Indeed, and in a way, I wonder if that's why I was strangely underwhelmend when I saw Aliens for the first time a few years ago. This, and the fact that they turned the condensed existential dread of the first movie (which seemed much rawer, like New Hollywood in its death threads) into something that you can kill…

Wait, what, when did Teti leave that chair? I hear it was a comfy one!

Yeah, I feel about the same way.
To be honest, I'm not too deeply into chiptune, and I definitely bought more Jake Kaufman-albums than Anamanaguchi ones. That said, I would love to see the latter live, whereas the prospect of Kaufman live does not hold the same appeal somehow.
(Unfortunately, it was impossible to see…

I don't know what it says about me that this is exactly the first thing I thought of upon reading the title. Which led to the second thing, "You didn't make the noise, Bundy." And then came Double Meat Palace.

Everything points to me sitting out this console cycle, since the overlap between console games and PC games is so big nowadays (and a killer argument for getting the PS3 back in the day — which I still own games to that I haven't played yet — was the BluRay player, which does not have an equivalent must-have feature…

This is great. I get why this was abandoned (it must be a hell of a lot of work just to get one tweet), but I can't help regretting. Thanks for pointing it out.

(And since this comment is too long already, I might as well add this:
One of my pet peeves when studying literature was the absolutely vapid
Freudian approaches to interpreting texts, which never ever produced
anything else than unconvincing, endlessly repeated further proof of
theories long ago modified or abandoned…

I did not know about Giygas' appearance being inspired by a traumatic encounter with the wrong kind of movie. But it's incredible how much darnkess Itoi could put below the ever-so-cheery facade of those games.

It’s not particularly nice to giggle at somebody who’s trying to express
themselves and make something, but there’s something so wonderfully
naïve and half-baked about the song that I can’t help but share it

Unfortunately, in a time when the term 'illiberal democracy' can not only be used by people like Putin, Erdogan and Orban, but seems to be accepted by a staggering amount of people as a somewhat serious political concept instead of a bullshit term to cover up a darker truth, I'm really not sure if any system of…

I actually liked a small game based on a Creepypasta, It Moves by SnowOwl games. Well, less 'based on' and more 'quoting the Creepybata verbatim in its entirety' over the course of some 40 minutes, with short sequences interspersing the text — not so much playable illustrations than modulations on the story’s mood.…

I absolutely agree. I read The Wendigo when on summer vacation in the mountains this year, just before going to sleep and waking up in the middle of a thunder storm, with thunder so intense that it would make the windows tremble in their frames, and lightning that stroke close enough to cut all power in the apartment…

I'd like to second that! I'm actually a bit sorry that I couldn't didn't chime in after having launched the discussion, but the answers — and a lot of other replies on the topic — were really great. So thanks for everyone involved!
It's the rarest of communities where you can get any ball rolling and just be confident…

I guess it should be possible to get DVD versions of at least Tokyo Sonata and Bright Future, shouldn't it? What with the former winning a major prize at a premium festival, an the second one coming on a subtitled DVD that I own. Actually, I also mail ordered Charisma back in the day — so if you're not shying away…

Depending on what you are looking for in Kurosowa's movies, you shouldn't get your hopes up too high for Creepy. In fact, you could say much the same thing it that was said here about Daguerrotype: "Kurosawa’s sense of mood" is almost impeccable in Creepy, too — he sure as hell does know how to conjure up the…

I've never thought of Lavos or Giygas as Lovecraftian in nature, but your arguments do make sense — they certainly are unsettling in a way that was, or even is to this day, not easy to pin down.

That's a fairly comprehensive list, even though some obvious contenders are inevitably missing. Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes to mind, with its stroke of genius of having you go mad when looking at its abonimations, which puts you in the uneasy spot of either not knowing what is going on or knowing but being worse…

It's as if the very act of discovery were being gamified.

Oh yeah, that one was weird, but wonderful.
Actually, for some reason, I only played and finished The Unfinished Swan this week, even though I bought it years ago, and there are similar moments with telescopes in there. Granted, one peek through a telescope leads to a cringe-worthy homage to Journey, but there are…

Hm. I was thinking about being that guy and putting in the mandatory Team Ico-reference — Ico and Shadow of The Colossus are, as a truth so often repeated it's bordering on the cliche has it, the gaming equivalent to the glass half-full thing: Often 'empty', but games that know how to fill the space around that…