Sorry We're Closed - What if PSX horror, but gay?

[I'm Retarded?]

[Steam]

the trend of online troons and genderspecials making themselves known in the retro space continues with Sorry We're Closed, described variously as a combination of Silent Hill, Killer7, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Shin Megami Tensei, and any other half-remembered PSX-era horror game you like, except everything is gay and horny for some reason. the reception has already soared into simp tier (1) (2) (3) with forum favorite fetid fat faggot Jim "Stephanie" Sterling taking a bite for himself as well ("Can one get away with talking about Sorry We’re Closed without mentioning how unapologetically queer it is? I’ve done it in the first sentence, so I’ve buggered my chance at such a feat.") idiots genuflecting before the girldick are haunting both the Steam discussion forum (1) (2) (3) and the game's reviews (1) (2) (3). who doesn't mixing their retro horror with a little seething homoeroticism? too spicy for you, chud?

has anybody played this game? is it actually good despite the aesthetic? is it more indie troonslop being uplifted by retards with a moral mission to celebrate gay mediocrity? discuss.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

Horror game, horrible themes, probably will be a horrible game. Yeah that checks out.

 

[The Backwards Man]

White tranny has been here
How can you tell?
"PSX style" game but with with no warping textures

 

["Controlled Demolition"]

Another troonslop feature, I see. Looks too anaemic to try, everything in it looks underfed. It looks like it's got vastly more polish than most PSX-style demakes, but that doesn't excuse not fully embracing a style. I don't think I've liked a single game that used rap in its trailers/showcases since Jet Set Radio, and even that's got subverted by troons.

White tranny has been here
How can you tell?
"PSX style" game but with with no warping textures

And with high-resolution fonts, overlays and effects combined with low-resolution models and other low-resolution textures. And don't forget the VN dialogue boxes, every alphabet soup needs those to deliver highly important axewound info.

 

[ENDTOPII]

This shit bugs me to no end, I really miss the old PC game retro look, for me it's Battlefield 2 (2005) and Deus Ex (2000) that comes to my mind first. Every time someone tries to do a game in that style you end up with one of the following:

• Troongames... that's it. Supper pozzed GRIDS all over it. Just dragged out shovelware with forced agendas in it. Also, you can tell there isn't much effort in the 3D textures and models.
• Too blocky and too simplistic (it's like a minecraft/roblox clone): BattleBit Remastered comes to my mind.
• "Nu-polygon art" game, not really retro, but they will claim "it kinda is retro", but the truth is that they suck at 3D modeling and it's a cope. It all feels like a Unity test demo. If I see any assets that looks like a tutorial from this guy again, I'm going to lose my mind.

I think it's because back in the day, you really tried to make it "realistic" with hardware limitations. Today you have no such limits, and these reddit devs just think it's taking models and make it "low poly" and call it a day. This is why you got these shity "low poly"/retro games needing +8GB of GPU memory despite even performing worse than these older games. It really blows my mind how shitty gaming is today when you look at how the hardware has gotten much better but the quality has pretty much disappeared as a concept.

Is it really that hard to just copy the style of these old 3D models and just upgrade the game mechanics, without touching the art style and rendering technique?

 

[Nickolas Gurr]

Never wanted to not play a video game more in my life

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

PuppetCombo does PSX horror wayyyy better

 

["Controlled Demolition"]

This shit bugs me to no end, I really miss the old PC game retro look, for me it's Battlefield 2 (2005) and Deus Ex (2000) that comes to my mind first. Every time someone tries to do a game in that style you end up with one of the following

There are some that do it well, but if you want true retro, you stick to romhacks. Corn Kidz 64 and some other scrimblo games do the look fairly well. Pseudoregalia would almost do retro well if the UI and elements were up to snuff and, again, wasn't a Unity game. FAITH does retro really well – but it's Atari and NES, not 3D.

PuppetCombo does PSX horror wayyyy better

From what I've seen from them, they try way too hard. VHS/CRT filters out the wazoo. Bitcrunched to all shit. It is its own style, I think, and I believe that the low-poly style can really benefit horror games a lot of the time – low definition models that only just about represent something allow your imagination to go wild.

All of this is more suited to the Troonslop thread, though. I'd like it if someone reported on the game, but I sure as shit don't feel like exposing myself to this particular slop.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

From what I've seen from them, they try way too hard. VHS/CRT filters out the wazoo. Bitcrunched to all shit. It is its own style, I think, and I believe that the low-poly style can really benefit horror games a lot of the time – low definition models that only just about represent something allow your imagination to go wild.

You can heavily reduce the white noise, or get rid of it entirely. Or even make it worse lol.

Murder House has a pretty scary tutorial. Then it takes a while before the bad guy shows up, but the build up of tension is worth it. My only gripe is how little he randomly shows up. Not hard enough.

Yeah I’m a fan boy lol. If you want to support a true and honest indie dev who isn’t a troon and dishonest, I recommend puppetcombo and torture star for PS1 and 2 style horrors with a TON of shit the ESRB wouldn’t allow back in the day

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Sorry We're Closed

 

[GhaeicSD]

Just by saying that they're inspired by 4 totally unrelated things means this game is going to be a pile of shit. Not because any of the franchises mentioned are bad, quite the opposite, I personally love SMT and Killer7. It's because the people working on those things are extremely talented and dedicated to their projects in a way troons could never understand. Just adding fags to a hodge-podge combination of IPs won't mean it's equally as good as all those IPs, it just makes the things it's associated with shittier. I fucking hate these people. They make everything worse by simply existing.

 

[Tablet County]

Just by saying that they're inspired by 4 totally unrelated things means this game is going to be a pile of shit. Not because any of the franchises mentioned are bad, quite the opposite, I personally love SMT and Killer7. It's because the people working on those things are extremely talented and dedicated to their projects in a way troons could never understand. Just adding fags to a hodge-podge combination of IPs won't mean it's equally as good as all those IPs, it just makes the things it's associated with shittier. I fucking hate these people. They make everything worse by simply existing.

Being openly inspired by a number of different influences isn't bad, the problem here is that the creator clearly doesn't have a complete grasp on why the things they like were good.
I've pushed back against people calling Signalis troonslop because it's actually quite good. Some disagree, largely because it's obviously influenced by other sources (which are themselves a mess of influences but I digress), but the people behind Signalis know their influences and what made them good. Plus there's that whole "being creative" thing that this game seems to lack, at least at first glance. To me it just looks like a Netflix adaptation of Cruelty Squad.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

White tranny has been here
How can you tell?
"PSX style" game but with with no warping textures

It's a shame because it's a cool look but it being used so much by retards who can't do it properly in such a small time frame has ruined any novelty and it's basically the new la quirky artstyle for creatively bankrupt hacks. There still people who use it well like hoolopee, probably best known for animating gwimbly in smiling friends, and David szymanski who's probably to blame for every LGBTQIAPLMAOBBQ+ itch.o dev beating it into the ground but he atleast made his own weird style out it instead of using it as a crutch.

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

Upon scrolling through this thread I didn't believe a regular "zoomer PSX horror" game needed to be getting shit on this hard, so I watched exactly 2 minutes of gameplay footage and now I think people aren't shitting on it hard enough. The tranny who made this really pulled out all the stops and managed to insert all the usual obnoxious tranny "quirky game" tropes into the very intro before any gameplay even begins. If the faggots didn't praise the game so much I might even suspect it's a parody.

 

[Tablet County]

Honestly I don't mind the look of the protag, but the problem is everybody else looks either similar, horribly stock, or Hazbin-levels of busy.
Music isn't bad though.
Could definitely benefit from more Suda51 non-sequitur writing.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Why is it always Playstation? Why are they so obsessed with this aesthetic?

 

[Tablet County]

Why is it always Playstation? Why are they so obsessed with this aesthetic?

Nostalgia or anemoia. Sort of like how there was a huge wannabe 80s thing going around in the 2010s.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Nostalgia or anemoia. Sort of like how there was a huge wannabe 80s thing going around in the 2010s.

80s visuals were just generally pleasant for everyone so I can understand that, but the PSX had nothing to do with troons. I just don't see the connection, and I would expect kids who trooned out to be in the Nintendo camp if anything.

 

[Grub]

Why is it always Playstation? Why are they so obsessed with this aesthetic?

I've sort of wondered that myself. Of all the 3d retro game eras the psx was by far the ugliest.

 

[Tablet County]

80s visuals were just generally pleasant for everyone so I can understand that, but the PSX had nothing to do with troons. I just don't see the connection, and I would expect kids who trooned out to be in the Nintendo camp if anything.

What do breakbeats have to do with troons? I think it's just a general interest in the uncanny in weirdo "outsider" communities, which troons just happen to make up a large part of due to being weirdo outsiders.
And personally I find the "wannabe PSX" graphics tend to look more N64 or Nintendo DS than anything playstation.