Horror games are a waste of time

Video games are just not scary at all. Movies do a way way way better job at being scary. Gaming gives the player controls witch takes out all the fear from the games.

Completely disagree. Horror games can be incredibly visceral in terms of instilling fear. It's that control of the character that conveys the fear.

Movie suck too, at least video games have good special effects...Fightingfan

dunno about you but i find games like dead space to be pretty scary and the fact that you're in control should make it more scary

That's why good horror games take away some element of control or advantage.

You already stated this is the Amnesia thread, must you make a new thread about this. By the way, go play Amnesia in the dark with headphones and tell me it is not scary. Putting you in control actually makes it that much more terrifying. Games >>>> Movies in terms of horror experience.millerlight89

i just watched a 20 min game play video of it and it would not be able to scare a 5 year old

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]You already stated this is the Amnesia thread, must you make a new thread about this. By the way, go play Amnesia in the dark with headphones and tell me it is not scary. Putting you in control actually makes it that much more terrifying. Games >>>> Movies in terms of horror experience.dontshackzmii

i just watched a 20 min game play video of it and it would not be able to scare a 5 year old

Games do far better job actualy scaring people than any movie or book ever did. Experience of playing through first Silent Hill or Amnesia is far scarier than any movie ever managed to be.

Amnesia, SH 1 2 & 3, RE1, Fear, and a bunch of other titles actually say different.

Gaming gives the player controls witch takes out all the fear from the games.

dontshackzmii

i just watched a 20 min game play video of it dontshackzmii

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]Movie suck too, at least video games have good special effects...dontshackzmii

No Game is scarier than Batman:Arkham Asylum.I bet the PC players who played it on scarecrow level nearly killed themselves :PRatchet_Fan8

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]You already stated this is the Amnesia thread, must you make a new thread about this. By the way, go play Amnesia in the dark with headphones and tell me it is not scary. Putting you in control actually makes it that much more terrifying. Games >>>> Movies in terms of horror experience.dontshackzmii

i just watched a 20 min game play video of it and it would not be able to scare a 5 year old

If anything that breaks your own argument. You watch movies and you play games. When your in control it makes it more effective cause its you whos in charge so its like if its you in the situation.

[QUOTE="Ratchet_Fan8"]No Game is scarier than Batman:Arkham Asylum.I bet the PC players who played it on scarecrow level nearly killed themselves :Pmillerlight89

[QUOTE="millerlight89"][QUOTE="Ratchet_Fan8"]No Game is scarier than Batman:Arkham Asylum.I bet the PC players who played it on scarecrow level nearly killed themselves :PRatchet_Fan8

You already stated this is the Amnesia thread, must you make a new thread about this. By the way, go play Amnesia in the dark with headphones and tell me it is not scary. Putting you in control actually makes it that much more terrifying. Games >>>> Movies in terms of horror experience.millerlight89

Hell, I was scared ****less in that spanish mutant level in the first Uncharted. I don't think I can handle much worse than that.NoobisMaxcimus

Agree with that. I guess I'm just a wimp, buta lot of games can scare me. Uncharted 1's level with the mutants scared the crap out of me, and I'm having a very hard time playing through Bioshock because everything scares me. I still haven't picked up Dead Space, and probably never will because of how scary people say it is.

Movies better at conveying horror? At least video games have had a legit scary title released very recently. When was the last time a mainstream 'horror' flick was actually scary instead of merely appealing to torture and gore fetishists? Early 90's, maybe?

[QUOTE="NoobisMaxcimus"]Hell, I was scared ****less in that spanish mutant level in the first Uncharted. I don't think I can handle much worse than that.Vari3ty

Agree with that. I guess I'm just a wimp, buta lot of games can scare me. Uncharted 1's level with the mutants scared the crap out of me, and I'm having a very hard time playing through Bioshock because everything scares me. I still haven't picked up Dead Space, and probably never will because of how scary people say it is.

I don't see how they're any more or less a waste of time in comparison to other games.

Movies better at conveying horror? At least video games have had a very recent scary title. When was the last time a mainstream 'horror' flick was actually scary instead of merely appealing to torture and gore fetishists?

Verge_6

Video games are just not scary at all. Movies do a way way way better job at being scary. Gaming gives the player controls witch takes out all the fear from the games.

dontshackzmii

[QUOTE="Fightingfan"]Movie suck too, at least video games have good special effects...dontshackzmii

Movies better at conveying horror? At least video games have had a legit scary title released very recently. When was the last time a mainstream 'horror' flick was actually scary instead of merely appealing to torture and gore fetishists? Early 90's, maybe?

Verge_6

That's your problem..you're looking in all the wrong places,mainstream horror film (for the most part) is dead,hollywood can only **** out remakes of classics or generic/cookiecutter splatter flicks

.. if you want good horror nowadays...indie and foreign horror is the way to go.

[QUOTE="millerlight89"]You already stated this is the Amnesia thread, must you make a new thread about this. By the way, go play Amnesia in the dark with headphones and tell me it is not scary. Putting you in control actually makes it that much more terrifying. Games >>>> Movies in terms of horror experience.dontshackzmii

i just watched a 20 min game play video of it and it would not be able to scare a 5 year old

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Movies better at conveying horror? At least video games have had a legit scary title released very recently. When was the last time a mainstream 'horror' flick was actually scary instead of merely appealing to torture and gore fetishists? Early 90's, maybe?

Kandlegoat

That's your problem..you're looking in all the wrong places,mainstream horror film (for the most part) is dead,hollywood can only **** out remakes of classics or generic/cookiecutter splatter flicks

.. if you want good horror nowadays...indie and foreign horror is the way to go.

Games do far better job actualy scaring people than any movie or book ever did. Experience of playing through first Silent Hill or Amnesia is far scarier than any movie ever managed to be.

AdrianWerner

I wouldnt go that far,I have yet to play any game or watch any movie that has the same Horrific,Chilling atmosphere as an HP lovecraft story.

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[QUOTE="Verge_6"]

Movies better at conveying horror? At least video games have had a legit scary title released very recently. When was the last time a mainstream 'horror' flick was actually scary instead of merely appealing to torture and gore fetishists? Early 90's, maybe?

Verge_6

That's your problem..you're looking in all the wrong places,mainstream horror film (for the most part) is dead,hollywood can only **** out remakes of classics or generic/cookiecutter splatter flicks

.. if you want good horror nowadays...indie and foreign horror is the way to go.

you're welcome

Games do far better job actualy scaring people than any movie or book ever did. Experience of playing through first Silent Hill or Amnesia is far scarier than any movie ever managed to be.

AdrianWerner

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Games do far better job actualy scaring people than any movie or book ever did. Experience of playing through first Silent Hill or Amnesia is far scarier than any movie ever managed to be.

AfterBurnerZ

i just watched a 20 min game play video of it and-

dontshackzmii

Why don't you actually play it.:roll: And movies hasn't been good in terms of the horror genre these days also. Most of them seem to be crappy and rely more on gorefest, instead of atmosphere and scariness.

Video games are just not scary at all. Movies do a way way way better job at being scary. Gaming gives the player controls witch takes out all the fear from the games.

dontshackzmii

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]

Games do far better job actualy scaring people than any movie or book ever did. Experience of playing through first Silent Hill or Amnesia is far scarier than any movie ever managed to be.

i thought alan wake, dead space, resident evil 4 and stalker did pretty good

[QUOTE="millerlight89"][QUOTE="AfterBurnerZ"]Edgar Allan Poe says hi. :)

clone01

Movies aren't scary at all to me. The only one that came close was The Ring and even that is just meh to me now. I find video games like Condemned, Amnesia, and Penumbra to be a lot scarier than any movie I've seen.

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]

Games do far better job actualy scaring people than any movie or book ever did. Experience of playing through first Silent Hill or Amnesia is far scarier than any movie ever managed to be.

AfterBurnerZ

Believe it or not, there were actual GAMES based off of Edgar Allen Poe books. Seriously.

AND THEY HAD PUPPETS.

I'm not kidding. Oh, dear god. Nononono.

Here: http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-top-7-scariest-games-youve-never-played/a-20091022154518850027/p-4