Greetings fellow negro man. Can you prescribe to me, some wondrous examples of this fine antediluvian artifacts known as vidya game that is most similar to my dark and terrifying mythos and ancient writings.
Tabletop Sim+ Eldritch Horror with 3 friends
>>724323259CelesteTrannies are kinda lovecraftian in their horror no?
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earthonly survival horror game ever that actually scared me.
What happen to that lovecraftian crpg. Stygian or something?
>>724323259I made a video game where the woman sometimes wear hats and trousers.
Dustborn
Were Lovecraft’s fears really based off of muh blacks/browns and muh gubmint?
>>724326932he hated the Irish even more than the blacks
>>724323259Kirby
>OH FUCK IS THAT MARIO I'M GOING INSANE AAAAA>wait nevermind spaghetti is good all is forgiven
>>724326932He was terrified that white people had spread blacks around the world when they wouldnt have been able to explore themselves, a lot of his writings involve monstrous slave races that the old ones created that ended up destroying their masters and wreaking havoc on the world.
>>724325316It released and was not very good.
>>724326932He was agoraphobic for most of his life. He cooled down a lot later on, especially after he married a Jewish woman.
>>724326932In addition to being a paranoid racist he probably was deeply afraid of becoming mentally ill. Both of his parents went insane to the point of ending up in mental institutions, and they were not pretty places in the early 20th century.
>>724326932Reading Lovecraft for the first time.My first impression is that he isn’t more racist that the average man of his era. He comes more as Xenophobic that anything. A lot of his stories do have horrors in the form of forbidden knowledge coming from the faraway places like the exotic orient, or pacific islands. But most of his human villains are either white guys who delved in the occult or cults who have members of many races and species. Is not more racist that your average story from the time with a white adventure man fighting some unga bunga native. The one thing I can think is exclusive of him is his fear of racemixing, a couple of stories is about guys that to their horror discover they are 1/8 monsters or something, but other stories are weirdly nuance against colonization considering the era he wrote them.
>>724328449>other stories are weirdly nuance against colonization considering the era he wrote themIt wasn't (and still isn't) even that rare for racists to be separatists who think that white man conquering the world has led into more harm and good, whites would have been better off staying in Europe.
>>724328449>he isn’t more racist that the average man of his era.b-but my breadtubers all tell me he was so racist other racists thought it was too much!
I just fucking realized that Darkest Dungeon ripped off the Rats in the Walls hard.
>>724323259>antediluvianThis is how I know you actually read Lovecraft.
>>724323259Bloodborne. Nothing else has come close.
The very atmosphere was a sickly, unbearable miasma of non-Euclidean color and impossible sound. I stood upon a suspect, ochre-hued plateau, a geometry of ground so unnervingly simple it could only have been wrought by a consciousness utterly alien to the sane terrestrial sphere. This blasphemous expanse was suspended above a fathomless, unlit gulf, ever-present, ever-luring.Above, the sky was not the comforting canopy of Earth, but the Azure Absolute, a terrifying, empty blue that spoke only of the indifferent void where the Outer Gods held silent, dreaming sway. The horizon was deformed by the Verdant Sinuosities, green hillocks whose impossible curves suggested a profound corruption of natural law.The entities that shambled across this threshold were terrifying in their very banality. Creatures of crude, terrestrial brown, possessing a mind so utterly vacant that their movements were merely the slow, inevitable unfolding of a pre-programmed doom. It was a fragment of animated fungoid despair, destined only to march until negated by the avatar's foot, a temporary, brutal assertion of will against the cosmic flow.
Cthulu Saves The World
>>724323259Half-Life>piecing together knowledge opens terrifying vistas of reality>xen has incomprehensible physics>xen life is hard to describe as animal or vegetable>nihilanth is an ancient being enslaved by even greater powers>combine are basically outer ones from Whisperer in Darkness, a multi universe conquering empire with advanced surgery using human agents>vortigaunts claim far worse things have happened before>series ends on cliffhanger probably leading to earth losing>alyx is interracial
>>724331945>alyx is interracialKek
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>>724330927There is a bunch of better 7/10 games. But for 8+ and better, this.I want pic related skyrim so bad.
>>724326932its based off cosmic horror, and the idea that the cosmos are massive and earth is but a small incignificant part of it
>>724334590If paper clip machine AI's are real in this universe, than I think Lovecraft will have been unironically right all along.
>>724327310was he wrong
>>724327581yeah most people don't get that like any normal person, being around what he didn't understand mellowed him out about his fears and he was more scared of women than anything else
>>724323259look outside and darkest dungeon 1 are the closest you'll get to lovecraftian games
>>724329873nah lovecraft was pretty normal, even the cat that people like to cite wasn't named by him, it was a hand me down from his father who got it from a brother who actually provided the racist name
>>724323259The Sinking City2019Bloodborne2015Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth2005Call of Cthulhu2018Dredge2023Darkest Dungeon2015Sunless SeaEternal Darkness2002World of Horror2019Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones2019Cultist Simulator2018Eldritch2013Lovecraft's Untold Stories2019The Last Door2013The Last Case of Benedict Fox2023Darkwood2014The Secret World2012Alone in the Dark1992Darkest Dungeon IIHPL: Nyarlathotep RisingQuake1996Dead Static DriveDreams in the Witch House2023Cthulhu Saves the World2010Sucker for Love: Date to Die For2024Operation Darkness2007Daughter of Serpents1992Splatterhouse1988RailGods of HysterraStygian: Outer GodsAchtung! Cthulhu Tactics2018Sunless Skies2019
>>724323259First time playing fear and hunger, any tips?
>>724334962>when he was a childIs this shit seriously what people are making such a huge fuss about?Did this guy even have any actual racist writing (not the "aliens secretly represent minorities" kind of theories but actual racist shit)?
>>724339074Read "The Street".
>>724326932He was afraid of anything unfamiliar and therefore gross. This meant anything he wasn't closely familiar with in his hometown. The sea, those of unhygenic races, those of political views he couldn't stand. >>724327581>>724335034After he and his wife separated, he wrote the Horror at Red Hook, which is his most openly racist work. Apparently he was fine at having sex, but developed some nasty opinions about it as a gross bodily function later in life. There was some caveating to this, like Lovecraft believed if you took an Asian boy, gave him plastic surgery to appear White, and raised him as a White Man, he'd be indistinguishable from other Whites. But Africans could never cross that line. They were too degenerate as a race in his belief system.
Returnal, IMO, has a lot of Lovecraftian elements, even though it's sci-fi. Everything feels really alien, you're walking in the footsteps of ancient races and feel like a bug in their architecture. It does seem affected by Giger too, unsurprising, given the connection of the two.
Forgive Me Father, boomer shooter with hand drawn art where you play as a priest (or female journalist) purging a town afflicted by Lovecraftian evils, several weapons are fucked up tentacle covered abominations themselves. It's decent. There's a sequel too but it plays very differently, much slower paced with an emphasis on using powers alongside your guns, similar to Bioshock.Also permaban everyone sperging about politics ITT instead of talking about fucking videogames holy shit.
I've been reading some William Hope Hodgson short stories and Lovecraft ripped that guy off HARD. Too bad he was vaporized by an artillery shell in WWI.
>>724341236>William Hope HodgsonLovecraft was a massive fan of his and wrote numerous reviews lauding his works, it's no surprise he took a lot from him.
>>724326932HP Lovecraft turned racist when he lived in NYC for a few months during the early Italian immigration and when niggers were just fleeing the south after the beginning of Jim Crow moving into the inner cities (1920s). Called it the worst experience of his life, hated every moment he was there, and literal hell on earth.I wonder what would happen if we brought him back from the grave and showed him NYC today with all this shitskin sludge.Motherfucker would probably find some way to get his hands on a nuke and annihilate everything in it's wake.Can't blame him, HE'S RIGHT
Sinking city is basically a sherlock holmes game mixed with a greatest hits compilation of lovecraft stories and some brian lumley thrown into the mix. Wasn't a horror game but I really liked it.
>>724328449The average non-Klanner thought that Blacks were retarded and dirty, but Lovecraft's hate was definitely deeper than that.
>>724339074sometimes the truth is racist, especially against indians, jews, and niggers
>>724343403he was ahead of his time
>>724339074The all caps at the end get me every time.
Ah, my beloved, NIGGER-MAN
>>724342903Idk, Rober E Howart feels more racist to me by just reading the Conan stories.
>>724342375So "He" was autobiographical?
>>724343786Howard mostly was just playing at cowboys and indians tropes. He has White savages like the Picts be as nasty as any Black ones because its for the sake of the story dynamic. Lovecraft was in it for the love of the game.
>>724323259inb4 soma
>>724326932he was afraid of literally everything. A guy in his apartment ran his air conditioning too much so he wrote a short story about how he was a mad scientist who was artificially extending his life by freeze drying himself into a living mummy
>>724334361Somewere in Saturn Eibon the warlock is having the funniest Lovecraftian story you ever read.
To be fair Lovecraft was also racist to white people.
Kneel to your King.
>>724339074Read the Horror at Red Hook.
>>724343403One of us.
>>724326932Yes and no. Lovecraft had issues. Who knows what issues. It's not like people with ADHD, autism etc got diagnosed in those days, so who knows what he had. So everything new and unknown which he didn't understand terrified him. This meant outer space, deep oceans and yes, other cultures and races. I have read most of his works, and I feel that people exaggerate his racism vastly. In order, I feel like he was most afraid ofDeep oceansSpaceOther races/culturesAlso I'd like to add that he when he wrote about people he didn't just feature Africans in an unflattering way: he also wrote similar things about Irish, Russians, hispanics, asians and arabs. So I'd say no; his fears were based on everything that he wasn't used to.
>>724344763i really like it as an audiobook read by the narrator for darkest dungeonthe alien nature of red hook really comes across strongly but what makes it racist?
>>724328449A major theme people miss, and which makes Lovecraft's stories make much more sense, is his obsession with identity. Remember, Lovecraft came from a wealthy family that went from wealth to destitute during his first 8 years of life. His mother and aunt were both likely abusive, and at the least overbearing if you read about his early life, and there was a history of mental illness. His formative years were spent finding out everything he thought about himself and his family being turned on its head.People focus on the tentacles and shit for his cosmic horror, but they miss that his stories existential threat was less about, "Oh, scary monster is going to eat us," and more about, "Oh, everything I thought about myself or that humanity thought about its place in the universe is wrong." Lovecraft also had a keen sense of time and scale that even many modern scientist do poorly with, making his "antediluvian horrors" things that don't just predate the dinosaurs, but they make mankind's own history and knowledge of the cosmos insignificant and dripping with hubris. He was keenly aware of time, place, and what it means to find out how much you don't actually know and what the consequences of discovering how ignorant one is to a sense of self.Even his racism, xenophobia, and focus on cultural erosion is all about identity and who people think they are and where they come from. He's a deeper people than people give him credit for, and far more philosophical than most other authors who just wanted to create frightening stories with vague themes of helplessness against greater forces.
>>724344995You aren't a real racist anyway if your hatred is only skin deep.
>>724344628Not even the best girl
>>724326932It's over-exaggerated by the basedcademics. You could make the case for Shoggoths, but no not every niggerman is supposed to be a representation of actual niggers.
>>724345631>Boring ass squid with no discernable motivation>Character whose whole gimmick is being a MILF who's disgusted by your advancesSorry, but Estir wins. She's actually interesting and her theater stuff is creative.
>>724345425I find it interesting that people look at Lovecraft and just say "muh racism" when, in several of his stories, white people are ignorant to whatever the story is about, whilst several distant tribes might have known about it for years, making white people the ones who are the dumb ones. Not saying that he wasn't a racist, but it's obviously not as comically black-and-white as people make it out to be.
>>724345929>Character whose whole gimmick is being a MILF who's disgusted by your advancesConsider this: Long legs.
>>724346015>it's obviously not as comically black-and-white as people make it out to beWhen, long ago, the gods created Earth In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill the gap, and join the rest to man, Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a NIGGER-Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 1912
>>724323259>seemingly normal premise that becomes completely insane by the endHave I got the game for you.
>>724345425I really like the Colors out of Space for the descriotion of the land getting poisoned and the family slowly going mad. Now that you mention it a lot of stories have lost of identity, either stories of an alien of witch replacing the mind of a person or someone realising their genealogy is cursed and they aren't who they thought they were.
>>724345625She reminds me of a actor who played Flash in the movies.
>>724346343This is pretty much 20th century shitpost.
>>724346343I'm not even mad that is pretty good prose.
>>724345284The aspect of the horror that gets the most focus, more than the actual monstrosity, is the racially mixed and heterogenous neighborhood that the story is set in.
>>724347080No one ever said the man couldn't write. His name wouldn't have outlived all the other pulp mag authors if he couldn't.But he was pretty comically racist.
Obligatory
>>724323259He married a Jewess.
>>724330640I feel like it just ripped off lovecraft in general. So did slay the spire, but the enemies there also seem to take a lot after the four major chaos gods of warhammer. "Lovecraftian" aesthetics are all the rage, just don't bring up the wrongthink bits.
>>724335221Niggerman is the worst evidence to say he was extraordinarily racist.A British air force squadron in WW2 famously had a mascot dog named Nigger. It was just a thing to name your black pets that back in the day because racism was commonplace.
>>724346343always gets a chuckle outta me
>>724336494You forgotTerraria2011The Song of Saya2003Also if you're willing to consider mods: There is a mod for Minecraft called Miskatonic Mysteries that's pretty good.https://youtu.be/vCuBaVgC1rg
>>724323259During my convalescence I had bought and played for the first time, Cory In The House. I remember after finishing the first level that it occurred to me that I had better stop. I started up and made to turn off my DS, but as I did so, my thumb struck one of the buttons to start the next level. If I had not caught a glimpse of the opening screen in the second level I should never have finished it, but as I looked, my eyes became riveted to the screen, and with a cry of terror, or perhaps it was of joy so poignant that I suffered in every nerve, I secreted the thing away and crept shaking to my bedroom, where I played it and replayed it, and wept and laughed and trembled with a horror which at times assails me yet. This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget the District of Columbia where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men’s thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the developer, as the developer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—a world which now trembles before the Cory. When the French Government seized the copies which had just arrived in Paris, London, of course, became eager to play it. It is well known how the game spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out here, confiscated there, denounced by Press and pulpit, censured even by the most advanced of information anarchists. No definite principles had been violated in those wicked levels, no doctrine promulgated, no convictions outraged. It could not be judged by any known standard, yet, although it was acknowledged that the supreme note of art had been struck in Cory in the House, all felt that human nature could not bear the strain, nor thrive on gameplay in which the essence of purest poison lurked.
>>724346343I was waiting for someone to post this.
>>724346343Was he wrong?
>>724348880Really, Terraria?
>>724343403And then he married a kike. I don't buy the whole "he became a better person later in life before he died" slop shit but he definitely got a whiff of that jew pussy and had an effect on him
>>724347431
>>724348910Kek, how have I never seen this before?
>>724349125No.
If we're talking about fear of the unknown, I'd say NoitaTraversing a never before seen location or trying something out for the first time is terrifying sometimes
>>724349232Like you wouldnt change your ways.
>>724323259Shadow of the CometPrisoner of IceInfra ArcanaThe Last DoorLovecraft's Untold Stories 1ConariumOmen ExitioStygian Reign of the Old Ones (janky and unfinished)The Sinking CityArkham/Eldritch Horror on TTSThe Last DoorFallen LondonSunless Sea/SkiesCultist SimulatorBook Of Hours
>>724347716Lovecraft's character arc at the end of his life was an interesting one it was nice to see that he became less of a fedora atheist and start declaring conan the pinnacle of fiction which is the complete opposite of what his novels are about
>>724326932Yes and honestly who can blame him? Racism saves lives.
>>724349426Not in pic related by Tara Strong is a jew who owes me sex
>>724349449He was friends with Howard.
>>724349232How about reading the personal letters he wrote in his later years.
>>724349547I had no idea the chick from Drawn together went on to bigger and better things.
The PEAK of Weird Tales
>>724323259Bloodborne
>>724349803Shame on me for not recognizing Howard instantly, but Ashton Smith is unmistakable, he looks like a really sickly man.
>>724349803>make the most chad character in fantasy>kill yourselfSmith at his best was superior to all 3 of them but for the most part produced mainly dogshit to make money
>>724350128Life for the artistically inclined was actually pretty fucking tough back then and it was obvious that he suffered from severe depression and the death of his mother tipped him over the edge.
>>724323259Ignore people who recommend Bloodborne. It's too much of a power fantasy, and people keep forgetting that the closest thing to be btfo'd by normal human(and with the help mind you cause you can't see the fucker) was Dunwich Horror aka alien/human mutt
>>724323259I wish there were more games set in the Dreamlands.
>>724341236>Lovecraft was supposed to get drafted to WWI but his mom told him he couldn't goMakes you wonder how that would've panned out.
>>724350428Cyclopean, kinda
>>724350128I just discovered smith from another Anons recommendation. 8% through his anthology. Started great as his horror and fantasy are so fucking good, but his stories based on modern times are just pure meh and I stopped reading.
>>724350428>Hmm... today I will rape a shoggoth.
>>724346343If Lovecraft was still around today he would be a notorious shitposter like the late King Terry.
>>724350494Better yet, he didn't get cancer and lived through ww2 into the late 1900s. Imagine the kino we would have.
>>724350559Don't do it
>>724350746>An actual Dream Cycle epic
>>724350505Is it something like Caves of Qud?
>>724349803What I find so weird is how these trash magazine writers were the most articulate authours ever to walk the earth. Writing before and definitely after was never again so eloquent, and they wrote for the equivalent of their times buzzfeed.
>>724350865More like Ultima Underworld
If Lovecraft lived to be over 100, he would have seen the introduction of the H1B visa and the great Indian invasion.
>>724349719>He was friends with Howard.That's an understatement. He was practically writing to him on a biweekly basis. If he were alive today those two gooners would be in 24 hour discord calls together until the underwater cables get the chop.
>>724323259
>>724350923The two world wars must have really fucked up everything
>>724351029Make an Anime already.
>>724336494Is Arkham Horror Mother's Embrace?
>>724350364>Life for the artistically inclined was actually pretty fucking tough back then and it was obvious that he suffered from severe depression and the death of his mother tipped him over the edge.Same thing happened with Van Gogh. It was only through the generosity of his lil bro and his wife that he managed to exist beyond lining the waterways with a bloated corpse
>>724351082Would you accept manga?
>>724323259BlackSouls 2
>>724342375>webmholy fuck. reminder that NYC was 90% white in 1950
>>724323332How to do this if you don't have "3 friends"?
>>724350923Language spoken or otherwise was the same too. The man who enjoyed a succulent Chinese meal couldn't exist today without some caveats involved like never talking to a cashed up bogan or associating with kiwis for that matter.
>>724351272You can play EH solo
>>724351272Tulpas
>>724350923>eldritch listicles
>“Tyrone? Tyrone! What profane silence lingers beyond the threshold? Why do I not hear the customary hymns of mortal ecstasy from my pale bride?”>With trembling hand I halted my perusal of The Discourses of Elysium — that most accursed interactive grimoire of existential despair — and turned toward the chamber behind.>What I beheld there… may the Old Ones grant me forgetfulness. My reason shattered upon the spectacle: the strange inversion of roles, the alien implements of unholy delight, the very geometry of decency undone!>I cast aside the sacred Controller of the Ritual Machine — shattering the looking-glass that had been projecting the visage of the prophet Hasanabi upon its surface — and cried out in blasphemous disbelief.>“You have switched the design! By all the eldritch sauces of Fauci and the obsidian idols of the realm of Stranger Things, what madness compels such a reversal of purpose?”>My heart quailed. The ceremony, intended to bring forth new life and unify the diluted bloodlines of man, had been perverted into something beyond mortal comprehension. I felt both fury and a loathsome curiosity stir within my breast.>“I must contact the others of the Vaushian Conclave,” I murmured, pacing in dread. “They will mock my ruinous failure, and I shall never again compete in the sacred Speed Trials of Elysium beneath their gaze.”>I withdrew to my study, clutching the phonograph cylinder of Cantu-Ledesma’s Ambient Hymns, hoping its spectral reverberations might soothe my trembling soul. But even as the tones washed over me, I sensed it — the soundless laughter of the cosmos itself, ridiculing my fall from reason.
>>724351272Make a community post on steam or leddit. I did a whole dos2 campaign with someone I never spoke to in my life before or after. We got on, played together once a week then went our separate ways.
>>724351207For me it's the Color Out of Space. A killing light with a taste for water is some good shit.
>>724326932Yes. People say it was because he was sheltered but most of his writing was the direct result of traveling to New York City and seeing the human garbage and awful conditions that accumulate there. When he moved back to Providence he had no desire to write that sort of thing, only to then frequently end up back in New York and immediately find inspiration to write stories about haunted niggers committing violent crime.
Well, your buddy Howard has quite a few games made from his Conan mythos, with Conan Exiles as one of the best and most accurate, though its creators eventually delved too deep into the corrupting magics and started charging ravenous amounts for shitty DLC designed to enslave the brain and wallet alike. Though, I think you should look into pic related and see if it doesn't make you go crazy.
>>724351207That's awesome... but no. Good to know though if I ever try to learn another language. I'd hate to be arrested over seas with made in abyss in my backpack.
>>724351272Just add an additional seat so you and your 4 friends can play. It's highly versatile!
>>724351272AI
>>724351145IDK
>>724349215It has lovecraftian imagery and one of the games the other anon posted was sucker for love so fucking yes
>mfw a Lovecraft thread on /v/
>>724342375>Motherfucker would probably find some way to get his hands on a nukeTbvh its not hard to make your own, my uncle actually made one in the late 80s after the blueprints got leaked on the early net, the hard part is getting enricht Uranium
Also the entire >Weather Factory (and related) collection >Fallen London>Sunless Sea and its expansion Zubmariner, Sunless Skies>Cultist Simulator >Book of Hoursand the upcoming>Traveling by NightThis husband and wife team love to make narrative games where, if you don't mind reading and love occult / secret histories, you'll have a great fucking time. Cultist Simulator is studied in universities as perhaps one of the best examples of game design "ludonarrative consonance" which basically means>The story and gameplay are entirely alignedas you're basically dropped into the game without any real idea how to play or what to do and only by continual perseverance and investigation will you learn more bit by bit, play by play, which is exactly mirrored in the game's story of being inducted into higher occult mysteries step by step
>>724348910Amazing.
>>724351029Is it good?
>>724349232I think there have been a grand total of 3 people I've met in my entire life who understood my line of /pol/-esque thinking and somehow all of them were jews, two of them women. They didn't even disagree in any fundamental way and were willing to accept that I had problems with their religion and ethnicity. One of them was even willing to date me in spite of it. So I don't have the details of Lovecraft's love life, but I feel in a cosmic way I can comprehend the conditions that somehow got him involved with a grabbler.
>>724340946This.FMF is amazing
>>724351493>The Discourses of Elysiumlost
>>724351207
>>724352280Comfy
>>724351452>These ten tomes imported from the Orient by mages of sinister countenance will shatter your grip on reality!>Number 8 isn't what you think!
>>724352308>Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn -- whatever they had been, they were men!"
>>724352280>Poor devils! After all, they were not evil things of their kind. They were the men of another age and another order of being. Nature had played a hellish jest on them—as it will on any others that human madness, callousness, or cruelty may hereafter drag up in that hideously dead or sleeping polar waste—and this was their tragic homecoming.>They had not been even savages—for what indeed had they done? That awful awakening in the cold of an unknown epoch—perhaps an attack by the furry, frantically barking quadrupeds, and a dazed defence against them and the equally frantic white simians with the queer wrappings and paraphernalia . . . poor Lake, poor Gedney . . . and poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last—what had they done that we would not have done in their place? God, what intelligence and persistence! What a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star-spawn—whatever they had been, they were men!
>>724352280Just because the universe is a dark and inhospitable place doesn't mean that you can't enjoy the little things in life.
>>724340946>talking about politics?tongue my ass ninja
>>724352385>>724352361Sublime.
>>724351671I'd invoke her depths, if you know what I mean.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3138780/Do_No_Harm/is a great example of a Lovecraftian game. The only question is if it will get the kind of updates and mechanic fixes it needs to be truly amazing and any addiitonal content. Its good now, but it could be even better. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2295610/Abathor/A little more Howard than Lovecraft with nods to both , this is a phenomenal arcade platformer set in Atlantis where 4 heroes need to close the forbidden gates. https://store.steampowered.com/app/913740/WORLD_OF_HORROR/At this time of year who can forget World of Horror, almost undone by the coof its dev managed to get through to finish it properly and its fantastic. Its Lovecraftian inspired along a big giant helping of Junji Ito.
>>724351671>Hold X to Kissu
>>724352539Absolute peak of writing.
>>724350923Weird Tales (and most other similar magazines) paid by the word, so authors who wrote for them regularly got into the habit of inflating the word count of their stories without extending the semantic length by throwing superfluous adjectives and adverbs into every single sentence, and going off into tangents where they list off a bunch of stuff that sounds really cool but is completely irrelevant to the plot
>>724352984oh, is that why Lovecraftian gods are undescribable yet also described in a very detailed way?
>>724352765>>724351671>>724352646Kek. Don't forget there's a second game https://store.steampowered.com/app/2240790/Sucker_for_Love_Date_to_Die_For/but the protag apparently undermines some of how great it could be. Still worthwhile. However, it seems they're back on the right direction with the upcoming third title https://store.steampowered.com/app/3848900/Sucker_for_Love_Crush_Landing/which is obviously inspired by a very particular story.
>>724352984Kek, that totally makes sence. And now Stephen King describes Lovecraft as the best writer for desriptions.
>>724353067I mean if something undescribable you are going to try to describe it by using as many words as you can, and hopes it all makes "sense"
>>724353067It's undescribable for the protagonist and supporting characters
>>724351256As gross as it is, it was way, way worse in the 70s and 80s.
>>724353067yes, and why every Lovecraft protagonist is ready to rattle off every book and ancient cult they've ever heard of the second they find out about something odd
>>724346750Do the original Thief games need any sort of patches or mods to play nowadays? I don't mind 4:3 aspect ratio.
what are some silly Lovecraft moments, here's some I remember-Guy finds out his great,great,great grandpa fucked an ape and imminently sets himself on fire-the monsters in the lurking fear were literally inbred Dutch people-in whisperer in the darkness when 2 guys are communicating by letters one guy is like "what i found out is too dangerous, they can mimic humans don't ever come here" and then the next letter is "never mind I changed my mind you should visit me" and the other guy is yeah sure I'll do that
>>724353067I think that's more about the whole thing that >Shit they described was really fucking weird alien back thenCthulhu wasn't s wide cultural meme with all different takes, so talking about a cuddlefish/squidheaded monster, or a giant ball of tentacles that could basically make you go insane if you even saw its shadow (yet didn't really have any ill will towards you, just it was so alien and so indifferent in a cold horrible universe you were a speck within) was a really strange concept to a lot of readers. Though I think in lore a lot of the lovecraftian horrors are basically projections or your mind trying to wrap itself around something totally alien, like trying to perceive a creature who only exists outside the visible light spectrum except for occasionally shifting in and out of frequencies now and then etc. Except for Nyarlahotep of course who specifically and intentionally changes his presence to be something even attractively human (ie like an egyptian pharaoh) but something 'wrong' and unearthly/unnerving about him
>>724353529I remember having to install some patch because it wouldn't launch on Windows 10.
>>724353562I always laugh when I remember the way he describes the redneck in Beyond the Wall of Sleep
>>724353767that reminds me of when he goes off on penguins in at the mountains of madness
>>724353529pirate gog version and just play
>>724353562it gets memed on a lot but the bit in At The Mountains of Madness where the narrator says that the shoggoth is "indescribable" and then immediately proceeds to describe it for two full sentences is classic
>>724353767Im reading that right now! Yea he definitely also hates mountain people.
>O–O–ODIN… O ANCIENT FATHER OF RUIN AND STORMS! I OFFER ALL THAT IS MINE BEFORE THEE! TAKE MY HOUSE! TAKE MY NAME! TAKE FAYE, MY BELOVED, AND MAKE HER THY VESSEL OF DIVINE WILL!!!>ODIN!!! LET THY CARNAL ELIXIR FLOW THROUGH HER AND BREAK HER MORTAL FORM AS I WATCH IN HOLY REVERENCE! PLEASE!!! MY WIFE!! NOW!!! YES, ODIN, SHOW HER THE MAGNITUDE OF THY ROD OF ANCIENT DESIRE!!>I HAVE COLLECTED ALL THAT SHE HATH LEFT BEHIND — THE TOKENS OF HER MORTALITY, HER TEARS, HER BREATH, HER MEMORY — ALL IN JARS FOR THEE, ODIN! FOR THEE ALONE!>DESTROY HER BODY, O LORD OF ASGARD, THAT SHE MAY BE REBORN IN THY LIGHT!>ODIN! PLEASE, I BESSECH THEE, CONSUME MY PRIDE AS THOU CONSUMEST HER! I AM UNWORTHY YET JOYOUS! I STAND IN THE SHADOW OF THY GREATNESS, BROKEN AND GRATEFUL!>FILL MY MIND WITH THY MASCULINE FLAME! LET MY MORTAL FORM SWELL WITH THE FLOW OF THY CARNAL VITALITY UNTIL I BURST! ODIN! LET ME DRINK OF THY PHALLIC ESSENCE, EVEN IF IT DRIVES ME MAD!>ODIN, MY LORD, MY LOVE, MY DAMNATION! I SHALL NEVER ABANDON THEE! STRIKE ME WITH THY CONSUMMATION, TRANSFORM ME, REFORGE ME AS THY SERVANT IN HUMILIATION AND ECSTASY!>USE ME, ODIN! USE MY WIFE! USE HER SON! LET OUR LINEAGE BE OFFERED UNTO THEE, AND LET ALL MEMORY OF OUR MORTAL NAMES BE ERASED!>ODIN! LET THE WATCHER TURN BACK TIME THAT I MAY EXPERIENCE MY DEVOTION ANEW EACH DAY, DYING AND BEING REBORN IN THY SERVICE FOREVER!>ODIN!!! LET ME BE THY TOOL, THY VESSEL, THY NOTHINGNESS!!! I RENOUNCE MYSELF, MY HONOR, MY FLESH! TURN ME INTO DUST, AND LET FAYE’S TEARS FALL UPON IT AS A FINAL SACRIFICE!!!>ODIN! MY PITIFUL INSTRUMENT OF MORTAL FOLLY REQUIRES PUNISHMENT! REND IT FROM ME! CAST ME INTO THE VOID SO I MAY PRAISE THY ROD OF VITAL CONFLUENCE FOR ALL ETERNITY!>YABBA DABBA DOO
>>724353529I used this but the gog versipn should be fine too. https://github.com/JarrodDoyle/rogue-patcher
>>724352984>>724353067>literally bullshit sprouted for padding out the word count gets misinterpreted by people after as a form of unknowable knowledgeWonder how many times throughout history this method has popped up.
I love his Dreamcycle stories so fucking much.
>>724353767>>724354149>hates cities>hates rural people tooWho doesn't Lovecraft hate?
>>724351662As someone who grew up in RI, I can assure you that if he went to Providence now, his racism would increase 50-fold.
>>724354267>Who doesn't Lovecraft hate?The eternal Anglo and his jewish ex wife.
>>724353529Ignore everyone else and use Tfix lite 1.27.t. guy who loves Thief and plays lots of FMs
>>724327687They are not pretty places to this date I can tell you that
>>724354267old stock Anglo-Americans living in mid-sized towns in New England
>>724354267Cats
>>724354393True but at least they aren't giving out frontal lobotomies like candy or chaining you to an iron pole like the man from Bedlam.
>>724354480junji ito also wrote a non-horror manga about his cats
>>724354925and a manga about japanese politics iirc.
>>724354480>>724354415>>724354381Based
>>724354795The closure of asylums was one of the worst things that happened in the US.
>>724354121I remember listening to an audiobook version stoned and going from being really creeped out to pissing myself laughing at the way the narrator guy delivered "It's five-lobed brain was surprisingly advanced" when descibing the Elder Thing.
>>724355295Im not a 40k tranny, but I played the new Owlcuck game. I wouldnt use the crazy, but Servitors sounded like a good idea for our iredeemable worst.
>Read the funny Nigger-Man cat story for the meme>It's easily one of Lovecraft's bestWhy did he have to do it? I can't recommend this story to anyone without it being awkward.
>>724357259how can't you? tell whoever you would tell to look out a window and see the jeets shitting on their lawn and then they'll probably be able to accept the racism of someone over a hundred years ago writing the word nigger
>>724357259Which story is that?
>>724358079rats in the walls
>>724358149Neat. That's in the collection I have so I'll get to it eventually.
>>724358237It's easily one of the most disturbing as well.
>>724357259I listened to an audiobook that changed the cat's name to "Mr. Blackman" which is honestly even funnier.
>>724323259Demonbane
>>724357259>say the word>money stolen
I would've recommended Rimworld with the Rim of Madness mods, but dubs is a shitter who hasn't updated his code in years and any chance he will is zero because that faggot tynan decided to add anomaly. Anomaly DLC in itself is a lovecraftian expansion for Rimworld, but it's a one time experience for 20$
Aside from call of Cthulhu, both versions, what other games make you seem like you're literally in a Lovecraft story. Note the difference between this and just lovecraftian themed game, this is more like lovecraftian setting game?
>>724359181Read the thread
Shadow Hearts series is inspired by Lovecraft somewhat. Dunno about 1 and 3 but 2 has the same problem as Okami in that its good but massive and easy.
>>724345639No, you couldn't actually. Lovecraft made it very clear that all eldritch things are eclipsed by the nigger scourge.
>>724358441lmao
>>724357259>>724358149At least your childhood favorite book's title isn't Ten Little Niggers.
>>724358441And Then There Were None
>>724362242>>724362179lollmao
>>724354181What the fuck does this have to do with Lovecraft you fucking faggot
>>724348910
>>724323259A game where there is a genuine omnipresent evil that you cannot fathom?Dwarf Fortressthat godly force is you. the player is Armok.
>>724334361>The lands of dreamThat's not really that different from Tamriel as it already is. Elder Scrolls becomes all the more eldritch the more you read of its lore, right down to the very elder scrolls themselves being artifacts that exist beyond time and space as they know it.
>>724352046While I love Weather Factory games, they aren't that close to Lovecraft writhing in my opinion, Cultist sim has that thing where you aren't quite sure if the mc is going insane or transcending to a higher plane, whereas Lovecraft would go:>"yeah the people looked like fish because they had fish people artifacts and were turning into fish people themselves, horrifying right? :)"
>>724357259>the worst thing was that they took Niggerman from meThat was genuinely heartrending and not in a funny way.
>>724346343mmm I'm still not convinced this was a racist dogwhistle...
>>724349428God please let me see a decent Dream Cycle game before I die, the one on steam is kinda shit and boring.
>>724323259DUSK is basically a Lovecraft story with how it starts with investigating a local cult and ends with an encounter with an elder god
>>724327009not truehe even made an Irish cop the protagonist of one of his short storiesyou're thinking of Italians
>>724366159Nothing ever does well. Bloodborne was the exception that proved the rule.
>>724353562>The twist in the Alchemist where it turns out the "curse" is just the magician doing the killings himself>Wilbur Whateley getting killed by a dog
>>724368509Wilbur getting killed by a dog isn't really that silly or funny given that dogs recognized him for what he was and it was a trained guard dog that assaulted him and he was extremely physically frail, much more so than a human being.
>>724323259This trailer looks pretty based:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F33tCqlVoK4
>>724368720I know that it makes sense, it's just that he's supposed to be the son of an outer god, one of the most powerful beings of the universe, and he just gets taken out by one good boy
>>724368975He got all the INT, none of the CON his brother got and his gun misfired, sometimes even the starspawn get fucked by the roll of the dice.
>>724352280>>724352361Things that are men:>giant flying cucumber aliensThings that aren't men:>the mixed race
>>724353562charles dexter ward>same night watchman sees all the graveyard shit but is always too slow to stop it>mr. ward wakes up the dr with some brandy he just happened to have in his car
>>724369641Yes.
>>724369641Seems logical
>>724353883He was right to hate them, they are fucking vile.
>>724353562In The Temple, the Villain Protagonist is just the most stereotypical Prussian officer that you could think of, killing himself by being too German.
>>724351662>People say racists are sheltered but in reality they have some of the most exposure to the races they hateMany such cases
>>724370171that guy was so based, when i see something stupid i think "you softheaded rhinelander swine, your mind is not prussian. you are not a good man to die with." it's so fun
Why did he hate the Welsh?
>>724368969If this is well made, it will be exceptional and I fully expect its going to break zoomer minds from both sides trying to rectify >Cute penguin simulator! Slide! >Frozen terror at the edge of reality being unmade by the call of an elder god
>>724370927He didn't. Celts were considered a less rational race than the Anglos, but were an acceptable 2nd tier. Having a Celtic grandmother wasn't enough to spoil your bloodline.
>>724359117I was going to ask how Anomaly was.
>>724371567I thought learning that he had a Welsh grandmother is what caused him to write The Shadow over Innsmouth.
>>724326932He also hated religion. And the Portuguese.
>>724376059And jews, but only the men.
>>724375689I believe that is just a funny myth.
