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What made Lovecraft scary and what does it really mean being lovecraftian ? Information around is cluttered with tropes.
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What made Lovecraft scary and what does it really mean being lovecraftian ? Information around is cluttered with tropes.
What made Lovecraft scary and what does it really mean being lovecraftian ? Information around is cluttered with tropes.
Game developers be like:I got
......... yeahTHAT CREAMY, VIVID IMMENSITY...
I don't think the creatures themselves are the most important thing. It is the feeling of hopelessness and isolation that grips you after encountering something unbelievable or traumatic. There is no salvation, only the passage of time until everything is consumed or assimilated. Stephen King has a pseudo-Lovecraftian novel, The Mist, which kinda touches on some elements but never gets the point. The people are isolated in the supermarket, but they are together, and they believe each other because they are experiencing the same thing. That's not Lovecraftian imo. The point in this novel is how extreme circumstances lead to extreme actions and the creation of factions that mistrust each other. The creatures in Lovecraft are, at their core, intimate and personal, like trauma, something that horrifies you to the point of being unable to live your life but is completely immaterial to other people. It's a good point, but the prose is stilted and it gets muddled around the inclusion of the 37th creamy, vivid immensity.Basically the fear of unknown, that the outside space might be filled with entities beyond our human comprehension, that could crush us like a bug, perhaps without even realizing it so.
His descriptions were quite good and evocative.
Programmers not being good enough at coding, I guess. At least their (mis)use of Unity is not bad enough to cause computers to melt down. Yet.Am I missing something?
Can anyone explain the logic behind the save system in this game? You can save as much as you want. The game also creates autosaves during missions. Every single one of these saves creates a unique save file. So this is not iron man or even limited saves. But if you want to exit the game, you must save before exiting. What purpose does that serve? It isn't forcing you to live with a mistake because next time you start the game you can just load a previous save. Or you can just reload your last save file before saving and exiting. Also, in game you can only load your last save but at the main menu you can reload any of the dozens of save files the game forces on you either automatically or by creating a save file every time you exit. Why? There is no limitation here, just tedium. Am I missing something?
Major Update - Harvester Patch (update 1.06)
A major update for Stirring Abyss is now available, introducing a new enemy type and new maps. Check out the full changelog.
MEET THE HARVESTER
It approaches in silence, lurking in the twilight zone where the electric glow of their lamps is drowned out by the eternal darkness of the deep ocean. Pupils dilate, the hair on their arms stands on edge, a cold sweat forms. The Harvester is near, and the fields are ripe with frightened minds.
The Harvester is a creature of nightmare that
feeds upon the Sanity of your crew
and grows more dangerous the more it consumes. These otherworldly monstrosities stalk the deep trenches and ruins of the Abyss, ready to reap their unwilling harvest. Harvesters can be encountered in both Story and Endless mode, and will spawn in campaigns started before the patch as well.
NEW MAPS
For those players who have already thoroughly explored the Abyss, we are adding a couple of new maps for bonus missions - one new Seal Defense mission set on a rooftop plaza of ancient Akoratya, and one new Diver Rescue mission that sends you delving into the depths of the abyssal trench.
I have had around 30 orders on Fanatical over the years. No issues.Anime bounty is also $4.
Anyway, how does Fanatical Compare to humblebundle? They pretty legit?
stirring abyss lowest on steam was 13$. Here is under 4... good find, thxhttps://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/ripper-bundle
this is in a bundle right now for 4 bucks along w/ some other stuff, and gamedec if you want to pay more... thinking about picking it up, I've had it on my wishlist but I never see anyone talking about it so dunno...