Should horror video games restrict the player from weapons and ammo?

Should horror video games restrict the player from weapons and ammo?

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it was definitely one of their neighbors

>hear footsteps in the attic
>not going up to check on it ends up getting you killed
who'da thunk.

well i mean there are horror games like outlast that have zero guns and ammo, games like Resident Evil that have restricted ammo, and games like dead space with lots of ammo. and theyre all horror. just pick which one you wanna play.

Is this the designated spooky thread?

restrict yes, competency take away no. You need a proper balance. Too much ammo and weapons makes you a walking tank and turns you it into an arcade shooter. No weapons turns it into a hide and seek simulator that gets annoying and less scary.
Imagine trying to clear a house or building with just a pistol, 6-9 rounds with maybe one backup magazine and thats it. You need to choose your shots carefully and not have an itchy trigger finger or youre more fucked then you already are. That adds a whole new level of tension
see condemed criminal origins

friendly reminder that skinwalkers are literally fake. They were created by /x/ as part of a big ruse to fool future posters. It obviously worked and now everyone believes they're a real thing

tales from the spoop

>fucking fat girl in college dorm
>cum, toss condom in garbage
>next morning, she's gone (goes to different college)
>go to take piss
>condom missing

i remember reading skinwalker stories long before i came to Sup Forums. how long has /x/ been around?

Shit

1997

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Depends on if you can fight back at all.

>enemies are the people your character cares about

reminder, this women works at a school now. canadian justice at its finest

if it fits the theme of the game then sure
not everyone knows how to use a gun or is strong enough to use melee weapons

You expect people to read this text wall?

Weapons no, ammo yes. And make the combat unappealing so that running is still a more viable option.

This guy gets it.

>Skinwalkers were created by /x/
Why would you lie on the internet?

did you get my deer head?

kinda like RE7
except you get a fair bit of ammo in RE7
but playing on Normal, the Molded take 3-5 shots to the face before dying

I was dating a Navajo girl who told me about skinwalkers way before I ever read anything about them online. Some of what she told me lines up perfectly with what you read on /k/, but some of the stuff she told me I've never seen mentioned online anywhere.

only thing better than getting femdomed by a loli is getting femdomed by a prego loli

what did she tell you

anyone play no more room in hell. theres guns but they are scarce and have little ammo. melee is dangerous as fuck too since one bite you get infected or bleed out

Depends on the type of game, desu. In a lot of games, being able to fight back at all completely gets rid of the helpless feeling that scares you. but on the other hand, there are games like Outlast where you're being pursued by old hillbillies with pitchforks or a malnourished doctor where I'm constantly asking myself "Why can't I just turn around and beat grandma's face in?"

I prefer games where you can fight back but it's difficult and the scariness comes more from the tension and the atmosphere like Resident Evil rather than just making you helpless and having to run like a bitch and avoid shitty AI.

She said don't turn around.

It's good in Silent Hill, but being able to just run around in town and get tons of ammo whenever kind of ruins it.

I don't want to get into it because some of it is personal to her family, but it was about how her and her cousins found a cave that one lived in while exploring their grandfather's land, and what they found in it. Her grandfather had to go in and clear it out, but not everything could be undone.

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If they don't let you fight enemies they should at least let you have stealth mechanics so when they do you can delay at least delay the inevitable.

Anyone got that screencap with a bunch of posts explaining how people died while caving?

That shit spooks me.

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Nutty Putty? The hole was made for me drrrt drrrt?


Watch that movie The Descent if you wanna get scared shitless about caves.

No it was a bunch of posts just about how different people died in different caves. Nothing supernatural. Nutty Putty was one of them, but there were others like some guys diving under the ice, and some tourists going into a cave that gets flooded when they were told not to, etc.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Fi_murders
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Night_Stalker
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Ramirez

Is it time?

Some of those police sketches are scary as shit

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No, but resources should be scarce since it helps create tension. In my opinion, Resident Evil did it best. As long as you played smart and didn't waste anything you had slightly more than you needed to get through the game.

>failing an escort mission

having the ability to kill enemies removes all fear for me, like when i played re7 shits supposed to be scary but it just turns into weapon management

re7 problem is that it was too easy. whats the point of conserving ammo when your just gonna take me back to the last autosave when i die?

>He's still in there
Nutty Putty is fucked up

The fact that the guys behind the Hi-Fi murders were hated even on death row is a really nice fact.

Link?

Fuck me

Are there any good books on fucked up people and why they do fucked up things?

but you spin me right round baby right round

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>she was of mexican descent
>covered in an oily sheen

kek, that's pretty weird she had shit in her organs, body decomposed fast and her heart was missing.

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Well, outlast is garbage, so it's a bad example. Amnesia would fit better.

I think a dark souls bonfire style survival horror would work, only so many healing items and ammo, its resupplied when you reach a designated safe zone, but these spots are very far apart.

jesus christ
what the fuck can they even do at that point?

Those titters are glorious.

seriously wtf was their problem

>you will never get to roam the world in no-clip mode to experience all the fucked up shit in the world as it happened
Anyone else know this feel?

Well you say thay..

>Dead Space
>horror
fucking LMAOing at you

Does she get chased by a serial killer after this or did you just want to post nice tits in a spook thread?

kind of, i always wanted to see what the hell happened to all the people who disappeared from thin air, especially the famous ones

youtube.com/watch?v=zbHONuJycak

Hi-Fi murder guys were such pieces of shit. You have to fucking despise someone to make them drink drano, let alone rape them before shooting them.

Anyway, OP I think it can be done well. Work out a subtle and precise drip feed method for ammo and enemies that works out so you have to run away more often than not. Forcing combat is bad imo.

That guy is so annoying.

spoiler alert: they died

is this spoop

I just want time stop powers
They saw it in a dirty harry movie, i think it was magnum force, and wanted to try it out

>not wanting to know how they died
gtfo

I remember this shit
he killed the girl or she died in an accident in the sub, chopped her up, tied some weights on the limbs, and dropped her off to the sea. then he scrapped his sub to make it look like an accident
:(

Is that supposed to be a comedy? I'd fuck that octopussy good.

That's a mixed blessing. You'd probably go insane or become so depressed you kys

I'd consider it but what if I get spooked and see shit that'll keep my up at night
the pain, the despair in their faces and expression. and nothing I can do. it's not for me to gaze upon.

Seen this posted quite a bit recently, what am I missing here?

It was Magnum Force because a pimp poured draino down a hooker's throat because she was holding out on that money.

>Hinterkaifeck-Hof
Amnesia is gay

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_Kris_Kremers_and_Lisanne_Froon
That was one of the pictures they took.

Some Swedish girls went missing in Panama took pictures, tried to call for help, phone wouldn't call out, camera found with random pictures presumably for light but who know, clothes found neatly folded, foot and bones found in a shoe bleached.

man what the fuck

>Read spooky thread on /k/ or Sup Forums
>Petty spooky
>Decide to check out /x/
>It's a literal fucking RP forum

so was that real alien pic that was posted on Sup Forums real?

>Ouchi managed to say, “I can’t take it any more… I am not a guinea pig”

were they attacked by native cannibals?

I miss old /x/ before it became tulpashit

Even actual prisoners don't like felons. Stuff like murder, child abuse and pedophilia will get your ass killed in jail.

It's likely the tour guide did it.

Japs are fucking savage man.

man was a hero and this is how his country thanked him

Read about Unit 731 and japs did some fucked up shit.

>Every time this poor bastard woke up from sedation he was telling them to kill him and to stop but they kept trying any way

I remember making a bunch of "how do we fix /x/" threads. What a shame. It's also a shame. They reportedly went to help children or something? Fuck that, this ain't peace walker.

ouchy

>Stuff like murder
>will get your ass killed in jail
lol

>killed with a ballpoint pen

What an unfortunate name desu

Not giving the player the ability to even try to defend yourself is stupid.

It's far better to allow it but show the player that it's ineffective and at best slows the enemies down, obviously until the finale when they finally can be killed somehow.

Games that don't allow you to defend yourself are made by smaller developers who are saving their limited budget this way.

my friend says they stuff shit up your urethra if they found out you're a pedo

>one of the scariest games I've played isn't even considered a horror game

Is your friend a pedo?

youtube.com/watch?v=WaIoXN-7FjM

Damn. Thanks for sharing lads.

no but he's been in jail