Why scary games are never scary

Bubble Buddy - 423 days 1 hour ago

They don't force you to cover your eyes or else your character would be dead. If video games were made to be scary right, it would be far more scarier than watching a movie for me because you actually have to control the character.

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Horny Melon - 423 days ago

99.9% of them are twitch games. Other than cat jumping out of the freezer moments it's hard to be scared in when you are equiped with a n arsenal. The first two resident evils were scary because you were woefully under equipped to deal with any problems.

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Myze - 423 days ago

The thing is, most of the movies mentioned here aren't scary either. Slasher movies are artificially scary just like games, in that the only time they are "scary" is the moments that make you jump, which is artificial because it's really just a surprise, not fear. Then you have movies like Friday the 13th which are just so horribly cheesy, even when they first came out, they have no way of being scary. Halloween was better, simply because the acting wasn't appalling.

About the only movies I've found scary in the last 25-30 years are The Exorcist and The Ring, and they are scary because of psychological maneuvering, not some cheap "boo" tactics or gore (or pea soup). Sadly, even these types of movies aren't scary now after the crap like The Grudge 1/2, The Ring 2, etc. came out one after the other and greatly overused the concepts. (I've seen most of the Japanese counterparts of these movies, and I found them even less scary, but sometimes better overall movies)

If we are just talking about the cheap scare tactics, no movie has ever made me jump as often as Doom 3 did, and that game wasn't even all that great (not bad though), other than the lighting.

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blooodFrenzy92 - 423 days ago

i have to agree. ive played both dead space and silent hill homecoming. i must say while both good they werent very scary. its very hard to actually make a game truley scary. i cant really think of one actually that i must say actually scared me. there was one part in the original condemned however when your in that old house though that to me was classic and pretty scary as well.

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Timesplitter14 - 423 days ago

Movies don't scare me (not for the last 8 years at least).
''Scary'' stuff never give me nightmares.
Games don't scare me.

I wish they all did. I've been watching all the horror movies I could find, got reccommendations from specialized horror forums, saw some shady underground low-budget japanese horror movies, but I haven't found any that scared me.

There are only 2 things that got close to ''scary'' for me :

- the movie [REC] : It was pretty damn nerve-cracking and the ending is absolutely creepy. But it wasn't really scary.

- Silent Hill 2 and 3 : I love the creepy atmosphere in these games, and the wtf moments like in SH2 when you see on a wall : ''There was a hole here. It's gone now.'' or in SH3 when the mannequin screams and loses its head in a completely dark room. I loved it, but I thought it was more ''awesome'' than ''creepy''.

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Zyklon-Breath - 423 days ago

I see maze games scaring kids more than a horrific video game.

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pariimn - 423 days ago

just try deep space or siren, because I think it's scary.

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SacredENA - 423 days ago

I dont know about you guys, but Bioshock scared the crap out of me!

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lowcarb - 422 days 23 hours ago

The only 3 games that ever scared me was friday the 13th, this one level in shadow man 1 on ps2, the thing for xbox was kind of eerie. L$d is my new hope because it looks to be the scariest game ever.

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vilmer - 422 days 22 hours ago

Fatal Frame, at 3am, in total darkness.

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OldParr - 422 days 21 hours ago

Silent Hill was very scary to me

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level 360 - 422 days 18 hours ago

Yes, only the very first Silent Hill on the PS1 got the very scary and creepy part quite on the money, everything else after that was all just better graphics... maybe add Fatal Frame in the mix as well.

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thereapersson - 422 days 18 hours ago

The VERY first time I ever played that game, it was in the form of the demo that came with my OPM magazine. I had NEVER played a game quite like that before, and the first time the flying monster crashed through the window, I straight jumped in my seat. That was only a "surprise!" scare, however, and the real terror began when I finally purchased the game and played through it. The school was scary, sure; the hospital was even worse. However, the REAL part that scared me in that game was the sewers. Around every turn, there were those crawlers that were on the ceiling, that would reach down out of the darkness and slap you. I hated those things, especially on hard mode, where it took like 4 shotgun blasts to kill them, and not to mention that they were fast as hell compared to other creatures in the game.

Silent Hill 2 freaked me the hell out when I got to the prison, especially when I walked into the courtyard with that galloping noise. I really just wanted to get the "F---" out of there! I'm itching to play Siren: Blood Curse because it is made by the same guy who had input on creating the first Silent Hill game.

PS: GamesRadar never fails to create stupid, attention-grabbing articles!

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BloodSpillXXT - 422 days 16 hours ago

Games aren't scary anymore? i nearly shat myself playing through both F.E.A.R and Condemned...
I'm thinking the guys that doesn't get scared, just have a wrong setup. Playing through a scary game at daytime with the lights on and crappy sound on a 21" crap TV just wont work..
play at night, in the dark, on a big screen with high volume.. I dare you

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ReeBlock - 422 days 14 hours ago

Some people are too much of a realist to immerse themselves in a horror game. They just don't have the imagination or interest to allow themselves to be frightened. Of course, the levels and types of these characteristics fluctuate between different individuals. But, some people do just try to act non-afraid when they really are.

Scary games to me:

Doom 3
Condemned 1/2
RE 1,2,3 & Code Veronica
Clock Tower (ps1)
Silent Hill (all)

...just to name a few.

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Harri4444 - 423 days 4 hours ago

dead space gives you nightmares. that game is really scary

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FBl - 423 days 1 hour ago

Looking at the low res graphics of Xbox 360 games is a scary sight

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