Post: #1

Sometimes in my spare time I will watch people play video games on YouTube for shits and giggles. Recently an independent developer ended a kickstarter campaign for a game called Among the Sleep, where you play as a two year old boy. It's a psychological horror game, where your mother supposedly disappears and you spend the game traversing a hellish version of your house with a talking teddy bear, trying to find her again. On the surface, it looks like your house has been invaded by demons, but the astute observer will realize otherwise.

You begin to notice that the monster frequently appears when you make a lot of noise, like breaking glass or knocking boxes over. When it finds you, it attempts to take the teddy bear away and the game ends. The monster has a vague witchlike appearance, and sometimes also appears as a massive overcoat with eyes. In some areas, you are will find discarded liquor or wine bottles, and you will hear muffled and unintelligible arguments between a man and a woman.

At the end of the game, as I'm sure most of you have picked up at this point, you find that the mother and father were divorced, and the mother won custody of the child. She turned to the drink, and began abusing the child, and you find her at the end of the game, where she pushes you away l, drunk, and rips the arm off your teddy bear. The player then crawls outside where you hear a man's voice, the same voice as the teddy bear, who tells you everything will be ok.

When I watched this I was just like "fuck yeah", nodding in approval, the dad won custody of the child back. Go figure this was made by a Russian developer, and I can only assume it has a factual basis. I'm waiting for the feminists to catch wind of this. If you guys have time, just look up the ending. Even if you think video games are a waste of time, it was very powerful and moving to me.

TL;DR
Russian video game says fuck you to alcoholic mothers and praises strong father figures

Post: #2

Great summary.

Ive read many reddit posts praising it, even in some gameideas/gamedev subs about people wanting to make a clone or something inspired by the game. It seems like a good game.

Post: #3

I'm guessing this is an Oculus Rift Virtual reality game?

Post: #4

When I watched it, the guy wasn't playing with oculus rift, but I imagine it would be fucking terrifying crawling and peaking around corners with that thing.

Post: #5

(06-04-2014 05:16 PM)Sweet Pea Wrote:  When I watched it, the guy wasn't playing with oculus rift, but I imagine it would be fucking terrifying crawling and peaking around corners with that thing.

Yeah it would be nuts - VR has come a long way since the 1990's. Actually I saw this 'prank' video earlier today (starts at about 1 min). Very immersive technology!:

Post: #6

Wow! I watched a review of this game and it is truly frieghtening. I'm tempted to buy it and play it this weekend.

Post: #7

You should have put a Spoiler alert Sweat pea. The game sounds great.

Post: #8

My bad. I didn't think many guys here cared about video games, so I neglected it.

Post: #9

Hey Sweet Pea, is this the video you watched per chance?

Post: #10

http://outofthefog.net/Relationships/Mat...Abuse.html

40.5% of all child abuse is committed solely by biological mothers
17.7% of all child abuse is committed solely by biological fathers
19.3% of child abuse is committed by both the mother and the father
6.4% of child abuse is committed by the mother and some other individual
1.0% of child abuse is committed by the father and some other individual
11.9% is committed by someone other than the parents
3.1% is committed by an unknown or missing perpetrator.



just to destroy feminist arguments even further

Post: #11

Bought it and best it. Great game and worth the 20$ for it. Shit was scary.

Post: #12

I actually watched a guy named Markiplier play the entire game. I really enjoyed his playthrough of Outlast as well.

Post: #13

Why would you want to play a game that simulates you being a baby? Scary games, yeah, they are cool, but this... Haven't grown up yet?

Post: #14

(06-08-2014 07:35 PM)Freedom Wrote:  Why would you want to play a game that simulates you being a baby? Scary games, yeah, they are cool, but this... Haven't grown up yet?

This isn't a "baby simulator" anymore than Grand Theft Auto is a "serial killer/school shooter simulator."
Why chase women and not settle down? Haven't grown up yet?
Why start your own business instead of being responsible and risk-averse? Haven't grown up yet?

Nice chick logic, buddy.