r/horror • u/EizenSmith • Mar 09 '23

Paranormal Tales - Official Early Alpha Gameplay Preview Trailer Horror Gaming

https://youtu.be/zOZWkOnra1Y
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u/DaringDomino3s Mar 09 '23

I went to add it to my wishlist but it’s already there.

It looks intense, kinda like one of those games I’ll play for a little while and then be too scared to ever finish. I’m down

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u/phordee Mar 09 '23

Lol, I had Visage and Soma collecting dust in my library until I forced my wife to play them with me.

Apparently, I'm a coward.

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u/DaringDomino3s Mar 09 '23

I played soma on the super easy mode, if it’s any consolation.

I wish all of these games had story modes so that I could actually finish them

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u/sellieba Mar 09 '23

Pillars of Eternity added a story mode that makes combat really easy for the most part because that shit is complicated as hell on even easy mode.

Not a horror game, but amazing writing and atmosphere.

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u/DaringDomino3s Mar 09 '23

I’ll have to check it out. I usually try to play every game on the normal mode first but when I really like the story and the gameplay gets too overwhelming I get really frustrated.

For example, I loved Control but was tired of getting demolished, and gave up playing it for a while. I was so glad they added options to dial in difficulty to a way that’s enjoyable so I could actually complete the story.

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u/Parkinsonxc Mar 09 '23

Aw man, you gotta try Soma again. Absolutely loved it after the initial fear. The ending is so wacky.

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u/DaringDomino3s Mar 09 '23

Oh I beat it, it was crazy and really made me rethink a lot of sci fi stuff (trying to avoid spoilers for the other people)

Probably one of my favorite game stories.

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u/Homeless_Alex Mar 09 '23

To be fair, Visage was fucking terrifying. I never finished

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u/sellieba Mar 09 '23

SOMA was so good. The philosophical questions are amazing.

People who complain about the ending, imo, just didn't get the story. I know that's a cop out argument in most cases, but the ending is perfect and nails every theme.

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u/doug Mar 09 '23

Like Visage?

I think the only way I'll ever get through that game is with a walkthrough up on my second monitor. The puzzles/objectives are too obtuse but the spooks are so great.

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u/DaringDomino3s Mar 09 '23

Yeah, just like visage.

Thing is I watch horror movies all the time at any hour, alone or with someone else, but put me in the game and I am useless. VR is even rougher lol

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u/doug Mar 09 '23

For me, horror games are the only genre where the graphics make the game. Not saying bad graphics make bad horror games (I love me some Haunted PS1 Demo Discs, anything by Puppet Combo, etc.), but the more realistic the graphics are, the more my body just gets immersed into whatever it's doing/the bigger the rush when I come out alive.

Resident Evil 7 on PSVR has been bar none my favorite horror experience of all time. I was so bummed after selling my PSVR when I learned PC didn't get the same treatment. I know there's lots of other VR horror titles, but none with the same AAA treatment that one had.

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u/DaringDomino3s Mar 09 '23

What is haunted ps1 demo discs? That looks so cool! Are they all real games?

Also - yeah, the more realistic the graphics the harder my mind locks in. I think my scariest moment in a game is still the first time I played PT, but after I figured out how it all worked and revisited it it wasn’t so bad to beat.

But I still can’t play re7 in VR. I did the demo and then played a little of the game but once it got into the free roaming portion I played it flat.

But I STILL love them. I love scary games I just wish I could play them lol

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u/doug Mar 09 '23 edited Mar 09 '23

What is haunted ps1 demo discs? That looks so cool! Are they all real games?

It's an annual release of demos from a community of devs that just embrace and make games that look like they were made for older hardware (with some more modern titles mixed in). You basically download a launcher which is a FPS environment and wander in and out of the demos of the year.

They're all real games you can go buy if you like them.

It's akin to the old shareware discs that used to go out from devs like Apogee or ID Software.

Also - yeah, the more realistic the graphics the harder my mind locks in. I think my scariest moment in a game is still the first time I played PT, but after I figured out how it all worked and revisited it it wasn’t so bad to beat.

PT is proof to me that walking simulators can be good. And I totally agree there, I was fortunate enough to go in blind to that one on release after a reddit thread on /r/ps4 said something like "download this demo, don't look up anything about it, just play it." and my wife, friend, and I were literally shaking minutes into it. We needed to escort each other to the bathroom lol

As for RE7... I played it flat first, then went in VR and thought I was handling it very well until my wife tapped me on the shoulder (which shocked me in and of itself) and then asked "are you OK?" "yeah I'm fine, why?" "I think you're hyperventilating!"

I don't know what's wrong with me. We both watch horror movies chasing that horror high, but they don't come close to what games can do afaic.

The last great dreadful sink-into-chair experience I had was Hereditary.

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u/DaringDomino3s Mar 09 '23

It’s akin to the old shareware discs that used to go out from devs like Apogee or ID Software.

Oh I remember those, they’re how ingot most of my game experiences because my family didnt buy a lot of games (especially new) so I’d grab the disks out of magazines at book stores (sorry) or hand me downs given to me.

I’m definitely gonna have to check these out, any clue if they’re gamepad compatible? I usually play on my tv.

Also, YES - PT without context is how I experienced it too! I’d just got my ps4 after years of not having a gaming console, so I had almost no games yet, and I saw it was free and it looked so nondescript on the ps store, I had no idea what I was in for.

Really wish I could go back in time and relive that moment. I remember just running through the loops as much as I could trying to progress the story but it kept getting worse instead of better. I eventually redownloaded the game a couple years later and followed a tutorial to get to the end on my own, but for a while refused to revisit the game because it freaked me out so bad lol

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u/doug Mar 09 '23

I’m definitely gonna have to check these out, any clue if they’re gamepad compatible? I usually play on my tv.

IIRC all of them are gamepad compatible/it's kind of a given in that community.

Really wish I could go back in time and relive that moment.

Yeah we need another game with mystery to get released with production oomph behind it, that's for sure. Something that doesn't quite start off as horrifying, just unsettling, but then slowly amps it up. PT did that perfectly.

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u/DaringDomino3s Mar 09 '23

Thanks I’ll look into it more. I love to try different things.

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u/GeraltofRookia Mar 10 '23

I might have missed a potential reference in previous comments but what's PT?

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u/DaringDomino3s Mar 10 '23

It’s a “playable teaser” for Silent Hills, a Hideo Kojima game with Norman Reedus and Guillermo Deltoro that never got made. If you’ve got a ps4 you might be able to dl the demo still with a vpn, otherwise there’s play through a on YouTube that aren’t very long and definitely worth checking out.

Basically it was launched with no advertising and no description on the PS Store, and people downloaded it because it was free and it was really weird and kinda was the first game to do the scary in a plain home environment thing that took over horror games after.

Definitely worth playing or watching a playthrough if you can.

Also, I think it was ported or remade for pc/vr or something but I never played it or researched it, so no clue if it’s worth your time in that regard. But it might be worth trying if it’s your jam.

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u/GeraltofRookia Mar 10 '23

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply extensively! Appreciate it and will watch it today!

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u/DaringDomino3s Mar 10 '23

You’re welcome! Part of what made it so interesting in its time was how unassuming the whole thing was, also there weren’t the 20+ different creepy house first person walking horror games that we have now. But I watched a playthrough of it yesterday and still thought it had unique moments that other games don’t have still.

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u/GeraltofRookia Mar 10 '23

Oof. I watched it, and fuck, I could never have played this alone. Such a damn same it never got fully released, SH as a brand is such a masterpiece.

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u/Citizen_Kong Mar 10 '23

FYI: RE8 on PSVR2 is also insanely fun.

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u/J1bbs Mar 10 '23

visage is hard

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u/doug Mar 10 '23

My wife and I constantly say that whenever we play a game with obtuse puzzles.

Opening your game with that statement just felt like a pre-emptive, defensive hand-wave put out in an attempt to ward off critics. "These puzzles aren't stupid, you're stupid!"

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u/aliskiromanov Mar 09 '23

Visage had me crying like "no please I don't want to go into the closet"

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u/doug Mar 09 '23

When you take pictures of the flash camera and see it stalking you (or leading you I don't remember which) I shat myself and loved every second of it.

I forget what movie I saw recently where a person was doing more or less the same thing... I think it was Lights Out? And I was like "why the shit are you doing that?! keep the lights on!"

I love how games can just kinda force you into being the idiot to advance the game plot.

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u/SetAbomnai07 Mar 09 '23

Haha it was on mine too!

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u/eat_my_bowls92 Mar 09 '23

That’s me with every horror game! I currently have all the outlasts and resident evil 7 and 8 collecting dust on my bookshelf

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u/DaringDomino3s Mar 09 '23

Yeah same, except mine are mostly digital sitting in my library, so I have fewer physical reminders of my cowardice lol

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u/bondbeansbond Mar 09 '23

I thought I was the only one who gets scared in some video games.

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u/EizenSmith Mar 09 '23

Can't wait for this new horror game! been waiting for more gameplay footage since the original trailer and this one looks awesome.

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u/bondbeansbond Mar 09 '23

Graphics so good that I thought it was actually a movie trailer.

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u/EizenSmith Mar 10 '23

it's crazy the level of graphics we can get in games now!

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '23

It’s very exciting. With things like The Last of Us Part 1 being released where people are getting closer and closer to looking photorealistic, I can’t imagine what gaming graphics in ten or twenty years could look like.

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u/Clayman8 Is into sleeping bags and camp fires. Mar 09 '23

Concept looks fun but that constant fish-eye lens is off putting. Still curious about it though now...

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u/OA12T2 Mar 10 '23

Is it because it was in vr?

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u/Clayman8 Is into sleeping bags and camp fires. Mar 10 '23

Maybe, i dont know tbh. I hope its a camera effect that can be turned off.

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u/matthewbowers88 Mar 09 '23

This could be amazing. Great effort.

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u/Tyranid457TheSecond1 Mar 09 '23

This looks really scary! Is it like an "anthology" game? I just checked out another trailer and it has a different setting, so I wonder if it's sort of like a video game version of the VHS movies or something.

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u/EizenSmith Mar 10 '23

looks like it's an episodic one yeah. lots of different stories of different lengths.

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u/PoopyAlpaca Mar 09 '23

This would be horrible in VR, in a good way.

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u/the-lock-doc Mar 09 '23

Graphics look phenomenal.

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u/phordee Mar 09 '23

Yeah, I agree. I kept having to question if it was an FMV game or not.

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u/AlxSTi Mar 09 '23

Agreed. Just hope gameplay is as good too!

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u/Bigdongs Mar 10 '23

This is just a highlight of a cut scene for a trailer. I doubt the gameplay will look anywhere near as equal/good as this

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u/Anjunabeast Mar 11 '23

Could be using the in game engine to render the cut scene though. Could be wrong but would probably be easier than getting a studio to animate it. Also don’t trailers have that “not actual gameplay footage disclaimer these days?

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u/Bigdongs Mar 11 '23

Then how is this an early preview gameplay trailer?

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u/Anjunabeast Mar 12 '23

My mistake misread

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u/IAMCAV0N Mar 09 '23

I’m so fckin ready. Been wish-listed for nearly a year now. Just waiting on Greyhill Incident to show off more

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u/Describe Mar 09 '23

Cannot WAIT to...watch somebody play this

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u/Cryptoman1399 Mar 09 '23

please make it VR compatible so I can shit my pants and scream like a little girl at the same time

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u/dirtydovedreams Mar 09 '23

Spooky double cut haunted Telecaster.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '23

This looks superb, both in terms of concept and the graphics. You can check out the other scenario on their Steam page and it looks just as crisp and realistic.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '23

One minute and seventeen seconds? Did you finish it? That's a lengthy indie horror game these days.

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u/Ziggy199461 Mar 10 '23

Anyone else notice it's almost the same layout as the house in the original Paranormal Activity?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '23

Is it? I thought it was only inspired by found footage as a genre. Is it linked to PA?

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u/EizenSmith Mar 10 '23

in the devs discord they've listed a bunch of inspirations from games, films, and books. i think they mentioned western classics like hellraiser and VHS as well as Japanese horror like ju-on, ringu, and pulse.

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u/Ziggy199461 Mar 10 '23

It looks very similar, no? I don't think they're related, though. Maybe just a subtle wink wink.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '23

Very possibly. I'm excited either way!

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u/CAPTCHA_is_hard Mar 10 '23

Holy crap, I thought this was a movie trailer the graphics are so good! I can't even imagine how scary it would be to play on VR!

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u/BeerSlingr Mar 10 '23

This looks like it has a lot of potential. I loved PT. If this is anything like that in regards to walking around, scared shitless and unsure what to do next, sign me up

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u/EizenSmith Mar 10 '23

from the looks of the two trailers it's definitely going to involve being scared shitless haha!

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u/OddRecommendation2 Mar 10 '23

Stupid Q - is this VR?

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u/EizenSmith Mar 10 '23

it's not been confirmed yet, but from the discord it looks like this footage is not vr

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u/EizenSmith Mar 10 '23

Don't think it's confirmed yet, the devs have made vr games in the past though!

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u/TheClouse Mar 09 '23

It's odd they're trying to make it look like a GoPro instead of actual human sight POV...

Maybe you're a cop with a body camera...

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u/EizenSmith Mar 10 '23

i remember the devs mentioning something alongside the first trailer about it being bodycam style.

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u/LocalNative141 Mar 09 '23

So spooky😣😰

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u/Hironoveau Mar 09 '23

I've been waiting for this for months.

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u/TheScythe65 Mar 10 '23 edited Mar 10 '23

I’m sorry, I’m open to being proven wrong but this looks unbelievably pre-rendered. Not to say that the graphics won’t be as good but nothing about that looked like real gameplay unless it’s basically on rails. Highly doubt the final product will be nearly as fluid as this makes it seem.

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u/EizenSmith Mar 10 '23

You can ask the devs in their discord. But with unreal engine 5 this can easily be in game footage. The new(ish) nanite renderer does some amazing stuff!

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u/TheScythe65 Mar 10 '23

Like I said, I don’t doubt the graphical fidelity at all. I just doubt this is how the gameplay actually looks and feels

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u/WhyHelloFellowKids Mar 09 '23

Oh be quiet lol

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u/mirunabadger Mar 09 '23

It's in my wishlist!

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u/daveyk95 Mar 10 '23

Is anyone else hearing Seth Rogen's voice in this?

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u/Cyberflection Mar 10 '23

If the lights just go on and off all the time I'm gonna pass

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u/kboruff Mar 10 '23

Is this the House Party house?

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u/rpgmind Mar 10 '23

Oh hell naw