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Pathologic and other ice-pick lodge games fan-blog!
Mostly reblogs, occasional original posts. I post about every IPL game and everything is tagged so you can blacklist whatever game or character you don't want to see.
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every bit of franz concept art or inspiration i stumble across just makes me sadder that the full product is this horrible AI mess unappealing both in visuals and content once you get past the first five minutes or so
i think this thing is proof that ice pick lodge will be the same if not better with dybowski leaving considering this was his most recent and as far as i know solo writing project
concept art by spacelaika
theres been endless discourse about pathologic already and i dont want to stoke the fire but i feel like repeating the same theories and criticisms of the text sometimes has people totally ignoring stuff like sruts. i guess now that the quarantine demo just came out and theres a lot of new stuff in it mechanically and narratively, the focus naturally just kind of shifts
i know there will be different people working on every game like different localization, different art. and of course new fans that start with this entry. so maybe im jumping the gun but when patho4, or however theyre gonna call it, is announced it will be really sad to inevitably see sruts pushed aside again š¤” i guess im part of the problem because i will be following it and participating in fandom regardless.
there are definitely parts of pathologic that i dont like. same with the void its not like it tries to be "progressive" so to speak or make a concrete point it just kind of puts vague ideas forward, so i think its fine to pick and choose your favorite parts to focus on. in any game. especially considering theyre pretty dated now. its harder in pathologic because theres a lot more lore and text even outside the game like in the corpus, forums or old concept docs, even the artbook, but that doesnt make the canon itself something you can totally ignore like dringe, sruts and so on. if its a core part of the game but its so bad that people just look away, that just makes it even more apparent and more important to call attention to.
idk, every fandom had the same problems and the same quirks. im not implying fandom is its own monolithic entity or that theres something inherently wrong in participating in it. just putting my own take out there
Get a deeper dive into the story of Pathologic 3: Quarantine and check out gameplay from this upcoming narrative-driven adventure. Watch a mysterious plague break out in a small town in Pathologic 3: Quarantine. Learn how your story began and what drove a celebrated academic to leave his acclaimed lab. Examine patients, uncover strange secrets, and make first steps towards immortality. Pathologic 3: Quarantine is a free prologue coming to Steam on March 17, 2025. Pathologic 3 will be available on PC in 2025.
On the 25th, 10am Pacific Time a horror game showcase will broadcast on various IGN channels, like twitch and youtube. According to the schedule page, exclusive reveals including Pathologic 3 will be shown later in the day!
I'm personally expecting and hoping for the release of Pathologic 3: Quarantine, and maybe a release date for the full game or more details š
I made a watch party event in the discord server linked in my pinned post if anyone wants to join, but I think this is exciting news either way š„³
I put together the (90 MB of) files required for the original 2006 English translation of Pathologic, and uploaded them so that you can play this worse and less legible version in Classic HD with the utmost convenience. Try it out below!
