#pathologic (2005)

[handsnolongertied]

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[maripr]

God I love the lost art of videogame manuals.

The manual of Pathologic classic pretends to be "documentation" of a "simulation of human behavior during a plague". That's why food is called rations. That's why medicines are called drugs. You're roleplaying as a doctor WHO'S playing the simulation in order the proper approach to this kind of emergency.

Man, I love all the multiple interpretations and role-playing they use to present this game to you. You booth up the simulation and characters then speak to you as if you were a stage actor, and then you might learn it's all a game played with dolls in a sandbox.

On one hand, it might be too much for its own good, lmao. That might be why they're backtracking a bit in the sequels. All these different ARGs are a bit incoherent with each other. On the other hand, I love how experimental this is.

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

worst family in the town-on-gorkhon or whatever

[waddledeedum]

oh my god they were colleagues…..

[helios-two]

in your opinion, is pathologic a horror game?

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[yourdeepestfathoms]

why wouldn’t you want to play the original 2005 English translation of Pathologic 1?

it’s got all the good shit, such as…

Devot+E36ress

this

Georgiy’s nephew, Maria

this atrocious spelling of naive, which is misspelled EVERY SINGLE TIME the word appears

Hump Man

this fucking guy

the way every single model is absolutely fried to the point where you can count every single pixel

and i didn’t get a picture of it, but the game’s weird obsession with using the word “penetrate”

[secrettreestuffidk]

Pathologic happens in the same universe as Pixar Toy Story discuss

[spooky-somewhere]

it is strange that you are still alive.