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baklava
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posted May 11, 2009 12:06 AM |
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Call of Cthulhu
Borrowed it from a pal and started playing yesterday.
Creepy shyte.
I adore the reality and sanity effects. You have no health bar, ammunition bar or crosshair; you need to think and calculate all by yourself. Plus - fear, vertigo (if you're at a height... don't look down) and other mental effects distort your vision, movement and functions; and if you use too much morphine to lower the effects, you get addicted.
I got to the part where I need to free some guy from a cell, but he refuses to leave since he "doesn't trust me".
DUDE YOU'RE [spoiler] HELD IMPRISONED BY A FREAKING MURDEROUS CULT. [/spoiler]
Well, at least I finally found something to shoot with in the next room. Gives you a sense of... safety.
And imminent knowledge of all the final bosses approaching. 
Still, I love how it avoids the "BOO!" and "SHOOT ZOUNDS OF ZOMBIE DEMONS FROM OUTER SPACE" quasi-horror motives so popular among newer horror games; and replaces them with a constant chill down your spine.
PS
Gotta start reading Lovecraft, seems promising as hell.
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"Let me tell you what the blues
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money,
you got the blues."
Howlin Wolf
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Kraken
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posted May 13, 2009 09:33 PM |
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One of my best friends got that game for his birthday. All the times I asked him how it went he said good  . Does it relate to H.P. Lovecraft's book?
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Vini Vidi Vici
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baklava
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posted May 13, 2009 09:51 PM |
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I hear it's based on two of his short stories, "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and "The Call of Cthulhu".
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"Let me tell you what the blues
is. When you ain't got no
money,
you got the blues."
Howlin Wolf
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Kraken
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I just love being elemental
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posted May 13, 2009 10:18 PM |
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Ah cool, I've got a library near my house like 500 feet away, but they didn't have it.
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DagothGares
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posted May 13, 2009 10:21 PM |
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I'm convinced you won't find a book by Lovecraft in it's original language in Belgium...
By the way, the name Lovecraft is something you'd suspect to find on those cheesy romance novels, but... How wrong I was!
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Kraken
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I just love being elemental
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posted May 13, 2009 10:23 PM |
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Lol I thought that at first too, he's a pretty creepy guy, he died at like 48 of Lymphoma, he said he didn't believe in Santaat 5, and he never believed in god. This guy's really cool
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friendofgunnar
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posted June 03, 2009 12:40 AM |
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I tried reading some of Lovecraft's stories once. His aim was to create something so alien and unknown that it would be uniquely horrifying and I think he failed in that regard. Wierd yes, scary no. In the end all he created was a new pantheon of wacky creatures.
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cthulhu7
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AKA a merc...
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posted January 02, 2010 04:23 PM |
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I'm read Call of Cthulhu recently. I'm working through Shadow over Innsmouth now. Want to play the original xbox game. Anyway... I heare In the Mountains of Madness there are some more cthulhu mythos references, as well as references to the demon Dagon. I want to find out which stories Lovecraft's character Nylarathotep is in. A friend told me that Stephen King's character R. F. (Randall Flagg, Richard Fannin, etc) was inspired by Lovecraft's Nylarathotep.
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"It's gonna be real hard to commit crimes
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DagothGares
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posted January 02, 2010 08:25 PM |
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Stephen King said to be inspired by Lovecraft in general, IIRC 
Reading mountains of madnessis... Tiresome...
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