Walking sim

[HunterAnubis]

Is this one of those walking sims whre you walk and walk and walk and get naration?

Im all up for a proper horor game. Not action not walking sim but a properly balanced horor game.

[AwesamLinux]

Well "properly balanced" is pretty subjective and hard to define in the horror genre. As some Horror games like The Evil Within go all out in a matter of minutes, and in others like Amnesia and Silent Hill 2 barely nothing happens early on.

What I can say is that this game is heavy on walking and narration, it is definitely not action packed. But I would not define it as a "walking simulator" either, because it is possible to die. Basically Kholat looks and sounds great and has an interesting story, but the gameplay is kinda bland. It basically is just a slowly paced "collect all letters" slenderman type of game.

There are other narration heavy horror games that are I think are more fun and interactive to play, like SOMA for example. Kholat I think is still worth looking into for a low price, at least it looks great.

[HunterAnubis]

Silent hill 1 and 2 had a nice pacing. You dont start throwing monsters at player the moment you wake up as player aka dead space 2 that shoves the monster in your face in less then 10 seconds.
As SOMA goes that pile of garbidge got me and my friend bored half way thru becose NOTHING EVER HAPPENS. Theres on ocasional monster here and there thats fine but the horrible shaking screen and screen distruptions my god someone went nuts with it. Its not scary after 2-3 time its purely annoing.
Story wise it wasnt the worst thing but I had to listen to it on freaking youtube coz I couldnt have been bothered with the game anymore.

Last good first person horor that I played was probebly first portion of doom 3.
Not the DLC the dlc was a ♥♥♥♥♥ action segment and not the second part of the main game since that was a ♥♥♥♥♥ action segment as well.
But the first part about an hour or so in when you never know what and where will jump out next. After that all the set pieces were same and unintresting and it really turned in to pure action.
For the same reasonI dont consider quike 3 as an action game even if they cut you apart and make you in to that strog. Theres to much action going on that theres no time to be scared.

So if this game is just pure walk here and there and look at this and look at that like layers of fear then it will be fun for first few rooms but in the end youll be like....ughhh next room so what changes here so I can go on...

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

Originally posted by Sam:

Well "properly balanced" is pretty subjective and hard to define in the horror genre. As some Horror games like The Evil Within go all out in a matter of minutes, and in others like Amnesia and Silent Hill 2 barely nothing happens early on.

What I can say is that this game is heavy on walking and narration, it is definitely not action packed. But I would not define it as a "walking simulator" either, because it is possible to die. Basically Kholat looks and sounds great and has an interesting story, but the gameplay is kinda bland. It basically is just a slowly paced "collect all letters" slenderman type of game.

There are other narration heavy horror games that are I think are more fun and interactive to play, like SOMA for example. Kholat I think is still worth looking into for a low price, at least it looks great.

i think he is asking if there is any ACTUAL gameplay, or if its like amnesia and the like where literally all you do is walk around reading and being told things and running from insta glib enemies when there SHOULD at least be a basic "get em off me" mechanic. if all you do is walk and read, there IS NO GAMEPLAY. and as such its not a game.

[AwesamLinux]

^^ If you didn't like Amnesia because it had "no gameplay", then this game is definitely not for you. Amnesia had quite a lot of puzzle solving, some managing resources, picking up items and there was stealth elements.

Kholat is in comparison less interactive than that, there is no puzzle solving or iterms to pick up etc..When you encounter monsters (that will instantly kill you) you just need to run away.

[Digital Aura]

in all honesty, this game is complete drivel. most boring thing I ever played. The only good thing about it is the story which is just a borrowed premise like Bermuda Triangle. IN that sense, its not even original.

[Crabmeat]

Originally posted by Sam:

^^ If you didn't like Amnesia because it had "no gameplay", then this game is definitely not for you. Amnesia had quite a lot of puzzle solving, some managing resources, picking up items and there was stealth elements.

Kholat is in comparison less interactive than that, there is no puzzle solving or iterms to pick up etc..When you encounter monsters (that will instantly kill you) you just need to run away.

i could get past the first minute of amnesia with my friends XD

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

Originally posted by Sam:

^^ If you didn't like Amnesia because it had "no gameplay", then this game is definitely not for you. Amnesia had quite a lot of puzzle solving, some managing resources, picking up items and there was stealth elements.

Kholat is in comparison less interactive than that, there is no puzzle solving or iterms to pick up etc..When you encounter monsters (that will instantly kill you) you just need to run away.

is that a joke? puzzle solving? you mean wander around a bunch of crap that all looks the same to randomly find your way to the ONLY OBJECT YOU CAN INTERACT WITH AND ONLY IN 1 WAY, then doing the literal ONLY THING THAT THE OBJECT CAN DO. thats not puzzle solving.
managing resources? thats not gameplay. are you some kind of minercaft kid? is thiis trolling? you cant be serious.
stealth ELEMENTS? no. you are required to crouch and thanks to the ♥♥♥♥ tier buggy AI, that alone is enough to be considered stealth (in a game that has nothing else) and make the enemy forget where you are. 99% of the time youre wandering around pitch black rooms that the monsters (being just messed up people) would have absolutely no way oof finding you in. but they do. if you hold a box up, the monster cant get to you. you wanna try that again? amnesia isnt a game, and people like you are what is killing the video game industry, making it possible for developers to shovel out watered down pieces of big floppy donkey ♥♥♥ for 60 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dollars a pop (yes i know, amnesia was like 30. but its less of a game than the free flash games on newgrounds and should have been free.)

[Peace|Of Mind ✌]

I would consider this a walking sim - just a little more in depth than most walking sims you see

[Kerm]

Sounds like they should of just made it a movie and got sean bean to act in it instead of narate XD

[sbN]

Some people are just simple. A lot of the people in this thread are just that. Simple people invented think walking simulators are....walking sims. God people really know how to distill the very basics of gameplay into something so insulting to the game. Its like....people MISS THE WHOLE POINT of interactive fiction.

[Red_Zig]

This is a walking sim. They added a few things to make it not 100% about walking but not nearly enough to make it a "game game" interactive fiction is a great term.

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

Originally posted by s.b.Newsom:

Some people are just simple. A lot of the people in this thread are just that. Simple people invented think walking simulators are....walking sims. God people really know how to distill the very basics of gameplay into something so insulting to the game. Its like....people MISS THE WHOLE POINT of interactive fiction.

ENGLISH MUTHA FUKKA DO YOU SPEAK IT?!

[Kerm]

Originally posted by KINGS The King:

Originally posted by s.b.Newsom:

Some people are just simple. A lot of the people in this thread are just that. Simple people invented think walking simulators are....walking sims. God people really know how to distill the very basics of gameplay into something so insulting to the game. Its like....people MISS THE WHOLE POINT of interactive fiction.

ENGLISH MUTHA FUKKA DO YOU SPEAK IT?!

Sean Bean does

[Takii]

Lets put it this way... this is an exploration game with horror elements. Im not going to say anymore because everyones idea of a good game isnt the same. I personally love the game and even after beating it numerous times i still play it on a regular basis because i still enjoy it. Then again most games that people hate i tend to like because people these days want a game that holds your hand or dislike the game for the stupidest of reasons. "this game is a total waste because there are no markers telling you where you are on the map" "this game sucks because it relies on the player to use your brain" ok well that last one wasnt to far off base they may not say it directly but thats what they imply.