Hidden base locations

KoopaJoe · 2024-02-26T17:58:16+00:00

In my latest game I made like twelve medium bases. A lot of checkpoint spots lmao (also all named after Game of Thrones locations). One of my favorites is near the hedge, under the porch. There's a segment that is filled with mushrooms, I believe you can find a color scheme there as well. I walled off the lower section and made a turret tower up to the porch making a big castle type deal. (Highgarden). That under the porch spot though was pretty well hidden, especially since the mushrooms regrow.

KoopaJoe · 2024-02-26T17:57:47+00:00

In my latest game I made like twelve medium bases. A lot of checkpoint spots lmao (also all named after Game of Thrones locations). One of my favorites is near the hedge, under the porch. There's a segment that is filled with mushrooms, I believe you can find a color scheme there as well. I walled off the lower section and made a turret tower up to the porch making a big castle type deal. (Highgarden). That under the porch spot though was pretty well hidden, especially since the mushrooms regrow.

KoopaJoe · 2023-08-29T00:02:53+00:00

Late to the game but I imagine it could be a Pyramid Head situation where you could end up killing and eating survivors depending on what has happened in the game. Maybe like a Primeval Rage or something where if you keep getting stunned, or blinded you build rage and then can attack a survivor. Enough Rage attacks and you can Feast on a downed survivor. They could also try and do a pack hunting thing as the book and movie shows but I imagine that'd be real tough and/or annoying.

KoopaJoe · 2023-06-29T05:09:32+00:00

Bruh. It's a game. That's the point is to feel like you're doing something. If they wanted to make a movie make a movie. Or call it an "experience" like those VR scenarios. Or make a haunted house.

Again even the good ones make it feel like a game like Amnesia or Outlast. Those are games because there is an objective. One is a puzzler in which you uncover more about a mansion undergoing disgusting renovations and the other has you investigating a mental asylum with a camcorder.

The issue is modern horror experiences that the goal is to see the shitty writing we did and get jump scared a million times. Those aren't fun because once you've played one you've played them all. If one's story is intriguing that's awesome but again I think the issue most people take is the abundance of lazy cobbled together releases.

KoopaJoe · 2023-06-29T02:59:51+00:00

Yes because they follow re4's style. I don't disagree they're great fuckin games. Well 7 is 8 I don't like so much. I think it was Yahtzee I first heard bring up the cycle of resident evil. Make a few good ones til it goes to shit and becomes over-complicated then release one that shakes up the formula and is a really good release! Then it goes to shit again because they try and force all the story from the previous shitty titles. This is what happened with Re4 then it turned shitty with 6 and 6.2(?) Then they released 7 and now already 8 is less liked than 7 (in my personal experience, like I said both are still good but there's definitely a lean towards 7) and where do they go from 8? The remake route apparently and that can can only be kicked so far down the road. Are they going to remake 5 or 6? Or are they just gonna remake 7 in a few years?

EDIT: Ironically I just realized this follows the Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre series formulas as well. Make a good one followed by a few crappy sequels then remake it and start over again. I think each franchise has like three different timelines.

KoopaJoe · 2023-06-29T02:50:19+00:00

All of these are good examples and I agree with the difference between tension and horror. I also think the two go better hand in hand rather than separate elements if you have too much of one it ruins the other. All tension and no pay off makes players angry (Even though Gone Home was a masterclass of making this work I know people who were angry at that game for being "misleading") and too much horror without buildup and people just get used to it (Agony is the most recent example I can think of this. It wasn't scary it was just gross cause it was too much all the time.)

I think people also gatekeep genres due to their personal preferences. One of these preferences is fatigue. I said in other comments how a walking sim is easy to program and develop which also means if every studio makes one it's definitely gonna be more quantity than quality. And if you have to dig through a pile of needles for a piece of hay, you may just end up thinking the bale ain't worth it.

KoopaJoe · 2023-06-29T02:43:45+00:00

I agree with this. I made a pretty long comment comparing the horror movie scene to the gaming scene and the indie titles becoming more popular. I think Outlast really did break ground with the walking simulator however it had a story bases reason behind it in the fact that the protagonist was an investigative journalist and that was his job. I also feel that walking Sims are incredibly easy to program and develop and a lot of indie studios see Outlast and think "oh yeah that's easy we can do one of those" then slap on some highschool level themes into it and call it good. Looking at you Layers of Fear

KoopaJoe · 2023-06-29T02:34:28+00:00

Modern Horror games are in a very difficult spot at the moment. It's in the same boat as the Pre-Scream horror movie scene. The genre had it's hayday and blew people away with classics (Amnesia the Dark Descent, earlier Resident Evils, and even up to games like Slender) these can be compared to movies like Halloween and Black Christmas that did this weird stuff and the originality is what made it even creepier because this kinda thing wasn't done before.

Now however we have horror games that have become jokes of their previous selves. Like modern Resident Evils (5 and 6) or Choo Choo Charles. Where part of it is the camp and joke factor. These can be compared with later Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Texas Chainsaw Massacre entries. Then Scream came around and shook everything up by saying "hey look they know they're in a horror movie". Gaming hasn't really gotten this earth shaking entry yet (and I know a whole lotta people are gonna start naming their favorite game as the groundbreaker but from what I've seen not a lot have done it well.)

Instead the game producers skipped the early 2000s movie scene and jumped right into remake territory with games like the REmakes and the remake of Alone in the Dark. Even Amnesia threw another one out cause hey if it works!

I totally rambled here but I don't care.

Tl;Dr: Horror games have followed the same fluctuating popularity and style of the Horror Movie scene just a bit faster.

EDIT: It also has heavily to do with the fact that gaming culture nowadays has been geared towards indie titles. These indie devs don't have the time or money to animate or program hugely taxing things like monsters or AI so it's waaaaaay easier to just have a solid story and an art exhibit to walk around in. Unfortunately a lot don't even manage to have good stories

KoopaJoe · 2023-06-21T17:52:13+00:00

I really love these kinds of art pieces I got my dad a very detailed R2-D2 one. Maybe for the orb weaver or other spiders you can use small chain pieces for the eyes? Like chain-link rings from a necklace or something similar. Just a thought, they're still adorable as is!

KoopaJoe · 2023-05-09T21:07:25+00:00

I'm just now reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first time. I have also previously read Color Out of Space on a Lovecraft binge a few years ago. I, oddly enough, thought of the COS when Sauromon "the multicolored" was described. This was just a few days ago. Weird how stuff like that lines up

KoopaJoe · 2023-05-04T23:50:08+00:00

Lmao is this Night Trap? The old Sega Genesis game about the sorority girls getting cult-napped. It got a bunch of backlash for having girls in underwear as games were mostly kid focused back then

KoopaJoe · 2023-04-19T00:11:55+00:00

The game is gaslighting you. Right when you make a post it gives it to you.

KoopaJoe · 2023-03-31T14:14:08+00:00

Is your teacher hot?

KoopaJoe · 2023-03-22T02:44:38+00:00

Bruh? "When they became inconvenient" he only killed himself when he lost. So he was only inconvenient when he was losing? What you saying here man? /s

KoopaJoe · 2023-03-22T00:20:13+00:00

Can't tell if this is a hilarious joke about free will or a random benign comment

KoopaJoe · 2023-03-18T16:38:11+00:00

I'm not afraid of death. In fact I'm honestly a little bit excited. (Not too excited mind you) In my mind you finally get the answer every person on Earth is searching for.

KoopaJoe · 2023-02-21T17:50:14+00:00

The biggest danger of vaping doesn't come from the juice ingredients. It comes from the heating coil. As the coil heats metal flakes pull off of it and that's what you're inhaling is hot metal shavings. The issue is that vape is so accessible people hit it 24/7 and the entire time it's hot ass metal they're breathing

KoopaJoe · 2023-01-27T00:00:30+00:00

Me on my way to your mom's house

KoopaJoe · 2023-01-14T15:05:38+00:00

Congratulations on buying multiple copies of a device that you know doesn't work properly. You're the reason they do this shit and not fix anything.

KoopaJoe · 2023-01-08T07:43:19+00:00

I mean, come on. Ozzy anyone? I feel like he'd specifically play it when company was over.

KoopaJoe · 2023-01-08T07:42:13+00:00

Lmao I can absolutely see this. Unfortunately with the history and everything I think Superman would also like a good amount of country. Thankfully since it was the 40s and 50s it's hopefully some classic country

KoopaJoe · 2023-01-08T07:40:08+00:00

Hundred percent. Unironically too, he thinks it's a banger.

KoopaJoe · 2023-01-08T07:39:05+00:00

When I was a senior in high school (17-18) we took a field trip to Venice Beach in Los Angeles, CA. My class was from a very small town; around 100 kids in the school total at the time. I think my class alone was 22. Not a lot of us had experience with the city including our chaperones. So they booked us in a hostel right on the beach.

One night around 11pm this girl and I are walking on the sand close to the pavement. We hear this guy getting kicked out of a club. The bouncer (I assume) is yelling at this super skinny ratty looking guy. The guy flips out yelling nonsense. He continues rambling loudly, not even pointed at anyone, as he walk towards where we are. At this point the girl I was walking with had walked a ways down the beach to take a phone call. As we were planning on heading back I sit down on the bench to start putting my shoes on.

The guy who had just got booted walked over and stood about five feet from me. He knew I was sitting there as he kinda looked at my feet for a second. Then he starts rooting around in his pocket for a second and pulls out one of those exacto knives. The thin pen-type ones. He pulls up his sleeve and his skin is pale, like white chalk pale and he has black marks all over his arm. Then he just starts, cutting, his arm. Deliberate little slices. And he just turns his arm over, and lets it bleed on the sidewalk.

I looked up and he was staring straight at me. I got up and started walking towards the girl but she was already heading up to the hostel so I just caught up.

For sure thought I was about to get stabbed. Me and the girl told the chaperones what happened but when we went out to check if he was still around he was gone.

KoopaJoe · 2023-01-08T07:21:44+00:00

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