• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    survival horror action game

    Yeah, no.

    Hopefully it is just a case of buzz words and not an actual genre description. But the fundamental nature of the Cenobytes is that you can’t fight back against them. All you can really do is endure the psychological harm (because you aren’t enduring the physical) while sacrificing others and trying an end run to the lament configuration.

    Survival Horror/Action inherently involves fighting back. And that undermines so much of what makes Hellraiser Hellraiser (even in a lot of the horrible ones).

    I DO think a point and click adventure game would work perfectly. I would… probably not play an Alien Isolation but I do think that would also be a fit (I got my fill of hiding in lockers back with Penumbra/Amnesia). But the moment we have ANY way of fighting back… meh.

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      3 hours ago

      The trailer makes it seem like there will be “lesser” demons or creatures we may fight, but if a Cenobite knows we’re there, we’re fucked.

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    Only shows cutscenes, no actual gameplay. Can’t tell if you’re playing the people or the Cenobytes… Not impressed.

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      10 hours ago

      single-player survival horror action game

      It’d be really interesting if you played as the Cenobytes.

      I do agree an all cutscene trailer tells use basically nothing. Does some good for tone setting though, I suppose.

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        I mean if you like the weird shit, I’d say continue on. They’re fun slasher movies, and the reboot from a couple years ago was pretty good imo; the ending was pretty fucked.

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          I wasn’t a big fan of horror movies until later in life, mostly because my parents wouldn’t allow slasher type films.

          So I ran through the saga. I enjoyed them, though I wouldn’t call them art, lol.

          I agree, the reboot actually got me more interested in the lore, which I think Barker excels at based on his games Undying and Jericho.

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    18 hours ago

    Mmm this may be one of the few straight-up horror games that I’m genuinely excited to play. It looks fucked in all the right ways.

    I hope Doug Bradley has a cameo of some kind. His voice is too iconic for Pinhead imo.

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    14 hours ago

    Looks bad. Which is good. So that makes me feel bad, which is good!

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    16 hours ago

    I’m not even that big on horror games but this looks fuckin awesome, can’t wait for it to come out!

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    18 hours ago

    Oh hell yes. It’s got to be better than the F13 game.

    (Disclosure: I liked the F13 game in single player bot mode)