Why aren't there more Lovecraftian games?

Why aren't there more Lovecraftian games?

Even Quake's sequels dropped the Lovecraft influence completely.

ALSO, REMINDER THAT QUAKE HAD THE BEST FUCKING ADS

It's a niche I'd say. Bloodborne and Darkest Dungeon are 2 successful games that use a Lovecraftian inspired lore and world.

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Yeah that's why i was disappointed that the new Quake was going to be only multiplayer

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quake being lovecraftian is a meme spouted by people who don't actually know what lovecraftian horror is

Still waiting for that Quake reboot that goes back to the classic maze levels full of dark corridors, secrets and ugly monsters.

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Quake has an almost totally unique feel to it. There really is no other game that looks like Quake 1 or that has the same atmosphere. You really feel like when you step through those gates that you're going to some otherworldly foreign dimension and leaving your own world behind and that maybe you'll never make it back and be stranded in some unimaginable nightmare realm forever. I don't think any other game has been able to create that exact feeling in the player. And the world itself seems like this place that SHOULD. NOT. BE. Like it's some unnatural abomination.

>Lovecraftian
Is there any word misused more?

Terraria

One pieces are god-tier

Play Arcane Dimensions if you haven't already.

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Orwellian

games opted for being beksińskian instead

How Kafkaesque

Am I the only one who think Lovecraft is terrible?

Quality post, and no that's why it's niche dumbo

Doubt it, since most of the time they mean "tentacles, lol". Maybe "deconstruction"

He has a bad habit of "its sooo horrible that words can't describe it", but I like how he writes. All the tentacle stuff gets overplayed when it should be about despair and pyrrhic victories

What are other writers that embrace this same kind of cosmic fear of the unknown?

I'm not particularly well read on that, sorry. That being said, avoid Derleth. He wrote the mythos into generic good and evil as opposed to gods occasionally stepping on ants

I've literally never heard of this game before. Is it fun?

idk mayb bec the man was literally a bigoted racist

He hated poors too, they can be white

Kafka-esque

I'm don't know what the general attitudes were in his area and time, but he is so bad it's comical. The comments are so casually inserted, too.

Lovecraft's brand of bigotry is as weird as his content. It seems like it was more about culture than skin color. He hated rednecks and that shows up a lot. I got weirded out by one story of his that kept dripping with disdain on... People who live in the mountains, which is not a race.

why are they staring at a computer case that glows?

I think people overblow it for moral crusading. Dude had a shit life, married a jew, never officially divorced her, seemed to start regretting all the shit he said toward the end of his life and changed his attitude.

And there is this constant attitude towards it, like he was some big bad man who never got punished for his views or something. He died of stomach cancer, alone, penniless, and certain he would be forgotten. The fame came later, and his tragic fate is likely the same way most of us will go.

I played maybe 10 hours on it. It was enjoyable, but I eventually ran into the "give us more money unless you want to grind eternally" issue.

Romero's Quake and Petersen's Quake are like two completely different games, with Willits' Quake (and, arguably, Willits' sister's Quake - meaning Underearth) and McGee's Quake stuffed in between.
If there is any theme to Quake as a whole, it's definitely authorship/credit/origin.

It got tiresome after a while ...i prefer Clark Ashton Smith.At least make stories in diferent eras

IT CALLS TO US FROM BELOW

if this was actually good graphics it would be great.
The first chapter is atmospheric as fuck

lovecraft isn't what you think it is, stop trying to stick your dick in planes and go read a book

Lovecraft would probably qualify as autistic by today's mental health standards (not saying that's necessarily a bad thing btw).

aesthetic

Two of the levels I best remember are Azure Agony and The Nameless City. Azure Agony has all the feel of a final dungeon, with the game throwing everything it has at you in a huge level. The Nameless City creeps me the fuck out (the track playing there in Quake Ghosts froze my blood)

There had to be something not right in his head. He said they key source of his inspiration was his inner fear, but more importantly, nightmares that he constantly had. That shit you see when reading his books? He saw that kind of shit with his own eyes in his dreams.

Reminder Lovecraft was a twig, limp wristed faggot with an irrational fear of the ocean and never ever even fucked his wife.

And since there wasn't much cosmic horror before his time, his weirdass nightmares were original content that came from nowhere

>Never fucked his wife
She said he was an 'adequate lover' but insisted on wearing gloves.

The Strogg are better enemies anyway.

>never ever even fucked his wife
Ok he was weird but I refuse to accept this until I see a (credible) source

>insisted on wearing gloves.
Kek

There isn't one. They interviewed her years later about him, and she said

Strogg are way cooler anyway. Hope to see a Quake 3 or 4 reboot.
He wrote something along the lines of being literal to smart wojak to engage in something like barbaric intercourse.

The ocean is scary, man. It's a yawning pit of death stretching to the horizon that regularly fucks up coastlines and has huge animals in it. Along with tiny, scary looking animals at the very bottom

In that same interview she found out he never had the heart to turn in his divorce papers. She had married and widowed to another man and spent her last years horrified that she technically committed bigamy.

Both are Petersen's.

You're about to feel real stupid

>Even Quake's sequels dropped the Lovecraft influence completely.
ilts still there