Bearing in mind the fact that it is free and ~8 hours, is Cry

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>>387252014
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>>387252014

I've heard nothing but good things about it. It is supposedly top spook

>>387252014
it is. That doesn't mean it not flawed as fuck and some core mechanics like melee combat are utter trash, but the game is a messy yet intriguing experience.

there is so much suicide and depression in this game that it makes me uncomfortable.

GET SPOOKED FOR FREE, BETTER WITH FRIENDS

>>387252014
It's decent.

>CoF
always wanted to play it coop, could never get it to work, would play with any anons if yer interested

>>387252014

literally one of the best horror games ever made, afraid of monsters shitters need not apply

The OST is top tier my man, it makes the game.

>>387252637
>the best horror game ever made
>AoF shiters need not apply
but they're both made by the same people AND AoF is basically proto CoF

>>387252014
It's decent.
Relies too much on jump scares.

>>387252014
This game is good but will make you really stressed.

>>387252014
It's one of the best Goldsource mod release not too long ago, the weapons models and animations is extremely well made.
Worth a look, especially if you love the Silent Hill games.
>>387252637
Are you dense?

It has some super scary moments. For example, I found the apartment level to be particularly stressful.

this shit is good

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

>>387252014

Cry of Fear is amazing

>>387252014
It's made by a group of people who really love horror games even if they don't 100% get what makes them tick. It's a mash up of anything and everything they liked from other games.
On a technical level its fucking ridiculous that it's running on goldsrc, and is worth playing for that alone if you're into that.

Also it's free, so you've got nothing to lose with it.

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>>387252014
>tried this game
>ended up crying because I was afraid

>>387256202
god damn

The story is godawful but I enjoyed the gameplay and atmosphere.

>>387252571
The co-op makes it more into a comedy game. Me and my friends just ran around beating everything with nightsticks.

>>387256601
Really? What didn't you enjoy about the story?

>Want to play this again
>Remember the forest

>>387252014
It had the potential to become the summerhit of 2009.

>>387252014
It got me scared a bunch of times. It's good

>>387252571
You didn't miss anything. Coop is a mess that isn't much fun to play.

I never finished the train station.

Who thought that was a good idea?

>>387252432
yeah it's one of the only games i've player where the themes seem like they were actually genuine

>>387252014

This game triggered my cousin to have a psychosis and he tried to cut off his own arm with a jigsaw.

true fucking story

>>387256601
It's obviously overexaggerated but the story still does a better job of representing mental disorders than, say, Hellgate.

>>387252014
it's a mixed bag, but as a free experience i'd definitely say yes.

pros
- some stuff in the game (mostly audio) is scarier than basically anything else in horror game history
- you get to explore some semi-real swedish environments, the fact that theyre modeled after real places makes it feel more real and scarier
- some neat monster designs

cons
- bad backtracking (not all backtracking is bad but this is)
- some things are noticeably low-poly or at a bad resolution
- sometimes you're forced to do melee combat which is more tedious than scary

mixed
- some voice acting is unintentionally funny
- jumpscares, some of them are effective and others are frustrating or predictable

personally i enjoyed it

>>387257071
Fuck, I obviously meant Hellblade, not Hellgate. Two different games.

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>>387257056
lmao what

>>387256912

the train station is absolutely nothing compared to some of the stuff that comes after it.

I highly recommend playing it through - the way you grow to hate the levels you are in is actually part of what the game tries to evoke in you. It's not a comfortable game.

Pretty cool game but shit developer.

>>387257124
>- some voice acting is unintentionally funny

The monologue at the beginning is kinda memey.

>>387257124
>some voice acting is unintentionally funny

Is it unintentionally? I think there was one reference to The fucking Room. I think it was in the rooftop scene

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>The longer the game goes on the more delusional you find out simon is

kid is worse than r9k

It might just be me, but I wasn't too scared playing it.

Once I figured out that if I heard a noise I should look behind me, because some scissor shit is gonna be charging.

Except those weird looking enemies that make you kill yourself. Those things were genuinely unnerving. Most enemies I tried to ration ammo, but if I saw one of those things, it was time to fucking unload.

Might go back to it now.

Its the only game I've played that I remember actually being scared at some points.

>>387257341
>o hai simon

>>387257348
simon's main board is definitely r9k

>>387257341

I FUCKING LOVE YOU SOPHIE

>>387257341
>>387257307
>>387257124

The guy that voices simon is pretty open about the fact that he had no idea what he was doing and just winged it for most of his recordings. He does get comparatively better/comfortable with line delivery as the game goes on.
I'm also pretty sure nobody on the dev team speaks english as their first language.

>>387257581
>simon's main board is definitely r9k

Try /dep/

>tfw the apartament level
>tfw the fucking woods
i've never been so scared in my life
the soundtrack is pretty good too

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>yfw simon gets cucked

>>387252014
It's derivative as hell. Also, if one disregards that it's a mod, there isn't anything special about it, really. One could say, it's custom-tailored for those Amnesia/Slenderman/scream-at-the-lighest-fart letsplayers. Or was it released before that became a thing?

Anyway, I'd say, that, as far as HL1 mods go, Paranoia is a much more curious one, despite being shorter, not plagiarizing SH3 and containing (almost?) no screamers.

>>387256202
the sawrunners stress me out so bad. i always have to take off my headphones in whatever segment they appear in.

I didn't realize /v/ liked CoF so much.

>>387257954
Simon was literally never anything more than a beta orbiter.
He was worse than a cuck.

>>387257954
this game has a cucking storyline?

>>387258616
It's a part of the storyline.

Simon had a hard life

>>387258616
Simon gets cucked by a huge monster in a balloon chair.

>tfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBK9M5G6GHQ

>>387257348

that's pretty much the most well-written and thought-out part of the story, though.
Brian is literally elliot rodgers

captcha. brasil edgewood

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>>387259053
>Brian

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>my fucking face when the head-room

pic fucking related, that was pretty disturbing to be honest. Especially since the engine enhances the "unnatural" movements of the monsters and the twitching and the weirdness

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>yfw you realize the apartment monsters are all children because they're the victims of the pedofile killer who left notes around the building

>>387259176

No idea how I ended up with Brian
forgive me, squidward.

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>>387259290
>tfw reading those notes for the first time

>tfw all the endings are depressive
>tfw I have no face

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>Be such a edgy, pathetic joke that the journal you cry into tries to kill you to make you stop

I think Cry of Fear and Condemned 1 are probably the best horror games ever made. Also the only ones I've finished.

Maybe Amnesia and sequels, too, but CoF and Condemned have actual gameplay.

>>387259582
I have no idea how people have the will to play Condemned. I've tried to play it several times and it's just too boring. Although I gotta give it to ya': Hitting hobos is so satisfying

I remember getting to the part where you go back to the apartment
I said fuck that

Absolute shit tier gameplay and a tryhard "so deep" ending that renders everything you did up to that point meaningless.

>>387259582
I don't understand Amnesia's popularity. It's not a very good game and I think Penumbra was better anyway.

Serious question: are there any other games that even come close to the dark, disturbiong themes presented in this CoF?

>>387259846
Afraid of Monsters

The only thing I didnt like about Afraid of Monsters was that colorful mansion in the middle of the woods. It felt too out of place.

Does Cry of Fear have a more consistent level design?

>>387259846
>CoF
>dark or disturbing
DUDE I'M DEPRESSED AND IN A WHEELCHAIR LMAO

>>387259813
>(one) ending
>t. didn't play the game

>>387259824
It popularized the genre of running away from the enemies.
Granted, there were many games before it that had the same idea but it became popular thanks to Amnesia.

>>387259936
It's literally Sweden nighttime.

is there a story to this game ?

>>387260032
sounds comfy, those fucking gloomy swedes, I like it.

>>387259948
i wish i had legs

>>387259824

All the Amnesia games are fantastically written. If you enjoy a genuinely unique and good horror story, you will enjoy Amnesia.
That's about it.

>>387259846
Resident Evil 7

>>387260072
you, youre sad and kill yourself, and get friend-zoned along the way

>>387260072

Yes, the story is 5/10 but the themes and the presentation of the story is 9/10.

>>387260072
Boy likes girl, girl doesn't like boy, boy REEEEEEs.

>>387260280

>le epic shitposting bait XD

>>387259846
Hill Residents: Redneck Rampage

>>387260331
no, that's literally what happens.

>>387260429

no, it isn't.
You're just projecting your own insecurities with girls onto the protagonist, whereas for him a lot of different factors played together which is pretty evident by the story presented.

you probably didn't play the game or understand the story.

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>>387252014
>Beat the game in under 3 hours to unlock secrets
>Constant back tracking
>Remembers the forest bit with the chainsaw guy
>Can barely see in the forest

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>the boat scene

>>387260547
Enlighten us, please

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>>387260547
lad

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>Oh boy, some more apartment like corridors
>Hmm, nothing in this room,bett-

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>>387260573
>the lantern only lights up a metre in front of you

>>387252014
does this game have any waifu material?

>>387260665
>>387260749

He is literally being force-held in a mental hospital and you guys think that the girl who turned him down some time ago is his biggest trouble?

fuck me, you guys must be turbo-virgins.

>>387260769

>when you enter the room, there is a loading time
>when you try to exit the room, this happens

I nearly had a fucking heart-attack
fucking 10/10 jumpscare

>>387260845
only if you're attracted to suicidal beta males

>>387260915
He's not force-held in a hospital. You literally "find him" in his house. His problems include drugs and self-harm and being disabled DUH. People focusing on Sophie's rejection are just memeing.

It was good storywise, but using the HL Engine is just lazy imo

>>387261293
But they made it look so good for such an old engine

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>>387261010
Despite never appearing as an enemy outside of the coop, the Dreamer is one of my fave enemies in CoF. The dev commentary about the dream with it was really neat. May have been the first time I enjoyed a jumpscare.After I'd regained my shit

>>387261293
t. never worked with goldsrc

>>387261406
Every engine can look good if has Been out for a while, specially valve's engines

>>387261429
>The dev commentary about the dream with it was really neat.

do you have a link? sounds neato

>>387259735
It picks up in atmosphere and becomes great after the first 3/4 levels.

>"Your phone has infinite battery"
>It runs out of battery in the metro and you have to play that whole level with flares

>>387262527
>Your phone has infinite battery
when does it say that?

>>387252014
I only played to see what they done with hl engine, but game itself was meh.

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>>387260646

Fucking this. The serenity, thinking you're getting away from all the horror, the pain. Sun rising for the first time, letting you search through the dock house in peace.

Then the fucking stairs break and you're reminded why you will never get away from the horror, that it will continue to haunt you unless you do something about it.

>>387262648
In the beginning, just when Simon wakes up after the jumpscare

>>387252014
Shit VA(done by the dev and friends)

OKAY writing.

Absolutely incredible atmosphere, enemy, and sound design. Melee combat is weak since its HL1, id play on normal, its not well balanced but normal is hard enough to be fun and challenging but not too easy.

>>387260646
The morning after the asylum is one of my favorite segments in any game.

>>387257124
>- some things are noticeably low-poly or at a bad resolution
come on now, it's a fucking GoldSrc - the guys are motherfucking wizards just for being able to cram in realtime bump-mapping in it.

>>387257056
>jigsaw
uh..

>>387252571
want to play CoF co-op with another anon? want to play it with "friends" but nobody wants to.

>>387257124
SH blows CoF sound design so hard, but CoF is good.

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I loved this scene.

>>387252392
I actually found the melee combat to be decent. It's far better than something like Silent Hill in that regard which I think the game is similar to in progression and tone. You actually dodge and hit rather than hit them once and keep beating them on the ground till dead.

>>387263164
we need a silent hill 3 thread

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>>387262350
Its from the ingame dev commentary.If you've got the game installed look for city2_2.wav in the commentaries folderBasically, the dev had a nightmare of a girl in a red dress floating at him screaming, so he recreated the model and the sound as best he could for CoF.

>>387263402
It will just become a heather waifu thread like they always do.

>>387257124
>some neat monster designs
Uh not really. It's mostly generic shit like Ring ghost clones or Jason rip-offs

>>387263145
Sounds like fun

>>387263626
ok ill take that as a yes, anybody else? we are 50 posters on this thread.

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>>387263559
That's just not true. See pic related or Stranger. Or the women who sound like panting dogs and make you suicide.

>>387263895
flygare is just based off SH2 boss and SH1 final boss.

>>387252571
The coop is utter garbage, my friend and I spent an hour getting it to work only to be met with nonspooky levels nothing like the main game

>>387263798
sure thing, are you EU?

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i hated these motherfuckers

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>>387263962
I just realized like half the enemies reference or outright commit suicide

>>387264157
european union? shit no, will that cause a lot of trouble?

>>387264183
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlLvN0p4xYU

I honestly went in not expecting to be scared, thought it was a meme let's player game, but fuck I didn't even finish it because I noped out at the part where some freak chases you through a building with a chainsaw. You dont see him at first, you just hear it start up and know he's somewhere. I'm a pussy though so take that as you will.

>>387264256
I mean are you in or near europe? i just dont want to have high ping

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>>387264628
I think we better don't play together anon im not european.

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Afraid of Monsters is the superior horror game/mod period

>>387264870
well i'm still down to play it anyway

>>387264596
>and know he's somewhere
If it's the part I think you're talking about, the game got you good.It also got me good too anon, don't worry.

>>387264206
literally everyone in the game kills themselves

>>387264942
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goDd02TTxBA

>>387252014
ruMpel, you don't need to shill your mod here

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>>387264946
Sadly i wont, because im having an utter shit internet and the game is 5gb it will take the whole day to me.

Have some reaction faces.

>>387265528
aight no worries anon ty

>>387263457
thanks!

>>387264206
I wanna commit suicide.

>>387267785
me too but you're not allowed to go first before me. You hear me?

Only when I tell you you're good to go can you do it.

It's gonna get better, I promise

>>387267935
Wanna cuddle?

i love the coop, i just wish it was longer

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Anyone played through the custom campaigns included with 1.6? They any good?

>tfw no Sven Co-Op version of the Singleplayer

>get into Afraid of Monsters thanks to Spike and Barley channel
>Awesome playthrou, they are really having fun and not scripting shit, just two friends having fun

>they get into a fight by the time they start Cry of Fear
>No main scenario gameplay, their coop is full of passive agressive remarks or both of them trying to kill each others out of hate

It made me sad when I played Cry of Fear by myself, It would have been another great video if both of them played, or at least one of them could comment

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