The Difference Between Being Told to Feel and to Actually Feel
Posted by dolgion on Thursday Sep 30, 2010 Under Game Design- Pictured Above: Me pissing my pants
There is a genre that I really can’t stand playing, not because the games are dead boring or of generally bad quality, but because they feel tooreal to me as a player. It’s the horror game genre with games such as the classic Resident Evils and Silent Hills. I mean those games apparently are amazing masterpieces, from what I hear, but I never can get my nerves together for long enough to finish one of them. In fact, I usually quit the game after the second scary moment in a game. In Silent Hill 2 I stopped the game before even getting to the town. That whole eerie fog and the sounds scared the living hell out of me. Funny though that I find most of the supposedly scary horror movies (Grudge, Ring, both jap. versions and etc) really just entertaining, and not that scary at all. I can’t help but laugh out loud sometimes even when a particular cheap trick is used in a particular cheap way. So…what is it with those freaking games? Read More