A Hellraiser video game. What do you all think?

29 comments

Mmm this may be one of the few straight-up horror games that I'm genuinely excited to play. It looks fucked in all the right ways.
I hope Doug Bradley has a cameo of some kind. His voice is too iconic for Pinhead imo.
- In the description of the video, it says they just straight up have him voicing Pinhead, so your wish came true!
  
  It definitely didn't sound like him

Only shows cutscenes, no actual gameplay. Can't tell if you're playing the people or the Cenobytes... Not impressed.
- single-player survival horror action game
  It'd be really interesting if you played as the Cenobytes.
  I do agree an all cutscene trailer tells use basically nothing. Does some good for tone setting though, I suppose.

survival horror action game
Yeah, no.
Hopefully it is just a case of buzz words and not an actual genre description. But the fundamental nature of the Cenobytes is that you can't fight back against them. All you can really do is endure the psychological harm (because you aren't enduring the physical) while sacrificing others and trying an end run to the lament configuration.
Survival Horror/Action inherently involves fighting back. And that undermines so much of what makes Hellraiser Hellraiser (even in a lot of the horrible ones).
I DO think a point and click adventure game would work perfectly. I would... probably not play an Alien Isolation but I do think that would also be a fit (I got my fill of hiding in lockers back with Penumbra/Amnesia). But the moment we have ANY way of fighting back... meh.
- The trailer makes it seem like there will be "lesser" demons or creatures we may fight, but if a Cenobite knows we're there, we're fucked.
  
  Which is a problem the movies themselves increasingly did by having cannon fodder cenobites to add action or a sense of hope.
  Hellraiser, at its best, is about despair and helplessness where the only way out is to destroy your own humanity.
- Haven't there been many Cthulu Mythos games? I'm sure they're able to find veins of storytelling that have some big reveals, but don't necessarily conclude with successfully defeating the Cenobites.
  There could also be secondary antagonists tangentially related to them, right? I thought the antagonist for most of the first Hellraiser was some other kind of disciple that got cast out.
- Just because you can't kill them doesn't mean you can't fight back against them. Resident Evil 3 had the big dude that you couldn't usually kill chasing you the whole game. Same with 9 and the giant vampire mommy that AFAIK, you can't kill at all except maybe in the finale. But you can slow them down, and there are things other than those to fight. Even Alien Isolation had the flamethrower to make the xeno go away for a bit, but not forever.
- No reason survival horror has to include fighting back. Plenty of games don't involve anything more in that area than a distraction to keep you alive a moment longer.
- You're right for the wrong reasons. It wouldn't be survival horror because it would be the worst, most vile horror dating sim imaginable. Then Steam would delist it because payment processors caved into a small group of Australian moral crusading nutcases.

That looks grotesque. I probably won't play it, but it looks cool.

Oh hell yes. It’s got to be better than the F13 game.
(Disclosure: I liked the F13 game in single player bot mode)
- F13?
  
  I assume Friday the 13th

A Movie Based Horror game that ISN'T a multi-player only DBD clone? Intriguing

I'm not even that big on horror games but this looks fuckin awesome, can't wait for it to come out!

Looks bad. Which is good. So that makes me feel bad, which is good!

No way of knowing. Trailers are absolutely the least informative piece of game media regarding how it feels to play a game.

Never watched any of the movies, but the gory setting and gameplay look very intriguing.
- The OG film is the best, the rest are pretty disposable.
  
  I mean if you like the weird shit, I'd say continue on. They're fun slasher movies, and the reboot from a couple years ago was pretty good imo; the ending was pretty fucked.

29 comments