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not_damn_dirty-ape · 3420 days ago · link · · parent · post: What Constitutes a Truly Terrifying Horror Game?
I haven't played many horror games really but I have seen a few let's plays that make me feel the exact same way you do. Jump scares are lazy and easy to accomplish in any medium. The games that I have played that terrified me were bloodbourne and PT. PT gave me the build up by forcing me to go through the hallway multiple times and putting me into a pattern and then suddenly changing it. BloodBourne did it artificially by making me try over and over again to kill a monster. There was nothing objectively scary about fighting that monster but because I had been doing it for 2 hours everything depended on that one punch.