/v/ - Video Games

all the good ones

Boy, am I glad I'll never be as much of a fucking faggot as OP.

the real horror is life, video games don't even come close

>>13666519

Hello Kitty?

>>13666552

>your disability payments cancelled for bullshit reasons

Being a neet isn't a disability. It's just being lazy.

Horror movies are what you're looking for. A little creepy, maybe disturbing, but not on the same level dread as an interactive medium like games.

>>13666572

I know I watched the shining a few years ago with friends and thought it was a good movie. I wasn't scared of it, I was curious to see what would happen next.

>>13666527

This tbh. Jumpscares are necessary in good horror games, they just have to be executed well. This "terror" bullshit isn't horror.

>>13666636

Alternatively, this.

You get objectively better games with this route because pure horror anything will always be inferior.

I know this feeling all too well.

>>13666636

>Diablo Hellfire.

Shit that game was amazing.

cjecl em

>>13666649

Inferior taste detected

>>13666670

>not saging

Failure.

>>13666639

but you didn't agree with me

at most "jumpscares" should be false alarms like a piece of wood falling, if it's a spoogy monster then you've successfully become retarded

>>13666678

>Inferior taste detected

He prefers diablo 3

>>13666534

>You can always watch the games being played

Please kill yourself

Silent Hill 1-3

>>13666697

>horror games should try to spook you with false alarms and never actually bother to send a monster on your ass

>>13666711

No, Hellfire is objectively worse than vanilla in every way.

Its a "zany" piece of shit that wasn't even made by the original devs

>>13666541

I hate this stupid boomer meme.

>Wow paying your taxes is scarier than demons ripping your face off XDDDDD

There's nothing in real life that's as frighting as what is contained behind the barrier of fiction. (But thanks to modern science that will change)

>>13666552

Being a lazy piece of shit isn't a disability, faggot.

>>13666639

Most old horror game don't have jumpscares as we know them today.

The loud noise, camera shake- formula is not really scary anyway.

>>13666758

Reminder that lovecraft actually wrote about niggers.

>>13666743

> even made by the original devs

>muh the dev of wow and overwatch didn't make it.

kill yourself faggot.

>>13666758

I don't know anon. Are the fantasies of the mentally deranged fictional, even when they're taking steps to enacting them? Are the heinous crimes found in such books as The 120 Days of Sodom totally and utterly impossible?

>>13666808

*even when they're taking steps to enact upon them

>>13666791

>besmirching the name of Blizzard North to justify playing a literal "zany mod" of vanilla Diablo in an attempt to shitpost

wew lad, no wonder you enjoy hellfire. With shitposts like these you probably also liked Path of Exile and titan's quests

>>13666758

I believe it comes from the fact that you can find comfort in knowing something is fiction, and you can actually ignore it if you wish. You can't really escape reality, so it's understandable people would be more afraid of that which directly concerns them

>>13666815

Never played them but with your omission of torchlight you must have a constant hard on for wrenches.

>>13666822

Torchlight 2 was so fucking bad that I didn't want to mention it.

I fell for the /v/ meme and actually bought it when I was a retarded buyfag. Only blew 4$ on it and regretted it ever since, its the worst out of every "Diablo 2 clone but better xDDD" ever.

Are there any games that give you the helpless soulcrushing fuck this reality feeling ala Junji Ito?

>>13666743

Read, it shouldn't make the monsters OOGABOOGA you in the face and should instead let the player assess them and be naturally fearful at their threat. Good games do that, like Silent Hill and REmake. "Oh shit" moments are good, though.

>>13666837

>I only pretended to be retarded.

alright so everything's quiet as you're walking down this hallway and then LOUD NOISE

THERE'S A PSYCHO COMING AT YOU WITH A KNIFE AND A

SCRRREEEEEECH SOUND PLAYS SUPER LOUDLY SO YOU KNOW IT'S TIME TO BE SCARED

and then you kill the psycho and it wasn't actually scary at all, you were just startled a little bit

>>13666859

Letting you assess too much can take away the fear element. I agree for the most part, but sometimes its just good to build up horror with music and a foreboding area just to throw a monster at you and force you to run.

I don't have much of an opinion on Amnesia as its too much of an "atmospheric" game, but there is one portion of the game worth a damn. In the sewer area there is this absolutely horrifying chase sequence guaranteed to spook and scream the living daylights out of all but the most seasoned motherfuckers. I like those moments anon.

I don't have much of an

>>13666778

What about Alone in the Dark anon?

>>13666867

In what universe does this post have any bearing to what I just said anon.

Torchlight 2 sucks. Path of Exile sucks. Titan's quest eats shit.

The only hack n' slash I've found that's actually decent outside of Diablo that I've played is Van Helsing 1+2. It doesn't give horror themes, but it doesn't feel like I'm playing a cartoony piece of shit somehow. Maybe its the character design and level aesthetic.

I haven't tried Grim Dawn, so maybe that's actually worth a damn.

>>13666912

that sounds alright

>too much of an "atmospheric" game

that's the key to a good horror game tbh, otherwise it just turns into pew pew survival horror

>>13666912

>What about Alone in the Dark

You bitch about hellfire but you defend the linear alone in the dark piece of shit games? Have you considered suicide? Seriously It's down the road not across the street.

>Old horror:

Scary

Scary

Scary

Oh god what the fuck is that

Scary

Scary

Scary

SCARY

Scary

>Nu-Horror

asmr

asmr

asmr

asmr

asmr

asmr

LOUD NOISE

OH GOD THERE'S BLOOD AND GUTS EVERYWHERE

WOAH DUDE LOOK AT THIS CRAZY PSYCHO ZOMBIE GRABBING YOUR CAMERA AND STARING AT YOU

asmr

>>13666552

Suicide bomb a synagogue. Take out as many of them as you can. Do at least ONE good thing in your life.

>>13666938

>linear

>somehow this is a problem in a horror game

>implying I defended it anywhere besides mentioning it was an old horror game that did jumpscares

>being this triggered that I talked shit about your favorite Diablo 1 mod that reduced the atmosphere of the fucking game

You know anon, you might be autistic. Learn to handle some bantz and come back.

>>13666929

Too much atmosphere and too little horror and it turns more into "spooky art piece" over an actual terror game. Look at how much garbage has made it unto Steam thanks to that mentality. (like that one literal "art" horror game)

>>13666964

Why bother Isis will just claim you are one of theirs. At least make it a mosque.

>>13666980

>>linear

>>somehow this is a problem in a horror game

You should stick to make your own adventure books if you like the linear shit. That way you can go back to the previous page if it tells you that you failed.

>>13666995

>You should stick to make your own adventure books

>linear

Anon, you've gone completely insane.

>>13667004

>select wrong page.

>dead

>not linear.

>>13667023

What kind of CYOA horror books have you read where picking a choice other than the "right one" always leads to a bad end?

You're insane

>>13667023

You're reading shit choose your own's, man.

>>13667044

Not always the bad end but always the wrong end.

>>13667066

really proving your point about the linearity with this statement aren't ya

>>13667072

Any ending other than the correct ending is the wrong ending. Correct vs wrong. Two choices. The details are irrelevant.

>>13667081

Anon if you wanted to prove a point about linearity you could've just said a regular fucking horror novel where there is literally only 1 ending

I've also read some horror stories with multiple good, not-good and tons of bad ends. Often-times the adventure can be completely different straight from the start of the book.

You're not very good at this

I don't understand how people can be afraid of horror games

OP, just play old horror games where the horror was in the panic caused by a tense encounter with an enemy that could totally buttfuck you if you fuck up, modern horror games are bad and should feel bad

>>13667116

Anon, can you read?

This is going to be my last (you) to you unless you can answer that question.

This is an outright shitpost at this point and we've already shat this thread up enough.

You can get entirely different endings, there oftentimes are multiple good endings and bad endings in CYOA horror books, usually because there's a "core" branching that often occurs near the beginning of the book that determines where and how your adventure goes.

>>13667131

>we've already shat this thread up enough.

But anon shit threads are never shat up enough.

You must really enjoy telltale games don't you? All those choices you get to make, the character developments. The incredible storyline, all leading to the same point.

>>13667131

Then again if you wanted to play a real non linear game you would play undertale. streaming it right now. you should watch and learn faggot.

>>13667190

I can see VR adding to the tension, but anything else from the modern day times isn't very scary at all outside of panic forced on you because NO U CANT USE WEPON BECUZ HORROR

behind you faggor

behind you faggot

>>13667116

That is, in fact, literally the DEFINITION of a line. A line, however, is also, BY DEFINITION, not a two dimensional object. If multiple lines can be drawn with the same starting and ending points, for the purposes of a narrative OR video game it is still definitionally linear.

>>13666981

>why bother destroying the demons that control us all

Kill yourself, yid. This isn’t about personal recognition.

>>13667404

>don't blow up mosques.

Ok abdul

>>13667399

multiple lines. 2 points. You must be one of those tumblr faggots who think there are more than two genders.

>>13667433

>complete and utter fucking strawman

Hi, yid. We’re still blowing up synagogues. Nothing you say will stop us.

>>13667437

Nigger you fucking what. Learn how to read.

>>13666519

try Yomawari or the sequel Yomawaru : Midnight shadows

they are kinda comfy/spooky

behind you gayboi

>>13667453

A line is the shortest route between two points faggot.

No curves or anything. In other words, there are no other options. There is only one direct route between two points..

>>13667488

1

>>13666519

Real life

>>13667488

One, although 2 is still worth a playthrough just to finish the story.

Dead Space 3 never happened

>>13667516

>>13667518

Cool, gonna go with one then

>>13667488

A lot of people say 1 is the better horror game but it's debatable. As far as game overall DS2 is by far superior, but for horror specifically… eh. DS2 was certainly more action-packed but I felt it was also less lazy with things like constantly spawning enemies behind the player.

I think Mandalore covered DS1's problem pretty well and that's that while it has fantastic creepy quiet sections the combat is just a shitshow and it feels like two different games.

DS2 may not have as much of the creepy quiet sections but at least the quieter parts it does have feel like the same game as the combat parts, and the combat's much better.

>>13666519

Eternal Darkness only has one jump scare, and it's optional if you see it or not. Game's more psychological horror than survival horror though, emphasis on seeing and hearing odd things as the cast's sanity drops, the emphasis more on the feeling of unsettling dread than survival.

>>13666552

>Waking up on your 30th birthday with no marketable skills, no friends, no family, no partner, no job, your disability payments cancelled for bullshit reasons, no savings, and rent is due

>Waking up on your 30th birthday

See if you can cast a low level fire ball, assuming you haven't let a succubus absorb your mana. Being a fucking wizard should prove lucrative.

>>13666519

I've played through Corpse Party 3DS as of recent, it doesn't really have any jumpscares I can think of. The only time I jumped a bit was when I was playing as Yuka running away from Morishige in Chapter 3 and I ran into him at the stairs.

Not a big fan of horror games myself, but Resident Evil 4 to whatever came before 7 are not scary at all.

>>13666519

Alan Wake is themed like a piece of horror, but it's not particularly scary. It mostly focuses on atmosphere. I pretty much never play horror games, but I still liked it.

>>13666857

Animal Crossing

>>13666857

Cookie Clicker

>>13666552

Get a fucking Job! I post a lot here on /v/ and play vidya but I still have a job.

This will seem odd, but Conkers Bad Fur Day had an excellent horror chapter, IMO.

>>13666519

Just wear diapers you big baby.

>>13667488

I want this to be a game.

>>13670003

Do you know what a jumpscare is?

>>13670021

>A jump scare is a technique often used in horror films and video games, intended to scare the audience by surprising them with an abrupt change in image or event, usually co-occurring with a loud, frightening sound.

But I'm sure your superior definition will convince me otherwise.

>>13670051

A loud sound does not a jumpscare make.

>>13669927

>>13670003

nope, I can attest to other anon, Amnesia reinvented the survival horror genre (along with their previous game)

the horror revolves much around ambience rather than "in your face" jumpscares

there were a lot of scripted events though, and the occasional "run for your life", which made the game even better

Prey (2006) had good ambiance although not really horror; tbh it's a better Doom3 in that regard

>>13667488

2 feels much better in both gameplay and in spooks. Play one first so you can appreciate the improvements in 2.

>>13670080

>there were a lot of scripted events though, and the occasional "run for your life", which made the game even better

I honestly hated those because they were extremely obvious.

>>13666636

>tfw the butcher didn't spawn on my first playthrough

Fuck, was hyped to fight him.

>>13666519

Darkwood, there is even a torrent and devs would rather you pirate rather than get ripped off.

>>13666519

There is not a single horror movie or game that is genuinely scary, that does not use jump scares.

>>13672081

Anon you're talking to a nihilist. None of that bothers me at all. I'm perfectly content with eating great food, playing great vidya, and then ceasing to exist whenever that time may be.

I think the best jump scares come out of nowhere, and confer a deadly threat. Cat scares are a waste of time, and building up to a jump/cat scare is even worse. If you're a horror fan, you can probably call most jump scares right before they happen because it's obvious, and when it's obvious, it's not scary. But when it's not scary at the moment, and there is no anticipation of danger, that would be the prime time for a good jump scare, and then following through with whatever caused said jump scare being a significant threat to either the character in the movie, or the character in the game. Obviously these must be used sparingly, and with no build-up, because if a player or viewer can anticipate your jump scare, you fucked up,

>>13666519

The only jumpscares in bloodborne are enemies that you can easily fight back. Try that one, it's really empowering to be a hunter.

>>13670080

Yes, it made it into a low-quality genre were you as a developer didn't even had to think out levels and shit, just throw in whatever dumb shallow things to try and scare the player, there's no obstacles too hard to overcome in these games.

And that's the major problem. Compare it to Silent Hill which not only has enemies but tedious fucking puzzle which forces you to run around in this living nightmare hoping you won't get killed while solving the puzzles.

It's amazing how games actually went backwards as the years went on.

>>13666552

You're a failure, end yourself.

Can you read Japanese?

>>13672304

>implying there aren't annoyingly crypytic puzzles in Amnesia which involve and force you to go through horrible areas and even backtrack a little

It doesn't compare to Silent Hill though, I'll admit that.

But goddamn if Silent Hill's puzzles weren't an actual headache. The tediousness was actually enough to piss me off

Just play Dead Space.

>>13672590

>Just silence, and your PC being strangled by a deadly wounded NPC

I'd love to see more horror games take risks like that. Instead, we'd probably get a loud scare cue, a brightly flashing QTE prompt, and some pulsating red post-processing ringing the screen.

>>13670611

>AMLbase

>anarcho-anything

i bet you don't even sell cocaine and child sex slaves fgt

>>13672947

WHAT IF I USE RED TEXT?

>>13672304

>Yes, it made it into a low-quality genre were you as a developer didn't even had to think out levels and shit, just throw in whatever dumb shallow things to try and scare the player, there's no obstacles too hard to overcome in these games.

>Amnesia and penumbra and even SOMA didn't have great level design

nigga, shut the fuck up, obviously you been watching too much pewdiepie

go back to school kid, just because people made a ridiculous number of dumb jump scare custom stories, and because youtubers used them as dumb view bait, it doesn't the actual game was like that

>>13673058

Hitler was an artist. Trump is an artist. Trump is Hitler.

>>13672947

>MAKE YOUR OWN THREAD YOU ASSHOLE

he did and it's filled with retards

only a couple of anons actually know what they're talking about, but they're drowned out by a flood of Top 10 Jumpsacres by WatchMojo!

OP, if you don't want any AAA scares, how about you try a shitty indie horror game? There you just have to deal with a different kind of bullshit. Usually the retro pixel art kind.

Why not pick up something like Distraint, or Lone Survivor. The Count Lucanor. Bulb Boy. They Breathe. Knock-Knock.

Actually, definitely play Knock-Knock.

>>13667508

>lol i can’t comprehend how two lines could have the same starting and ending points yet go through different middles

Get the fuck out. We’re talking about an analogy that is clearly beyond your comprehension. The game is linear.

Subnautica's pretty good for it as there's no jump scares but being in open ocean where your sight is limited triggers a lot of phobias.

>>13680527

Holy shit were would you even put your dick?

>>13680527

I'm gonna frow up

>>13666876

>and then you kill the psycho and it wasn't actually scary at all, you were just startled a little bit

You can't do that in Outlast.

>>13680696

just pick whichever fold of fat you like the most

>>13680854

outlast is shit though

>>13680920

Because you can't shoot them?

>>13680932

it's a walking sim tbh you're not there to play a game the game is there to play at you

>>13666519

Oxenfree, maybe its my fear of radios but that game had me freaking out at every turn. Just the fair warning for the only jumpscares in the game: Its within the last 20 minutes

>>13666636

>666

Agreed. Play a game where the horror is in the setting, not in the jumpscare.

>>13680979

actually we talked about this in the saturday horror threads but horror is elements, the atmosphere, the pacing, the style that kinda thing

>>13666519

I like it when it's constantly deranged and scary (resident evil 4) or it has predictable down time and upsets (dead space). But with those two games, I like it when I can kill a lot of enemies, but more comedic games with horror elements like house of the dead/typing of the dead or dead rising, fits the bill.

>>13681008

stop posting that guy. I think he's trying to stalk me tbh

>>13675246

>>13673745

Sorry, I tried. It's too much to expect that people in horror threads actually play and enjoy horror games though, so I'm not really surprised.

>>13681025

so, this is from that new Silent Hill : SanFran ?

>>13681093

>Protagonist is a tumblrtard

>Sees the fat nurse and starts clapping at the progressiveness of the other world

>>13681083

I think you're the only person actually posting it as well tbh

>>13681025

That's very clearly an insane cancer.

>>13681185

REFRAME

>>13681213

Man what do you have against Frankie anon? He's just a harmless autistic weatherman.

>>13681278

he was in a discord with me and I told him some things which I believe lead him on so now every now and again I get fucking invites from him out of the blue

>>13681366

isn't my fault someone gets the wrong idea tbh

>>13681417

it's more a case of not realizing until it's too late