Horror Question

[BadBruzer]

Hello, I'm making a horror mod behind doors waiting for hl2 release it use to be project safan but we are changing alot of story info, media, name ect... Anyways on to the question.

Since we are working behind doors we don't get input from community all but team members. So I got a question for you all.

What would you like to see in a horror mod?
and
What would make it scarier to you than the current mods/games out there?

 

[The Dark Elf]

good storyline and good scary scenes. I prefer horror movies to hint at something terrible - the unknown, the more you see of something terrible, the more familiar it becomes and the less terrible it is. Watch as many of the classic horror movies that you can and learn from the great directors on how to get it right

 

[synth]

Love that quote. It really makes sense when he says that dread is the best type of fear (and that gore/horror is overused in movies)

 

[Anable]

Ah, Card. A great author, a great quote. Good job Pendragon.

In response to the original post, I'm a fan of the Resident Evil series. This isn't because when you see the zombies I get scared, but running around I can never tell what I'm going to run into next. Like Card said, it's the dread that gets you.

 

[operative x]

Nice quote "Chief Dragon"

 

[BadBruzer]

Great quote I will be sure to present that to the team and use it

 

[Brian Damage]

That incredibly frightening feeling you get when the familiar turns strange...

 

[mchammer75040]

I think something I would like to see is things being uncomprehensible or not making any sense. The scariest things always seem to be the ones that make you go "what the f*ck?" Or maybe something like bugs some people seem to have a problem with creepy crawly things so eh there you go.

 

[G-Dub]

Something unusual that I don't understand or know anything about aways scares me. The discovery of details about the thing progressively creep me out. The feeling that I'm gonna have to eventually confront something after a build up adds atmosphere too. (not knowing if the confrontation is around THIS corner! nope maybe not)

 

[Razor]

Imagine walking down a corridor where you always think it is about to finish but doesn't, it is dark but not pitch black. Every few seconds, a shadow suddenly moves across your field of view but when you shine your torch on it, you see nothing. And then after a few times, the shadows just happens to be something and it charges at you.

Also, the feeling that you are always going to be attacked, this is best achieved by music or sound effects. Very soft breathing coming from behind you but when you spin round, nothing is there. Make it so that you have to be constantly on guard and everything isn't always as it seems.

Another example would be walking through a cold meat storage facility with long rows of carcasses hanging from the ceiling, you hear a noise and you hear something charging at you. You don't see what it is, you just see it shove all the dead bodies and dead cows out of the way as it runs past i.e. some enemies are invisible but you can still see them make footprints on a rainy path or things like that.

 

[BadBruzer]

Yea Razor I agree just sudden noises and visualizitions can scare a person becuase the thought of something there makes you always looking. Just a little thing we are thinking about putting in the game your own heart beating, some heavy breathing not much but those sounds I think would add to the feel of the game they wouldnt be load but enough to hear them.

Anyways back to subject another thing that scares me when I'm playing a certian game or movie is points when you think for sure there will be something there and then like you go around corner or whatever to kill it and its not there and having the feeling you know its around there somewere

 

[Brian Damage]

Lull them into a false sense of security, them hit them with something nasty.

 

[BadBruzer]

I agree with the quote dread is most powerful and I think i will use alot of that I am trying really hard to make this the best horror yet and I have best intentions of doing it. I wont release it till its better than any game or mod out there.

 

[mchammer75040]

I agree with the quote dread is most powerful and I think i will use alot of that I am trying really hard to make this the best horror yet and I have best intentions of doing it. I wont release it till its better than any game or mod out there.

Whoa heres hoping you hold true to your words .

 

[ukfilmer]

you got competition bub! www.hellblaze.halflife2files.com

 

[[TBUK]apo]

hi , i study psicology so i can give u a few hints, in psi, we have a term for social interaction which is situationism which means, that a person personality is diferent in diferent situations, in the other hand in group socializations the person gets the other people feelings, and acts and feels like the other person, to better explain, if u put some other caracters that are in panic and notice panic is diferent from fear, fear it can be controlable, at least over ure reactions, in panic u lose control, so if other people around u get in panic, u will get in panic, such situations are very comon in funerals, like if u see people crying, even if u dont know who that person is u feel like crying to, so i think u should but other people scared like shit

 

[BadBruzer]

you got competition bub! www.hellblaze.halflife2files.com

Competition is a good thing so I hope you guys keep going.

 

[ukfilmer]

same to you!