>>739405525
It's not profitable because most people are too stupid to be scared of the actual existential ideas and are only scared if the material thing looks "frightening" enough, or the atmosphere is "spooky" enough.

>>739405525
false premise. it's well represented. has a couple direct adaptions and many games that are directly inspired by it.

Tons of horror related video games are shit and have mentally ill fanbases. Let's be glad no one has decided to make a true Lovecraftian game.

What? There's dozens by now

>>739405525
You ask this question too many times throughout the years, and because of that there's now a billion lovecraft indie games, even gacha
This is all your fault.

>>739405525
No one cares about this long faced angloid angloohile

>>739405525
Why did ItaloBVLLs mindbreak this cuck so badly?

>>739405525
Because people cant into Lovecraft beyond le giant squid monster, and le giant squid monster gets boring after the 50th time

>>739405525
>i--is that.......... no....... it can't be........
>no.... no no no....... no no no no no NO--
>IS THAT A TENTACLE?!!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!!!!?!?!?!??!!?
>protagonist immediately goes insane
>end credits
Some truly riveting storytelling potential there.

>>739405525
The problem is that we've ultimately seen what man was never meant to see, several times. At this point, how do you design an unspeakable, inconceivable horror for modern Gamers?

>>739405827
This. OP is a fag.

Also Lovecraft's best stories have nothing to do with Cthulu anyway.

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>>739405525
lovecraft is best executed without any mention of lovecraft

>>739408603
>i--is that.......... no....... it can't be........
>no.... no no no....... no no no no no NO--
>IS THAT A NIGGER/SHITALIAN/IRISHMAN?!!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!!!!?!?!?!??!!?
>protagonist immediately goes insane
>end credits
*ftfy

>>739408507
You wouldn't have Bloodborne without it, and I hear a lot of people care about Bloodborne.

You're free to stay mad though, Cosmic Horror is the horror that remains well into the future, while werewolves and the mummy will become ancient history. Now tell me the name of Lovecraft's cat, bitch.

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>>739405525
Because no one has read his books. All the people that want, and the few people who create lovecraftian stuff only do it on vibes of what they assume Lovecraft is.

Bloodborne exists. Xcuck sad because he never got to experience the kino high point of the lore in gaming.

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>>739405525
>Why are there so few Cthulhu Mythos games?
Because we unironically live in the soulless, dysgenic nightmarighs hellscape that lovecraft so feared right now. A lovecraftian horror game is just tuesday.
In fact, in lovecraft's books, the forces of good triumph every time. Army/navy shows up to cleanse innsmouth, etc. Meanwhile, irl, when metaphorical innsmouthers do what they do to people now, they're protected and their misdeeds overlooked or outright hidden and mention of them criminalized, by people in power who are indistinguishable from the criminally insane.

The current day is worse than the horrors of lovecraft's stories.

Unironically.

>>739405525
If you try to make a fun video game with squid enemies or some shit autists will start screaming at you that it isn't *real* lovecraft
Everyone seems to think a lovecraft setting has to be some higher form of art where nothing is really actually visualized and it is fucking stupid. Video games get to be lower forms of art, let me blow cthulhu's head off with a bazooka.

>>739408603
>>739408703
Lovecraft and Lovecraftian fiction are the white Jordan Peele. Instead of
>OOOOHHHH NOOOOOO A WHITE PERSON I'M LOSING MY MIND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
it's
>OOOOHHHH NOOOOOO A SQUID I'M LOSING MY MIND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
and then you get redditors impotently defending it with
>ERM ACKSHUALLY the tentacle represents the hopelessness and futility of life and that's why it's scary chud!

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>>739405525
the only people who want to make Lovecraftian horror games are passionate nerds, and nowadays the only games that can be made by passionate nerds are ultra small-scale indie games
big corporations won't ever waste money on a passion project, so every serious attempt at a Lovecraftian horror game inevitably runs out of money and/or gets fucked by their publisher - see Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Stygian: Reign of The Old Ones, The Sinking City, Call of Cthulhu the Official Video Game, ect ect

>The writer H. P. Lovecraft would later provide an example of the animosity Americans felt toward the newcomers in a letter to a friend in which he described immigrants from Italy crowded into the Lower East Side as creatures who “could not by any stretch of the imagination be call’d human.” Instead, “they were monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and amoebal; vaguely moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out of doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea unnamabilities.

>>739405525
Play Arkham Horror LCG on TTS.

>>739405525
They don't need to make a game of it because we're living in it.

>>739409080
but was he wrong

>>739405525
RE4 is a chtullu myth game, Mikami was inspired by the Dagon movie.

>>739405525
because the stars are not right.

>>739408997
Tbf the wypipo family in Get Out were indeed creepy

>>739405525
Niggerman probs

>>739409168
played a campaign of that. we had a dude running around in the sewers with a full dogsled of mutts that he would literally throw at enemies by the dozenload, carting people around on a sled as he did so. everyone else had so many followers as well that were like 40 people/dogs down there combined, fighting middling monsters in the single digits while losing their minds (and frequently attempting to murder each other) over how horrifying this apparently extremely well-travelled sewer was.
and I think at the end of the narrative it all turned out to be a dream or something. either that, or we were the horrors all along, driven mad by like a theater troupe or something. or maybe it was BOTH? it was pretty confusing and retarded.

>>739409531
slap that bass

>>739408997

>ERM ACKSHUALLY the tentacle represents the hopelessness and futility of life and that's why it's scary chud!

Yeah, actually. Its not seeing Cthulu that makes you go nuts, its finding out life is meaningless, humans are powerless, and the universe is a cold uncaring void where we're just insignificant specks. After all that, seeing Cthulu is the last straw before you snap.

>>739409903
This might have sounded deep if I was 14 years old

>>739409531
The man in that picture would agree with lovecraft after going what he went through trying to live in italy.

>>739410060

I mean, for the 1920s it was.

>>739409010
stygian needs a remake

You could just make the main villains one of the alien races, like the Mi-Go. None of the Lovecraft gods would even need to be encountered, one of them could be the main overarching background antagonist that is only alluded to and is way too powerful to actually fight directly.

>>739405525
>real Lovecraftian hipsterbait has never been tried
Except all those many times it has been.

We prefer gnosticism core games

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>>739405629
Cyberpunk dipped their toe in. I really hope they lean full in as outer gods AI is infinitely better than corpo r/antiwork faggotry. The mayor side mission was the peak of the game.

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>>739408703
Except this but unironically.

>>739405629
at the risk of sounding like an insufferable reddit pseud, I kind of agree.
Most people legitimately can't imagine being stuck in a situation like what Ted from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream was in. They can look at it and go "wow that would suck" but they can't place themselves in the same circumstance and imagine the real horror of what it means to be stuck like that, so it doesn't really scare them. It can't reach them.
But the scary monster jumpscare works because the amygdala is ancient.

>>739409438
Tbf the wypipo villain in Lovecraft country might have been the most beautiful woman to be on TV and ending the series having a shaboon kill her was petty.

>>739409237
No. Italian immigrants brought nothing but crime with them. They and other subhumans are the reason why our society is infested with morally bankrupt psychopathic narcissists.

>>739410846
Riddle me this though. I agree with you, but the Japs are good at that, and do great atmospheric horror. Its absolutely insane to me how little Lovecraft overlap they have. Outside of spirals I cant think of one anime or Manga. Japs have done an anime of almost everything, why no Lovecraft?

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>739410928
>No. Italian immigrants brought nothing but crime with them. They and other subhumans are the reason why our society is infested with morally bankrupt psychopathic narcissists.

You midwits are scared of non-tangible things like insanity over learning something
I'm at the top of the bell curve scared of real life things like fat bitches fighting over food

>>739411050
Nyaruko

>>739410846
I remember reading The Jaunt as a teenager and I legit could not function for days because the scenario was stuck in my head, never felt like that reading anything else

>>739411120
if you look into history, you gradually start to realize that most of the behavior of southern white trash actually comes from Irish immigrants
that includes the white trash that makes up the KKK

>>739411278
>Group built on hating immigrants and Catholics is actually Irish
Do americanpipo really?

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>>739408645
>>739408621
Look Outside is probably the best use of cosmic horror I've seen in a game. You can't hope to fight the actual incomprehensible entity affecting the world, but you have to fight the random people being affected and warped by it.

>>739411385
that's not what I said

>>739411385
one of the founding members of the KKK was literally named "Frank O. McCord"
Mc is a common abbreviation for Mac, which is common in Ireland, comes from Gaelic, meaning "son of"

>>739411661
So he's the Nick Fuentes of the 20th century?

>>739411432
>you have to fight the random people being affected and warped by it.
This is why I love Arkham/Eldritch Horror, they really nail that

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>Lovecraft died penniless and nobody cared about him
>Never distinguished himself from Poe or Dunsany
>His legacy was pilfered on by August Derleth and destroyed by the millions copying his slop
>Now all Lovecraft is known for was being a sniveling racist
>Dunsany is now forgotten 100 years later, and his legacy remains untouched

He won.

>>739408703
Reasonable reaction desu

actually knowing all the meta autism about le epic cosmic horrors takes the fear away. same with dumb SCP wiki autism.
better to do an original cosmic horror setting inspired by HP Lovecraft but also different.

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>>739405525
Publishers and developers fear his cat.

Very few people understand Lovecraft. Even people who claim to be his fans don’t understand Lovecraft. The only game to get the tone and aesthetic right is Bloodborne and that came out 11 years ago.

>>739411385
Yes. The KKK itself was founded in an area where most of the whites were descended from Irish/Scot immigrants. And most of them were protestant. The catholic Irish immigrants came after. Before that most Irish immigrants were protestant Ulster Scotts. The most established members of the KKK were descended from Ulster Scott immigrants to Tennessee. You can look up the census data on Giles county, where the KKK was founded, and look up the names of the founding members, as well as their genealogy.

>>739409903
>>739410204
It wasn't popular then either. Muh Nihilism had already been done decades prior. Actually, the first time you get the "is life................................le meaningless?" pseudshit is from Ancient Greece. It was never deep except in the minds of other pseuds, hence the massive popularity cosmic horror has online. I personally think Lovecraft was pretty good at setting up scenes and environments that feel creepy, but that's not what he's ever praised for, it's always WOAH THIS TOTALLY AGREES WITH MY LEFTIST MATERIALIST WORLDVIEW GENIUS DEEP UPVOTED.

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>>739411789
The board/card games?
I've tried Eldritch Horror: I didn't like how you could have "random encounters" with creatures from all kind of Lovecraft settings back-to-back, essentially. I've also played Arkham Horror the card game. It's a lot better, in my opinion. When I read that you're "supposed" to play it, and communicate with other players, as if it were a TTRPG I shook my head but it actually works pretty well. I just wish they didn't add they/thems and whatever, as it kind of ruins immersion when it's supposed to be 1920s America or something. It's as easy as not buying the expansions that feature they/thems, I guess.

>>739412042
Bloodborne is inspired by Lord Dunsany, whom is immensely popular in Japan. Lovecraft is not immensely popular in Japan. Why is this? Because in the 1920s almost all of Dunsany's works were translated to Japanese, and his plays were acted out in Kabuki theatre. Much of Bloodbornes lore and theme comes from A Shop in Go-By Street. Dreams, Nightmares, and Old ones.

>"I wish you to tell me the way to those little cottages in whose upper chambers poets look out upon the fields we know not, for I wish to go into the Land of Dream and to sail once more upon mighty, sea-like Yann."
>At that he moved heavily and slowly in way-worn carpet slippers, panting as he went, to the back part of his shop, and I went with him. This was a dingy lumber-room full of idols: the near end was dingy and dark but at the far end was a blue cærulean glow in which stars seemed to be shining and the heads of the idols glowed. "This," said the fat old man in carpet slippers, "is the heaven of the gods who sleep." I asked him what gods slept and he mentioned names that I had never heard as well as names that I knew. "All those," he said, "that are not worshipped now are asleep."
>"Then does Time not kill the gods?" I said to him and he answered, "No. But for three or four thousand years a god is worshipped and for three or four he sleeps. Only Time is wakeful always."
>"But they that teach us of new gods"—I said to him, "are they not new?"
>"They hear the old ones stirring in their sleep being about to wake, because the dawn is breaking and the priests crow. These are the happy prophets: unhappy are they that hear some old god speak while he sleeps still being deep in slumber, and prophesy and prophesy and no dawn comes, they are those that men stone saying, 'Prophesy where this stone shall hit you, and this.'"
>"Then shall Time never slay the gods," I said. And he answered, "They shall die by the bedside of the last man."

>>739410676
That was a comfy thread today. 700 posts suprised me.

>>739412042
>The only game to get the tone and aesthetic right is Bloodborne
Disagree about the aesthetic part but other than that I agree, and it's sad.

>>739412195

Yeah, I personally prefer his stand alone stuff like "Cool Air" or "Re-Animator".

>>739412250
who*

>>739412195
I don't think Nihilism is leftist brother

>>739411160
WTF? It ever get creepy? Thats wild.

The only way an authentic Cthulu game would work is if you had a giant dreary open world to explore, and then in one tiny little fuckass corner you can find an entire different spooky world full of strange creatures, cultures and locations.
The entrance would change in every game and take the player to a different place in the strange world.
Ending the game in any way would start the player back at the start in their characters home, waking up in their bed, if the player had found the location, it would be randomized upon wakeup. NPCs and events would help the direct the player to the location of the entrance as more time was played in the world, and would be influenced by the location the entrance corresponded to.
Players would have vastly different experiences, making discussing and playing it a bizarre experience, as people attempted to map out both worlds.
Some cunts would ruin it by datamining/hacking and spoiling everything so no point in making it.

>>739412364
>Comes on /v/ pretending like he knows weird fiction literature
>he doesn't.
You look stupid as fuck.

>>739412241
Yeah I just play the game on Tabletop Simulator, there's a save on Nexus that has all expansions so they're never getting my money, I think someone also had a save in the TTS /vm/ thread.. I tried the card game but I'm a solo player so it was pretty eh, probably fun with friends.

>>739412373
It literally is about being a nihilistic faggot degnerate footsoldier for jews and has always been since the days of the "enlightenment"

>>739412418
I'm a nihilist and I'm not a leftist

>>739412195
100%, Fully agree. It really is about the atmosphere, but never met an Anon who used pseuds and didnt deserve to be shot in the face. Just go to college and quit being self conscious about it already.

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>>739410235
Stygian needs to get fucking finished. I understand it was crowdfunded, but you can really tell money ran out as the game just kinds ends. Devs then went to make something entirely unrelated and smaller so who the fuck knows what they've been up to in the last four years.

Forgive Me Father

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>>739410779
That reminds me I'd kill for a CthulhuTech adaptation.

>>739412396
I think you replied to the wrong person; I merely corrected your improper usage of "whom". Other than that I'm not informed enough to have an opinion on your post. If it's not clear: NTA that you first replied to. This is assuming that you are >>739412250

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>>739412373
FWIW the guy who runs all the Lovecraft fan groups and is considered his biggest fan and expert on his stuff is a "democratic socialist" jeet.

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>>739412415
>Solo player
I will then recommend these to you:
Solo adventures for the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG. Requires you to own the core rulebook as well. They probably exist in some form in Tabletop Simulator as well.

>>739405525
Most people are too stupid to get them.
And for the smart people, the best ones are where the game isn't explicitly cosmic horror. Where after finishing the game and on your way to the fridge to make an evening snack you realise that one creepy nigga was a puppet of an outer one.

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>>739411432
I think Look Outside blows its load a little early in terms of the genuinely scary stuff, but I like how every stage of it is very thematically different.

Like not everything changed is automatically bad. Sometimes it's just really really weird. The idea of being affected by cosmic horror isn't treated like a zombie virus, it's like an indifferent galactic lottery.

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>>739412518
they're doing what every failed developer looking for safe income does - crowdfund a tabletop rpg

>>739412664
Awesome, I'll check them out, thanks

>>739412518
there's a 3d game in the stygian univese now, by different devs though https://store.steampowered.com/app/2581410/Stygian_Outer_Gods/

>>739412631
Genuinely considered a scholar on everything Lovecraft, even. Very well-respected by fans and not-fans alike. It's amusing how upset leftists get when that guy, who's brown, defends Lovecraft racist views as "common for the time".

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Lovecraft is cool.

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>>739412712
IRISH SHE-DEVIL
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH

>>739412665
>Where after finishing the game and on your way to the fridge to make an evening snack you realise that one creepy nigga was a puppet of an outer one.
I don't know how this is supposed to be spooky. Cosmic horror is just alien horror but the aliens are supersized.

There are plenty.
Tue definitive one hasn't been made yet of course.
I'd love one set in Kingsport with comedy. It'd pretty much just be Widow's Bay the game.
Watch Widow's Bay btw, best show in a long long time, easily best show ever released for Apple TV.

>>739412676
Jesus Christ...
As someone who loves niche TTRPGs it's really rustling my jimmies how "shovelware" that market has become.

>D&D meets Xcom meets grimdark
...and like all of them they just go
>It's all those things that you love, combined!

>>739412631
This guy is a retarded faggot. He's the captain of his own fan club.

>>739412735
He absolutely agrees with them, he just can't afford to diss Lovecraft because that's his whole claim to relevancy. In his analyses on him he goes all in on the muh xenophobia shit, but like a lot of similar leftists he looks past it because Lovecraft shared his ultra-materialistic worldview.

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>>739405525
Because being forced into not having any agency in a video game, an interactive medium, is fucking gay and lame.

>>739412809
Joshi is probably in this thread right now. No way someone posted about that faggot on /v/ lmao

>>739412759
Dark Souls was a great cosmic horror game. Anything resembling normal real life "humanity" being a strange temporary aberration was a great twist.

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Game is overall mid, but I think it's one of very few games that got Lovecraftian horror right. When you're at street level and you're just seeing the horror's influence in everything, instead of everything just being an extension of the horror's physical form.

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Because videogames are all about killing or defeating stuff. How are you going to kill or defeat creatures that are beyond time, space, and comprehension. Four Corners of the Earth kinda did it, but it became just a generic shooter halfway through.

>>739412092
>IT'S DA ZAINICHI IRISH SAARS

>>739412961
Offnote but I heard somewhere that American black culture is actually descended from Scottish culture which is very violent can anyone confirm

>>739412919
the biggest horror was the copy-pasted buildings that make up 85% of the city, almost lost my mind playing it

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>>739412951
>these indescribable monsters are totally beyond space time and comprehension bro!!!
But you just described them.

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>>739412919
I fear they're going to ax the non-combat stuff in the sequel, leaving us ONLY with janky combat.

>>739412498
Nihilism is jewish and leftist

>>739412241
You really gotta play Arkham Horror 2e+Dunwich for the best Arkham Horror experience, that game is brutal. And yeah it doesn't really make sense for there to be deep ones and mi-go in the same game but it really adds to the feeling that everything in town is trying to kill you.

>>739413028
>honey I've clogged the toiler again, it's bad!
>that's beyond my comprehension
>laugh track plays

>>739413005
it is
ghetto culture is just irish protestant white trash culture that has survived in the black ghettos

>>739412754
What gsme?

>>739413030
doubling down won't prove your point it just makes you look like a little kid

>>739413030
jews aren't left or right, they worship chaos, they only say they support some ideology to get what they want and change teams constantly

no one can top bloodborne

>>739413113
Africaboo niggers on suicide watch

>>739413113
>irish protestant
Thats a thing but like thats not really a thing.

>>739405525
Because they are lame
Lovecraftian works best when you don't show the monster

Amnesia The Dark Descent and Amnesia Rebirth are some of the best Lovecraft games I've played though most wouldn't consider them to be Lovecraftian (they'd be wrong of course).

>>739410779
This guy has corporate loyalty, aka, a proud slave.

>>739413182
what you gotta understand is that the irish came in waves. First the protestant irish came and then I think it was after 1830 or so, the irish catholics started showing up

>>739405629
Lovecraft wasnt deep enough to do that either, thats why his books and creatures are almost memes

>>739413182
https://youtu.be/0_YgyNN6EnI

>>739413116
filename. don't bother, though.

>>739413030
So then why are all white supremacy groups like the 09A nihilist then
>those are Jewish
Yeah okay you clipped dick retard time for bed

>>739405525
>so few
Nigga you are just as dumb about this as you where with your Conan thread

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>>739405629
>too stupid to be affected by existentialism
BASED

>>739409903
I swear in half these stories, the reveal that drives the MC to suicide is finding out he's actually mixed race.

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My favorite stories are Pickman's Model and Picture in the House, not because I was personally spooked by it, but that they were written well enough that I could empathize with the protagonists and understand the dread they felt.

>>739413329
unironically the superior way to live
whenever you see someone talking about nihilism or existentialism as if it makes them superior you know that person is retarded. Every real nihilist/existentialist I've ever met was miserable.

>>739405525
There are so many, you fucking retard.

>>739405525
Because they keep trying to shove the low quality shallowest layer of tentacles and fishmen without the actual layers of insanity and insight.
These low quality attempts failed because they were garbage and they won't bother actually trying again.

>>739413491
>Because they keep trying to shove the low quality shallowest layer of tentacles and fishmen without the actual layers of insanity and insight.
It's the same problem with steampunk. Top hats and cogs everywhere do not make the setting.

>>739413280
Scots Irish, but they were America. Built the South. Andrew Jackson and James Polk.

>>739413447
One question immediately shatters the credibility of nihilists, antinatalists and existentialists.
>ok, so why not kill yourself?

>>739413634
the answer is that they 'enjoy' being miserable kek

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>>739405525
>Lovecraft was born too early to enjoy the fruits of instantaneous communication and widespread normalized racism

>>739409903
You're an idiot too. You don't snap from seeing any of the monsters in actual lovecraft. You learn a horrible truth and every normie calls you insane and you get locked up for trying to warn people. Randolph Carter met a billion horrible creatures and spent most of his time wheeling and dealing with them.

>>739412754
Too bad, it looks good. Love a from tv show mod. Experience happenings like never before,

>>739413626
>Voluntatily participate in expeditions, extracting colonies and slave trading
>Uhmmm akshually we wuz OPPRESSED by the evil Englishmen
Whyare Scottish pipo like this?

>>739413069
>Arkham Horror 2e+Dunwich
Board games? Why second edition instead of third?

>>739413634
The answer is pretty obvious if you aren't looking for an easy gotcha: because even nihilists, antinatalists, and existentialists still possess the primal fear of death. It's the same reason why people who jump off high places and survive often recount experiencing extreme fear, even though they were resolved to die a few moments ago.
And obviously the ones who killed themselves aren't around to answer your question, are they?

>>739410928
American society is fucked because America is haunted by the ideals of retarded Protestant religious extremists that even England deemed too extreme to the point that they were deported with the intent that they'll die on the voyage or in this new unknown land that hated life itself and wove these ideals into American society for future political, corporate and social interests to exploit every time they want to make a powergrab.

America's fucked up because the Puritain spirit never left this shithole and instead became the modus operandi of many people, leading to the VAST majority of America's problems over the past 500 years.

>>739405525
Nothing happens in Lovecraft stories that can be translated into games except for the Innsmouth fish people which have been done multiple times.
>some people see a weird color and have funny dreams
>some people see buildings that don't have straight lines
>some guy makes a Frankenstein monster but doesn't call it that
>an incest family has incest babies and the narrator doesn't like it
It's all very dull.

>>739405525
because tranny jannies go into absolute melty mode if you name his awesome cat

>>739413743
Kek

>>739413308
>The order of 9 feds
>The glowiewaffen divsion
Yes fed honeypots would promote nihilism so they can have their excuse for gun bans

>>739413634
because the human brain isn't monolithic. It consists of a ton of different systems that evolved to fulfill different purposes.
Fat people who want to lose weight still get hungry and crave junk food, even though consciously, they'd rather not eat it.
You can consciously want to die and be miserable while not killing yourself because you intrinsically fear pain, bodily harm, and death. It's really only when your despair reaches a critical point that your fear of living becomes greater than your fear of dying, and it's at that point most people kill themselves.

>>739413005
Thomas Sowell said that in his book Black Rednecks and White Liberals, which makes a lot of sense. You see a lot of the same dysgenic behaviors in the hood that you see in the trailer park.

It's like how Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks try to pretend they're all different because they're different religions, but the speak the same language (with minor dialect differences) and 90% of their cultural customs are interchangable.

>>739411432
But you literally can fight the horrors. All of Lovecrafts long form stories have the protagonists and others fight the horrors, and mostly win. Sure, killing Cthulhu is difficult because he's made of jelly, but he can be smashed by a boat and decide this shit isn't worth his time and fuck off. Nyarlhotep can be fought, he literally loses in all of his appearances. There are gods that help humans, humans who gain fantastic powers that allow them to take over cities from the horrors, horrors that ally with humans to fuck up worse horrors. Literally just Azathoth and the Color out of space can't be fought. Everything else can and is.

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>>739413820
Shut the fuck up. Its the greatest trick we ever pulled. The goyim must not know.

>>739413634
Because most people still have a self-preservation instinct.

>>739412631
He's better than Derleth at least. Fucking "Cthulhu is a water elemental that is why he's trapped in the ocean." Fucking retardation. "Hastur is an elder god and his half brother is Cthulhu." Fucking moron.

>>739413634
you don't understand existentialism or nihilism

>>739413634
Nihilists can't even ignore bait anymore baka

>>739412573
cthulhutech is megashit proof of >>739408645

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>>739414141
>dat feel when you'll never get a gang of college professors together to go clean house

>>739414387
pretending to be retarded is not bait

>>739405525
If anything there's too many.

Give me a setting that DOESN'T take place in early 20th century Boston and has an elder god BESIDES Cthulhu

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>>739413906
3rd edition is a completely different game with a different modular board and totally different rules. 2e is unashamedly an ameritrash abomination with 1000 cards and tokens and that's why it's a cult classic.

>>739413634
I would never kill myself because there would be no point. I was already born. It's already too late.

>>739414457
>early 20th century Boston
Links to these games, please. I'm being sincere, here.

>>739414328
>nothing means anything bro! smart people are existentialists like me!everything is pointless bro! living is futility!
>then why not kill yourself?
>you.. you just don't get it!!!

>>739414483
Oh ok. Yeah, now I understand. Thought that third was just the same game, maybe with rebalance, corrected errors etc lol

I'll see if I can find them second hand somewhere then, thank you.

bro was still here the whole time he was just too scared to say anything lmfao

>>739414457
>Give me a setting that DOESN'T take place in early 20th century Boston and has an elder god BESIDES Cthulhu
I like the setting, but it's rarely used to its full potential. Like how if you go somewhere and you end up in deep shit you're basically fucked since phones aren't commonplace yet so your best bet is hoping there's a telegram operator nearby. There's a reason Call of Cthulhu is not combat-centric and is one of the tabletop games where academic skills actually matter.

>>739414489
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Call of Cthulhu (2018)
Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land
Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet
Forgive me Father
Forgive me Father 2
The Sinking City
The Sinking City 2

All 'I'm an ex-soldier detective who must solve big cult mystery' slop.

>>739413985
This is such a ridiculous perversion of history. No, the colonialists were not that different from anyone else in the Europe at the time culturally, their biggest difference was their desire for a society based on post-Enlightenment principles and natural law. They would then create America and, with its declaration and constitution that directly make mention of this, would become the inspiration for the toppling of the old monarchs throughout the world all the way unto the other end in Japan. That could hardly be done if they were scary extremists like you claim they were.

>>739414676
Neat. Thank you!

>>739414681
Protestant slopaganda

Because cosmic horror requires a certain amount of introspection to be understood, and most developers are just looking for an aesthetic that’s easy to sell. Most people have simply been satisfied with fighting tentacled monsters and planet-sized things, ignoring the most complex aspects of the genre. Btw Bloodborne also falls into the same trap despite what the retards say.

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>>739414141
There's all sorts of interpretations and stories surrounding the different concepts. I just thought Look Outside was especially good at creating this feeling of humanity being on the very edge of something they can't understand and yet having everything they've ever known or understood thrown into total flux because reality itself breaks down under the weight of it.

>>739414110
>It consists of a ton of different systems that evolved to fulfill different purposes
>purposes
The word you’re looking for is functions as purpose presupposes a mind. Nihilists can’t even be consistent for one sentence.

>>739414895
This. Hence why the question wrecks their arguments and philosophy. As soon as you ascribe a reason, you're no longer a nihilist or existentialist or whatever. You played yourself.

>>739414937
>hence why

>>739408703
tbf if i saw a wop I'd be scared too

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>>739414951
did I stutter?

>>739405525
What do you mean few? There's at least a half dozen, plus a dozen closely inspired, and a dozen more like Scribblenauts which have elements from them.

>>739408645
You're a dumb frogposter, but you aren't wrong.

>>739405525
Because God is merciful if you see the few pieces of shit that have been made

When Dark Corners of the Earth and ancient games like Shadow of the Comet are the best in this genre you know its fucking shit

I say this as one of the biggest Lovecraft fans
also because of Lovecraft's based politics leftoids and niggers have been attaching themselves to it like flies to honey the last decade so every Lovecraft game is woke as fuck

No thanks

>>739405525
Lovecraft wasn't making action stories.

>>739414141
yeah but a ton of horror fans are women, and they love feeling powerless and letting evil win. its unfortunate, as a male horror fan, but its how it is. i've noticed it over and over over the last 15+ years. being into horror stuff will get you laid but yeah, all the chicks are just so masochistic that they let it heavily affect their taste in media.

>>739405629
My mortgage is scarier than ancient aliens

>>739415957
imagine if cthulu showed up and killed the bankers and the ruling elite who are already weird cultists to other demons, everyone who matters would just think he's really cool. just a cthulu sweep.

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I'M GOING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE

>>739405525
Are the Sinking City games any good?

>>739415957
No man should delve into the cyclopean archives of the banking institutions, nor peer too closely at the antediluvian entities known as Underwriters. To purchase a dwelling, one must enter a binding pact with an unseen, nameless entity: the Lender. This entity demands a blood-tithe known as the Down Payment, a sacrifice of years of mortal toil offered into a bottomless, non-Euclidean vault.

>>739405525
Like half of Lovecraft's stories are about the horrors of race mixing, good luck trying to make a game about that.

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brainlet here. can you model 4D geometry in video games if you make a engien specifically for it? i think that'd work to make the appearance of such a being more unsettling, and perhaps architecture relating to it at certain moments.

>>739417984
and perhaps 4D sound? idk if that makes sense, but in how the sound gets to you, bounces off walls, simulated as it'd be in a 4D environment

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>>739416109
Fake image

How about some.of that absurdism, fellas.

>>739418363
Seventeen fishsticks.

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>>739414398
his better stories are those that step outside the immediate mythos. like elder things in pic related.

>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!

>>739405525
literally everyone just copies the shadow over innsmouth it's boring as fuck at this point

>>739418502
>--

AI generated

>>739405525
>lovecraft and barlow wrote a short stoy together
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Till_A%27_the_Seas

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>>739418536
You retarded, bro?

>>739411050
>Japs have done an anime of almost everything, why no Lovecraft?
Japs eat octopus as a carnival snack dude

>>739405525
I wish there were more games where you could get fucked by Cthulhu, or at the very least mermen. They're so hot!

>>739418758
one of the more odd discoveries i have made over many years of teh internet is that there are women out there that like tentacles.

>>739405629
I dont actually get the appeal/what im supposed to be afraid of.
Im sure this shit was a lot scarier to white Christians in the 20's who believed they were the center of the universe, but I've lived my whole life knowing humans are insignificant specks so Cthulhu shit does nothing for me.
"ooooo isn't it scary? things beyond your comprehension that dont care about you?"
it's just a spin on fear of the unknown - which is really all fear when you boil it down.
it's not special.

>>739405525
There's a lot but they're either unfinished or garbage

>>739418661
>Dude squid is...le heccin' scary and not food
Why can't anglopipo into seafood?

>>739413028
my fear as well. the combat definitely needed some improvement but to go all in on it while moving the strongest aspects of the first game to the back burner doesn't seem wise.

>>739405525
Plenty out there

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The dream quest of Unkown Kadath and all the Dreamlands stuff would be pure kino as a video game. He even describes in pretty good detail what a lot of the creepy monsters look like, just add to that Cthulu and all the other gods/monsters he wrote about

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Shadow of the Comet
Prisoner of Ice
Infra Arcana
The Last Door
Lovecraft's Untold Stories 1
Conarium
Omen Exitio
Stygian Reign of the Old Ones (janky and unfinished)
The Last Door
Cyclopean 1 and soon 2

>>739411050
Japan is really big into the Call of Cthulhu tabletop game actually. I even bought some CoC themed folders, wallpapers and rulebooks from Comiket.
But yeah it's strange that there's not that many "traditional" Cthulhu series in Japan, though you do have a LOT of stuff indirectly or even directly inspired by it, just presented with a different flavor. (i.e. Demonsbane, Junji Ito, Bibliomania, or a lot of parodies where the elder gods are anime girls who want to fuck you.)
I guess they just prefer putting their own spin on it rather than keep re-telling the same Lovecraft stories.

>>739419369
this is the best you got?

>>739405525
Because it's a boring as hell concept.
Give me some king in yellow or some of the other big idiot's kids instead of cthulu, I don't give a fuck about your squids and tentacles.

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>>739409903
meanwhile in superior japanese story
>HUMAN AIN'T AS WEAK YOU THINK!
>WE WILL SHOW YOU THE POWER OF HUMAN RACE!

>>739419862
>Rare footage of Lovecraft actually jolly

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Funny how Alone in the Dark flopped so hard nobody even mentions it in Lovecraft game threads. It's explicitly mentioned and the final boss is Shub-Niggurath

>>739420348
Is it any good?

>>739420348
Because it was completely overshadowed by the Silent Hill 2 remake. It's just a solid game in its own right.

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>>739420446
I thought it was a solid 7. Gameplay wasn't the best but it had some cool environments and visuals. Definitely a janky AA game but I thought it was worth a playthrough

>>739412092
Hey fuck face, you know the Scots/Irish are actually just angloids? Now you don't wanna claim because they make your snaggletooth kind look bad. What about nathan bedford forrest? He was english! Stop blaming Irish people for what angloid cuckhold scum do!

the horror at red hook read by wayne june is my favorite one, it really gets the feeling that there is something horrific going on but it is kept quiet so the police cant do anything to stop it
even at the climax at the story, it never makes any reasonable sense and you are left with a sense of dread

>>739405525
>Why are there so few Cthulhu Mythos games?
But there's plenty?
That said stories that require good dose of imagination don't translate very well to mostly visual medium.
Doesn't help that many don't have a good end or winning condition which is a big no no for video game.
Also 'gamifying' stuff only makes it less scary.
Sanity being just another health bar isn't good enough replacement for character going crazy.

>>739411147
>me best smart, everyone else idiot
generic midwit take #6951651654651651654654651651

>>739419632
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMAO85LcG2c
Closest thing you'll get.

>>739405525
because lovecraft said the n word

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>>739412373
Leftists are pretend nihilists. It's all "nothing matters" and "We're just cosmic dust" until you start dropping n bombs. Suddenly they get very particular and moralist about the whole thing.

>>739412394
high quality post

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>>739405525
People should be asking why there aren't any games based on Clark Ashton Smith stories

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>>739405525
maybe it's because the point is it is about shit you can't understand and trying to make models out of that shit is too much of a hassle. bloodborne's a good game but the enemies you fight are just a bunch of fucking muppets that make too much noise.

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>FGO finally about to have a chapter specifically focused on outer gods after setting up for 8 years with Yog-Sothoth, Cthulhu, Cthugha, Shub-Niggurath, Vulthoom and Nyarlathotep all getting involved and them intentionally being the only things left out of the games Finale
I'm excited.

>>739422104
Wait, Cylopean has actual colors? I had to stop playing the demo because it was fucking my eyes.

>>739422631
Maybe you'll get some super short game. But anything bigger will prbly be mixed with Lovecraft or Howard stories. After all, any crossover between Lovecraft world, Clark's Hyperborea and Howard's Conan is/was encouraged by the authors

>>739405629
>or the atmosphere is "spooky" enough.
That's like 90% of Lovecraft's stories. They almost always take place in some shitty town full of inbred yokels or injuns.
>>739419267
You're supposed to be scared of getting slowly poisoned and turned to dust, or being assassinated by an animalistic cult of drooling retards, or being hunted by a giant dog as punishment for being a grave-robbing degenerate. The cosmic horror element comes from how powerless the victims are against forces they don't understand, and in the case of the cult stories like Call of Cthulhu, the dawning realization of how everpresent the evil is.

>>739411798
based Dunsany chad

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>>739405525
Isn't there a bunch of point & click games from the 2ks? Necronomicon was one. There were others. But those type of games don't really appeal to the masses. So yeah.

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>>739422862
Smith had other settings besides Hyperborea, like Zothique or Averoigne, so you could just choose to set the story in those, since neither of them are very Lovecraft or REH-like.

>>739412809
That doesn't mean he's seething. Several of Lovecraft's stories, and Call of Cthulhu in particular, are definitely based in the fear of ancient places that exist outside of industrial civilization. It's the whole "dark heart of Africa" idea, that there exists obscure places outside of the advanced civilizations where human beings live closer to their animal nature, where their darker impulses are less disguised than in civilized society (although Lovecraft probably had a less negative view of Europeans than Joseph Conrad). You can't understand them without understanding that.

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Because most of the new Lovecraft games reveal right away that it's a mere skinsuit by having
>a female protagonist or a sidekick
>minority characters in positive portrayals
>both
If you can't put your liberal assumptions away even for a second, there is no way you can write cosmic horror and existential dread.

>>739405525
How can you depict unspeakable horrors beyond comprehension?

>>739405525
I wish there was a game about the case of charles dexter ward, it's my favorite from Lovecraft

>>739423569
It's more about being a complete nobody, almost on the bottom of the food chain and a figment of imagination of some idiot, sleepy god than just lol scawy monsters.

>>739423569
Fear of the unknown.