henke on 29/10/2018 at 10:41
I don't really like horror games in VR, too many use jump scares, which are even more unpleasant in VR than on a monitor. I played a bit of Wilson's Heart a few months back, but after the second or third jump scare I was like, nope, fuck this. I did just pick up Red Matter in the current Oculus Halloween sale tho. It's a game where you expolore an abandoned space station, and supposedly it's more about psychological horror. I'm about half an hour in, so far it's pretty good. Reminds me a bit of POLLEN.
Renault on 29/10/2018 at 17:29
(
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/halloween2018/) Steam Halloween sale is on. Good until 11/1.
Every game I was targeting in the Playstation Store's "Sale of the Dead" is even cheaper in Steam's sale. Steam wins again.
icemann on 30/10/2018 at 05:12
PC Master Race ftw :thumb:
Renault on 30/10/2018 at 17:56
Picked up a couple of things on the Steam sale today. If anyone is interested in Observer, you can get it for 12 bucks on Gamersgate, which gives you a Steam key.
Added Scratches: The Director's Cut to my list of games to play this week. Fired it up and quickly remembered that I hate old point and click games. The worst parts are the pixel hunting and crazy logic you're expected to figure out on your own. Example - at one point, my character hears creepy noises in the mansion they are staying at, and you are expected to somehow know that using your stethoscope with the fireplace will reveal that the sounds are coming from the basement. Uh huh. Ain't nobody got time for that. So I plan on finishing the game with a walkthrough in hand.
Also picked up White Day and Outlast 2, along with a few other cheapies.
More Halloween sales: (
https://www.gamersgate.com/all?q=halloween) Gamersgate, (
https://www.gog.com/games?page=1&sort=popularity&tab=on_sale) gog, and (
https://www.nintendo.com/games/spooky-games) Nintendo.
twisty on 31/10/2018 at 04:25
I also picked up Outcast 2 and Witch It. I'll post some impressions of the latter game once I've had a chance to play it over the next week or so.
icemann on 31/10/2018 at 08:51
I picked up Resident Evil 7. I may have not finished a RE game since RE 4, but this one looks quite interesting + it's 35% off.
twisty on 31/10/2018 at 10:47
Doesn't look like anyone has picked up Vampyr or Call of Cthulhu. While the reviews are a bit mixed for both of them I'm surprised that no-one has played them yet.
Sulphur on 31/10/2018 at 11:04
Oh, I picked up Vampyr a while ago. Its introductory narration made my face contort into a paroxysm of delight, because the last time I'd heard something so redolent of finest limburger was in Castlevania: SotN's confrontation with Dracula. It's sadly po-faced outside of that, and there's inexplicable frame drops in a major location that put me off of it for the time being.
catbarf on 31/10/2018 at 20:20
I figured the Marine campaign from AvP 1999, a game I'd never played (despite loving its sequel), would be a good Halloween game.
Instead the late-90s FPS design means I am sprinting through corridors at 20mph while orchestral music presumably from Aliens plays in the background (seemingly without cue- it often blows into bombastic glory when nothing is happening, only to go oddly silent during combat), alternating between blasting similarly-fast aliens and wondering where on earth I'm supposed to go now.
It's fun, but it's less scary Halloween experience and more cocaine-fueled nightmare. Oh well- I might just abandon this and replay the sequel instead, or even the 2012 AvP game, which for all its flaws was still an excellently atmospheric experience.
froghawk on 1/11/2018 at 02:09
AvP classic is awesome. I tried the sequel after it and couldn't get into it at all.
