rpanons | if ur breath were baited, it would smell fishy

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what are the other things, though?

i've listed the three i could identify (maybe i'm missing some) in a comment higher in the thread, of which two are not really linked to MR.

i've got no skin in this game, because i'm not really feeling sci-fi. which, like i said, i think is part of it: we're collectively not into sci-fi as much, and a major sci-fi game that is well regarded and established (ximilia) was having its tdm around the same period, attracting more attention. but it still boils down to our combined attention span, if you think about it.

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sure, but why are these two items not holding back the games i listed, if they're what's wrong here?

i don't think it's attacking anyone to admit, we (feel we) can afford to be pickier this instant, so if a game doesn't meet 90% of our expectations, we're more prone to move on to the next tdm. whereas if this were same time last year, when we only had three games and a prayer, we'd have sucked it up and played in a high-density, lore-rich tdm with prompts that need proactivity.

i mean, look at the ximilia tdm too (i just did, for curiosity). the prompts of that definitely need proactivity, because the mods don't give you pretty much any kind of indication of how to find the orb that the entire tdm tasks you to locate. you have to take ownership of that entire scenario. people are still doing it.

idk about anyone else but i'm totally burned out on sci-fi and horror at this point and won't even look at those genres of games anymore because i've already played in so many of them and i want something different for a change.

i took a look at the game when it was first announced and saw that it was a sci-fi setting and went "nah."

I want horror, but I want true survival horror. I am with the anon who mentioned it... in this post? In the previous one? Mechanics driven games like Snowblind were a blessing, but I can only imagine they're heavy on the mod's side.

Tbh, I'd pay for a re-do of the Pleaseantville-like game that had everyone paired up and with children in the 'perfect' city and stuff got weirder from there. Gods, I can't remember the name.

mayfield?

YES. THAT WAS THE NAME!

Thb I barely remember it and I was only part of it for a while so I probably see it with rose tinted glasses (I don't even know how it ended), but I've been itching for something Pleaseantville inspired for a while because I love that movie and... I guess that nostalgia hit me?

i like horror but i'm tired of body horror/torture porn horror, i want some good psychological horror where the actual horrible happenings are fewer and further between and the fear comes from the anxiety of what MIGHT happen/the setting messing with characters' heads. it feels like every single horror game we get is either body horror like ryslig or "terrible things happen on a regular basis and your characters get to react to them" and that's just not my jam. i want something more along the lines of silent hill or fatal frame in terms of atmosphere.

I would also play in this. I would prefer less big events and more subtle tension building because it's tiring when your character figures out how jam jars work (not explicitly but in the "everything happens each month" type deal)

I would sell my soul for a Fatal Frame inspired game.

ooh yes

psychological horror would be awesome too, but i can't even find any games with good torture horror anymore. i miss games that had truly horrifying settings and evil organizations inflicting awful experiments on our characters. games with events like "randomly sorted groups must decide who gets put in the saw trap" or "everyone wakes up to find that some awful modification was made on them".

every horror game these days seems like a spooky atmospheric town with standard jamjar events that have some optional horror twists. anything actually horrific will be crouched in either alternative non-horror prompts or the option to play a much less horrific version of the same thing. they end up being 90% spooky slice of life with 10% horror.

(not that opt-outs are bad, but ime a lot of games nowadays even beyond the horror genre feel less like "[genre] game where you can opt-out of stuff you don't like" and more like "generic jamjar where you can opt-in to [genre]" if that makes any sense)

i tried to put together a game like this but i'm an lj fossil so i got shot down for having a too detailed setting and too bare bones events that depend on player initiative and that vibe of calm with random bits of horror hitting you in between... i don't know how to create a game for the current climate when the last game i enjoyed was ten years ago but i would live and die for one like that

I want a game set in a world like mad max where characters have to make hard choices about if they're gonna kill someone for a can of gasoline

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