Scariness in games vs scariness in films

[Asuka]

Games are more scary to me.

I rarely get scared in movies.

 

[Asknoone]

I love that game. One of the best games ever and probably the best in the series. It's just too bad it feels so short these days.

Resi Remake > 3.

 

[Saturos]

Resi Remake > 3.

Second best. They're both equally awesome tbh, but Resi Remake doesn't have the nostalgia factor for me.

 

[Asknoone]

Well if we're going off the nostalgia factor

Resi 2 > 3

 

[Wanted Bob]

Games, but that may be because I play more scary games than I watch scary movies.

 

[15357]

Shalebridge Cradle

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That level freaked me out so much. But it got better after I killed all the zombies with flash grenades. Unfortuantely you couldn't kill the doctor.....things.

 

[Saturos]

Well if we're going off the nostalgia factor

Resi 2 > 3

touche my good man!


Oh yeah, scary movies are not scary at all, and that's a FACT. Not an opinion.
You can look it in Encyclopedia Britannica and it'll say, "Scary video games are scarier than scary movies because Saturos says so." :>

EDIT> BTW, I say this only because there's no, "neither medium scares me" option without the, "and I'm a liar" bit.
Really and truthfully, neither scares me that much but video games more so than movies.

 

[2Fast4U]

I hate to say this, but movies are more scary to me. I have never been scared by a game as much as I would like to.

 

[mocho loco]

movies scare me the most cause i dont find video games like Resident Evil and Stalkter scary

 

[French Ninja]

I'm scared by both

 

[Dog--]

I have a hard time believing people aren't scared by games.

Movies, ok, you don't do anything nor does anything have an effect on you or not, so I understand not being scared by movies (I'm not personally).

But games? First off, I'm not scared by games in the normal sense as I'll have nightmares about games, but usually it's more of a 'something is going to pop out and give me a cheap scare' kind of thing.

Like Doom 3, it scared me. But not because I was afraid of having monster bite my face off, but because I knew around the next corner something would pop out unexpectedly, and that made me all twitchy and careful and 'scared'

Cheap scares scare everyone, I don't care what you say, if your not expecting it and it just BOOM pops out, you'll jump, then blast it away. Especially if you got your face 2 inches from the screen in the pitch dark (being immersed in the game).

 

[Kula Meenur]

Games.










Bitch.

 

[Steven]

They both suck.

 

[Remus]

They both suck.

This

Cheap scares scare everyone, I don't care what you say, if your not expecting it and it just BOOM pops out, you'll jump, then blast it away. Especially if you got your face 2 inches from the screen in the pitch dark (being immersed in the game).

Sorry my good man but that DOES NOT qualify as proper scary in my book. You could just as well have a pink bunny rabbit pop out from behind a corner and you'd jump if you weren't expecting it... :/
And as for Doom 3 I must've jumped 2 times in the entire game playing through it the first time.:dozey:

Proper scary is when you're too "afraid" to play it any further or you go screaming out of the room.
No game or movie has had that effect on me ever...

 

[Jintor]

Found an interesting article on the Cradle from Thief.

http://gillen.cream.org/thecradle.pdf

It's from PCGamer 2005.

The Cradle really does sound like an even freakier version of the ****ing Hotel from Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, which I played through properly a grand total of once and cheated every other time.

 

[ríomhaire]

I remember playing Nemesis yonks ago, when he jumps through the window in the police station I almost fell off my seat lol.

I was more scared of Mr X from 2 than Nemesis. With Nemesis a little thing came up asking you if you wanted to jump out the window, plus you could actually defeat him when he showed up (Or so I've heard). With Mr X you just have to run.

 

[Saturos]

I was more scared of Mr X from 2 than Nemesis. With Nemesis a little thing came up asking you if you wanted to jump out the window, plus you could actually defeat him when he showed up (Or so I've heard). With Mr X you just have to run.

But Mr. X only beats you up with his fists while Nemesis crushes your face in with a tentacle. Plus, that music that plays whenever the Nemesis is nearby is creepy.

 

[15357]

Found an interesting article on the Cradle from Thief.

http://gillen.cream.org/thecradle.pdf

It's from PCGamer 2005.

The Cradle really does sound like an even freakier version of the ****ing Hotel from Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, which I played through properly a grand total of once and cheated every other time.

Trust me, you never will forget the Cradle.




I need to get Thief 3 again.... Damn DVD broke. Can't find it anywhere though, especially Thief 2.

 

[knut]

I draw the line between something actually scary or something thats just jump scary. Many things in movies have scared me in ways that don't make me jump but are seriously freightening prospects, but only a few games have done that. For jump scares, I find games make me jump more because you are actually controlling your actions and where you go, and for the most part in movies, you can see something jumpy about to happen a mile off. Not that that makes it easier to stomach, I mean look at Mulholland Drive.

Overall, though jump scares are pretty tame in comparison to something genuinelly scary (for example, a scary scene for me is the empty London streets at the start of 28 Days Later - chilling) it's usually most commonly that kind of scare that I come across in the mass majority of games and movies, and if I had to choose, I much preferred jumping and being on edge whilst playing Bioshock then I did when watching something like the Descent.

 

[ríomhaire]

But Mr. X only beats you up with his fists while Nemesis crushes your face in with a tentacle. Plus, that music that plays whenever the Nemesis is nearby is creepy.

Best Mr X bit in terms of OHSHITOHSHITOHSHITOHSHITness was in a room in the police department with a certain puzzle. I can't remember which one it was. You either had to light 3 lamps in a certain order or put a gear in a certain slot, or both or something. But once you complete the puzzle he SMASHES straight through the wall you were just standing next to. When you run into the hallway and are running (And at the time I was most certainly running) and he bursts through the wall in the hallways again. Scared the shit out of me. Also I found Resident Evil 2 to be more scary in general than 3. Especially when you're staggering through the police station on low health and ammo and you can hear licker somewhere in the room, but you can't see where the hell it is.

 

[Lucid]

Shalebridge Cradle wasn't scary at all, I really don't understand why people say it is. :|
The hotel from Vampire Bloodlines was scary, scary enough to make me quit playing the game for awhile.