>> ^mindbrain:

>> ^luxury_pie:
Despite the name of the teacher, what reference is there to Mr. Lovecraft?

Many. The last names of the students reference some of his tales: Noreen Dunwich (Dunwich Horror) Larissa Insmouth (Shadow Over Insmouth) and Jimmy Pickman (Pickman's Model). The principal's last name is Peters, but my knowledge of Lovecraft is not specific enough to pick up on a common name like that. Anyone? Bueller?
Also his stories are almost always first hand accounts which usually end up revealing the doom and/or madness of the story-teller. Several notable creature names/aliases were spoken during the incantation.
Finally the method of descriptive prose used in this piece is heavily inspired by Lovecraft.


I think there are some Call of Cthulhu references too (it looks like an octopus)...

I just started reading Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft and it is an AWESOME book.

It's not your typical MMOG mind. This isn't going to be WoW in modern days. It's an MMOG called The Secret World (which btw has had one of the most enjoyable puzzled based viral information campaign ever.) TSW is set in the modern world (Specifically the hubs of NYC, London and Seoul), it has no classes or levels. It is a skill based sandbox MMOG with a premise that is part World of Darkness, part Call of Cthulhu and part Shadowrun. Legends and myths are real, and in the arctic a pandoras box has been opened, bringing the beasts that stalk the darkness of our nightmares into reality.

The fans like myself are expecting some initial details of the game beyond its premise and the fact that it has no levels or classes, at PAX, with is about a week away.

Some of these games are the classics they are because they didn't come out of a sequel machine.

Quite a few of these games should not have sequels. Some because a sequel could only fail to meet expectations, some because they were downright terrible to begin with, and others because there's just no place for one.

• Uniracers - "Uniracers 2" could be a crappy flash game, at best. Leave it alone.
• Red Dead Revolver - Not only should there never, ever be a sequel, but I hope a few people lost their jobs for creating the original.
• Psi-Ops - A $50 gimmick. By all means, reuse some of the ideas, but no sequel, please.
• Tech Romancer - I'm greatly skeptical of any game, show, movie, etc with a title consisting of randomly chosen unrelated English words. I'm looking at you Guilty Gear, Melty Blood, Sailor Moon, One Piece Gear Spirit, Groove Adventure Rave Fighting Live, etc.
• Call of Cthulhu - 3 sequels were planned, but the dev went out of business.
• Blade Runner - I'd rather see a modern remake than a sequel. A new story in the universe.
• The Last Express - Leave it alone.
• MULE - The inspiration for an entire genre as well as influencing others. It doesn't need a true sequel. Also, I think the marketability of a game about mechanical equine is pretty poor these days.
• Rampart - See Uniracers
• Giants: Citizen Kabuto - Inexplicably absent from the list.

Greetings, ant.

Just a note- "The Call of Cthulhu" is not vintage at all, well unless you call early 21st century vintage.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478988/



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*vintage

I want to see a video like this of someone playing Condemned or Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth... I know with this guy they'd probably give him a heart attack!

here's episode 2 http://www.videosift.com/video/Calls-for-Cthulhu-episode-2