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Posted June 27, 2018
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

Lovecraft's Untold Stories is now available In Development, DRM-free on GOG.com.
The decidedly horrendous bestiary of the Cthulhu mythos is on the prowl and it falls on you to try and contain this madness. Pick your character out of 5 different options (2 during In Development), drive yourself mad with power, and try to make your way through randomly generated levels filled with clues, enigmatic NPCs, and abominable bosses. Will you try to outsmart the cultists by gathering information or take them out with smart use of your ever-growing firepower?

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Posted July 03, 2018
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pbaggers: I'm loving how this thread has essentially derailed into the discussion of literature. Like the actual game being announced in the OP just that uninteresting to us.
It's pretty good, I think. Much more gothic and low-key than what you get to expect from the game page. Lots of eerie story bits, too.
Posted July 03, 2018
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Mafwek: Well, the actually interesting Lovecraft game got removed from GOG, so...
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Fairfox: did you buy iy in tiem?

i feel bad for peeps; so manyt really wanted it for sooo long an' it had to go so quicj lee :(
Yup, I did. Feel really sorry for folk who didn't.
Posted July 03, 2018
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Posted July 04, 2018
Since this thread is now "Lovecraft General" I thought I'd share this.

As if by some coincidence Hbomberguy on YouTube just uploaded an 33-minute video on the subject of Lovecraft adaptations. It goes more into movies than video games, but it's still very relevant. He also talks about the racism (and apparent homophobia).

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Mafwek: Yup, I did. Feel really sorry for folk who didn't.
I got it too. It was a game I'd wanted to play for years and it was actually priced very reasonably ($4.99 not on sale). GOG's release also fixed a lot of issues that were in the Steam release. Not sure why it got silently removed out of nowhere - the other Chaosium-licensed games are still up.

Honestly though, I didn't really like it. The whole part set on the streets of Innsmouth is great but once you get chased out of the town and meet the FBI, I found it to be a real slog. As I mentioned earlier it also sort of turns into an really bad FPS over time where you're shooting lots of idiotic Innsmouth people and I just stopped caring.
Post edited July 04, 2018 by pbaggers
Posted July 04, 2018
Here's something people might enjoy, not Lovecraft, but from Howard. I found an episode of an old TV-show Thriller, that was presented by Boris Karloff, in which they adapted his horror story Pigeons from Hell. It's not 100% like the original story and it takes some liberties with the conclusions, but the main gist is pretty close to Howard's original story. This is overall a pretty good adaptation, very atmospheric. I recommend the story as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOG7D1r412M
Posted July 09, 2018
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tomimt: Here's something people might enjoy, not Lovecraft, but from Howard. I found an episode of an old TV-show Thriller, that was presented by Boris Karloff, in which they adapted his horror story Pigeons from Hell. It's not 100% like the original story and it takes some liberties with the conclusions, but the main gist is pretty close to Howard's original story. This is overall a pretty good adaptation, very atmospheric. I recommend the story as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOG7D1r412M
That's crazy... I got the first season of Thriller months ago, specifically so I could see that one episode, and finally got to it tonight (it was the second to last one). I wouldn't have guessed that anyone else had it on their mind. The original story (which I read in a Howard compilation called, weirdly enough, "Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors") left enough of an impression on me that I actually sought out film adaptations. As for the episode, they probably did about the best job they could. They really downplayed the inhumanity of the zuvembie, basically translating what should be a supernatural monster to "unkempt old woman", but that's to be expected considering the constraints of 60s television.
Posted July 09, 2018
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Hanglyman: That's crazy... I got the first season of Thriller months ago, specifically so I could see that one episode, and finally got to it tonight (it was the second to last one). I wouldn't have guessed that anyone else had it on their mind. The original story (which I read in a Howard compilation called, weirdly enough, "Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors") left enough of an impression on me that I actually sought out film adaptations. As for the episode, they probably did about the best job they could. They really downplayed the inhumanity of the zuvembie, basically translating what should be a supernatural monster to "unkempt old woman", but that's to be expected considering the constraints of 60s television.
I personally read it the first time not so long ago. I've been reading Howard's work, aiming to read it all, and at the same time, I've been keeping a blog about them. I previously only knew him of his fantasy work, but after reading his other stories I've only come to understand how versatile he was and how much he actually wrote during his short life. He really accomplished a lot and had he lived longer, who knows the heights he could have gotten to.

If anyone's interested: https://playernone.blogspot.com/
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