Cyanide's Call of Cthulhu - "RPG-Investigation" game based on tabletop ruleset

[V_K]

Sounds too good to be true. I started following the project with mild curiousity but these reviews converted me to cautiously optimistic. Can it be that we'll finally have a worthy successor to Legacy: Realm of Terror?

 

[Zombra]

If "adheres too faithfully to the genre" is the worst thing to be said, this will be the best game ever.

Seriously, I'm getting legit hyped.

 

[undecaf]

Cyanide told me that their game won’t become a shooter

That's certainly a promising comment.

 

[Abu Antar]

Sounds more and more like an adventure game with rpg elements. I'm okay with that if that is the case.

 

[Latelistener]

It will be a shame if they'll ditch combat systems. It's not like I wait this game for that, but I'm just tired of Amnesia clones where characters have no hands at all.

 

[Zombra]

It will be a shame if they'll ditch combat systems. It's not like I wait this game for that, but I'm just tired of Amnesia clones where characters have no hands at all.

They've said you will actually have a gun in the game, it just won't be useful most of the time - monsters mostly laugh off bullets or maybe get slowed down. Also you don't bring a case of ammo with you like Rambo storming a beach (and I assume you won't find ammo and health by breaking open crates or barrels). To me this all sounds perfect.

 

[V_K]

It will be a shame if they'll ditch combat systems. It's not like I wait this game for that, but I'm just tired of Amnesia clones where characters have no hands at all.

None of them are RPGs though. And none of RPGs are completely non-combat. So if this turned out to be the first non-combat RPG that would be great.
Although something like the aforementioned Legacy, where you can fight, but it just isn't a viable strategy, would work for me as well.

 

[Latelistener]

It will be a shame if they'll ditch combat systems. It's not like I wait this game for that, but I'm just tired of Amnesia clones where characters have no hands at all.

They've said you will actually have a gun in the game, it just won't be useful most of the time - monsters mostly laugh off bullets or maybe get slowed down. Also you don't bring a case of ammo with you like Rambo storming a beach (and I assume you won't find ammo and health by breaking open crates or barrels). To me this all sounds perfect.

Sounds good to me.

 

[Ludo Lense]

I dunno where people got the monster=power in Lovecraft's works. It is all about the terror and the unknowable.

The evil spawn of a god beyond comprehension gets killed by a guard dog in the Dunwich Horror (his brother is a bit tougher to take down).

 

[ERYFKRAD]

killed by a guard dog

Today I learned that Eldritch abominations are vulnerable to enamel.

 

[Zombra]

I dunno where people got the monster=power in Lovecraft's works. It is all about the terror and the unknowable.

This particular point is not about loyalty to Lovecraft, it's about being a good horror game instead of a shooter. It's kind of hard to have terror of the unknowable when having a gun solves all your problems.

 

[Darth Roxor]

He turns the boat around and plows it into Cthulhu's fucking head (apparently Cthulhu doesn't have the reflexes to dodge A STEAM BOAT THAT HASN'T EVEN GATHERED FULL STEAM THAT HAD TO MAKE A U TURN FIRST). In response the great mighty unstoppable unknowable space god Cthulhu goes "fuck this I'm going home" and lets two survivors live. But OMG so unstoppable and ethereal and mysterious. You would be completely missing the point by making a story in which Cthulhu can be stopped by, for example, mildly inconveniencing him. He's unstoppable.

This idea came to me while browsing a forum imagining the confrontation of the mightest beings and heros from Pop Culture... When Cthulhu was eventually evoked, someone came up with the irrefutable argument that this ubber-mighty God was defeated by a mere steamboat... Not so untrue. What make Him so feared afterward is still a mystery.

 

[Zombra]

New video with deep gameplay details and previews of the character screen and RPG systems.

Spoiler

 

[Zombra]

OK, nothing yet, but dammit I'm looking forward to seeing something.

 

[vortex]

What is Plague tale Innocence ?

 

[undecaf]

What is Plague tale Innocence ?

http://www.pcgamer.com/a-plague-tale-innocence-may-give-you-rat-filled-nightmares/

It’s 1349 and France is having a pretty awful time, what with the whole apocalyptic plague being spread by rats. Players will have to look after a pair of orphans as they make their way through the blighted land, pursued not just by swarms of apparently supernatural rats, but by the Inquisition as well. They’re not having much luck.

 

[Morgoth]

No teaser of Cthulhu or anything yet. Not a single tentacle. I have a suspicion they'll postpone it into 2018.

 

[LESS T_T]

Speaking of the old one:

 

[Delterius]

Cthullu Amnesia Returns?

 

[ColCol]

I have a feeling the rpg parts of the game are little to non-existent.

 

[Reapa]

This particular point is not about loyalty to Lovecraft, it's about being a good horror game instead of a shooter. It's kind of hard to have terror of the unknowable when having a gun solves all your problems.

I have a feeling the rpg parts of the game are little to non-existent.

a horror game is not an rpg.

 

[LESS T_T]

Speaking of the old one:

It's unlisted for some reason.

Here's another one:

 

[Delterius]

Is RPG game better or worse than RPGHorror Game?

 

[V_K]

Nothing can beat "turn-based action-RPG". Nothing.

 

[vortex]

Nothing can beat "turn-based action-RPG". Nothing.

Only realtime-with-pause action-RPG.