Enough with the Lovecraft plague upon our video game universes. The man was a racist misogynist with homophobia and his writings are directly informed by his garbage mind.
In 2018, we gamers rise up against game developers and stand in solidarity with women, PoC, and LGBTQ. We DEMAND an end to Lovecraft in our video game universes!
Step 1: write better horror than Lovecraft. ... I'll wait.
Josiah Carter
>Bloodborne Yes the diseased monsters were the good guys. Fuck that white male killing them for being different.
Ryder Edwards
>Barely had any good games, maybe one. >WE'RE SO SICK OF THIS RACIST LOVECRAFT THIS IS A SERIOUS ISSUE >PROBLEMATIC >R >O >B >L >E >M >A >T >I >C
This fucking stupid white whore has probably never read an entire Lovecraft story, not even the short ones. She probably read about how racist he was on Vice and got >#OUTRAGED Good for you, cunt. The sooner all of you fucking s0i hipsters stop pretending to enjoy literature that's far too advanced for you, the sooner we can all enjoy it in seclusion like it's meant to be enjoyed.
Eh, most games definitely don’t get it right, and I doubt any will ever manage to capture the essence. Lovecraftian horror is way too abstract to work in any other form than writing. Then again, Bloodborne was a masterpiece, and definitely got some of its core concepts right.
Aiden Carter
How did I never know he knew how niggers were concieved?
Andrew Bailey
Only lovecraftian game I can remember is eternal darkness and it has absolutely nothing of this
In all honesty most Lovecraft games/media are complete garbage because they entirely miss what made his work amazing in the first place. Lovecraft practically patented the idea of "cosmic horror", where things are scary because they are so utterly alien and beyond human comprehension. He was able to write this very well into his books because he simply gives a description of the reaction humans have (something we can understand) and how otherworldly everything else is, without going into minute detail and over explaining everything. This doesn't translate well into modern media, where a game or movie must display an image of the enemy that you can understand and give you a way to kill it. Video games are antithetical to the Lovecraftian spirit and the idea of cosmic horror, and no 3D model can ever fill you with the same disgust and fear that one of Lovecraft's stories can.
And yeah he was pretty fucking based when it comes to race
Not to mention that his stories almost always end with the "good guys" dying or being horrifically mutilated, which doesn't make for good TV or games
Jonathan Bennett
Pretty good post that I mostly agree with.
Asher Watson
>Ignorance Why do people use this word synonymously with arrogance or hate?
Nathan Gray
what if there was lovecraft MMO where players compete to be eaten first by the great old ones
Aaron Hall
i'm still mad at one lovecraft game I played which started out doing the psychological/horror thing, doing it alright, but then suddenly it became a shooter where you rode in the back of a pick-up truck blasting Dagon fish cultists. holy shit it's like whoever did the first bit got fired and replaced by some braindead FPS devs. Lovecraft is great, though, acknowleding how alien life forms really would be alien and horrifying and pathetic ignorant human monkey meat would shit itself in utter existential dread if we actually made contact with entities capable of traversing the vast, unlit emptiness of galactic space.
Jose Ramirez
You forgot to put LGBTQP, its lesbian, gay, bi, tran,queer, pedophiles. Fascists.
btw satire
Aaron Perez
I've read a couple of books from H.P. Lovecraft and they're good. I guess, mostly, because you picture in your head what's going on so it kind of sticks with you when you close the book. But all games that I played related to the lore were pure shit. Boring, generic and not scary at all.
> The Jew is an adverse influence, since he insidiously degrades or Orientalizes our robust Aryan civilization. The intellect of the race is indisputably great, but its nature is not such that it may be safely employed in forming Western political & social ideas. Oppressive as it seems, the Jew must be muzzled.
He was /ourguy/.
Anthony Lewis
SJW critical theory is not only deeply problematic, its boring. How outrage can we be by even the mist autistically reeee'd SJW whining after so many thousands encounters, across so many hundreds of clickbait sites. They've slipped from being annoying or even pulpy fun and now they're just downright boring.
Jackson Barnes
That's not how the left works, you destroy not create.
Caleb Richardson
I like Lovecraft. Especially his letters about kikes.
Henry Scott
>solidarity Who the fuck is asking for that besides those fucking feminists with their hairy armpits?
Lincoln Hall
Exactly. They take something someone created and seems to work, brings profit or is in anyway good for a group of people and force their way in. Then they start making demands for drastic changes and finally ruin it.
Leo Ortiz
I think his earlier works, that were more dreamlike adventures through strange underworlds, would work better in a videogame setting.
Josiah Baker
women were a mistake
Oliver Cruz
a game were you play a degenerate mulatto who's trying to resurrect the old ones might be kino actually
Anthony Peterson
>people taking the bait
Nolan Hill
Majority of modern games are communist and globalist propaganda to the point it's almost unplayable. Now I'm playing Icewind Dale 2 (only infinity engine game didn't finished before). Its 16 years old. Main story is about two halfbreeds who wants to create "new world order" which will bring "peace, equality and social justice" for all outcasts and oppressed people - usually raiders, thugs, murderers, primitive races like goblins and orcs, demons and worshipers of evil gods by destroying civilizations of higher races. Their social justice army commits slavery, torture, forceful inter-species breeding and human sacrifices. Releasing such game now would cause major shitstorm because all liberals would see themselves in antagonist characters