What makes a video game scary?

>>386119595
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Not this definitely

>>386119636
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or this

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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>>386119719
>Click gif
>Nothing happens
wtf

>>386119595

Well there's the standard shitty jumpscares where the game has a mostly quiet and "spooky" ambience and then suddenly throws a big scary face and loud noise at you without warning. It's lazy and shitty but popular because it lets dumb youtubers overreact for an easy video.

I think a good sense of horror is to establish the player with a certain skillset in a spooky game and then to take that skill away from them or make ut useless in order to make them experience the dread of being helpless. The water hallway in Amnesia was one example because it takes away your ability to sneak around slowly. Also the regenerator in Dead Space 1 was an example of this.

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C'mere, kid, I'll show you how to make a scary game

Atmosphere, especially sound. Also pacing and rare use of cheap jump scares. A convincing backstory is a good start, something to be invested in, but ultimately you can't make people forget they're looking at a monitor.
As long as it doesn't have a spooky little girl in it, Jesus that's been done to death a million times

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Something like this.

>>386119595

Unironically delete this, senpai.

>>386119595
having the ability to scare me.

>>386119856
>gif
I'M NOT CLICKING ON THAT SHIT NIGGER

>>386120125
What about a spooky little girl(male)?

>>386121061

>girl(male)

This meme needs to die

>>386121061
Fuck off already.

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>>386120125
Incidentally, most non horror games achieve this far better than the majority or "survival horror" genre, with a few outliers like Siren 2.

>>386120239
>shitty shop of a children's fairytale 'monster'
Gtfo underage faggot

>>386119595
When the spook factor is added in a game that isn't a horror game.

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>>386119595
Spoopy setting, a place where just a single glance will make you think something supernatural is going on there.
Trap and disorient the player, because it's not scary when you know the way out and can run to safety whenever necessary.
Give no proper information beforehand. Nothing kills fear like exposition does.

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>>386119595
Hmmmm let me look for a reason... I know it's somewhere around here.... if I just stare long enough... HMMMMMM...

>>386122045

Ocean house was spooky as hell

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>>386119595
anyone here remember those net yaroze games that came on ps1 demo discs?

>>386119595
Is that a Jojo reference?

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>tfw afraid to open these images in the thread
>even the jpgs ones

>>386119595
>see thumbnail, think it's a dog
>Click thumbnail, when my eyes meet it a chill runs down my spine
Ok, that doll is pretty spoopy. Would probably startle someone if you place it in their bedroom and have it wait for them to get home

Make it surreal as fuck like Funny Pizza Land.

>>386119856
>click on a .gif
>get spooked
>chuckle it off
Uncertainty is scarier.

>>386119595
My ex used to make puppets like that. She called them, "stitchy people." She made one for me and it's in my closet actually.

ITS OBVIOUSLY JUMPSCARES BECAUSE I'M 17 AND ITS ALL THAT SCARES ME LOL I'M GAY AND I LIKE ANIME

>>386124914
>She made one for me and it's in my closet actually.
Are you sure it's still there?

>>386125094

> I'M GAY AND I LIKE ANIME

wtf you too??

Pls spoiler spooky things thx

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>>386123109
WOAH

>>386121215
Vtmb and Stalker come to mind.

>>386125191

wtf I hate heteros now

>>386123109
MOTHERFUG

>>386123109
My hearth had a weird electric feel, now Im all dizzy

>>386119595
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5JICa_ZxBk Crunch!

>>386121113
do you have the one where the guy just looks at it until it turns red and he dies

and for what makes something scary is atmosphere. having it dark, quiet, and telling a story through both a mixture of showing and telling. also what really makes me shit my britches if suddenly i hear footsteps coming from somewhere else

>>386119595
Is there a version of this image where it's moves towards you or is that a different image I'm thinking of?

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>>386123109
Goddamn that spooked me

>>386121215
The Shalebridge Cradle in Thief 3 is probably the scariest thing I've ever played.

>>386125908
there is

>>386121113
Seriously that is hands down one of the scariest things in vidya. I kept my eye on it as much as I could it's just so unsettling and out of left field. The fact that it didn't do anything only made it worse.

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GOD I want to fuck female ghosts !

>>386122759
that shit and time slip the game with the snail clone chasing you shook me up for a few years.

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I know most people don't share this opinion.

But I genuinely think the only thing scary about a game is the fear of jumpscares. Not wanting to continue playing because you don't want to get a jumpscare.

If a game has 0 jumpscares and declares that it has 0 jumpscares you will never truly be afraid of it. It's always the fear of jumpscare that makes it scary.

So jumpscares are essential in creating a scary game. Yes even "cheap scary face+loud sound" is effective.

>>386119595
Idk, games have never been successful at being scary.

>>386119595
My penis weenus.

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We need more scary monsters

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The Japanese make the best scary monsters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTOnjBc8TFg

>>386119595
Strong atmosphere that conveys a sense of tension or dread. The early Silent Hill games were the kings of this. Silent Hill 3 is the only one I never finished because it is physically draining for me to play it.

>>386132441
Titty monsters are terrifying

>>386132810
Despite the fear games being jump scares this section was too spooky for me.

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>>386130902
Silent Hill 2's atmosphere is better than a jumpscare marathon like Outlast.
Fatal Frame had no direct jumpscares, most of the spook came in the form of 'when you see it', by first personing into the camera and realizing there's been a spooky face floating under a table the whole time.
Both of these are exponentially more spook than screamers every 5 minutes.

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>>386134912
>dermatophagia

>>386119719
y-you just changed the format right anon?

>>386130902
Bait

Horror games aren't scary at all. At the very most they can arouse a feeling of tension, but that's simply an aversion to hitting a failure state, no different to any form of video game.

Having neat monster/villain designs are the only thing saving them from being glorified puzzle games and third person shooters.