How do we fix the horror genre?

How do we fix the horror genre?

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How do we stop this meme?

combat should be largely ineffective or inconvenient also more focus on atmospheric and implied horror rather than jump scares and gore

Making it scary would be a good start I guess. Body horror works good with video games I think. Jump scares are cheap tricks that don't last. But, Body horror gives people the creeps, especially if they can relate to an event they are seeing on screen, like bugs crawling or something. Also, sound effects plays a huge role, I know they do normally but a new otherworldly sound helps give people the spooks.

not making that one winter-themed survival horror game for Wii was a MISTAKE
it looked like a good time
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stop letting me just kill everything. once i know i can do that i start going out of my way to hunt them even if im supposed to be the hunted

The real question is:
What is the Dark Souls of horror genre?

you are never allowed to run away from or kill/disable the threat

Less jump scares.

90% of horror games I find these days is this shitty "JUMP SCARES EVERY 5 MINUTES U SCARED YET XD?" garbage that I sometimes blame FnaF for. Jump scares completely lose their impact when I'm expecting them, and if that's the only thing the game has to offer, then it's not scary anymore.

Also this It's hard to be afraid of the spooky shambling horror when I can bash it's brains out with a bit of heavy wood and the most it can do is tickle me back. This is why I refuse to take that Ink Machine thing seriously.

post the mildred comic where she fucking eats the girl

Does this game take place in Isengard?
seriously, the close-ups on the player interacting with the environment is a very good idea it adds come suspense and narrows attention.

What in satans testicles did they do to Pyramid Head!

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One day I'll wake up, and see that he made a sequel.
One day.

>that ayy doujin got translated
my fugging dick
wonder what xeno fueking will do next.
i hope its alien or predator

Focus on horror for once.
Too much drama.

what ayy doujin?

By actually immersing the player into the world and setting and having them be in near constant danger.
It's not scary when there's specific areas where dangerous monsters are and the rest of the time it's just ambient sound effect jumpscares

Also sexy monsters are a big plus.

are you supposed to fuck it to survive?

>that ayy doujin got translated
Ayyyyyy

Lurk more.

All a horror game needs to be better in this dead genre, is just:

1. Not letting you fight back
2. Not being based on a shitty jumpscare simulator made for furrys

The problem with a jump scare is that it's easy to do and gets an immediate reaction. A loud bang or some dog headed creature bursting into your screen is a lot more noticeable than trying to build up an unsettling atmosphere. It's also easy YouTube bait, so you'll get a billion retards clapping their pudgy hands together every time some LP'er fakes a reaction to them.

More uncanny valley, more focus on atmosphere and small details to unsettle the player. Slowly building up the small feeling at the back of their mind that something just isn't right. How the other people in town look at you for just a second too long, or how all of them close their blinds at the exact same time every night, almost like they're trying to avoid seeing something.

More large breasted monsters

>Not letting you fight back
This is a retarded meme. It worked well in Amnesia but ever since then people have thought that the removal of a struggle is actually beneficial to horror. It's the exact opposite.
A struggle is important. Going through a game, taking out the small fodder enemies casually is an important build up to running into the main enemy that gives you all the real scares. You shoot at all the little guys and they go down, you're conditioned to that, but then you try shooting at this new enemy and suddenly your bullets don't do shit. That's a real, first-hand feeling of despair that horror games should absolutely deliver. Giving you the ability to fight back is terrifying when you realize fighting back is futile. You don't get that feeling when the ability to fight back isn't there in the first place.

by making it about horror
not about youtube-e-celebs screaming into their microphones at the top of their lungs

Have you ever seen a modern corporate workplace?

If you have not, google it.

Now that you have seen it, do you think that such environment can produce anything meaningful?

Look at the following games, regardless of genre:

Prey
Alien: Isolation
Mankind Divided
Soma

etc

They were all made in such environment. They all feature endless reading of corporate emails. You know why?

Because that's the world people working on those games know. You can't make anything meaningful when you're stuck in the desert of meaning. Worse yet, have you seen how America looks? Parking lot, Walmart, parking lot, Walmart, McD, parking lot, gated community, ghetto, Walmart, Burger King, parking lot, Walmart...

...how can such environment harbor people making anything worthwhile?

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By getting the artsy fartsy walking sim faggots out of it.

Best thread ever

I have a fantasy where I'm dressed as Pyramid Head and I fuck a girl dressed as Mannequin in a really dirty place. After some time the girl will find out she pregnant and we'll give the baby the name of a character from Silent Hill.

Don't laugh.

>ayy lmao

I'm not going to laugh but I will raise an eyebrow and wonder where you went so wrong in life

More tiddies

Genocide streamers and shut down youtube.

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That's not as horrible as some of the things I've fantasized about. I've had at least several in a falling-apart nightmare hospital scenario.

>nhentai.net/g/205888/
All i see is a panda. Am I doing it wrong?

not even the right website
what a retard

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but how will streamers react to it then? xDDDD

A cult like impregnation ritual is a massive fantasy of mine.
A dark basement with candles everywhere with a couple in animal masks fucking in a circle as a bunch of people in robes chant

if you do this let me chant for you. My friends tell me i'm a pretty good chanter.

I'll bring my fog machine to set the mood.

Do you chant for your friends while they fuck often?

I've never chanted while my girlfriend and her other boyfriend fucked, but I'd like to imagine I'd be good at it. I'm good at chanting in other situations though.

My sis who's a hippie has done stuff like that, though it was more some type of peruvian drug sex meditation ritual than actual satanism.

i bet that anons chants are felt in a deep guttural level, like listening to Mongolian throat singing or Tom Waits songs

I've fucked while Tom Waits played in the back.
It was a fun experience while hearing this.
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I was thinking about how i'd describe it, and you pretty much nailed what I was thinking. Its almost gorillian like.

How do you know? Is she in the OTO?

I know because she told me, and no she isn't, she told me the name of the actual ritual but I forgot. It's basically sexual meditation yoga but with drugs, so that you can achieve an incredible orgasm and be closer to spirits or some shit.

can you ask her the name of the ritual?

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Eh, I'd feel awkward about calling her on the phone just so that I can ask her something like that to be honest.

>I told a bunch of strangers online that you're a freaky drug taking hippie and need to know the name of the drug/sex ritual you do to get off
Yeah, I can see how it might be awkward

just text her. i'm pretty interested in the subject.

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