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[Sensei]

Good god the sheer quantity of frowny faces in this thread what is this I don't even

Also, who'd want to watch a livestream?

[Kilroy the Grand]

I played through all three Penumbra games. The first two were okay, the third sucked big donkey balls.

I did LP all of them, mostly for a few of my friends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw9S24qjRtk

I get far less annoying farther in, I swear.

[Lectorog]

I played through all three Penumbra games. The first two were okay, the third sucked big donkey balls.

It's classified as an expansion for the second, not an individual game, so give it a small break there. It does suck compared to the others, though. It's not bad if you think of it as a puzzle game, ignoring that it's supposed to have horror and story.

[Roboboy33]

I saw trollface hovering in front of me. I'm going to have nightmares now.

[Lectorog]

I saw trollface hovering in front of me. I'm going to have nightmares now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCutumrm4ms

Are you talking about SCP-087-B? I haven't seen or heard of a trollface. When did this happen?

EDIT: For fun, I played through B again. I honestly don't find it as scary as the original. Why does everyone else think so?

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Mr. Simple Mask isn't quite as scary as the original... thing. It's the inevitability of the first that really affects me, not the semi-jump-scare of the second. The first is a semi-jump-scare too, but with more notice.

Also, whoever thought that stupid grinning face that pops up was scary was wrong. It's really not scary, at all. Check the graphics files if you haven't seen it.

I must admit that my hands are shaking a bit as I type this, but it's not like I'm saying the second isn't scary. I haven't replayed the first for a reason. Actually, I have some time...

EDIT2: 167 floors, 18 minutes. Wow. That game is seriously weird. It's not as up-front scary as B, but maybe you aren't noticing some things happening. I'll spoil them below; before you read, you should play again (if you want).

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- The shadows. These are obvious. The ones that are sometimes cast on the walls of the landings, and then move and disappear. Usually humanoid.
- The railing height changes. Sometimes it seems to be below your knees, sometimes almost up to your shoulder.
- The length of the floors changes. Some seem longer than others; as in, longer the direction you're moving in, not wider. They all still have the same amount of stairs, obviously.
- The field you illuminate changes. This may be a result of the floor length, though. Sometimes you can see the next railing turn from the upper landing, sometimes you need to be a third of the way down the stairs or more. This also effects how much of the wall you can see - including how high - so I don't think it's a product of the floor length.
- I think the darkness of the rail/walls/floor changes, but I'm not sure. Sometimes the patches of darkness seem darker, and it's darker overall, but I'm not sure, and it may be a result of the illumination changing.
- The... field of view? changes. I'm not sure what, exactly, it is. The best way I can describe it is that, you were zoomed out, viewing everything from farther away, but it then zoomed you in, and you can't see as much - almost as if you're forced to use a camera that's a short distance in front of the player. I'm not sure if that makes sense, or if you've noticed it; I didn't notice it the first time, just this one, and it really freaked me out when it happened, and afterward, because I couldn't see as much around in front of me.

Also, a few interaction glitches with the railing flung me into the air some feet. That was interesting.

[TempAcc]

I enjoyed these, but I'm disappointed they had to use jump scares. Jump scares actualy scare me but it kills the whole scary suspense feeling, which is what real terror is about, constant paranoia etc. Pulling a jump scare makes that all silly after one day or two, but keeping shit weird and paranoia inducing creates a feeling that lasts for a long time and becomes enjoyable once it stops being scary.

[penguinofhonor]

B is definitely less scary. I played it a few times and it got a little old after the third. Still scary but not ridiculously so.

I went down two and a half floors in the original and quit. Haven't touched it again.

[Roboboy33]

I was playing the one linked in OP. I saw this white face that looked like trollface hover in front of me then dissapear. It was friggin creepy. I never knew trollface could so scare the shit out of me. It might've been the blurring, but it really looked like trollface.

[klingon13524]

I was playing the one linked in OP. I saw this white face that looked like trollface hover in front of me then dissapear. It was friggin creepy. I never knew trollface could so scare the !@#$%^&* out of me. It might've been the blurring, but it really looked like trollface.

Problem?

[Sowelu]

So...I tried playing the original, and I literally couldn't do it.  The darkness was too heavy.  Even on the best graphical settings, even with my monitor and gamma turned to the literal brightest settings, I couldn't see the end of the stairwell from the middle of the staircase...which means I didn't get to see any potential fun stuff.  Hard to be freaked out by pixels that literally don't display.

And yet I still couldn't make myself go past the third floor

[NobodyPro]

And yet I still couldn't make myself go past the third floor

Dr [REDACTED]: I think I found the problem.
Subject 5838-D: What? What's wrong?
Dr [REDACTED]: You're only on floor three.

[Sowelu]

Hey, unless the lights get brighter as I go deeper, my graphics card on the first game shows me about as far in front of my face as the second game.  If there's

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

shadows moving

like I hear, I don't see how I'm supposed to see them...but I guess I'll find out when I try again.

On a projector screen.

In a sealed dark home theater room.


Oh hey is there a way to make the mouse pointer go away?

[NobodyPro]

SCP-087

SCP-087 is an unlit platform staircase. Stairs descend on a 38 degree angle for 13 steps before reaching a semicircular platform of approximately 3 meters in diameter. Descent direction rotates 180 degrees at each platform. The design of SCP-087 limits subjects to a visual range of approximately 1.5 flights. A light source is required for any subjects exploring SCP-087, as there are no lighting fixtures or windows present. Lighting sources brighter than 75 watts have shown to be ineffective, as SCP-087 seems to absorb excess light.

It'll never get brighter, black is black until the brightness setting turns it grey. The scares are built with this in mind.

[DwarfyDwarf]

Apparently, neither of the files are available

My friend was going to play, and now he can't flip his shit about SCP-087-1

[Catastrophic lolcats]

I had the same problem but I found a couple back ups that seem to work.

http://uploading.com/files/get/588cm686/
http://bayfiles.com/file/73pn/r2dXLi/SCP-087-B.zip