Spookin' With Scoops: 04/24/2014

@handlas said:

@fisk0 said:

@abendlaender said:

@wired_abyss said:

@abendlaender said:

@flacracker said:

One day Patrick will play FEAR.

Man fuck you. Now I need to play FEAR again. What a fucking great game.

FEAR has some of the best enemy AI and slow-mo hands down.

Yeah, the AI was and still is just mindblowing. It's so sad that AI peaked in 2005 and then went downhill again...

Kinda makes you realize just how little happened over the past generation. F.E.A.R was released just as it was getting started, and still looks and plays better than most games that came out in the 9 years since.

Which FEAR is that? Never played any but I like horror games.. I like shooters... I should like that game.

Still want Patrick to play Cryostasis. Another great FPS horror game. Can't see it happening though.

That's the original F.E.A.R on PC, possibly one of the expansions, but it surely isn't F.E.A.R 2 or F.E.A.R 3 at least, and the console versions had to scale down the graphics quite a bit even back then, I think the PS3 version runs in double pixel mode if I recall correctly (in other words, halved screen resolution). That game had pretty PC high system requirements though, but any desktop PC made in the past 4 years or so should have no issue playing it on the highest settings.

I don't think Cryostasis is for sale anywhere anymore, so that could be hard, yeah. It used to be on GOG and Steam, but was taken down when some publisher went bust in 2011 or so.

@handlas: It's the original.

The only FEAR really worth playing is the original

@fisk0 said:

@abendlaender said:

@wired_abyss said:

@abendlaender said:

@flacracker said:

One day Patrick will play FEAR.

Man fuck you. Now I need to play FEAR again. What a fucking great game.

FEAR has some of the best enemy AI and slow-mo hands down.

Yeah, the AI was and still is just mindblowing. It's so sad that AI peaked in 2005 and then went downhill again...

Kinda makes you realize just how little happened over the past generation. F.E.A.R was released just as it was getting started, and still looks and plays better than most games that came out in the 9 years since.

Which FEAR is that? Never played any but I like horror games.. I like shooters... I should like that game.

Still want Patrick to play Cryostasis. Another great FPS horror game. Can't see it happening though.

That's cause it wasn't tuned to run on console hardware in anyway. To this day, it runs like complete garbage on the way-toned down console ports they eventually did. Then the sequels were designed for consoles from the ground up so they didn't look nearly as good.

@abendlaender said:

@wired_abyss said:

@abendlaender said:

@flacracker said:

One day Patrick will play FEAR.

Man fuck you. Now I need to play FEAR again. What a fucking great game.

FEAR has some of the best enemy AI and slow-mo hands down.

Yeah, the AI was and still is just mindblowing. It's so sad that AI peaked in 2005 and then went downhill again...

Kinda makes you realize just how little happened over the past generation. F.E.A.R was released just as it was getting started, and still looks and plays better than most games that came out in the 9 years since.

Scoopin with Spooks!

@marokai: Ya, I get that sentiment. I personally like the grab bag style, and he does a good job at balancing the two styles. Also the kind of ideal show I envision for this sort of requires an infinite supply of horror games which there obviously isn't. If he has to play a whole game it might as well be something that he's interested in, and it's fine if a few people like me aren't into it, there's still plenty of content for us and it's great.

@alucitary: Personally, the continuity of him playing one game for an extended period is the largest reason why this is one of the few pieces of content Patrick has been putting out himself that I've been able to get into and really look forward to. Outlast was another example of how this feature kept my interest over time because of the investment in a single game.

I'd be much more interested in watching Patrick just play different horror games in their entirety than have this feature just be a grab bag of indie horror games he plays for twenty minutes before moving on to another one.

If this feature were done more often, I think both of us could get what we wanted, though. Since it's taken so long for Patrick to keep putting these out, the single game idea becomes burdensome where it wouldn't if this feature was more regular.

@wired_abyss said:

@abendlaender said:

@flacracker said:

One day Patrick will play FEAR.

Man fuck you. Now I need to play FEAR again. What a fucking great game.

FEAR has some of the best enemy AI and slow-mo hands down.

Yeah, the AI was and still is just mindblowing. It's so sad that AI peaked in 2005 and then went downhill again...

I love this feature and I'm so glad it's back, but admittedly I'm not a huge fan of the Blair Witch endurance run. It's not really scary, it's only tangentially related to the source material, and to me it's not really even bad in a good way. If other people are into it that's fine, just stating my piece.

@abendlaender said:

@flacracker said:

One day Patrick will play FEAR.

Man fuck you. Now I need to play FEAR again. What a fucking great game.

FEAR has some of the best enemy AI and slow-mo hands down.

@flacracker said:

One day Patrick will play FEAR.

FEAR's amazing, some of my favorite gunplay in any game. But it's not too scary and can get repetitive.

But thanks to your GIF, I kinda want to play Project Origin again. Or at least that cool DLC campaign.

Aw yeah, was waiting for this to go up!

@flacracker said:

One day Patrick will play FEAR.

Man fuck you. Now I need to play FEAR again. What a fucking great game.

Could the bug/insect thing in asian horror be a way to evoke the smell of decay/death? Western horror movies often show maggots or the sound of flies to a similar effect, I think?

@flacracker: He still needs to finish SS2.

Wait, I thought this was from 4/23?

@flacracker: Goddamn that looks awesome.

Yes!