So a new Call of Cthulhu game is being made by Frogwares (Magrunner: Dark Pulse and a bunch of Sherl - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Lamarr;43570381]I've never played these games,does Cthulhu actually appear in them?[/QUOTE] a statue of him shows up briefly in Dark Corners of the Earth, it drains your sanity pretty hardcore. other than that Cthulhu's a fairly minor (albeit largely unstoppable) player in the mythos as a whole, nowadays it's all about those Deep Ones and Mi-Go. [editline]17th January[/editline] i mean in the context of games they're the more popular antagonists because a gun can take them down and there is some feasible chance of fighting back and thus having an entertaining conflict (see tabletop, Delta Green, DCotE etc.) whereas with Cthulhu and other crazy deities you're just screwed right away.

[QUOTE=PSI Guy;43570023]Ironic that Lovecraft hated games when so many adaptions of his work make for great ones. I still have to finish DCotE; I can't bolt doors for shit.[/QUOTE] Are we talking like board games here? I mean you can't really compare Amnesia with Yahtzee.

Are we finally going to get Lovecraft right this time? IS THE NEWS NODE GONNA STOP RECITING EVERYTHING BEING LOVECRAFT NOW?! [editline]17th January 2014[/editline] Although to be honest, it would be nice if it was [I]At the Mountains of Madness[/I] this time.

Loved the story in DcotE. Really creeped me out at some point. Hope this can deliver.

[QUOTE=MrJazzy;43570300]Wait what kind of games are we talking about because Lovecraft died in 1937 and I'm pretty sure there weren't any video-games around back then.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=booster;43570465]Are we talking like board games here? I mean you can't really compare Amnesia with Yahtzee.[/QUOTE] [quote]All these things are, in their superior forms, simply by-products of excess intellectuality – which I haven’t the honour to possess. In their inferior forms they are of course simply avenues of escape for persons with too poorly proportioned and correlated a perspective to distinguish betwixt the frivolous and the relevant... H.P. Lovecraft to James F. Morton, February 3, 1932 ...I feel quite justified in believing that games and sports ought not be ranked among the major phenomena of life. H.P. Lovecraft to Robert E. Howard, October 3-5-7, 1932[/quote]

I wonder how Lovecraft woulda felt about Amnesia; even if he didn't like games, video games weren't even a thing, and as a horror experience Amnesia was pretty neat.

[QUOTE=ironman17;43571256]I wonder how Lovecraft woulda felt about Amnesia; even if he didn't like games, video games weren't even a thing, and as a horror experience Amnesia was pretty neat.[/QUOTE] The fact that he mentions games alongside sports makes it sound like he means competition and score-based games. Amnesia is an interactive narrative, essentially. Not too different from a horror novel really; it tells a story and tries to convey a certain feeling while doing so. The only thing that makes it a game is that it has a few criteria that need to completed, such as not dying horribly. All in all I think it's ridiculous to think that Lovecraft's comment applies to that.

[QUOTE=kaze4159;43569152]Frogwares was also behind this masterpiece of horror [video=youtube;13YlEPwOfmk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13YlEPwOfmk[/video][/QUOTE] They actually made an updated creepy watson video [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc5x9tclNh0[/media]

The mansion seems a bit too dilapidated, it looks like leaning against it could make it fall over entirely.

[QUOTE=Swilly;43570476]Although to be honest, it would be nice if it was [I]At the Mountains of Madness[/I] this time.[/QUOTE] i'd love that, it's easily my fav HPL story

I stumbled onto DcotE a couple years ago and was just blown away. I had no idea about the game or what it was going to be. I really really hope this game is going to be like it.

That part in DCotE where you're spying around in some room and you're trying to block a door with a bookcase is just amazing. You start pushing for a bit, until you can't push it any further. Look back to the door and it's open. You close it and start pushing again, only to then have to close it again. One last try and BAM suddenly it's some weird guy in your face telling you to stop snooping around. That was one really good scare.

Magrunner was total poo. Nice concept, worst possible execution.

[QUOTE=joost1120;43575598]That part in DCotE where you're spying around in some room and you're trying to block a door with a bookcase is just amazing. You start pushing for a bit, until you can't push it any further. Look back to the door and it's open. You close it and start pushing again, only to then have to close it again. One last try and BAM suddenly it's some weird guy in your face telling you to stop snooping around. That was one really good scare.[/QUOTE] Reminds me of a video like that. [video=youtube;SDZADFP0Px8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDZADFP0Px8[/video]

I wish they'd do a game where you can play as Cthulhu and devour the world.

I love stuff like this. I've always found the Cthulu mythos really interesting.

Wait... Why don't we have more of this already?

[QUOTE=Domokun;43575998]Reminds me of a video like that. [video=youtube;SDZADFP0Px8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDZADFP0Px8[/video][/QUOTE] That was the video that got me watching 4PP for a while.

[QUOTE=Psychokitten;43576192]I wish they'd do a game where you can play as Cthulhu and devour the world.[/QUOTE] large-scale octodad but with cthulhu