I hope it's ok if I put this here, even though it's not a huge contripution to the topic… but, well, I think that some people here might really enjoy reading Duncan Fyfe's "Survival Horror" .

I've heard that the Japanese stop motion anthology The Dunwhich Horror and Other Stories is interesting as well, but I haven't seen it yet… even though, as I just found out, you can easily find it in its entirety as a stream. Anybody seen it? Is it worth the time? (I'm a sucker for good stop motion, so I should…

Oh, there are a lot of qualities to the movie. The central premise, which shows its strenghts in the early scenes — not the STD angle, which is indeed a bit boring (and really riled up the missus), but, as is written above, that tapping into something which a lot of people experience in actual nightmares. Then you…

Same here… well, I'm not sure that "liked" is the right word, but I actually planned on replaying old-school horror games this Halloween for an article, and the C64 version of Friday the 13th certainly is on the list. (Btw, Gamelogoerians, anyone want to join in? Didn't you always want to play long forgotten pearls of…

I'm not sure that this is a case of "looking back fondly on shit game". The article tries to point out that there was the seed of an interesting game, which unfortunately bloomed into a piece of garbage. Being able to do such things and not paint everything with those two giant brushes labelled "shit" and "GOTY!" is…

You! You with the mushroom hat (or head).

Why not play UnderTale? It's the closest thing to a sprititual successor to the Mother series you will get any time soon, and genuinely great.

Yeah. I feel like I'm too old for having grown into it, and now I feel like I do lack the ability to focus long enough on this format. Like, my brain is telling me constantly that I could be doing something else instead: "You know you could be playing that game, don't you?" "You know that you could be watching…

…chances are high that you won't regret it. (I still hope for an AV Club review.)
And I mean, there's always plenty of time for dying miserably after having come back from the depths of UnderTale. At the very least, it will probably make you laugh more than Bloodborne.

I've made peace with the thought that I will always be part of the dinosaurs who just never will get Let's Plays. Still, the idea that people can declare a game their favourite of the year without having played it… well, at first I thought it was irritating, no I have to admit that it's kind of fascinating, especially…

I read the first four four books when I was just getting out of YA territory, then somehow never bothered to read the rest… so I'm definitely not a die-hard fan. That said, this year, we visited some of the places where the movies were shot, and the missus got interested enough in the books to download them. So I read…

And they're so compact! Thanks, I'll try to add "geram" to my vocabulary, and "geram" things (can you use it as an adjective?) to my life.

It's on Steam, so… Windows and Mac, I guess? If you want to read more, Girard does a sort of mini-review further down the thread.

That's the one I was talking about!

I completely get where you are coming from, but I think part of the problem is that you are looking to games that are the closest to older form of storytelling, and thus risk looking a bit… lackluster in the contrast.

I'm a native German speaker who willed himself into the rank of Gameological Keyboard Genius — that most noble and elusive title the English language does award —, mostly because I enjoy writing so much in a language with such a huge vocabulary. Therefore, the "There surely is a German word for…"-meme (if you can call…

I finished UnderTale this week, and… well, it's difficult to shut up about it. I dearly hope that the Society will review it, because I think that a lot of people around here would love it. The thing is, though, it does not really look like much at first glance.
That impression is deceiving… I mean, in a fit of…

The only… thing ever to give my partner and me parallel nightmares was the Twin Peaks finale. Both of us dreamt independently that we were visited by Bob that very night.
That Lynch found such an absolutey instant channel to our subconscious is not really surprising, but it still is awe-inspiring.

When I was watching Frances Ha, I couldn't get over the fact that Gerwig's character was, in appearance and behaviour, basically a twin to a girl I used to share a flat with as a student.

There is a fair bit of walking around in the earlier games, too, but I didn't mind at all.