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[MonkeyHead]

Or like Doom 3, which tries to scare the shits out  of you (what sorta spacemarine couldnt hold a gun the same time as a torch?) but there are so many things to shoot its kinda lost in a sea of gore, noise and guns.

[Fniff]

I loved Metro 2033. It got the right mix of nightmarish, saddening, and hilarious. It's got patience and is willing to let the horror slowly seep into you over time. Hell, an entire level (Ghosts) is scary while having absolutely no enemies. Not by jump scares either, just thanks to crushing existential horror.

[Sirus]

Spoiler: Mild Metro 2033 spoilers (click to show/hide)

The idea that there was an afterlife, but the nuclear war destroyed it and now dead people are just trapped in the tunnels forever is pretty creepy. I believe Ghosts covered this aspect of the backstory, but it's been a while so I can't be sure.

[Fniff]

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Yep, that's the one. I like Metro 2033 cos it's subtly horrible, rather then blatantly grimdark. In 40k, the universe is torn apart by a never ending galactic war. In Metro 2033, half of the Moscow Metro System is torn apart by a pointless conflict between neo-nazis and communists. In 40k, the afterlife is a never-ending battle where you will die instantly. In Metro 2033, there isn't an afterlife anymore. In 40k, everyone is so used to it they jump into it with psychotic glee. In Metro 2033, people are still maintaining memorials to the dead and hoping for a better life, even though they know those hopes are going to crash down very quickly. In 40k, there is no possible way this could get better. In Metro 2033, there is... but you fucked it up.

[Mr Space Cat]

I have never felt terrified in Cataclysm. I've felt afraid, yes, and kinda depressed, but never scared out of my wits.

I think the scare factor of C:DDA is more about the threat of losing a character that you put a bunch of effort into, like hardcore Diablo or tons of other roguelikes such as nethack. C:DDA is a good portrayal of how shit hits the fan.

Randomly turning a corner and coming face to face with a jabberwock on day 1 can be a bit of a shocker. Randomly turning a corner and coming face to face with a jabberwock on day 63 without your handy-dandy bow or any method of combustion can be even more shocking.

[Fniff]

Well, I don't know exactly how I feel during Cataclysm. I tend to totally zone out when I play roguelikes, thinking about it.

[Loud Whispers]

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Yep, that's the one. I like Metro 2033 cos it's subtly horrible, rather then blatantly grimdark. In 40k, the universe is torn apart by a never ending galactic war. In Metro 2033, half of the Moscow Metro System is torn apart by a pointless conflict between neo-nazis and communists. In 40k, the afterlife is a never-ending battle where you will die instantly. In Metro 2033, there isn't an afterlife anymore. In 40k, everyone is so used to it they jump into it with psychotic glee. In Metro 2033, people are still maintaining memorials to the dead and hoping for a better life, even though they know those hopes are going to crash down very quickly. In 40k, there is no possible way this could get better. In Metro 2033, there is... but you fucked it up.

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I wouldn't be so critical on 40k, as the horror varies from writer to writer. For example, you have Homeric confrontation: Humanity's best, superhuman giants with rocket launchers as standard equipment utterly helpless in the face of the Lovecraftian star Gods with their soulless legions and the myriad horrors that not only seek to take your lives, but to take your humanity. It forces you to confront just how insignificant you are in the cosmic scale of things, and question even yourself.
And then there are those who simply think grisly means scary.

Yeah, subtlety is a part of what makes horror. Bits of information that creep on you until you finally grasp just how horrifying it is. You see any good writers, they write their characters in ways where they're actually human. There's a perfectly good one about some IG recruit, wasn't even a horror story, but spoilers within spoilers ahead:
The last chapter, the poor lad's happy that he lasted longer than the average lifespan of new recruits: 13 hours.

Metro 2033 is something else. Everyone is human, you know? If you sneak around, even the Nazis and Communists aren't treated as sub-human enemies. They have families, they talk about why they join. Some are in it for money, some believe theirs is the only ideology which will be able to fight and survive - and preserve the human race against the end of the world. The new humans try to communicate but are fraught with the same doubts and fears the people are made of, the stations of sincerity are dying and despair is inevitable as helplessness fights with the hope that this could all change. The pristine capital station only gives us one glance before we are directed to a dark room of war, there is no time to be lost in dreams. Everything is so broken, even the afterlife has forsaken the world, and none are the wiser.

Quality setting.

[Fniff]

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Unrelated, but I think it's more that the afterlife was destroyed by humanity rather then it giving up on us. I like the former because I enjoy it when in fiction a perfectly human that we are able to empathize with fucks up the entire cosmos by complete accident.

[JoshuaFH]

I remember watching a web series on Newgrounds of all places called Broken Saints, that had a moment that thoroughly scared the shit out of me so bad it turned me off from the series, which I actually kind of regret cause it was a really good story.

I won't spoil it, but it was at an important, dramatic junction in the series. Shit was getting tense, everybody was being confronted by the big bad in a way where everyone had no clue what was going down. There were a couple of pretty decent jump scares throughout the series so I'm on high alert for them, cause I'm just so susceptible to jumpscares that it's absurd and it's usually at these dramatic points where they get pulled out. So I'm really strung out, trying to mentally and emotionally prepare myself for the jumpscare cause I can just FEEL it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen any damn second now, but every time I'm like "Here it comes!", it doesn't happen and I get a little bit more high strung waiting for it.

The music is gradually getting more tense and more dramatic as the characters talk between themselves, but then out of nowhere there's something revealed that was not expected at all, something grisly and horrifying. The camera rested staring at the floor, but then SLOWLY panned up to show it to me, little by little. Something like this was never alluded to, so I'm trying to grasp what it was, still prepared for the jumpscare that never comes, and as the camera SLOWLY pans up to reveal more of it I finally start to grasp what it is. When it's revealed entirely, and I fully understand what I'm looking at, I'm scared so shitless I just closed out of the window as fast as I could. And that was my last experience with Broken Saints, that memory still sits haunting the back of my imagination, I'll never forget it.

[Tilla]

I remember watching a web series on Newgrounds of all places called Broken Saints, that had a moment that thoroughly scared the shit out of me so bad it turned me off from the series, which I actually kind of regret cause it was a really good story.

I won't spoil it, but it was at an important, dramatic junction in the series. Shit was getting tense, everybody was being confronted by the big bad in a way where everyone had no clue what was going down. There were a couple of pretty decent jump scares throughout the series so I'm on high alert for them, cause I'm just so susceptible to jumpscares that it's absurd and it's usually at these dramatic points where they get pulled out. So I'm really strung out, trying to mentally and emotionally prepare myself for the jumpscare cause I can just FEEL it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen any damn second now, but every time I'm like "Here it comes!", it doesn't happen and I get a little bit more high strung waiting for it.

The music is gradually getting more tense and more dramatic as the characters talk between themselves, but then out of nowhere there's something revealed that was not expected at all, something grisly and horrifying. The camera rested staring at the floor, but then SLOWLY panned up to show it to me, little by little. Something like this was never alluded to, so I'm trying to grasp what it was, still prepared for the jumpscare that never comes, and as the camera SLOWLY pans up to reveal more of it I finally start to grasp what it is. When it's revealed entirely, and I fully understand what I'm looking at, I'm scared so shitless I just closed out of the window as fast as I could. And that was my last experience with Broken Saints, that memory still sits haunting the back of my imagination, I'll never forget it.

Haha I know the guy who created that series, he would love to hear this story.

You should give it another try, after Newgrounds they got a deal with FOX to produce an enhanced edition with slightly improved art and effects and a full proper voice cast.

[Loud Whispers]

Can't stop, gotta listen to Khan.

[MadMalkavian]

I heard a loud skittering in the bushes outside my patio that sounded reminiscent of feet shuffling through gravel and stone. Freaked me the hell out, especially since I was getting dressed at the time.

...My living room is also my bedroom. Don't ask, I'm just glad I don't have neighbors that particularly want to be a part of my life.

[Loud Whispers]

I heard a loud skittering in the bushes outside my patio that sounded reminiscent of feet shuffling through gravel and stone. Freaked me the hell out, especially since I was getting dressed at the time.

...My living room is also my bedroom. Don't ask, I'm just glad I don't have neighbors that particularly want to be a part of my life.

It's ok to be paranoid, just be sure it's reasonable and doesn't affect your health.
If you hear it again, start looking up how to make landmines or just dig a pit trap in your patio.

[SalmonGod]

I heard a loud skittering in the bushes outside my patio that sounded reminiscent of feet shuffling through gravel and stone. Freaked me the hell out, especially since I was getting dressed at the time.

...My living room is also my bedroom. Don't ask, I'm just glad I don't have neighbors that particularly want to be a part of my life.

It's ok to be paranoid, just be sure it's reasonable and doesn't affect your health.
If you hear it again, start looking up how to make landmines or just dig a pit trap in your patio.

I would go for some glass serrated discs.

[Gamerlord]

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Unrelated, but I think it's more that the afterlife was destroyed by humanity rather then it giving up on us. I like the former because I enjoy it when in fiction a perfectly human that we are able to empathize with fucks up the entire cosmos by complete accident.

Been watching an LP of metro, and

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Khan says that heaven, hell and purgatory were 'atomised', which certainly seems to support the former.

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I remember reading on some forum somwhere a guy explaining how he thought that Khan was in fact Death/Grim Reaper. I don't remember all of his reasoning, but the bit that hit me the most was how the souls of the dead in Ghosts obeyed Khan and moved aside.