AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I HAVE RE-PURPOSED THIS THREAD SO THAT IT IS NOW FOR ALL GAMES HORROR



So yeah

I can't even watch a gameplay video
:|

For some odd reason, it's the only "horror" game I can play

Is there more horror than the Necros jumping out of a ceiling tile and then slowly shambling their way over to you while you hack their limbs off?

So much more... The first game has a lady who's dissecting a dead man, and she turns to you, smiles, and slits her throat

Played the demo then watched a friend play the full for a bit


NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE.

That's cheap horror, honestly.

No, I agree. In fact, a lot of people liken Dead Space 2 to a haunted house with enemies that you kill.

Cheep horror or not, it works sometimes

I will Nvr understand how this is scary. It just trys to get u to jump.

Pretty awesome action game though. I like that they gave Issac a voice, even though the v-acting is kinda cheesy at times


I can not stress how awesome zero gravity is now.

Jump Scares 2: Return of the Jump Scare.

Go play System Shock 2 for a game with tone.

Someone somewhere pointed out that for a good horror atmosphere you need to feel helpless about the situation. E.g. in Silent Hill, you are just a normal father who is thrown to basically hell. Here you are a guy in armor with futuristic guns where the first one you get is more or less the most useful one. F.E.A.R. had the same problem, you don't feel that threatened by the atmosphere if you have BFGs available and are a trained soldier or whatever.

Now I still like Dead Space 1, the background sounds and music make a nice atmosphere and the Ishimura is an interesting location. I just don't feel that "Oh shit I hope there's nothing coming for the next few minutes I'm already half dead and have almost no ammo left for that gun that almost does nothing against the enemies anymore. WHAT WAS THAT SOUND JUST NOW? THERE ARE SKINNED PEOPLE HANGING FROM THE WALL, WHO WOULD DO THIS?"

That's one of the reasons why Call of Cthulhu works so well - you have no weapons whatsoever for the first half of the game, and everybody in the whole world hates you.

In fact, helplessness, and vulnerabilty, just make for more interesting games regardless of the genre. Another World was spectacular, and one of the reasons was because you were just so completely overwhelmed at what was going on. I mean, take a look at that last scene in Metal Gear Solid 4. Weak protagonists feel much more intense. If your guy can barely crawl along the floor, it's going to feel ten billion times more satisfying when you succeed in the game.

Note that at the climax of a lot of games, you get kidnapped and lose all of your stuff. Why is that? Because it's exciting. It's a thrill to think "oh shit I can't do fucking anything anymore", but then you still win anyway, and you feel like you kick that much more booty. Morrowind pulled that off with flair. You'd be completely lost in the mountains, with no idea where you were, all your items would be broken, your pitiful, pathetic armour would barely do anything in combat, and there'd be a gigantic monster around every corner. Then when you made it through by getting lucky, or coming up with a crazy idea, and you'd walk over the top of a hill and then see the tips of buildings from a town, the rush was amazing. When games beat you down and treat you like a bitch, the pay off becomes bigger. Yet another reason why the casual bullshit game design mind set is so frustrating. They make things easier and more dull so everbody can play and nothing bad ever happens to any character ever, because if the player has an even ever so slightly negative experience, well, that would be a tragedy.

all of my love

i take it back, there is something scary in deadspace.

when you realign the solar arrays and have to go out into actual space. i think to myself wow this guy has nads. i dont think i could ever just go out bodaciously into space, let alone a goddamn space station.

but then again that has nothing to do with the necromorphs so maybe its just me

if we're talkin horror, play amnesia.

prison?

NOPE