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This is going to be a long one people.
As a veteran gamer with 2 decades (started real young) and 500+ titles under my belt (could be more, but it's hard to remember all those any more). I don't often find myself jumping and going "holy shit" from utter fear very often.
Don't get me wrong, I get frantic quite often, but this is more from "difficulty" based fear, like I don't have enough ammo/health to take on that hulking monstrosity, or from an enemy that disappears/teleports in some manner.
Having just played F.E.A.R. 3, a game full of "jump out" scares that didn't even make me flinch. Just because you learn the subtle cues over time, the change in music or lighting, entering a type of location (because there's at least one monster just waiting for you the entire game inside a vent or a sewer), and untill recently objects/bodies that were apparently in-animate but were just waiting for you to get close would look quite different than one that didn't do anything at all (kudos to F.E.A.R. 3 on this though, you can't tell the difference between the "in-wait" enemies and prop corpses, this might've gotten me the first time, but I was screwing around jumping on top of shelves
). Or because I was doing something completely different than the developers expected (see last paranthesis for point-in-case) and the "scare" was ineffectual because I was pre-occupied with something else.
I decided to play F.E.A.R. Perseus mandate for the first time last night and something got me really good.
I just thought I'd share this uncommenly wonderful moment with you all. And see if any of you had some similar experiences.
As a veteran gamer with 2 decades (started real young) and 500+ titles under my belt (could be more, but it's hard to remember all those any more). I don't often find myself jumping and going "holy shit" from utter fear very often.
Don't get me wrong, I get frantic quite often, but this is more from "difficulty" based fear, like I don't have enough ammo/health to take on that hulking monstrosity, or from an enemy that disappears/teleports in some manner.
Having just played F.E.A.R. 3, a game full of "jump out" scares that didn't even make me flinch. Just because you learn the subtle cues over time, the change in music or lighting, entering a type of location (because there's at least one monster just waiting for you the entire game inside a vent or a sewer), and untill recently objects/bodies that were apparently in-animate but were just waiting for you to get close would look quite different than one that didn't do anything at all (kudos to F.E.A.R. 3 on this though, you can't tell the difference between the "in-wait" enemies and prop corpses, this might've gotten me the first time, but I was screwing around jumping on top of shelves
). Or because I was doing something completely different than the developers expected (see last paranthesis for point-in-case) and the "scare" was ineffectual because I was pre-occupied with something else.I decided to play F.E.A.R. Perseus mandate for the first time last night and something got me really good.
While climbing down the ladder close to the end of the sewers area, it looked like some kind of water treatment plant or whatever. I saw a soldier round a corner and walk into an alley just as I reached the bottom. So I thought "He hasn't seen me! I can get the drop and melee him to death!" and quickly rounded the corner, only to find a blood smear and some of his body parts laying in a corner of the short, dead-ended, alley. And I thought to myself, okay that's a bit creepy. Then I go to turn around and "holy shit" was all that I could think as I caught a black figure at the edge of the screen saying in a wierd voice 'Is anybody there...'
Because I had my finger on the melee key (I'd been hitting the damned grenade key insted all night and wasn't about to have that happen again) ready for some ganking, I quickly meleed it mid-startle and once I realised what it was I turned around in my computer chair. And for a brief second I considered just turning off the game and calling it a night.
Because I had my finger on the melee key (I'd been hitting the damned grenade key insted all night and wasn't about to have that happen again) ready for some ganking, I quickly meleed it mid-startle and once I realised what it was I turned around in my computer chair. And for a brief second I considered just turning off the game and calling it a night.
I just thought I'd share this uncommenly wonderful moment with you all. And see if any of you had some similar experiences.
