Son of a bitch. Dead Space just went on sale on Steam for $5 and I need more horror games to puss out on. I'd already played a bit of it on 360 and found it to be tense but not scary scary for the most part, but I also haven't booted up my 360 in forever or even my TV for that matter, so I bought the game again cause otherwise I'd just never feel like playing it. And I really just want a horror game I can play to completion.
I love horror games for much the same reason I seem to enjoy harsh noise and now free jazz to some extent: the off putting assault on the senses that produces enjoyment in forms that aren't the norm in their mediums. Except music doesn't really repel me, whereas the visceral feelings of terror that I get from horror games are entirely out of proportion to what any thinking person should get from a ****ing video game. Basically every second is a battle within myself whether or not I go on or fear quit and go listen to Kesha for comfort food.
After ten minutes of Dead Space (that I'd already played before) I went with the latter option. I think it helped the fear factor that I'm now playing on a laptop with a screen a foot away from my face, but honestly I knew where that first scare was this time and succeeded quite well in psyching myself the **** out. The breaking moment came a couple minutes later, at the T-junction right after you get the... gun thing, and I turned down the dead end. Heard something or other, let out the weirdest little soft "Eh!" of fright, saw nothing, turned back around, and then almost freaked the mother**** out at one of those holographic, tutorial pop-ups that I'd seen a dozen of already in the past ten minutes. Was done. Will try again tomorrow. I expect nothing.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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