I look at 2015 and in terms of survival horror I'm not impressed. Dying Light=Mirrors Edge with zombies. Resident Evil: Revelations 2, well it's resident evil. Atari are going to try and revive Alone In The Dark. SOMA is the only game in this genre that intrests me as far as 2015 goes. What annoys me is that since Outlast everyone has jumped on the FPS horror train, which is something Red Barrels nailed and it won't be repeated (with the exception of Alien Isolation). Rewind about 20 or so years and Resident Evil drops, then Silent Hill, Alone In The Dark The New Nightmare and so on.
All the games had something in common, Atmosphere. Nealry every horror game that has come out recently has lacked atmosphere. I may sound like i'm bumming off Outlast but that is the only game in a long time to make me sweat bullets. Things that make a good horror game is the player needs to feel helpless, take Silent Hill for example, Harry and James couldn't shoot anything nearly (unless it was right infront of them which most of the time that was when you'd kill anything).
But it was that feeling of helplessness that gave us the atmosphere that made us soil ourselves. I feel in recent survival horror games we're giving far too much help from the get go, The Evil Within is a prime example of that. I feel this genre is on its death bed. And the prospect of Silent Hills being as scary as it is seems like this genres last stand. Apart from that I can't see anything else saving it.
So until then I'll just have to keep getting out the Ps1 and Ps2 because IMO that is still where survival horror is at. Please remember this is my opinion and i'm entitled to it just like everyone else is, so no hate please. Thanks for reading.
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