bringer of illumination said:
Trishbot said:
Resident Evil has them. Silent Hill has them. Nearly every great horror movie ever made has them.
Okay, ignoring the rest of your post, I take issue with this part.
Resident Evil is a MUCH more of a action series than a horror series, it's hardly all that scary, and the early games only coast by on the low, LOW standards of the PS1 generation of consoles which was the first generation where horror was even possible.
The Silent Hills that are worth a crap have between none and VERY few jump-scares, and when you go several hours without a single jump scare it will make that one jumpscare all the more satisfying. Only the newer, shittier Silent Hills really embraced jump-scares, and they were worse for it.
And nearly every great horror movie ever made? That's just false.
Are you SERIOUSLY telling me that the traditional Resident Evil games "coasted by on the low standards of PS1 consoles"? The remake on Gamecube preserved the essence of the game, upped the presentation, and it was JUST as scary and thrilling as any other horror game has EVER been. Resident Evil was NEVER an "action" game until RE4, and even that's debatable. The creator of Resident Evil himself rejected pure action and, when he saw the original version of RE4 getting too action-driven, he turned it into a brand new IP entirely called Devil May Cry.
Silent Hill 1, also a PS1-era game, has plenty of jump scares (the glass room and the body in the locker immediately spring to mind), as does Silent Hill 2 (the bathroom door, the lying figure under the car, the hangman scream, Pyramid Head in EVERY appearance, the bug room, etc.) Silent Hill 3 has its share too. ALL of them do. Trust me; I played those games religiously.
These games, however, didn't rely ONLY on jump scares. Neither does Dead Space. I've played nearly every horror game you can imagine, and Dead Space has plenty of really excellent jump scares, but it's got plenty more going on for it (DS1's suicide room and DS2's creepy bird sanctuary are standouts). But even the best horror games have had jump scares.
And, yes, nearly every timeless, widely regarded scary horror movie has jump scares in it at some point. Exorcist, Alien, The Thing, The Shining, Jacob's Ladder, Paranormal Activity, Halloween, Psycho, Jaws, Night of the Living Dead, Evil Dead, The Omen, American Werewolf in London, The Ring, Suspiria, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc. Again, not all RELY on them, but nearly all of them HAVE them.