Pathologic

Does this get better after Day 2?
Not memeing, just started playing recently and I'm still not seeing the hype.

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try playing The Void, it's even worse
and Knock Knock, man... it's pure shit

no, if you dont like the first day and dont find it interesting its not gonna get better
just drop the game

you wasted your money because of Sup Forums

welcome to the club
uninstall this trash now and forget it

It's a walking simulator that's very story and character driven. If the idea of solving mysteries in a plagued town doesn't sound interesting to you then you probably wont want to finish it.

I recall that I wasn't terribly invested in the story until 2-3 days in

But no, the gameplay is Russian hobo simulator. It doesn't get better, and completing the game is a chore and an investment.

Have you gone into the infected house yet? If that still doesn't do anything for you then yeah maybe throw in the towel.

It is real slow at the start and the whole thing is very hit or miss. I mean if you like it there really isn't much else like it and it'll crawl inside your head like nothing else, but if you don't you'll just have the same reactions as most people in here.

this is probably true

the game is all about the tone, the whispy poetic writing, atmosphere. those are all there from the start. I love the game and was sucked in completely after day 1

No it doesn't, it's a shitty meme game walking simulator

It's like a Visual Novel in a sense; you play it for the characters and story, because everything else either sucks or is not even there.

Your gameplay is pretty much Walk Around > Talk > Choose Option > Repeat.

It's a slow burn. If you're interested in the town's architecture and lore right away you'll probably endure it long enough it'll grip you, if you don't you're better off waiting for the remake.

is this the game where the town is actually a pig or something?

the town is a coww

I played it a lot and I think so...?

This game simply isn't for some people.
It's not that the game is "bad" as a million children in this thread will say. It's simply for a very specific type of person.

Not every person likes every game. Sup Forums will never understand that people have these things called "tastes" that differ from one another.

Is the game even "Horror"? I like the atmosphere and all, but it's more of a depressing setting than a scary one.

Ominous I suppose. The lore is really otherwordly and I never felt like I was safe or had a grasp on the situation, that was kinda scary.

I'd say you have the right idea

What hype? It's a niche game that like 100 people have played.

no
its just a dark toned game

creeping dread + fear of the unknown, probably. it toes the line between supernatural and scientific very well at least until Bachelor runs into the Albino so for a great deal of time you're completely at odds with what to expect and how weird things are going to get.

it's an apprehensive game. that's the word I think I was looking for.

Fuck. Is the story at least worth it?
I do like the feeling of immersion.
Game could use a run button or something though.

I talked to the boy in the house but couldn't find the infected house yet. Made another save to fast forward to 10 pm and see if I could escape, but there were some guys I killed and an executor that wouldn't talk to me.

No money wasted friend, too poor to buy games.
That's why I mostly play old games too

There's combat too in it you know

Pathologic is literally the first meme game.

the story is absolutely, 120% fucking worth it. the story is the reason I and many others are willing to put up with its numerous mechanical flaws. immersion and atmosphere of course as well.

but yeah. find the house. get in. see what happens. maybe give it until day 3 as that's when shit starts to meet fan and the town starts permanently changing. it's in the northeast quadrant but you'll have to approach from the south, finding the door is surprisingly hard. think you have to talk to someone first though. don't forget to press L for letters, they'll tell you who to talk to early in the day.

False, all games I don't like but are liked here are meme games.

This might help.

if you cant stand the slow walking just use the noclip cheat and blaze through the game if you think the story is interesting

friend you would do well to remember that if you joke too much about such things people will eventually think you're serious

fucking kill yourselves you dumbfucks

ugh, THIS

+9001

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pathologic was always a niche psychological horror game made by artistic devs who wanted to make a game that's not considered fun but an experience

why the fuck did you buy it and play it knowing that? do some research instead of buying a niche, almost cult classic, game and saying "ITS LE WALKING SIM SHIT!xdd"

c'mon mate, someone who actually typed out +9001 is clearly not a person looking for constructive discussion

Alright user, thank you.
I do read the diary and the letters, some stuff is really easy to forget when walking around the town.
Heck, I died on the first day for not meeting with Rubin before going to bed, even when the journal said to.

This'll come in handy. Thanks user.

that's entirely understandable, it's pretty confusing at the start, especially with the town being a fucking maze with crazy names. if you manage to stick with it, you'll know it like the back of your hand soon enough. knowing the little back alley shortcuts through the districts can literally save your life.

fun fact, you got the only non-death game over. every other day you can fail the daily mission and it'll keep on going (naturally, this is not without consequences) but that first day you absolutely have to do it.

good luck, glad to see you're giving it a proper shot. if all else fails you could just keep an eye out for the remake.

Aspity is the best waifu

If I was going to sell the game to someone I'd say it has the world building, political intrigue, and deep lore of Morrowind combined with the uneasiness and the feeling of unavoidable doom of Majora's Mask.

It also comes with some of those game's downsides, which you either have to get used to or overcome. A lot of people gave up on Majora's Mask for it's time limit, and others gave up on Morrowind because of the combat and walking speed. That doesn't mean those games aren't great.

By the end of it I was walking from house to house, completely immersed into the story.

Eva > Clara > Maria > Grace > Lara > Anna > Yulia > big Vlad > Aspity

not OP here
is it worth it starting as Haruspex?
i still know absolutely nothing about the game, and thought as a guy 'belonging' by family into the town would fit in more and gain better insight as some people might see him not as a stranger and be more friendly and helpful
but when i started i had barely any health left and with hard luck got to the guy's and his daughter's house

i am enjoying it a lot but is it a mistake starting with him?

is it bad i slept for a few hours and lost some time? should i rather hurry to complete the kids' and the head gangster's quest?

Yep, and it'd also A theater performance about two children making a sandcastle town, wherein all of the characters including the protagonists are in their imaginations

no, 1st playthrough should always be bachelor

try to stockholm yourself into liking it because you'll never experience anything like it again
i always was intrigued by the bachelor's response to the Powers That Be, and i haven't played in a while so i dont remember exactly what it is he says, but i believe it's something like "one day things will be the other way around" or something implying that he has some kind of sentience. am i imagining shit or is there some vague subversion-y implication there?

Start with the Bachelor. Bachelor is basically the fish-out-of water character, so people will guide and explain to him all the confusing parts of the town.

Haruspex on the other hand, is written in a way that the developers expect you to understand some of the city concepts already. It's also much harder, seeing as you become a wanted man straight away.

I haven't had the experience of playing haruspex first, so I can't say.

But narratively, as an outsider, the people of the city will frequently explain their oddities and customs to you, but often avoid letting you in on secrets. As haruspex, they don't explain as much because the character should already be familiar with it all.

it's probably a bad idea, Haruspex starts you off with super low reputation which means the entire town will beat you to death with their fists, and his storyline involves all the steppe lore and traditions stuff that is weird enough without having to deal with the town on top of it.

Bachelor's really meant to be the starting point, as a rational outsider he makes for a good entry into the weirdness instead of jumping in with both feet.

I mean if you wanna keep going it's fine, but Bachelor > Haruspex > Changeling is the 'proper' way to go.

can someone give me an analysis of the game's politics and themes? I played through the game but I didn't understand much

ah, that does make sense, ill hop on new playthrough when i can
thanks!

do you have any tips or tricks not mentioned previously or in the pic guide?

spoiler
that 'sentience' is because you the player are possessing him. the Inquisitor falls in love with the Haruspex because he's the only one with a spark of life according to her, turns out that's just because you the player are controlling him. you can even tell her this. they're only dolls, after all.

>TFW we still getting new art

stick your grubby fingers in every damn trash can you find, these are your treasure chests and they fill back up as time goes by. learn the barter system. drunks and kids are elder god tier.

the rest is best kept as surprises.

>do you have any tips or tricks not mentioned previously or in the pic guide?

Maybe a bit spoilerish but try to stock up on plague-curing medicine, as you need a lot on the last day if you want to know all the secrets

there are strange little creatures that look like bald homeless people, keep an eye on them. if you see a bird man standing outside somebody's house you need to check on them asap. if you need money you can beat up factory workers in fight club for bottles of blood which can be traded for medical supplies

Cute

CUTE

>tfw got the true ending my first playthrough blind
dunno how the fuck i pulled that off

music recs like the pathologic soundtrack?

OH HOW FEROCIOUS MOTHER NATURE

which true ending? sandbox or theater? or both?

how many layers of meta you on, senpai?

You can avoid 90% of all fights just by running away.
NPCs will reset their state and position if you enter and exit a building.
Use lockpicks to break into houses to steal food. The door will remain unlocked after you exit - combine this with the previous point for a really cheap exploit.
Grey plague clouds only travel in straight lines.
Muggers will throw a knife when they first notice you. This is an instakill, but they only have one shot and it's pretty easy to dodge.
There's a free loaf of bread and a jug of milk in the tomb near the Crucible.
Pick up garbage and nuts to trade with children, then sell the extra bullets and medicine you get to the shops for money.
Don't drink water to reduce hunger, trade it to drunks instead.

Also, pic related.

Didn't it also have something to do with that polyhedron that they placed on the sandcastle?

>Grey plague clouds only travel in straight lines.
Not in infected houses, they will follow you there

But how our boy Bachelor survived his own death?

So I've heard about this game a lot of times and never played it, now I am downloading it but I only wanted to know if there's many different versions and about a second game coming

implying dolls can die
Bachelor is a fucking hardass, he's been through the shit and more.

can't wait to see what the remake will do with him if the Marble Nest dialogues were anything to go by

The Powers That Be didn't want one of their favorite toys getting killed by a squad of faceless goons.

He's also a pretty tough guy, Andrey Stamatin talks about them both getting into fights back in the Capital

you'll absolutely want the HD Classic one, the original has a borderline ramblings of a lunatic translation that will make an already opaque game damn near impenetrable.

there's a Remake in the works that's basically going to be a re-imagining from the concept up, we're talking radical restructuring of most shit besides the themes and characters and places. so presumably if all turns out like they hope the two will be considerably different experiences.

Thanks, this was my doubt and I didn't know how to properly ask.

Dumping some obscure japanese game as thanks.

B-But he's scary!

neat, thanks. I've seen that one posted before but the cover gives me gore porn vibes, what's it about?

How I describe it, the game isn't translated so what I got is that something happened and you are transferred to a kind of robot body, and interacting with other robots in this little world you get to know about a lot of strange shit, the game is very old and it gives me the chill.

This is you

sounds pretty cool, I always trust the japanese to give me the batshit crazy weird that I seek. I can read japanese decently well, maybe I'll give it a shot.

I don't think the first day really sells the game. A lot of the interest comes from seeing how the situation progresses/deteriorates between each day. Personally, Day 4 was when it really started to grip me and from that point I couldn't put the game down.

hey nice, you just need to find the game, since I got it in an old /vr/ thread from a guy that paid 1000$ in yahoo auction cause nobody out of japan got the game or a link to it.

A pity nobody wanna to translate it, my japanese is kinda bad.

This is my waifu

youtube.com/watch?v=ZzTnG3yIlQs

well, I am uploading to mega, but it will take some time

oh shit thanks, that's mighty cool of you. I ain't going anywhere but this thread might. will try to keep it bumped until then.

Can someone explain to me how bachelor comes back to life in the graveyard? Didn't the soldiers kill him?

Hey I found the link, no need to wait anymore

www.hardcoregaming101.net/garage/garage.7z

Also, here's a labelled map with the place names used in the retranslation.
The game itself doesn't do a good job of explaining all the districts and most guides use the labels from the original translation.

Bachelor's goal is to defeat death, and he's already succeeded in some of his experiments. It makes sense that he would be hard to kill.

have you finished the game with any character and gotten the "come to the polyhedron on the last day" letter and ending? if not you really should before getting a proper answer to that question.

the regular answer is just they didn't finish the job properly.

the delicious ironing is that the Bachelor did manage to beat death after all, didn't he.

noice, thanks mate. hope you enjoy this one also.

I might look into translating it depending on what it's like but I'm sure I'm not the first to make that kind of empty promise

>K98
DROPPED

Who am I looking at here?

Daniil and Clara

I played this for free and regretted wasting my time on it

to be honest i'm not entirely sure. Bachelor hugs some girl in the rain while the invisible cat watches on.

but there's skyscrapers in the background so all bets are off? you never know what you're gonna get with fanart.

>clothes look nothing like Clara's
Well, okay then.

Looks like you fell for the "Sup Forums patrician kino core" meme

well, in the thread people got to work on some text
in the last pages

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I would say Coil

Its pic remake,if you want story behind it go find original :^)

jesus christ Sup Forums has gone to shit. just because a game has a slow draw to it, doesn't mean it's bad. but I guess I can understand why underagefags think it's bad.

>coil
I love coil and I would say that it fits pathologic, but it sounds completely different than the OST
seriously wtf user

wrong time of day for a pathologic thread I think, the late night ones work pretty well.

mostly it's just people trying to start shit. plus it's the wrong kind of game for the typical Sup Forums hivemind mindset.

ignore them and they'll soon find there's no fun in poking an anthill with like 3 ants.

Joke's on you, I went ahead and looked it up.
Yeah, it's somewhat more obvious that it's Clara in the original.

More important question then. What's weirder - Bachelor hugging someone or civilization and skyscrapers catching up to the Town?

well, have you listened to all their albums? Some of them are like some of the songs, not totally different I think.

Both

>late night ones work pretty well.
seems to be the case for most threads that used have great discussion and are now plagued by shitposting. it seems that any game that gets the smallest amount of attention gets flooded by people just trying to fling shit.

This game looks like your typical 2deep4u piece of shit that nobody really likes but people pretend to like to seem smarter than they really are.

t. brainlet

this, why not play a true game like rocket league?

not even shitposting can save us from oblivion

goodbye, friends