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Johnbobb posted...

is this becoming painful to look at yet

why does it feel like existential dread

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/6/4/AAR-tQAAC0Ec.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/4/5/AAR-tQAAC0EJ.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/0/8/AAR-tQAAC0Dk.jpg

Underleveled posted...

Uncharted

I was actually thinking "adventure" as the type of game where there is little action and has more a focus on dialogue and puzzle solving, such as Life is Strange, Monkey Island, Kentucky Route Zero, Grim Fandango, etc.

It depends on your definitive definition.

Like I think FPS could also easily be Doom.

For JRPGs I think most would still jump to Final Fantasy VII

Fighting: Street Fighter II
Rhythm: Guitar Hero
Survival Horror: Resident Evil
Adventure: Telltale's The Walking Dead (at this point?)
Action RPG: Dark Souls
Racing: Toss-up between Forza & Gran Turismo. I would lean the former since releases are more consistent.
Strategy: Civilization

Zigzagoon posted...

Minions annihilated.

as they should be

PrinceKaro posted...

I pinged you in discord about it recently and you didn't reply so I thought that it meant you wernt able to participate :(

Ah, don't worry about it. I'm not on Discord as much anymore so I didn't see it. Still excited to see the rankings play out!

Wow I COMPLETELY forgot about this, damn.

Tag

Yes, this looks great!

Group 1
Alisa: The Awakening
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye

Group 2
Ghosts and Goblins Resurrection
Nier Replicant

Group 3 (Top 4 voted will make the tournament, bottom 3 will miss it!)
The Medium
Ann

Incredible match yesterday, Lady D can't be stopped!

Played it but didn't beat it

D (1995)

Frankenstein
Dracula
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill a Mockingbird
Catcher in the Rye
The Alchemist
The Great Gatsby
Jane Eyre
The Call of The Wild
Carmilla
The Turn of the Screw

Haven't the seen the second but the first was decent enough.

Yelena
Agatha

I thought this one was pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CyYsA9tc7M

7/10

It's not profound but it is pretty funny.

Count me as "yes" for trades, I think it makes the contest more exciting and gives it better flow round to round.

Outcast (more people should watch this damn it)

Lady
Seong

Much appreciated!

Mac Arrowny posted...

cats

Cats fucking rule. I always liked cats, but I never realized how much until I got one of my own about 10 years ago at this point. He's Tux, he's a bi-color and I just couldn't imagine my life without him now. It's incredible how owning a cat changes your life in ways that are subtle, destructive, and of course absolutely joyous. Watching movies is a totally different vibe with a comfy, cozy cat laying next to you. My furniture is pretty messed up from constant claw scratching. The peeing OH GOD the peeing why does he pee so much everywhere. But I never feel mad at him. One look at his adorable face and it's like I'm totally under a spell. Owning a cat also make you go totally psycho about other cats. Cat collectibles, cat-themed mats, cat-themed salt and pepper shakers, cat stuffed animals that happen to look like yours, it really never ends. Like, cats have to be legitimately magic right? I think perhaps it's their close emotional relationship to humans; our brains are startlingly alike. I sometimes even feel like my cat understands my words and answers me back constantly. It made me reconsider the human - animal relationship in a totally new light. Cats are special animals, and to me hold a unique power in the animal kingdom more than any other, from house cats to the totally wild. Their piercing, magnetic eyes, magnificent roars, and awesome killing potential combine into this beast that's beautiful and almost inapproachable, on a whole other plane of existence. It's quite a shame what we do them as humans, makes me fucking sick actually. Respect and love cats, that is all I have to say!

Agatha
Ji-yeong

Haunting Ground

Yelena
Sylvie

No I actually enjoy quite a few but not really much past V.

I thought it was pretty bad personally

Resident evil 4

Max Payne

Hitman (2016)

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

Resident Evil Village

Ground Zeroes - 5/10

It has a beginning, middle, and end.

The Phantom Pain - 2.5/10

It demolishes all sense of character and personality the series has had up to this point. It's blatantly unfinished and repetitive with little to no depth. I too also hate the language virus. It has fanservice in all the wrong spots. It's completely miserable on practically all accounts.

In other words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzcKJVtgaNA

Seong
Rat

I don't have quite a solid answer for that, but I would most likely say the fog is specific to Silent Hill only. Heather could be manifesting the darkness in its place to represent her uncertainty. Also, maybe it just made more sense for the time of day and the more time spent in interiors in SH3?

I played it January of last year and was both surprised at how much I liked it and how little problem I had with bugs & glitches thankfully. It's a solid experience, the characters are great, the Johnny stuff especially gets really wild and honestly I do like the aesthetic experience of it all too.

Pidove all day long

Yes

Cavedweller2000 posted...

The Alternate Hoapitsl Storeroom (Mirror Room) is one of the creepiest rooms in all of gaming

Hell yes it is! And the best part is the scare is optional & all up to you.

6/10

Doesn't really fix many problems of the first Dishonored but it's still decent.

Pretty much just naturally gifted but it's something I've nurtured my whole life because it's interesting to me to know and investigate the meaning behind things and I've had many influences that help inform my style too. I think what's most helped me most though is just keeping an open mind about everything and being willing to try new things and not just take things at face value or for granted ever. And I try to remember there's a person behind all art even if it's bad or sub-par.

I'd really love to write a book like that one day for sure! I'll make sure this board is the first to hear about it!

@plasmabeam

And as always I appreciate the compliment!

I think the train station represents a few different things. I think you are somewhat right in saying that potential is there for many destinations into an unknown future. But by the same token it could easily be the opposite: Heather might feel rail-roaded in her life by an unknown force of destiny she can't control. Notice how the subway station fights back against her with psychological tricks, or how she can play into her own fear of the paranormal by reading that article on ghosts and then getting pushed down on the tracks. Or when she finally gets on the train and it feels like an endless loop.

On the mansion... I actually think it's intended just as a joke really. Like obviously the voice takes digs and shots at Heather, especially taunting her with thoughts of suicide, but I always thought it was sort of a shot at Resident Evil's cheesiness. The typical haunted mansion setting with the trap doors and falling ceilings like what you usually expect from a horror game or movie, etc, and hell one of the rooms is even a dining room which is the first room you explore in the original RE.

Lady
Kang

Johnbobb posted...

btw it's totally 100% safe to google Lady D fanart, no worries there, trust me

Can confirm

1. 4th of July
2. Like Suicide
3. The Day I Tried to Live
4. Limo Wreck
5. My Wave
6. Fell on Black Days
7. Spoonman
8. Kickstand
9. Head Down
10. Superunknown
11. Black Hole Sun
12. Fresh Tendrils
13. Mailman
14. Let Me Drown
15. Half

I find it very hard to listen to this album ever since Cornell's passing. This was a staple album for me for years and years on end. The darkness, the mystery, the musicianship and songwriting are just about beyond anything in the grunge era if you ask me. It's as heavy as any doom or black metal album out there while also being far more accessible to the average listener which is a huge accomplishment.

In some ways, I find SH3 scarier than SH2. But they are two very different experiences. SH2 is an inwards journey into the soul and mind, while SH3 focuses more on external threats due to its far more vulnerable protagonist. SH3's true core is that of the specific female teenage experience - stalkers, (such as Douglas Cartland in the game's opening sequence), sex and teen pregnancy (this one's obvious, but one other aspect of this is how many monsters have phallic attacks or even in the case of the Slurper straight up sexually assault Heather in their attacks), finding your identity (confronting yourself in the Memory of Alessa), the very idea and nature of what it means to be "feminine" (Heather's tomboyish appearance is constantly confronted by idealized mannequins & sexualized nurses, the first area is a shopping mall and shopping is typically stereotyped as a feminine activity, the game even gives you perfume to wear which attracts more "attention" to you).

This can also be seen a lot in the game's main antagonist, Claudia. I like how she isn't a foil for Heather, but more of a kindred spirit. Claudia is a lot like Heather and rejects the notions of conformity stereotyping society places on the individual. However, Claudia is a hypocrite and places her own hatred on to Heather's shoulders ironically becoming the very thing she hates in the process. A key concept of this is how they raised: Heather had the loving Harry, while Claudia was abused and belittled by her father. It's an important distinction that shows differing masculine influences on each of their lives and how it defined them as they grey and mature.

That's just some reasons why this game is so incredible to me, but there's so much more I can get into.

10/10

Heather is one of the best characters ever created. This game's whole cast is fantastic. The amount of intricate detail and lore makes the story so satisfying. It's a great combination of tying in the first game's occult lore with the second game's more personal character-driven story. There are still secrets and intricacies I find in every playthrough.

Raven
Agatha
Ji-yeong
Han

Johnbobb posted...

an SCP that somehow hasn't been written yet

okay from my research I think I got an original one, hopefully!

SCP-60XX (Full Number Illegible)

Field Outing 1: The incident happened last night. A little girl in Jericho, New York woke up in tears yelling for her parents. She had this intense ringing in her ears. Dr. Campbell figured it was just a case of tinnitus but strangely the girl's parents developed the same ringing shortly after. Dr. Campbell, myself, and a few guards investigated the house but found nothing out of the ordinary besides a constant ringing noise. We wore ear protection just in case. For now we have chalked it up to mass hysteria.

Field Outing 2: Since day 1, everyone who has entered that house has now developed tinnitus. The ringing is intense but thankfully I have already gotten used to it. We are sticking with the same team to avoid any further "hearing casualties". We must find the source of this quickly. Could it just be the house itself I wonder?

Field Outing 3: We may have spoken too soon. Our hearing has already considerably worsened. The tinnitus is constant and deafening at times. It is impossible to concentrate on isolating possible noises located in the house. I have recruited some Class-D individuals to aid with further investigation.

Field Outing 4: I am now almost completely deafened. My ears exhibit sharp stabbing pains so intense they bring me to constant tears. The same thing has happened to Dr. Campbell, the family, and the initial batch of guards. We are at wits end with this investigation. Class-D has shown no progress besides more affected individuals. At this point isolating and securing the house is our only option.

fINalll rEporT:i was swrong theY are inside me get them otu get them out get them otuGETHTMEOUTTTTTTT

Post-Incident Report: Dr. Robertson and Dr. Campbell have received full autopsies. The guards and family have been summarily disposed of. The Class-D personnel have also been executed. Upon examination of the doctors' bodies, we discovered microscopic organisms living in and feasting on their ear drums. We have hopefully collected and contained all organisms within a petri dish. With noise isolation we have discovered a singular organism makes a noise of around 140 decibels. This revelation unfortunately gave everyone involved with the autopsy and testing tinnitus; we have no choice now but to isolate ourselves and end the infection and spread here with ourselves. The organisms are placed in a sound proof room and extreme avoidance is advised when dealing with these specimens. The house they possibly originated from has also been sealed off as mentioned in Field Outing #4. Hopefully no more of these get out or infect anybody else.