/vr/ - Retro Games

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/NES_Godzilla_Creepypasta

sonic the dead hyperrealistic blood hog

>>1696737
So much potential wasted. The fake screenshots are just great and you can see the effort that went into them, but then the story just had to go and do the standard "HYPERREALISTIC BLOOD EVERYWHERE THE GAME KILLED MY GIRLFRIEND AND STARTED CHOKING ME THROUGH THE TV" fare. I was legit mad when I first read it.

>>1696752

If you see her turn off the game

>>1696752
But anon, that ending wasn't canon.

None of them are good. They all just devolve into fanfiction and don't feel real.

Creepypasta used to mean something. It was a story that, even if it was fake, still made you feel like it could have happened. It simply doesn't work with video games.

>>1696752

I think the author just gave up and lost interest by the end. Why else would it have such a jarring, moronic ending to an otherwise really cool pasta? It probably should have ended with the guy finishing the game, no supernatural bullshit, no girlfriend plot, and the game resets to normal or it only displays the game over screen or something when it's powered on and it's no longer playable. Or maybe the monster is the result of clipping the 10NES, which in reality only existed to contain him, lol.

>>1696737
I think the story would be so much better if the sprites added in even remotely matched how the game looked. Some of the Backgrounds for the levels the author made are laughably bad too. It looks like some of them were drawn in paint.

>>1697169
yeah, haunted vidya stories are just not scary

>>1697273
The backgrounds are good, it just doesn't look like it could be rendered by an NES.
No, the "OMG ZOOM HYPERREALISTIC GRAPHIX" excuse doesn't work.

>>1697273
Seriously, once it got to the images with the forest backgrounds it became laughably bad.

>>1697145
This one was really good until just like this guy said. >>1696752

>>1696731
>one of my first ever 'creepy pastas'
holy shit minecrafta detectoided lol lol

seriously though, this doesn't belong here, or anywhere really.

>>1697335
>holy shit minecrafta detectoided lol lol

What the hell does that mean?

this dude's cool industrial zelda album was the only good thing to come out of that mess

http://onslaughtsix.bandcamp.com/album/termina

>>1697341
i'm pretty sure it means you're a faggot

>>1697273
STILL THE BEST 1973

>>1696737
Someone needs to make that into a game, I thought it was pretty interesting, to say the least. A bit unsettling at times.

>keep hearing about BEN Drowned being one of the few good creepypastas
>look it up
>it's literally just the same retarded shit as every other video game creepypasta

>>1697392
It was the one that started the flood of autistic creepypastas, though.

>>1697358
Would make for an interesting rom hack up until it starts the Melissa bullshit.

>>1697418
So? Doesn't make it suddenly not shit, does it.

>>1697501
Exactly. All the vidya creepypasta that wanted to become ARGs like ben drowned are really bad. And ben drowned wasn't good at all, either.

Creepypastas in general became really weak after leaving /x/ in what, 2008, 2009. You know, around the time when "meme generators" with rageface and such were created. Have you read Jeff the killer? It's atrocious and not scary in the least, but somehow it's considered a flagship, quintaessential creepypasta.

On topic, I don't think there are any great vidya creepypastas. The Theater is the best one of the bunch, probably because it doesn't take an actual video game for its story.

Honestly you'd be much better off just reading stories about Polybius. Hell, playing Chiller or reading about unreleased retro prototypes is creepier than most creepypastas at this point.

I thought Killswitch was a decent one. Suspension of disbelief goes out the window with the whole "the game permanently deletes itself and there's no way around this" thing, but it's a lot more grounded than most of these where the game tries to murder the player or some such nonsense. There's not really anything supernatural in it at all.

>>1697513
I have no idea how Chiller was deemed acceptable in the 1980's. Do you have any interesting stories about unreleased retro prototypes you'd recommend?

>>1697537
that's not really creepy though, it just sounds like a half-finished 2deep art game

>Chzo mythos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chzo_Mythos
>Don't need creepy pasta. Game is 100% 2scary already.

Would never have been able to play it. was forced to finish it because I watched the LP.

>Worried I could become a daemon host.

>cntrl+f
>no lost silver

Really guys? This was probably the only somewhat believable creepy pasta. It's feasible specifically because some sick fuck could program the game to play out like that and sell in it circulation via GameStop

>>1697513
An example of a video game pasta I liked is Goat Jump. Look it up. Well, that wasn't much, but creepypastas in general very rarely manage to do anything for me, but HYPERREALISTIC DEAD SANIC can't do it at all, while I prefer the ones that are actually realistic, believable and mysterious. Without any "hyperrealistic" shit or supernatural shit like "I become game :((((((". Like you read them and think that this could actually be a weird game or a mod somewhere, while being subtly unsettled. For example Chiller could make a great creepypasta. MARIO romhack was good too. Sadly it takes more talent to make a geniunely believable gaming creepypasta than HYPERREALISTIC BLOOD.

Also Jeff the Killer being popular has killed my belief in humanity and I considered it to be less easily shaken than other people's.

>>1697537
"the game permanently deletes itself and there's no way around this" is pretty mild. I mean there's a real game that deletes your files as you kill enemies and itself when you win out there.

I'll admit that the Godzilla one did creep me out (I'll also admit I'm a huge coward/scaredy cat), but that wasn't so much because of its atmosphere as it was its creepy sprites.

I thought the ending was, okay...The whole Red killed Melissa thing was pretty stupid to me. I thought Red was going to be Melissa's 2spooky ghost wanting revenge or some shit.

>>1697570
I admit it's kind of a nitpick. I know it's possible that a game could delete itself, but to think that nobody thought of a way to either prevent it or just, you know, copy the data, seems like a big oversight by whoever wrote it.

>>1697513
Polybius isn't real. The whole legend of Polybius isn't even that old, like early 2000s. It's a better story than any creepypasta about video games, though.

>>1697562
no that's terrible too
I mean seriously is this bait, I can't believe an adult would consider that anything but trash
I wrote scarier stories when I was twelve

>>1696737
Whoever wrote that had no clue about the NES graphical limitations

>>1697392
>keep hearing about [creepypasta] being one of the few good creepypastas
>look it up
>it's literally just the same retarded shit as every other creepypasta

ftfy

Shit people. I'm a grown ass man, I don't expect to actually piss my pants or feel the need to check under my bed before going to sleep at night. I just wanted interesting, well written stories to read.

>>1697583
Let's get it straight, they're all pretty terrible if you're looking to be genuinely scared. The reason I consider lost sober to be good is that it makes me uncomfortable. It's even better if you play the lavender song theme while listening. Plus, there's that lost silver hack that let's you experience it for yourself.

>spongebob creepy pasta is the shit

>>1697610
then read a book

>>1697632
Thanks.

>>1697636
Also read a book if you want to be genuinely disturbed.

>>1697351
It broke down for me at this part because I couldn't stop laughing after this shot.

>>1697559
Fuck I gotta play these games. They sound awesome

This one was kinda good, but mostly i think because someone linked it to me with no context.
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/XoRax

>>1697831
"The great Deku Tree has summoned you!"
Okay, at this point just burst out into laughter.

On that note, behold, "the scariest game ever."
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Scariest_Video_Game_Ever

>>1696731
Look up Polybius.

>>1697986
"Polybius held that historians should only chronicle events whose participants the historian was able to interview, and was among the first to champion the notion of having factual integrity in historical writing, while avoiding bias."

Polybius is such a fitting name for a fake game.

didn't the author for ben drowned literally end it with "sorry guys i ran out of creative juices for my not even creative story i was clearly making up as i go along so i'm just gonna break the immersion and let you all know this was all fake cause i'm lazy" or some shit?

>>1698016
I thought he turned it into some stupid ARG.

>>1698023
thats what it was in the first place

>>1698029
Maybe I'm thinking of something else then.

>>1698016
Yes, but at least he did a whole "Here's how I did it" thing, which I thought was kinda cool.

>>1698016
You missed the part where he resumed it.
It wasn't nearly as fun, and then suddenly King Kong.
I'm not joking.

>>1697392
To be honest, the companion videos are still pretty well done regardless of the story behind them.

>>1698016

He ended it with a King Kong music video in which he erases the save data.

>>1698053
well yeah if he already broke any sort of creepy factor it could have had by admitting it was fake then i dont see how continuing it could of ended well

>>1698062
>TO BE HONEST MY OPINION

I hate people like you.

>>1698467
Not seeing the beef. Not the guy you replied to fyi.

I think the reason video game creepypastas aren't scary to us is because we know too much about video games and are too familiar with everything that was ever and could have ever been done with them. Like Killswitch's self-deleting element. To some kid on /x/ that probably seems perfectly reasonable. We can't help but notice something wrong with incorrect palettes or resolutions being used in fake screenshots like the Godzilla ones.

For something to be scary, it has to contain an element of the unknown and quite frankly there are a ton of actual video games out there that teams of developers have put thousands of hours into actually making creepy. Nothing that some single author could do using games as a subject can compare to how frightening some games actually are - if we can still even manage to suspend our disbelief enough to allow them to affect us.

>>1697614
>Red sent out a seemingly normal male Pikachu, except he is Level 255 and his sprite seems sad and has tears in his eyes.

kek

>>1698510

>>1697831
i remember one of these being kind of creative and mildly interesting. again, not scary at all but worth the 5 minute or so read

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Ash's_Coma

That Godzilla story was fucking retarded, and way too long. Does that even qualify as a creepy pasta? It's not in the copy pasta type format. Wtf?

>>1697392
The videos were the things that creeped me out.
I can't really remember the story.

>>1698584
>you wont get past 3hits at that level
It really is more of its own thing and a solid chunk of it was spent more on just creating these really out-there concepts than trying to scare you. It's an extremely interesting ride right up to the end where it goes full retard - but then, they all do at that point.

>>1697579
maybe it writes a hash and checks it everytime.

>>1698618
I think the Russian sleep experiment pasta was the one that pissed me off the most.

I was fine with them ripping out their organs, but the fucking ending of Hurr, I'm the madness inside all of us! rustled my jimmies to no end.

>>1698483
It's not just that they aren't scary, the idea of satanic forces and 2spooky ghosts mildly upgrading your NES is inherently funny.
Couple that with bad writing and most creepypasata ends up feeling like parody.

>>1698627
Fucking Russian experiments