I used to like choose your own adventure books.
British tv, I often can't watch it. It's a little close to home.
I've been watching lots of horror stuff on Netflix lately, more interested in supernatural stuff over violent slasher stuff.
Any quick recommendations?
I saw an episode where they make this AR/VR device thats get implanted into the brain and you go to a survival horror mansion and the guy just has to see how long he can last. Things go very badly from that point on. Pretty cool episode.
Well this is weird. I was just thinking about Black Mirror this on Monday...
Black Mirror I have a love/cringe relationship with. I absolutely love each episode, but also, they are so dense in their content, dense in the sense of every minute I watch I feel like I need 15 minutes to decompress and think about. It just wears me out -- which is the same relationship I have with the horror video game genre.
Everyone probably knows the creator lead writer was a video game magazine writer yeah? Charlie Booker.
NOW ON BANDERSNATCH
Yes, it is a must experience FMV exerience.
See also Late Shift which I reviewed recently on Game Under. It is superb, even better than Bandersnatch.
gamingeek said:There's a few FMV style games from the past few years Switch Corner on YouTube likes them.
I used to like choose your own adventure books.
British tv, I often can't watch it. It's a little close to home.
I've been watching lots of horror stuff on Netflix lately, more interested in supernatural stuff over violent slasher stuff.
Any quick recommendations?
We haven't watched it. Is to say: we watched the first episode with the prime minister fucking a pig and at that point the missus decided it wasn't for us/her.
SupremeAC said:We haven't watched it. Is to say: we watched the first episode with the prime minister fucking a pig and at that point the missus decided it wasn't for us/her.
in hindsight, I wonder if they regret making that the premiere episode. I think it may have created a false expectation about the show. I would say give one more episode a chance though. Just about every other episode contains 100% less pig fucking.
aspro said:
I just put it on my watch list for PlayStation. I'll try to grab it next time it goes on sale.
gamingeek said:
I've been watching lots of horror stuff on Netflix lately, more interested in supernatural stuff over violent slasher stuff.
Any quick recommendations?
The first season of Haunting of Hill House is quite good.
robio said:SupremeAC said:We haven't watched it. Is to say: we watched the first episode with the prime minister fucking a pig and at that point the missus decided it wasn't for us/her.
in hindsight, I wonder if they regret making that the premiere episode. I think it may have created a false expectation about the show. I would say give one more episode a chance though. Just about every other episode contains 100% less pig fucking.
Yeah, I have to say, that was certainly a brave move making that the first one. The one with Miley Cyrus would have been a lot more commercial of a choice. It is astonishing that they had the bravado to make that one the first.
The pig fucking one did indeed create a false expectation, and there's no question the rest of the show failed to live up to it. 
robio said:
The first season of Haunting of Hill House is quite good.
Seen it.
Same producers have different horror stuff on Netflix I watched, most pretty good. Midnight Mass, Archive 81 and The Fall of the House of Usher.
Every season or so one episode usually involves video games, with probably the best known being a made for Netflix movie called "Bandersnatch" where they incorporated a choose your own adventure feature into the show, which made for some really interesting results. The new season features a new video game episode called "Plaything", and I definitely recommend it to anyone who has a spare 46 minutes.
The premise of the episode focuses around a life sim game called Thronglets, and the possibility that the characters in it have become sentient digital organisms.
So it's a good episode all the way around, and I won't spoil any more than just the basic plot today, but what made it really cool was Netflix has also developed the actual in-episode game, and you can download it from the app store or Play store or wherever you get your mobile games.
The game itself is not at all bad if you like simple resource, management/life sim games. I think it would have been better as a PC game, but there's no question that they were going to reach a significantly wider audience by making it a mobile game. What makes it especially good though is how the thronglets interact with you as the game proceeds.
So if you have some time to kill, I definitely recommend watching the episode and then downloading the game. It's a good way to kill a couple hours if you have some downtime and don't mind having some of your choices questioned.