Dark & Eerie Games Thread

This morning I started playing the VL: Bats in her Belfry game.
I am finding it way more interesting than Never the Final Cut game.
Which is going into my game limbo for a while.

esme--even you would get a kick out of it and the story line is way more interesting.
Some of the things to be done--a potion needed to collect cobwebs

Tomorrow is back to work for me, so I need to enjoy my last day of slothfulness.

I like that we can say a developer's name here!

The first four Midnight Mysteries by MumboJumbo. The last two by Hot Lava, a company bought by MumboJumbo in 2007.
My favorite--MM: Salem Witch Trials. Thank you, John Newcomer (game designer at MumboJumbo)!

I bought Salem Witch Trials, retail (it was $10 at Walmart), because I wanted the CE. Haunted Houdini (IIRC, the only Deluxe Edition ever offered at BF), I bought the CE the day before it came out at BFG.

I don't always buy games from BFG and sometimes, I buy them twice (I already had the SE of Salem Witch Trials).

And, yes, I did see the great number of tech issues with MM: Ghostwriting...and still bought it. That's how much I love the series...enough to throw caution to the wind, to go against my better judgment of NOT buying a game with more postings in the Tech thread than the Reviews thread.

It better not disappoint me since I'm, you know, being so daring.

dj I hope all goes well with your game.

Unfortunately, I may have to start another profile for my VL game.
I think its a glitch as I am suppose to have a flask to make the potion...and its not
there.
I left a post in the game thread, but I hold out no hope.

Oh well. I bought Haunted awhile back from Gamehouse, and now I am finally
playing it.
I need to get away from HO's for a bit.
Final Cut really sucked it out of me.

You're partially right, luvto... Final Cut really sucked. End. Of. Story. 

Phantasmat 3: The Endless Night CE is scheduled for release this week.

And....it's switched developers again! Eipix is the newest team.

According to Jessica's YT vid, there will be a disclaimer notice on the game.

Ooo, consider my interest piqued!

I can't wait! 

I have finished Haunted Hotel: Death Sentence and it surprised me, I actually enjoyed it!

More of a darker game than Elephant's usual fare with a pretty decent storyline. And the eeriest rendition of the Mockingbird song I've heard in a long time.
Thank goodness, absolutely NONE of those crappy mechanical puzzles.

For once, I did not get the achievement for taking longer than 10 minutes in a HO scene!
So, that means I didn't get all my achievements (I also missed the solving a puzzle in less than a minute achievement, too)!

I'm wondering about Phantasmat 3, also. It might be psychologically disturbing. I can't wait for the release!!

I've finished MM: Ghostwriting. I experienced NO tech issues, other than a very slight delay after an action. It didn't bother me because I'm a slow player anyway.

I don't think this game was as good as the other MM games. IMO, the storyline was a little hard to follow and I kind of got lost in it a few times.
The graphics were sharp and clear. The puzzles were fun to work.

The bonus was short...and not many "extras" at all.

I lacked finding 1 measly clover, so I didn't get a chance to play that extra, not that I wanted to. It was dumb.
Why I never find all my clovers in these games is beyond me.

Oh, this game is by Game Forest. I'm not sure if they are affiliated with any of the other developers of this particular series though it did have the same "feel" as the previous games.

Now, onto another game!

Gosh, the wind is blowing and it's freakin' cold!

Well, I started Grim Tales: Color of Something and whew...don't know if I'm gonna make it through the entire game.
Geesh, can a storyline be more confusing than this??

I don't have the slightest clue what I'm doing. And what is with the stupid pictures we have to sketch and paint? I've got a picture of two wolves that I don't have the foggiest notion what I'm supposed to do with.

I think I'll put the Clueless Clan aside and wait for Saturday's CE, the psychologically disturbing one.

Maybe I'll read a book.

Books! Oh yes! I've heard of them. They're just like games, aren't they? Without the graphics. And you can follow the whole story without doing a single HOP or puzzle.   

Wouldn't that be a little too easy? 

And no graphics? Are they kidding? What are you supposed to do while you're following the story (which, I heard could take days even if you do it in one sitting)? 

What about morphing objects? And what kind of achievements can you get with no puzzles?

WEIRD!!

LMAO, Justie!

Yeah, you're right, books don't have the pretty pictures in them.

Though most books have better storylines.

I'm reading "The Burning Room" by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch series).

 You may laugh now my girlie, 
but you mark my words, it is the way of the future!   

I had a young friend in his late teens. I gave him my cassette tape player. He looked at it. He said, in all seriousness, "what is it?". I told him. He fiddled with the play buttons etc. "How do you make it work?" he said, again quite seriously. "Put a tape in it", said I and he just looked at me blankly. I gave up. 

Same kid. Tried reading one of my books. Simply couldn't do it. "I can't read it" says he. "You read stuff on the PC". "Yeah, but that's not like this. This is too hard."

Ask esme, she'll know what I am talking about. Like the 15 minute attention span created in all of us over time by watching TV shows that stop for the ad breaks, the visual component of the message becomes "the message" as less and less of our lives revolve around paper.

Oooops! Soap box time! Sorry! (For the record, I don't necessarily disapprove of this change in the way we communicate, just observing that it is there.)
Now I will go read a book and let the eerie games resume

Oh yes, how true it is, Justie!

This has been a few years back, but my niece did not know what a vinyl "record" was.

I have a collection of albums and 45's. She pointed to them and asked, "What are those things?"

And the Kanye West--Paul McCartney thing? I mean, really??? Anyone who listens to/knows music or watches TV or has even vaguely heard of the Beatles should know.

It's so sad....

I got my comeuppance once, maybe 10 years ago now. It works both ways.

I was asking this (12 year old) kid how to do a spreadsheet for a project we were working on in an online game, saying I used to use Lotus 123 at work - back in the day... 

He said he should be able to teach me, because he studied Lotus 123 in History(!!! !!!) at school. 

Turned out he meant History of Technology in his special school for IT whizz kids, but holey moley!

djrum wrote:Gosh, the wind is blowing and it's freakin' cold!

Well, I started Grim Tales: Color of Something and whew...don't know if I'm gonna make it through the entire game.
Geesh, can a storyline be more confusing than this??

I don't have the slightest clue what I'm doing. And what is with the stupid pictures we have to sketch and paint? I've got a picture of two wolves that I don't have the foggiest notion what I'm supposed to do with.

I think I'll put the Clueless Clan aside and wait for Saturday's CE, the psychologically disturbing one.

Maybe I'll read a book.

dj----your confused by your clueless clan?     How is that happening??    

I don't remember why you have the picture of 2 wolves but I know it has to do with

just in case somebody will play this game later..otherwise makes no difference if you read:

      this is for you......and me.


About books---I was at a garage sale about 2 years ago.    There was this
old dictionary.    A teenager picked up the dictionary,  read a little bit of it and said  "Cool".    

luvtoread wrote:About books---I was at a garage sale about 2 years ago.    There was this
old dictionary.    A teenager picked up the dictionary,  read a little bit of it and said  "Cool".    

Oh my gosh, that is fantastic!   OMG, I need to breathe!

That is just too funny, luvtoread!! Kind of sad, too!

Yep, I'm totally confused by the Clueless Clan's latest antics and piddling my way through the game until the end (I'll be glad when I get there).

Oh my gosh, it is soooooooooo cold here.
We're back at 0 degrees again tonight without the wind chill....

OK, so Phantasmat 3: The Endless Night is out!  Anyone playing / played yet?

This has got to be a new record -- The first three games out in a series all by different developers?

I'm curious -- does this edition have the match-3 game to do instead of HOS?

You have to connect the dots on the wolves then do a paint-by-numbers so they can come "alive" and go do stupid crap so you can rescue your stupid family from the stupid foster kid/psychopath. 

I enjoyed the heck out of it. LMBO! 

I'm not sure, Genki. I only played a bit of the demo before buying.

Yes, that has to be a record in developer change. I wonder why ERS let it go...

Yes, Esme, spot-on with the review!  The storyline is all over the place in Grim Tales #whatever. I don't know how, but I'm breezing right through those stupid puzzles. In fact, never thought I'd say this, but I'm actually enjoying them a little.

djrum wrote:
Yes, that has to be a record in developer change. I wonder why ERS let it go...

Well, it wasn't so they had more time to put any thought or logic into Midnight Mess, that's for sure. 

lol, Esme! Did you finish Midnight Mess? Or maybe I should say, could you finish Midnight Mess?

I hate to not finish a game, but if a game is so bad and I have to make myself play, I'll delete it and put us both out of our misery.

I finished the main game, but opted out of playing the bonus section. I'm not really a glutton for punishment. 

Not sure what to play next. I'm leaning towards Melissa K and the something-or-other. But not really sure yet.

Melissa K was good. It is strictly Adventure and you will need the Hint Button--a lot!

Love to read your review of some of the characters in that game.