"I needed to strike a balance between ambient storytelling, puzzle solving, realistic/underpowered combat, and item management," he says. It's the work of Vincent Adinolfi, who says his goal was to recreate the original survival horror formula in a modern engine.
She receives a mysterious videotape one day-a fascination with VHS and other dated media persists throughout these games-and when she watches it is transported to a ghost town full of secret doors and blurred textures. One of them, Heartworm, looks like the first Silent Hill but with a protagonist closer to 1990s Lara Croft. You want to play some cool videogames?Įarly in 2020, a collection of upcoming work from the growing low-poly 3D scene called the Haunted PS1 Demo Disc bundled together 15 games that are all tapping this rich vein of blurry horror. They take that creepiness and use it to hark back to a time when the FPS genre was also new enough to feel odd and threatening.
Games like Night of the Consumers, Crypt Worlds and Lost in Vivo, for example, as well as the parallel scene of retro first-person shooters like Amid Evil and Dusk. While games like Tunic and Donut County find cuteness in low-poly 3D graphics, many more now lean into the uncanny. High-res modern game dev is too open-ended-the detail that we can put into games nowadays seems never-ending Vincent Adinolfi Alone in the Dark, Resident Evil, and Silent Hill were all designed with 3D spaces that had a sense of reality to them, but were overlaid with wobbling, low-res textures and peopled by characters restricted to jerky movements and rough, freakish faces. If you don't think any of the above situations apply, you can use this feedback form to request a review of this block.Survival horror was big in the late 1990s. Contact your IT department and let them know that they've gotten banned, and to have them let us know when they've addressed the issue.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from an area that filters all traffic through a single proxy server (like Singapore or Malaysia), or are you on a mobile connection that seems to be randomly blocked every few pages? Then we'll definitely want to look into it - please let us know about it here. You'll need to disable that add-on in order to use GameFAQs.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from work, school, a library, or another shared IP? Unfortunately, if this school or place of business doesn't stop people from abusing our resources, we don't have any other way to put an end to it. When we get more abuse from a single IP address than we do legitimate traffic, we really have no choice but to block it. If you don't think you did anything wrong and don't understand why your IP was banned.Īre you using a proxy server or running a browser add-on for "privacy", "being anonymous", or "changing your region" or to view country-specific content, such as Tor or Zenmate? Unfortunately, so do spammers and hackers. IP bans will be reconsidered on a case-by-case basis if you were running a bot and did not understand the consequences, but typically not for spamming, hacking, or other abuse.
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