![]() When I was a kid I remember playing resident evil 3 with my brother back when I was 7 and since it was my very first horror game ever it actually scared me so much. Where he may indeed be a big girly man when it comes to horror games, I turn to a six foot, long-haired puddle of goo at a good tear-jerker. In defence of my cohort Mr Duncan, I should point out that I have one fatal flaw when it comes to games and films. Until then, I shall continue to play horror games in the dark, with headphones and my back to a door in the vain hope that sometime soon my hackles will rise, my flesh will creep, and I’ll squeal like PewDiePie playing Outlast. Zombie Clowns, annoying as all hell… but not scaryĪs immersion in games improves thanks to higher fidelity in graphics, sound and better plotlines, I hope I will one day meet a game that can cause the same shudders of otherworldly terror that reading H.P Lovecraft as a child or watching Tom Baker era Doctor Who did once upon a time. I'm constantly on the hunt for something to get my pulse racing and make me want to hit the power button on the PC or console and go whimper in a corner, alas I have yet to find anything.Įven the Zombie Clowns in Left For Dead 2 didn't do it! Zombie Clowns for crying out loud! Two things guaranteed to get most people running for the hills in pants-wetting hysterics and all I thought was “Eat frying pan ya red-nosed squeaky-footed balding bugger!” I really identified with Alma and thought she'd really had a rough deal.Īlma “I’m dead as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!” Wade The much vaunted F.E.A.R series were a total letdown on the scares front, but again: great story, great games. I see scarier things in Plymouth on a Wednesday afternoon.Īs for horror games, the Resident Evil series I loved for the plot and the gameplay, but were about as scary as Sunday school. Even the original Japanese Ringu trilogy didn't do much if anything. Paranormal Activity? I fell asleep while my wife and stepdaughter hid behind cushions. I'm not kidding, really. Alien? I was rooting for the Xenomorph when I first saw it at far too young an age right until I fell asleep just after Jones the cat got Harry Dean Stanton killed. Sadly, that was the last thing that really scared me! ![]() I've been an avid consumer of horror in all its forms since I got scared silly by It Came From Outer Space at age 8. ![]() I on the other hand have the opposite problem. ![]() We have a writer here who goes by the name of Ace, he’s just written an article about why he can’t play horror games. Articles // 31st Oct 2014 - 7 years ago // By Chris Wootton Horror Games Don’t Scare Me, And It Sucks. ![]()
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