Poll: Horror games are scarier in first person
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Dead Space 2 is a third person shooter survival horror title.
Your movement is clunky and slow, you are in complete darkness 95% of the time, reloading for most weapons (before upgrading) is slow, the Necs are fast and can one-hit kill you if your health is in the red, and many times, running away from the swarm of deadly aliens in order to regroup/get a better vantage point is the best option. Also, you can't jump, which, for some reason, is allowed in first person view, even though it is not necessary.
Your movement is clunky and slow, you are in complete darkness 95% of the time, reloading for most weapons (before upgrading) is slow, the Necs are fast and can one-hit kill you if your health is in the red, and many times, running away from the swarm of deadly aliens in order to regroup/get a better vantage point is the best option. Also, you can't jump, which, for some reason, is allowed in first person view, even though it is not necessary.
Alan Wake was in third person, pretty much threw all kinds of nope inducing moments your way. I found it scary, horrifying even, it was just so surreal and it was scary not because of just jump scares but the atmosphere. You've got guns, they do nothing but slow them down unless you take the time to burn away the light -- or you can run to a street light to stay out of the darkness, which eventually gives up on you and basically makes you run even more and start panicking because you have no protection from anything.
I remember Clive Barker's Undying scaring the crap out of me when I was younger. First person game.
Right. Look, go to college and get your degree in Literature, then I might take what you say seriously. Until then, do not just blankly assume I do not know what I am talking about.Clura said:
It's funny, because that's what I've done. You on the other hand seem insistent on labelling your particular interpretation of an author as an objective truth. This somewhat makes me doubt you've spent any considerable time studying literary theory... or maybe those texts went right over your head as well.Ryan Hughes said:
Right. So, you have a degree in literature, yet you actually use .gifs to make your point, and cannot spell the word "labeling". We can go round and round if you want, but it does not change the fact that Lovecraft's "legacy" is poisonous, reflecting the poor quality of the initial work. I would give an example, but considering that I am speaking of a deficit of meaning, I really cannot do that without writing an essay. If you really were wishing to defend Lovecraft, you would have given specific examples from his work that disproved my point, as a college grad like yourself should be very comfortable doing.Clura said:
You're a funny fellow. You wouldn't know this, but there is this little island where the language you use originated. People living on the island have strange customs, one of them is that they use the spelling 'labelling'. Crazy, right?Ryan Hughes said:
As for my use of an internet meme to convey meaning... well, that would propably go under the heading of code switching. You know, the idea that people use different linguistic registers depending on the setting? Curiously, in me, college did not instill the need to pontificate in formal language on gaming site forums. But then, I also don't have your need to look down on people. (Oh, that famous beloved author is such an artistic failure! Oh, you don't even have a college degree! Oh, you spelled something incorrectly!)
Regarding the rest of your post, suffice to say, that you never really made a point to begin with. You put forth an opinion and then refused to justify it. As a college grad, I know when my time is being wasted.
I have to say that initially, your dismissal of Lovecraft bothered me. However, my opinion of you has been diminished to such a great degree by your last couple of posts that I really do not think it worth my time to continue this discussion.