Well, I played Slender today.....WHY DID I DO THAT!?

[thenumberthirteen]

I don't want to play that game for that exact same reason. I live out in the country. Right now it's 5pm and pitch black forests outside. My dog needs to be walked every day around this time so basically come winter time every day I walk through a dark scary forest. I don't want to play a game about walking through a dark scary forest which is haunted by an elderich horror. It's bad enough as it is thank you.

 

[daveman247]

Could be because things ultimately do get classed as 'horror', therefore you prepare yourself to be 'horrified'.

True, by the time i got round to it, it had been pretty hyped up. :/

Then again, as i was playing through either silent hill/ siren games/ project zero i was prepared to be scared. And they still creeped me out

So i guess the answer is: Japan (at least for me).

 

[IamLEAM1983]

"Slender" is actually sort of a prototype. "Slender: The Eight Pages" will contain more gameplay elements, from what I know. I'm looking forward to it, for one, as it seems like they've decided to stick to Marble Hornets' canon and avoid the more convoluted aspects of the other popular Slendervlogs.

It reminds me of a certain SCP game of which I've forgotten the number where you can only down stairs indefinitely. Somewhere about a hundred storeys down, odd noises start to pepper the surrounding darkness. A little deeper still, and some sort of ghostly figure lunges at you. If it touches you, the game ends.

 

[Nouw]

My first time playing was the scariest and from then on it was rather boring. My immersion was killed when I saw how terribly modeled the Slenderman was, not nearly slender or tall enough. It's rather petty but I suppose I know the monster too well.

If your "immersion" was killed by that, you were never immersed.

You have a fair point. I think I worded it wrong. It's like watching a horror movie where you don't have a proper grasp on the monster and being scared as a result. When the monster is revealed, it is no longer scary. Maybe it looks silly or perhaps the film-makers never could have created the horror you made yourself. What would you call that?

 

[Jedamethis]

My first time playing was the scariest and from then on it was rather boring. My immersion was killed when I saw how terribly modeled the Slenderman was, not nearly slender or tall enough. It's rather petty but I suppose I know the monster too well.

Yeah. Noticing the tentacles are actually quite small and that he looks like plastic, something from a game. Ruined it.

 

[Ois]

Don't worry about it, even Bane had trouble with it.

http://youtu.be/WOXCdSMaNeE

 

[Captain Billy]

I enjoy the concept, and I appreciate the way that the main source of the horror in the game is not something in front of you, but the thought that something could be right behind you. That said, and I imagine this has already been brought up several times, but it feels more like a short, snacky aside than an actual game. There's no real sense of purpose in the game, other than "try not to die," and while that's certainly enough to qualify it as mindless entertainment, I think it's capable of more.

 

[dimensional]

I didnt get it I have only played it once round a friends when we were drinking and watching films and playing other games around midnight he said you should play this game and he turned out all the lights and put slender on so I just walked around found some notes then some dood appeared close to me I walked past him and I died I just thought this is supposed to be scary are you kidding me frustrating I can see but scary no.

Then again I remember the tension I felt when playing Project zero/Fatal frame (1) the very first time and how I couldnt take it and never got past the first few rooms but about a year ago I tried again and suffice to say I did not find it scary at all there was just no tension anymore so I think I must have become desensitized over the years, If I had played Slender back when I was a child I am sure it would scare me more as it was it didnt even make me jump.

 

[Brainwreck]

Hardly a good horror game. I understand minimalist design, but this is just too cheap to be scary.

Then again, after my first encounter with a chimera in Call of Pripyat (at night, with just the flashlight... it went exactly as one would expect), I think jumpscares just lost their edge for me.

 

[Saviordd1]

Scared me twice, didn't care afterwards.

Honestly it just annoys me that something as creepy as the slenderman mythos got boiled down to a "BOO" game.

 

[hazabaza1]

Because you wanted to try a shitty game?
Seriously, if you're not trying to coerce yourself into being scared it's not scary. And there's no real motivation to make yourself be scared, no backstory unless you read the Slender-mythos, no characters, no nothing. Just boring dark and paper.

 

[Xdeser2]

Its not scary in any way really

And believe me, Im a pussy when it comes to horror

Seriously, all that happens is that your screen gradually goes to static when you see him. Whoop-de-freakin-doo. Add a facecam and some fake screams and you'll get 30k easy Subs on youtube

 

[Kal-Adam]

I consider Slender as less of a game, and more a a pants shitting simulator...

 

[bossfight1]

I'm too chicken-shit to play Slender... and I can play through Amnesia just fine...

Though I AM looking forward to Slender: The Arrival.

 

[l3o2828]

I'll just make a comparison that will state my point quickly.
Slenderman is scarier than Silent Hill Shattered Memories, but incredibly less compelling.

 

[daveman247]

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Aye, depends how many games of its type you played i guess. I can see how people who dont really do horror games may find it scary. Just like i was when i played resi 4 (My first horror - themed game) Which seems pretty tame now XD


Plus i think dead space 1/2 ruined jump-sacres for me. Luckily THAT game has excellant gameplay/ atmosphere to let me forgive its failure of scaring me.

 

[The_Echo]

I've seen more than enough footage of the game to understand that it's shallow, poorly done and probably not worth my time.

There's one scare in the whole game, and it's a jump scare. Boring.

 

[saintdane05]

Slender? Please. Real scary games are shit like LIMBO.

I couldn't get past the first five minutes in that one.

Oh, and Slender? Don't collect the pages, he kills you. Collect them?
He kills you.
Grrreeeaaatttt...

 

[Beautiful End]

Well, I'm a big wuss when it comes to scary games. I can usually figure out what's coming to get me and when but I still get scared. It's the "SURPRISE!" effect. And in real life, I'm pretty hard to scare. But when I'm playing, it's the opposite; I guess I get immersed.

Anyway, I was curious about it but a lot of things drove me off:

-The rendering. God, Slenderman looks like he's just wearing a white sock on his head. It could be smoother or...better rendered.
-The objective. Collect pages. Okay. Then what? Are these pages gonna save me from Slenderman? Which brings me to...
-The ending. Really? That's it? Okay, then.
-The way you die. What is he doing? Static? So he lives on my TV? Did he kill me? How?

Anyway, I admit it's scary for one reason or another. But...eh.

 

[Mikejames]

Scared me twice, didn't care afterwards.

Honestly it just annoys me that something as creepy as the slenderman mythos got boiled down to a "BOO" game.

Yeah, after making me jump once I thought it was a pretty one trick pony.

I'm not exceedingly brave when it comes to scary/atmospheric games, but it needs to have some variety or else you numb to it.