KickStarter Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones - a Lovecraftian Computer RPG

To me it seems like you're the one that overdosed on memes so much that a mere mention of cuckolding makes you think of them. In a game that started development before "cuck" got as prolific as it is now.

 

Just use the character editor to give yourself leet stats and the console commands to give yourself all the food you need. That's what I did.

 

ITT I learned that the concept of cheating on your spouse or lover was invented less than a decade ago

 

I do not cheat baybay I only spread the free love

Disgusting, isn't it

 

I did. So changing a 4 to a 5 on the left changes a 6 to a 7 on the right. Still have no idea how significant that is.

I am aware of what cuckold means, and where it comes from (the cuckoo bird, who lays its eggs in the nests of other birds). In the 1200s, when thrones were hereditary, it was a big deal if your heir was actually someone else's son. It's actually a general concern of males, since a woman by definition cannot be cuckolded into raising some other woman's child by mistake; her children are always her own. This is why males have always been violently jealous, obsessed with marrying virgins, chastity belts etc. Males can be fooled into spending their time and energy raising another male's child. Evolution has made this a major concern of males in general, even in cats, who will kill kittens of other males.

None of this is relevant to a Lovecraftian horror game, nor to my female character. The writers just put in a meme reference (and yes, depraved people on the internet are obsessed with the word "cuck" and have been for some time) as well as putting in the word "fucking" as many times as they could in the game's very first conversation. It was the worst first dialog I've ever seen in any RPG, an immediate turnoff.

I've read a lot of Lovecraft. The man might have been the greatest prude in history. Reading the "cuck" conversation and the gratuitous profanity immediately pulled me from any attempt at a 1920s Lovecraftian atmosphere and into the smelly basement of tittering 15 year olds reading 4chan, the kind of morons who think it's clever to use profanity whenever possible in an attempt to sexualize everything. It's jarring, it's puerile, and it ruins the atmosphere immediately.

I think I did, I don't remember the "you starve to death even if you have rations in your inventory and buy even more" part though.

 

The word cuckquean dates back to the 1500s. They just gave female and male characters the same speech, you're reading too much into it.

I never starved so I don't know what happened in your game or why.

 

This game is far more apocalyptic than horror themed. It is also on the mythos cargo cult train rather than the 1930s horror/weird pulp writing style one.
That aside, the tavern keeper is exactly the kind of figure who would use profanity as much as possible. He tries to scam you for a petty sum, you remember?
It is merely in character, being a sleazy bastard who would throw anyone under the bus for paltry gain is a sort of coping mechanism in the end of the world, ala the in-game value system.
There is a plot-critical pawnshop across the street with a owner that is a erudite occult academic type that speaks as one would expect, if you really want a occult mystery(tm) experience,
just leave the smelly tavern and follow the main quest.

 

No you retard (I say this in the most friendly way possible). Latins just use the word corno/cornutto to refer to stuff more than just cuck, though it is what it is. Pay attention to the dialogue Jesus Christ.

 

My impression was he used "cornuto" to imply the main character was betrayed and is looking for revenge on whoever is responsible. At least that's how I understood the story he uses to explain the whole thing.

 

The Italian guy says he likes pizza I would very much prefer that games don't talk about pizza gate tyvm.

 

I too felt like the whole cuck thing came out of nowhere.

The city is stuck somewhere between dimensions, there are otherworldy creatures roaming around, people are going crazy, and then a bartender calls you a cuck. What?

 

The city is stuck somewhere between dimensions, there are otherworldy creatures roaming around, people are going crazy, but the bartender is somehow supposed to be perfectly normal and make total sense. Checks out, sure.

 

Latin has a better term for promiscuous person:

FORNICATOR MAXIMVS

 

Me too.

Here is the full dialogue (more than one picture)

I guess you can intepret the last screenshot as "Who cucked your life, Protagonist?"

edit: Same dialogue as a woman.
As an aristocat you have your own butler. Cool. I did't new that.

 

In a game where making a literal sex cultist magician, who also happens to be a granny, is a viable choice in character creation, it is to be expected than fidelity with Lovecraft's works was not the main idea.

 

They just went for a Lovecraftian aesthetic, but it's deep as a puddle in depth and it ends up seeming less like a derivative work and more like a cheap caricature every now and then.

 

What about the cornutto kings, do they get a Latin term as well?

 

I did. He talked about someone looking for the man who fucked his wife. Totally gratuitous profanity and cuck reference.

Refund obtained, I will sleep better tonight.

 

Not much lost anyway. The game is way too barebones mechanically and incomplete storywise.

 

ok how can i explain this

cornutto is like kurwa for a certain age of latinos

you asked a finn what satanna! means and then complained about satanism

ffs

 

Does profanity and a cuck reference in a cheap unknown video game keeps you awake at night?
From reading you posts the cuck reference really hit a nerve.

 

Last year, people made the same complaint about The Sinking City. As I observed then, in the face of the unthinkable, some people still go about their lives the best they can. Would the game be better if it was nothing but raving lunatics running around screaming incoherently and starving to death?

 

The monocled choice would be for people to revert to Stone Age tribalism in the immediate aftermath of an apocalyptic event.

 

I'm sure the writer intended for the bartender to sound like some kind of jaded badass foreign guy, but instead the character ends up sounding like some kind of edgy ESL student. That's why he feels out of place.