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What's the best medium for horror? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

Film or books or other passive mediums. IDK, video games just don't build the same tension or hit the same. The lack of control in the other mediums makes a huge difference in feeling scary.

Video game horror never makes me feel unfomfortable or frightened. Jump scares don't even make me jump (often because I end up not looking in the right direction at the time).

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I think video games are good for terror. Subnautica for example, reaper leviathans are terrifying, but not horrifying. You encounter a reaper, and it's a spike in adrenaline, but you don't lay in bed that night staring at the ceiling about it.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Subnautica is a special outlier and shouldn't be counted because it triggers thlassophobia :P

    In all other games, I feel more like when you see the characters being dumbasses in a movie and go "I can survive longer than these numbnuts." And you do.

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