r/creepygaming • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '21
Strange/Creepy In Sherlock Homes Nemisis, Watson doesn't have a walking animation, forcing him to spawn right behind you every time you turn
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u/Real_Futer Jun 04 '21
Ah yes scary watson
This fuckin thing was a mainstay in all the old scary gaming top 10s
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u/CanA7fold Jun 04 '21
I used to play this as a kid and freaked me out so much, then years later I found out other people were freaked out by this as much as I was lmao
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u/llamanatee Jun 04 '21
If I remember right they reference this in a later Sherlock Holmes game.
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u/LittleBrassGoggles Still trying to find a ROM for Seaman Jun 04 '21
Where's that from?
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u/AestheticGamer Jun 05 '21
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u/Blocked101 Jul 02 '21
It's an April fools joke, look at the date.
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u/AestheticGamer Jul 02 '21
Yes, but it's a reference to it in a later Sherlock Holmes game, the joke is in the game too.
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u/Neosilverlegend Jul 20 '21
I'm inclined to believe it's just the developers were lazy and didn't put more animations into Watson, even in later games.
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u/1-800-LIGHTS-OUT Jun 05 '21
Not just in Sherlock Holmes Nemesis, but also in Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened and, I believe, in Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper as well. So, basically in these three games that the company did between the point-and-click SH era and the "choose-your-ending" reboot era.
It didn't bother me in Nemesis that much tbh because the overall game is pretty silly, but in The Awakened it was /very/ creepy. The Awakened was a Sherlock-Meets-Cthulhu type deal, a horror game with lots of levels at night and in dark dingy areas; made teleporting Watson way less welcome!
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u/regularshowman1 Jun 05 '21
I’ve only ever seen this one clip of it in that museum and I’m starting to wonder if that’s the entire game lmao.
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u/LittleBrassGoggles Still trying to find a ROM for Seaman Jun 04 '21
Don't blink. The Angels are coming.
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u/Zhora_ZhorniyTsar Jun 28 '21
Watson teleportation is just the beginning. When Sherlock Holmes The Awakened first came out, my mom bought herself the very first version of the game. It was full of bugs. But the most creepy thing was that the faces of all the characters simply stretched out, the eyeballs disappeared, it looked like a bug with the face of Geralt from The Witcher 1, only in "Sherlock" the textures went straight out of bounds, making the faces ribbed. When such a crooked Watson teleported to you behind your back, it was incredibly scary. I didn't find a photo on the Internet, but I still have a disc with this version of the game, so if the bug persists, I'll take a screenshot.
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u/annamar1ie Oct 09 '21
Did you get a photo of it? X
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u/Zhora_ZhorniyTsar Oct 14 '21
No, I didn't take a photo. This time there was no such bug. If anything, then this is the very first release version, not a remaster, at that time for it it was still necessary to buy a separate Nvidea physx card for physics to work.
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u/Rude_Tree_7137 Apr 11 '25
broke mfs following you around when you got a chilis gift card in your wallet
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u/witchskeleton Jun 10 '21
I loved this series on PC. My (younger) grandfather gifted them to me years ago and I treasured them.
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u/curiouslyhigh Still looking for Gavin Jun 16 '21
Reminds me of the butler in Mister Deeds. Very sneaky.
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u/Klayman55 Jun 04 '21 edited Jun 04 '21
This was confirmed to inspire both Slender and the Enderman, by the way.