What are your gaming plans for the end of October 2024? [Halloween, Sollemnitas Omnium Sanctorum, el Día de los Muertos etc.]

[ghardy]

It reminds me that I liked the one time I played through Anchorhead. Fantastic interactive fiction.

 

[asper]

Anchorhead is indeed very good. There is a version with some illustrations, released on Steam (support the creator).
The writing especially is excellent, for a computer game. One of the best Lovecraftian media in my opinion.

 

[NecroLord]

"Welcome to Anchorhead, potential customer."

 

[JC'sBarber]

Western, particularly Anglo-Saxon pathological obsession with monsters and horror is a form of mild mental disorder. Slavs don't celebrate Halloween, don't rejoice at seeing dead things. Death is dirt.

Yes, because slavic folklore clearly has no monsters or supernatural beings and occurances...
You fucking moron.

But do slavs celebrate those monsters?.

 

[Karwelas]

I am probably going to roleplay more on the NWN server or two, finish that new Gothic-esque game, maybe start The Black Parade.

 

[Terenty]

Western, particularly Anglo-Saxon pathological obsession with monsters and horror is a form of mild mental disorder. Slavs don't celebrate Halloween, don't rejoice at seeing dead things. Death is dirt.

Yes, because slavic folklore clearly has no monsters or supernatural beings and occurances...
You fucking moron.

We don't celebrate them though, this shit is some pagan territory

 

[NecroLord]

Western, particularly Anglo-Saxon pathological obsession with monsters and horror is a form of mild mental disorder. Slavs don't celebrate Halloween, don't rejoice at seeing dead things. Death is dirt.

Yes, because slavic folklore clearly has no monsters or supernatural beings and occurances...
You fucking moron.

We don't celebrate them though, this shit is some pagan territory

True.
They are merely part of folklore and stories told to kids.
They are not celebrated like idols.

 

[d1r]

A spooky Fallout New Vegas session where I actually play the Fallout 3 part of TTW. Frightening, isn't it?

 

[HansDampf]

I have a few Halloween themed Doom WADs on the menu, but I won't get to play them until the end of November, probably.

 

[NecroLord]

I have a few Halloween themed Doom WADs on the menu, but I won't get to play them until the end of November, probably.

Please don't tell me one of them is My House.wad?
Anyway, there is a secret map - "Brookhaven Hospital" from the "Slaughterfest" megawad. The rest of the wad is just pure slaughter maps, but this one is directly inspired from Silent Hill.
So maybe you should check it out.

 

[HansDampf]

Already played MyHouse. Technically impressive but also kind of disgusting.
The Settlements, Alcázar, Wormwood V, and Ad Mortem are on my txt (also Simulacrum but that's not Halloween themed).

 

[Morpheus Kitami]

Probably the FM Towns game Rejection or the Capstone game The Dark Half.

Rejection wasn't really an intentional plan, it's just worked out that way. It's a janky FPS/RPG contemporary to Wolfenstein, and it's in Japanese only, so not many Codexers have the fortitude to stand this one out. It's actually really fun despite the awkward aiming, done with a single d-pad. Think of it as Dungeon Master, but made by someone who liked zombie movies and guns. Just so much on the guns. So much love and care was put into the guns, despite being the usual modern military template a lot of care was put into most guns feeling unique. If you can, give it a shot, but you will be mapping a lot. Not really horror so much as action with a horror set dressing.

The Dark Half, meanwhile, was intentional, and is about as bad as you've heard, if you've heard of it. If you haven't, it's the stereotype of a bad adventure game. Nice-looking, good music, but absolutely shit puzzle design. It's also absolutely terrible as an adaptation of the film its based on.