Cthulhu Lurks In Dark Gaming Corners, Heeds Call 28
Thanks to C+VG for its interview with Chris Gray of Headfirst Productions regarding PC/Xbox first-person action title Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, as "based on the Call of Cthulhu tabletop RPG and works of author H.P Lovecraft." Gray notes of the long-in-development title: "we've got a completely new engine... [featuring] vertex and pixel shaders", and elaborates: "It wouldn't be a Lovecraft game without some big monsters; these include a Shoggoth, Father Dagon, Mother Hydra, Flying Polyps and a few other surprises." Elsewhere, Yog-Sothoth points out the new publishing of the 6th Edition of Chaosium's Call Of Cthulhu tabletop RPG rules, as originally penned by Quake level designer Sandy Petersen.
I'm really tickled by this one! (Score:4, Funny)
Random Thoughts (Score:5, Insightful)
For those looking for Cthulhu-like games now, I'd suggest Undying, an older FPS with a lot of great atmosphere.
The RPG has always been a favorite of mine, though I haven't played it in forever. The character creation and mechanics are superior to the D20 system, I think. Plus, if you have a copy of Superworld (uses a similar system) you can try pitting superheroes against the eldritch horrors of the Great Old Ones. Nothing beats pitting Robin, the Boy Wonder against a shoggoth.
I also liked the Delta Green expansion for Call of Cthulhu: a very nice modern setting that let's you more logically get disparate characters together for an adventure.
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"Holy giant amoeba, Batman!"
"Don't worry, old chum. It washes off"
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Popularity of this Game? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Hellboy
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So, recently? Yea, within the past 3 years. Blockbuster? No.
Then there's a slew of Lovecraft influenced movies(most good horror was influenced by Lovecraft and Poe).
Long Time Coming (Score:2)
Joy of joys (Score:2, Interesting)
Come again? (Score:5, Interesting)
If the fish-things are supposed to be Deep Ones, they have the skin coloration all wrong -- "their predominant colour was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies," to quote the Lovecraft Online Archive linked to via their website. Not diarrhea-brown. Besides, they're only Deep Ones. Mi-go or Elder Things or Nightgaunts are _infinetely_ more interesting...
Why do I get the impression that the designers just wanted an excuse to clone _Resident Evil_, only snobbishly? It's not a very impressive-looking game, if one can judge from its promotional materials...
City of the Deep Ones (Score:3, Interesting)
I think it refers to the city under the ocean near Innsmouth, from "The Shadow over Innsmouth".
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I like my Elder Gods like I like my women: Squamous and Gibbous.
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Kudos to them... (Score:1)
Having said that, I'm surprised there haven't been more official games before now, most horror titles seem content to rip it off poorly, rather than license it, and I bet it's not the most expensive deal in the world, given it's niche popularity...
Could be tricky - (Score:2)
The article does touch on the role of sanity in the game, but it doesn't hint at anything too inspiring. Fingers crossed, though.
FWIW, I didn't really rate Ete
Might convince me to buy an Xbox... (Score:2)
Actually, the lack of multiplayer could hurt it with the CoC crowd from the 80's & 90's. Playing that RPG with friends was one of the real reasons to get into Lovecraft. If the videogame has no multiplayer elements (and it sounds like that's not even in the works any longer), then this had better be one damn fine work. Trust me - I'm not attacking it. I'm hoping I hear rave reviews that cause me to go out and pick up a $99 Xbox (should be around that price by the end of 2004, right?).
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People who have seen The Sign don't tend to have long life expectancy.
And I can see what threadmilling would be like. Spending 3-4 hours in a library looking for a book.. Or 6 months in the asylum recovering a bit of sanity.
I think this is the point MMORPGs are missing from Paper and pen RPGs.
Trivial/boring tasks can be played with a single roll
Eh huh... (Score:1)
Well, to really enjoy this game in the spirit of Lovecraft the player must:
1. Go insane and kill himself with repeated attempts at Rocket Jumping for no reason.
2. Running gibbering to the loving "arms" of Hastur because you know he'll love you a long time back!
3. Be devoured by something whose shape, geometry is so mind-blastingly bizarre as to cause your eyes to mercifully slide away...
4. You... Oh my god! What the hell is crawling up my
Sandy (Score:3, Informative)
D&D versus CoC (Score:1)
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