Wishlisted, sounds interesting.

When I see something like "You can’t fix the world, but maybe you can help other vampires accept it." I just have to say, that's precisely the problem with the professional mental health field. Most are usually broken by what happens to them, how things are, events, other people, society, but instead of striving to fix those actual problems, they're told that they have a problem for not getting over it, reducing the already darn slim chances of anything ever getting fixed even further.
Gah!

Dr Drayne – Vampire Therapist an secret plumber.

I loathe modern pop culture's obsession with making vampire mundane and boring.

dude, you hate everything :D

I know, right? Especially Epic Mickey, Amerzone, The Thing... oh, wait, shit, those are all games I was positive about... ah, whatever, let's just keep repeating that I hate everything anyway. It's easier that way, and we wouldn't want anyone to overtax their brain.

Well, things such as Count Chocula and Sesame Street's The Count have been around for over half a century already. Not exactly a new phenomenon.

The Count isn't boring! You take that back!

Anyway, I didn't mean such kid-friendly vampires. Hell, I love Count Duckula, one of my favorite caroonts growing up. No, I mean making vampires be just pale humans with fangs and sometimes a leather fetish. To me vampires are coolest when they are only semi-humans, distinctly supernatural predators, human appearance barely a facade. Not vampires dancing to techno music in night clubs, vampires in in high school, vampires going to therapy. You know something is rotten in the state of Transylvania when the animated The Batman vs Dracula is genuinely one of, if not the creepiest vampire movie of the last 20 years.

They had me at the part about being inspired by What We Do in the Shadows. I enjoy watching vampires being a bucket full of idiots. No, I don't mean coffin full of idiots because that would be too smart. Because I feel like you're that one guy around here that really, really needs a hug, I'm giving you a link to something that brings me joy just looking at it in hopes that it can give you a small amount of joy as well.

https://www.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/tfytidmus2gm5fqdhhfv.jpeg

I hate cats.

But I do appreciate the thought. Don't worry, contrary to the bizarre image of me that seems to be prevailing around here, I'm quite happy. I'm really not sure why simply being critical of some lame* releases got me the position of Grump-in-Chief, but I guess it's stuck now, whatever I say.


*I'm not saying this game is lame. It might be perfectly ok for a visual novel. My dislike of the way vampires are mostly used in popular culture these days is not the same as calling this a bad game, ok?

I agree, while I like the idea of these devs trying something new (and the art is gorgeous), I hate what they're doing to vampires (among other directors, developers etc.).
Vampires are becoming lamer and lamer every year.

Heh, can't say I'd be into this game but I tend to appropriate any developer willing to try something kind of off the wall like this. The gaming industry is getting pretty damn stale anymore thanks to the big studies pushing AAA live service slop above everything else anymore.

I would say that it is entirely because it does seems like every time there's a new release thread, there you are... in the thread, complaining away about the game in question. I'm just hoping that there will be releases that our Grump-in-Chief would like.


That is something that I can agree with completely! When it comes to vampires in fiction, I consider it an issue if the vampire character is humanized to the point that the humans trying to be friends. No. No. No. That's now how it works. We are lower on the food chain. At best, you can maybe make a deal with a vampire to ignore what you saw if it will leave you alone and try not to be so reckless in the future. The prey (us) should never be rooting for the thing that eats it, even when said predator is only fictional.

What We Do in the Shadows is my only exception to this, but it also mocks what vampires have been degraded into as well as the general turd-fest that television has become here.


Since this game is entirely about vampires going to therapy, I probably should have shared this instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vAHgVGifaM

I literally listed three recently announced coming soon titles I'm looking forward to right here in this thread.

And I promise you, if GOG ever starts releasing stuff like the missing Star Trek or Lord of the Rings games, or Discworld, Max Payne trilogy, American McGee's Alice, or new stuff that's more befitting of a "curated store" than recent Masturbating Mushrooms, I'll be so cheerfull you'll be more sick of me than when I was grumpy.