Why am I scared? Page 2

Started by Nidoking76 August 18th, 2014 9:19 AM
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GreenFlame

Male
Seen June 17th, 2017
Posted November 8th, 2016
1,235 posts
9.9 Years
I've played this on iOS and it's really not that difficult. I admit the atmosphere of it is very intense, but the thing that gets people is panic. If you don't panic and manage your resources well you can win easily. I breezed through the first 3 nights without a single death and then beat the 4th night on my third try. I'm too scared to do night 5 because I know Freddy will be active :(.

The dev did a fantastic job on the atmosphere though. I feel very 'on edge' while I play and my heart rate goes right up.
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Deep in the Heart of Texas
Seen November 21st, 2016
Posted January 4th, 2016
379 posts
8.7 Years
Perhaps my constant reading of creepypastas has desensitized me from some of this stuff, because I don't find FNaF that terrifying (still creepy though). However, I can understand why others are so frightened of the game.

In most horror games, you have some way to defend yourself, usually a gun or something like that. Or, you can at least run away from whatever monster or ghost is after you.

Not in this game.

In this game, you are stuck in a room where your only means of defense is a door on either side. That's it. Not only that, but the doors (and the cameras) run on electricity that is gradually decreasing as the night goes on. So, I imagine that most people with a job like this would have at least some bit of paranoia set in once they found out the animatronics could kill them. Then, the entire night would just be nothing but tensed paranoia as the security guard has to make damn sure he balances his camera use and waits for Freddy and his friends to come by and hope that his a)his reflexes are good enough and b) that he hasn't run out of electricity.

And that's pretty much it. The fear that some horrible fate is awaiting you and there's very little you can actually do about it makes for a fantastic horror game atmosphere.

Corvus of the Black Night

Wild Duck Pokémon

Age 30
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With the Birds
Seen January 9th, 2015
Posted January 9th, 2015
3,416 posts
14.3 Years
I had an epiphany yesterday. This game is literally Night Trap in a different setting.

Funny how failed ideas can be revived in new skin to be successful. Then again, FNaF's execution was much better.

VeranithasVI

I eat shades of #radred.

Age 28
Male
The Nightosphere
Seen August 28th, 2015
Posted August 28th, 2015
599 posts
8.7 Years
I'm too much of a sissy to play horror games. :/ ZombiU was about my limit on horror and it wasn't even as scary as some of these games are purported to be. Much of my fear comes from the inability to move forward when I know scary things will be happening. I didn't even get past ONE door in Amnesia, despite owning it for awhile now.
Amnesia was the first scary/horror game I ever played (aside from many of the Resident Evil/Silent Hill games, but they were always played with my older sister around or other friends) and I got about ten minutes in beforeI turned it off, never to play it again for a few months.

When the time came around to play it again, I played it in my room whilst a few friends were over playing Playstation/watching a movie, and I was terrified still. Then a friend piped up and said "Dude why are you even playing that game if it scares you, what's the point, that's stupid" and I looked at him, back at the screen, then turned off and uninstalled the game. He completely ruined it for me.

Still scary AF though. So is the Slender video game, albeit poorly done.

Alfieri

aka Ronnie

Age 27
Male
New York City
Seen June 23rd, 2019
Posted June 23rd, 2019
2,850 posts
9.2 Years
I've only seen gameplay of it because my friend likes to show me all of those annoying facecam let's play videos. I don't find the game scary. Maybe it would be different if I played it myself but they're just toy animals. Jump scares only work on me if it was like some creepy bloody witch lady or a gigantic tarantula close-up.