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Also, Pathologic / IPL thread

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kickstarter.com/projects/1535515364/pathologic/posts/1541112
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rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=10552
youtube.com/watch?v=BDcZTvtI30M
youtube.com/watch?v=7eIjqpMJ-L8
mega.nz/#!e4JExA7T!O_vuuS6o65KzLNA7f8FjJRekUFl5BwKoPzDO_KoKVps
youtube.com/watch?v=XRXM1dTiJwU
mega.nz/#!7ogQySSJ!Q7pRr5sPMgAnLB8Z42KLHUznILUpkVXkxi_N6dLwxAg
tabletop.pathologic-game.com/download/Pathologic-Boardgame-OST.mp3
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What does this study prove? The intention given is vague as fuck.

What did they mean by this?

That's IPL for you, being obtuse just for the sake of it. Might be some kind of ARG for the pathologic remake, might be nothing at all. Maybe it's worth noting that the coundtdown ends after PAX east this weekend.

Seems low
Is this good?

I got 0-1.5%

I love those weird devs

Fuck knows

Who knows

Nothing, remember Knock-Knock?

>Only one question with 4 anwsers
What is the point?
Will they add more or is this it?

Theres's a new question each day
I think it started yesterday

>In certain states a person can communicate with entities of lower informational tier, such as the living.
We /Blick Winkel/ now

Oh?
What was the question yesterday?

Don't remember the exact wording, but something like "what constitutes a person", with the four answers being some variations of soul, body, spirit, memories, ... and some nonsense words thrown in as well, like 'caelpia'.
When you answer, it tells you your "active postmortal time".
Apparently I'm gonna spend some 40 years in limbo before my next incarnation. They also say it is painful.

I hope it's a new game they're going to announce.

But they still need to release and then finish Pathologic.

>IPL
>finishing anything
ЛIЛ

We'll get a flawed (and bugged) masterpiece in the best case scenario.

When they still have no release date for Pathologic ? Seems extremely unlikely.

This is done to prevent the Hawthorne effect

>t. Researcher

Oh shit.
>Limbo
>Slipping into the plain of the living
The Void remake confirmed?

Hardly

W-what? Where am I? This weird dream again...

'Thanatica' is the name of Daniil's laboratory, right? Where he works on saving the world with Science and Logic?

Anything for my favorite devs

>W-what? Where am I? This weird dream again...
Ice Pick Lodge and Streum-on working together on a game ? Now there's something I would throw my money at

clarify please

Maybe i'm taking this too literally, but since the website's title is Thanatica Labs i can't help but think that this has to do something with Daniil's research before he came to the town. If that's correct according to the questions Danill's theory suggests that there is multiple levels of being, you're able to travel between levels and you have a postmortem active time where you wait for transition to the next level, very similar to The Void's thresholds.

He was working on immortality

Ayy, it's an IPL thread! Don't you dare to let it die before someone thinks of a good substitute for "something-something" in this mene

This gif needs to be remade into a steppe rave.

Bump

IPL does deserve some bumps since this is probably the most interesting thread on Sup Forums right now

Ayyy, never seen that one, only Artemiy version

There are rips and tears for everyone

...

I'm not happy with this one, though, this idea is much better.

>Pathologic thread
>Right before I'm going to sleep

You're going the Steppe's work, rip-and-tear-user.

Even the mutey is here

...

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>speech balloons are not colored differently
What a wasted opportunity.

I've heard good things about this game. I read these guys are doing a remake but it got delayed.
Should I wait?

Try it, remake is going to be completely different game

Alright

Doing god's work, little brother.

Not "completely" but there will be changes. More info:
kickstarter.com/projects/1535515364/pathologic/posts/1541112

According to the devs, the remake will be different enough to be considered a completely separate thing. And playing the original would be worth it regardless of the remake. So if you're interested, go for it, definitely. The version you want is Pathologic Classic HD though, not the "original" 2005 release.

Knock Knock is my favourite IPL game.
It has nice gameplay and its pretty accessable.

I thought it was pretty poor content-wise, not enough puzzle pieces to even begin to make guesses about the whole picture.

I myself like Turgor/The Void most.

I dont think we were actually meant to interpret anything storywise.
Unlike the usual IPL games it seems like the story was just there to keep the gameplay together.
Either that or they're reached a deepness that our simple minds simply can not fathom.

Nah, the release of the game was postponed for 9 months because they actually made three games on the same assets, and two of them even had moderately complex gameplay but that gameplay didn't meet some requirements for the concept Nikolay Dybowsky had in his mind. So, they started from the scratch twice, and now we have minimalistic barebones of a game. I wish they released the prototypes someday.

>Eyes of sorrow and wisdom
Is it just my being sleep deprived, or is that root or whatever it is under the bull's neck similar to one of the steppe glyphs?

There's also their story of why they made the game
>In late November, 2011, a strange and troubling event has happened to our studio. We have received an anonymous e-mail which suggested that we should produce some "unconventional" game based upon the materials attached to the letter. Such offers are a dime a dozen and most of the time they barely deserve any attention at all, however, this one seemed quite different.

>The attachment contained a set of 19 files added to an archive titled "lestplay". The files (snippets of text, scraps of audio recording, video footage fragments) as well as the style and wording of the message itself appeared to be rather disturbing. The surface examination did not reveal anything straightforwardly terrifying, yet we could not escape the feeling that something truly sinister was lurking underneath.

>The stranger was begging us to complete the project he has started, yet he also made us well aware of the risk we took as the proposed ludic situation would potentially explain what calamity befell whoever has compiled the ominous archive, thus urging ourselves to meet the same fate.
Things that never happened

>spoiler
Damn if Nikolay doesn't appreciate a good story, though.
>Nikolay has started swaying and telling "It's bloody cold in Russia" stories.
>My favourite involves a man who runs to the shops at midnight in Siberia and is terrified when he hears the devil's hooves clanking behind him.
>He gets home and realises the clanking was coming from his sock-clad feet which have frozen solid.
>"The funny thing is," says Nikolay, "he had to have them amputated two weeks later."

I will go to the steppes and find a cure for death of this thread.

There is going to be dead npc that is unaware that he is dead

>Npc

Its Daniil

>2:15am - Nikolay inexplicably crashes through the front door, produces a sleeping bag and lies down on the floor next to the sofa bed. I check to see if his feet have frozen over. They have not.

Required reading for everyone ITT:
tom-jubert DOT blogspot DOT fr/2011/02/voyage-to-ice-pick-lodge-bombs.html

Apparently this is spam, thanks hiromoot

I'm pretty sure Knock Knock conveys a message similar to the one in The World Ends With You, something along the lines of "The outside world is nice if you aren't a pussy and muster the courage to get out of your house"

wtf?
I hate IPL now!

Did any of you get an email yet?
I'm really curious to see what happens with this, maybe it has something to do with the "Polyhedral Room" they were teasing during the campaign.

RPG codex interview, for those who haven't seen it already.
rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=10552

Fun fact: when almost all sister designs were already finished, IPL remembered they didn't give anything to chubby-chasers, so Ima and Ire got put on weight.

>Yes, we know that running diagonally is faster
FUCK
Can't wait to see how they screw over people who buy cheap shit during first day thinking they can get rich using the same old strategy

is this a comfy game

>the "Polyhedral Room"
Fuck, I completely forgot about that. Bought my way in, but I still have no idea just what it is supposed to be.
No email yet, that will probably come when the "study" is done ( after the countdown ?)

>The pathologic OST playlist was removed from youtube
WHAT THE FUCK IPL

What ?

youtube.com/watch?v=BDcZTvtI30M

Stop lying

Well there's stilll this youtube.com/watch?v=7eIjqpMJ-L8
I doubt IPL has anything to do with this

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Guys I never got into these games.

Can someone help?

Should I play the original Pathologic?
Should I start with the HD ?
Or should I wait for the remake?

And are other games to be played? The Void, etc?

youtube.com/watch?v=7eIjqpMJ-L8

Start with HD, if you like it play The Void > Knock - Knock > Cargo then hype for the remake.

Never played this game, but seems interesting. So bump.

mega.nz/#!e4JExA7T!O_vuuS6o65KzLNA7f8FjJRekUFl5BwKoPzDO_KoKVps

The GOG version, in case you want something more permanent.

>Should I play the original Pathologic?
Absolutely not. The HD version fixes the original translation, and that enough is reason enough to play HD.
Start with Bachelor on your first playthrough. The first few (ingame) days are pretty slow, don't get bored.
The Void is on par with Pathologic, so play that as well if you liked Pathologic. It's pretty hard though.
Knock Knock is a much smaller game, I find it's kind of Arcade-ish in gameplay. Definitely worth checking out.
Cargo is the odd one out, even by IPL standards. Nobody will hold it against you if you don't play it.

I'm on day six getting vials of blood from the ladies in town while trying to stop some fucker from burning down the Atrium. Where the fuck is the changeling?

Two options
1. If you found and killed Albino, she's mourning it at the spot where it died
2. At the Saburov's, by the end of the day at least

>Saburovs
THAT LYING FUCK. I KNEW IT. I'M BRINGING HIM DOWN IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO.

But I found her at Eva's house?

...or was it Eva's? Fuck me, that may be the case. I talked to her next to Abattoir on my Bachelor run, the second option was chan hearsay, my bad

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Also, how do I test their blood? Do I have to collect all samples before I can actually test the blood?

No you don't. Use the microscope at either Eva's house or Rubin's mortuary

No one again? Come on, at least one of you are good with words.

Thread still alive?

Did we ever get the soundtrack of The Marble Nest or just a gamefile rip?

youtube.com/watch?v=XRXM1dTiJwU

>repeated knife exposure

Every time. And no, I believe it didn't have a soundtrack released

Been on Haruspex day 10 for like 4 months now, gonna try make it to day 11 now.

Hang in there actor!

>soldiers have started flaming me

It's a first

High infection, huh?

Yeah but I can fix that easily, I just hadn't let it get that high before.

I turned on some lets play
wtf, he was detecting plague clouds
How was he doing that?
I literally finished the game once for each character and didnt know I could do that

V key iirc

Bachelor only. Those crystals gave it upgrades so you could use it longer.

It's Daniil's telescope thingy, default key for it was v i guess.

Danill's plaguefinder

It saved my ass many times

I bought HD classic when that was released but never got that far
I still want to finish it before the remake comes out but i've got to be in the right state of mind to even want to play it at all

I ripped some of the audio files from the Marble Nest into an "unofficial OST".

mega.nz/#!7ogQySSJ!Q7pRr5sPMgAnLB8Z42KLHUznILUpkVXkxi_N6dLwxAg

Some of the songs in there didn't play in the demo, and there were also tracks from the original game included in with the new stuff.

There's also this if you're desperate for more music
tabletop.pathologic-game.com/download/Pathologic-Boardgame-OST.mp3

>new 2deep stuff
I love pathologic to death but how much mystery can you really squeeze out of a sandbox-game?

seriously though I don't get what the point of this was. I think the other person living in with me who doesn't show himself doesn't care about me. My appartment is just a means to an end, I'm not needed. That seems the most logical explanation to why someone would do something like that.

What if you're the person living with someone else and not being noticed ?

well that's more complicated