What are your favorite games that draw inspiration from the works of HP Lovecraft?

What are your favorite games that draw inspiration from the works of HP Lovecraft?

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god of war lol

Cthulhu saves the world.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.

Literally a god tier video game that only gets better as it goes along, with the three best levels being in the second half of the game. If this game got a proper bugfix it would literally be up there with System Shock and VtMB as one of the greatest immersive sims of all time.

The gun mechanics where great too, more games need to drop the use of reticules and HUDs and have more weapon sway and manually checking of ammunition. The guns in this game where so fun and well implemented.

Hatred 2. No more niggers.

Nearly every famous writer or philiopsher shat on women or are sexist. Except lovecraft.

Fallout 3.

Bloodborne, duh.

>Game has grotesque elements
>This writer is the only thing that comes to their minds
Lovecraft was a mistake

Name other writers that did what he did, then. Legit curious, I want more of it.

I don't like any of that crap. I like pretty forests and cute animals.

Quake, even better with the music done by nine inch nails.

Love him or hate him, you cannot deny that lovecraft had a huge influence on cosmic horror as a genre.

why does lovecraft look like adam sandler

There are lot of writers that wrote cosmic horror stories. Though they were all inspired by lovecraft.

Spielberg and the dude who did The Kin in Yellow comes to mind.

TES4: Shivering Isles

Dwarf Fortress

Mass Effect

Quake is good.

Also one of the designers made the Call of Cthulhu tabletop so that's bonus points.

>game has otherworldly gods whose actions are beyond the players comprehension
>their lesser servitors can be slain, but the idea of fighting said entities directly is madness
Are there any games that actually do this?

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Bloodborne.

>genre shlock

Probably only bloodborne. Was never into cosmic horror, mainly because I think its still never been done well outside of comics.

No, because that's fucking retarded and cuts out all the cool stuff.
>hey so, guys, look at this game, it has all these super powerful beings beyond human comprehension, and it's an action RPG/FPS/whatever!
>ah, that's cool, i'm guessing they're like the big bosses of the game, right?
>nah, you just fight their avatars and minions.
the problem is that games that do make you fight otherworldly gods beyond human comprehension sadly makes them well within human comprehension without giving much reason as to why you're able to fight them. like bloodborne, you shouldn't have been able to fight half the bosses in that game as a lowly hunter, but you do, and all of them are basically slightly more disgusting variants of your typical RPG monster.

But the twist of Bloodborne is that you were (becoming) a great one. See Demon's Souls.

You could've spoiled that, you know.

No he didn't need to. The game's been out for about 4 years now.

I get that, but even by the time you meet something like Ebrietas you shouldn't be able to kill her. You don't fully become the Great One until you beat Moon Presence, or maybe when you beat Gehrman period.

>With the three best levels being the second half of the game
>last half of the game is nothing but FPS tier levels

Sorry buddy, but the first part of the game is actually the best. After that the devs got lazy and turned it into a generic FPS.

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Stalker

Is the PC port more buggy than the OG xbox version or vice versa?

Blood

>There are lot of writers that wrote cosmic horror stories. Though they were all inspired by lovecraft.
Wrong. The King in Yellow and The Great God Pan (just some examples) were published 15-20 years before Lovecraft started to get published. He was inspired by them.

Why did he hate blacks so much?

are you gay? as soon as you get guns the game's fun comes to a halt

Same reason people hates blacks now?

you don't?

>DCotE
>generic FPS
>devs got lazy

Literally kill yourself, especually for calling the devs lazy. The devs tried fucking hard to make this game and Bethesda fucked them over and ruined everything. You are so wrong on so many levels. Just because a game has a gun doesn't make it a generic FPS.

>no reticule/crosshair at all
>no HUD elements at all
>have to manually check rounds in your mag
>low ammo counts
>weapon sway/deadzone like in Red Orchestra 2 adds to the atmosphere with your gun not being locked to centre screen and instead moving where your gun points it

Also how the fuck is stealth infiltrating an occult hideout or escaping a prison cell typical FPS levels? The only levels that were FPS like where the 2 levels immediatly after getting a gun. The fish factory including the car chase, which is the worst level and the only bad level in the game. Then the refinery. And even then, Refinery was more like a Doom level with a very maze likle structure, where the main objective is finding your way through the maze. Rather than a shooter. There was only a handful of enemies in it even. Then after that you lose guns again, then find some then lose them again multiple times.

The first half of the game is great, but it's also literally a fucking walking simulator. Imagine Gone Home or Dear Esther but with actually good atmospere and effort put into it. That's the first part of DCotE. I don't know why you guys defend it. It's a good part, and it's okay because the later part justifies it as being an extended buildup. But if the whole game was the opening where you don't have any weapons, the game wouldn't be nearly as good. It would just be another walking sim, albiet a fairly spooky one. The game is better for having weapons and I am not wrong that the best 3 levels in the game are the last ones where you have guns in the Air Filled Tunnels, the Reef and the Occult Hideout.

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The PC port was done in like a week by one guy who was a friend of the dev team IIRC. Read this image to find out, the development of this game was so fucked over by Bethesda. The devs truly tried and got fucked in the ass multiple times. It's been a while since I last read this image but IIRC they did the PC port on their own dime without Bethesda's knowledge even.

Just play the OG Xbox version. The PC version even with fixes has a lot of issues.

>one bad level means the game comes to a halt

Are you another one of the poor cuckolds who dropped the game at the fish factory? You know that level takes like max 20 minutes to finish right and that the game gets really good after that again. Fish factory isn't even bad, it's just not as good as any other level in the game.

I can't believe Sup Forums hates walking sims so much, but then when an actual good walking sims comes out, but turns into a horror shooter like FEAR/Stalker half way through Sup Forums shits itself in rage and claims guns ruined it and they wanted a walking sim the entire time.

Low-t nerds usually do.

Fair enough. You provided evidence for it, unlike the rest of this fucking board.

Guess I should go reinstall.

>asking a question about turn of the century writer with 2017 bias

Why are you so stupid? In fact, I'm surprised there isn't more hate for blacks more now. After all, we have this crazy thing called "statistics" that shows us how useless they are.

>I get that, but even by the time you meet something like Ebrietas you shouldn't be able to kill her

At that point in the game you're not a regular human. You used Eldritch blood echoes (which came from celestial beings such as Ebrietas) to make yourself inhumanly stronger, faster, more resilient, etc. Even your weapons are reinforiced with inhuman blood (blood gems), and the fact that you're part of the dream means you are technically immortal and get as many tries to kill something as you need.

Add to that that you recieved enough insight to start growing eyes inside and not go mad.

FOR THE LAST TIME. The PC version does NOT have any technical issues. It has compatibility issues. I beat the game twice on WinXP without any issues.

I played it for the third time on Win7 using the same hardware. It was a nightmare. The scripts were broken, the ship level gave me a BSOD. I had to download a save game file to skip to the next level.

So if I play it on WinXP and play it in 1920x1080 and 60fps. I wont get issues like the reef, I wont have walk speed issues at the end because of walk speed tied to framerate? I wont have moving a certain item in the hotel chase sequel crash the game?

Does this game play in a virual machine well?

I believe somewhere in game they even reference the fact that Great Ones dont truly "die" anyways and are just merely fucked off to the next mere plane of existence. Many people who are supposedly "dead" are actually in fact still alive just in another dreamworld.

virtual machine? nope. it should work fine on XP though. I know it's stupid but the game was made with older operating systems in mind. even most popular/updated games like Half-Life have tons of compatibility issues (scripted sequences are out of sync, timing errors (it didn't have an input/out system like hl2), etc.).

I fear that we'll need a windows emulator to run older games properly some day.

Fallen London and Sunless Sea

With the major break from Lovecraft being that humans can, and eventually do, completely fuck with the highest level of celestial entities and the very fabric of reality itself

>tfw no M.R. James inspired vidya

We probably will. I still use W7 and installing that on my new rig I bought a few weeks back was a nightmare. I have some spare HDD's laying around that I could put XP on, but I am wondering if it will even install with the new mobo's now. I had to download workarounds even for 7 to install now.

Would it be possible to go around to my brothers place who still has an old PC. Take his HDD out, put my spare in, install Win XP on that, then come over and hook it up to my new one and have it boot up with Win XP?

Demonbane

It's worth noting Ebrietas arguably isn't a "true" Great One since she's Kin like Rom.

Fallout (((4)))

hollow knight
bloodborne

man this game really needs a remaster.

The game has been out for years. If you haven't played it yet, tough shit.

This I dropped the game because of the shitty mechanics. Atmosphere was good until guns

Hidetaka Piyazaki Lovecraft

Dragon ball z budokai 3

It was a different time

hating blacks is completely reasonable if you look at facts and numbers. You're like 10 times more likely to be robbed/attacked by a nigger than by a white guy. At that point being mistrusting of blacks isn't racism, it's an educated guess

You can act however you want on this site, but if you were saying this shit irl all your friends would disappear, you would be looked down and nobody would talk with you for the rest of your life. If that doesn't show you are wrong then nothing will. Remember that

Im not any of those anons but
>having friends
>talking with people
>not being looked down upon
where do you think you are
also i guess you could just join some kkk irl i guess

Why do women pretend to enjoy Lovecraft?

>"Of the complete biological inferiority of the negro there can be no question he has anatomical features consistently varying from those of other stocks, and always in the direction of the lower primates... Equally inferior and perhaps even more so is the Australian black stock, which differs widely from the real negro. In dealing with these two black races, there is only one sound attitude for any other race (be it white, Indian, Malay, Polynesian, or Mongolian) to take and that is to prevent admixture as completely and determinedly as it can be prevented, through the establishment of a colour line and the rigid forcing of all mixed offspring below that line."

wheres this coming from

uh oregon aint like that homie it aint the whites that have to toe a line its the minorities

>"It is a fact, however, that sentimentalists exaggerate the woes of the average negro. Millions of them would be perfectly content with servile status if good physical treatment and amusement could be assured them, and they may yet form a well-managed agricultural peasantry."

I just wanted to shitpost my waifu

Playing this atm. I feel like I'm on the White Ship, except the place I'm not supposed to sail is "anywhere". Games have drawn from HPL before, but this is the only game where I feel like my own curiosity is luring me to places where man wasn't meant to go.

GOOd thing that Im on Sup Forums then, where I can actually speak my mind

Depends where you live man. Plenty of people are still pretty racist and relatively open about it.

In my city alone it's common to hear people tell other to stay out of certain neighborhoods because they are dangerous (pro tip they are all black neighborhoods, sometimes Hispanic)

Why do you think people are on this website?

lovecraft wrote hilariously bad prose disguised as journal entries. his angle was novel, but christ almighty his shit makes me cringe when i read it. he would've killed it as a modern day screenwriter though.

Nigger, u wot? The Chase is the single best part of the entire game. The Refinery prior to the Shoggoth encounter is dogshit, as is the Wharf and the Esoteric Order of Dagon. The Deep Ones pose no real threat to you and the fact that they respawn only makes the level more tedious.

nope

>You can act however you want on this site, but if you were saying this shit irl all your friends would disappear,

Not him but I say the same stuff he says in real life all the time, not while minorities are around of course, but to my white friends, even female ones included. They agree with me. Sometimes it not even me that says it but a friend brings it up and I just nod and say I understand.

>Esoteric Order of Dagon
>bad level

KYS right now

>Refinery
>not fun to explore

KYS again nigger

Be sure to sail off the map in all four directions

The refinery wasn't fun to explore at all. It's just you running through identical hallways full of identical, respawning enemies that you've been fighting for the last two levels.

Working on it.
I've been to the heart of Frostfound and saw I could return after doing that. No idea what I'm doing but I hope it's worth it.

>I FUCKING HATE mazes

KYS anytime shit taste nigger

There's nothing wrong with mazes. The Refinery was just a tedious, ugly level.

Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem is one of the best horror games of all time.
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the secret world legends LAUNCHING ON 26 JUNE PLS PLAY

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Greatest Nintendo Villain.

>tfw only recently found out that Quake 1 is a lovecraftian game

I was too young and unenlightened to know these things I guess

Was going to post this, best story-driven game on gamecube. Fucking superb game back when I played it.

>Quake, even better with the music done by nine inch nails.

This user has very good taste.

as a giant fan of dark corners who has beat it at least 10 times, i still cant understand people who say the guns ruined it. that shit was so immersive and fun

Terraria
Grim Dawn

This is the whole game logic of bloodborne retard.

Lovecraft is all about disempowerment. Giving you a gun empowers you. At least thats how the argument goes. Though taking out Dagon with a battleship was kinda bullshit.

But I bet you'd never say this to someone face you keyboard warring faggot.

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Darkest Dungeon.

I dont like how much i look like him.

>muh story

In a video game, gameplay is more important.

DCotE had fantastic gameplay. Also the gunplay was far from COD tier, you had lots of things making it harder to aim, shoot, get info about how much ammo you had, etc.

These

Why does he always look like he has a bird in his mouth?

So you pretty much just admitted that you and your friends are a bunch of pussy faggots lawl, don't even have the balls to say it when they're around. Lol little bitch.

Is pic related any good?

I second Grim Dawn

well fuck me