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[Dracko]

Yeah, it's kind of pathetic. The fact that enemies don't pop up in front of you until you're inches close to them doesn't make the game feel any less empty either.

And butchering them feels pointless. But your guy gets off on it so hard. :(

I really can't stress just how hopeless a universe this feels like, especially from such warped perspectives. I guess the implication is this universe won't do anyone in it any good.

I don't know if it's depressing or just morbid.

You really do have to push yourself to get to the more interesting developments, though. I got it for £3, so no big loss, right?
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Dragon Quarter (European version) comes to mind~

[smartblue]

[Faithless]

[adol]

[jack klugman]

[RobotRocker]

[sam]

[RobotRocker]

Forgot something. The part in Lesiure Suit Larry: Manga Cum Laude where you nail the Band Geek. That sequence was insane, one of the funniest things I saw in a game, but you wonder what the developers were on when they conceived that. Though the scene where you and and the actress are rehearsing a sex scene while an Arcade Machine, based on the movie Road House (Yes, that Patrick Swazye film), shouted directions at you from the side lines while both characters were humping the air comes close.

That game was unfairly maligned but it was also pretty insane. Its worth a play if you can get a hold of the PC version though.
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Oh man Cycle Dark Castle was so rad. I have the sound effect for the Black Knight throwing beer cans down at you ingrained in my head forever. I must've beaten those two games like a million times when I was a kid but fuck if I could do it now.

[Mikey]

Myst was surreal (and some macabre elements, I suppose) and while some of its puzzles behaved logically (in that things worked the way you expected them to) none of them made sense contextually. For example, why is there a keyboard in a rocket ship? However, since Myst was so barren aside from Atrus, Sirrus and Achenar, it almost felt natural to go around solving those bizzare puzzles. It was as if the game said "Here is a world just for you, go play in it."

Getting that out of the way, I'd like to nominate Riven as a fucked up game, especially when comparing it to Myst. You start the game seeing someone be killed, or kidnapped (my memory is sort of foggy). As you go around, you encounter people who hide from you, as well as beasts who do the same. And there's all this alien, quasi-religious iconography and evidence of people actually living lives in the place. Almost everything here, even if it's strange, seems like it has a sense of purpose (if not necessarily relevant to you and your task) here and not like it's just some random shit a game designer rendered. Never mind that some of the puzzles have you essentially breaking into places. It made me feel like an intruder, like some kind of prowler or peeping tom.

[Broco]

[CubaLibre]

[diplo]

[glossolalia]

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[L]

[another coma]

[Nikolas Payne]

[Marshmallow]

[RobotRocker]

[dessgeega]

i just realized what broco's sig is of. how appropriate to this thread!

[Marshmallow]

you know when I said NSFW earlier?

what I meant to say was "NSFAnyone, Anywhere, Anytime".

[glossolalia]

[Tokyo Rude]

MAN IF ONLY THE GAME HANDLED IT AS WELL AS YOU SEEM TO IMAGINE IT HAD. (about contact.)

[glossolalia]

well, i think a game deserves the benefit of the doubt/best possible reading, but yeah, as i said in practice it's a bit hamfisted about it.

[dessgeega]

contact does some interesting things, but they feel like last minute grafts intended to elevate a hollow and generic portable rpg to something that could be marketed as A Clever and Self-Aware Game, Perfect for People who Talk About Games on the Internet. i would appreciate the clever bits more if the game itself wasn't such a vapid waste of time.

psychosomnium and shade do a lot with the relationship between the player and the game's protagonist(s) and manage to be really quick plays at the same time.

on-topic alert: they're both pretty fucked up, and i totally recommend them to the thread. adam cadre's shrapnel is a pretty fantastic mess, too.
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Is it time to mention this yet?
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[Dracko]

Shrapnel made me feel like my computer was genuinely laughing at me. It was one of the greatest freak experiences I've had with a game.

I was venturing actually that Drakengard may have a misanthropic meta-subtext, commenting on the nature of a game audience as the eldritch, dark forces that make its world its play thing, which they built in with absurd rules (The Seals) and subvert and destroy as they see fit.

Or maybe the last couple of endings are played for laughs, I don't know.

In a sentence, Drakengard is a game where the "heroes" have already lost, they just don't know it yet.
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[Dracko]

Controversy.

I still don't understand why people thought Gus Van Sant's Elephant was a good film, especially in light of the Alan Clarke original.
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[Dracko]

[Schwere Viper]

Probably Demonophobia, although the shock and disgust sort of dissipated after dying a certain number of times and having to start again at the beginning of the stage and having to do every single thing again all the while the girl FINDS NO REASON AT ALL TO INCREASE HER PACE BEYOND A CASUAL STROLL GOOD GOD YOU SILLY BITCH WOULD A BRISK POWERWALK BE TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR?
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[Wall of Beef]

[RobotRocker]

[chevluh]

Aw come on. You can offend 4chan by claiming you like Mario games, and then offend them again by claiming you don't in another message. As a hivemind it's just ridiculously susceptible to offense.

[nothingxs]

street fighter 2.
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