What happened to the Horror genre???

[Cloudman]

Intrinsic said:

Cloudman said:
Devs seemed to have forgotten how to make good horror games, or they're doing western style horror, which is different from the good horror games of the past; more thriller based, an emphasis on bloody and gory deaths, and jump scares. There's also having weapons to fight back the threat sometimes as well.

Different from those older games, and not my type of horror.

Horror games still do exist though, especially from the indie community, and some of them are pretty good, haha.

its beginning to sound like horror games just got westernized. Now that i think of it, even japanaese horror movies moatly convey more dread than what we get in the west.

Maybe them japs are just very twisted people when it comes to horror. I mean the last time i watched a horror movie that left an impression on me and had me feeling weird for days was after watching the ring  

I think it's just how Japanese, or even the rest of the world, do horror. They're more about being subtle and making the viewer just feel uneasy. I think they're just slower paced as well, kind of like solving a mystery, and focus more on the supernatural rather than a real person. A person or thing can be stopped eventually. Things like spirits cannot and sometimes is something that can happen to other people, so that leaves some dread to the viewer. That's how I see it at least.