Uncanny Valley

please no, not another thread
i was so spooked last night

>>387379693
If you're easily spooked:

>>387379708
Don't look into the dark on the far right in this.

>>387379708
Holy shit I wish I hadn't clicked.

Spooky thread?
Spooky thread

>>387379781
That just sent shivers down my spine wtf

>>387379781
>>387379853
I don't see anything.

>>387379708
That's enough internet for tonight, I'm done.

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>>387379436
Quake might as well be a master class in "this game was supposed to be an action-ey slugfest with thumping industrial soundtrack, but it looks so dark, grungy and gritty it's constantly unsettling"

Not much of the "uncanny valley" effect, which you're also using somewhat wrongly, OP

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>>387379781

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>>387380146
>which you're also using somewhat wrongly
You're right, I just don't know what to call it.

The thing you said is what I meant though, shit that wasn't meant to be scary, but is.

>>387380247
>>387379436
I don't think any horror games would try to be scary by not trying to be scary, would kind of defeat the purpose of making a horror game

Unintentional spooks is something else entirely

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>>387380146
>that Fiend leaping from the shadows

>>387380683
>that thing in the dark

>>387380146
One thing I've noticed about classic FPS that modern ones have forgotten is that playing as a disembodied head moving unnaturally fast through environments can be jarring and even vertigo inducing. Whether through deliberate effort or not a lot of early shooters synergized this natural effect by featuring claustrophobic, gloomy and/or gory environments. Modern games, attempting to deny their nature as games with "realism" ironically break immersion.

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>>387380683
FUCK

>>387380759
Quake might not be a good example of that, though. The default movement speed is plodding. To move fast requires advanced movement (which is very exploit-based and not as simple as Doom's "strafe diagonally :^))", which 99% of players assuredly didn't know how to do on a first playthrough

https://youtu.be/nDJzf5jqccw

Daggerfall is like "how is this not billed as horror: the game"

Enemies sneak up on you without a fucking sound

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>>387381268
Roooaaaaaaggggghh
Skeles sure can scream for no vocal cords

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>when a glitch is more disturbing than the entire horror output of the video game industry in the last few years

>>387380146
Quake scared the shit out of me when I was a kid but I still couldn't put it down.

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Here is some of the most fucked up shit you'll ever see. Entire unused huge environments like nothing else in the game.

https://tcrf.net/Fallout_3/Unused_Maps

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>>387383835
I dunno anon, that bed over there looks pretty comfy.

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Anyone else find this shit at the end of ME3 horrifying?

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>>387379436
I got pretty spooked in skyrim once.

>be playing the new DLC, Dragonborn, where you go back in Soltheim and do whatever, late at night (3am or so), just me in the house
>it was ok
>more importantly it introduced a new object called mannequins, which essentially boil down to frozen npc's you can put armor on
>be messing around in my house, putting shit away to get some encumbrance back
>think that the mannequin looks kind of creepy just standing in the same room with no armor or anything
>stare at it for a second
>swear it did the animation for breathing
>spooked enough that i leave the house and go back to questing
>come back after inventory's full, open door to entrance of house
>as soon as i load in its standing right in front of me, off of its base and everything
>mfw
>nearly shit my pants and fall out of my chair
>stop playing

i looked it up later. apparently there was a bug that while you're not in the same zone as a mannequin, it can move around randomly like an npc

>>387384152
Is this when sheep herd disintegrates

>>387379436
Is this an Wizardry 2 reference?

>>387384269
where is this from?

>>387384332

First chamber in the vaults you find in Fallout 3 and NV

>>387380247
I think its the effect created by older 3D games, like anything made by Valve back in the day (other than CS) made me feel so isolated and uneasy

A lot of people cite Mario 64 as a game that gives you that uneasy feeling as well. Something about large, open, poorly detailed environments, intense shadows maybe.

>>387384495
I guess the less you have to focus on the more your imagination takes over. It's the same concept the original RE games and Dino Crisis works on, they wouldn't be scary if you could manipulate the camera easily and see around you clearly.

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Pathologic is full of this shit. The game itself doesn't really actively try to scare you, but it's full of so many unintentional jump scares and uncanny animations and shit. You'll walk into a house and the combat music will immediately start playing and some guy will leap out from a room three feet away. You'll be outside on a foggy morning and see someone slowly slouching towards you from a distance. The first infected house you enter it's a claustrophobic U-shape and it spawns these ladies right behind you, making no noise at all.
>>387384495
I think it's because early 3D creates very hard, angular models, and animation was lacking a lot back then, so you'd see bizarre polygonal things flying towards you while doing some half-assed walking animation. It also leaped out of the fog that's two feet away from your face and you're in a massive empty area.

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the dark room in Garry's Mod's gm_construct

For those who don't know what it is its a big dark room right bellow the map that can be accessed by going downstairs inside a nearby building, the room itself was probably created to test lighting based stuff but going there gives you this feel of being watched by something, I remember always avoiding it like a plague when I played it

>>387384806
https://youtu.be/leyu-9cqxpo?t=46

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>>387384740
Fuck you.

>>387385082
Fuck, I thought it was just me.

What's in the box, /v/?

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>>387385220
Oops.

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>>387384702
It's been a while since I've played it, but I nearly remember shitting my pants when I first came across The Albino behind the slaughterhouse after being told that I was being hunted by something

Also on day one when you first exit the rich guy's house and one of those weird mole things goes running by and attacks you if you follow it. It was the first time I saw one of those things and the game had mostly been grounded in realism up to that point that it caught me completely off guard.
Almost didn't want to keep playing that shit freaked me out so bad

I'm looking forward to seeing what they do in the remake

>>387379436
When you go too far in the ocean in any gta and the only you can see is water, its like some monster or spooky shit is going to show up

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Alright this uncanny valley shit has gotten out of hand. You morons aren't even using the term correctly anymore, and it was never a real thing in the first place, just a crude, potential explanation for why some people are unsettled by low-tech robots and crappy CG.

Look, the reason you find this vidya shit spooky isn't because it's "not quite real", but because your expectations are tempered by your experience, and your mind is telling you something is not right, thereby creating emotional disquiet that you can't reconcile with the reality at hand (ie the vidya).

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So are there any good spooky games coming out this year?

>>387384182
Yeah it's a thing. Guards can also enter your house and it's pretty scary if you aren't expecting them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBsdWW7MOew

>>387383481
to this day I don't get why so many people were scared with this shit

>>387385352
>>387384702
Yea I actually just started the HD version for the first time and its so bleak and oppressive the whole time. I know thats what they were going for but its certainly helped along by the graphics.

I think its also because the game seems more mysterious when its not polished. Seems more like some creepypasta game youd stumbleupon rather than a AA studio releasing a finished product.

I am unashamedly an Uncharted fanboy and recently bought a used copy of the ND collection so I can reply the PS3 games.

One thing I love about the UC games are some of the lush environments it takes you through. And the very organic banter between Drake and his cohorts.

UC1 is very rough around the edges compared to the sequel. It can't even hold a candle to UC2. I've been playing it recently and some parts make me feel absolutely panicked. Can't put my finger on why but it gives me a sense of dread. Something about the more restrictive environments. Poor quality movement animations. Poor voice acting compared to the sequels. Less of a sense of direction and purpose and meaning. But it doesn't give me a sense of boredom, more like a sense of terror.

>>387384740
Thanx mr skeltal


what game

>>387385769
wait thats FO3 isnt it

nevermind

>>387385554
ur 2 smart 4 us man

>>387379436
>testing hall
>uncanny valley
Learn what words mean before using them faggot. The hall might be creepy but it has nothing to do with uncanny valley

>>387385740
Maybe it is because you are a limp wristed faggot that likes shitty games.

>>387385554
we are not worthy of you wasting your precious intelligence on lowly people like us, anon.

>>387385705
they aren't scared. they're just reposting this constantly so they can get likes and yous and people going "omg sameeee". it's like saying IT gave you a fear of clowns or "dude my phone rang RIGHT when I was watching The Ring, I got so scared :)"

I'm actually a huge fan of some of the things brought up in this thread. Most of my favorite games are older ones made during the advent of 3D games but before say.. 2010 or so.

In particular I just like when a game looks kind of gloomy. Silent Hill, Max Payne, OoT and MM, etc. Games today are made with the expectation that they will look really realistic and sharp, so they rarely give me such a unique experience. (I've also played games a long time so it's hard to surprise me I suppose)

Beyond Two Souls I think it was called is one of the only modern games that have really done it for me.

dear God I didn't know I could be scared of empty rooms

>>387386465
Everyone says this place is Reddit but honestly it's just blatantly underage posting. Uncanny valley is not a difficult concept to understand but it's used incorrectly

Fucking need kids shitposting about uncanny valley.

>>387388947
Dumb kids*

>>387385815
I was gonna slap you so hard.

>>387385082
there's a secret room that could be accessed by crouching underneath the second incline ramp into the wall, underneath the ramps beside the large rectangular building

>>387384182
Yup. Mannequins are pretty much just NPCs with a wood texture that aren't allowed to move. But sometimes they ignore the rules.

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>>387390557
Most mannequins modded in to Morrowind would have this bug where their heads spin around non stop.

>>387385082
That entire map always creeps me out for some reason

>v has the best spooky threads but it's not videogames
>x has nothing remotely spooky and just wastes time trying to summon imaginary friends
It's not fair

>>387385082
YOU NEED NEED ME, YOU NEED NEED ME

>>387391502
UH UH UH NO UHUH UHUH

>>387380751
YO WTF

>>387391351
the last time I went on /x/ there was a thread that would be impossible to tell it wasn't from /fit/ if you didn't know otherwise

Do you know the tale of nickies and black? It's pretty spooky.

>>387392157
here we go again

>>387392184
what's sppookiest is having to go through thousands of images looking for the tale of nickies black

>>387380683
fuck you nigger

>>387392241
Nevermind I found it. If you guys are looking for scary, look not further.

http://imgur.com/gallery/2JZxk

It goes a bit long but trust me, it's worth it.

>>387389776
It contains a list of map credits.

>>387379781
I can't see anything even after max brightness am I getting memed

>>387383481
In Super Mario 64 you could fall through the outer castle to get "inside" without it properly loading. That scared the shit out of me at the time.

>>387380683
Okay this one i think I see, it's the face off to the right, right? Or am I just seeing things?

>>387380683
It's captain Howdy

>>387390557
>But sometimes they ignore the rules.
That's too spooky

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>>387379708
I can't see anything.

>>387394341
npcs are spooky i guess?

>that glitch in san andreas when you glitch out of a store and fall into an invisible san andreas

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>>387385557

I like Silent Hill 1 the most visually out of the first three SH games because of its lofi aesthetic. The low quality textures, sound files, and models enhance the atmosphere so well. It's low resolution muddiest everything and gives the video game equivalent of film grain. Even the cover art is incredibly detailed. The more you look at it the more elements you notice in it. I wish more games could have such a spectacular atmosphere as SH1. Honestly aesthetics and atmospheres as wholesome as Silent Hill, original fallout, bioshock etc are what can make a game a favorite for me.

Uncanny valley is meme. It's not real.

>>387396448
You are meme. You're not real.

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Used to play this shitty game with my brother when I was a kid until I unlocked this character named Ed Hed and this character was the uncanny valley incarnate. For some reason seeing him doing the grab move on me actually made me run out of the room crying and he snapped the disc for me right after, guess it creeped him out too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6oS56kCbaw

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A lot of levels in the PS1 Spyro games are just a few small islands floating above a giant void of nothingness. It's not super creepy or anything, but it is kind of offputting for me to think about.

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>>387379436
Did westworld remind anyone else of this shit?

>>387380146
>humping industrial soundtrack,
Did you only ever listen to track 2 or something? The music is mostly spooky and sloooow paced.

>>387396657

You and your brother sound like complete fucking faggots.

>>387397681
At least they are complete.

>>387397353
this, best coming through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMcFgMbhU1w
feels like its scratching at your ears and i love it

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>>387383481
>extreme bushbot infestation

>look up yesterday's uncanny valley thread
>now thoroughly spooked
fuck you /v/

>>387398938
Link?

>>387398968
>>387268608

>>387385705
its not scary, its exactly what >>387383481
said, its disturbing and unpleasant to watch, especially in motion

>>387399041
Fucking hell, it's like /v/ turned into /x/ for one thread.

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One of the endings of Stanley Parable is exactly what you're looking for, OP. Basically, there's a door you go through and it closes behind you. If you're fast enough you can hop back and it will close ahead of you, breaking the level. Audio narrator will instantly stop mid-sentence because you broke his scripts. Music also stops. You can now go back to the very beginning of the level (normally impossible as doors close behind you), in complete silence (narrator usually talks at all times, and ambient music plays). When you reach the beginning, you'll notice a new door has opened. Inside there's some signs indicating that an escape pod is somewhere higher, so you travel many, many flights of stairs until you reach a dark room with a sign before it saying stuff like "Player must only use the escape pod with the narrator present" (though he doesn't exist in that universe, he's just the narrator to the game), and if you go inside the pod screen turns black and you have to restart manually. The creepiest fucking thing I experienced in a videogame, mainly because I found this myself and really thought it was a bug at first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLx9w-F_U4s

>>387379436
FNAF was literally built on the concept. The dude who made it had the animatronics-style before in a kid game he made. It bombed so hard and the big critique was it looked horrifying. So he used that critique to make a horrorgame.

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>>387401481
Also, for the unintentional things for me those are unreachable parts of the map. When I was a kid I always wanted to escape the map in Midtown Madness 2 to go to that other bridge. Of course I know that those low poly LOD models are all there is, but I can't help but stare at them sometimes wondering how's it like there, in game-world terms. Kinda get creeped out thinking about it. Just look at those pitch black half-opened windows on the top-right. Don't stare into them too long...

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What if there was a horror game set in a world of testcells?

>>387383835
Again with Stanley Parable, in one of the endings of the retain version, you fall down into the now forgotten and decaying levels from the mod version which was released some years before. You are left there to die alone.

>>387385082
Warning: DO NOT CLICK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBsdWW7MOew

>>387385557
Black Mirror is getting remade but it's mainly an atmospheric point and click with horror usually taking a back seat.

>>387385082
I'm tempted to edit this image to have something rush up to the viewer from the doorway on the left.

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one fucking word:

Pathologic.

>>387385294
muslim prayers

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>>387385352
im on day 6 with the bachelor and i havent seen that thing yet? what the hell is it?