I know - its a rare game that comes out that is pretty much bug free. This one is one of them. I only ran across the sound bug I describe above, and I am almost done with the game.

-S

My words. Had this been an RPG with some freedom (like Vampire Bloodlines) and not just an endless race for your life and the next save point - it could have been a classic.

I think this is the best game I will never be able to enjoy. It is very well done, but I could not stand playing it. It found it depressing, unsettling, irritating. It seems some people are exactly after that for the Lovecraft thing in it, so then it should a be a very good investment.

It had to be because in the end there was just one guy left and he knew there would be no money for a patch. He was basically the one who was to switch off the light.

Headfirst was bust even before their first game came out, you rarely get such insight into the frustrations of a developer like when hoodedclaw was keeping up the faith that he was still working on the PC version - it was mad and unreal and very fitting to the real Lovecraft tales. I think all the developers went mad during development :yep: So will you when you play this game. I warned you ..

Ay! I'm a big Literary geek and I love Lovecraft (unintentional pun?) but I can't find CoC for the life of me. I really don't want to buy from Ebay right now (just bought a radio pack from that site for an RC Gato-Class I'm building). Anyone know of any American stores that stock it still? I can get it for Xbox or PC, it really doesn't matter. My PC sure won't care (Oblivion at full specs :smug:) and I have an Xbox 360 (luckily that is one of the few games that are backwards compatible...that and Halo *shudder*). So yeah...Any tips?

bloodlines...i looved that game. it was kinda buggy tho and and too bad the ending was too disappointing to be funny. lol. if you remember the haunted hotel. that is the only fake thing that has had me literally frozen in terror. late night no lights on and i have no idea what im in for. not even inherently scarry stuff going on except for how real it felt. i mean axe drag child murderer in a red lit boiler room...creeepy. every other time i played that part i definitely muted the sound and turned the lights on heh. anything else like that around?

my roomate played call of cthulu on xbox but wasnt too into it so i never took it up.


radtgaeb arent there any used vids stores around...lol there are like 5 by my house well more like 3 but still...

or

http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=950806

Yeah that music from the haunted hotel still gives me the creeps.

I found Cthulhu even more scary, and disturbing than Bloodlines. However, gameplay let me down, so I stopped playing in the Innsmouth hotel. My friends didnt like it either.

I have and like both.
I was kind of a late starter for Vampire:Bloodlines, I got it as a bargain bin game for six euros about half a year ago.
Constant modding has made it relatively bug-free now, even if there is apparently some kind of modding jihad going on currently with one half of the modding team splitting and releasing "true" unofficial patches. The "false" ones suit me just as well.
Problem is, the ocean hotel scene is creepy just about once. I kept telling myself "you don't have to be scared, your a vampire dammit!" but somehow I felt like Spike after being unable to bite.... ;)
Vampire Bloodlines is definitely my favorite non-sim game.
Call of Cthulhu is linear, yes, but straightforward as well. I liked it just to the point when you are stuck on devil's reef. The whole air filled tunnels episode is just too detached from the rest.
I suppose the game is more based on the RPG than on the books.
Sadly I never got into that kind of RPG when I was at the proper age for pen & paper RPGs, then I only had D & D.