I haven't played it, but I bet its nothing actual Lovecraft and only uses his namesake.
[QUOTE=Swilly;43438761]I haven't played it, but I bet its nothing actual Lovecraft and only uses his namesake.[/QUOTE]
It's more the enemies are Lovecraftian horror themed, you just go around assaulting fish people.
But that's not Lovecraftian, you can't fight half the things he created.
As a Lovecraft-inspired game it fails pretty miserably, but as a sort of randomly-generated almost Thief-esque game, it's pretty good.
Still, I wish people would stop throwing around Lovecraft's creations as windowdressing.
Yeah, it gets really annoying to see Lovecraft's work thrown about like its the gold standard in scary.
I really liked the game - it's a lot of fun and worth picking up. Really underappreciated.
[QUOTE=Swilly;43438936]Yeah, it gets really annoying to see Lovecraft's work thrown about like its the gold standard in scary.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, afaik 99% of his shit is some incomprehensible horror you'll just go fucking insane if you even look at.
I'm sure the game is amazing but I'm really not digging the graphics
even 90's-early 2000's games looked better than that I think
[QUOTE=Swilly;43438761]I haven't played it, but I bet its nothing actual Lovecraft and only uses his namesake.[/QUOTE]
If the game was truly like Lovecraft's work then it would span over two real-time week of things slowly starting to look weirder and weirder and dreams fucking your head over.
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[QUOTE=J!NX;43446103]I'm sure the game is amazing but I'm really not digging the graphics
even 90's-early 2000's games looked better than that I think[/QUOTE]
[img]http://blog.leschroniquesdugamer.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/alone-in-the-dark-1-02.jpg[/img]
That's alone in the dark, 1992
Loved the game but it really isn't worth $15 at all. Probably explains why the sales went up so much on Dec 22.
[QUOTE=Jetblack357;43446091]Yeah, afaik 99% of his shit is some incomprehensible horror you'll just go fucking insane if you even look at.[/QUOTE]
I know, I know. I've read his stuff, hell I took a whole class on Weird Fiction last semester.
I feel really sorry for other writers, who've made perfectly awesome worlds and they get ignored for Lovecraft and his now trope stuff.
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