Mangue Surfer said:
Lots of post with "isn't horror". I think there's a misconception.
If it has gruesome imagery is horror.
If it has gruesome imagery + action is action horror.
If it has gruesome imagery + action and the odds are against you is survival horror.
If it has the feeling of uneasy but not the gruesome imagery is terror.
Since terror can kill without turn into horror there's no such thing as survival terror.
Action don't mean bullet in the head. Shoot, stab, run, send your dog, all these are actions. It's silly to want shooting be banned of horror games because of some random sense of superiority.
At least it's my shitty opnion. And remember, if you don't know how to classify call it Action Adventure.
Not even close. The gruesome imagery, grotesque imagery, gore, torture, death, etc, these do not make horror, yes they can be aspects of horror but they don't have to be, one can have horror with out any of those and terror is a form of horror. Horror isn't determined by the imagery, it's determined by the emotions the imagery creates. Horror can come from many things, paranoia, fear, the unknown, the uncanny, the bizarre, the unusual, the twisted, the other, etc.
Action horror doesn't exist, I'm not saying a horror games should be like Amnesia, it is more than possible where the player can fight back and the game still be horror (and we need more games like that, games like the original Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2), but when action elements are introduced into horror games the action overrides the horror.