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Again, no. Don't really get much time for video games these days. I mean, I could make time, but it's not my foremost method of private relaxation any more, so I generally don't get around to it that much.
Again, no. Don't really get much time for video games these days. I mean, I could make time, but it's not my foremost method of private relaxation any more, so I generally don't get around to it that much.
I get what you are saying. I'm pretty busy myself.
I'm trying to get some new conversations going, and that means trying to get nre threads started. This one has a chance, because it is a big milestone in gaming, as I understand it.
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Oh I wasn't judging you, or judging that you made this thread. I'm just saying that although I did used to be a big gamer, I find it hard to get engrossed in games any more, very few keep my attention for long enough. I don't know why. Perhaps I'm just getting older and my tastes are changing, or perhaps games are just crap these days!
I still pick up and play a few favourites every now and then, though.
Oh I wasn't judging you, or judging that you made this thread.
I wasn't thinking it for a second. I'm just trying to explain why there are suddenly game threads springing up.
I'm just saying that although I did used to be a big gamer, I find it hard to get engrossed in games any more, very few keep my attention for long enough. I don't know why. Perhaps I'm just getting older and my tastes are changing, or perhaps games are just crap these days!
I was never the greatest game player, admittedly.And I do suspect that you are right, in that the quality of games today just isn't as good as it used to be. Add to that all of the MMos that seem to be rather rampant these days, and I think we start to get an answer or two going.
I still pick up and play a few favourites every now and then, though.
I plan to do that with the games I have... when I have time for it. I did VTMB a few months back, and should do it again soon. But not as Tremere... I've done it so many times as that clan, I can do it in my sleep!
I have never played this game all the way through, but feel I should. But in the daytime. I think it would freak me out too much, playing it at night.
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I played it many years ago on some form of playstation. If I remember rightly it was very atmospheric at the time (remember that a lot of things that are now a given in horror films and horror based computer games weren't all that standard back then. Atmospheric music and sounds generated by your location that didn't simply loop an audio track but sometimes simply occurred once or repeated infrequently were unusual in video games to the polished standard that this presented at the time.)
It was a reasonably good game as I recall, I preferred it to the various Resident Evil games that were around ?roughly the same time
Ok these days horror based games are much more polished (see Five Nights at Freddies etc) but I expect you could still get some mileage out of this in a dark room with surround sound.
I have so far managed to get as far as the bit with the Pterodactyl in the cafe, before I died.
Okay, so it was with a PC, using an emulator... and there were a long list of keyboard functions to have to write down. Thing was, it was really creepy and atmospheric, as you say. And I was playing it years after it had come out, and had been left behind technologically.
They certainly keep on churning them out, I think there was a remake of sorts a couple of years back. Need to look into it...
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I know there was a sequel, I suspect there would have been a remake. Another one that is worth a look if you happen to catch hold of it would be 'Alone in the Dark'
There have been a number of Silent Hill sequels... it has been a massively popular series. Been giving me ideas for my writing, to be honest.
Alone In The Dark... is that the one Uwe Boll made into a rubbish film with Christian Slater and Tara Reid?
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It might well be - just about every good game gets made into a rubbish film eventually. It was originally set in the 1920's (first one and a couple of sequels) and was very Lovecraft inspired.
It might well be - just about every good game gets made into a rubbish film eventually. It was originally set in the 1920's (first one and a couple of sequels) and was very Lovecraft inspired.
The film version of Silent Hill wasn't so bad, and the sequel was okay as well. The problem with Silent Hill: Revelations is that it tried to cram in too much. It could have made a decent two-part film, if that makes sense.
I think I should look into Alone In The Dark... but I don't think this particular game could be regarded as particularly Lovecraftian... unless you think Silent Hill is?
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Silent Hill? No, not especially. The overall plot concept floats along the border of Lovecraft - parallel world which slips 'in and out' of reality etc. But the way it's conveyed isn't as subtle as Lovecraft.
I wonder if there was a way to make it Lovecraftian? Mind you, with the whole "God" worship angle, You have a start, I suppose...
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Well it wasn't far off. I think it was the (necessary for a game) pace that kept it away from that style. If it had been a novel covering his 2-3 weeks exploring the town etc then...
I wonder if the game could be written as a novel, and made to be Lovecraftian? But I'm going crazy here...
To be honest, I'm starting to get curious just how well this game truly did...
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I see a new writing project being considered - although to be fair I could say that on almost any topic and have about a 50% accuracy rate couldn't I?
Sort of, but I am resisting the temptation... I have too many to get finished first...
I wonder what monsters were in this game, and how they were used?
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I can't fully remember what nasties there were (except for the hounds early on) but I'm sure there are a few walkthroughs posted online that will describe them. Oh and the nurses obviously.
Actually that - I think - spawned a whole new genre of Zombies. The 'Jerky quick' ones
The Nurses certainly were, but they had the parasite on their back, has scalpels or lead pipes as weapons. They altered in two, and stayed that way, pretty much...
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Ditto. I haven't played a real video game since... Years. By years of gamer are long gone. No time anymore. Last one I played seriously might have been... Either A Bard's Tale (great game btw) on my tablet or Summoner 1 & 2 on PS2 (which I have played multiple times). Only played a card game on my tablet when I get bored these days.
Ditto. I haven't played a real video game since... Years. By years of gamer are long gone. No time anymore. Last one I played seriously might have been... Either A Bard's Tale (great game btw) on my tablet or Summoner 1 & 2 on PS2 (which I have played multiple times). Only played a card game on my tablet when I get bored these days.
I understand the lack of time thing...
Did you ever play this game, though? If so, what did you think of it?
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Sorry, cannot write any more right now, I have managed to get a hibernating butterfly on my arm, and am trying to get it off, and somewhere safe without accidentally killing it...
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Ditto. I haven't played a real video game since... Years. By years of gamer are long gone. No time anymore. Last one I played seriously might have been... Either A Bard's Tale (great game btw) on my tablet or Summoner 1 & 2 on PS2 (which I have played multiple times). Only played a card game on my tablet when I get bored these days.
I remember the Bard's Tale. That was SO good - honestly.
The fact that, over fifteen years later it is still popular, as a game and a franchise, shows it has stood the test of time.
This was one of the enemies you had to face:
Bring back any memories?
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I'm just saying that although I did used to be a big gamer, I find it hard to get engrossed in games any more, very few keep my attention for long enough. I don't know why. Perhaps I'm just getting older and my tastes are changing, or perhaps games are just crap these days!
I did VTMB a few months back, and should do it again soon. But not as Tremere... I've done it so many times as that clan, I can do it in my sleep! 
