Slender: The Arrival Leaves You With Nothing But Your Instincts

Froggy Slayer

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Well, it looks pretty nice, but it might get boring after a while. I had an idea once for a horror game where you have to investigate a monster in and around a small town. The playthroughs would only be about 3 hours a time, but the twist is that it'd be a different monster each time, and details of the town and the case (and even the surroundings) would change. The big catch would be that if you died in a playthrough, then that mystery would remain unsolved. Each playthrough would also only have one save file, so you can't save-scum into finding a monster. I think that it'd make the players be a lot more cautious and make them actually fear death.
 

Weaver

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Busard said:
AC10 said:
So long as they don't try to copyright slenderman as their own IP. It's clearly public domain, spawning from 4chan (namely /x/) and other sites like The SCP Foundation ( http://www.scp-wiki.net/ ).

I would just be frustrated if a company came in and thus had exclusive rights to all slender content.
Slenderman didn't originate from /x/ but from the SomethingAwful forums
Okay, fine.
Regardless of where he originated from, my concerned about IP ownership vs. public domain still stands, yes?
 

The Apple BOOM

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AC10 said:
Busard said:
AC10 said:
So long as they don't try to copyright slenderman as their own IP. It's clearly public domain, spawning from 4chan (namely /x/) and other sites like The SCP Foundation ( http://www.scp-wiki.net/ ).

I would just be frustrated if a company came in and thus had exclusive rights to all slender content.
Slenderman didn't originate from /x/ but from the SomethingAwful forums
Okay, fine.
Regardless of where he originated from, my concerned about IP ownership vs. public domain still stands, yes?
The only people with a reasonable claim for copyright would be the original creator, or the Marble Hornets staff, but they have been at this for so many years without a claim that if they tried now, they'd get shut down almost immediately.
 

AwesomeDave

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I don't get the appeal of Slenderman.. I found the game boring, shallow and really not scary in any sense... but to each their own I guess...
 

Olas

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Therumancer said:
James Joseph Emerald said:
Interesting side-note: It's been speculated that Slender Man was based off the 'Tall Man' character from Yahtzee's indie adventure series:


So the whole thing has kind of come full circle now that there's an article on the Escapist about it. Hm.

Well, the tall, creepy guy in a suit is an old idea. Phantasm used the same thing and called him... uh, the Tall Man. then there was The Gaunt Man in TORG.
The concept for a mysterious faceless man in a suit? Where have I seen that before?


1975 says hi.

Just felt I needed to point that out, it is kinda the centrepiece for my avatar and all.
 

Carnagath

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Woohoo, more walking in the woods very very slowly for an hour and then suddenly dying. I'm sure Pewdiepie will be very excited. Apparently videogame horror has devolved into 14-year-olds-around-a-campfire level of stories, brought to life via shitty Unity tech demos. Pretty fucking depressing.
 

attackshark

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i have a crippling phobia of the slender man, ergo i will not be purchasing/playing this game. someone tell me how it goes, though.
 

Carnagath

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Mcoffey said:
Carnagath said:
Woohoo, more walking in the woods very very slowly for an hour and then suddenly dying. I'm sure Pewdiepie will be very excited. Apparently videogame horror has devolved into 14-year-olds-around-a-campfire level of stories, brought to life via shitty Unity tech demos. Pretty fucking depressing.
And your definition of a good horror game would be what, oh master of the art form?
I tend to enjoy stuff like characters, a story, a variety of environments, a degree of pacing, you know... I'm weird like that.
 

Boogie Knight

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Can't we all just be grateful that someone is at least trying to make a horror game and not just a dumb shooter with monsters? I hope it turns out to be really good, but even if it's just average or even mediocre I might be able to overlook the flaws and enjoy getting a little horror in a videogame.