WHY THE FUCK CAN'T WE GET A GOOD LOVECRAFTIAN RPG VIDEO GAME THAT ISN'T A LAME ASS POINT AND CLICK ADVENTURE STORY GAME OR A HIDE AND RUN AWAY FROM THE SPOOKY MONSTER STEALTH SIMULATOR??

oh my godderinos!!!!
is that a tentacle monsterino in the skyrino help me niggerino the caterino my mental illnessino is making ino ino!

Ino.

>>714328705 (OP)
because everyone that makes anything with his ip hates him and spends 3 pages crying about how lovecraft was evil and putting nogs in his work and undermining him
how the fuck could they ever make anything good when they don't respect the work and continually try to change it?

>>714328846
>anime slop
Yuck

>>714328705 (OP)
Lovecraft is just an aesthetic and nothing else, the people that hype this shit are too dumb to read proper literature

>>714328894
worse, tranime low effort paint tier drawing that was shat by some talentless deviant sick fuck who fantasizes weird shit. lowest of the low

>>714328705 (OP)
Like a CRPG? Or a fucking Match 3 game where you have to match cultist signs before the Madness overtakes you?

What are you expecting OP?

>>714329137
Sounds like someone is mad that their weg didn't get a million bucks on patreon

bloodborne

>>714329356
i don't play wegs since i'm not a clump of fecal matter shaped in humanoid form like yourself, would never give a single cent to them nor make one, disgusting animals

Also there's blood borne and World of Horror is kino fuck off Op

Alone in the Dark is probably the best adaptation of Lovecraft stuff, as someone that read almost all his stories
It's a pretty mid game though

NIGGERMAN

>>714330740
>World of Horror
That game is great except for the fact that it's unfinished.

Also Infra Arcana is a great lovecraftian roguelike rpg except for the fact that the game is a cheap nigger faggot and needs better rebalancing

Defender of Boston (Abandoned dosware) is the closest we'll ever get to a good mysterious Lovecraft inspired RPG. It also feels very delta green inspired too

>>714330740
I wanna Fallout style Lovecraft game (Stygian Reign of the Old Ones could have fit this description and could have been great if the game was actually finished and didn't get left in a short beta early access kind of state)

>>714328846
You're not supposed to know it has anything to do with Lovecraft until it happens.

>>714328705 (OP)
What else is there? Shoot the monsters you can't kill?

>>714328705 (OP)
By Lovecraftian, do you mean a game that makes you feel like mankind is insignificant? Lovecraft's works are not about that, but that's what people say Lovecraftian means. The problem with making a game like that is games are all about winning and losing, and you're basically asking someone to make a game you can't win. Why? That's stupid. Unless you play as the eldritch horrors. However, if someone makes a game like that, you'll say it isn't actually horror it's just a monster wankfest because you're not supposed to empathize with the monsters or even be able to perceive them (literally every monster in Lovecraft's stories is described).

If you want a game that plays out like a Lovecraft story, like how people like you describe his stories, it'd be a game where you run around and realize the world is ran by fourth dimensional aliens you can't do anything about (ignore all the stories where people shoot aliens and ram Cthulhu with their boat). How is that a game? First of all, it'd be super short, and the conclusion won't be shocking because you were waiting for it the entire time. Second of all, how do you want it to not be an action game, but now you're complaining about point-and-click games or games where you hide from monsters? What the fuck do you want to do?

You don't want to fight monsters, you don't want to run from them, you don't want to just read about them, what DO you want to do, anon?

Do you even know what Lovecraft's stories are like?

>>714332281
>Lovecraft's works are not about that
What are they about then?

>>714328705 (OP)
Darkest Dungeon

>>714332281
I want an rpg that uses the lore and world along wjth the 1920 aesthetic and plays like Delta Green or CoC. It's not so much that I want lovecraftian in the terms of the themes because there are already 100s of those. I just want an rpg in the setting

>>714332431
>The Outsider has the MC crawl out of a tomb and see a congregation flee in terror, only to realize they were fleeing from himself because he's a ghoulish vampire thing
>Rats in the Walls is about a character inheriting a castle but being haunted by nightmares of something grotesque being buried underneath it, causing him to dig up catacombs that reveal his ancestors' savage, pagan history, turning him into a raving lunatic
>Shadow Over Innsmouth is about a guy afraid to pass through a village of hicks and his worries are confirmed when he discovers they're all crossbred with fish people, so he flees in terror, but the story concludes with him remembering his own family tree
>Shadow Out of Time is about a guy who dreams from inside the mind of an alien species and he goes to Australia to find the location from his dreams exists for real but it's ancient and rundown
...what do you think these stories are about, anon?

>>714332620
Like an RPG where you play as a warlock?

>>714331093
I mean, I don't know if you can call it's main themes "lovecraftian" but CDDA literally has Migos and Junji Ito stuff in it too

>>714333316
>lovecraftian is actually about the horror of discovering your great grandfather fucked a nigger
based desu, nothing could be worse

>>714332281
Lovecraftian = cosmic horror my guy, and lovecraft also dabbled with a lot of detective and science fiction. Lovecraft was more than
>Is that an alien? I'm going insane!!!!!!
But was more about focusing on the horror of derealization through some kind of hidden information being revealed to characters that leads to derealization

Bloodborne and Dead Space to me are the perfect games with Lovecraftian themed elements from the enemies to the tone. Which sucks because its all untapped potential but most go far in one direction, either by making the horror elements too generic and grosteque or too easy to kill. Even /v/ doesn't understand Lovecraft they just think its all tentacles and ayys.

>Doesn't play the game based off of one of lovecrafts best stories
Also bloodborne if it hasn't been said enough.

>>714332281
Plenty of genres have room for finding lore, being overpowered by enemies, and gradual PC corruption

>>714328705 (OP)
why is there a rat that's close to vomiting on Mr. Lovecrafts head?

>>714333638
>your great-great-great-great grandfather might have been a goddess worshipping savage that probably sacrificed humans
Would be more accurate. Howard was excited by the archeologic and anthropological implications of his era, Lovecraft was horrified.

>>714333316
Amnesiac protags remembering their unusual past is already a common game plot

>>714334854
Ah, by your comment from >>714333316 I assumed you were gunning for the conventional angle that all his stories were about the consequences of racemixing, and was leaning into it.

>>714328705 (OP)
The fuck you want, epic doom eternal style battles with elder gods?

>>714334129
>>714335012
It's never gradual and you guys already know what the realization is going to be. There's a reason he wrote short stories. Also, what does this have to do with gameplay? This is a game, right?

>>714335198
I'm not that anon. I think his stories are about both.

>>714335237
More like Deus Ex or fallout but in 1920s Lovecraft country. Not dark souls slop or diablo 2 bombastic magic fantasy overdose

>>714336032
>1920s Lovecraft country
Lovecraft's stories just take place in the normal world and at the end something weird happens.

>>714328705 (OP)
>Real lovecraftian hipster bait has never been tried
Don't worry faggot I'm sure there's another dozen of them coming out this year. Maybe one of them will finally do it for you.

>>714328705 (OP)
Forgive me Father has some good Lovecraftian RPGs in it. They shoot fish and even have some tentacles on them.

>>714333316
Don't forget about the one where a man finds out that his father (or was it grandfather) fucked a mummy. Or Dunwich horror about a woman who fucked an eldritch being and had 2 monstrous sons, one of which was only vaguely human and the other was a gigantic monster the townsfolk had to kill when he was rampaging through the area. Something about cursed bloodlines comes up a lot with Lovecrafts works. Given his own family was seemingly cursed with bouts of madness, I guess he was writing from experience.

>>714336392
>t. retarded faggot who doesn't know how to read the thread

Have zoomers discovered lovecraft or something? Why do I keep hearing about him and his nigger cat now?

>>714328846
>Black Souls but it plays like Astlibra
Would be sick tbqh

>>714336962
I thought Shadow over Innsmouth was inspired by him finding out that he was one-sixteenth Welsh.

>>714332281
there are games where finishing is still losing in the story, like FEAR or hl alyx

>>714338785

It was.

>>714328705 (OP)
We already got one.

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

play shadows over loathing
the whole thing isn't about lovecraft but it's heavily featured
the humor, choice consequences, mechanics and story are all top notch, just like all KOL related games (if you're willing to read and pay attention)

Terraria

>>714328705 (OP)
Lovecraftian horror can only work with a first person perspective in written prose.

>>714329450
Definetly a nerve, ouch

>>714328705 (OP)
Sinking City

>>714340493
>tranny coomer malding
kek

>>714328705 (OP)
Bloodborne.

The game should be about you playing as the eldritch horror

>>714328705 (OP)
Look Outside?

>>714328705 (OP)
>he didn't play Forgive Me Father

I don't know who's stupider, OP making a stealth recommendation thread on one of the easiest to find subjects or the people falling for it and giving him all the recommendations

>>714328705 (OP)
Play Arkham Horror on tabletop simulator you pleb

>>714328705 (OP)
Play modded quake

>>714328808
wasn't he rabidly foaming-at-the-mouth racist?

>>714328705 (OP)
what sort of gameplay? i can't imagine this being good.

make a lovecraftian dating sim. there you go.

>OP never heard of Sinking City

>>714328705 (OP)
BECAUSE LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR DOES NOT WORK IN A VISUAL MEDIUM YOU RETARD

The entire point of it is that it's written, that the unknowable horror is left up your imagination and often beyond your imagination
the minute you put a set visual representation on it, it loses all horror

you tard

>>714345753
Lovecraft himself mocked that whole "omg it is LE INDESCRIBABLE" in The Dunwich Horror. Maybe other stories too, but that's the one that stands out most in my mind.

>>714328705 (OP)
What do you want? Hide and seek seems appropriate since you are not meant to fight back against the monster. It is beyond your comprehension.

>>714345753
>the minute you put a set visual representation on it, it loses all horror
Have you even read Lovecraft? There's still set pieces and concrete visuals to his stories lmao, even when it comes to his horror. Cosmic horror isn't just "everything is indescribable and I'm going crazy" it's, derealization, body horror and xenophobia. All of which still requires visual representation in prose, there's no reason it can't be translated to film.

A lot of people who say that cosmic horror can't be translated into film are people who frankly haven't read a lot of cosmic horror. Especially when have movies like the Thing and True Detective which do the genre pretty well , not to mention we have the world of Junji Ito and Berserk which also uses cosmic horror effectively a lot.

>>714347203
Except you can fight against cosmic horror entities. The Dunwhich Horror ends when a groups of hunters use a spell to banish to it ffs

>>714345572
you mean the card game version right ?
I wish some indie game dev can spin that into a proper video game

>>714347498
Doesn't the US Navy torpedo and depth charge the fuck out of whatever was living off the coast of Innsmouth too?

>>714347935
Yeah, they bombed the shit out of the area and it's implied they put the population of Innsmouth into concentration camps

>>714340493
>You hate gays, you must secretly want to >to fuck man

Finished The Whisperer in Darkness the other day, definitely one of his best.

>>714328705 (OP)
I want dream cycle inspired games, I want a Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath adventure game.

It was already brought up ITT, but Black Souls (2 in particular). Not so much because its cast is picked from Lovecraft's books, but because the horror is well executed. If you play it blind the game will make you paranoid and fear not what you see, but what you're unable to see at that point.

>>714350270
>it's a soulslike

>>714328705 (OP)
Why does everything have to be an RPG, why not an action game or another survival horror like Eternal Darkness?. We don't need yet another 100 hour RPG that wastes your fucking time.

>>714345642
He was only as racist as the times he grew up in. People keep dog piling him for the cat his grandfather named

>>714333378
>literally has Migos
The horror...

>>714351126
Funny how I can fully see that happening. I want to die.

i think this
and works of junji ito (Uzumaki specifically)
are great example of beyond our comprehension
because you only interact with a very very small part of it like spending entire game fighting off some great deity was just some bug for an elder god

>>714328705 (OP)
The problem is that to be accurate to the Lovecraft experience you have to be a dude with paper skin who would get easily killed by basically anything he's going up against. Like people in Lovecraft stories are meant to be normal guys who stand 0 chance against basically anything in the setting, outside of like the dream books but that's not really what most people mean when they are talking about Lovecraftian.
If your a badass ass kicker who can kill giant monsters your missing the point of the setting cause the monsters are supposed to be unimaginable nightmare things that if you get close to it you'll die.

>>714328705 (OP)
Quake?

Bloodborne
Elden Ring

>>714345642
He was but he still treated everyone with polite respect and even married a jewess and had a close friend who was jewish.

>>714328705 (OP)
The darkest dungeon 1 is decent imo
>>714328846
Overrated garbage shilled by a bunch of plebeians

>>714328705 (OP)
I want a lovecraftian horror game but where we play as the monster

>>714328705 (OP)
bloodborne?

>>714356773
>The darkest dungeon 1 is decent imo
you're basically playing a spreadsheet
it's boring slop for the terminally unemployed

>>714328785
That's a funny Rob Schneider impression! I love yoh!

>>714353269
*utterly mogs Junji*

If you stick with concept of there being something, somewhere (or someone, somewhere) that will destroy everything you know and that you cannot stop even if it is possible to fight it in the moment, then all paths lead to a narrative heavy game.
Now sure you can do stuff like Clive Barker's Jericho or Pathways into Darkness or any old shooter but unless the player engages with the story it doesn't really count.
And making people engage with a story is the real difficult part.

>>714328705 (OP)
Vidya
>Picrel
>The Sinking City
>Darkest Dungeon
>Sunless Sea

Non-vidya
>Eldritch Horror
>Arkham Horror
>Elder Sign
and last, but definitely not least, in fact it's probably the best if you have friends
>Call of Cthulhu TTRPG/TRPG

>>714338279
I prefer to read threads with actual grammar that aren't in all-caps and seething about there not being yet another faggy lovecraft game, but that would be too much to expect from you, it seems.

>>714328705 (OP)
>P&C
>Bad
Leave zoomoid

>Shadows of Forbidden Gods: The Horrors Beneath
is great for serious boardgame autists

>>714345753
You are deeply retarded and should stop posting.

>>714345572
>LCG
Miss me with that gay shit

>>714338813
Also Half Life

>>714328705 (OP)
Maybe because people who are inspired by him do their own thing creatively and people who try to copy the pop culture aesthetic of cthulusquid madness cult green vibes ocean lack the true creativity and wit?

>>714362051
Great point

Also best Lovecraftian game (not an RPG obviously) is Quake

Not every story/setting is adaptable for the video game format.
It's that simple.

>>714362172
>There's multiple succesful Lovecraft games

Come on bait harder

guys what if octopus, but from space? AIEEE

>>714340493
everyone thinks you're a subhuman. even your parents

>>714328705 (OP)
Because Lovecrafts stories mostly make for poor videos games, yes dreamquest exists so you can shut the fuck up now, so instead we end up with Derlethian shit like >>714328785 instead

>>714364401
>Lovecrafts stories mostly make for poor videos games
Bad bait, Or just sheer ignorance?

>>714328705 (OP)
here.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/718670/Cultist_Simulator/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1028310/BOOK_OF_HOURS/

>>714328846
Why is black souls so popular in this shithole when it's shit

>>714366129
you have the answer already.

>>714345470
You're an illiterate retard who can't read.

>>714336962
Can't forget Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family

There's this English nobleman who looks like a monkey
Turns out his great-great grandfather was an African explorer who discovered a tribe of white haired ape people and he ended up marrying their queen (but told everyone hia children were just half portugese lmao

>>714366129
The same reason why smth like MGQ was popular back in 10s. Dumb horny teens

Skald:Against the Black Priory is a pretty good lovecraftian CRPG, you're either gonna be split on the game by the end.

>>714328705 (OP)
this. he should be the main character along with a cat sidekick

>>714328705 (OP)
How do you represent the fear of something beyond human comprehension in a visual medium?

Lovecraft type storytelling will never work in games. It is dependant on readers imagination and the ability to scare yourself with your imagination.
This is why some people don't get anything out of reading Lovecraft and some shit their pants. All depends on if you're ready to scare yourself

>>714345642
>>714328808
>>714351462
>>714355346
>Shub-Niggurath
>shut nigger up
based

>this game is inspired by Lovecraft
>yet ANOTHER fucking cthulhu or fish people game

>>714340493
don't you have a bridge do jump off of?

>>714328918
Wrong. It's the philosophical stance that humans are not important. This is obviously difficult to represent in a video game.

Thoughts on this?

>>714328705 (OP)
LOTM was shaping up to be a cool lovecraft story but the chink had to go and ruin it with powerlevel and 90% of the focus revolving around the MC instead of the setting.

>>714366129
They only shill it due to it having pedophile goonslop in it

It's difficult to portray Lovecraft's horror in modern media because it's more conceptual, you can't simply put it into a picture because the point is that it's incomprehensible. People are so used to slaying hideous, demonic monsters in games, that they wouldn't be able to grasp the idea of facing something truly inhuman and the fear that comes with the realization of all the consequences and implications of that thing's existence.

>>714328705 (OP)
Dead Space, Resident Evil 4 (2023), Signalis, Darkwood, Path of Exile 2, Bloodborne.

>>714328705 (OP)
WTF do you want, an FPS rollslop with tentacle monsters?

>>714360474
>Call of Cthulhu TTRPG/TRPG
Reminds me I've always wanted a videogame adaptation of Delta Green.

>>714367751
Asking too much of people to actually know what supposedly influenced their work. "Lovecraftian" is just another buzzword to make oneself look superior because they can pretend they read old books.

What kind of game would work better for Lovecraftian themes?
You can only lean on the horror, in which case you're doing a spooky monster game, like what we've gotten so far (Shadow over Insmouth).
Lovecraftianism doesn't work as anything else, at least not as the primary theme.

Or you can lean on the unknown and discovering disturbing secrets, in which case you have a walking simulator (Mountains of Madness).

>>714370056
Any sort of game that doesn't advertise itself as Lovecraftian. Should be something that slowly eases you into the horror instead of throwing up "do you get the reference?" every 5 minutes.
Something like Silent Hill could work were you to dial back the sudden jump into spooks within the first 10 minutes.

>>714366129
>Implying it's not mainstream now.

>>714372763
That image is fake. This one isn't though
Props to the guy for at least not censoring the word "rape" and not trying to morally grandstand about its inclusion. Still mostly cringe video tho

>>714357116
It's called Carrion

>>714367751
The Black Goat of the Woods is a severely underrated Lovecraft concept that I wish we saw more, Cthulhu fish stuff is overdone

>>714369508
Forgive me Father 2

>>714367415
>Lovecraft type storytelling will never work in games
Works literally all the time in games just look at all the examples ITT. Lovecraftian horror is just cosmic horror, it's not some kind of impossible peak of fiction it's just a very specific kind of horror which you actually see a lot

Even Dagoth Ur is an example of cosmic horror ffs

>>714375197
My favorite manga has her as one of the main characters.
>>714370056
I think more Lovecraft inspired games should be detective stuff. Unraveling a mystery is part of the fun.

>>714368528
Mediocre as fuck. I want an actual RPG with real gameplay.

>>714328705 (OP)
>>714369508
>>714370056
>>714375373
>>714328785
>>714328918
>>714332281
>>714333638
>>714333657
Got exactly what you need right here.

>Poor Lake, poor Gedney . . . and poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last—what had they done that we would not have done in their place? God, what intelligence and persistence! What a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star-spawn—whatever they had been, they were MEN!

>>714358902
>>714328705 (OP)
it sounds like you want an action game which is largely incompatible with the genre but maybe someone could just do a DOOM conversion with scary tentacle monsters

>>714375137
I played it, it was ok. Close to what I want but less puzzles and more killing

>>714375938
>>714328705 (OP)

>>714333316
And in the color out of space the horror came from an impossible to comprehend, invading alien being. And in the whisperer in darkness the horror came from an impossible to understand invading alien race. And in at the mountains of madness the horror came from an impossible to understand alien race that already invaded the planet. And in the call of cthulhu the horror came from cthulhu.
Cursed bloodlines and sins of the past are a part of lovecraft, sure, but it's completely wrong to say that's what "lovecraft is about"

>>714375725
>gaas slop
Kill yourself

>>714375763
This more nuanced than 90% of current year sci-fi, where it's either the evil mindless alien or "it's we who are the le real evil".

>>714376332
Only provided what was asked of me. An alternative that would dare say is solid despite the specific sub genre it hails from.

>>714328705 (OP)
Give detective game about trying to catch Herbert West.

>>714376324
Stories aren't exclusively about their antagonists, anon.

>>714377329
This but Tillinghast

>>714370056
Without hard comitting to a specific mold, I'd like to see a Lovecraftian horror game with some light combat and puzzle elements and exploration, maybe some limited interaction with NPCs. But without doing a straight up walking sim, definitely not an action game, and not a point and click adventure either. Maybe some RPG elements (though I love cRPGs I also know they're relatively niche stuff, and a full on RPG would also mean lots of combat most likely which doesn't feel fitting for a Lovecraftian story).
At the end of the day not committing to any of these would be ideal IMO since the big draw of a cosmic horror game is the setting and premise, not any gameplay element in itself, definitely the biggest thing to get right would be art direction and atmosphere.

>>714375725
>shack building sim

this was pretty good, much better than call of Cthulhu

>>714377783
A bit more than that actually. And it’s more rock huts than anything else. Ark survival evolved is more fitting for that title.

>>714377418
I am aware, but there's way more to lovecraft than the themes of cursed bloodlines, and as you can pick a couple stories where that is the central theme, I can also easily pick stories where it's categorically not.

>>714376324
The Color Out of Space was about Radiation.
The Radium Girls news story had just started to break when Lovecraft wrote that story that happens to have charted closely with early 20th century understandings of radiation.

>>714381643
I am aware of that too, much of Lovecraft's stories were based on scientific concepts taken to their most horrible form, because that was something he was extremely fascinated by it.
But this goes to show Lovecraft is way more than a single thing, and there's dozens of individual themes and ideas you can gleam from from his stories. Which was my point.

>>714375725
I only watched the Arnold movies of Conan.
How is this game in any form lovecraftian?
Evil cults worshipping some snake deity doesn't make it lovecrafties does it?

>asks for a lovecraftian game
>half the replies are some weeb shit

>>714328785
This but unironically

Why not just make a game where you play as niggerman and have to save Lovecraft from squids?

>>714328705 (OP)
Replace STEALTH SIMULATOR with this map and Im sold.

>>714377452
why not both?

>>714328705 (OP)
>Lovecraft
>RPG
Best I can give you is indie slop https://store.steampowered.com/app/2958790/Cyclopean_The_Great_Abyss/

is that... an Italian? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IM GOING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE

>>714388237
Looks decent

>>714345572

>>714368528
Which one is that? Dark Corners of the Earth is fine early on, until about halfway in or maybe even just a third, where it nosedives.

For me? It is the Color out of Space.
I even liked the recent movie adaption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfYAXMwCpk0

>>714328705 (OP)
5% WELSH!?

>>714388351
shitalians were the mexicans of the 20th century

>>714392025
Any med was treated about the same

Lovecraft fucking sucks though because he's ideologically bunk. He has nothing insightful to say, the only real value is in seeing the unique perspective of someone being so mentally terrorized by the changing times. Other than that, it's just monster stories featuring feckless protagonists who just go crazy encountering weird shit. It's not horrible or anything, but it's so limited. Whenever I see something is 'Lovecraft inspired' in a game, I'm usually thinking this plotline is going to suck

>>714395971
Fear of change and the unknown is one of the most versatile foundations out there, what do you mean?

>>714395971
>Lovecraft fucking sucks though because he's ideologically bunk.
Athiests btfo

>>714396076
Yeah it's good enough but all he does is write some feckless panicked character who has no solution to anything. The scary shit just shows up and either fucks everything up or goes away, hitting Cthulu with a boat is not an ideological resolution to what is presented in the story. It's just some terrified writer writing how terrified he is and trying to make monsters with it. Okay for pulp, but it's nothing more than pulp!

>>714333316
uh, sorry bud, pretty sure lovecraft is about how squids cause insanity

>>714375437
>generic anime girl with accessories
shit taste

>>714361896
>play two hours of tutorial
>still no idea how to play the game
bravo
it's a cool game

>>714395971
You've never read lovecraft

>>714396330
A lot of his stories are generally about either societal collapse or mankind's hubris being thrown in his face. A lot of Lovecraft's protagonists are everyday guys or scholars, depending on the purpose of the story. You also have to remember that a good portion of Lovecraftian works function kind of like detective noires, but with the culprit being much more horrific.
>>714396589
The story primarily focuses on her having an alien mindset to humanity, which the MC tries reign in. She generally has no qualms with killing annoying things or reshaping the world to better suit her tastes. There's a little moment where she admits that she has no idea how many "gods" there are in existence because she
>Doesn't care
>Can't tell the difference between "gods" and ants since she's so far above them
>Was asleep most of the time because she was bored
Of course, it's still a fanservice heavy slice of life at the end of the day, no matter how many of the author's woes are written into it.

>>714395971
What an absolutely abhorrent fucking take.
This >>714375763 single post already completely proves you 100% wrong in literally everything you said.

>>714397027
So just like 90% of posters here?

>>714368846
part of the issue, i'm lead to believe, is a dispute with the publisher of the first book that lead to him rushing the last part of the book. i do think he falls into making it too action-y when the bleak struggle against horrors like what happened to old neil is where a lot of the charm is
mind you i still like the rest of the book, it just feels a bit weaker after the first couple volumes
haven't read the sequel though, hear it was shit enough that cuttlefish gave up on the trilogy idea
fors is best girl

>>714397309
>other people being drooling imbeciles gives me an excuse to be one too

>>714397309
>Your honor, other ppl are retarded so it's ok for me to also be retarded
Only on /v/, gentlemen

Nobody can do Lovecraft right because xenophopbia is one of the cornerstones, and modern media has to make everything diverse which contradicts the aesthetic. Everything now also has to be for children (or manchildren) now, so nothing can actually be horrible in a visceral sense either.

Fucking Bambi is unironically more edgy than the edgiest "horror" being produced these days, only vague exception being "body horror" which isn't even true body horror anymore since now it's just about the gross-out instead of the actual fucking horror of being trapped in a horrifying body.

The contemporary zeitgeist is just too neutered and childish to be able to do horror right, which includes lovecraft, which is why you will never have any good lovecraft games. Unless some indie happens to make one as a passion project that they never expect to make any money on.

I highly recommend Gou Tanabe's manga adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft's works.

>>714328705 (OP)
because Lovecraft didnt write atories with heroes. He wrote stories about learning forbidden truths and getting in over your head. His protagonists are merely the ones who survived long enough to publish

>>714328705 (OP)
Fear and Hunger is pretty good

>>714399475
Wow, that is a very sex book cover. I should get one of those.
Also I find it exceptionally interesting how much the Japanese LOVES the chtulhu mythos.
Seriously, many anime is full of mythos motifs and their most popular TRPG by not just miles but leagues is Call of Cthulhu. They are getting new books every few years.

It's also interesting how the Cthulhu TRPG community in japan is well above 60%+ female for some fucking reason.

Unironically Dead Space and Bloodborne. One nails the scale of your irrelevancy, one nails the aesthetic.

>>714400795
I just looked it up after Anon posted that. Almost 50% off on Amazon right now. Grabbed one myself.

>>714328705 (OP)
Because eventually you have to show the monster, and it's always going to be underwhelming.

>>714400795
>>714400924
Tanabe has adapted multiple of Lovecraft's works, if you like that check out the others as well.

>>714328705 (OP)
The Sinking City was pretty nice.

>>714399475
Is there a place to get it online?

>>714402990
Buy it online? Any online store that sells books/comics/manga should have it.

Junji Ito's Remina is nice cosmic horror.

doesn't work in the bing bing wahoo medium.

>>714404631
>cosmic horror is... when the cosmos cares about you
sure

>>714406430
objectively wrong in precisely every facet
https://store.steampowered.com/app/33680/eversion/

>>714406539
>Nyarlathotep is no longer cosmic horror

>>714382886
The cannibal groids of the setting worship some wierd Lovecraftian thing but that's pretty much it.

>>714406539
Noticing a tiny bug as it flies infront of my face isn't exactly "caring" about it

>>714407915
but moving to the next town over just to squish it after it looks at you certainly is

>>714406675
desu more lovecraftian than bloodbourne.

>>714332281
he owned with this one

>>714399475
best recommendation ITT

>>714391379
so the undescribable color is purple?

>>714397437
if you think reading pulp horror stories for kids makes you anything but a "drooling imbecile" just because its le older than you, then thats quite telling

>>714408128
>see a bug on my wall
>go over and crush it just cause i can/ i don't like it/ i'm being cruel for funsies
That's perfect cosmic horror, that you're so insignificant compared to this being it can destroy your whole world with no effort or even by just existing

>>714409303
you squish bugs because they're dangerous to you; they eat your food and spread disease. if the cosmic horror deigns to notice you it's because you have some albeit small power over it, same reason you notice the bug.

>>714409026
>doubles down
retarded

>>714411559
It's to be expected from /v/

>>714328705 (OP)
Lovecraft stories don't work as games.

>>714328705 (OP)
Imagine an RPG lovecraftian game called "Niggerman" where you play as black cat called Niggerman and game has day and night cycle where at day you do regular cat things like hunting birds and bullying other cats while in night lovecraftian monsters appear and so Cat's eldritch powers awaken that include tentacle attacks or limb expansion to defeat them.
During gameplay you unlock new abilities and combos by doing quests both in day and night.

Im game trailer someone in desperate voice says "Niggerman, save us"

>>714413420
They do as walking sims.

>>714333638
Kill youself because your great great great grandmother was a monkey.

>>714346471
Read the unnamable

>>714411559
ironic, read actual books for actual adults if you want to wank off about how epically "literate" you are instead of the stephen king of ye olde

>>714375763
For a Super recist guys he sure wrote a number of stories about not judging things by their apperance.

>>714328705 (OP)
*exists*

>>714415193
>triples down
hyper-retarded

>>714415364
Very cool game, but kinda falls flat at the end after Devil Reef.

>>714416732
This is an 18+ board, go back to weading wovecwaft with your highschool friends and pretending to be mature

>>714376324
>And in the color out of space the horror came from an impossible to comprehend, invading alien being. And in the whisperer in darkness the horror came from an impossible to understand invading alien race.
Okay, and then what? So the game's about you investigating some stank in some old building, so you go there and dig up a suspicious-looking spot, then a giant gas monster flies out, kills your friend and shoots up into outer space never to be seen again. And you do that, what, twelve times? Which part of this is a game?
>And in at the mountains of madness the horror came from an impossible to understand alien race that already invaded the planet.
There's four creatures in that story and three of them are pretty easy to understand. The only mind-breaking thing is Yog-Sothoth peeking through at the end.
>And in the call of cthulhu the horror came from cthulhu.
They ram him with a ship, it's fine after that.

>>714417293
>quadruples down
>ragebaiting

>>714382414
This post made me want to write a short story about how a false vacuum decay area starts slowly spreading around Earth and how it's changing everything to how reality is supposed to be and we're helpless to stop it but then I realized that it's kinda like Annihilation.

>>714345593
Oh no, a tentacle monster, better telefrag it.

>>714367257
yeah this was pure kino
I knew it the moment I saw it on the upcoming tab
except that final fight, I cleared it with easy with thunderclap AoE stun every turn, didnt even realize it was the finale...

I wonder what we could have gotten if Lovecraft smoked salvia once or twice.

>>714422136
The Quake dude eventually becomes a monster himself. Philosophy!

>>714413420
Something similar to Disco Elysium will perfectly work for a lovecraftian game. Keep the combat to a minimum and just do detective/sanity checks etc.

is this any good?

>>714426116
Yes

>>714328705 (OP)
Because the fags who are into are like secondaries. They only know cthulu.I honestly think the base cthulu story is actually bad. He gets ran over by a boat and dies. The randolph carter about the dream world alone is way better and enough to make so much with.

>>714361896
Just installed the demo, gonna have a look at it tomorrow, nice shout out.

>>714427372
This just looks like any other fantasy map.

>>714427372
The black&white version looks cooler btw

>>714427719
Maybe but the point is that there is an entire fantasy world to build from with many species, kingdoms and cultures described by lovecraft to build from and people keep fucking using cthulu and innsmouth.

>>714340493
Not them but I also think you're a faggot based on this exchange

Amnesia Rebirth is best Lovecraftian game I've ever played, and I've played Scratches, CoC:DCotE,
Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder, Call of Cthulhu, and Amnesia TDD.
It's the best one we're likely to ever get.

>>714427372
>He gets ran over by a boat and dies.
Sick of this fucking meme

>>714428310
Because that's the interesting stuff. There's a million authors who have created fantasy worlds. They're usually not interesting.

>>714328705 (OP)
Bloodborne exists.

>>714399475
I want those hands to give me a sloppy soapy handjob.

>>714328705 (OP)
HELP ME NIGERMAN

>>714328705 (OP)
All his stories are about niggers
Guy was obssessed

>>714427372
I'm the other dude that posted about the dream cycle earlier and there's actually a game out called Dream Cycle about the dreamlands but it's ass.

>>714429435
>Amnesia Rebirth is best Lovecraftian game I've ever played
Enjoy falling through floors, do you?

>>714432000
What's wrong with that? Discovering labyrinthine subterranean caverns/complexes are some of the most Lovecraftian tropes ever.
The Rats in the Walls, The Lurking Fear, Pickman's Model, The Mound, Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, The Nameless City.

Amnesia Rebirth is the best Lovecraft game we've gotten to date. People who didn't like it didn't realize it was a pure Lovecraftian magnum opus.

>>714400795
I'm still surprised every time I see a Japanese work based on Lovecraft and they actually know more beyond the standard cosmic horror stories.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1965920/Cthulhu_Mythos_ADV_Lunatic_Whispers/ is my recommendation for the thread as it does a good job of referencing the Journey to Unknown Kadath and the Silver Key stories while emulating the table top systems

>>714432375
I was just making fun of how often the main character falls through a floor to introduce a new setpiece/move the story forwards (or backwards)
Personally the best lovecraftian game I've played is Cultist Simulator, but that one's an imperfect, acquired taste kinda game
Also I thought Rebirth's story sucked so much ass that I couldn't remotely enjoy the rest of it

>>714432547
Even Bloodborne pulls stuff from The Curse of Yig and The Mound.

>>714432704
Surprisingly I never experienced a single bug with any of Frictional's games, all the way from Penumbra.
>Cultist Simulator
Eh looks like a tabletop strategy with just surface level Lovecraft dressing. Would be happy to be proven wrong though.
>I thought Rebirth's story sucked so much ass that I couldn't remotely enjoy the rest of it
It was pure fucking kino. It married real life African history with real life middle eastern lore and with Lovecraft mythology.
Astrally projecting alternate dimension aliens harvesting humanity's life essence and turning them into ghouls to become harvesters for said essence? Genius. And worshiped by ancient tribes as gods like Tin Hinan?
It not only marries it to Lovecraftian material but the myths/material that inspired Lovecraft like Amina in arabian mythology and the story by Edward Lucas White. And also a whole trove of other strange tales that Lovecraft would have read.

>MY manifestations on your planet’s extension, the Ancient Ones, have sent you as one who would lately have returned to small lands of dream which he had lost, yet who with greater freedom has risen to greater and nobler desires and curiosities. You wished to sail up golden Oukranos, to search out forgotten ivory cities in orchid-heavy Kled, and to reign on the opal throne of Ilek-Vad, whose fabulous towers and numberless domes rise mighty toward a single red star in a firmament alien to your earth and to all matter

>>714433461
>Eh looks like a tabletop strategy with just surface level Lovecraft dressing.
I get that it looks like that on first glance, but there is genuinely intriguing "Dreams beyond comprehension" writing hiding beneath that surface
I will not lie though, it IS a fairly obtuse tabletop strategy/resource management game

>>714433461
>It was pure fucking kino.
I just couldn't help but roll my eyes at the whole "pregnant woman be invested" plot.
And the fact that it explained that the previous game(s) mystery mcguffins were actually just the work of interdimensional aliens, it retroactively made the previous lore less interesting and scary

>>714433816
Not memeing but you really got filtered hard.
Amnesia Rebirth is 200% Lovecraft, and only someone who doesn't understand Lovecraft would hate it.
>the fact that it explained that the previous game(s) mystery mcguffins were actually just the work of interdimensional aliens
Yithians, Mi-Go, Elder Things. Interdimensional aliens are a centerpiece of Lovecraft stories. Amnesia Rebirth's interdimensional aliens was directly inspired by no fewer than a dozen stories.

Just gimme RPG/dungeon crawler set in Dreamlands
>Inb4 Cyclopean
It's set in the underworld

>>714434108
I guess I was, then.
I found the entire plotline wholly uninteresting and forced, and I've read I think 15 Lovecraft original books.

>>714434108
Just because it copies extra themes from Lovecraft books doesnt automatically make its story better

>>714434289
Yea I've read all of his stories including his collabs with Hazel Heald and his wife Sonia etc.
Rebirth is like, if all the stuff Lovecraft alluded to with Abdul Alhazred and his arabian desert stories were fully fleshed out.

>>714434591
It doesn't copy that's the thing. It blends different ideas from Lovecraft and his inspirations and real life mythology and history into an original cohesive story. Lore-wise, a masterpiece.

>>714345572
>tabletop simulator
is there a server browser in this or can you only play with friends?

>>714435787
There's a server browser
about 80% of servers are password locked though.
I imagine you'd have the best luck playing with randoms by joining some discord server

>>714435787
Most of the servers are locked and you have to find games via shitcord or /vm/ (but these tards only play yurotrash)

>>714436407
>>714436031
hm, that sucks. I thought it'd be a good way to test games my friend group doesn't have IRL, some of those boardgames are so fucking expensive and it's a gamble whether you can get people to play them, most of the time everyone sticks to the stuff they already like.

>>714332281
DELTARUNE is the first ever Lovecraftian game.

>>714436606
Why not just test them with said friend group on TTS?
TTS costs pennies on sale very frequently

>BRO I CAN'T EVEN FATHOM THE MADNESS, I'M GOING INSANE FROM THE INCOMREHENSIBILITY OF IT AAAAAAAAAAAAA
because this doesn't make for a good game.

Elden Ring's outer gods are all Lovecraft
Bloodborne is pure Lovecraft too

>>714437780
Yeah, lovecraftian horror doesn't really lend itself to interactive media.
When the only practical way you can depict a character experiencing a mental breakdown due to interdimensional horrors is a wobbly screen interspersed with SpoOoOkY sound bytes, it loses a lot of the bite that you get from just reading a story using your imagination