Spookin' With Scoops: 04/24/2014

@harinosho said:

I think it's a northeastern U.S. thing (and also the parts of Canada near that region).

I live near Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and it's not uncommon here, and I've heard people from quite a few different northeastern states say it. Never really heard southerners say it, and I feel like I've had a decent amount of exposure to west coast lingo through streams from Giant Bomb, Penny Arcade, and the FGC, and none of them seem to say it. Before a bunch of Americans get all up in arms, whatever, Chicago is the northeastern quadrant of your country; I don't care if it's technically in the midwest.

In the usage I think you're referring to, "buddy" doesn't have any friendly connotations, and is either a neutral pronoun meaning "guy" or "this guy" that you generally don't personally know, or it carries a slightly sarcastic tone in that you're definitely not buddies.

Also, yeah, this Blair Witch game is just...depressingly long. Patrick, the depths of your fandom to Blair Witch (and Lost) makes you do some truly despicable things.

Seriously, though, it takes all of the menace out of the Blair Witch movie by overexplaining a bunch of backstory that was barely mentioned in the movie. And it's hard to care when the protagonist sounds about as scared as Professor Layton solving a matchstick puzzle.

What the hell is that super creepy, doll looking thing behind Patrick?

I agree with some other comments that I get bummed out every time I see he is playing those Blair Witch games. I don't think I've even bothered to watch it all now. Move on to other games please! I say that because I enjoy this feature a lot... just not that game.

Hopefully he is almost done with it. And this is coming from someone that has seen the movie probably 8-10 times (really love it... way better than the Paranormal movies for sure). Heed Alex's advice Patrick. Stop feeling impulsed to finish all games. If the game is bad and if you are not enjoying the game, don't feel you need to finish it. :)

@handlas: I think he feels compelled to finish it for his own reasons; be it nostalgia or whatever else. He's gonna stream again in a couple days and finish it to get it out of the way.

I gotta say, though, it was hilarious watching Patrick unravel towards the end of this while the entire chat was calling for him to move to a different game.

Been so long! Sad I missed it live but pumped to get another Spookin.

@flacracker: Massive screw you to you and to everyone that quoted this massive gif. Had to wait like 10 min for all those damn things to load before the video could be played. Rather annoying bug on the site as the video player ui to start it won't load till that stuff does and if you cancel the page then the video ui never loads.

@flacracker: Oh okay, I didn't know that maybe I will go back and play FEAR again, then.

DAT BEAR DOE

Funny that Patrick forgot about that door slamming shut behind him psyche out scare from when he played Dreadout before. That was pretty much the only thing that I remembered from the 1st time.

Also I haven't even watched him play the Blair Witch parts since the first one but I think it's funny for him to force his way to the end despite so many people not wanting him to haha.

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Are we forgetting Fear Gauntlet?

It wasn't Patrick but Giant Bomb has covered those games before. Unless if Patrick has confessed to not ever having played Condemned which would be a huge problem. A huge HOBO BASHING problem.

@assinass: Yeah, I think it was Brad who showed the bear part on a UPF or something. Which definitely is the best part of 2, but 1 has sooo many good parts in it, like the school and the department store.

Ideally, the way Spookin' With Scoops would function is to have one or two tiny indie games that aren't worth playing (or only last) for more than 20 minutes. Then, we continue down the path of a game we've already been messing with. Unfortunately, I am just so tired of Blair Witch, and we're going to rip that from our collective lives in a stream tomorrow. I'm open to suggestions on what game comes after that. Fatal Frame sounds great, but I would need to buy a second monitor in order to make it work. As for the semi-regularity of the feature, well...this happens late at night after a full day of work. I don't always want to give up my nights, as much as I love this feature! But we'll do it more often.

Hec-aitomix compels you to finish this game! There can be no escape.

Yeah, i've gone from loving this feature to just liking it, based purely on the fact that I liked when it was about Patrick playing obscure, creepy games and the Blair Witch game hasn't scratched that itch for me. I'd be all for the series going back to its roots with all-horror all the time.

@patrickklepek: A standalone Blair Witch stream is the best way to handle it at this point. The game's just a curse we need to expunge.

I'd recommend Clock Tower 3, quite a fantastic game but it would probably take some time to get going. Some genuinely disturbing stuff in there. The Corroder, oh god.

@patrickklepek: that Betrayer game that Brad and Vinny did a QL of looked pretty interesting, albeit not very scary

@goldrock: In that QL they didn't get to some of the creepier enemy types, such as skeletons that can go underground and flank you, spectral things that charge at you, and my favorite so far: "Natives" who hide in bushes and mimic bird calls to communicate. An empty field can easily reveal itself to host 3 or 4 of these enemies, and it's challenging to fight more than 2 at once.

But when you slow down and observe the environment, you notice subtle cues that they are there. They are nearly invisible when hiding in bushes and only move rarely, but from certain vantage points you can see a slight human form skulking occasionally. They also mimic bird calls to communicate, and you quickly learn to perk up your ears and listen. Even though this sound reveals their presence, they remain stealthy until you get close, so you have to keep listening to pinpoint their locations. When you walk into a clearing and hear 6 bird calls from every direction, it invokes a sense of tension that I have rarely felt from games in many years.

@meauntienora: I wondered about how deep it got into horror. I like the concept, and the visuals are striking, but held off on buying it for whatever reason.

I do not find Japanese horror scary at all.

@patrickklepek You ever think about investing in an audio range compressor? Love watching you play scary games but my ears can't take the insane spikes when you yell. Have to turn it up quit a bit to hear you talk and when you scream it's deafening. Not fun man.

Patrick's prediction of Dreadout's final release giving a bit of an intro to the story was pretty spot on.. though honestly it was a whole lot better with the mystery of it all. I really wonder what happened between the demo and release, they hardly look like the same game.