Why have horror games become so shit?

>>383805052
Let's players and scarecams

Whoever wrote that should get punched in the face.

>>383805052
Because "muh no weapons is more scary, let's just do puzzles and hide in closets from retard monsters."

if he had a gun why didnt he shoot the demon?

>>383806025
>muh no weapons is more scary
This is easily the worst trend in horror games, especially since so many games implement it so poorly.

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>>383805052

>We got terrified. I tried opening the door, but was locked by a rusty Master combination lock.
>We didn't have time to figure out the combination

Why not? Why didn't they have the time? Why would you even want to open up a locked Mc Donalds?

>so Zack pulled out his gun and shot at it

WHAT?!
WHY?!

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>>383806452
>convenient bomb just laying there

>>383806452
>WHAT?!
>WHY?!
To open it, silly.

>>383805052

>I didn't even have time to eat fries

Truly horrific

i still think the original slender was one of the scariest fucking games when it first came out.. i know everyone will talk shit about me saying this, but playing that alone at like 2am was creepy as fuck. PT was also a fucking amazing experience. i thought amnesia was pretty shit

>383806890
>i still think the original slender was one of the scariest fucking games when it first came out
You have to be 18+ to post here

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Post actually good creepypastas.

>>383807443
I liked this one.
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/An_Egg

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>>383807443
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Ted_the_Caver

>>383807443
There aren't any

>>383807558
Remember reading that like 8 years ago or something. Not sure where. Wouldn't really have called it a creepypasta.

>>383806890
It's as scary as any other game of it's kind. It's nothing new or hard to pull off.

>>383805052

>stop because they're running out of gas
>they had spare gas in the trunk the whole time

???

>>383807627
>Not linking the original

Faggot.

http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html

>>383807872
nigga I just googled it and took the first response.

wiki page links to your link too anyway.

>>383807953
Don't make excuses now, we both know you fucked up.

>>383805052
I blame games like The last of us.
There is no punishment from dying other than starting over from the last check point. It really takes the survival factors out of horror games and make them pretty boring.

>>383807779
i disagree, i thought it was very well done with the mechanics and the static and the absolute lack of sound other than the scary aspects of it.

oh i forgot to mention, i love rpg maker horror games too

>>383806890
That game was the beginning of the end of the Slenderman being even slightly scary
I remember finding the original thread on SomethingAwful and watching it grow from just a creepy thing into something that was given form and life by our knowledge of it
Had me terrified for years, then that game came out, now it's been casualized to all fuck and any horror in the concept is gone

>>383805052
Same reasons movies do. Niche genre, people want to have fun over legit scared so horror becomes toothless. Atmosphere and tension are to subtle for casuals so jumpscares are required. And even when dispite all of this, a legit good horror movie/game comes out, no one watches dooming it.

>>383805052
how did they know that two boys entered when the only found one of them and the surviving one never spoke to anyone?

>>383807443
Posting an actual masterpiece.

http://www.creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Portrait_of_Noelle_Dumont

>>383808296
really? i'm the complete opposite, i find marblehornets extremely cheesy and not scary but i find the original game super creepy

>>383808360

Actually good or so bad that it's good?

>>383808081
last of us wasnt a survival horror game tho

>>383808081
remember when RE4 did the exact same thing?

What are some legitimately good horror games?

>>383808081
>There is no punishment from dying other than starting over from the last check point
what other alternative is there?
severe consequences is a terrible idea in a game, it only works if the player is both good enough to die while also bad enough to feel tense

>>383808473
Genuinely good.

>>383809179
There really doesn't really even need to be a severe consequence for dying. This wouldn't work with the last of us since its more story driven, but zombie u had decent mechanic where you would loose your stuff and character after death and would have to go get it back. didn't make the game good, but at least it tried something.
>>383808656
I agree but some would disagree. For a lot of people I talk to offline infected=zombies=horror.
>>383808825
As much as I love RE4 It's really where the downfall started. Not a bad action game, but not a true survival horror.

>>383809179
Resident evil 1 plays well with this idea.
There are limited saves, so you usually avoid saving unless you are stopping the game.
There is little ammo if you try to kill every zombie, cant afford to have a bad aim.
But in truth you can avoid nearly every enemy and there are far enough ink ribbons there.
The game seem to be hard and punishing for new comers, while it isnt.

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>>383809179
>it only works if the player is both good enough to die while also bad enough to feel tense
Don't you mean the other way anon?
If you're not good enough to survive till you start to feel tense you're just gonna get frustrated and bruteforce through the game (or drop it) with annoyance being the main emotion you feel.
You also need to be bad enough to be close to dying or there won't be much reason to feel scared.

Honestly the only way to save horror genre is to create an actual learning AI that actually tailors the experience to your skill level.

>>383805052
because some time ago the only people making horror games were people who had a vague idea of what they are doing, but nowadays every adolescent with access to unity wants to get e-famous by making the next game poutypy and murkyplier scream their dumb faces out at.

>>383809885
>infected=zombies=horror
Talk about devil may cry 1.

Its literally resident evil 1-3, except your character is by far the most powerful being in the entire island. It changes the feel of the game completely.

>>383809096
>>383809179
Silent hill 1 to 4 arent hard in the slightest, allow combat, and arent punishing. And yet are considered some of the best horror games out there because of the amazing atmosphere.