How do we (the Anonymous) fix the horror genre?
How do we (the Anonymous) fix the horror genre?
Elijah Clark
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James Sullivan
Good horror games don't sell as well as cheap jumpscare youtuber bait streamer bait clones of fnaf.
Connor King
The scariest thing about these threads is the notion that they keep happening without any form of action taking place. Almost like the idea of doing something is enough to deal with your problems with the genre.
Wyatt Moore
>cheap jumpscare
Stopped readin there.
Shit opinion disregarded. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Ian Garcia
By making it scary and coming up with new ideas that haven't been tried before.
Wyatt Ramirez
Jumpscares are not horror.
Grayson Roberts
By using natural selection among us, meet online and make our own game I guess, with every user working his own part (sound design, texturing, coding, etc)
Isaiah Stewart
add a consequence for dying, like dying irl
Gavin Stewart
Why do sois find dogs scary?
Kayden Roberts
it's not the dog, it's the endless black void behind him that could have all sorts of unimaginable hellish creatures, at least that's what scares me
Hunter Murphy
By making the scary monster female. And the ending twist is that she only wanted to love you
Jaxon Kelly
He likes blending dogs against dark backgrounds but what does it for me is this bird.
Matthew Peterson
cause it fucks their gf
Easton Scott
Neither are walking simulators
Logan Sanchez
Make it psychological, stop making screaming jpgs bullshit, weirdness over jumpscariness if you get what i mean.
Josiah Hall
>you die in-game, you die in real life
Brandon Lee
Understand that effective horror media (regardless of format) must employ both "Terror", the anticipation of a threat, and "Horror" the reeling reaction to an object which evokes fear.
Too many games lean on one without the other, being either
>All buildup and no payoff
or
>Scary imagery with no suspense or buildup to make it effective
So establish danger early with some small but difficult encounters, give the player some breathing room to safely explore, introduce dangerous elements gradually, employing a 60/40 mix of
>There's something in the distance but you have to approach it
scenarios and
>Something unexpectedly appears (jumpscare) scenarios
Use elements of mystery to keep the player motivated, so curiosity keeps them playing.
The final few segments should be revelatory, solving the story's mysteries, and fulfilling all the promises of looming horror by saving the most disturbing, horrifying content for the end.
For gameplay considerations, combat is a necessity. If the player always has the option to flee, the game loses its edge, it begins to feel safe because the solution to every encounter is the same. By the same coin, there must be limits on resources or options so that standing and fighting isn't optimal. By having both, the player must always weigh their options and won't know that they're doing the right thing. This uncertainty lends itself to panic, desperation and fear.
Finally, sound design is of paramount importance. Employ infrasound to subliminally make the player uncomfortable. Silence is instinctually frightening, so use it to build up to encounters, and only employ sound sparingly. Music makes people feel at ease, only use it in safe areas.
This is everything that can be set down in text to make a good horror game in theory. The only thing left is to do the actual practical work of development.
Also, employ phobias as aesthetic/design elements.
Dylan Gomez
"Horror" isn't a video game genre but a thematic element.
Elijah Murphy
Horror or games are mostly like carnival rides. Like a haunted house. You walk through and dark area with a lamp, interact with some levers and buttons and that's that.Low level braindead entertainment that fails to challenge you.
It's missing depth of all kinds.
Wyatt Morgan
Luke Walker
artist?
Alexander Smith
Play that game that one user made
Nathaniel Cook
Wow, a post that isn't completely retarded around here.
Connor Kelly
Uhhh...
The Lostboy one?
Eli Richardson
>gif
I ain't clicking that shit
Ethan Brown
With 10/10 sound design
it's the only reason why Dead Space still makes me feel uncomfortable sometimes
Ethan Hill
more pibbles
Nicholas Mitchell
>Nothing happens
What's the point? I wanted a jumpscare.
Grayson Phillips
>.gif
>Nothing actually happens
Clever.
Joshua Hill
>Music makes people feel at ease, only use it in safe areas.
Wrong, music can incite fear by itself.
Landon Nguyen
>getting scared at all
AAAAAA IM GETTING SCARED BY SOMETHING DARK AND UNKNOWN. IM GETTING SPOOKED BY SCARY SOUNDS AND FROM THE ENVIRONMENT AAAAAAAA.
Ethan Russell
Saw him talk about it here and then saw an ad
youtu.be
Asher Jones
This.
Alien: Isolation was held up entirely by it's atmosphere which was thanks to the excellent sound design.
Brandon Parker
Easton Lee
Aiden Powell
I ran it through GIF exploder and sadly it doesn't have a jumpscare, however it has several identical frames what is strange.
Welp, I'm disappointed.
Jackson Rivera
he seems like an okay guy
Brody Rodriguez
nice samefag, im not clicking it
Jaxson Scott
Cute smile
Luis Miller
Caleb Nelson
Mason Murphy
Horror games where nothing usually happens or you can't fight back are terrible. All the tension cuts when you get to a cutscene.
Xavier Morris
FUCK YOU
Brandon Roberts
I don't care, it's up to you.
Aaron Butler
MOOOOOOOOOODS
Jose Taylor
VR
Xavier Cox
We need to fix the video game industry first.
Adrian Robinson
Sir, Halloween is over already. May I see your horror game thread permit?
Asher Johnson
But nothing actually happens, I decided to take the bullet and ended up staring at it like an idiot for way too long
Kevin Davis
more jumpscares
Ryan Allen
Oliver Rivera
no jumpscares
Asher Reyes
Jumpscares have to be EARNED.
Juan James
it would be better if actual jumpscare would appear after this
Wyatt Nelson
Make a normal game but mess with the player occasionally by putting weird sounds where they don't belong, npc's that appear for 1 second when you look at them but then disappear or friendly characters getting possessed. Or something completely meta like menu items changing to something unnerving or something creeping around in a loading screen.
Austin Torres
how about more chilling, slow-burn, atmospheric, story driven games?
Kevin Bell
For such a scary genre, there sure isn't a whole lot of bone rattling.
John Scott
thanks doc
Colton Bennett
cunt
Xavier Rivera
i really do not like this image.
Dylan Johnson
Dragan Bibin
Angel Wilson
ye it's like looking in a mirror, huh?
Luis Morris
Dragan Bibin. a Serbian painter.
Kevin Rivera
Who's your horror waifu, Zig Forums?
Isaac Watson
>i really do not like this image
Who the hell does?
Noah Stewart
that tied cloth really fucking makes it eerie
Evan Young
Create something called "Intensity Horror"
There is no "Jumpscare" but there is also no "Buildup" either.
What there is, however, is a visceral, almost nonstop assault on the senses that makes you feel like you're witnessing the darkest part of the world