How did one fucking video game manage to successfully adapt Lovecraft

[Anonymous No.12999589]

But somehow the film industry, after decades, still hasn't made a good lovecraftian film?

What is it about Lovecraft's body of work that's so hard to translate to film?

[Anonymous No.12999610]

>>12999589
>But somehow the (((film))) industry, after decades, still hasn't made a good lovecraftian film?

A mystery for the ages.

[Anonymous No.12999618]

>>12999589
but there's no references to niggers and anglo-saxon supremacy in this game. Only some dumb shit about blood transfusion

[Anonymous No.12999620]

>>12999589
Japanese can appreciate Lovecrafts nascent racism (which is essential to his work) in a way HollyJews never could

[Anonymous No.12999626]

Define 'successful adaptation'.

The only way bloodborne succeeds at adapting lovecraft is that some of its creature models look otherworldly and the lore is reminiscent of lovecraft's non-scifi works. Otherwise, the game is very tonally removed from lovecraft and is much more gothic and melancholy than anything HPL would have attempted.

As far as why cinema doesnt create more lovecraftian monsters, I dont know. Cronenberg does it often, and stuart Gordon's lovecraft movies have nice practical effects despite again being tonally removed from lovecraft's bent

[Anonymous No.12999639]

>>12999618
what are you talking about? the niggers were one of the first enemies in game

[Anonymous No.12999661]

>>12999589
>The Thing

[Anonymous No.12999671]

>>12999639
that's clearly an albanian

[Anonymous No.12999685]

>>12999589
As much as I love Lovecraft I don't enjoy Bloodborne's ambience and aesthetics. Lovecraft's book give me different vibes. And Lovecraftian ambiance is what I love the most in his novels and what I can't find in this game.

[Anonymous No.12999691]

>>12999685
*books

[Anonymous No.12999997]

>>12999685
Really? What do you feel was lacking because personally, it was the visual lovecraftian experience I had always wanted

[Anonymous No.13000029]

>>12999661
this, dumb zoomer btfo

[Anonymous No.13000093]

>>12999997
Not him but its too overloaded with action. Not enough darkness or contrast with the other worldly elements that makes Lovecraft horror

[Anonymous No.13000153]

>>12999589
Stuart Gordon has made several great Lovecraft adaptations, nitwit.

[Anonymous No.13000338]

>>13000153
It seems like you're the nitwit friendo, as Stuart Gordon's adaptations are lovecraftian in name and premise only, and come off very much like B-movie takes on Lovecraft stories, while capturing none of the cosmic horror /anthropological journal entry tone , something which understandably is very tough to capture in cinema

[Anonymous No.13000457]

>>12999589
They're currently making a movie based on The Color Out of Space staring Nicolas Cage. The director has done very little and nothing that I've ever seen, but Nicolas Cage can be more than just a meme as seen in Lord of War.

Also Guillermo de Toro is apparently working on an adaptation of At The Mountains of Madness, but he's been saying that forever so It'll probably never happen. It's only a matter of time before some indie makes something for Netflix or Hulu that adapts something Lovecraftian and others copy it. Lovecraft is relatively new literature as it only become popular decades after he died, so it make take a couple more for more movies to be made of it.

[Anonymous No.13000467]

>>12999589
>good lovecraftian
well there's your problem!

[Anonymous No.13000483]

>>13000457
Yeah unfortunately the GDT adaptation will never happen, and even if it did I would be nervous that he would botch the tone in favor of making a masturbatory effects display that comes off more like bad Cronenberg.

[Anonymous No.13000912]

>>12999661
This. Also Bloodborne fails as much at adapting Lovecraft as most films. What the fuck are you on about OP, it's a generic souls game there's little to nothing Lovecraftian about it.

[Anonymous No.13001062]

>>12999589
It has a Lovecraftian thematic and to some extent, design, but that's about it.
Not an adaptation and certainly, not very Lovecraftian either.

[Anonymous No.13001140]

>>12999626
The game gets way more lovecraftian cosmic-horror as you progress. It mainly just parades as gothic horror at the beginning.

[Anonymous No.13001152]

>>12999589
where is a third campfire?

i can't find it

[Anonymous No.13001162]

>>12999589
not only that but the deep elder god lore behind it it is amazing i love it so much just wish it was on pc

[Anonymous No.13001189]

The fuck are you smoking, OP?

[Anonymous No.13001208]

>>13001189
Op is most likely a repressed zoomer, i doubt he’s read anything lovecraft wrote. If anything its cause he just likes watching youtube video essays about them.

[Anonymous No.13001217]

>>13001208
zoomers and teenagers in general love Lovecraft

[Anonymous No.13001605]

>>12999661
To add to my previous post, all of Stuart gordons films are lovecraft adaptations and they're what I would consider successes. If what you want is cosmic horror shit then probably better off following Del Toros bullshit.

[Anonymous No.13001646]

>>12999589
Bloodborne is even better than Demon's Souls. Best game of the last decade coincidentally has the most literary merit too

[Anonymous No.13001672]

Saya no Uta was the best adaptation of Lovecraftian story. Very evocative direction, repulsive without fully revealing the horror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrWwFw2vRr8

[Anonymous No.13001735]

Are any of Lovecrafts gods extremely sympathetic like the great ones in BB are?

[Anonymous No.13002438]

>>13001605
You sound like you dont know what you're talking about

[Anonymous No.13002442]

>>13000338
>friendo
Embarrassing

[Anonymous No.13002459]

>>12999589
>he doesn’t like In The Mouth of Madness
Pleb

[Anonymous No.13002508]

>>13000457
>They're currently making a movie based on The Color Out of Space staring Nicolas Cage. The director has done very little and nothing that I've ever seen, but Nicolas Cage can be more than just a meme as seen in Lord of War.

Does it have a working title?

[Anonymous No.13002515]

>>13001672
Agreed, I enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.13002720]

>muh bloodborne
>muh lovecraft
>muh videogames are art


sucks to be a gamer huh?

[Anonymous No.13003606]

>>12999589
In the Mouth of Madness and The Thing are great but I agree. Even Pathologic is better.

[Anonymous No.13005073]

>>12999610
>What is The Thing