Scary game is scary

[rzr]

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I Am Legend sacred me because of its scientific accuracy.

[Artic_counter]

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The first time I was scarded playing a video game was when I as playing Halo 1 at 3 PM in the morning with a friend. We were in the library (legendary mode).......

[x After Dawn x]

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Ah, playing F.E.A.R. at 2 AM in the morning with earphones on at high volume...good times, good times.

[tsugomaru]

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scientific accuracy

wut

~Tsugomaru

[devonin]

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wut

~Tsugomaru

Well, in defense of rzr, Richard Matheson pretty much pioneered the concept in SF/Horror of a formerly supernatural enemy actually being explained by legitimate science. In the original, they were vampires, but he actually made the attempt to explain all of the usual things about vampires (repelled by holy objects, harmed by sunlight, drinking blood etc etc) using reasonable scientific justification.

It made things more frightening when readers considered that it was possible such a thing could actually happen, rather than some mystical "oooh it's vampires" concept.

This is also why in my opinion, Cujo is one of Stephen King's most suspenseful pieces of writing. The fear and suspense are heightened by the knowledge that it could totally happen to you next.

PS: If you want to see the most classically suspenseful movie in the history of the world, take a look at 'Duel'

It's a 1971 Spielberg movie back when it was like "And introducing Steven Spielberg" (It was his first director credit ever) starring Dennis Weaver and actually, based on a short story by Richard Matheson (Which I didn't know until just this minute, cool)

It's like 90 minutes long, has maybe 20 lines of dialogue, and is the most ridiculously suspenseful thing I've ever seen.

[SuprAwsm]

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silent hill and fatal frame are both scary games although they don't really scare me unless i drink about 4 cups of coffee... which i do quite often :P

[Sullyman2007]

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Apparently none of you have ever seen Slither. Not criticizing anyone, it was a terrible movie. Acting sucked, but watching people get mutilated by giant slugs never gets old. It made me cringe.

[Superfreak04]

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I don't get scared by games, literally throw any game that you think is scary, I can tell you that I can play the game in the dark alone. My friends have tried to make me play many scary games, didn't even flinch once...

[SuprAwsm]

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I don't get scared by games, literally throw any game that you think is scary, I can tell you that I can play the game in the dark alone. My friends have tried to make me play many scary games, didn't even flinch once...

yeah i tend to fluctuate between being scared and not when playing games, personally being scared just makes it lots more fun :P

[TheCookieMonster]

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Zelda The Ocarina of Time was kinda creepy at the shadow temple...
but that was a long time ago. No game scares me, but blood does give me a sense of impending doom to me... so that's one reason I may be scared about something... but that's it.

EDIT: yes, I am overusing certain things, but do not make harsh judgments for that reason. It's small and will be fixed as I go further along in my education.

[SuprAwsm]

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Zelda The Ocarina of Time was kinda creepy at the shadow temple...
but that was a long time ago. No game scares me, but blood does give me a sense of impending doom to me... so that's one reason I may be scared about something... but that's it.

The Re-deads always scared the living crap out of me when i first played it XD
(if you don't know they're the things that scream and paralyze you)

[kenoi]

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come on, its not so bad. I played silent hill 2, it got me scared for a little bit.