What video games would he make if he was alive today and took

>>384722587
bloodborne

Probably something immensly retarded and pretentious like all of his literary works

>>384722741

He'd make the sequel to Song of Saya that we all desperately need

>>384722587
Postal in Detroit.

>>384722741
t. nigger

A game where you have a dog named nigger.

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It sure wouldn't have a canine companion

>>384722741
>t. anon who never read a Lovecraft story in his life
thanks for your input

>>384722725
The entire point of old ones is that you can't even realize what they're without going completely insane.

Bloodborne is a good game but when you can battle Rom, Ebrietas or Amygdala with just a sword and a gun it blows all the Lovecraftian imagery to the water.

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>>384722587
Video games with hidden redpill meanings.

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Fact: he lived with this mother in his late teens and twenties after highschool and almost never left the house. He would have probably played any games that were available because he almost never attempted to find work.

He would hang his head in defeat as the present niggardly condition of things is far more horrifying than any cosmic primordial fear he could conjure.

Nigger TyCOON: Extreme Edition (also includes banned sheboon RAPE dlc)

>>384722587
He'd just post in here and /pol/ all day and accomplish nothing.

>>384722741
(you)

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Lovecraft literally hated games.

"All these things are, in their superior forms, simply by-products of excess intellectuality—which I haven’t the honour to possess. In their inferior forms they are of course simply avenues of escape for persons with too poorly proportioned and correlated a perspective to distinguish betwixt the frivolous and the relevant . . ."

-H.P. Lovecraft to James F. Morton, February 3, 1932

". . . I feel quite justified in believing that games and sports ought not be ranked among the major phenomena of life."

-H.P. Lovecraft to Robert E. Howard, October 3–5–7, 1932

>>384723174
With unspeakable horrors, sure, but it's not always the case of them being omnipotent and unimaginable in Lovecraft's stories

Hell, that's why there are very clear and different images of his monsters, since he described a lot of them in a lot of detail, especially Cthulhu
Sure he overused prodigious, cyclopean and other obtuse words to describe just how they strike both horror and wonder, but he still had descriptions of them

Um, can we not discuss this gross, racist bigot?

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>>384723267
>>384723515
>>384723612
Literally /our guy/.

>>384723174
>draw a dragon with an octopus for a head
>call it a supreme unknowable incomprehensible cosmic horror that would literally drive you into insanity by even attempting to perceive its full form
Bravo Lovecraft

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>>384723221
It's pretty sad that he might as well be describing the current day India with a racist spin on it

>>384723657
I'm still pretty sure that one guy with a sword couldn't even tickle Cthulhu, Dagon or Nyarlatohothep's eldritch ballsack, that's what bothers me.

The point is that the idea of old ones doesn't really fit into traditional videogames

>>384723174
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seMkbJxQAsU&index=8&list=PL-aprpylMuCdnaFEYwTzAobqUZGxS1D5p

There are beings in the Lovecraftian universe that can be killed though. Granted it is said they have immortality, but that's as in immunity to diseases and such.

I guess Miyazaki didn't want to outright copy Lovecraft and make every being in Bloodborne omnipotent and shit like that.

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>>384724112
Wasn't Cthulhu wounded by getting hit by a boat?

>>384723945
This should have been the intro to Darkest Dungeon.

>>384723267
Actually, he hated games and thought they were wastes of time.
I'm sure he'd be horrified to see all those Cthulhu and Arkham tabletop games based on his shit floating around these days.

>>384724161
Not everything in Lovecraft is omnipotent though. Fundamentally there are countless basic monsters and esoteric shit.

>>384724112
Sure but there's nothing stating that the Great Ones in Bloodborne are direct copies of Lovecraft's Old Ones. Hell, if you place them in the same universe, they might simply be a level below Old Ones, something like Shoggoths for example

Hunters also aren't just regular men, they are infused with the Great One's blood, for what's that's worth

I think he would dig eternal darkness.

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>>384723914
You can simplify any work of fiction and make it look stupid.

>>384723174
Lovecraft wrote the fear of the unknown and unknowable. Plenty of his characters fight and win against the horrors, but the scale is so huge those victories are meaningless, long term.

The real nature of the fear is that those are matters beyond human comprehension. Much like space can be given a size and a scale, but truly comprehending it is impossible.

>>384723174
>not receiving the favor of the keeper of the gate of all things and transcending such petty things like fear and insanity

>>384724260
yo sauce?

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>>384724315
So if we drive a big as fuck boat into that faggot, we could kill him ?
Would we fight all beings like him with boat based warfare, even if they live in some sort of faggot cosmic dimension, we could just make a trans-dimensional space boat and then kick their ass

I keep hearing something about the Dreamlands being more of a big deal in Lovecraft writing than the unknowable eldritch horrors. Can anybody explain?

>>384724719
Google image search gives you the exact source

It's a hilarious anime where lewd is prohibited by law, has some okay-ish r34

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>>384722587
how is a faithful Lovecraft game even doable ? Games are about progressing through levels and winning. Winning is quite the opposite of what he wrote about. His entire work is basically the inversion of all philosophical exploration and optimism in science done since antiquity. Maybe base the gameplay around avoiding and fleeing form the horrors from beyond and keeping a stable level of sanity ? or maybe play as a beast like the Yith or the elder things

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daily reminder that lovecraft was a nigger hating permavirgin

>>384724757
Maybe

>>384724757
The stars were not right, and Cthulhu is merely the high priest. He went back to sleep, he did not die.
What makes Cthulhu truly dangerous is the fact he is psychic and mindrapes people just by existing.

>>384724817
Dreamlands is one of the other dimensions. People can go to it through sleep

https://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Dreamlands

Bloodborne's Nightmare of Mensis and Frontier were heavily inspired by this

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>>384722823
i bet you mongoloids think sci-fi shit like Dune is good, too. you're also the kind of mental midgets who would unironically read high fantasy.

you're basically golden retrievers. read more.

>>384724883
Being hopeless facing beings eons above your own league doesn't really translate well outside of a written medium. Lovecraftian themes are the best we can do.

>>384725008
But can he mindrape a boat, no he can't
Boat beat Cthulhu every time, also the stars are gay

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>>384724856
thanks mucho

>>384724883
Plenty of stories where the humans win though.

It is merely difficult to make a good Lovecraftian game because you need a very strong immersion and the discovery of things the scope of which can barely be understood. Send the enemy back into the abyss at great cost, only to glimpse at what is much worse and lies into the chasm.

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>>384725046
Fuck off nigger. Go back to reading Harry Potter.

>>384724974
Racist or not, I would listen to his mixtape.

>>384724974
truly ahead of his time

>>384723945
>swarthy
Lovecraft is not a race mixer

>>384725046
>i only read mature literature for mature people like me
Bet you haven't read anything outside your school textbooks nigger.

>>384725046
Dune is good tho. Dated maybe, but good.

>>384724026
do you think that place smells bad

given how unstable Lovecraft was, he'd probably be the biggest degenerate /pol/cuck in history and wouldnt make any games. He'd be on anime or some shit

>>384725228
He actually mellowed out later in life.

>>384725286
not all of us are dumb amerifats

>>384725046
imagine being so contrarian you dislike Dune

>>384722848
cat

read Lovecraft faggot

>>384724974
He actually married a Jew and got over a good bit of his racism.

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>>384725046

>>384723612
>hates games and niggers

he belongs here

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what did lovecraft meant by this?

>>384725390
Agreed, ameritwat.

>>384724315
>>384724757
>i haven't read shit and talk out my ass
you fags always show up with this shit. In the story Cthulhu was being prematurely summoned by cultist, he is supposed to awaken when the stars are in the right position, that is to say in hundreds of million years. And the boat colliding with him was done because:
firstly, at the time it was the most iconic invention of what human science had to offer. It wa about demonstrating how insignificant the greatest effort carried on through centuries of progress mean nothing in comparison
secondly, to describe cthulhu's physically impossible form. His skin is said to be something between gas and liquid no human concept being accurate, that regenerated after the collision.

>>384724974
he had a wife

>>384725543
>you'd never have a wife so honest and faithful as to tolerate your peculiarities and accept them as part of who you are
Even good old Howard realized how good of a person she is.

>>384725729
The universal truth.
Cats>>>>Dogs

>>384725729
he spoke truth.

Seriously, the older I get the less I tolerate dogs. They're stupid and pathetic 90% of the time. I dont want an animal around me that is 100% dependant on me and needs me to survive and gives basically nothing back.It comes to you because it needs you. A cat can survive on it's own indefinitely and it returns to you because it WANTS to.

>>384722587
A game where you kill niggers.

>>384725729
+1 Insight

resident evil 5, because niggerdeath.

>>384722587
Some M Night Shyamalan style horror movie where you never see the monsters because they exist in the psyche.

>>384722587
Point and click adventure games

>>384725881
>gives basically nothing back
Dogs are dependent tools.
Cats, in their original role as rat catchers are symbiotic.

>>384725881
Have you tried letting your dog loose or bringing him into your house? Or are you one of those faggots who leash their dogs 24/7 and complain when they're slowly wasting their lives away?

>>384725881
Maturity and aging is different anon.
Empathy and the willingness to take care of a living being is a sign of one's emotional growth and well being , be it a dog, cat or the bacteria growing in your crotch. But why take care of a cat in the first place if your just gonna ignore it and let it off on its own. In those terms you are the parasite, only interacting with the creature when you want something and leaving them behind after you got it.

A dog is just as capable of surviving on its own, but they would unavoidably form packs. That's what owners are to them, packmates, its stays not only because they are dependent but because you are family. Dog's lost much of their use but we still keep them, its a genetic bond he have with them, more so that any domesticated animal.

>>384726297
He's a nigger. Of course he leashes them.

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>>384725881
The older i get the more i want someone to sleep by my feet who would gleefully dismember anyone who threatens me.

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Castlevania.

>>384725046
>>>/lit/

is that way book queer.

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>>384726387

>take retarded cat into house
>literally feed it and clean its shit for free
>not tolerationg the fucking retard meowing late at night makes me a "parasite"

cats were a mistake

>>384722587
I'd imagine something like forbidden siren
>alien being arrives on earth on a comet
>curses the village, the villagers slowly mutate into bug-like creatures that worship the alien
It's like a combination of innsmouth and call of Cthulhu

>>384723174
Not necessarily, the Dunwich horror was a spawn of the old ones, yet it was fucked up by some university professors

>>384724883
What are other works/books like this? That is to say, "the inversion of all philosophical exploration and optimism in science done since antiquity", but set in the real world, not like Lovecraft? There's Mailänder, a philosopher that claimed that the entirety of life was ultimately pointless, but his stuff is untranslated. Anything else?

>>384726871
At that point what else did you do aside from feeding it? You nurture and train pets not just shove food in them.

Though "Cat People" do seem more deranged that "Dog People".

>>384723612
>tfw too intelligent to have fun
Literally the precursor of shitposting

>>384724883
Many of his characters do in fact "win" by at least escaping. I can easily imagine a Mountains of Madness or an unknown kadath game. Most modern horror games are more about running from monsters than fighting them anyway, so you could easily include his more unkillable creatures into a game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkupUtNYeAA

>>384723612
You're implying that modern video games somehow in any way fit the 1930's definition of "game"

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>>384725287
>Dune
>dated

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>>384723221
he also "converted" to islam during childhood after reading the one thousands nights and a night and becoming an araboo. and married a divorced jewess. truly ahead of his time

>>384727370
existentialist literature in general deals with insignificance of humanity.

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>tfw love bloodborne and want to get more into Lovecraft
>tfw black
why must I be tormented like this

>>384729709
>i cant read his tales becuz he said nigger

quit being a faggot

>>384724883
Horror games you run away, you could make a game about surviving experiencing the horror but ultimately losing int the end

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>>384729709
>waaaah mom he said negroes :(((
Pussy.
Everyone not anglo was trash to him. He shat over poles, the danish, germans, etc...
Get over that victimhood complex and fucking read him.

>>384722856
>cat lover is a mentally ill autist
Holy shit, it all makes sense.

>>384723945
>lovecraft fucks a fat chick

>>384722587
Survival horror, no doubt. Would probably involve really wordy in-game reading, corny final reveals, disdain for negros and swarthy foreigners, and a heavy use of these words:
>fortid
>stygian
>unspeakable
>horror
>hideous
>nameless
>loathsome
I love his shit but I hate how all these hipsters namedrop lovecraft for cred and haven't read shit

>>384730229
>foetid
Phoneposting was a mistake

>>384729302
Only in the sense it was a stepping stone towards current sci-fi. So reading it today might turn some people off because they take some things for granted.

>>384727406
Toxoplasmosis my man

How can I be a successful writer? I might have a good story but what do I do about publishing?

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>>384730060
>black
>read

>>384730229
Amen.
What's your favorite Lovecraft story?

>>384723174
try and kill Oedon you cuck

>>384725297
indescribably
almost like a lovecraft book in a way

What are his best books to read?

>>384723174
Boat

>>384730423
actually write it first
pitch it to every publisher under the sun
kill yourself when they decide to publish some young adult garbage instead

>>384730423
Do Amazon self publishing and market the book yourself through Facebook, forums, etc.

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>>384730832
Not him but I just read The Lurking Fear and boy what a ride. My current favourite is The Music of Erich Zann. Still haven't read all his fiction, so it might change in the future.

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>>384730423
>tfw I'm in the boat where I feel like I have some cool shit going on in my head but can't successfully transition that into writing

Lovecraft would be blacklisted from the gaming industry after making one cult classic indie game once Kotaku discovered he made racist remarks on his social media.

>>384729584
Probably because 1001 Nights is about a woman trying to put off being raped.

>>384723174
They kick your shit in, though.

>>384731575
Write! Write! Write! The only way you'll get better is if you practice. And remember that first drafts, without exception, are shit. They serve to get the idea to paper, then you go back to tighten it up and get the real story going. So don't be discouraged if you don't feel your writing is up to snuff.

>>384725789
>you fags always show up with this shit
Then smart man please tell us what color is his skin.

>>384732717
You literally kill all of them, eat their afterbirth then become god

Thats not very Lovecraft

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>>384729824
it's not that I'm offended by nigger. I just don't wanna look like a coon to my fellow blacks for liking books by a racist.

>>384733915
Just read it in secret fucker nobody has to know. Besides Lovecraft mellowed out severely later in his life anyway.

>>384733915
You're beyond salvation, then.

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>>384732963
I think he'd appreciate it. Besides, is it really winning if you turn into one of them at the end? It's more like it was all a big trick to get you to continue the cycle AND get rid of the other hunters along the way.