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[flame99]

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3D third-person games where you have no control over the camera what so ever. There's not much else to say about this.

Silent Hill isn't so bad. Tank controls are ridiculous though.

...I was not aware that Silent Hill had a tank. It also seems really, really hard to be scared while controlling a tank.

[hops]

Fixed Cameras
3D third-person games where you have no control over the camera what so ever. There's not much else to say about this.

Silent Hill isn't so bad. Tank controls are ridiculous though.

...I was not aware that Silent Hill had a tank. It also seems really, really hard to be scared while controlling a tank.

ohgodohgodohgod it's the pyramid head guy!
oh wait.. i'm in a tank.

Achievement Get! : Pyramid Demolisher

[Parsely]

Fixed Cameras
3D third-person games where you have no control over the camera what so ever. There's not much else to say about this.

Silent Hill isn't so bad. Tank controls are ridiculous though.

...I was not aware that Silent Hill had a tank. It also seems really, really hard to be scared while controlling a tank.

No, no. Your character controls like a tank. You push left and right on the movement stick to change your facing, unlike in most 3rd person games where your character automatically faces whichever direction you push the stick in.

EDIT: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TankControls

[flame99]

Fixed Cameras
3D third-person games where you have no control over the camera what so ever. There's not much else to say about this.

Silent Hill isn't so bad. Tank controls are ridiculous though.

...I was not aware that Silent Hill had a tank. It also seems really, really hard to be scared while controlling a tank.

No, no. Your character controls like a tank. You push left and right on the movement stick to change your facing, unlike in most 3rd person games where your character automatically faces whichever direction you push the stick in.

EDIT: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TankControls

Ah, thanks. This makes much more sense.

[penguinofhonor]

Related are Horse Controls: your character automatically faces wherever you point while you're standing still, but if you're moving then you have a limited turning speed. Monster Hunter characters control like this.

[Fniff]

Hrm. This gets me thinking... how would a survival horror in a tank work?

I think it could work... if you did it really well. Somehow. Maybe bring it down to "survival horror in a car".

[itisnotlogical]

Related are Horse Controls: your character automatically faces wherever you point while you're standing still, but if you're moving then you have a limited turning speed. Monster Hunter characters control like this.

Actual horse riding in some games, too. Epona in Twilight Princess is incredibly fun to ride until you bump into something. Then she comes to a stop in two seconds, does a little four-second animation where she rears and turns around, then autopilots on her new course for a seemingly random amount of time.

At least it's not like the boat in Wind Waker, where overshooting an island can cause up to a minute of carefully re-aligning your boat and cruising at an agonizingly slow clip until you can swim to shore.

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Hrm. This gets me thinking... how would a survival horror in a tank work?

I think it could work... if you did it really well. Somehow. Maybe bring it down to "survival horror in a car".

Simple enough:

Zombie tank pilots.

[flame99]

Hrm. This gets me thinking... how would a survival horror in a tank work?

I think it could work... if you did it really well. Somehow. Maybe bring it down to "survival horror in a car".

Simple enough:

Zombie tank pilots.

As much as I hate using memes, there really is no better way to respond to this:
Shut up and take my money.

[Niveras]

Hrm. This gets me thinking... how would a survival horror in a tank work?

I think it could work... if you did it really well. Somehow. Maybe bring it down to "survival horror in a car".

Simple enough:

Zombie tank pilots.

Zombie dragons.

You don't need food, you need diesel. You still need ammo, but now it's 105mm DU rounds.

[penguinofhonor]

Actual horse riding in some games, too.

Yeah, I considered mentioning that horses usually have horse controls but it seemed a bit obvious. Boats are a good example, though many of them have the same slow turn speed even when they're not moving.

[Darkmere]

Hrm. This gets me thinking... how would a survival horror in a tank work?

I think it could work... if you did it really well. Somehow. Maybe bring it down to "survival horror in a car".

Spoiler: Tank survival horror: A synopsis. (click to show/hide)

You get dropped into a post warzone bunker, completely empty. There are messy papers everywhere, food on plates, maybe some bottled water in a fridge. Opening the door to the surface irrevocably shuts down the bunker, and you find semi-futuristic tank waiting outside. Behind you is a radioactive wasteland. Ahead of you is a warped, desolate countryside torn by war. The hatch on the tank opens, and for lack of a better option you climb inside, to a welcoming voice and a map to the nearest survivor outpost, miles ahead through the battlefield.

As you drive on, listening to the tank and the howling wind, you catch glimpses of... things... moving in the fields. They seem to avoid you for a time, but eventually a handful try to attack the tank. You laugh and keep driving. Then more come. On the third day you start hearing a small grinding noise in the tank's engine, and the voice becomes slightly despondent. Your supplies run low.

houses and potential stockpiles dot the landscape, but leaving the tank still for too long causes more attacks, and potentially more damage to your tank. Stay and starve, scavenge and potentially damage your one defense further and further. You take your chances outside, but never for very long. A week passes.

The engine's grinding is more severe, and the tank's AI voice is increasingly corrupted. Your meager scavenging trips and even more meager supplies dwindle, and as the tank grinds louder, moves slower, the things outside get closer.

At some points you have options to search military bunkers for pre-war intel papers or parts to keep your tank running longer, but the security gets more complex and more dangerous the farther into the wastelands you go, forcing you to make longer stops and sometimes use your withering tank as bait to thin out the enemy numbers, at the cost of its already-fading condition.

Do you speed up and hope the engine holds, knowing you'll call every beast on the plain to you? Turn the tank around and send in the other way, hoping to make the last few miles on foot? Set up a self-destruct  to make the monsters fear you? How do you cope with your only means of survival becoming more decrepit and useless by the day?

I like the idea of slow horror that sets in over a few hours of play instead of jump-scares or gore. I'd play it.

[Squill]

Oh wow I hate emptiness. I really feel uncomfortable playing a game without there being some other NPC or something there. I don't care if they hate me and are antagonistic, games always feel a mix of terrifying and dull without a character there to... I don't really know what to do. Just be a character.

Garry's Mod always made me unsettled for that very reason. Even in the places where there should be, by all reasons, people... There just isn't. It's also why I haaaate Gmod maps with scary secrets. I don't mind the idea of having something scary happen if you explore enough as long as there's an actual game around it, but the idea of just being alone except for something deeply malevolent somewhere in the level... Actually, that'd be a good game in and of itself. A seemingly normal city on a sunny day, unlike Silent Hill where it's obvious something went down and has depressing weather, except there is absolutely no-one around and if you dig deep, you can find unpleasing secrets...

You stand on the brightly lit street, with nothing but the low howl of the breeze between the buildings to keep you company. In the distance you hear the cheery cries of a cellphone, calling out for someone, anyone, exactly as you wish to do right now. However, the silence is dense, cloying, religiously upheld, and you do not wish to meet the enforcers of quiet. Even now, you can almost feel the inhuman eyes peering from the high tinted windows, and the warden beneath the manholes stalking the sound of your footsteps.

[Fniff]

Two great ideas for survival horror games! I'd discuss them further, but on 3DS so conversation is awkward at best.

[Tsuchigumo550]

I'd love a "build-your-own" style of horror game, with level editing. Large enough to where you can choose from a variety of objects- levels could be anything from purely atmospheric to "OMFG PYRAMID HEAD ARMY" or it's equivalent.

Of course there's a story.

Maybe do this on gmod, where you can make your own tunnel system, and have stuff like death hands coming out of walls and stuff

[Fniff]

The Amnesia level editor's kinda like that. A bit limited, but people have done some interesting things with it.