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You've got it backwards and don't understand Lovecraft at all. And vampire horror is prepubescent and simple. No one fears them because they're boring. The same boring crap, over and over. Either a poor attempt at the macabre or a tween-romance. “I'll bite your neck my lovely dear, let's make love forever and ever and ever/I pick you over some bestiality with a dog.” Intellectually mind-stuck with monsters acrobatics? and just moaning passive female? ...the first time with Fallen Doll was a really nice promising project and I was loving it. Tentacles, horny insects from weird asian fantasies can kill even the most blind expectation. Is really thiswhat fanboys like? Some they consider Lovecraft as one of the fathers of sci-fi... definitively he was the most banal, boring failure in the history of literature. He has nothing to do with the real good
horror gotic tales or sci-fi (just read Bram Stoker or Jules Verne maybe? and you can understand what I mean).
Nothing against you. I do not intend to be course, mean, rude, whatever, to you. Only the vampire thing.
I'd recommend reading Lovecraft's Cthulhu works and try to think of the times in which they were written and what he is attempting to talk about. He was of small note then but not so little as not to be noticed in these later times. Perhaps Lovecraft's works are just not your thing, fine, but...vampires? It reeks of the simplicity of “black/white” and “Heaven/Hell” simple tones of “good/evil” and “us/them” used by governments and religions to carve any creativity and individuality out of people until there is nothing there but a uniform color and taste of mind. Black and white make a rather boring gray and I need more than applesauce to sustain me, sorry (mockery against the entire vampire concept, not at you).
Lovecraft was attempting to show horrors beyond the simple norms of “kill it, kill it!” His horrors were about your own perception of reality and reality itself. If your reality is not what you perceive it to be...how can you act against what appears to be a threat? How can you know what is a threat? Etc. That unknown possibly being a horror is what he tried to convey. (This is where that Star Trek vs Star Wars note could also play into.) The Thing is regarded as a great horror...it is also made in the Lovecraftian style (not the new garbage, the old one). Only tweens liked that vampire crap I kept seeing commercials for when I visited my landlord. I don't even know what that crap is called. And even that unknown isn't enough to make me fear that vampire crap because it is vampire crap. I'd rather take on vampires...than be at the bottom of the ocean in the deepest darkest black with no safe light to illuminate and feel some unknown thing bump against me or whatever tin-bucket I'm exploring in with such limited oxygen and with the danger that at any second, any pin-hole leak could crush the tin-bucket and me down to the size of an actual tin-can. Maybe try Subnautica...if you're into that kind of thing. Diving into dark, unknown worlds and fumbling and swimming through tunnels and chasms, worlds inside worlds, with critters and creatures most bound to take you, break you, eat you. Or just eat you. Only the unknown would hear you scream down there, if it can. Does it? ... Again, I'd rather take on a loser/wimp vampire. Especially if whatever that goes bump down there calls it...home.
Giordano Bruno's death is a quick and easy point I would reference.
I'm not claiming Lovecraft of being any great author or anything but his works are considered the fathers of the genre and I agree that he was perhaps the first and at least one of the best. (Admittedly, most modern youth will have trouble understanding most text from his time.)
On another note, I don't see any Lovecraftian style in these games. Very few things ever touch on Lovecraftian style. Then again, I don't play adult games, I just remove DRM and/or fix bugs for friends.
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