Study Declares Dead Space 2 "Scariest 360 Game"
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Did they make them play that bit where you have to stick a needle in your own eye? That was the only scary part in the whole game really.
Now have a study for PC games, making sure to include Amnesia in there. THEN I'll probably give a shit. I haven't played any of those games, but I don't need to in order to know that Dead Space is just a bunch of jump scares. How about you throw some actual fear into the mix.
lol, Alan Wake isnt even a horror game, its an action thriller, suspense isnt the same as horror.
And maybe its still Ravenholm from Half Life 2, they didnt tested that.
And maybe its still Ravenholm from Half Life 2, they didnt tested that.
If Resident Evil 5 was a scary/horror game, then Bejeweled is an old arcade fighter from the 80's.
There really aren't that many commands. A console controller would have excess buttons, if that tells you anything. There's the whole WASD thing, jump, crouch, lean left or right, interact, lantern, journal, throw, walk, and maybe one or two I'm forgetting.Nenarek said:
Go, now, be scared for life.
Interesting point about cut scenes. People who have been gaming for a while tend to recognize that the non-interactive nature of cut scenes means that while bad things may happen (Gee, I just got knocked out and lost all my weapons... Never seen that before...) nothing fatal will happen because the nature of a game is that player failure has to be dictated by player action. Even canned player death sequences only occur after the player has failed (and while I haven't played DS2 yet, the deaths in DS1 mostly raised feelings of, "Yeah, yeah, I know... Rub it in, why don't you...")
In-cinema "quicktime" events skew this a little, but any game designer worth their salt who actually uses those bastard things knows enough to put the player as close to the sequences beginning as possible after a failure that necessitates a retry (in part because they're going to catch a lot of flak if they fail on such an elemental issue of game design.)
I do somewhat wonder about how we're defining "fear", though. Monster-closet "boo" fear is easier to instill and, I imagine, easier to measure than ongoing "things are getting worse and there's nothing I can do about it" dread. I also have more respect for designers who can instill the latter.
In-cinema "quicktime" events skew this a little, but any game designer worth their salt who actually uses those bastard things knows enough to put the player as close to the sequences beginning as possible after a failure that necessitates a retry (in part because they're going to catch a lot of flak if they fail on such an elemental issue of game design.)
I do somewhat wonder about how we're defining "fear", though. Monster-closet "boo" fear is easier to instill and, I imagine, easier to measure than ongoing "things are getting worse and there's nothing I can do about it" dread. I also have more respect for designers who can instill the latter.
I would say that, if this were conducted on a PC, that the result would be a toss up between Amnesia: The Dark Descent, or Penumbra.
OT: Dead Space 2 is a freakin' scary game, but Condemned is the only game on a console to make me turn off the system in fear.....for PC, it was Penumbra
OT: Dead Space 2 is a freakin' scary game, but Condemned is the only game on a console to make me turn off the system in fear.....for PC, it was Penumbra
Alot of people are calling Alan Wake a horror when it's not, it's a thriller. There's a difference. Alan Wake is based around "all out mind fuck" (which I found it can do if you manage to get immersed), and not, as someone else put it, "BOO!GOTCHA!". Calling Alan Wake a horror is like calling Inception a horror because they are both mind-fuckasaruses based in unfamiliar territory but I can kinda see why people get this mixed up and it's due to the games habit of ,to paraphrase a great man, drop to it's knees and chomp it's lips around Stephen King dick. although reading this back it does seem to be an opinion based kinda thing so feel free to say if I'm wrong in your opinion.
Also a point actually close to this subject I feel that Dead Space 2 isn't that scary but it can get the adrenaline going but not because of sheer terror.
Also a point actually close to this subject I feel that Dead Space 2 isn't that scary but it can get the adrenaline going but not because of sheer terror.
To me,it seems like they measure fright,not fear. Fear is not having a monnter pop out infront of you, which is pretty much all what DS2 does.
If developpers actually base a game off this data, all you would get is a startling game.
I'll repeat it as often as need be, you cannot cause fear in a player armed with a shotgun by having a monster pop out of a ceiling. In my case, after the 0.5 seconds of "ohshit" moment, I blast the baddie away and call it a hurtful name.
If developpers actually base a game off this data, all you would get is a startling game.
I'll repeat it as often as need be, you cannot cause fear in a player armed with a shotgun by having a monster pop out of a ceiling. In my case, after the 0.5 seconds of "ohshit" moment, I blast the baddie away and call it a hurtful name.
Sorry, but I would want at least 25 people in this study before I'd say it's reasonable. And even then there is several can's of worms to deal with. Also, I glad they included the frustration part as the game was far better at pissing me off more then it was scaring me.
Bull. Shit. This study is monumentally biased. I mean, FOUR GAMES? There's no possible way to gauge something as being the "scariest thing EVUH" from matching it against three other games. Sure, it's scarier than re5. I've had family picnics scarier than that shit. DS2's entire "fright" appeal is just smear as much gore around as possible and hope people freak out.
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No way.
No way.
If they put Condemned 2 on that list, the bear section alone would have made everyone piss themselves many times more than the entirety of the other games on that list.