in spider-man 2 I climbed to the top of the empire state building and looked down and I legit got freaked out by being so high up
also when I was watching the peter jackson version of king kong I was more freaked out by when they were all running around on top of the empire state building than I was by that scene where they were getting attacked by parasites or whatever, like "GET DOWN FROM THERE JESUS CHRIST DO YOU REALIZE HOW HIGH UP YOU ARE, FUCK"
This happens to me in every Assassin's creed game.
and I LOVE it.
Any game that makes heights feel legit scary is doing a good job.
if I can't see the bottom I flip out. even if it's in a game. you remember the horde druid quest in wow? I was about the only druid running around without aquatic form.
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IMDB tells me 110 minutes which is super short for a Jackson Movie.
if I can't see the bottom I flip out. even if it's in a game. you remember the horde druid quest in wow? I was about the only druid running around without aquatic form.
I'm a rogue and barely take fall damage now.
I jumped off of like, tallest tower in the valley of strength...
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I absolutely hate heights in real life, but in most games I don't have that trouble. Occasionally though, it happens pretty badly. I've done numerous playthroughs of Dark Souls and every time I have to cross the rafters in the painting building in Anor Londo my hands get all sweaty and my heart beats faster. I've never even fallen off the damn things.
It's something specific about that area, too. I don't get the same effect in Sen's Fortress, for example, or when descending the Great Hollow. It's weird. And of course games like Saints Row 4 allow you to get that high with specific mechanics to let you descend safely, so it doesn't happen there either. But that damn church, every single time.
The fuckin worm things in King Kong still freak me out
yeah but they're running around on top of that building and there are no railings and there's a GIANT GORILLA flailing around and there are airplanes and it's like JESUS CHRIST GET DOWN FROM THERE
So SOMA makes me wonder if other people feel how I do about horror films/games/etc
I always find the mechanics/backstory of horror stuff super interesting
I wanna know how the curse works, why the ghost goes after certain types of people, I wanna know how this place became abandoned, stuff like that
But I rarely actually enjoy the part where people stumble onto the setting and get murdered
For this reason I absolutely love stuff like scp foundation, and even things like Lovecraft because they typically cut off after the setup really, but don't like horror movies or most games
I wonder if this is a thing or if I'm super weird
This basically describes my attitude. I love learning about the mechanics of spooky things. SCP is the perfect drug for me, people finding out how these creatures' powers work, if there's a limit to how much blood comes out of the walls, if you can just burn down the haunted forest, stuff like that.
see that kind of thing can be kind of fun, but I dunno if I'd necessarily call it "horror"
horror is all about NOT knowing how stuff works. Either because something surprises you (guy jumping out of the bushes!) or because something happens that contradicts your understanding of how the world works (walls bleeding for example).
like the cliche of a lovecraft story is people investigating things that turn out to be impossible for the human brain to comprehend and they go crazy
so if you dig too deep into backstory and explaining things and that kind of thing, you run the risk of killing the magic. It's the same reason monster movies try and hide what the monster looks like, because once you see it you can start to understand it and learn to not fear it.
blood and gore in and of itself really isn't "horror" either to my mind. I feel like there's a difference between whether something is disturbing and whether it's horrific. Disturbing imagery can be a component of horror but they're not the same thing I don't think.
i feel like in general the twilight zone is some of the best horror i've seen. it very rarely feels the need to explain itself, and is just content to let bad things happen for no reason. One of my favorite TZ episodes is about three astronauts that temporarily vanish from the radar during a mission, and shortly after they return, one of them vanishes and nobody but the other two astronauts remember him ever existing. All evidence points to the fact that there was only two astronauts on the mission. And then a little later, the second astronaut disappears. The remaining astronaut has a nervous breakdown and gets put in the hospital. A nurse brings him a cup of water, and the camera tracks her as she leaves the room, and comes back with a vase of flowers, which she puts on an end table that's in the space that the astronaut's bed was in a second ago. There's no indication of why it's happening, which creates panic because it means there's nothing to do about it. Some cosmic force more powerful than humanity is erasing these guys from existence and they can do nothing but wait for it to happen. That's scary! It's also both not gory and doesn't explain itself in the slightest.
Hmmm, that's true. I guess I like the "exploring the unknown" aspect of horror. Something like that Twilight Zone episode is weird, but not necessarily effective, to me. "Weird / bad things are happening for no apparent reason" just doesn't work for me. I really enjoy Lovecraft's style of horror, where, to use a particularly Lovecraftian turn of phrase, a terrible truth is gradually revealed.
THROUGH SOIL HE DID CRAWL
EARTHWOOORM JIM
A SUPERSUIT DID FALL
JIM WAS JUST A DIRT-EATING CHEWY LENGTH OF WORMFLESH,
'TIL ALL THAT CAME TO A CRASHING END, SPLAT!
EARTHWOOORM JIM
HE'S SUCH A GROOVY GUY
EARTHWOOORM JIM
HE ROCKETS THROUGH THE SKY
CRUISIN' THROUGH THE UNIVERSE, HAVIN' LOTS OF FUN--
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This happens to me in every Assassin's creed game.
and I LOVE it.
Any game that makes heights feel legit scary is doing a good job.
That scene is a pretty good arguement for Jackson needing an editor
I jumped off of like, tallest tower in the valley of strength...
I can't watch that scene. It comes on and I leave the room.
It's something specific about that area, too. I don't get the same effect in Sen's Fortress, for example, or when descending the Great Hollow. It's weird. And of course games like Saints Row 4 allow you to get that high with specific mechanics to let you descend safely, so it doesn't happen there either. But that damn church, every single time.
yeah but they're running around on top of that building and there are no railings and there's a GIANT GORILLA flailing around and there are airplanes and it's like JESUS CHRIST GET DOWN FROM THERE
God damn I love that movie. I had no idea it was from PJ.
Yup. It even has that trademark car of his in it.
I would love to see Amy Hennig hit somebody with a perfectplex.
Hmmm, that's true. I guess I like the "exploring the unknown" aspect of horror. Something like that Twilight Zone episode is weird, but not necessarily effective, to me. "Weird / bad things are happening for no apparent reason" just doesn't work for me. I really enjoy Lovecraft's style of horror, where, to use a particularly Lovecraftian turn of phrase, a terrible truth is gradually revealed.
My Steam
I just looked this up on youtube.
Nope. Not sleeping tonight.
THROUGH SOIL HE DID CRAWL
EARTHWOOORM JIM
A SUPERSUIT DID FALL
JIM WAS JUST A DIRT-EATING CHEWY LENGTH OF WORMFLESH,
'TIL ALL THAT CAME TO A CRASHING END, SPLAT!
EARTHWOOORM JIM
HE'S SUCH A GROOVY GUY
EARTHWOOORM JIM
HE ROCKETS THROUGH THE SKY
CRUISIN' THROUGH THE UNIVERSE, HAVIN' LOTS OF FUN--
wh
mmmmm
i think i just had a stroke
http://www.audioentropy.com/
she was previously a fan
Doug Tennappel is human garbage
http://www.audioentropy.com/
THROUGH THE SOIL HE DID CRAWL
no lie, I was absolutely obsessed with Earthworm Jim. It was intense.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
http://www.audioentropy.com/
which, i mean, is true
but it's also just about the most banal thing there is to say on the situation
http://www.audioentropy.com/
listen
A lot of good stuff comes from the basic thought "people shouldn't be assholes"
weirdly though also a lot of bad stuff???
http://www.audioentropy.com/
They mostly involve adhering to dogma
dogma that was founded around a dude who said "hey yo
don't be assholes"
http://www.audioentropy.com/