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Why do horror games scare us? – Reality Check
This week Cam investigates the ways in which horror games exploit our innate human biology to cause fear.
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So what happens when a jump scare game fails to produce a response in an individual at all? I'm going to die horribly because I didn't run away aren't I?
Lol the last of us
That scream was really disturbing
am I the only one that thought the screams were bland and generic instead of scary? and also horror games aren't as scary as people say? and I might be a robot?
Really, if game devs would just stop using cheap jumpscares in a game, I would probably play horror games in the first place. Ones I would jump into, though, as if I actually WANTED to play them, is if they were to play out like a movie. Great story, great build up, and jumpscares only at one or two points that actually make sense. Also, if the game isn't overly gruesome either. That's a main dealbreaker for me and most games, so eh.
This games………Layers of Fear – Kholat – Soma – Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and soon Allison road i call them Walking simulators..they have NOTHING to offer exept graphics..all you do is walk,open doors,grab items has no use,read fucking notes,and open doors again and run like Forrest Gump..Oh and few jump scares..Same shit recipe in my opinion,this is NOT original horror games that will make you feel the fear! Where is that good days when you was solving puzzles,you was have inventory to collect your items and many other things to make you THINK and keep you bit more busy…now flash light or a mobile it's the only fucking item you have till you finish this shitty games..I enjoy Dead space and also Amnesia: The Dark Descent dead island and few more..Those was worth it to play!!
I'm just gonna keep this playing while I do stuff in other tabs…..cuz yknow, videos on this topic always have a cheap jumpscare, and I don't wanna fall for it :u
this guy knows what he's talking about
yep a bear yeah so scary wow ….fucking moron a normal animal that all people have seen in their lives will scare a person in a horror game wow bears are dangerous but not scary you dumbass
everyone would panic and get scared from knife chain saw or whatever because they are dangerous not scary because of the things that they can do to our body and we don't want it to happen to us that why
Neural empathy… when a guy sees another guy get hit in the balls
I'm trying to play until dawn since it was free on ps4 this month and fuck man I'm in chapter 3 and I don't wanna play it because of how scared I instantly get
because is HORROR, duh…
I'm more scared about horror games than I am about horror movies.
This is why i play naughty bear….
Go play outlast 1 and 2 even tho its 2018 now..I bet you will scream
is it normal to not at all react to jump scares but freak out when its just scary and you have that dread feeling constantly
For short: Welcome To The Game
I like horror games, but i don't like jumpscare
ur wrong..resident evil 8 is way more scarier XdD
Wth idk why but when i be alone in the dark i feel like someone is behind me watching me !
what a fuck this is
4:10 wtf is this shit !
Okay… But how can we overcome those fears then ?
this is a fact
when horror games sounds suddenly disappear it creeps the hell out of me
ok.
Alien Isolation scared tf out of me but they executed the game extremely well so I just had to play through the whole thing.
I had a scary ad chicken nuggets made from plants
i never really get scared anymore due to the fact ive been playing horror games since i was 8 and horror movies
the scary games that get are psychological horror and like on the run from a scary object with a time limit and a objective to do
so if you watch a playthrough of a horror game and the person playing it gets super scared your feeling there fear AND the avatars fear plus your own fear?
anyway knows the intro music?
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wait i have a anime horror game…is there a way i can over fear my fear in a horror anime game?
so if i numbed my whole body and then watched someone die or go through physical pain would i feel it?
There only one horror game that didn't scared me Resident evil
The fear of the unknown…
that scream was so scarry
Ah yes, the alien stabbing the end of his tail into someone's forehead while he's screaming in pain gets a TV-G rating.
I tried vr horror games not fun
I wasted $30 on 5 nights at Freddy's vr help wanted what a waste to scary
Horror movies and computer horror games don't scare me, but I just got a vr head set, and those scare me-
I agree. Slow build up makes the game scarier, and so does the music. I'm sure it's been mentioned many times before, but Alien Isolation nails all of this. The slow build up before you finally encounter the xenomorph made it pretty tense, and then the game got super tense from there out. However, it did loose it's scariness when you had a flame thrower and had a fighting chance against it. IMO, when you can't fight off the enemy, its makes them that much scarier, but sometimes I get annoyed with it too. I think Resident Evil (0-3,7) and Dead Space (1-2) was the perfect balance of having weapons but yet keeping the game scary. Then like I said, music sets the mood. Alien Isolation, the creepy orchestra music gets louder as the Alien gets closer. Then in Dead Space, it has unsettling music when you're not fighting, but gets super intense when battling necromorphs.
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Im not scared of horror games, im scared of jumpscares XD
real answer: they are horror games
This explains my intense fear of Jazz music. Thanks!
horror movies are less scary than horror games in my opinion, but i rarely get scared of them