/v/ - Video Games

Play Fatal Frame then, bitch

Also I remember a dark souls autistic challenge/speedrunner who was the same way with horror games, nothing seemed to spook the dude, then he tried alien isolation in VR and got spooked

That's why good horror games rely on dark moody atmosphere you can appreciate instead of ooga boogas for anyone who isn't a mental child.

>>14575678

You won't be scared unless you wanna be scared and psyche yourself up for it.

No

Now fly away

Horror games arent scary anymore. what actually scares me is talking to girlsand heights

I generally dont like scary games because theres only two ways i play them.

1. Dissociated. The game is boring as fuck, to the point of hilarity because you know its fake and can sense every "scare".

2.Immersed and in fear for my life. Like pausing the game and looking behind me with a knife and flashlight close by. Fear lasts for an hour or so after i stop playing.

Problem is, if i start with 2, but get so scared i go 1, i cant go back to 2, and the game is just boring.

The only thing scare me are tight platforming and cycle-based stage hazards.

>>14576442

This is exactly what happened to me while playing RE7, it started off scary as fuck and I got bored after a while.

>>14576381

Damn she's hot.

>>14575678

Play an Ice-Pick Lodge game, anon.

>>14576628

I mean i'm pretty sure.

>>14575678

Horror is just the hook. The primary quality of horror games is the creative, surreal atmosphere.

>>14575678

Same problem with everything else, how can a horror game can immerse you in fear while still surprising you with something new while not being tiresome? always the same shit.

I have complete opposite.Never finished a single horror game in my life.Even FEAR was too scary for me.I dont get it how people not feel immersed to the point it's real.

You wouldn't want to fight them in real life.What the fuck…

>>14575825

>>14576921

That's OPs point (and I have the same problem). Ooga booga jumpscares make him jump, but purely out of reflex and don't leave any sense of actual fear, while the atmosphere which is supposed to be scary doesn't do shit. And that's sad because that's the fun part (supposedly).

In my case I don't even have nightmares, I have dreams with death and dread but it doesn't actually phase me, even in the dream. Hell, I taught myself how to get sleep paralysis with hallucinations at will and not even that spooks me.

>>14577041

I wasn't trying to imply the atmosphere was the scary part. I know a lot of horror games are touted to scare you with its atmosphere, and I would say that is true of Silent Hill 1-3 which use sounds to great effect.

However what I was talking about is that, even beyond the question of being scary or not, horror games still manage to create the best, most creative environments.

>>14577041

>>14575678

This. I've never been scared by "traditional" methods. It takes a lot to fuck me up: namely insects, forced TF, messed-up things like that. But they're more depressing than anything, really.

I should play Fatal Frame, I guess.

For me it's the opposite.

I'm a huge pussy and get easily scared, even when playing non-horror games.

One example is Aliens vs Predator. I love these games but the Marine campaign feels so dreadful, suspenseful and spooky. Everytime the motion tracker picks up a signal I start shitting my pants and sitting in a corner.

>>14578467

In Alien: Isolation it's even worse.

I struggle for an hour to progress from room to room, constantly pausing whenever I almost get a heart attack.

The music and ambience really get to me, I get immersed into the game so much. That's probably the reason why I get scared so easily, whereas people like OP don't get immersed easily hence don't get scared because they don't associate with their character.

>>14575678

The horror genre is dead

>>14578593

Looks goofy as hell

>>14578621

This has great atmosphere, the music during the 3rd day also makes you really uncomfortable. Ending was a bit lackluster, haven't played the expansion yet though.

>>14578413

As in embed.

This is certainly way up there, but it's not even the worst in my book.

I don't get scared by horror games, I get angry. No matter how ineffective a weapon I'm given, I will make absolutely damn sure to murder every last motherfucker that tries to creep me out. It's the same for me irl. A buddy of mine jumped out at me from around a corner and yelled 'boo' and wound up in the hospital with a busted nose.

I don't know if I'd prefer to be scared, since I quite like having an instinct that works so well against mountain lions and whatnot.

>>14579530

>that video

>scary

Frankly comedic, especially knowing that there's people getting off on it somewhere out there and it even has "sexy" as a tag.

>>14579573

>mountain lions

You're probably larping but I'm interested, story time

>>14578621

I'm glad Scratches finally caught on with /v/. I was touting the game for as long as I remember posting in Saturday Night Horror threads around here. The game definitely deserves a play.

>>14579643

No, it was just a pure hypothetical. I couldn't think of a better example of something that presents an actual danger to humans yet can still be dealt with via bare-knuckle violence. Punches don't dissuade bears, after all.

>>14579678

Shit my bad, I thought this was the vn thread.

>>14576431

I wanna fuck that.

The only people horror games scare are women and children.

Anyway, I like the dark atmospheric kind that don't rely much on fucking jumpscares. I wish there were more games like Silent Hill. You'd think there would be loads by now. CoD and TLoU have dozens of copycats.

>>14582774

faggot

Play the 1st and 3rd Thief-game with headphones on, at night.

>>14575682

I first played this with a friend who's mother used to childmind my brother and I as children.

14 years later, we sat down in the dark and played this in an empty apartment and suddenly the camera stopped working.

We had film, we had health, all the controls worked, but the camera wouldn't take pictures.

We paused it, went into the next room to use the computer to look up solutions, came back and there were bloody hand prints all over the screen.

We found the solution.

>Fucking scratched disk

We replaced the disk and ended up almost crying with laughter as we played though the game to the end.

Admittedly we had to look up some of the solutions to what we had to do next because fuck walking everywhere hammering the X button until something happens.

>>14576434

Heights won't kill you, only the abrupt halt at the end does.

>>14583641

Shit like hearing a hearty conversation and walking into the room to find a fire and nobody saying anything just as the window slams open.

Hearing footsteps behind you, turning to see nothing, turning back to find something running towards you.

Things that mess with your sense of direction or location, or directly mess with your perception. Psycho Mantis was a Horror game character in an Action game.

>>14583710

>Shit like hearing a hearty conversation and walking into the room to find a fire and nobody saying anything just as the window slams open.

>Hearing footsteps behind you, turning to see nothing, turning back to find something running towards you.

>Things that mess with your sense of direction or location, or directly mess with your perception. Psycho Mantis was a Horror game character in an Action game.

All of this would rapidly lose its scare factor once you get that nothing bad will happen, though. Cf. Layers of Fear.

>>14583734

Hell man, I don't know. Whatever happened the last time Kojima tried to get something going with Junji Ito as an art designer, though?

>>14577029

>Even FEAR was too scary

I know that feeling. I love the shooting segments so much, but the horror in between is just not my cup of tea. I especially can't stand games with jump scares. The worst kind of game is one where there are jump scares but they have a build up and are scattered about.

>>14583641

Would it be possible to port existential horror to a video game? Would it be possible for a video game to cause actual physical pain or loss of capability? Would it be possible for a video game to force people to have full-blown panic attacks?

Until immersive VR with actual physical feedback becomes possible, I doubt anything in a video game can "scare" me. They can make me play more cautiously, or cause me to flinch (although I use the term loosely; not even jumpscares in real life do more than make my asshole clench a little or make my eyes widen for a second) but nothing more. You'd have better luck trying to frighten a tree; I'm just far past the point where I give enough of a fuck. Even something people commonly describe as horrifying, like Ito or Lovecraft, is at best to me "very unsettling".

Survival/horror is pretty much a meme genre. What you really wanna do is play horror-themed arcade-action games like Ghosts 'n Goblins or Castlevania without continuing, really gets the old adrenaline flowing when you're on a god run and fear fucking it up.

>>14585063

edgy, but impressive if true

>>14583516

This pretty much. Once you learn of stuff like jewish child raping and sacrificing cult of moloch being real and that said cult's ultimate goal, according to the protocols of the elders of zion, is to wipe out the majority of humanity, you just can't take any fictional horror seriously. As Mark Twain said, reality is stranger than fiction and clearly scarier too.

>>14579530

>female turns into sexy bigboi

sounds like an improvement tbh

>>14583710

>Things that mess with your sense of direction or location, or directly mess with your perception. Psycho Mantis was a Horror game character in an Action game.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent?

>>14576628

Her boobs are too low.

>>14576434

>and heights

There's nothing wrong with the fear of falling, it's a valid instinctual fear as it's a legitimate danger.

>>14578593

OES NOES DA SPOOK!

>>14579652

That sounds like the what I imagine the "infernal piping" of At the Mountains of Madness to sound like…Well kind of, as it has too much of a distinct pattern to be mistaken for the wind.

This has to be the most pathetically try-hard thread I've ever seen.

>>14586837

How so?

>>14586597

Yeah i only noticed it too when i clicked on it, from a glance it looks alright

>>14586837

I think >>14583040 seems abit tryhardy, i mean fuck dude don't pretend that horror games aren't spoopy

>>14583734

They turned it into garbage, a pale imitation of a superior product

bump

zump

I wish I didn't get scared by horror games so much, I can't play them. I quit Silent Hill 2 before encountering any monsters because the camera angels are all crafted to make it feel like you're being stalked by something.

>>14593605

Grow up then.

>>14576434

>talking to girls is scary

Only when you realise what vapid childish shit they think and say. It's like gearing up for an important debate, like anyone sane you second guess yourself, is your shit good enough? You worry right up until the crunch and then your oh so grand opponent is revealed and it's a fucking retard in a pinwheel hat shitting in their pants talking endless nonsesnse.

What you should fear is your desire to have one of those drama/nightmare factories in your life.

I still have the same goosebumps when I was 12 while playing at night. Especially when you have to run through the city and the radio static becomes louder and louder.

I'm terrified by horror games to the point of abusing pause menu, turning off the audio, getting someone else to play parts.

>>14582761

You got me with that image, fucker.

Renamed gifs can go to hell.

Stop making threads

>>14607582

>Excellent concept of drawing skanks as good wives

>/pol/yp takes two thirds of the goddamn image, making it desperate and pathetic

And this is why your meme never took off.

Fuck off with your shit tier threads. Look how long this piece of shit has been up, and look how few replies it got in that time. Get the hint and fuck off.

>>14578593

What game is this, can't see filename

I play horror games all wrong, trying to die quickly to see what the score is. I can't immerse myself into them like I can with any other game.

>>14610508

Go back to your containment board, cancer.

>>14613299

oh the irony

>>14575678

>Anyone else not scared of horror games but wish they were?

No. I'm horrific and I wish I were scared of video games (because I spent my whole life playing video games and that is why I am horrific).