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medicinemane · 2 months ago

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Honestly a lot of my favorite horror ends up being games I 100% will never play and wouldn't enjoy playing, but that I managed to find someone who was able to convey enough to me to make me really care (though often leaving holes that I really want to fill but either can't sit through the whole playthough, or can't find the right playthrough, or... similar, you know?)

Dead Space, Marrow, Siren... all games I really like, games that have a lot (or uh... what's it called... Som... Sola... Signalis!)

But Dead Space I can't find the right playthrough, and Marrow I just crave something more from an imperfect game (video I watched is by doshdoshington)

Or supergreatfriend's playthrough of Siren is pretty much flawless... but... it's like 59 15-30mintue long videos, and the 60th explainer video is nearly 3 hours long on it's own... I always make it like 20 videos in before not being able to pay attention anymore

(Also like his playthrough of Deadly Premonition)

So you maybe see my problem, all these great pieces of horror I can really only engage with through these weird one off means that never quite leave me satisfied (like no way I'm beating MyHouse.WAD, I'm not even close to that good nor do I enjoy playing DOOM even if I respect it)

Love horror, just can't stand anything made in the genre because it all sucks and is boring and has stupid twists or pacing that annoys me and I hate everything about it except a few gems I can't interact with

But like I said, love horror

#mm tag so i can find things later #I'm just so so so so so so so so so so so so picky with horror #and it's not that my taste is objectively right; even though I am right about... mhh...#I'm right about things like shaky cam as a genre sucking not only cause of the way it's filmed but cause of the writing #but I'm not write about Saw being bland boring shit; that one's just a preference #like I know the first one's bold; and I'm not here to ruin other people's fun cause that's not an objective statement #but the difference is that the Saw movies might be well made and I can't tell; where as a lot of shaky cam are just trash #and oh how many movies have an interesting premise but have annoying 20 somethings #yes I would like to hear about Paris catacombs horror; and what a good title you have... why do your characters sound so annoying #first and foremost your characters must not annoy me #new Alien was good in part because only one character annoyed me; and while he got people killed he died #it's not that he deserved to die; but I was happy to be rid of him #and the original Alien is good because no one annoys me #that's not enough to make a movie good... but it sure is something that's probably true if I'm gonna like a horror movie #not based around something that could happen in the real world like a serial killer getting someone to let him spend the night #and people don't fucking annoy me... if you've done that... proceed and I'll take a look #but if you do the first one I'll take my leave without assessing your quality #and if you do the second one I won't even fucking watch you and if I do I'm almost certain to be bored and skip through you #conflict with the horror is so much more interesting to me than people being bitchy at each other #like Dead Space... that's different; unitoligists (for one thing; aren't a monolith; there's good people there) aren't catty #they're not annoying snippy little bitches who act like high schoolers #like yeah fuck that guy who made the regenerator both cause he's awful and cause that's a horrible enemy type #but at least he was just a crazy asshole with a civilized veneer and not an unstable 20 something that'll kill their friend with a rock #like you don't write all this stupid shit if you don't care about something #but I just have such trouble finding anything to enjoy in horror #love it though; really really do #oh add System Shock to the list of games I can't find a way to even get into; but really like and respect and wish I could

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