Haven't made a good game since Dark Descent

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>>722167318
Will it be lame like Amnesia Rebirth or will it be Bunker kino? That's the real question

>>722167456
The Bunker was their only decent game.

>>722167553
It's just an Alien Isolation rip-off but worse in every way and 1 hour long with no content instead of 20 hours with varied enemies, story, characters, different locations etc.

>>722167553
Amnesia TDD > Bunker
>Penumbra > SOMA > Machine for Pigs > Amnesia Rebirth

>>722167683
>Monster follows you and can hear your doorsteps
>"Its an alien isolation rip off!"

Retard. Also it has 10x the atmosphere and kino as Alien Isolation

>>722167524
It's the next game by the main guy who made SOMA and he's been working on it since 2015 so it's a sci-fi mindfuck storygame like SOMA

Never played the bunker, but they don't exactly have a good track record.

Soma is their best game, if you can even call it a game. Their games need something more to them than just being a walking sim where you hide from a scary enemy. I'm not saying they need to be fast paced action games or anything, keep all the horror elements and hiding from monsters but you need some more complex puzzles, things to discover, mysteries to solve, maybe some light combat just something more than just crouching from point a to b while hiding from a monster

>>722167318
So did they remove the AI generated pics in Bunker yet?

>>722167905
t. ranny
It's literally Alien Isolation. The xeno follows you and can hear the noises you make. It's the same exact system where the monster crawls into a vent and then travels in the vents.
>muh atmosphere
frictional fags have not made a game with good atmosphere since Dark Descent

>>722167930
>mindfuck
dude what if you got cloned, bro how would you know if you are real
bro if they kill you and an exact copy of you is made you didn't die lol
it's le heckin' coinflip

mind=blown

>>722168250
Clearly you are too smart for this

>>722167683
Yeah, and it's better than everything else they've made
>>722168084
>Their games need something more to them than just being a walking sim where you hide from a scary enemy
The Bunker is literally the closest they've got to a proper survival horror with actual game mechanics.

>>722168873
I'll check it out... eventually. I'm just waiting for it to be cheap enough on sale

>>722168153
Soma had a great atmosphere, idk what you're talking about

>>722167318
Looks good but I hope it isn't just a spaceship.
Hopefully a cruise ship or resort or something.
Parts of it look like a hotel, with the trolley and the lobby thing.
Also I've enjoyed all their games so far, Rebirth was awesome.

>>722168084
All their games are about story and lore, if you're looking at anything else you won't understand it.

>>722168084
so... bunker

based on team and the arg website, looks like next one is based in some scifi-ish hotel
I'll only play if it has gameplay like bunker and they build on that
if it's another shitty walking sim like soma then I'll pass

They should just quit the act and make movies already, good thing walking simulators are dead.

>>722169550
It's a luxury hotel

https://www.hotelsamsara.com

>>722167318
the last Frictional game I truly enjoyed was SOMA. Played the newer ones, found them repetitive.

>>722167456
Amnesia was turbo slop, shitanon
It always was if you ever played Penumbra and SOMA, they could so much better

>>722172589
>Likes Soma
>Complains about repetitive games
Well, maybe you just relate to the MC being as terrible at understanding complex concepts as you, retard bro.

>>722172230
Sounds like a luxury hotel spaceship
>Since time immemorial mankind has dreamt of the stars and what lies beyond. Now LuxuryNext is prepared to deliver on that promise. Introducing, Hotel Samsara. A place like no other. A promise like no other. Exclusive. Luxurious. In Samsara, wishes will come true. Interested in investing?

Let me guess, it’s a horror game where you walk around with a flashlight? Woah so fucking innovative and spooky.

>>722174416
SOMA was repetitive gameplay-wise but not plot-wise. The rest of the games made since are repetitive in both aspects

>>722169187
It’s $2.99 on Steam right now

>>722167456
fuck off faggot. Soma was peak frictional. Still think about the game while completely forgotten amnesia

>>722168153
you fucking moron. you think isolation invented the concept of a stalking nemesis? Its been around horror games for as long as its existed in various iterations

>>722167456
>>722167683
The Bunker is the best survival horror game of the last 10 years

>>722168250
THIS!!!!
SO MUCH THIS!!!!!!!!
Phantasmagoria 2 did it first

>>722175294
>completely forgotten amnesia
heh

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>>722167318
SOMA>Penumbra>Penumbra Dark Plague>AMFP>The Bunker>anything else blended together

>>722171570
They are top tier when it comes to sound design, a huge aspect of horror, I enjoy their games, a great horror walking sim is always refreshing compared to something like Call of Resident Duty

>>722167524
>>722167553
Why is everyone here sucking off The Bunker? The game had atmosphere but the bunker itself was super boring, even the first Penumbra game was more interesting.

>>722175294
What is there to think about? Shit walking simulator with terrible writing. Did people really get so mindbroken by the most retarded philosophical question of all time with the most easy obvious answer?

>>722175928
Star Trek did it. I am sure others have done it before.
It's such a retarded question. Your conscience does not get transferred to a new body. The new copy is always going to feel like a transfer happened.
This is retarded.

>>722175452
Massive tranny cope. Isolation didn't invent stalking enemies. It created a vent crawling enemy that jumps out from vents when you make noise. People have done videos showing how it works behind the scenes. Bunker completely copied the mechanics of how it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNMAduVsqhQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qpJsLRhvUk

>>722172230
>https://www.hotelsamsara.com
Seems like theres an arg going on since random letters are highlighted, is it solved yet?

Rebirth answered a lot of important lore questions but it will always be the fucking worst one out of any game Frictional has made.
What a shame.
What they did with The Bunker was honestly very impressive though. It has actual replay value. You can make mistakes that have consequences in the hardest difficulty settings. You need to think about what to do because the fucking AI is thinking, too.

>>722182190
Reddith didn't answer shit. It reconned and ruined everything. Makes the events of Dark Descent into a joke. That alien place filled with impossible geography? Just some desert where people live in caves.
That place Alexander wanted to return to? An alien from another dimension stuck on earth longing for home and to return to his lover enough that he is willing to sacrifice as many lives as possible just for a chance to go home... to a desert and go live in a damp cave and eat bugs.

>>722167318
>all the comments begging for a worthy soma successor
frictional will NEVER live that game down

>>722167318
>Are you hype, /v/?
From that trailer? Fuck no. Feels like it was thrown together in half a day.

>>722172230
In Buddhism, Samsara is the endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth driven by karma and afflictions, which leads to perpetual suffering.

>>722182940
Rebirth confirmed the Ghouls are not typically what they look like in TDD. The workers in Alexander's mansion drank the evil shit with wine so they look all fucked up. In the bunker Lambert drank water rats have been drinking which is why all around you can see them all fucked up and the only normal rat in the whole place is on a vent in the beginning of the game.
Rebirth enemies confirm a lot of shit if you pay attention. You also learn about the queen, so that's pretty big.
I wish she wasn't fucking pregnant though. I never want to play as a protagonist who is fucking pregnant and has a 'soothe' mechanic.
Get that shit outta my fucking face.

>>722182028
looks like the highlighted letters spell out:
>SteganogRapH

I can't find the y, but steganography is hiding information inside pictures. One of the pictures on the page likely has hidden text or a hidden image encoded. Maybe the capitalized letters are the password to unlock decode the encoded image.

please don't tell me it's Jeetshit

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>>722184193
There's also a hidden link in the animated image of the lobby looking area that leads to a "guest" page looking for a password

>>722181812
I'd like to see you designing a game with a such mindset.

>>722184020
That's not a confirmation of anything, that's a retcon or a shoehorn. My guess is they shoehorned it in to connect it with Dark Descent.
Alexander didn't get fucking rat water from another dimension. Alexander was from a different dimension so alien that the idea that rats would even exist there is completely insane.

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>>722184793
>Reading comprehension test status: FAILED

>>722167318
If it's like The Bunker, then yes. If it's like Rebirth, then no.

>>722186049
I found the bunker boring personally

Main problem with Frictional is nowadays they're not interested in scaring you more than they are in creating "existential dread", whatever the fuck that means. They want to create narrative based walking sims. The Bunker, kino as it was, was made on a whim, and that's not the type of game they usually want to make.

itt
>amnesia!
>penumbra!
>the bunker!

Fuck off. I want SOMA or SOMA-style

>>722167318
Didn't they said they will stop making horror games after The Bunker, what gives?

>>722186717
I am trans and retarded btw, not sure if that ma-ACK

I have Frictional games the benefit of the doubt when Machine for pigs came out and it was pure shit because it was made by the Dear Esther ''people''
Then they hyped up Soma and got everyone excited and then shit out a terrible walking sim. I have no trust left in these ''people''

>>722167318
Soma 2 would be nice, just make the protagonist a white male or i wont play it

The only games that matter are Penumbra, Dark Descent, Bunker, and Soma if you need their future sci-fi attempt. None of the games in the genre live up to Penumbra's holistic execution. Dark Descent is a great setting that everyone knows blew the genre up for normies but it lacks what few gameplay details Penumbra had before it. Bunker is an attempt at investing in gameplay foremost over story, and it's worth recognizing for that even if it failed to live up to its stated philosophy. Soma is 50/50 on having a good setting/story and a mediocre twist/thought-experiment.

None of the other games should exist. Machine for Pigs has the worst horror gameplay and the setting is a sorry retread of Dark Descent (and made by Chinese Room LMAO). Rebirth is obviously worthless.

>>722187152
They never said that.

Rebirth was a legitimate 1/10 disaster and Bunker was pretty great so I'm not gonna hold any expectations

horror games are only scary in vr, like nigga how you gonna be scared by something in a picture frame standing on your desk

>>722188341
>soma
>twist
another retard

>>722188341
>Soma is 50/50 on having a good setting/story and a mediocre twist/thought-experiment
nothing mediocre about it

>>722186717
that universe is completely nuked. it works only if it's a one-shot