Darkwood (Survival horror)

[blessedCoffee]

Free to download on Epic Games until 10/20.

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/darkwood-fa73bd

Great!

I wonder if it is actually DRM-free.

It seems to run fine without being logged in the client, from my experience.

Hopefully I can still run it after erasing the EPIC client, as I don't intend on becoming a customer of them any time soon.

 

[SerratedBiz]

Free to download on Epic Games until 10/20.

https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/darkwood-fa73bd

Great!

I wonder if it is actually DRM-free.

It seems to run fine without being logged in the client, from my experience.

Hopefully I can still run it after erasing the EPIC client, as I don't intend on becoming a customer of them any time soon.

You could just buy it DRM-free from GOG for $5.

 

[The Decline]

Going to play this next on my Steam Deck. Should be nice and spooky if I play it in the middle of the night.

 

[United Nations]

Wow, I was really excited to play this and I boot it up and it has... SNES graphics. This game was made in the 2010s. WHY DOES IT HAVE RETRO STYLE GRAPHICS!? FUCK. OFFFFFFF.

I know, right?

Darkwood gets showered with praise, yet the graphics are about as good as Grand Theft Auto #1.

I played it for about 10 minutes, and the sound was cool (features a creepy echo effect), but the top-down graphics are total shit.

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Is Darkwood worth getting into once you get past the beginning of the game?

 

[Ash]

Damn graphics whore degenerates. The irony is the game actually does look very nice w/ solid art direction and is probably one of the best-looking top-down 2D games ever made.

Darkwood is literally one of the top ten games of the decline era, and unique in that it is a completely genuine game with zero modern day decline present. Zero. The retardation I tell ya:

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Now compare with what GTA 1 looks like, which is ugly but who cares if the game is great (actually GTa1 was never particularly good, but good for what it was):

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[Leechmonger]

Is Darkwood worth getting into once you get past the beginning of the game?

The game generally gets worse (more repetitive and tedious) over time. I would still play a bit of the first area before quitting. It's definitely not worth playing to completion, though.

On the other hand, if your main problem with the game is its graphics, you should reconsider videogames as a hobby.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Please tag that guy with "possibly retarted" sticker

 

[United Nations]

Damn graphics whore degenerates. The irony is the game actually does look very nice w/ solid art direction and is probably one of the best-looking top-down 2D games ever made.

Darkwood is literally one of the top ten games of the decline era, and unique in that it is a completely genuine game with zero modern day decline present. Zero. The retardation I tell ya:

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There's no denying that the terrain looks pretty good, I agree there.

But the main playable character?

He looks like total shit and unrealistic, even from a top-down perspective.

There is no head bob and his legs look like two tentacles when he moves around.

He only looks halfway realistic when he bends down to open the inventory.

I hate to be picky, especially with a well-received horror game (I play indie horror almost exclusively), but it's stuff like this that totally breaks immersion.

I can do artistic side-scrollers, isometric, over-the-shoulder, third-person, though I prefer first-person POV when it comes to horror games.

With so many great old-school pixelated and low-poly games becoming much more common, especially in the last 5 years, I hate to admit that I have standards.

A great example of a pixelated game I have in mind to compare is Hyper Light Drifter:



Now, I haven't actually played it yet... But I've watched a good deal of YouTube footage and it looks fucking fantastic for a modern pixelated, 2D isometric game, regardless of genre.

Compared to Darkwood, the main character moves around way more fluidly, and it's his movement that draws your focus, unlike Darkwood, where it's the surrounding terrain that captures your attention.

 

[Ash]

You're being a massive bitch right now, I can smell your menstruation from here. Instead of writing all this whining about a character that has 8.5/10 animation (well-above acceptable) and how you think it should be 10/10 that "draws your attention" cause you want to suck his pixelated dick off like Flamboyant Light Drifter, you should go play the game. It's not a problem at all. The visuals are great and your self-insert should never be drawing your attention perhaps the same way as a game that relies on character animation, this is man vs wild; it's everything else that you should be focusing on. You never even need to look at him in detail as his animations are pretty much never used as gameplay cues. But there's nothing even wrong with his anim quality anyway. We've gone from shitty snes graphics to only the MC is bad. What silly nonsense is next?

 

[United Nations]

You're being a massive bitch right now, I can smell your menstruation from here. Instead of writing all this whining about a character that has 8.5/10 animation (well-above acceptable) and how you think it should be 10/10 that "draws your attention" cause you want to suck his pixelated dick off like Flamboyant Light Drifter, you should go play the game. It's not a problem at all. The visuals are great and your self-insert should never be drawing your attention perhaps the same way as a game that relies on character animation, this is man vs wild; it's everything else that you should be focusing on. You never even need to look at him in detail as his animations are pretty much never used as gameplay cues. But there's nothing even wrong with his anim quality anyway. We've gone from shitty snes graphics to only the MC is bad. What silly nonsense is next?

Bull fucking shit pussy.

I'm gonna reference the greatest fucking game ever made, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1.

Soul Reaver is a low-poly PSX underrated classic, with possibly the best story ever told on the PSX platform.

Looking back, it was the TV trailers that got me to play it.

It showed Raziel impale fellow vampires with giant staves, throw them onto wall-mounted spikes, into beams of light so they explode into fireballs, and attempt to fly with vamp wings so tattered that he can only glide.

But the best part?

Raziel, former vampire, doesn't feed on blood, he feeds on souls.

/enddorkrant.

Seriously, games should be all about the main character IMO, and Soul Reaver revealed most of its story through scripted CGI cutscenes.

 

[Ash]

Jesus, you even like a mediocre action platformer that was made by a woman. Most of the other action platformers on the system were notably better. Knew you were a bitch.

Seriously, games should be all about the main character IMO

OK you are FOR SURE a woman. That or a sissy.



Also RIP games with self-insert characters, such as many horror games, racing, FPS and RPGs.

 

[United Nations]

Jesus, you even like a mediocre action platformer that was made by a woman. Most of the other action platformers on the system were notably better. Knew you were a bitch.

Seriously, games should be all about the main character IMO

OK you are FOR SURE a woman. That or a sissy.



Also RIP games with self-insert characters, such as many horror games, racing, FPS and RPGs.

I'm 100% man, straight as a #2 pencil.

You're the bitch, bitch.

PS > Amy Hennig has bigger nuts than you.

 

[Morenatsu.]

I don't know what's going on in this thread but Ash is still a delusional try-hard modder as always. If Dorkwank is so good why haven't I even bothered to pay one second of attention to the idea of it potentially being interesting to think about considering the idea of possibly playing it for at least five seconds or so? Also the rest of you are all retarded too.

 

[Machocruz]

All of you are the little baby-bitch. Play this game. It sucks. It's great. Avoid it.

 

[Ash]

Excellent insight there. Participation award for you, faggot.

PS > Amy Hennig has bigger nuts than you.

You like Uncharted too, don't you bitch?

 

[Ivan]

Darkwood is very much worth playing. Much better use of one's time than shit/posting on the codex. Give it a try, it can't go for very much these days.

 

[United Nations]

Excellent insight there. Participation award for you, faggot.

PS > Amy Hennig has bigger nuts than you.

You like Uncharted too, don't you bitch?

Ash:

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United Nations:

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[toughasnails]

I don't know what's going on in this thread

Mating rituals of the autistic folk.

 

[United Nations]

I don't know what's going on in this thread

Mating rituals of the autistic folk.

You're about as tough as the date you joined this site, pussy.

 

[Multidirectional]

If Dorkwank is so good why haven't I even bothered to pay one second of attention to the idea of it potentially being interesting to think about considering the idea of possibly playing it for at least five seconds or so?

I am not even sure what you wanted this sentence to mean but the only thing it says to me is that you're a fucking retard.

Also, I couldn't possibly come up with the dumber reason to dismiss this game as "I cannot get immersed in main character animations!". Holy shit, this is some next level decline.

 

[Wunderbar]

Morenatsu is a le ironic furry hipsterfaggot who never says anything completely serious and sincere.

 

[Sarathiour]

His whole gimmick is pretending to be retarded, except he's not really pretending.

 

[Morenatsu.]

If Dorkwank is so good why haven't I even bothered to pay one second of attention to the idea of it potentially being interesting to think about considering the idea of possibly playing it for at least five seconds or so?

I am not even sure what you wanted this sentence to mean but the only thing it says to me is that you're a fucking retard.

Also, I couldn't possibly come up with the dumber reason to dismiss this game as "I cannot get immersed in main character animations!". Holy shit, this is some next level decline.

I meant I haven't even bothered to pay one second of attention to the idea of it potentially being interesting to think about considering the idea of possibly playing it for at least five seconds or so. And what I really mean by this is that Ash's constant shilling of this game gave me negative interest. So, like, stop that, Ash! Oh wait he can't read this because he's a crybaby ignorebitch.

Morenatsu is a le ironic furry hipsterfaggot who never says anything completely serious and sincere.

I'm always serious, always sincere, and never a shitster. Calm your tits Blunderbra

His whole gimmick is pretending to be retarded, except he's not really pretending.

Ackshully my gimmick is to make zero-effort poasts shitting up threads when people are acting retarded or talking about inane shit. Do you poast inanity? Better watch out for the big bad wolf uwu

 

[blessedCoffee]

Wow, I was really excited to play this and I boot it up and it has... SNES graphics. This game was made in the 2010s. WHY DOES IT HAVE RETRO STYLE GRAPHICS!? FUCK. OFFFFFFF.

I know, right?

Darkwood gets showered with praise, yet the graphics are about as good as Grand Theft Auto #1.

I played it for about 10 minutes, and the sound was cool (features a creepy echo effect), but the top-down graphics are total shit.

You and SumDrunkGuy are missing cool games, like To The Moon, with that narrow vision.

 

[Machocruz]

Obviously the game brings out in the worst in people. We're only a couple posts away from rape threats. Which is incline, honestly.