Game News Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land Coming to PC

[sgc_meltdown]

It just seems like a waste to have the CoC license and use it for something generic(albeit polished, I'll take your word on that bros).

It's that syndicate thing again, where you take a license and just stuff with it that the fans of it don't really go for. Perhaps the cost of the license is offset by the name recognition more, so disgruntled fans + more people playing it is more profitable than happy CoC fans - 'lmao that talky game looks faggy' gamers

 

[J_C]

An iOS game is a more hardcore RPG than anyting on the PC from the last few years. Isn't that ironic?

 

[DwarvenFood]

Come on Matt, you're exaggerating there...why the butthurt ?

 

[CappenVarra]

I'd sure like seeing some Lovecraftian IF. Possibly the only genre that could pull it off.

You mean interactive fiction? There is Anchorhead, a well-received and, I think, competently written game to be had for free.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorhead

There is also Shades, a very short yet somewhat Lovecraftian game, also IF. It is very good for what it is.
And you all know about Lurking Horror, even though I don't like it.

Anchorhead is good, haven't played Shades (thanks for the tip), also look up The King of Shreds and Patches (easier than Anchorhead, has a hybrid graphical map of the city, pretty cool overall).

 

[Marquess Cornwallis]

It just seems like a waste to have the CoC license and use it for something generic(albeit polished, I'll take your word on that bros).

It's that syndicate thing again, where you take a license and just stuff with it that the fans of it don't really go for. Perhaps the cost of the license is offset by the name recognition more, so disgruntled fans + more people playing it is more profitable than happy CoC fans - 'lmao that talky game looks faggy' gamers

In all fairness, that's really not the case here. I haven't played the PnP CoC in years, but I'd say that outside tweaking psychoanalysis and Cthulhu Mythos for combat, the adaptation of the actual combat rules appears to be pretty faithful. Of course as a complex representation of what a typical PnP session looks like it fails, but that was never the point. It's a decent squad-based tactical game that makes use of an established ruleset and setting in a light-hearted manner. As a Lovecraft/CoC fan, I honestly don't see a reason to get upset about this.

 

[Mozgoëbstvo]

I was itching for a decent WWI set game, and if it's a Mythos turn based RPG, all the fucking better.

 

[EG]

I'd sure like seeing some Lovecraftian IF. Possibly the only genre that could pull it off.

You mean interactive fiction? There is Anchorhead, a well-received and, I think, competently written game to be had for free.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorhead

There is also Shades, a very short yet somewhat Lovecraftian game, also IF. It is very good for what it is.
And you all know about Lurking Horror, even though I don't like it.

Anchorhead is good, haven't played Shades (thanks for the tip), also look up The King of Shreds and Patches (easier than Anchorhead, has a hybrid graphical map of the city, pretty cool overall).

Will acquire. Thank you.

 

[mondblut]

So do I understand it correctly that Call of Cthulhu is a Happy Tree Friends RPG, whose only purpose is to have your character shredded apart in the most hilarious way, as quick as technically possible? As in, "LOL, he managed to dodge those decapitating tentacles the moment he finished rolling up his character, and so he survived as a drooling idiot, that's SO fun"?

Those who designed it, and those who have played it, must have already become drooling idiots, indeed.

 

[commie]

Looks like GROM Terror in Tibet...in other words fucking shite....

 

[Marquess Cornwallis]

So do I understand it correctly that Call of Cthulhu is a Happy Tree Friends RPG, whose only purpose is to have your character shredded apart in the most hilarious way, as quick as technically possible? As in, "LOL, he managed to dodge those decapitating tentacles the moment he finished rolling up his character, and so he survived as a drooling idiot, that's SO fun"?.

Not really. Quite a few people play in a somewhat similar manner due to reasons that go beyond the ruleset per se (namely the roots of the setting in Lovecraft's fiction and its tone) and it's often given as a tongue-in-cheek representation of a typical PnP session, but it's by no means compulsory by design. The rules provide all the standard statistical RPG goodness you could ask for, so if you want to take your friends from accounting on a wild ride, you can easily design a campaign where the only drooling will be over glorious number crunching.

 

[Excidium]

I don't understand the point of making a combat focused game with this license. Not only it doesn't fit the setting, the combat rules in CoC/BRP aren't even that good.

Not really enthused by the fact that it's a squad based game with more than half the stats in combat skills
actually look for yourself, the only non combat/survival skills are psychoanalysis and cthulhu mythos

Actually they're probably all combat/survival skills. In the P&P some of the uses of Psychoanalysis are supressing temporary insanity and restoring sanity points, and Cthulhu Mythos is a skill that rises up naturally when you encounter stuff of the mythos, and every increase in it reduces your maximum sanity points by the same amount (which is a p. central mechanic to the game).