full of stupid looking animals. look at pic related, its a fish with a kickstand

>>712907674
What are the evolutionary advantages of it?

>>712899047
>when real creatures look retarded it's the "beauty of nature"

>>712907785
>have to stay suspended to catch planktonic drifters
>it takes energy to swim in place
>just sit down on long fins instead

>>712907884
>subhuman overweight goblinoid with pencil thin wrists and an overbite calling a shark "retarded"
You probably can't even look in the mirror too long without rightfully getting suicidial thoughts, know your place

>>712907910
yeah but how is he going to reproduce? he's getting no fish pussy looking that silly

>>712897295
i wouldnt say it has a pastel aesthetic it actually looks pretty good with high settings and filmic color grading

>>712907785
deep sea creatures dont eat nearly as much as the ones at higher depth so its probably just a way to stay still and preserve energy until its next meal

>>712908042
Even he's gonna plow fish pussy looking like that while you won't
Think about it

Please cuddle your fish.

>>712907027
>What purpose does this creature fulfill?
The same as all other jellyfish
Not much really
They're 98% water too

>>712896050
only reason it's terrifying is because if it's roar. remove most leviathans roar and they will be the most unthreatening thing in the planet

>>712899617
the xenomorph doesn't look like a real animal

>>712896050
I have only ever played this game in VR. It's amazing in that mode.

>>712897767
The empty ocean.

>>712908318
dude fuck you

>>712907984
shitskin melty lmao

>>712908430
Human hands are evolutions greatest success. All animals KNEEL for rubs and headpats

>>712907984
holy meltdown

>>712908771
>>712909021
>>712897638
>t.

>>712892668 (OP)
because fish look stupid

>>712907674
>>712908042
Fishes just cum in the water when the females shit eggs.

if you guys ever get the chance the Osaka aquarium is 100% worth it.
there's a multi story tank with a whale shark in it.

>>712909176
True when you swim in seas or lakes you are swimming in fish cum and piss and shit

>>712907385
Shouldn't they call it hydrodynamic

>>712909156
tfw i see bait
>:(

>>712892668 (OP)
juxtaposition between form and function would be an easy answer, but really the designs are just bunk

kek i killed these glowing faggots with a knife

>>712909534
But why? Granted, the one in the cave that also has the warp gate is annoying, but even that one can be avoided.

>>712897638
sims looking nigga

>>712909693
i just like going everywhere peacefully

>>712910089
But they don't do anything. They don't want to eat you, they're just territorial. Just stay out of their way and they will leave you alone.

>>712910215
Sorry i misunderstood. I only killed the annoying ones in the caves.

You might laugh all you want but I found Subnautica to be a stressful experience, it's a good game but I hate being underwater

>>712910434
>but I hate being underwater
Then why play a game about being underwater?
Are you also arachnophobic and play games with spiders and complain how there are spiders there?
Faggot

>>712902989
I think it had its transparent section facing towards the camera, and you're seeing a top down view of it.

>>712904337
Absolute kino.

>>712908430
Fish have feelings and feel pain.

>>712896998
This dude was definitely a bad call.
Reapers and Ghost leviathans are kino.
This guy is lame. Especially for the hellzone that his area is.

>>712897374
That one is sick.

>>712911159
For real. If you want a fish friend, get a Blood Parrot. They are super cool little dudes that love to hang out with you.

its funny that the lamest leviathan to date is probably the most accurate to real life fish

>>712897767
Everyone knows its the squid.

>>712910621
because back then I didn't know I feel so uneasy in marine enviroment umu

>>712897638
I don't see the problem

>>712892668 (OP)
This is one of those rare games that makes you wish you could go back and experience it for the first time again. Nothing like it

>>712896050
Go outside.

>>712911827
>looks literally nothing like the leviathan and has functioning limbs instead of a retarded claw machine contraption on it's ugly ass face
What did he mean by this

>>712911595
Based dookdook appreciator.

>>712909325
>when you swim in seas or lakes you are swimming in fish cum and piss and shit
I have worse news. When you swim in public places you swim in human cum and piss and shit

>>712903968
What a stupid fucking creature. Look at its big googly eyes and stupid fucking face protrusions. And it swims so stupidly. Whoever designed this creature is woke and retarded

>Mod that adds cool body horror
>Also there's just a bunch of annoying ass loud screams for no reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpQ_7QFWIRs
Fucked up, this actually, visually, looks rad as hell.

>>712896050
It's because of the jumpscare grab on top of the roar. When that thing grabs the ship and you're forced to stare into the eyes and giant mouth of sharp teeth. Look at the expression on the reaper-- it's angry, hateful, and WAY bigger than you are.

The reaper is still the best designed subnautica creature

>>712904173
It doesn't kill you, the vibrations just shut your body down and you sink to your death while being aware of it happening :)

>>712903730
Cute

>>712896998
This guy genuinly sucks ass.
Literally looks like some wow mob. Can't believe they never went back and at least changed his human arms.

>tell cuddlefish to go home
>he dissappears forever
What the fuck?

>>712912417
kek, still creepy but I like that

>>712912360
>It doesn't kill you
>just shut your body down and you sink to your death while being aware of it happening
That's true for most kinds of death, retard
By that logic, guns don't kill you either
They just shut down your body, making you to bleed out while you're fully aware of it

>>712913000
>making you to bleed out while you're fully aware of it
Except when it knocks you out before that happens

>>712907413
Jews will bring pajeets with humanity to space. Jews will make sure niggers and jeets are there even if you run to every corner of the galaxy.

>>712913057
>Except when it knocks you out
What knocks you out? A bullet wound? Bleeding? If you're blacking out because of low blood pressure, that's already death

>>712896998
literally a Pacific Rim's "Slattern" knockoff

>>712914143
I like these guys.

>>712912656
|3

>>712914102
>If you're blacking out because of low blood pressure, that's already death
If the bullet hits you in your spine or close enough to it, it will already knock you out.
Or if your lung is collapsing, which will knock you out long before the blood loss, but because of the lack of oxygen.

>>712912656
She cute.

>>712912656
seggs?

>>712914593
>>712914694

>>712896998
Me when one clips through the cave floor and fireballs me to death on my hardcore run

>>712902492
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iva_RuMiiDo

>>712904638
>these are sea angels
>they're entire existence is based around eating sea butterflies (tiny snails)
Cute and neat

>>712897638
La Creatura...

>>712892668 (OP)
How would you design them to be not stupid?

>>712908498
Like a kaiju, remove its roars and they stop being scary. Nobody runs away from Godzilla if he's silent.

>>712914825
Sexo

>>712905134
There are jellyfish in Below Zero and I never see anyone praising them for being frightening eldritch monsters that are the peak of scary alien design.

>>712914346
Yeah, and? What's your point? Some things can knock you out before you die. So what? As I said, a gunshot or knife wound can and probably will leave you conscious until you bleed out. Does that mean guns and knives don't kill you? Because that's exactly what that post said
>it doesn't kill you
>you just die fully aware of it killing you
Why engage in an argument if the original post just doesn't make sense?

>>712897547
There is a giant shrimp monster with black soulless eyes in Below Zero.

>>712892668 (OP)
trying too hard to make things that don't closely resemble real animals

>>712915559
To be fair. Nobody praises anything in below zero.

>>712912656
For the people wanting to fuck it: that's not an eye, it's the siphon

>>712915692
I like the modular base building cube things. They were good enough for them to back-port them to Subnautica.

>>712897374
GASHUNK

>>712897824
>why do they roar underwater?
Godzilla does that all the time but I never see you people lose your shit and cry like babies about it.

>>712899270
Electroreception is actually a low-priority sense in great whites and related sharks like the mako. And they don't slam their snouts into things, their skeletons are made of cartilage and there's still sensory organs they don't want damaged. Real sharks are not like Jaws.

>>712915627
My fucking god
Abosolute sexo

>>712912656
Splacoom thread?

>>712915685
I have no way of describing this other than a drawing that's alive

>>712904162
That's Doctor Fin, a world-class sturgeon.

>>712902168
Whoah didn't realise the tentacles could light up like that. Which squid?

>>712916521
>anon learns about microscopic animals
They're just fucking retarded insects who are also very small

>>712916686
I laughed
The bottom one should be pitch black too
All the funny stuff happens deep below

>>712916717
I know about microscopic animals, this one just looks and moves in a completely unnatural way
Tardigrades don't creep me out like this

>>712902782
I think that's actually ink that it spits, not it being torn apart.

>>712897824
life is pain bros..

>>712911595
>>712911680
>>712911916
>everyone sucks the dick of the sound designer
>all he did with these guys is steal the MUTO sounds from Godzilla 2014

>>712917358
>all he did was a good job
am i supposed to be mad?

>>712907784
>let's just shine a bright light at something that can see in ultra-low light environments
That fish is now completely blind. Why are these scientists such assholes?

>>712915276
They run cause they see a big monster destroying shit, not it's roar.

>>712903062
how much EXP does that final fantasy creature give

>>712917538
People who do good jobs don't steal things.

>>712917746
So why have anything make noise if making noise isn't scary?

>>712917774
seems like the thing he stole produced a good result, so again: am I supposed to be mad?

>>712915276
Nah. remove the roar and you still have lizard the size of a skyscraper that shoots nuclear lazer out of his mouth. lizards are scary men

>>712910434
>you might laugh all you want
Indeed

>>712892668 (OP)
>I wonder what happens if you just go into one direction without stopping haha
Never again, I want to see some kind of floor beneath me.

>>712904337
>gaben stepped on the ice

>>712904478
I WONDER WHERE
IT'S WEAKSPOT IS

>>712917857
For cinematic reasons, yes he would be roaring, but in reality humans would just run regardless of Godzilla making any sounds if they saw it coming in and destroying stuff. You don't need to hear a threat to know a threat. It wasn't the lion's roar that made humans fear it because it doesn't roar at you when it attacks you as with all predators. The last thing they wanna do is tip off their prey they're coming in with a big loud noise. The roar is used most times in warning others to not mess with it.

Hey can someone get this freak outta my house?

deep ocean threads are the best

>>712902350
>>712902042
>>712902168
Why don't we get these deep sea footages anymore? What the fuck happened? These are a decade old now.
Where's our sense of wonder and mystery?

>>712917774
>People who do good jobs don't steal things
Loling and lmaoing right now as we speak
The famous tranny enabler toby fox who's supposedly a musician stole all his fucking music lmao
And many consider his work good!

>>712918449
Obsessed

>>712919114
Many people consider having their balls kicked repeatedly to be good, that doesn't make it good.

>>712901781
>those weird "claws" make no fucking sense
it's a videogame you fucking virgin try to live a little

>>712919084
They do. They still release deep sea footage of stuff. They found a juvenile colossal squid and it was made news.

>>712919020
It's the same fucking pick octopus in every single one of them

>>712919220
>I now shall grant the title of good myself
ngmi

>>712919084
We do. I follow a couple of the people who do deep ocean research and they post stuff at least weekly.
Its just the internet is kind of a shittier place now, too preoccupied with other stuff to spread around cool deep ocean discoveries.

>>712902350
>why'd they put a watermark over what they're focusing on
>oh
Nature is wild

Subnautica is still the scariest game I've played and it's not even close. Real horror games have way less impact and are way more pleasant gameplay experiences. Not only because of the environments other horror games have, but also because other horror games tend to not have survival crafting.

>>712903405
mmmm berri xDDD

>>712919567
>>712919245
Well fuck, i guess I should start following National Geographic again if that still even exists today.

>>712918875
Is that the red plague mod?

>>712920096
Yes and it's very all over the place with quality.
The creature designs are rad as hell, like peepers reversing themselves to use their tails as mouths, and bladderfish just being giant red scabs, but the sounds are just awful with "MAN RUN IN AND HE FUNNI SCREAM" being most of the audio.
The dude in the first picture looks cool as hell and can actually spooky you when he comes in your base, but if you go up to him all he does is get in your face with his dumb skeleton skull and vanish.

I don't even want to talk about the retard in the reactor room, good lord this thing is awful.

Every couple years a low effort horror game is released that everyone has to play. SCP:CB, Slenderman, FNaF, Subnautica, Amnesia. But I've noticed that these types of games are getting price tags they don't deserve and meaningless sequels.

>>712904227
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViVi6vbXyWc

>>712920414
Subnautica is neither low effort nor a horror game.

>>712892668 (OP)
it's funny because the designer of these creatures also made the birrin project which are among the best designed aliens in sci fi
i think it's just a lesson to never hire deviantart artists, as good as they may seem, cause they don't give a fuck outside of their own autistic projects

>>712920867
lmao

The sea is ok

>>712892668 (OP)
It doesn't look stupid when it's obscured by the ocean or darkness at it is pants shittingly horrifying when chasing you.
>>712897638
At least he doesn't talk.

>>712920867
>nor a horror game
Which seems to be what pissed off a lot of people, going by everyone crying about there not being Cthulhu-style eldritch horrors or multi-tentacled krakens and misshaped leviathans, to the point people made that retarded plague mod and a cosmic horror mod that adds the Bloop, giant eldritch shellfish squids, and a planet-sized kraken in the abyss.

>>712898858
Luv me sharks

>>712921307
You're a hundred years too early to challenge me, sharkboya

>>712920414
>SCP:CB
>price tag it doesn't deserve
Yeah, they should charge money for it. It's very good.

>>712914143
>Literally named a "dirty, untidy woman"
What did they mean by this?

>>712912656
With the way it looks, it's venomous enough to kill you just by being in the same room with it.

>>712921000
Don't listen to the murder dolphin.
It might say it loves you, but its a trick to eat your delicious liver.

Although I'm pretty sure as a species they made the decision not to eat humans because they saw what we did to other animals that fuck with them. No recorded Orca attacks on a human being in recorded history? Not likely unless they made a choice to do that. They're definitely smart enough for it

>>712921637
Good indie games were released for free back then. It's crazy how good we had it.

>>712921672
Fish smell.

>>712892668 (OP)
I remember finally building the submarine and able to go further into the depths where it was pitch black and it was just these guys bashing into my sub. I was also crashing into the terrain because I couldn't see shit. I had no clue what I was doing or going so I quit playing because I was too scared.

>>712921787
There are recorded attacks, but they were all in captivity when the animals had gone insane from boredom and isolation.
In essence, orcas are people and people are orcas.

>>712921898
Fish? Tits? Fish with tits?

>>712922040
The key to playing Subnautica is to build the Prawn suit and drill everything to death

You wouldn't a reaper

>>712892668 (OP)
Cause they went for some retarded cartoon artstyle

>>712922565
Would I?!?

>>712922495
It's the key but it also trivializes everything to the point where there's no more tension which is unfortunate.
Still worth it for leviathan rodeo fun.

We gave up natural selection 3 for this shit

>>712892668 (OP)
Well at least you have something in common with them

>>712922495
I found the prawn suit to be disappointing. It's slow as shit and you can't use the verticality of an underwater game.

>>712923304
>It's slow as shit
You're using it wrong

>>712916707
Not sure, but I think it's a vampire squid.

>>712923304
>It's slow as shit
Grappling hook is your friend

>>712899617
>it doesn't look like a cartoon
yes it does, just an unsettling one

>>712923304
>It's slow as shit
Grapple arm turns it into the fastest vehicle in the game, it's not fast at climbing but you can drag yourself along the ground to zip around the map like a maniac.

>>712924718
>the fuck dude, that's my eye

>>712924718
Why do none of them attack the diver?

>>712925969
They're not monsters.

>>712925969
Because he's wearing armor and armor hurts teeth

>>712925969
Because they have no reason to. Sharks aren't pitbulls.

>>712926547
Cute!

>>712908683
I mean, the Xenomorph isn't an animal, it was purposefully manufactured by sentient beings to essentially be a killer hornet that can wipe out planets. Makes sense than a human would design them to like human.

>>712926547
What is the pitbull if sharks?

>>712927457
>the Xenomorph [...] was purposefully manufactured by sentient beings to essentially be a killer hornet that can wipe out planets
wow, good thing costume designers in 1979 knew that

>>712927858
Bull sharks

>>712927858
The bull shark, and to the lesser extent the tiger shark, which will eat anything and everything it comes across, organic or not.

>>712897374
BZ's creature design is actually dismal.

>>712892668 (OP)
i started a new playthrough the other day. I wish there was a better way to map the area in game. Scanners kind of suck and I end up needing to use a wiki to find the good wrecks without spending 20 hours exploring.

>>712896050
They're not even scary because you can easily dodge their attacks if they even do attack you in the first place.

>>712929895
>spending 20 hours exploring
thats what the game is about

>>712896050
the first one I ran into was going behind the boosters on the aurora. I thought it was pretty scary being chased by them a few times, though they really are easy to dodge and you shake them easily. Maybe if they had actually designed a way to kill them in a few shots they would be more interesting. I think you're supposed to be a tree hugging biologist so it does make sense u have all the stasis tools instead.

Probably the worst thing about leviathans is that the places full of them (dunes, crag areas) are mostly empty. None of the wrecks out there are really necessary, go get schematics from grand reef and blood kelp zones instead. When the meta play is to just avoid the 'end game' areas it's boring. Cyclops being a pain to drive doesn't help either.

>>712929895
>I want something but don't want to go through the effort
Got it. You didn't beat the game btw.

>>712910215
But I have to go into their territory and there's no good way to do that peacefully.

Fuck off and let me KILL you whiny little bitch developers.

>>712930860
i did my first playthrough fully blind until the end. It doesn't feel the same the 2nd time around. This time I consoled in whatever I wanted and the game felt smooth. The sequel needs to add ways to farm those shitty rocks autonomously.

>>712910434
playing subnautica makes me thirsty every time.

>>712917774
agreed. only lazy people do that

>>712892668 (OP)
it would be too scary otherwise

>>712922565
That's just a Wraith Queen, but red with a tail.

Stargate Atlantis.

I've only played this game in VR mode

>>712930995
>This time I consoled in whatever I wanted and the game felt smooth.

>>712929895
just have an interactive map open on your second monitor at all times if you have already finished the game before

>>712899270
>has a shitload of sensory receptors
>on the same body part that's used to ram into stuff
Sounds like a badly designed monster to me

>>712921446
He already won. That bite was an insult.

>>712929895
If you've already beaten the game and just want to get some of the early stuff done, there's a mod that adds a map to the pda.
And while you're at it, might as well add the "craft from storage" mod if it still works. The most quality of life addition to any survival game

>>712902350
>Take the shape it's starts off as
>Put it on a textured mono-color background
>Vaguely cool noun title
Bam! Instant '90s shooter box art. Somebody shop it.

>>712930493
Justification for lack of weapons is that Alterra, company you work for and all the tech comes from, have had incidences of survivors killing each other or colonies massacring themselves, so they only let you have a knife.
Its flimsy but fits into the corporate dystopia vibe.

The people who claim that there aren't any weapons because of socjus shit are only partially right. They weren't going to add them originally but at least one of the creators made it a virtue signal point about it on twatter.

>>712896998
That's some DeviantArt shit

>>712930995
If you're settling in the grand reef or deeper areas the prawn suit can net you hundreds of materials an hour. I wish drilling was faster, but its hardly a problem. Its only when you're hugging the surface that materials are any issue, and you can still load your prawn into the cyclops and go deep and bring stuff back up.

>>712905970
i'll give you the benefit of the doubt and call you out for baiting instead of being an actual brainlet

>>712897374
One of if not the worst leviathans. DONUT COLDSTEEL ass design.

>short/stocky
>blackish/red
>neon blue maw XDD
>teeth/rib cage/feet
>fits like shit in the zone its in
>too rare

It has zero redeemable features.

the chelicerates are cool, they're like giant prawns

>>712935876
Its supposed to resemble the land worms they added because they like doing spec evo stuff.
But the ice worms are shit, so it doesn't help the case much.

>>712902989
The sub or whatever engaged reverse drive and some propeller pushed water away relativly strongly. That thing is like 99.9% water and some gelatin so that strong a current/pressure ripped it apart.

>>712892668 (OP)
sea creatures usually look stupid though

>>712922040
You must have gone off the edge of the map, which is the underwater volcano. It automatically spawns two leviathan reapers that hound the player. I remember being chased by them when i was trying to dwim into the open sea with my seaglide

>>712927457
But the origin of the Xenomorph was never explored or explained. Alien 4 was the last Alien movie and that's it.
So fuck off with whatever headcanon you are hallucinating.

>>712897638
>we want the BRINK™ (2011) audience

>>712936775
Not to mention that the game explicitly tells you that it's dangerous there

>>712911776
>I don't see the problem

>>712897638
I was looking forward to this game back when it was in early access, but when they revealed both the main character and their commitment to their own anti-gun politics I completely gave up on it.
I've been lamenting what this game could have been for years now. Leftists ruin everything.

>>712929895
You can really spot 90% of the wrecks with seaglide and the emergency bladder. Which makes diving 100-150 meters completely safe. Then mark them with beacons for the deeper stuff. At least that is ehat i did for an iron man save with the increased requirements mod that rises blueprint pieces to six to dven start makin anything

>>712937109
Wow, it took the
>LE GAME WOULD HAVE BEEN LE BETTER IF IT HAD LE GUNS
to almost the end of the thread to appear.

Congrats on your restraint, but you're still a fucking retard.

>>712929895
The top of the volcano is so small, like two kilometers diameter at most. You really do not need any map unless you are one of those freaks that get lost in their own house

>>712937423
It's really easy to get turned around in the dark.

Hopes for the actual sequel sequel?
Its supposed to hit EA this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS0vTRl_2PQ

They're planning on full multiplayer this time, since its been requested forever. But otherwise have been pretty cagey on details besides that its not on 4546B, but is underwater.
After what happened with Below Zero I'm going to hold off on it longer.

>>712937628
probably gonna co-op it with my friend since subnautica is one of the only games he plays

>>712937628
I'm sure I'll enjoy it, I just hope it's good.

>>712919084
The internet is not for knowledge-seeking humans anymore. We have to wade through billions of worthless retards talking about the literal poop they ate for breakfast now.

>>712937628
>EA
>again
Fuck's sake

>>712929895
Using the seamoth I take all the materials needed for a multipurpose room, bio reactor, a scanner room and have 4 scan distance chips then just build to find wrecks, rip it all down and move on to a new area to repeat. It's tedious but it's the only reliable in game way to do it that doesn't take days out of your life

>>712915928
>And they don't slam their snouts into things
They do just by existing. Its not an intentional hunting method but when you're a 30 mph missile shooting at a seal with your eyes closed sometimes you're going to be off the mark. The shark is the balance point between enough sensory toolkit (including smell) to find prey and being tough enough that you don't stun yourself and lose it half the time.
And even then it's still a valid option to bop the fucker in the nose.
>>712934148
That's because it's not a monster and evolution is a constant game of opportunity costs. You can't be best at everything but that sharks have existed as long as they have as relatively unchanged as they have shows that they're very well optimized for the open ocean.

>>712921068
There really is no proper deep-sea horror game.

My guess is that it's genuinely too scary to develop properly without making something gayer for the sake of levity.

>>712937802
Even BZ I didn't HATE. It was just very disappointing given how much I loved the original.

>>712937847
EA for this type of game seems to work. If they do it like Grounded did, where the core gameplay is all there, and they add stuff every few months in EA, like a new area or tweak this and that, it'll be fine. I think thats pretty likely since I don't see them overhauling engine or mechanics at this point.

>>712937628
I hope they don't make another Below Zero, even die hard fans disliked that game and the changes they made. I also don't want them to focus on the multiplayer aspect of the game, let multiplayer exist but stick to the single player feel the first game had

>>712892668 (OP)
Because it was made by trannies
>What if le fish butt...
>Le difference! :D:D:D:D:D:D

>>712906324
is she stupid?
why doesn't she swim/

>>712925969
Because of the armor.
Fuck everyone trying to humanize and emotionalize A FUCKING SHARK

S
H
A
R
K

THE ORIGINAL EMOTIONLESS KILLER
THESE MOTHERFUCKERS MAKE PITBULL OWNERS LOOK LIKE EINSTEIN

I remember the craziest conspiracy theory I ever had was there's a group of humans that didn't evolve on the land and they live under brine pools and the pressure from oceans is a weapon meant to keep people away from them

>>712938197
They did a Q&A video a few weeks ago
Seems like the way they're approaching multiplayer is building the game for single player first, and then just tacking the ability to play with other people on, at least if you read between the lines. They were very insistent that you could still play it single player.
Which makes sense, really. Because Subnautica has basically no combat there's not a lot to balance there. You're just giving yourself twice the resources and inventory, effectively. They just have to figure out how to balance story moments. Basically make a choice if all players have to be present or if only one can trigger it, or if story changes effect all players etc.

I should double check but I DO think they mentioned doing a silent protagonist again. Which is at least half the problem with BZ. The smaller map being the other big problem. I /think/ they mentioned they're scrapping the truck, but also the seamoth and not brining back the cyclops. All new vehicles.

>>712938565
retard
animals don't do shit for no reason
sorry that people don't randomly exterminate species and destroy food chains any more

>>712937319
>Ruining a game for your gun control politics is not just good, anyone who disagrees is stupid

Fuck you, you worthless bootlicking nigger sub-human trash. FUCK YOU

FUCK YOU

FUCK YOU

FUCK YOU

FUCK YOU

F
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K

Y
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>>712911584
I was about to say something about sodium content but any oceanic life is probably used to eating that much salt.

>>712938620
the game needs fun little underwater things to build that will farm for you. The best thing about a 2nd player is how much faster you farm. I wish there was something I could build to process everything that gets picked up by the gravity balls. Let me attach one to an automated seaglide and vacuum up all the shit in an area slowly like a roomba.

>>712904173
All whale vocalizations could kill you at full blast, same thing with submarine sonar
shit's meant to push through the water for miles and miles, its just pure vibration at a certain point

>>712938620
Here's the Q&A btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbvNYN76ArQ
>>712938620
>>712938197
>>712937628

>>712938920
It's a proven fact that giving players weapons in video games in moments of horror completely removes all senses of fear and dread a player might have and are instead filled with hope and determination, often times panic usually related to not knowing how to effectively deal with the threat given the weapon they have

No guns is what people want, if you want to shoot things with guns go play call of the wild

>>712939004
I'd settle for self harvesting planters and leave the mineral mining as is.

But based on what they've been teasing, I have suspicion that wherever they're setting 2 its going to be a Precursor homeworld, so we might be seeing some really cool tech.

>>712939260
>No guns is what people want
No, people want limited use spear guns that increase tension because you have one shot or you get assraped
No guns turns it into a hide and seek simulator
Plentiful guns turns it into a spooky FPS
Limited guns makes it survival horror

>>712939320
well the survival crafting space has evolved. Especially since palworld and satisfactory we're seeing stuff blend together a lot more.

>>712939754
>>712939260
Subnautica was never designed as a horror game. Devs were always surprised that people treat it that way. Sound designer leaned into it in the first game, but the rest of the team never did.

>>712939754
guns would cheapen the original for sure. You don't need them, everythign is harmless. Realizing that is when you start to really have fun.

>>712892668 (OP)
because they chose to be retarded

>>712940135
It was also never designed as a shoot'em up either

Imagine subnautica but it was made by the Dark Souls art team.

>>712939754
it has limited guns like the statis rifle and propulsion cannon as well as acid rounds, vortex rounds and creature decoys for submersibles
you only turn it into a hide and seek simulator when you refuse to acknowledge or even use/experiment with the mechanics the game gives you

>>712896050
>>712903968
What makes both of these scary is their size and serpentine shape. Literally everyone here would shit themselves if they saw this thing approaching while diving.

>>712942786
I would never go diving, I can't even swim

>>712909013
It's really a strange concept when you step back. If you go up to that giant, maybe they'll reach down and scratch you. And animals just kind of learn that.

>>712943128
Why not, I'd like to try it one day though nowhere too deep.

>>712943128
Go learn how to swim. It's not that hard.

>>712943662
It's just pattern recognition, and they're often being fed by the divers. I don't know if they actually receive pleasure from petting or if it evokes a response similar to getting parasites removed by cleaner fish, but they probably do understand that they can get easy meals for putting up with that weird looking seal.

>>712937109
The lack of guns was clearly meant to be a comment on living in a megacorpo hellscape that charges you to survive in the wilderness while refusing to provide you with the appropriate means to defend yourself despite being a premier creator and supplier of military hardware. But keep schizoing out faggot. That being said im 100% convinced this studio is compromised by these types and the next gane is doomed. They definitely are going to ingore all feedback about what people didnt like in below zero

>>712909296
Thanks for the advice, but Georgia has one too.

>>712945456
At some point late in EA I believe one of the devs took it upon themselves to tweet how Subnautica has no guns "because of gun violence" sometime around Sandy Hook.
Now, the game had no real guns that entire time, and the lines about it being a corporate hellscape and thats why they only give you a knife were already present. So its pretty obvious the guy was taking advantage of the game's design to virtue signaling. But that is why the schizos always turn up and complain about the lack of guns in every thread.

>They definitely are going to ingore all feedback about what people didnt like in below zero
Well the first good sign is that they are doing a silent protagonist again like the first game. That alone should hold them back from most of that sort of stuff, at least I'm hoping it will. There's always stuff like the PDA lines to shove shit in with.

>>712919084
Nigger i'm sure that deep sea footage YT channel is still around and uploading shit

>>712946704
>hard R
You are probably white and 15

>>712899932
>even if reality is often stranger than fiction
truth, saw one of these things in the countryside in the greenhouse for the first time in my life, didn't even know they existed, fucker was huge and looked like something out of starship troopers

>>712946704
OceanX is still around and posts footage from expeditions pretty frequently.

>>712938104
>bad creature design is good because it's... LE OLD!!!

>>712896101


For me the most mysterious and interesting part of the game was the area outside the map. I would really love a game like subnautica with more this type of tone. I'd love it if the epipelagic zone was much brighter and had smaller and less intimidating creatures and as you approach the demersal dwellers, light becomes really scarce (little bits of sunlight and mostly bioluminescent creatures and your own sub's light) and the creatures start looking truly horrific and alien. Very little music, mostly swimming slowly, just gradually approaching you...

I also think the monsters are too small. I want bigger fish - WAAAAY bigger, like the size of an island.

>>712942786
I could see how half-crazed sailors back in the day could see one of those just below the surface, and conclude that sea serpents are a thing.

>>712943675
I like how when you go to the Cosmic Realm in the newest Doom game, a giant version of one of those slowly floats by in the skybox. I was like "somebody's seen that oil rig video".

>>712896998
It's based off of the Leviathan's description from the Bible.
Primarily from the description in Hebrew texts, the book of Job, and the Beast from the Book of Revelation, which is described as looking like the Leviathan, but more serpent-like and with 6 heads. I mean, in the book of Isaiah the Leviathan is described as "the dragon of the sea".
That's also why it's the deepest leviathan (naturally) and why it avoids human contact. And why there's so few of them.
It is still kinda goofy though, I can't explain away some of the goofiness.

>>712950895
Those don't even remotely look similar, the fuck are you on about?
The tails aren't tentacles, it has fins instead of arms, it has SEVERAL FUCKING HEADS, the entire head shape is wrong, spikes instead of fins, only one set of eyes...it goes on, just take on your fucking meds.

>>712951654
The Bible doesn't have pictures, for one, I just thought it would be an interesting thing to post because imageboard. For two, it is based off of it, but it's not trying to be it very accurately. I guess a more accurate description is the inspiration for the Sea Dragon is from the Leviathan in Job. The Bible does describe several sets of eyes, plates like shields, spines, etc.

>>712939260
>It's a proven fact
source?
Because every "horror" game I play is just looney tunes/scooby doo with a spooky soundtrack due to the way hiding mechanics and running around tables works

>>712944204
>I don't know if they actually receive pleasure from petting
IDK for fish, but for almost all mammals the answer is yes
It's also enjoyed by land reptiles so extending it to fish isn't a stretch

>>712896050
>I genuinely think it's because they didin't want the game to be too scary
Bull fucking shit, they made the ocean so accurate that people with legit fears of it have been using this game for years now in their therapy sessions

>>712892668 (OP)
but that looks cool?

>>712899783
>big googly eyes
Nigger look up big ass shark eyes. They aren't completely black like that, but they obviously did it that way because all black is "alien"

>>712938104
>You can't be best at everything but that sharks have existed as long as they have as [...]
Yeah and the seas dragon is bad a propulsion but good at grabbing food, theres a reason they existed as long as they have

>>712926547
God I wish we killed as many pitbulls as we do sharks.

Why did they make the second games protagonist look like this?

>>712892668 (OP)
Are there any other indepth underwater games like this? The only one I can think of is Dave the Diver.

>>712946557
>Well the first good sign is that they are doing a silent protagonist again like the first game.
Ah fuck that's great. Having an asshole SOMETIMES TWO ASSHOLES constantly commentating and telling me where to go while I'm trying to immerse myself was the thing I hated the most about BZ.

>>712946704
Name that channel my nigger

>>712925969
because it's cgi

>>712898034
>t. Measurehead

>>712955842
Convince the chinese that pit bull livers are an aphrodisiac and they'll be endangered in no time

>>712898321
I always fill the escape shuttle with rubys and diamonds to pay off the space jew.
The game does warn you the first time you pick up a diamond that you are on the hook for any potential materials you've picked up.

>>712949121
Royal Ludroth

>>712892668 (OP)
It's just natural for fish to look stupid

I fucking love subnautica. It's really a shame nobody else has tried to do an underwater game. There's so much potential

>>712964871
Truly a shame

I really liked the concept of Subnautica but got super unlucky I guess and never got the plans for any vehicle other than the handheld propeller thing.
Did the cruise ship and found the alien base and an island but without any vehicles couldn't dive very deep and eventually quit.

>>712967542
Just keep looking. Seamoth parts should continually spawn in the red grass area. They respawn even after you get it, so you'll never run out or miss something.

>>712967667
That was years ago; I don't even have it installed anymore.
At the time they did not respawn; I looked it up. They were randomly distributed among wrecks and if you were unlucky you could just fail to get all the parts unless you checked literally every wreck in the zone.
They later fixed it.

>>712896050
>>712892668 (OP)
Thought I was the only one that hated how reaper leviathan looks.
Shit looks goofy as fuck.
The people hyping it up must be a bunch of trannies as always. Trannies are the jews of cringe shit. They are always behind it.

>>712899783
This

>>712939260
>completely removes all senses of fear and dread a player might have
You mean like the exact effect of the stasis rifle they put in the game instead, that completely immobilizes an enemy? Yeah, game was absolutely terrifying.

>>712938565
>Browns get access to the internet in quantities never before seen
>Frequency of these kinds of retarded posts increases 1000x
Hmm. Thinking. Noticing.

The scariest games are the ones that you can fight back in because you realize that they're stronger than you could ever be. Keeping weapons and guns away from the player makes them think "if only I hade a weapon I could win". Take that away from them, show them they're powerless.