Why are there no cosmic horror games?

It's already horror

>>715907352 (OP)
I find elite dangerous scarier than any horror game

cosmic horror requires too much subtlety (ironically) to be an enjoyable game

>>715907352 (OP)
Dead Space. Next question

>>715907526
That’s space horror, there’s a difference

>>715907352 (OP)
Freespace counts I think.

>>715907352 (OP)
because depicting cosmic horror robs it of its impact

>>715907574
You didn't play the games.

>>715907574
You don't consider the Brethren moons cosmic horror? What the fuck is cosmic horror if not planet-sized apex predators that feast on madness and destroy civilizations and entire species to reproduce?

>>715907791
>WHAT IF LE MOON WERE….LE EBIL?!
Just blow it up, nigga, it’s a fucking circle, nigga

>Of course, no one wanted to get close to Uranus
Do you think he's actually worked out a story of where he wants this to do, or is he just frantically trying to come up with ideas for what was clearly supposed to just be a single cosmic horror vid?

>>715908081
>do
*go

>>715907352 (OP)
>what if planet... BUT SPOOKE FAIS!?!?
oh my god i'm so scared i'm losing my mind!!1!

this shit looks beyond retarded

>>715907352 (OP)
i look like this irl (in real life)

>>715907352 (OP)
Look outside (that's the name of the game). The plot is that a literal cosmic titan sees Earth and everyone who sees it turns into mutate monsters

shooting the moons out of their mouths that fast was almost cheating come on

>>715907352 (OP)
>cosmic horror is when the moon has a spooky mascot face

>>715907352 (OP)
its silly, but i don't find this yt series scary at all.

>>715908081
Pretty sure the latter is always the case whenever someone makes a vid that blows up inexplicably, they put out a sequel to cash in on the popularity. Pretty much ignore any vid when that happens, they’re not done cause they had a neat idea, they did it to chase the bag

>>715907352 (OP)
>>715908081
That's just the Dead Space 3 dlc ending

>>715907352 (OP)
https://youtu.be/FQSPCvJDbls?si=qxo5_TaZG8f9aEks

>>715907352 (OP)
Zoomers would shit their pants in terror if they were alive in the 90s to witness all the CG stretched faces in commercials

Underspace fits the bill, even if you kill most of them

>>715907642
This, real horrors are things that are beyond human mind and unnerving. When you give form and logic to fears they lose that effect.

>ATTENTION CITIZENS
>THE SCRIMBLOP SHITTO ̶I̶S̶ ̶C̶U̶R̶R̶E̶N̶T̶L̶Y̶ ̶ I AM IN YOUR HOUSE

>>715907352 (OP)
I already told you last time, that your thread is based on false premise and there are dozens of games with cosmic horror
Quake and Half-Life both are based on LoveCraft.
Star Trek games with the Borg also use cosmic horror themes.
Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy include themes of cosmic horror and sense of doom.
Mass Effect has the Reapers, and Halo features the Flood—both bring in cosmic horror
StarCraft and Warcraft both use cosmic horror
Other games that do this well include:

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

Alien: Isolation

Prey (2017)

System Shock

and many more

>>715907485
How so?

>>715907352 (OP)

>>715909730
It's terrifying that that much money and time could be spent on a game and it's still total shit.

>>715909769

Hadn't heard about this video series until this thread. How stupid.

>>715907352 (OP)
That is literally Dead Space 3.

>>715907352 (OP)
Bloodborne, fool

>>715907352 (OP)
You literally just got one

>>715909319
Killing outer gods is good for cosmic horror, actually.

>>715909286
The most popular Youtube analog horror series' main "horror" is literally just this

>>715909769
jej

>>715910347
>reddit slop
doesnt count

>>715907352 (OP)
>>715908081
>redditors consider a fucking clown face on a planet as "cosmic horror"
What the fuck is wrong with them? These images make me cringe more than anything.

>>715909730
when you mentally calculate how many times you're going to have to go through the exact same undock-warp-dock routine just to do the simplest goddamn thing (which you will have to do 1000 times)

>>715908081
I was disappointed by the series so far, feels like it goes nowhere except lmao aliens or some shit.

>>715907352 (OP)
why do zoomers slap stupid faces on shit they want to be scary

notice how no one is putting out what they find scary here, because they know they will be mocked for finding it scary.

>>715911541
>being surprised after liminal spaces became a thing

Elden Ring

Just watched through these videos and they picked a really boring direction with it. If they fought fire with fire and tried waking up the Earth that would be something. But instead it's just people fighting moon zombies and regular dystopian writing.

>>715909745
kek

>>715910347
Look Outside has a lot of good vibes for what is ostensibly cosmic horror.

Easy answer. Especially DLC can be really spooky and Lovecraftian.

>>715912173
Literally the best part about the game.
Instead of doom and despair, people are just trying their best to cope and stay positive in an alien environment.

>>715912072
I think industrial grinders and shredders and turbine fans are horrifying.
Basically: any machine that can eat a man, I fear.

>>715911420
>redditslop
How so?
It doesn't go for some sort of inclusivity value or pacifist bullshit.

>>715912189
way too reddit

>>715907352 (OP)
This looks stupid. You want cosmic horror? Look up videos on the sheer scale of some of those blue giant stars or supermassive black holes compared to our solar system. That's real, and it's pants shitting.
This is putting a silly face on the moon, which is scary to retards and children.

>>715909769
Star Shitizen makes it look like child's play.

>>715907352 (OP)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

>>715912189
they're just sad owls dude
it's meant to be melacholic

>>715912290
I for one think everyone still fears death even if they say they do not, because eventually when you life is at risk in real life rather then you begin safe behind a screen, then the idea that any else can be scary goes out the window once your baseline instincts kick in.
>>715912446
>Look up videos on the sheer scale of some of those blue giant stars or supermassive black holes compared to our solar system.
that isn't scary that's cool.

>>715912457
Both those games suck ass.

real life

>>715907352 (OP)
the more confusion thing about this is people taking this series serious when in reality it clearly a comedy just with a horror theme.

>>715912581
>retard can't english

>>715907352 (OP)
i really find it hard to get scared of something so unavoidable, is like being scared of death, it may get you at first but it eventually just goes away because i mean, what am i supposed to do? nothing, i can't do anything so you kind of just accept it and it stops being scary

>>715907352 (OP)
Wouldn't gravity rip the moon to shreds into rings if it got too close?

one of my more boring gripes with this stuff or anything "cosmic'' or "eldritch" is that not everything needs to scale linearly
our big fuckoff telescopes are 8m in diameter so why would this ting need eyesockets hundreds of kms wide?
or pointy teeth and a mans jaw.
I'd sooner expect something like a lamprey or a Walrus(seriously how walruses kill seals is something else)
or hell just Big Getty Star

>>715910347
Absolutely kino game , there's not enough cosmic horror post apocalypse games. There's this and , what, Bloodborn?

>>715908081
Having that mouthy planet tilted at that angle ruins it.
The angle is just forcing it. Trying too hard

>>715913549
That was deliberate. Uranus was supposed to be the joke planet, and Jupiter and Saturn were the real threats that shot moons out of their mouths to take out the probes sent to scan them.

>>715913123
yeah it's a retarded concept once you start thinking about physics and gravity. much more terryfying and actually realistic is getting blasted by a random beam of radiation from a neutron star

>>715907893
nigga it's a sphere, dummy.

>>715910373
BASED

>>715907352 (OP)
I am the world's foremost cosmic horror connoisseur and I just want to say that a living sentient moon that hungers is cosmic horror, despite what you think.

>>715911420
it's SAslop

>>715909745
lmao

>>715907352 (OP)
Is the moon having a spooky face and "eating" the Earth really any more "cosmically horrifying" than a random asteroid taking us out? This is like the kind of thing that scares a small child.

>>715912398
NTA but your brain is rotted by this website if that's how you view games. I feel bad for you, you'll probably never enjoy anything again.

>pog face on moon america
):<
>pog face on moon japan
°0°

>>715914898
qrd?

>>715907352 (OP)
The entire genre of "cosmic horror" is obsolete.
>you think things matter, but actually, you are a tiny insignificant speck in a cold and uncaring universe beyond your comprehension!!
This could only be scary to someone living in the west over a half century ago, where having actual communities, being self employed, living in high trust society, etc was the default. The very systems we live under in the 21st century are so horrific that they are probably more difficult to comprehend than the necronomicon itself, and the idea you are a tiny worthless speck is reaffirmed every day you go to your corporate job. Lovecraft himself would be more horrified by modernity than any of his creations. Azathoth waking up is a mercy compared to your country being turned into a gayfaggotbrownshittistan by jeet scammers and jewish pedophiles.

>>715915260
its ur moms anus

>>715907574
So you have no trouble with OP's picture of a moon with a scary face eating the Earth and think that's "cosmic horror", but you think a moon-sized entity with the ability to repurpose biomass and turn people against one another through psychic manipulation is just "space horror". Gotcha.

>>715907352 (OP)
Cosmic horror is hard for me to really take seriously mainly because the stakes end up so high and the cosmic horrors so ludicrously powerful that it just gets too silly for me to take seriously. I don't know the source material for OP pic, but when shit like
>Evil moon is a million billion years old
>It can also warp reality
>Also it mind controls everyone at will because why not
>It can literally explode our planet into a black hole with a thought
>it can also travel 5 million times faster than the speed of light
happens it's hard to take any stakes seriously because there's literally nothing we can do about it anyways.
Not that "earth horror" is much better these days
>it's an evil lemon
>it can manipulate time any way it wants
>it's impossible to kill because it just rewinds time around any wound you give it
>except one timeline it gave you the ability to permanently injure it as a joke
>this somehow carried over to another timeline where you actually strike it
>but then it just moves to a timeline where you didn't attack it anyways rendering it moot
>then it moves to a timeline where you were never born so the events leading up to all that never happened anyways making the entire game pointless

>>715915346
yare yare... this lemon means business...

>>715915260
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor
tl;dr: there's something that's attracting a large amount of matter, including our galaxy
we can't see what it is, because it's located right across our galaxy, with the galaxy blocking our view
it's not dangerous, just interesting because there aren't many objects like it

>>715907352 (OP)
Because Dead Space never took off.
Which is a shame, even existing franchises could do something interesting with it, Star Wars being the biggest one.

>>715915501
It's just the center of our supercluster, likely one big, fat concentration of galaxies.

>>715915678
Might also be a supermassive black hole, but unfortunately there's no way to determine what it is.

>>715907352 (OP)
warframe has cosmic horror as the big bad atm

bloodborne

>>715907352 (OP)
bloodborne
stop making this thread

>>715915590
Honestly, the spookiest thing about potential alien life would be if there was even any way to reasonably communicate or interact properly with it. At least on Earth, humans of all races at least look and act in similar enough ways that even if we speak different languages, we can find SOME method of communication.
Something on another planet hundreds of millions of light years away with zero relation to ours? Would they be bipedal? Quadrapeds? Something else entirely? Are they mobile at all? Do they eat? if so what? Can we communicate? Would either of us even comprehend that the other is sentient in it's own way? Would they see the same way? DO they see at all? DO they have other senses we can't comprehend? Maybe they have no ears or noses and the senses associated with them are just as incomprehensible to them as theirs are to us?
Even if we found other life, would we have anything at all in common or would we just be completely incapable of even interacting with each other in any meaningful way? Would that be better or worse than just alien life never having existed at all, knowing that we found alien life but there is simply no comprehensible way for any of us to ever comprehend or interact with each other, like a human trying to figure out how to have a conversation with a bush?

>>715915590
Abeloth started out pretty fun with the whole Lovecraftian horror goddess thing. Too bad that shit quickly went downhill when she started simping for Luke and started having meltdowns because the Sith didn't think she was their perfect waifu.

>>715916163
If we ever actually find incomprehensibly and incommunicably different alien life, we will inevitably and accidentally declare war on them because something as mundane as a sneeze or something is going to be the equivalent of saying nigger a billion times uninterrupted and there's no way of ever walking that back in their eyes.

>>715907352 (OP)
So was the creator able to capitalize on this one videos success? Or was it just a flash in the pan?

>>715915280
at this point cosmic horror is now a comfort as now the mindset is "nothing matters so eventually even that guy you hate is fucked and can do nothing about it"

>>715916582
Didn't he also make el gran maja or whatever that giant cgi sea monster is called?

>>715907352 (OP)

>hello tyrannosaurus alan

this board sucks, let's up our post quality please

>>715915280
cosmic horror is a vibe, not a genre.

>>715915590
>>715916191
A short game about some dude crash landing on Abeloth's planet and being stalked by her and the plant life she controls would be kino

>>715909319
I tried this game and it seems good, but my thalassophobia is way too bad for it

>>715913281
it's AI-slop young generation "megalophobia" (they are afraid of the fucking ocean) don't set your expectations high

>>715917168
>not getting over it when you realize you're the scariest bitch in space

>>715915280
>and the idea you are a tiny worthless speck is reaffirmed every day you go to your corporate job.
>Lovecraft himself would be more horrified by modernity than any of his creations.
>Azathoth waking up is a mercy compared to your country being turned into a gayfaggotbrownshittistan by jeet scammers and jewish pedophiles.
Surely someone could make a horror game about this

>>715908081
he's obviously just making up shit on the spot and trying to milk this trash as much as he can while it lasts, he's already selling merch, you can tell he wants to go the skibidi toilet path with the "moonfected" (lmao)
this is one of those things that genuinely do not deserve the attention they get, it's an absolute disaster when it comes to both writing and production quality, the "animation" is god awful. you can find coomers that just downloaded blender animating porn better than he does with his makehuman models.

>>715907352 (OP)
because very cosmic horor can never be anything other than "eldritch beings"

>>715912108
>liminal space
They would find the OG Portal game one of the scariest games if all time

Cosmic horror is just repackaged demonic horror because the actual underpinning themes of cosmic horror are Christian; how the fruit of the knowledge makes us insane and die, how defying God leads to alienation; but since evil cannot create it can only subvert, if transmutated it into a secular form.

am I just immune to horror?
why is everything that is supposed to be scary ether the stupidest looking thing on earth or something not scary like the old SpongeBob ending music or that stupid DVD preview thing

>>715920575
Because modern horror is not really horror, the normal person would just have a "yeah that was pretty odd and not that fitting wasn't it?" reaction, while zoomoids think "OMG THIS IS LITERALLY THE SCARIEST SHIT EVER IM LITERALLY PISSING AND SHITTING MYSELF".

This will be gen beta horror in 2050

>>715907352 (OP)
>implying

>>715919061
Funny enough the setting of Lobotomy corporation/library of ruina/ limbus company basically is a cosmic horror story set in a city ran by powerful corporations that are so insane that they basically are lovecratian abominations themselves with how they act and how powerful their tech is (some of which is fueled by eldritch shit)

>>715920920
Inspired by Hell Yoseon, naturally.

>>715907574
>t. fool who doesn't know the time of ascension

>>715920575
You're not gonna believe this, but the horror genre in general is 95% garbage across the board. Books, movies, shows, video games, music , art etc. If you think zoomer trash is particularly bad you should go look at 50's and 80's era B horror schlock because it's that same level of "horror so badly made it's actually hilarious" that the current zoomer horror scene has.

>>715915501
>>715914898
Reminds me of the Cicatrix Maledictum

>>715920575
>>715920714
Modern horror is flanderized and overexaggerated to the point it's not scary anymore.
You know what's fucking terrifying? A fucking rabid dog, or a hobo with a shiv, or a steep cliff.
They're also totally possible to deal with, but that doesn't make them not scary or threatening.
The most frightening thing most people encounter in their lives is their house creaking in the middle of the night and sounding like footsteps.

>>715912072
I don't respond earnestly in any of these shitpost threads usually. I just ignore most of the posts while lurking, and maybe make a reply to the one or two good posts that crop up. I have no reason to post actual genuine shit inbetween bouts of schizophrenic whinging about make-believe zoomers.

>posted it on 3 fucking board

>>715920920
That's not even proper cosmic horror, that's just urban fantasy horror with touch of cyberpunk.

>>715921482
>the greatest horror is...le real life!
You are a fundamentally and inherently boring person and I imagine it is utterly miserable being around you for more than two seconds, if that.

>>715920498
Honestly, yeah. Analog horror's in a similar vein, and I don't think it's a coincidence that the most popular entry in that genre is the Mandela Catalogue, a series focused on demons terrorizing people.

>>715921396
This. A majority of media is shit and it all follows the same patterns. You hate remakes? There goes Scarface, The Thing and The Mummy. You hate reused stories and formulas? Don't ask Kurosawa about all the movies that stole his ideas.

>>715921761
Listen man, they watched Cujo as a kid and Stephen King is their living god.

>>715921761
NTA but what I hate about modern analog horror is that it's succumbed to fucking power creep of all things.
>Here is my OC-I mean Entity 42069: The Penis Boiler. He can boil your penis upon the mere instant you gaze on him. In about ten minutes he's going to broadcast himself to every living human on the planet. There's nothing you can do to protect yourself besides beg for mercy and pray he only decides to tickle your foreskin instead-AIEEEEE HE'S HIJACKING OUR BROADCAST TAISUKETEEEEEE
It's the same shit every time, and any monster that just barely changes up the formula is lauded as another analog horror masterpiece. Modern horror sucks.

>>715907352 (OP)
>>715908081
Reminds me of this.

This baby traumatised me as a child.
This and the sun in SMB3.

>>715916163
Anything with the intellect necessary to have invented interstellar travel will have had a thousand Star Wars as well. The overt hostility of all living beings to things other than them means any spacefaring civilization is likely on the utmost of caution against such misunderstandings from the beginning, probably to the point of actively avoiding or hiding themselves from anyone stupid enough to just pull the trigger on whatever weapons payload they have. Hell we could be living in a galaxy populated by aliens with stealth tech right now, with them just watching and waiting till we suck less.

>>715922328
I remember there was a bear puppet in one Teletubbies episode that freaked me out for some reason

>>715922290
The sad part is your example would be weak shit compared to the current state of anal log horror.
You can also blame this bullshit on the post-SCP-3000 state of the SCP foundation slop, where literal multiverse destroyers that can wipe out entire realities by blinking are cannon fodder.

>>715914402
Actually, it's an oblate spheroid, not a sphere. Like earth.

>>715922290
NTA but analog horror is still hit or miss. It's cheap but I do like the "monitor" genre of analog horror where it's about detecting and catching these things. It feels like a small town version of what SCP used to be. But at the same time, when you step back its kind of silly when you see some of these things. IRL it would make you shit your pants but as a viewer watching a video it falls apart when you don't immerse yourself. To your point - Mandela Catalogue was ruined when they tried to make the creatures some sort of tyrants of the world that killed god. FNAF got ruined when it wanted to make intricate lore about remnant slime and labs. It's just an inevitability with all things horror and popular.

>>715916163
did you already read Blindsight? I liked it and it leans on those philosophical questions you posed

>>715920498
the bible doesn't say anything about the fruit of knowledge driving people insane

>>715907352 (OP)

>>715922517
Oh that thing was terrifying.
What were they thinking?
I don't think a single kid at school considered it anything but scary to them as a toddler.

>>715916163
You should read Project Hail Mary

>>715907352 (OP)
>>715908081
>Hellstar Remina, but gay and retarded.
Thank you, very cool.

>>715907893
How? Our strongest weapons would barely blow some moondust around.

>>715916529
To be fair, if an alien race descended and one of its ambassadors started saying nigger a billion times, I don't think we would've taken it too harshly. Considering there's zero history between us and aliens, the only real way to start hostility is if either side commits murder. And I'd imagine another spacefaring race would probably want to play it as safely as we would want to.

>>715922681
Now that I think about it, are there any mentally unwell people in the Bible? Arrogant, narcissistic, stupid, fatally prideful sure. But an actual lunatic? Not counting the argument that the writer of Revelations was crazy, that's up for debate.

People like to jerk off the idea of cosmic horror, but usually it just plays out as an uninteresting nothingburger. It's too lofty, too out there, impersonal and unrelatable.

>>715922636
I did as a matter of fact, I quite enjoyed it and you're right, the way the aliens interpret the message sent to it as an "attack" from humans is pretty much exactly the sort of thing I had in mind. Pretty solid all around, even putting aside the goofy plot point of humanity potentially being wiped out because we decided to being vampires back into existence and get rid of their weaknesses just because we could.

>>715922783
hellstar remina is already gay and retarded

>>715921482
Talk about being a creatively bankrupt, shitty boring nigger. I sincerely hope to never be forced to spend time around you.

>>715912072
Alright, I'll put myself out there. Darkwood has scared me more than any other form of horror media.
A first playthrough where you don't know shit and suck at the combat is horrifying. The audio design is excellent and really fucking mean.

>>715922328
>>715922764
Oh god, what have done to the teletubbies now. They look like evil androids.

>>715911541
That's only one aspect of the story thoughever.

>>715922778
Looks neat, I'll add it to my list thanks.

>>715922783
Reminds me of this.

>>715923029
It's VERY good
Better than The Martian, even

>>715907352 (OP)
NO-SKIN kinda has some of that, but not like picrel

>>715922632
Yeah, there's a good number of games out there where you have to detect anomalies and report them in time. A lot of them were churned out after Mandela Catalogue took off, but you can find some real good ones in the midst. I remember this one game that was based on reading calls and reports about different kinds of fae creatures, and you had to figure out what kind of fae it was from the dictionary you're given so you can give your callers the help they need.
Also, speaking of Mandela Catalogue, they should've just kept the Alternates as just demons that prey on mortals' weaknesses. I remember this one theory going around that the Alternates were demons that were trying to get around King Solomon's pact by compelling humans to kill themselves because they have no other means of engaging their prey. Having to take the Overthrone video at face value now just feels really silly, because all this time I thought it was an effective tactic by the Alternates to fuck with Christians by making them think their whole religion was a lie, when in reality it's actually just them bragging about killing God or whatever the fuck.

>>715907352 (OP)
Could you even consider this series cosmic horror? At the end of the day the threat is just a giant monster wanting to eat you, which is probably the most standard form of horror media.
Is the deciding factor that it's just really really big + in space?

>>715922914
wrong, hellstar remina is retarded and gay

>>715907574
OP is a retard some things never change

>>715907352 (OP)
>why [false premise]?
>posters justify false premise

>>715923324
I think the appeal is the unstoppable nature of it. The earth is just a sitting duck. Also, the whole "we were next to a twisted fucking psychopath the whole time!". I guess some people might be enjoying the idea of living planets and satellites. I know a lot of people who haven't been properly introduced to the concept despite how much its been used.

>>715914984
I find it quite sad that some people can have their perception altered if the website used by over a billion people monthly has some that happen to like a game you're fond of, you immediately have to stop liking it.

>>715912398
I guarantee you that every game you've ever played in your short life has been played by people on reddit, so you should stop playing games alltogether. Don't forget to stop drinking water or breathing air, I hear that's a reddit thing to do as well.

>>715917168
Honestly you get over it after a while.

>>715923502
>living planets and satellites
Anybody got any good recommendations related to that? You could do a lot of cool shit with that premise with the way you frame it.

>>715923313
You're referring to Home Safety Hotline! I watched a friend play it and they fucked up most of the cases so I'm tempted to give it a go. The anomaly that calls you and taunts you is hilarious. As for Mandela Catalogue I'm in full agreement. These things work better on smaller scales and if there is a larger system around them or higher level beings like God, its about them working around it or signaling a loophole in the system.

>>715923658
Unfortunately the ones I recommend are in the thread already. Hellstar Remina is the best bet. There's marvel media about Ego, the living planet but I've only seen bits and pieces. Dead Space's Brethren Moons begin their real presence near the end of 2 and become more central in 3 and the DLC but its a long build up to them.

>>715923502
The idea of living planets and satelites is actually really interesting, but just giving them a big mouth and evil eyes is the most boring way possible to execute it

>>715924076
>The idea of living planets and satelites is actually really interesting
And canon to the actual universe.
You just don't see it.

Why do you think we call it Mother Earth?

>>715924076
I agree fully. It's cheap and it's why I don't like the Moon Wakes Up videos. To me it might as well be a giant jack-o-lantern in space. The scale, silence and unknown of space is what should be the focus. A sequence of unexplained phenomenon on earth with each video implying a connection to the moon would be much better.

>>715923658
theres some anal log horror about a living planet called iris that is basically hellstar remina again but somehow limited to a camping outpost shit
forgot the name of it, gemini something maybe

>>715911420
you're trying too hard to be contrarian

>>715924263
>A sequence of unexplained phenomenon on earth with each video implying a connection to the moon would be much better
You just described Local58, the original analog horror, and one of the few good ones.

>>715924972
>Local58
I'll have to check it out, thanks!

>>715907352 (OP)
Because it just doesn't work naturally.

>>715924972
>and one of the few good ones.
Until it got ruined by le hecking eldritch god shit.

>>715907352 (OP)
Why the fuck is this dumb smiling moon so popular? The video was boring, the concept equally so, and the damn video keeps appearing in my recommended list even after clearing my history AND logging out of youtube.

I don't even know what flick this is

>>715922764
I was haunted by this episode
I still can't explain how I feel about it, everything about the voices and visuals makes me physically sick

>>715912072
Delta P

>>715908081
>>715907352 (OP)
what is this from? it look so fucking stupid. I dont mind the idea of planet eaters or massive cosmic entities, but this is probably the gayest fucking design imaginable.

>>715925612
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkaH4RlpCKs

>>715917168
>thalassophobia
you are not a special snowflake. you do not need to make up special fears or mental illnesses for clout. it does not make you look cool or special. your mental illness is made up.

>>715925765
He's smiling! :)

>>715912398
>Good game is recommend
>REDDIT REDDIT IT'S REDDIT! YOU BETTER NOT PLAY THAT GAME BECAUSE I HAVEN'T PLAYED IT BECAUSE I DON'T PLAY GAME I GET MY INFO FROM WHAT TO PLAY AND NOT TO PLAY FROM OTHER PEOPLE IF AND IF THOSE PEOPLE ARE REDDIT I WON'T PLAY IT BECAUSE I REFUSE TO ENJOY THINGS IF REDDIT ALSO ENJOYED IT
Kermit was right you're a fucking fag.

>>715907352 (OP)
It's cartoony and you really need the frackin' universe mod for it but technically Starbound fits the bill. I'm sure there's other mods to make it more horror.
But there is certainly some element of horror collecting fuel on a moon while running from the glowing space monstrosity coming for you.

>>715923658
Voices of the Void

>>715926230
I wish Nose focused more on signals and less on demons and futa cat aliens

>>715922914
it's not gay and only a little retarded

>>715909319
man imagine this in VR

>>715909769
CAAAAAAAAAARLOS

>>715925765
Holy fucking cringe this is pure comedy not horror.

cosmic horror is retarded because the empty space will always be objectively more scary than planets with eyeballs or some other gay shit, same with underwater stuff

we need a new the thing game

>>715909319
This must be how the spider feels when i notice him and get my slippers.

>>715909745
HAH

>>715907352 (OP)
You mean like dead space?

>>715907352 (OP)
A russian anon shared this MV from a scifi indie band which always unintentionally fills me with existential dread. https://youtu.be/FMJNta-okRw?si=YKSPQDANzygXbNoe
A management game about the heat death of the universe would work really well as cosmic horror

>>715927338
how many eyes do you have man

>>715909730
There's something inherently spooky about flying through the vast, dark, and quiet emptiness of space. You'll want to watch the video of the first ever Thargoid encounter from 2017 because it perfectly encapsulates the paranoia of being in the unknown and when the predator becomes prey.

I

>>715915280
I just don't get how a philosophy regarding someone's interpenetration of the actual universe needs spooky monsters.
>you are a tiny insignificant speck in a cold and uncaring universe beyond your comprehension
Like that's already about as depressing as possible, I don't see how a squid monster is supposed to make that better or worse.

>>715907352 (OP)

Games specifically cannot do cosmic horror well, because cosmic horror is about existential meaninglessness. But in game, you are, in fact, the most important figure, and it exists solely to entertain or interest you. So the very nature of games as a medium undercuts the intended experience.

>>715927635
That's a pretty good music video
And yeah, the inevitable heat death of the universe should terrify you
Here's hoping life will figure out how to reverse entropy before the end

>>715927992
that's not scary at all

>>715907352 (OP)
Sunless Skies is decent. Sea is better but it's less cosmic horror in the general sense, monsters and all, mostly the futility and the unknown.

calligos, stop out dripping me

>>715907437
fpbp

>>715928792
My favorite moment in Sunless Skies was during the Truth route, when you visit The Halved and learn the stars are just as petty and conniving as the lowliest humans. Really a great reveal, since they're built up as these mysterious unknowable creatures

>>715924190
Actually earth is an egg thats has yet to hatch as told by our ancestor

>>715926113
Thats not Kermit, never on that whole rant did he mention Trump, the republicans and corporations

>>715907352 (OP)
Did everyone just forget Eternal Darkness?

>>715928664
Sure, tough guy.

>>715929130
The best part is their assassin going after you entirely for that reason, just so you can't figure out how people like they are.

All things considered Fallen London seems to have a consistent theme of eldritch gods not being above human emotions as they think.

>>715909745
fucking saved

>>715922840
>alien ambassador descends from UFO
>starts pointing at the crowd and loudly screaming NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER!
>everyone cheers and claps
Maybe we're not so different after all

>>715922883
Literally nebuchanezar or whatevr. He went mad and lived the remaining of his life as an animal

>>715921761
>>715922931
The only thing creatively bankrupt is people like you cargo culting
OH NO ANOTHER LANKY PALE MONSTER WITH BACKWARDS ARMS RUNNING DOWN THE ALLEYWAY I'M GOING INSANE!
Is that RED MOOD LIGHTING? AAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE HELP! IT'S OVER! WE'RE DOOMED!
No you don't understand, the ghosts are just the manifestations of the GUILT from his MURDERED FAMILY that he KILLED because he's INSANE!

True horror, like all true creative media, is drawn from real life things that scare you, not by poorly copying things you've seen in other horror tiktoks.
>it has the most views so obviously it's the most scary!

>>715930786
I think you have scary confused with cool.

>>715907352 (OP)
Bloodborne
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Darkest Dungeon
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Quake
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy VII
Persona 3
DUSK
Darkwood
Dead Space
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Saya no Uta
Iron Lung
Half-Life

>>715923658
It is only horror themed, but Mary Skelter 1 and 2 are set entirely inside a gigantic organism that copies humans ideas and concepts as it grows. Everything in this image is that organism. An actual horror game with a setting like that would be very neat.

>>715919061
gonna make a walking simulator that is about spending your last days on Earth as Azathoth woke up and the universe is ending and you can see something in the sky erasing reality as it grows day by day approaching Earth

>>715907352 (OP)
But there is.

But there are cosmic horror games, anon.

majora's mask
bioshock infinite

>>715933252
the backrooms
hello neighbor

>>715922681
trad cath fags dont read the bible

>>715922783
hellstar remina goes full retarded by the end though, it's genuinely one of junji ito's worst stories and I don't know why it gets praised so much
the premise had potential but completely shits the bed halfway in

>>715926396
Signals?

>>715907352 (OP)
But there is!
https://streamable.com/73twss
Or at least there will be when I put the steam page up

>>715907352 (OP)
>>715908081
So what, is this Hellstar Remina for zoomers?

>>715933897
>the premise had potential but completely shits the bed halfway in
This is how they all feel, I don't get the appeal of Junji Ito. A lot of his stories just feel like Goosebumps level stuff or it's too stupid to be scary, I cannot comprehend the appeal. But I'll also admit that I'm not a horror expert, so maybe it's actually very good.

>>715907352 (OP)
Why are there no original threads

>>715925873
>That thing you're scared of is just made up
Wow anon, you did a great job at defining what a phobia is.

for me, it's Carrion Death

>>715907352 (OP)
>>715908081
>The annoying orange... BUT IN SPACE

>>715927265
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2909110/Nuclear_Nightmare/

>>715931437
Damn its almost like different people find different things scary due to differences in their lives you stupid faggot

>>715935309
And no one finds modern tiktok horror scary, not a single person. It's just a meme like liminal bullshit and analog horror. It's not made to be frightening, it's made to farm reactions and get ad revenue.

>>715935453
8 billion people on this planet and not a single person? Grow up.

>>715935453
I do.

>>715907352 (OP)
there is you just don't go looking out for it enough

>>715935638
>8 billion
Really now? There's like less than 10% that many.

>>715909319
Fuck you Trainwiz I know it's you. Add multiplayer already you quadruple nigger.

>>715912072
I'm not feeding your youtube slop

>>715908081
>>715907352 (OP)
Buy an ad

>>715912398
based made them seethe

>>715916791
HANDSOME VOLCANO ROCKS

Not really cosmic horror but I liked how Destiny made the solar systems planets actual sentient lifeforms that are just on a wholenother level of existence and quietly nudge things in humanities favor and act as unspoken guardians.

>>715907352 (OP)
Bloodborn?
I do want a kingmaker/souls rpg with this map though.

>>715909598
Whats the gif from?

A non-onions cosmic horror game would basically be a strategy game based off of Three Body Problem.
>the year is 20XX
>we already have all kinds of problems
>we have detected something moving toward the solar system
>we have no other information about it so far
>it will be here in XX years
>you have a blank cheque to prepare
>but humanity at large will not cooperate

If something is so far beyond your imagination, it’s hard even to fear it.

>>715937018
I hate tyrant simps China and Russia so much it's unreal.

>>715936808
jaklactus

>>715925264
Something about the teletubbies existing in this endless but clearly fake field and these random and bizarre interlopers showing up every day, doing something weird and then leaving and them just having to put up with it always made it seem kind of freaky.

An ancient/cosmic/eldritch evil that cares about you is far more frightening than something that doesn't.

For one, understanding the assignment in the first place. Then there's the overall design to highlight the theme how it'll deliver the horror. Most of it is just "scary monster chases you in poorly designed corridors", made mostly for tuber slop so they can overreact to it.

Weirdly enough I feel that these "how to fix horror games" threads are some of the most chill threads on /v/ lately
Why is that though?

>no videogame where you can befriend a cosmic horror

>>715937216
Situation is so fucked with slops and lack of innovation/good design that anons genuinely want to see the genre do better

>>715908081
Honestly, after being bored and watching a summary of it...

Its clearly just one big shitpost.

>>715937216
The new internet is like a Dark Forest where you sneak around trying and find safe bolt-holes where bots, joos, and brownoids will not take notice and you are able to have 3-digit IQ human conversations in peace without fear of being struck with a demoralization barrage or a scam bomb.

>>715937413
Kek. I miss pre gamergate so much it's unreal.

>>715937216
Because anons want something different, anything really, and wanting things to change is enough to start some genuine debate and conversations about a topic.
Mascot horror and how saturated it is so for example is a big catalyst for this kind of thinking, I remember early in this year a thread that talked about doing something different with the concept and the anons came up with something, wherether it is a good or bad something is up to debate but you can't deny it isn't something different.

>>715937413
Jesus I never thought of it like that

>>715937018
Honestly, no.

3BP itself was fine. It was mostly carried by the mystery of what was going on, which largely ended up being "magic" in a labcoat. They make a big deal about the alien computers coming to earth under lightspeed, but then they'd have to be moving above light speed to do the shit they're doing through out the story.

And I really couldn't get into TDF, because everyone was a worse piece of shit than in 3BP, where they were already huge pieces of shit... and knowing that the efforts of humanity get swept away first because everyone has the IQ of a doorstop and think your pic-related was a peace offering...
and then in the second largest woman moment in all of fiction, after only Eve in the Bible.
Amusingly, the inciting incident of 3BP is the third largest.

>>715937723
>>Spec Ops: The Line
>>But as a decostruction of mascot horror
What the fuck were these anons smoking

>>715912173
>baby teeth
>rat king
>jeanne
>pipe scuttler
>godhead fred
>crawler
>Hellcar
>shadows
the hell are those things next to rat king? I can't tell at this resolution

>>715937413
Dark forest theory? More like dark foreigners theory.

>>715937069
You always hear from people pretending to be smart that the unknown is the single most scary thing, but they always ignore that the most important aspect is the writer/developer actually spurring that imagination on in the first place. If there's nothing to latch onto your game just has nothing in it.

>>715937723
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjYH0ZXkHPQ
har har har har

>>715937723
I remember this thread (really stupid too)
I remember that this concept just straight up vanished after a few days it was made

>>715937723
Sometimes you'll see someone innocently suggest the dumbest fucking idea in your life.

>>715926396
>futa cat aliens
really?

>>715934593
people being scared of snakes, spiders, heights, or axe murderers is real. people being afraid of a bunch of tiny holes is made up bullshit for attention because someone had no friends and not enough attention from their parents growing up. theres a difference.

>>715938798
This but the opposite, none of those are real fears. "omg an axe murderer might kill me! a harmless little spider! eeeek! what if a building was like.... tall!"

Fake fears.

>>715938798
Being scared of threats isn't a phobia, that's just rational. Something being an irrational fear is what makes it a phobia. What you're describing is people attributing being unnerved when they see something uncanny as having a phobia.

>>715938798
>people being afraid of a bunch of tiny holes
Is because shit loads of contagious illnesses give you pock marks and other skin damage you fucking retard. Its playing on the fear of sick people and lepers
And that's trypophobia, thalassaphobia is fear of open water you glue huffer.

>>715907352 (OP)
Idk? I don't completely understand cosmic horror.
I guess any game where you colonize lots of planets/space could count in a way? Because us humans in reality, are a new, primative species. We are drastically closer to being colonized than being the colonizers. So the player's complete disregard of lower life when colonizing the cosmos, becomes scary when extrapolating to reality.

>>715938798
>"I know this thing is dangerous and is gonna kill me!" vs "I don't know what this thing is capable of but i'd rather be cautious about it and stay far away from that"

>>715939005
i'd like to tell you im sorry that i used the wrong pronoun while addressing you anon - but i dont care about, nor do i appologize to faggots who make up illnesses

>>715939063
Not an argument

>>715937723
>>715938048
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ackkYQS1-EI

>>715907352 (OP)
>somewhere in intergalactic space sits a legion of immortal alien machine ai ready to harvest all life in the galaxy
mass effect 1 did pretty well with the reaper space ai + dark forest theory

>>715939024
>I don't completely understand cosmic horror
There once was a time when ever man believed, whole heartedly, that the universe was, if not a kind and loving place, at least a rational and organized place created by a logical God for us. Cosmic horror is the bitter realization that the universe is actually a cold, senseless, uncaring thing full of dark creatures who either consider us beneath their notice or hate us and both could end your existence by pure happenstance. Usually this realization is preceded or accompanied by some horrible monster that breaks one or more rational laws we are familiar with and kills several people.

>>715939024
Imagine if the earth was flat.
No, like, Imagine what would be your reaction that Earth was, in fact, FLAT.
If the Earth was actually flat, then you been lied since birth, the masses have been lied for millenias, the goverements hold this secret for some reasons AND if one of the main core ideas of our reality was FALSE, then in what else were we as a species wrong about?

>>715907352 (OP)

>>715920246
I was unironically scared going through OG portal. Very scary game, especially since I wasn't sure Glados was a real person instead of a recording.

>>715907352 (OP)
In Sin and Punishment, the final boss is literally a doppelganger of the entire planet Earth if I remember correctly.

>>715937723
This is the kind of shit that would be really popular as a youtube webseries instead of a game and would be the obsession of your little cousin making you wonder how did this shit get so popular in the first place

>>715939542
Spooky in theory, but in reality we don't actually know that much about reality to begin with since science is constantly progressing and proving things previously thought of as facts to be wrong, plus the government is genuinely never not lying to you in some capacity or manipulating your perception in some way. Cosmic horror is a really good example of how the genre is subjective.

>>715933190
there's nothing cosmic about that, it's AI science fiction. AM has self-improved to the point where the tech simply seems like magic, which is how hyper advanced tech does seem to primitives

>>715939325
Reapers were kind of weak and retarded, mind you.

>>715937689
>living in Canada.jpg

>>715909769

Isn't Cosmic Horror just Absurdism taken to the extreme? Shit just happens, except on a massive scale.

>>715937689
How is some gay smiley face tryhard monster or a big costume puppet thing even scary when I have to wake up in a country like this and dumb brainwashed goy? What is a video game for this feel?

>>715915762
Are supermassive black holes bigger than regular black holes or do they just fit more stuff into the same amount of space than regular black holes?

>>715938112

>>715907352 (OP)
Uhh... did you forget that Majora's mask exists?

>>715907352 (OP)
the shockwave propagating through space instantly killed the horror for me, i could not longer suspend my disbelief

>>715941028
No horror story that has ever been produced or written in human history can compare to what I'm going to be living through in 2030, watching roaming bands of 80 IQ jeets walking around in post-apocalyptic ruins of Canada with Grok neural implants jutting through their skulls and asking themselves questions like "@grok is this sandwich tasty?"

>>715907352 (OP)
Same reason you won't make it: Nobody cares enough.
>>715936835
Bloodborne isn't reeaally what OP is looking for.

>>715922636
deepseek recommended this book to me after I asked it which resources of Earth's could possibly even be valuable to a species capable of interstellar travel.

>>715907352 (OP)
Duskers had the cosmic horror nailed down

>>715907437

>>715941543
>Worked security at corporate site
>The actual retard 80 IQ indian women hired by women HR one after the other
>Unable to do basic fire panel isolations even literally lying that they've done it which is not something you can fucking lie about
>One fat jeet who often had stains on her shirt that barely fit her fat body fucking up so hard it cost the building like 15k when a fire alarm started that would have been prevented by just pressing a few buttons
>Can barely check emails
>Fluent in english but nod head and say they've totally done something like check basic shit on a list of peoples access like the words go right through their head
>These retards get in while experienced white guys with an extensive resume or young guys with a good resume starting out get either ignored or straight up denied by HR (now called P&C lol) who demand control over hiring over every other manager
>Everyone knows they're shit but all these goy that in one breath lament about how bad they are or complain about the state of the country will still go on to recommend the next one because they seemed "nice" (which "HR" take as an invitation to hire over the next white) or give low IQ indains or paskis tips on how to stay in the country as long as possible but then turn to me and say how the country is going to shit and they need to move to Asia and the evil jew elite
I'm talking about a video game btw, these patches are dogshit

>>715912072
cow eating cow
gravity or other natural forces suddenly revealing that they were not fundamental
my inner monologue revealing that it was only pretending to be me all along
my mind hallucinating or dreaming scary things to fuck with me

>>715911420
>reddit slop
Yes we're talking about cosmic horror.

Horrifying creatures from outer space? On this beauty? That's a trick to lock you onto this Earth, mate. Catch knowledge, we are going to the final frontier, kiddo
https://files.Katbox.moe/ak6fog.mp4
4chan is shitting the bed with this video

>SOMA

>>715917209
There's something unnerving about tactile yet not immediately comprehensible scales but the youngsters ruin everything by turning it into a scawy monster. Adults too, not everything has to be a fucking spaghetti monster. Lovecraft alien soo scawy. Grow up,

>>715942868
Should I be concerned there is a distinct spelling error in that url, anon?
>K

>>715936047
multiplayer would be nice indeed

>>715915280
I agree, it was kind of a product of its time and Lovecraft himself was fascinated by the still relatively obscure sides of science but right now it's mostly solved, except for the truly unknown parts that we literally can't see due to tech limitations as of right now, but it could change of course. You're right that he would be more horrified at current society than any of his own horrors, 100% agree. Maybe a modern take on cosmic horror would be exactly what you say: the normal person slowly becomes an old god cultist with the goal of waking up Azathot to end the nightmare that is modern human reality and the people you have to defend yourself aren't the incomprehensible monsters, but the humans trying to stop you. That'd be cool.

>>715907352 (OP)
Why doesn't the Earth just wake up and move out of the way? Is it retarded?

Op shat himself so hard he even couldn't answer to >>715909670

>>715907352 (OP)
youre in one

>>715911541
wait till you figure out what clowns are symbols for

>>715942897
Agree, but your example is just ridiculous lol

>>715942950
It's because I can't post the correct name: geo-blocked. Just exchange k for c.

>>715934368
>I don't get the appeal of Junji Ito
The appeal is the "stinger" panels. His writing is kinda mediocre (as said by some retard on 4chan), but that's not why you read his stories. You read his stories because they usually have a really neat and striking panel that's usually used for a shocking revelation. Like how Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark has a spooky picture you'd get shown after the story was read to you. This one always fucked me up as a kid. Both the picture and the concept.

>>715913549
Uranus is orientated at a different angle to the other planets in the solar system numbnuts

>>715909598
no this is a cosmic horror thread
scrimblop shitto would be way bigger than your house, and there's nothing you can do but fold your arms and pout and this is really scary instead of self defeating for some reason

>>715942897
>look at me not-liking things, everyone. is everyone noticing me not-liking things? pay attention to me! aren't I mature? please accept me!!
get a real personality

Kirby games are just like lovecraft but less gay and immature and instead of having all the monsters be giant vaginas you have kirby who's until proven otherwise is a living vagina

Kirby definitely counts, but on a more subtle level. Also really only when you delve into the lore proper

Pic related is probably one of the best examples of that in the series

>>715909745
kek!

>>715944474
Good lord kirbyfags are so insufferable

>>715909745

There was supposed to be a game like this called haunted space on steam but the dev went full faggot and it ended up being blockchain/NFT garbage
actual shame because deep space ship combat fighting giant space kraken would have been sick

>>715907352 (OP)
All 40k games are cosmic horror

>>715944545
Why do you say that?

>>715937413
>>715937689
>aliens are all in hiding not because of space war, but because of space jeets
>UFO accidnetally opens up comms on the wrong frequency
>minframe explodes from ten trillion GOOD MORNING SAARS beamed from across the galaxy

>>715937129
How so?

>>715939024
Cosmic horror is actually mostly internal. It's not so much that the universe is full of giant monsters or something, it's that HUMANS are also cosmic horrors!
As in if the universe is nothing but insane monsters devoid of rationality then all of us are actually totally insane for thinking things are different. Not to mention the fact that we would have been created by/from such horrible monstrosities, and have the same inherent nature as them.
Basically "Trust no one not even Yourself" in genre form.

You have two choices in this setting: die horribly, and be robbed of your humanity, or willingly give up your humanity to become a horrible monster in hopes of survival. Cultists aren't scary because they're insane, they're scary because they're actually totally rational and the mass human sacrifice, demon summoning, and torture are actually a legitimately well thought out and viable strategy. In cosmic horror the common "fate worse than death" like being turned into an immortal slime monster that feels nothing but pain is the GOOD end, and the alternative is much worse.

>>715937723
You retards would hate that idea if it was ever made.

>>715937216
These threads are genuinely some of the fuckign worst on this entire board, and that's saying something. Genuinely what the fuck are you smoking to think a thread that's entirely screeching about zoomers is "one of the msot chill threads on /v/ lately".

I don`t want spooky space games, I want beautiful alien worlds to discover, explore a water world or be in awe of a alien mountain landscape.
But what to we get?? Deserts...or rocks or rocky deserts. Or le skooooopy ship...fucking idiots

>>715942897
this looks like that crimson chin negress

Eldritch monsters are just gay demons for gay atheist
Lucifer and Leviathan teaming up would easily defeat all lovecraftian monsters and show them what true Hell is

>>715945318
>I don`t want spooky space games, I want beautiful alien worlds to discover, explore a water world or be in awe of a alien mountain landscape.
I want both.

>>715922912
It's definitely goofy when everyone insists on using the word 'vampire', but the horror for me sunk in when I realised that even the in-universe use of that goofy, cartoonish word is an attempt to soften the premise of resurrecting sociopathic predators our very biology has not forgotten the trauma of from deep time. Like by naming the thing we can try to make of it by relating to to Bela Lugosi when in reality the thing doesn't care what we call it, it's just reading the thrumming beat of our hearts through the veins on our throat and calculating how to best hide what remains of our bodies.

>>715944805
>shoggoths are just space indians
oh my god it makes so much sense now

>>715944679
Forget it anon, it's /v/. Just shitposting.

>>715907352 (OP)
cosmic horror is when planet is scary~!

>>715922290
I don't give a shit about what you feel regarding "modern horror" (not even that, but a specific subgenre you've taken to mean all of horror. Because you, and everyone replying to you, is a retarded subhuman faggot). Horror has always been founded on a feeling of helplessness - your entire intentionally exaggerated description is in fact barely comparable to the sort of shit that people were writing about decades before battleboarders, decades before this site, and decades before anyone posting in this godawful excuse for a thread were even alive.

Read Night Land. Read Dark Tower. Watch any fucking 80s horror film or even just Ultra Q. Horror is inherently about mankind's utter powerlessness and as a genre, it is the singular one that is the most conducive towards powerful villains. This is not a powerscaling or "power creep" thing, but the very essence of what horror entails. Shit like Resident Evil or the entire action horror subgenre are exceptions to this rule.

The forerunner halo novel trilogy is incredible at conveying the vast scales of both time and space involved in the events it covered and presenting the forerunners as truly advanced beyond compression, and hoe powerless even they were at surviving the flood and the scales at which it operates at, as the trilogy devolves from a dry worldbuilding heavy look at forerunner society and technology, to a post-apocalyptic story as shit begins to unravel, to psychological horror as the characters you follow are barely lucid to then full out cosmic horror by the third novel

highly recommended even if you give zero shits about halo

>>715945654
Those are awful examples that directly contradict your theory. The night land humans are actually extremely powerful, more so than any of the dark things, even if they all acted together. They're ultimately on a time limit, but it's several tens of thousands of years and before that point they're basically invincible. They don't even truly fear death since they've proven the existence of the soul and scientifically mastered reincarnation. They're also just in general a very upbeat and positive group, giving in to despair isn't in their vocabulary.

Horror has nothing to do with powerlessness, if anything it's the opposite. Almost everything people are afraid of can be somewhat easily defended against, but only if you perform the correct actions at the right time.
The terror comes from stress. What if you made the wrong choice, what if you have to guess randomly because of a lack of information, what if you get everything right but fuck up, etc...
Horror is basically just gambling.

I remember reading a story once about how the reason we have never had contact with other civilizations beyond our own planet is because a sizable portion of our region of the galaxy is bathed in some sort of deadly emissions that drive other species mad but that humans and everything else on Earth are immune to, so they avoid it.

>>715946469
Yeah, it's called HFY and it all sucks ass. That was a particularly bad one.

>>715922636
>>715922912
>>715945491
>what if vampires were le science and crucifixes hurt them because of le science
Keep redditors away from horror, they just make shit like this or WWZ.

>>715922837
If only there was some kind of tool in the Dead Space universe that could crack a planet.

>>715944805
Guys, what if WE'RE the space pajeets?

>>715916163
go talk to them on /x/ bro

>>715907352 (OP)
>>715908081
This just looks silly.

>>715912072
I think knives and sharp objects are scary.

>>715907352 (OP)
>Why are there no cosmic horror games?
There's plenty of cosmic horror games. It's an overused trope.

If you mean cosmic as in GIGANTIC, the answer is just that it is difficult to make a game that deal with creature that big.

>>715923313
Yeah, I feel like Mandela Catalogue was more interesting when the scale was smaller. Like you said, when it first started out I thought it was just a bunch of demons trying to get people to kill themselves through religious gaslighting, which would have been an interesting idea because they eventually run into that cop who just went "Nah, fuck you."
But then the series all but confirmed that they DID capture Jesus and hijacked Christianity as a whole. Which just lead me to question why these supernatural entities are confined to just this small town in the middle of nowhere when they're apparently in charge of the biggest religion on earth.

Fire punch is unironically one of the greatest concepts for a horror setting ever made. More things should do horror with immortality.

>>715946928
Not exactly overused, I think it's poorly executed despite the amount trying to do so. Some succeed, but there are few.

>>715912072
The only things I'm consistently scared of are heights and deep ocean. I can sexualised all my other fears away, but I just can't do it with those two.

>>715912189
Dark bramble and the Eye of the universe are more cosmic horrors than the Stranger were.

But it's true that Outer Wild is all about fear

>Fear of Quicksand
>Claustrophobia
The Hourglass

>Vertigo
>Fear of the ground collapsing under you
Brittle hollow

>Fear of drowning
>Fear of tornadoes
Giant's Deep
Plus fear of being electrified by the jellyfish

>Fear of predator
>Fear of getting lost in endless maze
Dark Bramble

>Fear of invisible death
The crystals
Interlooper

>Object that appear and disappear as you look around
Quantum

DLC
>Fear of others
They represent the "Dark forest theory" of hostile aliens hiding and afraid of meeting others.

>Fear of Size
The 2nd alien race is bigger than you.
Meaning all of their furniture feel too big

>Fear of the dark
Once you get to the scariest part
their species is literally living in the dark most of the time with eyes like lamps

>Nightmare you can't wake up from
In the best way possible

>>715947025
It feels poorly executed -because- it is overused.
It's directly linked to a problem talking about in another thread >>715940436

POWERCREEP
Each game your protagonist(s) gain new powers and beat stronger bosses
Eventually you are forced to kill god,
Then you have to kill god's extended family, who were disappointed by weak-ass god,
Then you have to kill the cosmic horror god extended family were running away from, terrorized.

>>715947485
yeah, nah.

>>715907437
This. Space itself is genuinely a nightmare. I don't care if Musk actually succeeds in his retarded Mars plan, I'm never leaving the Earth.

>>715936669
>>715912398
samefag

>>715947485
You couldn't come up with an example. It's not overused, I assure you.
>>715947712
Neither you, nor your children, nor your children's children will ever leave Earth.

>>715946395
>Those are awful examples that directly contradict your theory. The night land humans are actually extremely powerful, more so than any of the dark things, even if they all acted together.
No, completely wrong. It's explicitly stated that the Watchers are beyond them, people not specifically trained to venture Out like X get lured into the House of Silence and immediately Destroyed, and everyone in the Redoubt is well aware the Esrth Current is running out and when it does they are all utterly fucked. Not even the extended universe shit supports what you're saying.

>They don't even truly fear death since they've proven the existence of the soul and scientifically mastered reincarnation.
Anon, they don't fear NORMAL death because they reincarnate. But souls Destroyed by the Powers of Night NEVER reincarnate; Destruction destroys and permanently ruins the soul and it's outright described in the novel as being such a deep agony, pain, and sorrow that despite X being the very best psychic the Redoubt has ever produced, it's literally too much for X to even remotely fathom and it sends him into a spiraling panic attack.

>>715947808
but like 100s have, he could if he wanted to.

>>715948432
The redoubt is more powerful than the watchers, that's why they're watchers. If they were weak they'd just attack, they're waiting for the end. Less active threats and more vultures. The end of the book is all about how the humans can actually kick the shit out of everything around them easily the only reason they don't is that it uses shitloads of energy and doesn't actually change the situation strategically. They even talk about how in the past they used to control the entire area around them until they calculated out there was no point and it was just a waste of effort compared to just expanding the redoubt and maintaining a defensive line.

And yes pneumavores are an issue, but they're relatively easy to avoid. First off just don't go outside, and second use the suicide pills. Note that we see hundreds of people fight outside and not a single one of them gets caught by a pneumavore.

>>715907791
Cosmic horror has the interesting challenge of needing to be truly mind-bending. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos attempts to confront the reader with entities beyond any human conception; a product of the contemporary "weird fiction" movement which sought to describe the indescribable and conceive the inconceivable. The Brethren Moons and the creature in OPs pic are certainly "scary" in their sheer scale, but they aren't inconceivable in the same way that, for example, the impossible geometry of R'lyeh is. Take Ridley Scott's "Alien" for example: a monstrous alien that reproduces parasitically and has acid for blood is surely terrible, but it isn't mind-warping. The horror is mostly physical, being rooted in the fear of pain and death. That's the difference between true cosmic horror and a horror story set in space.

>>715916529
>Make contact with aliens
>Against all odds we can communicate via radio waves
>After years of communication, a way for them to travel and visit us is devised
>The alien ambassador's ship crosses the atmosphere, it's engine making a unintentional and unfortunate sound as it draws closer
>Across the entire globe the most foul racial slurs are blasted into the ears of all humanity.

>>715949050
>UFOs are powered by slurs
>all alien technology is slur based
>it's like alexa but you have to scream the N word as loud as you can to charge it

>>715947808
>You couldn't come up with an example. It's not overused, I assure you.
Funny, I don't see you proving it's not overused, you clearly aren't observant.
We have plenty of top list for Cosmic horror, not even regular one
https://gurugamer.com/pc-console/the-best-cosmic-horror-video-games-in-2023-23283
https://lovecraftzine.com/lovecraftian-video-games/

It's almost a tag on steam, and lovecraftian can be considered equivalent
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=cosmic+horror
https://itch.io/games/tag-cosmic-horror

Most dev doing horrors want to reach that feeling of otherworldliness, as if it was horror +1.

>>715909319
lol
lmao even
imagine ripping Blizzard off
fucking faggot, trainwiz is a NNNNNNNNNNNNNIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

>>715949271
>The aliens share this technology with humanity
>We now have a fleet of faster-than-lihght capable ships
>But they're all powered by racism
>Racists now serve the same role as 40k psykers, guiding the ships through the cosmos with their strings of spurs
>Nations around the world compete to breed the most racist group of racists to gain an advantage in their space colonization program

>>715916529
>>715916163
>>715949050
I don't remember where I put it but there's a story where it's the HUMAN who look like a cosmic horror

It went grossly like this:
>mankind only discovers dead civilization around themselves
>profit from free space
>finally reach out that dead zone and meet alien
>communication fuck up, alien run away
>turn out, human evolved in a psychic zone that make every other civilizations go insane
>human decide to just deal with it, they wear scary armor, use garbled radio to sound scarier

>>715949510
>alien genetically engineer space niggers just to be more racist at them
>they constantly explore new worlds to find new intelligent species to be racist at
>uplift animals to be racist at them

>Puny humans with your pathetic N-Word, we Whitonians have already mastered the X-Word!

>>715949510
>You've overplayed your hand Admiral Shen.
>Having just destroyed the Indian superpower of Mumbai 3, you have completely eradicatied the galaxy of Indians.
>Unfortunately, racism towards Indians was the main source of the fleet's power, and now that no Indians exist, it's impossible to be racist towards them.
>Overnight the entire fleet has been reduced to hulks of steel floating in the abyss of space.
>Even with teams of our finest rasysts shouting "Mayo Monkey" in union around the clock it's expected our life supports will only last a matter of days.
>We need to invent a new more powerful slur for white people.

>>715949916
>Whitonians
Kek. Father Yakub is real.

>>715949916
>>with your pathetic N-Word,
>Oh look at the little ayy lmao who cain't say NIGGER

>>715949271
>infiltrate alien spaceship and find notes on massive conspiracy
>turns out the people flooding country with blacks and browns were aliens
>they're powering their mothership off of racism the whole time
>all the gay coexist "one human race" stuff people were pushing was just people trying to defeat the aliens

>>715907352 (OP)
Why does the moon have a mouth and nostrils? Can smell travel in space?

>>715950020
>Mr. President, without the pajeets to seeth at our slurs, the Ministry of Energy estimate that our Racisium reserve will only last two months.
>Desperate times call for desperate measures. We need to use THAT quickly refill our energy reserve.
>Sir, you don't mean...
>Yes. Tell the Guild of Racists, they have my authorization to use the word Latinx. May God have mercy on us all.

>>715937018
Already exists. Terra Invicta, it's the game the Long War modders made.

>>715950089
YOU FOOL! YOU'VE ACTIVATED THE JUMP DRIVE IN ATMOSPHERE!

>>715907352 (OP)
Any space game where the cosmic horrors are just regular things that actually exist in space e.g. pulsars
https://youtu.be/uHEVo-LkDrQ?si=-RsATygErVhh7GJe

>>715907574
You are a nigger.

>>715939717
You and me are the only ones on /v/ to have ever played S&P anon

>>715908081
>2.9 Million view
I fucking hate Zoomers so much

>>715947049
>But it's true that Outer Wild is all about fear
Brittle Hollow made me sick to my stomach on multiple occasions. I was a little mad at the developers when I saw the branching path in the grav crystals and the preferred path had two crystals ever so slightly too far apart. Didn't fall for it, can't get me.
>Fear of the dark
In the three story building with the dev bridges, on the far side with the projector screen, there's a room where the chairs are piled in such a way that they look like an Owlkek in the dark. My mom screamed when I walked into it lmao.

>>715937723
I liked My Friendly Neighborhood because the "mascots" genuinely aren't evil or mean any harm, they just kinda went loopy after realizing how cynical the world is outside of their studio.
The funniest part to me is they don't even bother trying to explain why all the puppets are sentient either, they just are and the game just leaves it at that.

>Earth. Earth. Hey Earth. Hey. Hey Earth. Hey.
Annoying orange but space isn't cosmic horror

>>715907352 (OP)
Deadspace

>>715910829
and that series is?

>>715907352 (OP)
>>715908081
what is this?

>>715952909
I bet you got through a whole episode, lobotomite.

>>715907791
>planet-sized apex predators that feast on madness and destroy civilizations and entire species to reproduce
is this from the third game? I think I got like halfway through it when I lost my save. the lore sounds interesting but I found 1 and 3 to be a slog, haven't played 2

>>715933897
I think Junji Ito either a complete hack, or deliberately make ALL of the story endings suck as to leave more impression to the readers. Like a dread of having some unfinished business.

>>715915501
>it's not dangerous, just interesting because there aren't many objects like it
eldritch tendrils from beyond this reality typed this post

>>715908081
> Of course, no one wanted to get close to Uranus
Why the fuck am I laughing????

>>715907352 (OP)
This series has a fucking terrible sense of scale that ruins any "cosmic" horror it may have had.

>>715953153
Yeah, it's from the third game. They're basically like the Reaper, but instead of just harvesting one species to form a new Reaper, it's harvesting one planet to form a new moon. They only show up at the end so don't expect much much from it.

>>715922328
don't worry it's been improved

>>715909598
How unknowable is Scrimblop (Despite Lovecraft explaining everything in descriptive detail)?
How many tentacles does he have (despite only like 5 things in the Mythos having them)?
Does he have zero weaknesses, also (Despite shit dying regularly and Even Cthulhu getting killed by a boat)?
Is he a fan of air conditioning?

>>715910347
Why did the Eyeball want to vacuum this guy up?

>>715909745
lel

>>715953228
fugg, eggsbosed xD

>>715907437
the greatest horror is our solar system can be all alone in a black void
with no real possibility to reach any possible potential goldilocks solar systems
expansion into space seem impossible unless science can prove some other modes of travel

>>715912072
Greys. But it ain't fear, at least, not as I normally feel it.
I tear up when thinking about them. There's no spooks, just a straight pavlovian reaction.

This would make an amazing game and was peak cosmic horror, shame about it being a team of women instead of following the men in. Only thing that comes close to this is stalker really.

>>715937245
Growing My Grandfather kinda fits. But it's extremely short.

>>715910347
So many brainlets simply don't understand this game, when it has a very easy to understand plot. In fact, it's so simple it can hardly be called a "plot."

>big crazy big giga-creature travelling the cosmos
>looking at it mutates people and makes them go insane
>it blocks out a bunch of stars, which Sybil investigates as an astronomer-and thus witnesses it
>a group of astronmers is founded to try communicate it
>the creature notices the people
>approaches earth in curiosity
>uh oh, everything fucked

In the end you can choose to either view it in its entireity and go insane, becoming a mosntrous being that consumes all of earth or you can decline to view all of it, instead becoming a benevolent mutated monster that blankets the earth but is treated as a friendly+beloved natural phenomenon of tentacles

>>715907352 (OP)
Starsector does it pretty well. It's not jumpscare horror, but there is a definite horror to running out of fuel in the middle of space. There's also sensor anomalies that make it look like you're being followed by unknown fleets when nothing's really there... unless *something* is
And of course there's times you hear a distress call when passing a system, and it could be people who need your help, or it could be pirates, or something worse...
Abyssal Hyperspace and the things in it are legitimately horrifying, and the Notes are some prime psychological horror

I honestly think Starsector has some great horror. It does the unknowable aliens trope really well, even when it's not aliens or when it is...

>>715907352 (OP)
just watched this because ive seen it posted here a million times. that was fucking stupid.

>>715953632
I legit can't comprehend why being alone in the universe is considered "horror".
>humanity keep progressing
great we are fucking gods then
>humanity kill themselves
sucks but everybody dies someday
>sun goes super nova
sucks for those facing it, but how is that a "horror"?

>>715912072
welcome to the post irony internet no one wants to be seen as le cringe everyone has to be an obnoxious cool guy faggot

I find manholes and drains terrifying and I never walk near one I always have the fear that something is gonna pop out and grab me

>>715953998
You're making leaps of logic anon.
>humanity keep progressing
>great we are fucking gods then
Opposite of what he's saying
>humanity kill themselves
>sucks but everybody dies someday
Not even implied
>sun goes super nova
>sucks for those facing it, but how is that a "horror"?
Where did that even come from?

Read his post again
He talking about humanity not being able to make it to other systems because it's too far, so we are alone.

>>715953632
atheists actually believe this

>>715954578
>>He talking about humanity not being able to make it to other systems because it's too far, so we are alone.
Yeah what's the problem with that? How is that a "horror"?

>>715953632
I feel like that's more sad/depressing than horror. It kinda sucks that we're all we have, but it's not exactly AIIIEEEEEE MY SANITY horror.

Most of you aren't prepared for True Cosmic Horror

>>715923469
I'm starting to get tired of 4chan
so many threads are like this

to be fair the internet in general is like this
the OP is never asked to justify their claim people just go along with a flawed topic

>>715937723
reading that thread through the archives was some very concentrated autism, i don't blame them for trying but they surely could had come up with something better than "Hey you know about My Friendly Neighborhood's protag went to war right? Lets make a game where the mascots are in a war and commiting literal war crimes without any kind of irony or joking about it, lets play it completely straight."
that felt like it came out from deviantart

>>715954671
Because most people haven't given up on life and the thought of being imprisoned in our solar system is horrible and depressing.

If you're some faggot living in the room you'll die in, I guess you've already made peace with imprisoned solitude.

>>715943407
WTF is going on my Myanus?

>>715955824
Buckbroken a little too hard and now it can't spin straight.

>>715915280
Nihilism has evolved into a religion of its own. They even have prophets and gods now

>>715952664
>Brittle Hollow
Oh yeah that part is a bitch until you find the other entrance.


>In the three story building with the dev bridges, on the far side with the projector screen, there's a room where the chairs are piled in such a way that they look like an Owlkek in the dark. My mom screamed when I walked into it lmao.
I'll have to check this out I don't remember it.
Nice scare, especially on someone who isn't the one playing, you shouldn't scare your mother bad anon!

>>715936932
Signs

AHHHH OHHH MY GOOOOOD is that a heckin TENTACLE AND EYEBALLS????? ayyyyyyyiiiiiieeeeeee im going inSANE

>>715956013
I'm curious, who are the prophets and gods of nihilism?

>>715953459
Don't look outside

>>715953374
Hmm

>>715922328
>This baby traumatised me as a child.
I grew up with Moomin on TV and the shit that scared me the most for a long time was Mörkö.
How the fuck do you get "traumatized" by a baby sun in comparison?

>>715933897
>the premise had potential but completely shits the bed halfway in
You just described 99% of Japanese media.

>>715922914
Retarded? Yes
Gay? No

>>715907352 (OP)
>>715908081
>put a face on something and call it horror
Fucking hate this gay shit. It's like that painting of a dog staring down a dark hall, and retards HAVE to add a face to make it spooky.
Same shit with all "analog horror" that isn't Local 58. Hell, even Local 58 lost its touch and became shit.

>>715957010
Subtlety is a lost art at this point or perhaps more like that youtube doesn't like it when you are being too subtle about horror and that doesn't bring all those juicy juicy views

>>715957010
>It's like that painting of a dog staring down a dark hall, and retards HAVE to add a face to make it spooky.
Didn't that guy do it to also make fun of the exact same issue you're complaining about?

>>715915280
>
Well saidThe very systems we live under in the 21st century are so horrific that they are probably more difficult to comprehend than the necronomicon itself

>>715957194
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DON'T USE AS A PLANET-SIZED FLESHLIGHT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

>>715934143
looks neat. add it so i can wishlist it before i forget

>>715953237
See, this is why I think the series was meant to be comedic but people just took it too seriously.

>>715953632
>unless science can prove some other modes of travel
we already have a working folding drive like in event horizon.
yeah its inefficient and it can only move a few atoms at a time but it works.
we essentially already have faster than light travel.
the issue is making it commercially viable and making the technology sound and stable.
nowadays no one seems to be able to buiild space rockets anymore.
all crashes and burns.

>>715908081
He's definitely making it up as he goes along. I get that this series is bringing in more viewers, but he was already getting a lot before. His videos were better before the awful voice acting, not that they were exactly high art to begin with.

>>715909670
System Shock doesn't use cosmic horror in any capacity thoughbeit.
It's a straight up cyberpunk story that just happens to be set on a space station/ship.

>>715956771
When are we getting back "scary monster in the woods/abandoned building" type horror? Slender was scarier than these blowjob planets

>>715957010
analog horror only works once by making it look like a recording of something real
but you cant just recycle the same trick

>>715957448
>we already have a working folding drive like in event horizon.
yeah its inefficient and it can only move a few atoms at a time but it works.
Source?

>>715957627
System shock 2 is scary but it's not cosmic horror at all, it basically has psychic zombies + good sound propogation making it scary.

>>715957445
Exactly, dude. It’s like people missed the whole tone and latched onto it as some hyper-serious lore-fest. But the original had that goofy undertone baked into everything-the over-the-top reactions, the dramatic pauses, even the naming conventions. It was more Adult Swim at 2am than Lovecraftian dread, but people just ran with their own interpretations and made it way more grimdark than it ever needed to be.

>>715952664
>In the three story building with the dev bridges, on the far side with the projector screen
couldn't find it in one run, care to remind me where it is?
To me the three story building was in the hidden gorge
https://outerwilds.fandom.com/wiki/Hidden_Gorge

>>715907352 (OP)
Observation

>>715953961
>starsector
I want to post a peticuliar mod webm but they don't work right now for reasons

>>715956771
Fellow Moomin enjoyer. This damn thing scared the hell out of me when I was a kid, and the hattifnattars were the bane of my sister's existence.

>>715923469
>>715937413
This

>>715957793
Exactly. Every new episodes just double down on how absurd the entire situation is. Some of the scenes are pretty funny too, like when the planets start going DDDD: when an inter-dimensional hand started kidnapping them.

I've always liked horror in the more mundane.
Things like True Detective or Ready or Not. The world's seems like a horrible shithole because humanity is terrible but it's actually implied some kind of force is causing the world the become worst and worst.

>>715958162
Yeah, ((((some kind))))

>>715953918
The denial and truth endings are actually the same, it's just that in one of them, sam is in total denial about what's happening, and in the other, his mind was already destroyed before it happened.

>>715953632
Look at it another way. Everything be so goddamn far apart means the chance of an invasion is basically nil. If things were closer, it could encourage something to make contact with us. What if it's to experiment on us just out of cruelty and curiosity? Alternatively, what if there is a part of the universe where everything worked out and those beings don't have to worry about us exploring and then fucking up their world?

>>715941357
It's sort of a philosophical question. If you defined the size of a blackhole by its schwarzschild radius, that is, the radius at which the black hole is black because that's the point where light can't escape, yes, it does get bigger with more mass. Where the mass it actually distributed within the schwarzschild radius isn't known, and mathematically, is supposed to be literally all in a single infinitely small point at the middle.

>>715907893
What weapon can blow up the moon? Even the number nukes on Earth would only scorch the surface.

>>715942473
Same thing happened at my work, the entire workforce turned into Mongolians recommending each other while the all white women HR yelled at me for a door getting scuffed.

The reason I bring that last part up is because since then, the door has become completely destroyed and unusable which I know for a fact none of the HR ladies complained about. We actually live in a nightmare world where some people are explicitly held as favorites while others are whipping boys. And then those white HR women go home to white boyfriends and complain to them that white guys get spoiled rotten by society.

>>715953406
you are a retard. some things in the mythos get killed by dogs, true, but many are immortal. the dunwich horror is immune to mundane weapons and had to be banished back to the void with a spell, cthulhu (if that was even cthulhu at all) was regenerating and reforming seconds after the impact with the boat, even the deep ones are said to be impossible to kill unless you use the magic of the ancients

>>715953918
I like that the giga creature wasn't really malicious or anything, it was just curious and had no idea it was fucking up the planet.

>>715957010
Hit the nail on the head. Human face recognition Baby tier shit. Underage retards.

>>715941357
They're typically at the center of galaxies like ours which is so big it affects the movement of stars "near" it.

>>715941357
Black holes all have the same size, but the area they affect depends on their mass, with heavier black holes containing a larger gravity well.

what about a yandere planet
like a living planet that likes you way too much that will try everything in its power to keep you in its surface

>steals all your air

>>715953776
I love the movie but it'd be hard to turn it into a game.

>>715959206
Yeah I saw that Wander Over Yonder episode too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akhxdv-zouQ

>>715909745
Truly horrifying

>>715958942
How can they have the same size but different mass? Do you mean density?

>>715959775
Yes, that is the description of the term 'density'.

>>715959206
Sounds like an anolog horror premise that doesn't need to be analog horror but the one making it doesn't have the skills to make anything else

>>715922636
this is enjoyable like most hard sci-fi but the main >dude imagine if is invalid. aliens without cognition would never develop space travel because there's no immediate benefit to it like there is to evolutionary path like glide->powered flight.

in modern times it works better as an ai metaphor because that's more or less exactly how the aliens in it work. it's just not a good first contact work, though we might find aliens like that on their own planets. just they wouldn't show up to invade us, ever.

>>715937018
3BP isn't cosmic horror though. It's hard sci-fi. Cosmic horror is something otherworldly and more magical than scientific in origin.

All the tough guys in this thread pretending like they wouldn't be pissing and shitting themselves so much in this kind of situation they wouldn't even be able to manage to chimp out with the niggers.

>>715944805
>Alien orbiting Earth gets a call
>Yes, mistar Gozolax you have many unpaid fines and are on the vurge of being arrested by police
>You can avoid jailtime by paying it off with prepaid car-
>A portion of India is vaporized from the surface of the Earth

>>715960681
It's "scary" in the same way that being tied to a railroad track is scary. Yes, that is indeed a terrible physical threat, but just not particularly interesting.

>>715937018
Three body problem is built around such a retarded premise (multiple in fact).

>>715960681
I'd be confused and think the world is ending, sure. But another planet going out of orbit and crashing into earth is a different kind of horror than :DDDD I'M GONNA EAT U.

>>715922636
The follow up book Echopraxia was pretty good too. Even more "What the fuck are you doing humanity?" with the aliens once again not being the biggest threat.

>>715925873
Thalassophobia is one of the more common phobias out there. It just has a name that makes you feel stupid so you attack it.

>>715949372
>THIS IS THIS...NNGRRHG....KAL'SHTOo...
>WE HAVE BROUghGHT...NNghhgREINFORCshEMENTS...FROM HIIGARAhg...
>COME TO USsh.

>>715962471
Thalassophobia has an awesome name, it sounds like Thassilon which is a great name for a sci-fi ocean world.

>>715962471
nah, it’s moreso because some niggers on here treat phobias the same as LGBTQ shit and act as it’s just as attentionwhory as the latter
so having an irrational fear over something more minor must mean that you’re faking it and/or mentally ill
i saw the exact same sort of posts in a thread bitching about games having an arachnophobia mode

>>715962718
Thalassophobia isn't actually irrational, nor minor. But surely you know what it is so you already know this.

>>715949729
The Damned trilogy was similar to this but not exactly. We are super fucked up warmongering psychopaths compared to all the other alien species. One side of the big intergalactic "war" befriend us because they all suck at violence and even weak and athetic humans are stronger and mor eviolent than any of them. Also lucky for them the other side that is all about mind control drops dead when they access our fucked up thoughts.

>>715963239
you also understand I was trying to back up your point, right

>>715909319
Why does something need that many eyes?

>>715963427
No, no I don't.

>>715953776
It's more a shame how they completely fucked it up compared to the books, which are true peak cosmic horror by the end of the third book the zone is expanding and no one know fuck about shit still so the world is entirely fucked by an unknown thing doing who knows what but whatever it is doing humanity does not deal well with it at all.

>>715961801
Being eaten by another world or destroyed, either way, it's the same sense of inevitable, inescapable doom.

>>715959285
>uproots trees and mountains
>no citizens were killed by this

>>715925354
WHEN ITS GOT YA, IT'S GOTCHA

>>715920498
Least retarded christian larper

>>715963489
Maybe each eye has a different task. One for heat, one looking on another dimension, the big one as a telescope etc.

>>715910347
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>>715958593
To me the most interesting thing Look Outside does is actually try to explore the proper implications of people mutating to shit and the fact the psyches of individuals are highly different so would obviously be reactions and results.
Most writers would just use the mutation as a different flavour of zombie virus or whatever, you go crazy (guaranteed) and now you kill people, that's it. Character not going crazy? Writing will kill them off shortly after to not deal with any of the consequences.

Look Outside actually explores what happens after, both on an individual and on a societal level. That's highly unique.

>>715967037
Fucking this.
Instead of making the story about despair and destruction, it's simply about poor mutated creatures trying to do their best to not just survive, but thrive in a permanently changed world.

>>715957665
Groke just makes me sad :(