/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2738827]

Are there any retro games out there with heavy Lovecraftian/Eldritch influences? I've never been able to find any.

[Anonymous No.2738831]

>>2738827
Not that I'm aware of. I'm sure theres some oldschool point n clicks.

But obviously the non-retro:
>Call of Chutulu
>Bloodborne

[Anonymous No.2738836]

google to the rescue

[Anonymous No.2738848]

>>2738827

Quake?

[Anonymous No.2738856]

>>2738831
Yeah, fan of BB. Never got around to CoC.

>>2738836
I didn't look far into it. Just assumed it was related to the 2005 game of the same name.

>>2738848
Sort of. Never beat Quake all the way through (despite loving it), but the only thing Lovecraftian I recall are the Shamblers.

[Anonymous No.2738880]

>>2738836
that and Prisoner of Ice

[Anonymous No.2738917]

Innsmouth no Yakata on the VB.

[Anonymous No.2738935]

The second half of this game is heavily lovecraftian

[Anonymous No.2738950]

>>2738836
>>2738880
Best games

[Anonynomus No.2738962]

The most obvious answer that comes to mind.

[Anonymous No.2738967]

The Lurking Horror

[Anonymous No.2739049]

>>2738831
Also Amenisa Dark Descent, but again, not retro.

[Anonymous No.2739060]

Innsmouth no Yakata, the only interesting thing in the Virtual Boy

[Anonymous No.2739078]

>>2738827
Koudelka has a pretty much textbook Lovecraftian plot, but the magic kind instead of the alien kind.

It's not even half bad.

[Anonymous No.2739205]

>>2738848
>>2738856
Sandy Petersen is a huge nerd who loves Lovecraft (he wrote a CoC game even), he worked a bit of that into Doom and Quake.

[Anonymous No.2739206]

>>2739060
>Teleroboxer isn't interesting
>Wario isn't interesting

The Innsmouth game looks like a very bland corridor shooter to me.

[Anonymous No.2739215]

Diablo had a little, Zhar The Mad was based on a character from I think In The Mountains Of Madness, and there was some text strings in the code of the Pre-Release Beta, which made mention of the "Sarcophagus of Tfarc Evol"

[Anonymous No.2739327]

Kirby series

[Anonymous No.2739342]

>>2738935
Not accidental, "inspired" or anything; it walk the line of being explicitly based on the Cthulhu universe, and some of the references (in books and whatever) are straight out of the C Mythos

[Anonymous No.2739497]

>>2739327
Oh come on, at LEAST post the SNES version.

>>2739342
Always wanted to play it, I don't know why I feel more unsettled by this than anything that came after it. I really do think it's all the jagged edges, slow pace and actually dark subject matter that just runs together and scares me off.

[Anonymous No.2739797]

>>2738827

Echo the Dolphin

[Anonymous No.2740043]

>>2739797
Yeah, now that I think of it that definitely starts to show some Eldritch stuff later into the games.

[Anonymous No.2742113]

>>2739797
Good fucking answer, bro. Never would have thought of that.

[Anonymous No.2743267]

If you made a Lovecraft like game that's sort of like that old Eye Of The Beholder dungeon crawl, do you think it could be good?

I guess it could be vaguely Call Of Cthulu themed, in that you'd try to avoid or hide from a lot (but not all) monsters and encounters.

[Anonymous No.2743273]

>>2743267
It came out years before Eye of the Beholder, but the PC-88/X68000 dungeon-crawler Laplace no Ma is close enough, having Wizardry influences but also unique customization/loot mechanics (you take photos of nasties to make money in 1920s New England) + combat with character fears and such. Only the dumbed-down SFC game has a translation unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.2743275]

Demon's Souls

Also Soul Reaver

[Anonymous No.2743308]

>>2738836
This. This is the quintessential Lovecraft game.
Though it suffers a bit from a bad interface and overly tough difficulty, one of those games that really deserves a competent remake. Heck, worth checking out for the Lovecraft museum mini game that comes with it and all of them famous actors cameos.