| BLOODLINEZ said: Fatal Frame series Silent Hill 2 Condemned because its great use of settings. I loved the store with moving men in Santa masks. Games like a good horror film need to be played in the right setting. I play these games alone at night with my surround sound and lights off. It is the only way I will play these kind of games. I know a couple people who say some of these games are not scary because they do not play like I do. I always tell them that there is no purpose of playing the game if you do not play it the right way. |
Ok, could you elaborate? How do you play those games, and why does that make them scarier?
EDIT: O wait, should've read better... sorry about that.
On passive/active horror... so far I still find movies a lot scarier than games, because of the lack of control. If the movie character moves terribly slowly towards a bathtub or anything, there's nothing you can do about it, while in games, you can always solve everything by playing well enough. And besides that, games always seem to allow 'breathing room' - as if they don't want to scare you too badly and just wanna freak you out from time to time. Movies often lack this 'breathing room', which makes them tantalisingly tense. Haven't played too many horror games though, even though I'd want to, so that might just be me.
For all these reasons, I think games should have more bad endings - I'd love to see the main character being killed in the end (ok that sounded really wrong).
I drink your milkshake.
