/v/ - Video Games

I never played it, is it gud?

>>15709689

I dunno, but it's free and it scares me. It's really minimalist, like insanely minimalist.

>>15709689

do you find a t pose boogeyman that stands still scary

>>15709723

See that's the thing, the slenderman itself doesn't even scare me, but the game makes me terrified. I think that even if there was no monster at all I'd shit my pants playing it.

>>15709679

Don't worry OP. I keep getting startled by Dead Space 2 and that's not a very scary game at all. I swear to fucking God that every time I trigger that Hospital sprinkler blast it fucking startles me. It's honestly bullshit.

>>15709776

sadly not, I didn't care much for horror or really anything besides action until I was 20

Fuck me, I just played a game of it and by the time he got me around a minute after I found the 5th page my heart was racing. What the fuck.

>>15709797

>"OMG!!! I want Slendy 2 FUCK me with his big tenticles!!! uwu"

so where's the porn

>>15709828

Jacking to futa x-tan made me a faggot.

You're scared of the cheapshit loud sounds, not the actual game. Mute the audio and suddenly this piece of shit isn't scary at all.

>>15709902

nothing makes you a faggot it was in you to begin with

>>15709679

That's the thing with horror. If you're going by nothing but the scare factor, cheap tactics always work best, but it comes with resentment. This is why everybody hates screamers and loud jump scares. Quality horror balances its time between scares, a foreboding atmosphere, and an environment that you actually enjoy exploring. The downtime is just as important as the scare.

Slender has no downtime and isn't designed to be enjoyable. It's a race to the finish with constant escalation. It's designed to trigger adrenaline and to keep yourself from any sort of downtime. It's a screamer in game form.

hide this fucking thread anons

>>15709776

Yeah, I remember when Slenderman was cool. Poor guy, he's been through a lot these past few years.

>>15711059

>censor everything you don't like

I never understood the "filter threads/posts/users mentality on imageboards. The good and the bad should be seen, so as not to be ignorant.

>>15709679

You want to be scared so you hyped yourself up for it.

>>15709679

You are a female or a sissy boi aren't you?

Post your boi pucci.

Because it's designed to set off your fight or flight instinct. You could replace Slender boy, with some cute little rabbit boy who'd ask you for a hug, but keep the encounters vaguely the same and it would still illicit the same response.

Jumpscares and the unknown due to Slenderman having no consistent rules about him.

>>15709679

Honestly Slender Man will never be scary to me again due to how over saturated he quickly became, the only thing that makes this game effective imo is it's soundtrack, the dynamic buildup actually gets you a little more lifted than usual especially by page 7.

The guy who made the soundtrack should do some more honestly, it'd be more effective than using it on a urban myth.

>>15711170

underrated post

>>15709797

>"OMG!!! I want Slendy 2 FUCK me with his big tenticles!!! uwu"

What's wrong with that?

>>15709776

Can't say I remember him being obscure for too long. I wonder if its worse now that all the youtubers are multiplying and looking for more games to ruin with their shit viewers.

>>15712013

>absolute mad man

ok so we know you arent a sissy boy faggot because there is way too much hair

>>15711170

depends

i agree for the most part in that i rarely ever use filters, but id also say that self-moderation is infinitely superior to heavy handed external moderation. there will never be a consensus on imageboards and as such, there will never be moderation that will please everyone. this leads to meta drama/autism that has the power to tear apart even the tightest of communities

>>15709776

The late 2000s to early 2010s was the golden age of creepypastas I want to go back

>>15712121

Right, but hiding shit isn't a form of self-moderation. Telling people to lurk more, fuck off, etc. is what self moderation looks like. Hiding shit just does nothing about the problem.

>>15712013

Not OP btw, my ass and ballsack is way hairier than that

>>15709828

I miss /x/ dearly.

>>15715027

A fucking shame is what it is. I wouldn't even try to write a spooky story in current /x/, they would just ask if it was real or if I was lying to them.

>>15715041

Yeah I don't know what the hell happened. It's as if sometime between 2009 and now a whole group of people who have no interest in spooky shit who just want to take about magic crystals and summoning ghosts took over and all the creative people left. The board is one of the most predictable and uncreative on the site. You can open the catalog at any time, anyday and find the same shit.

>something something Satan!111

>Succubus general thread for tripfags

>Is magic real guys!?!

>Dream interpretation general thread part 10,000

>Some occult general thread that's another tripfag circlejerk about boring nonsense

I would honestly rather go to /b/ because atleast I would find some entertainment there

>>15715139

I'm not sure it explains everything, but before gamergate I was purely a 7chan fag. At some point, they decided to make /x/ not only paranormal but paranormal and conspiracies. Did it spread to cuckchan and popularized the idea that /x/ was for paranoid faggots ? In any case, it was a huge fucking mistake.

>>15715027

I haven't been there in years. Did they at least cool it with all the fucking tulpa shit? Everything was all about tulpas for a while there with everybody either saying that they had one or that having one would drive you insane. I left because of that shit.

>>15715164

It's always been /x/ paranormal. The topic never changed the people did

>>15715181

> Did they at least cool it with all the fucking tulpa shit?

You will see the occasional tulpa thread but it's not popular at all. People usually mock the OP and the thread dies

>>15714983

We all do.

>>15718312

Is it the scp site? I only found out about it recently, some enjoyable reads there

>>15718316

it was just some offbeat imageboard. I couldn't tell you what the name is, it's been too long.

>>15711852

I either get scared or I burst into a flaming rage of passively unquenchable destructive fury at what atrocities I can envision spiders or ghouls (zombies is actually the wrong term) have committed.

>>15715027

/x/ was killed by /b/ rapefugees.

>>15718316

The SCP Foundation is an SJW-infested shithole, like a spooky stories version of tvtropes.

Gimmie twenny dollas, gimmie twenny dollas.

>>15709891

there's a few pics on e621, one is Slenderman X Pwediepie too

Are you one of those fucks with high anxiety? It's probably because of that.

>>15733275

Always remember that it didn't used to be that way. It started on /x/ and was really cool for a while before the ORIGINAL CHARACTER DO NOT STEAL crowd decided to shit everything up.

>>15733771

I remember seeing the OG 173 creepypasta, finding that shit to have great potential, several entries slowly popping up, then someone make a site. The first 100 hadn't even been filled yet so I made a pretty low-key one.

A similar phenomenon at the time was the Holder of the End but it was much edgier and over the top to the point of meaninglessness. I also made one but, appropriately enough, it was shit.

>>15718337

It's always depressing to see legacy boards die out or fade away.

>>15718527

Buddy you got scared because someone dropped a book on the piano, don't need to pretend it's more than that.

>>15709776

Remember Marble Hornets?

>>15709776

>Marble Hornets popularizes Slender Man

>Uses subtle camera distortions and slender man watching in the distant background to establish a creepy atmosphere

>But slowly fucks it up, turning Slender Man into loud, obnoxious jump scares

>>15734444

They were good about atmosphere but no so good about actual horror.

>>15709689

It's an average freeware horror game albeit its very short. You can beat the game in 10 minutes although the top speedrun sits at 3.5 minutes.

>>15709776

Yep, back when creepypastas were fun and not ruined by normalfags and SJWs otherkin.

>>15734456

Slender Man works best as a ticking clock that slowly gets closer over the course of the series.

>>15709679

So, the reason Slenderman is scary is because he's some guy standing in the woods who shouldn't be there. You don't know what his motives are or what he's going to do to you, and the game even fades out to static before you can see what happens. It's the mystery that a lot of horror doesn't really have. Sure, it could be made that way because it's super cheep, but that doesn't mean it's not effective.

Let's consider the Blair Witch Project. That was a movie made by dumping actors in the woods and fucking with them in various ways. The most effective scare (though one that didn't get on camera) was a guy in a bright onesie standing off in the distance just staring at them. While people are paranoid, seeing that they are not alone is a terrifying thing. It validates the creeping dread that builds up within them. You're not just scared becuase you're psyched out. you're scared because something is there with you.

>>15735003

Psst hey

I know redefinition is quite literally the name of the game in the future but

A hipster is someone who attaches themselves to something after it becomes popular, in hopes of using it to boost their social status

You're using the word wrong

>>15735003

That's not what that word means you mongoloid.

>>15709679

I had the exact same feeling with Subnautica, although I've always been a huge wuss when it comes to horror movies and animation. I have a very specific trigger, in that any time I get the vibe of "I should not be here" or "the environment itself is hostile" I start getting short of breath (if you've seen Pacific Rim 1, the scene at the end where the mech briefly teleports into the underwater alien world is a similar idea). Subnautica, having

>primarily underwater gameplay

>lots of dark, creepy oceans

>no lights except flashlights (in the patch I torrented)

>aggressive sea creatures both large and small, including some that burrowed in the sand and other that would one-shot you in cramped caves

>giant, roaring sea monsters anywhere outside of the shallows

was a perfect storm, and one of the few games that has made me genuinely apprehensive to play it. Combine all of the above with the hell of a bad inventory management system, and it became a chore rather than a tiring pleasure.

>>15709679

It's all about the use of sound.

>>15735003

Normally I'd agree, but when it comes to things like urban myths or creepypastas, that shit thrives on obscurity. You want there to be some scarcity to any information that can be found on it as that nails the ominous tone that was intended by the work. People who look at this sort of shit and say "hey this is great, let's make loads of fan material that shoves it in your face" miss the point about what made it cool in the first place.

>>15709689

literally walking simulator

>Why does this stupid fucking game still scare me?

Cause your a pussy, theres absolutely nothing scary about that game.

>>15748174

It's not. Gone Home is a walking simulator. Slender has a lose condition, and a win condition other than getting from Point A to Point B. It technically counts as a game, even if it's a really shit game that's mostly walking.

>>15748245

It's not. Slender is a walking simulator. Gone Home has a lose condition, and a win condition other than getting from Point A to Point B. It technically counts as a game, even if it's a really shit game that's mostly walking.

Someone please recommend something fucking scary to me. I've already played all the usually recommended greats.

>>15748257

I know the "joke" is that you copied and pasted his post but you should actually read it first. Now you just look like a retard because Gone Home doesn't have a lose condition.

>>15709679

One of these days you should play the Thief series and make it to the Shalebridge Cradle level in Thief 3. "Oh, how bad could it be?" Don't worry, you'll find out.

>>15748257

>Gone Home has a lose condition

Then what is it? A lose state is something that prevents you from continuing. That's what makes a game different from a puzzle, which can't be lost, only left unsolved.

>>15748319

Scary levels in non-horror games are almost always scarier than actual horror games.

>>15748245

>>15748311

>>15748328

Gone Home's lose condition is that you paid money for it.

Stop taking jokes seriously you fucking idiots.