| crissindahouse said: When I play a game like Amnesia I'm also not scared the first minutes since I'm still like "I look on a screen" but when I start to forget this and am deeply involved in the game with my mind then it starts to be scary |
This. When I was first playing it, I would go into every Anmesia session with all the courage in the world. But after about 10 minutes of that crushing atmosphere, it's hard to maintain that rationality. Playing on a larger monitor while wearing headphones greatly increases this. The sound design in the Amnesia games (and Penumbra and SOMA) are bloody brilliant. You might not even experience anything truly scary and still you don't want to continue. That's the mark of some good scary game design.
I was never a fan of scary movies, for the most part. One or two here and there. But generally, I like to get my horror fix from really good scary games. The level of immersion has the potential to be much greater, and I find it easier to suspend disbelief.
