Horror - what makes a game scary?

[HotFuzz]

Add some more to this, Audio such as music or sounds. Sounds of things running by or maybe something deformed when it walks sounds like someone typing on a keyboard very scattered clicking of its weird feet. Here is a good scary song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojO3XvBIT0Y

Scary to people is not knowing. is the feeling of despair and confusion.

Some scary photos

[PhoeniX1992]

You spend too much time at /x/...

[krainert]

That second picture is sweet, though.

[PhoeniX1992]

That second picture is sweet, though.

Indeed, and I had to look twice to the one of the hallway, I thought it was a photoshopped pic of an ingame screenshot

[Spike]

Creepy-Chan is creepy

[jgoodroad]

horror- a combination of ambiance, audio, and visuals

[TicTac]

In a big building like that, the feeling that you're being followed should put your nerves on end. Little things, like a door shutting or a creaking board from the floor you just left, or echoes in the stairwell you're climbing

[jgoodroad]

In a big building like that, the feeling that you're being followed should put your nerves on end. Little things, like a door shutting or a creaking board from the floor you just left, or echoes in the stairwell you're climbing

If you think that video was "scary"... you should see the shit the custodian has to deal with...

a little look in to the bowels of hell never hurt anyone...

[TicTac]

I didn't find it really scary, but it was neat I love mind fuck things like that

[jgoodroad]

I didn't find it really scary, but it was neat I love mind fuck things like that

what I found scary about this is the video description...I had to take a double-take when I saw the words
"escape from the noise..."

[Unreal_Me]

On the note of contrast and anticipation, Metroid Prime managed to nail that in a few spots.
One minute you're going through the Chozo Ruins with barely enemeies, and then some creepy attack music kicks in and some annoying-to-kill ghosts appear, shriek, and start shooting you.

Same with the space pirate base. While it's pretty much implied that you'll meet some enemies, the music is still unnerving. Especially since it's so quiet whenever the enemies are hiding.

[iFailify]

FEAR2 has a freaking awesome start... Some child music and suddenly a girl on your face - that would work somewhere

[city14]

6 month bump?

Well, horror has been described to me from a friend quoting Alfred Hitchcock, "The most terrifying things are those that are just out of your field of view."
Things that are just off screen, right where you don't want them to be. If you know where they are, but can't see them, that's even more terrifying.

[trcc]

6 month bump?

Well, horror has been described to me from a friend quoting Alfred Hitchcock, "The most terrifying things are those that are just out of your field of view."
Things that are just off screen, right where you don't want them to be. If you know where they are, but can't see them, that's even more terrifying.

july is right after june, did you know?

And what's wrong with necro-bumping ? Forums are kinda dead atm imo..

[city14]

Lol, I thought it said "jan" not "jun"

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