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Nocturne by FoK 05/22/2003, 9:14am PDT
Bitter. wrote:



It most definitely is not. I am not sure what kind of crack I was smoking, but I can only say that I still think the idea of the game is quite good, even if the execution was pretty poor. The idea of some secret agency that exists to fight vague threats from Elder Gods and various Lovecraftian evils is absolute genius.



There are two pen-and-paper RPGs out there with this exact premise - #1 is The Call of Cthulu, which has the Lovecraft trademark in its favor (and nothing else), and Chill, which had the 2nd awesomest rulebook in the goddamn world, in terms of describing the game universe - it had a great chapter on creating the atmosphere of horror that really could double as a nice sourcebook for authors and filmmakers, and a super-long sections describing the monsters, at least a page apiece, with all types of history - basically every monster was its own short story. Fucking great stuff. (The game itself, as usual, was not fun to play.)

I played Nocturne for 30 minutes (I got it for Xmas in 2000) - the horror in this gae is basically the horror of seeing a car accident - from half a mile away. "What the hell is going on over there? Is somebody dying? Why the fuck do I have a flashlight if the only things I can look at are 2 miles away and behind an obstacle I can't see with the camera?" That is one terrible game. Oh yeah, and I couldn't amp up the brightness to where I could read the menu for some reason.

-FoK
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another one? by FABIO 05/19/2003, 12:16pm PDT NEW
    Re: another one? by Bill Dungsroman 05/19/2003, 5:08pm PDT NEW
    Re: another one? by Bitter 05/21/2003, 3:28am PDT NEW
        Netscape? by foogla 05/21/2003, 4:30am PDT NEW
            Nocturne???!!! by FABIO 05/21/2003, 4:34am PDT NEW
        I count 3 Caltrops windows open. by FoK 05/21/2003, 8:58am PDT NEW
            Re: I count 3 Caltrops windows open. by Entropy Stew 05/21/2003, 2:03pm PDT NEW
            Re: I count 3 Caltrops windows open. by Bitter. 05/22/2003, 1:23am PDT NEW
                Suggestion, re: Terraterm, et al by Senor Barborito 05/22/2003, 1:43am PDT NEW
                    Re: Suggestion, re: Terraterm, et al by Bitter 05/23/2003, 8:55pm PDT NEW
                Nocturne by FoK 05/22/2003, 9:14am PDT NEW
            Riddle me this: by Nixon 05/22/2003, 1:37am PDT NEW
 
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