Grotesque videogames

more Wolfenstein 3D mods (cw: flashing images i guess?)

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oh shit i had no idea there was a new zeno clash at all
excellent

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presumably to differentiate itself from the visual identity of sf4 (which shared assets), street fighter x tekken dialed the contrast, effects, and ui elements up to 11 resulting in this garish mess

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yeah i was also surprised to see a new one. idk if anyone here cares abt em but they look so particular and seem kinda divorced from mainstream design sensibilities in a way that’s intriguing.

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we had a sizeable zeno clash thread back in the day - idiosyncratically presented first person fighting game, how could we not
prime eurojank* from not europe

*probably wasn’t all that janky in retrospect

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I played this game in the mame (windows 98) when I was like 10 yo. It’s responsible for my sexual awakening and it was really weird. The spider & the creepy fireball mixed with the silhouettes and the photorealistic pixeled girls… a strange trip.

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I guess you can find a lot of grotesqueness in eroge games (specially if they’re cheap). But if you add “mobile game” to it, you get 100% grotesque guarantee. So I also found this android “star” version of the game. Enjoy if you can.

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the first time me and my friends had a play around in mame, gals panic ended up getting played, and the horrible voice clips of encouragement became part of our vocabulary for years afterwards
YOU’RE REALLY GREAT

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THE GRITTY VOICES. You unlocked a memory

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wait zeno clash isn’t european???


wow damn yeah fooled me

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i was just gonna post that it’s chilean yeah

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This one looks third person though which significantly impairs what was so cool about the first one?

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it’s a curious mix actually: it’s mostly over-the-shoulder until u activate some special mode, then it switches to first-person until you either succeed or fail(?) at executing a combo, at which point u get some crazy finisher or spectacle attack.

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It was a source engine beat em up made by weirdos in 2009, so it was like sticking your head out of the poison cloud… The old tricks won’t work

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love that logo though

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