How do we save the horror genre?
How do we save the horror genre?
Charles Gutierrez
Jose Barnes
don't; the true horror metagame is the fact that it's reduced to ebegging and useless devs like the ones "working" on Scorn that take five years to reduce whatever concept they had to an on-rails walking sim with mood lighting.
Camden Price
>on-rails walking sim with mood lighting
There are other types of horror game?
Oh wait yeah zombies
Jaxon Harris
Ignoring modern game design conventions.
IE- don’t make a third person shooter or hide and seek/walking sim
Elijah Perry
it's the kind of horror you can't save and exit
Jeremiah Reyes
Survival horror used to be incredibly varied and different back in the 90s. It wasn’t always just tank controls
Samuel Hall
I’ll never understand why fatal frame didn’t get huge in the west since it came out around the time when J horror was big and it even implemented first person gameplay into its combat.
It’s pretty innovative and still holds up
Ryan Russell
I don’t know why we don’t see enough horror-RPGs. The genres blend really well together and
There aren’t too many bad examples in the sub genre and there is so much room to experiment
Charles Sanders
Something innovative will come out and break the current model of horror games. This happened before with Resident Evil and Amnesia/Slenderman. It's a cycle and we're in the boring phase of it.
James Watson
Poor distribution. If you weren't part of online circles or very lucky, chances are it never showed up in your local store.
Jordan Nguyen
>ditch autosave
>low supplies
>more dangerous shit aside of a zombie, etc(like losing health by radiation, crazyness or shit like that)
>no fucking screamers and 1hit kill, that shit makes me angry and it's just annoying to reload the entire level because a missstep(resident fucking evil 7)
>oppresive atmosphere
>dark ambient music and weird experimental >tracks in some scenes
>a "nemesis" type of enemy is fucking old and annoying, it just rush adrenaline more than scaring you
and no guns for fucks sake, no one IRL found a gun laying around, it's not america everywhere
Benjamin Jones
on this day a Brazilian was born
Nathan Thompson
WoH is a poor example, that game stops being creepy and starts being comical half an hour in.
Benjamin Clark
Guns are fine.
Just don’t resort to just making a shooter.
Christopher Hernandez
I'd say Condemned is a good example.
Guns are flat out overpowered and kill everything on one shot.
But you're not going to find many.
Until the final level lol.
Jose Williams
>it's not america everywhere
Not yet anyway
Zachary Peterson
I don't understand horror snobs. If something is scary, it's scary.
Jaxon Sanchez
Good horror has lasting power, even after you turn off the game. Second playthrough is still as unnerving as the first even if you know what's going to happen. For me it usually ties to sound design, the two scariest rooms in Silent Hill series have no enemies or traps, it's just spooky sounds and music.
Anthony Perry
I think this is just a standard cope for betas who can't handle horror, so instead think that a cool soundtrack and windmills are true horror.
Ayden Russell
Hey it's those things from Dark Souls 3
Josiah Mitchell
What animal is this?
Looks cute.
Lucas Bell
It's the athmosphere and the waiting for something. I've played a wide variety of horror games, from walking simulators, to jumpscare factories, gore-fests and classic tank-control ones. The ones that are still scary after the first playthrough are usually the ones with heavy athmosphere, good story and good sound design.
For example Dead Space 1 one was scary because of it's environment, the fear of unknown and the plot. I got used to the necromorphs and gore very quickly because there was so much of it. Many good horror games have very little combat, because otherwise you would get used to it. Jumpscares are scary only when you're waiting for it, if it comes out of nowhere you just jump and then everything is okay again.
Everyone has their own tastes, this is mine. But you shouldn't brush aside opinions from genre fans, they usually have a good insight into the genre and it's developement.
Jonathan Gonzalez
I like the genre too, but Silent Hill? not scary, just comfy.
James Martin
Its a fleshlight
Ian Thomas
Not every game is for everyone. Luckily the horror genre is very varied in this day, it used to be more limited by traditions.
Joshua Hernandez
ARE THOSE...WIND TURBINES!?!?!?
AAAAAAAAAAAA IM GOING INSANE
Jace Sullivan
By making the same thread every day
Lincoln Gonzalez
How come I got banned for making this same thread 4 days ago for off-topic?
Joseph Reed
Cringe
Isaac Jenkins
>Guys do i fit in yet xDDDD
Evan Bailey
bring back fixed camera angles.