>How do we fix horror games?
How do we fix horror games?
Evan Carter
Andrew Hill
less scares more dread
also for some reason chases make me scared
Zachary Cruz
Make a game about debt.
Xavier Price
by actually playing indie horror games that aren't FNAF Clones or
ya know you could actually support horror games from japan again
Jose Diaz
Make the game less overtly scary and more subtly disturbing.
Give me a gun.
Dominic Martin
mfw when cereal have no milk
Connor Flores
You don't. Horror games are shit.
Oliver Fisher
less emphasis on imagery
more emphasis on concept
seeing a man-eating maniac eat a man can be horrifying
realizing a man is eating others through storytelling can be much more horrifying
Jonathan Perry
tasteless faggot
Parker Miller
Make a game that focuses more on having an unsettling atmosphere than focusing on jump scares or creepy old people. I don't care that I'm constantly hiding from some monster or psycho if thr environment isn't making me incredibly uncomfortable. Atmosphere makes the genre. Always has.
Jacob Kelly
Oliver Phillips
Horror games are best when they make you feel weird or unsure. Fear of the unknown is humanities greatest fear.
Michael Allen
Like Scorn? Too bad that game's practically MIA.
Asher Bailey
He looks like a shocked Grue
Speaking of which, bring back grues and other grue-likes.
Camden Carter
>actually talented artist wasted his time drawing a soijak
i hate it here
Hudson Gray
Sound design is very fucking important. The first couple of Silent Hill games did this pretty well IIRC. (I say the first two because I don't know much about the rest of the series.)
Just creepy ass ambient sounds in the background that don't sound very discernible or even just odd metallic noises can really help the atmosphere depending on what you're trying to do.
You can have the most visually horrifying game in the world, but it'll fall flat if it's sound is shit.
Benjamin Davis
Take a note from pic related
Jordan Price
It’s ok, I paid him
Gavin Fisher
John Harris
>Not posting Chad Sunderland
First and last mistake, pal.
Ryder Butler
I just don't get why "horror" games try to focus so much on "something attacking you" levels of scary when video games as a medium are the absolute farthest removed from the actual ramifications of failing that task, narratively, and you know this intrinsically to the point where you fear the tedium of retreading more than actually fear the death of "you" or your character.
Like if you want to actually be an action game, be that. Don't pretend you're horror because you're graphic.
Carter Hernandez
Any horror games where you violently stab soijak posters to death are great
Andrew Butler
make them less scary!!!
I prefer the slow burn psychological thriller with a deep story!!!
Matthew Rivera
Getting chased and eaten by animals was the first fear ever experience by man; it's literally hardwired into your brain but you don't realize it until you're actually chased by someone/something.
Christopher Cook
Fuck you, that actually was unnerving. I'm stealing it.
Ethan Gutierrez
do this, don't do
Brayden Ortiz
Psychological horror. Don't need jump scares but give the player something to constantly fear. Constant unease like they're being watched or followed. You can even make the player a soldier with an extensive weapons loadout.
Elijah Gutierrez
Ah fuck
Andrew Torres
Ooh I don't like that
Jacob Gutierrez
LOTS OF LOUD, SUDDEN NOISES!
Asher Clark
Scared
Lincoln Rogers
Speaking of shitty horror, any non-indie ones with a fair few jumpscares? I don't really get "scared" by the atmosphere of spooky stuff but I do flinch and stiffen up a bit when there's a cheap jumpscare.
Looking for some of that, but not too excessive.
Also chase scenes. Love chase sections.
Caleb Rodriguez
that would be an anxiety simulatior, not a horror game
Logan Perez
A STORY ABOUT HOW I AM SAD OR SOME SHIT IDK, JUST DON'T JUMPSCARE ME, IT'S CHEAP!!!!
Caleb Scott
what is wrong with horror games to begin with?