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| 23 FEB 2011 at 9:57pm |
MaumPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | That guy was hilarious. I don't think I could play that game though- it looks seriously freaky.
The older I get the less tolerance I have for scary games/movies.
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Dishonored, The Witcher, Fallout 3, Deponia
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| 23 FEB 2011 at 10:18pm |
| Deleted User | What a riot, talk about a new approach to playing adventure games.
Great advertising, I think I want this game.
Gee, I wonder if the "lets play guy" watched it.
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| 23 FEB 2011 at 11:56pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By maum (23 FEB 2011 9:57pm)
That guy was hilarious. I don't think I could play that game though- it looks seriously freaky.
The older I get the less tolerance I have for scary games/movies.
I've noticed the same thing. When I was 10-11 (that was when I started to watch horror movies) I would simply laugh at them, and while I'm still not easily scared, more horror movies are able to make me feel slightly uneasy these days.
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| 24 FEB 2011 at 9:03am |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Heh, same, my tolerance for creepy is seriously dropping.
That LP is hilarious! I watched my brother play Amnesia and his reactions were similar (though less theatrical).
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| 24 FEB 2011 at 11:01am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I seem to be the other way around, both with films and with games. Perhaps it's because I look at them with a more objective eye these days, as in from the POV of the ppl who made them.
So this game doesn't seem to be really scary to me at all on this vid, but maybe it's because the proper atmosphere of the game isn't really coming over with that guy's clowning around in the foreground.
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"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 24 FEB 2011 at 1:24pm |
HelenGuild Master
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Status : Offline | For me the scariest games were for the PS2. All of the "Fatal Frame" games had more than a few areas that actually made me jump a little.
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| 24 FEB 2011 at 2:31pm |
karlaAdministrator
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Location: US, Close to the Edge
Status : Offline | Whoa! For anyone who might be interested, Big Fish has just added Scratches Director's Cut.
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| 24 FEB 2011 at 2:32pm |
MaumPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Looking back at The Lost Crown, the Spoiler Alertcat room freaked the s**t out of me. And Spoiler Alertthe little girl in the museum bathroom.
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Dishonored, The Witcher, Fallout 3, Deponia
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| 24 FEB 2011 at 3:36pm |
MarkGuild Master
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I'm going back to my earliest Adventure gaming for my scares.
Mentioning only a few Point 'n' Clickers from node-based games -- some may take more "Action" than others, but I want to avoid those.
Some may be a bit Spoiler-ish, but not game-ruiningly bad:
1) Shivers That first Xzupi confrontation flipped me out. The tortured screaming in the labyrinthine red corridors ran me around in a panic.
2) Sanitarium It wasn't so much that the mild action elements were tense, it was --and right from jump-street -- the eyeballs that follow your cursor around in the Menu Screen. Immediate fear and paranoia.
Then the first level - The Sanitarium. Yeah, some skill was involved but very little. What was impossible to avoid is how horrific that institution was rendered.
Will list more soon.
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| 24 FEB 2011 at 9:36pm |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By placeholder (24 FEB 2011 11:00am)
So this game doesn't seem to be really scary to me at all on this vid, but maybe it's because the proper atmosphere of the game isn't really coming over with that guy's clowning around in the foreground.
I didn't find it scary because it gave me instant motion sickness. But I wasn't alone in the room/playing the game myself either.
Maum, that first one... just thinking about it makes me shiver.
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| 25 FEB 2011 at 8:57am |
BrianSpace Cadet
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Status : Offline | This isn't scary per se -- but Barrow Hill, and the raven in the garbage cans. Man, that made me jump right out of my skin.
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| 25 FEB 2011 at 5:34pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Donna (24 FEB 2011 9:36pm)
I didn't find it scary because it gave me instant motion sickness.
Me too. That and the fact that I was laughing at that guy's overreactions. But I wouldn't want to play it myself because of the motion sickness.
Originally Posted By breadbox (25 FEB 2011 8:57am)
This isn't scary per se -- but Barrow Hill, and the raven in the garbage cans. Man, that made me jump right out of my skin.
That game did a pretty good job of building the suspense though -- so something like a raven flying up had potential to scare you.
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| 26 FEB 2011 at 4:22am |
eaglesIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | One of them was in darkfall lost souls. moving up from the lobby to the 2nd floor.. first reaction " oh this isn't good at all." that whole second floor I was just on edge everytime I turned a corner
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| 26 FEB 2011 at 7:37am |
BrianSpace Cadet
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Jenny100 (25 FEB 2011 5:34pm)
Originally Posted By breadbox (25 FEB 2011 8:57am)
This isn't scary per se -- but Barrow Hill, and the raven in the garbage cans. Man, that made me jump right out of my skin.
That game did a pretty good job of building the suspense though -- so something like a raven flying up had potential to scare you.
Indeed. It's not every horror game that can make you nervous of a big rock.
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| 26 FEB 2011 at 8:43pm |
meteorIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Offline | In "Still Life (1)," finding all the blood and such was very discomforting for me.
I love parakeets
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| 28 FEB 2011 at 8:56am |
Efurst7Intergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | When evil Otto in Frenzy or Berzerk on the Atari 2600 comes after you.
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| 28 FEB 2011 at 12:47pm |
MarkGuild Master
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I also liked in the old Sierra Adventure game Lighthouse when you are in some sort of tower (no, not the lighthouse), open a door to the outside, and...GAH!
Then nothing happens. It's cool.
Oh, yeah. The original Frictional Games' Penumbra demo was screamingly intense before it turned into sort of an Action-y hybrid.
I think the thrills that come from Adventure games is built-in. We wander around, poking our noses in where we shouldn't, and scaring ourselves silly. So fun.
There have been solitary and creepy parts to so many Adventure games... heck, I've been scared many times in Nancy Drew games (especially of the earlier humanoid renderings)...
My Relto in Uru was depressingly threadbare and I always felt like I was going to fall off the edge. Then it turns out you're supposed to.
I'm trying to think of the best scares without action elements. Where the horror builds and builds in an atmospheric way as to become really intense. Zork: Nemesis had some really frightening scenarios... Gabriel Knight III had its moments, the Darkfall games are wonderful, the Sci-Fi games like Obsidian and even Rama had many eerie twists...
I'm still stuck in Barrow Hill in front of a vibrating rock, for cryin' out loud. Anything scares me, really.
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| 28 FEB 2011 at 5:57pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Amber: Journeys Beyond had several creepy moments, and I also experienced one in Myst in the Stoneship Age. Spoiler AlertI was in the underground passage with the compass rose and pushed the wrong button, which turned out the lights. All I could think of was the water coming in and me drowning, so I quickly quit out of the game. I have played the game several times since then, but that area always makes me nervous.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 28 FEB 2011 at 8:48pm |
loobilooPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | The scariest games for me were the Last Half of Darkness series when things kept jumping out even after I knew they would! The other truly scary thing was the part in the first Darkness Within when: Spoiler Alert you had to go into the well - I hated that! Scratches & Barrow Hill, both which I really enjoyed, just didn't have the same scare factor for me!
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| 1 MAR 2011 at 3:53pm |
semihSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | I played Amnesia:The dark decent on core 2 duo, Nvidia 7300 LE graphic card. Itwasn't scarry. It was an improved version of Penumbra. A computer game can't be scary as a movie(Suspiria,Inferno,Deep Red).
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| 2 MAR 2011 at 2:26am |
StilerJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Hmm, I love suspira but to me I can find some games even more scary then a movie because YOU are the one in control. In a scary movie you can look away or just wait a minute and the scary part is "over" but in a game like Amnesia (or silent hill for example) you can't, unless you want to die.
I mean in Amnesia when you see something, you don't know what it is but know that it can kill you and you hide in ithe deep dark shadows peeking out through a tiny slit in the door as you hear something shambling through the hallway making a strange noise, that makes it very tense and creepy.
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| 2 MAR 2011 at 4:07am |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | The difference between how people view horror in different parts of the world:
http://satwcomic.com/anything-but-that
Films rarely scare me. I feel so disconnected from the characters in most that I simply don't care enough about them. Also, most "horror" movies are far too action oriented (and in action sequences things are simply not scary).
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| 2 MAR 2011 at 6:20am |
walshSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By panter (1 MAR 2011 3:53pm)
I played Amnesia:The dark decent on core 2 duo, Nvidia 7300 LE graphic card. Itwasn't scarry. It was an improved version of Penumbra. A computer game can't be scary as a movie(Suspiria,Inferno,Deep Red).
Did you play it in the dark and with headphones. I played it in daylight and with speakers and didn't see the fuss, but darkness and close sounds makes all the difference for me, I couldnt play for longer than 30 minutes!
Movies don't scare me at all.
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| 2 MAR 2011 at 7:01am |
MarkGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By panter (1 MAR 2011 3:53pm)
I played Amnesia: The Dark Descent on Core 2 Duo, Nvidia 7300 LE graphic card.
I'm serious when I say this: I appreciate you telling us what you used to play the game. Sometimes it gets overlooked.
Originally Posted By panter (1 MAR 2011 3:53pm)
It wasn't scarry.
It didn't scar you? I think it probably scarred that other fellow in the video ("Oh, crap, oh, crap, oh crap", etc.)
Originally Posted By panter (1 MAR 2011 3:53pm)
A computer game can't be scary as a movie (Suspiria, Inferno, Deep Red).
I have to differ with you here. I've played Adventure Games that scared me much more than that old Giallo horror stuff -- and I saw the first-run screenings of at least one of those three films when they were first shown in Italian theaters in the '70's.
Suspiria was freaky -- and a good, original horror movie. But the interactivity of "computer" games is a big factor in immersion and having control (or not) over your input playing the game.
All right. They can both be scary... depending.
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