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RE: Which Is More Annoying? - Zaari - 04-05-2012 Funny, when I read the title, I immediately started thinking about teleporting naked guys. I didn't even have to read the rest of the post. So yeah, teleporting naked guys. RE: Which Is More Annoying? - Tekkie - 04-06-2012 TNGs all the way, for pretty much all the reasons everybody else posted before me, but I'm gonna add one more to the list of reasons; laziness. Seriously, why bother making a horror map if you're not going to put any original thought into it? Anybody can chuck a body around and add a scream effect, but it takes originality to actually make playing the maps worthwhile. Poofers can be useful, if played correctly. If you're wanting to scare a player into running like hell, but you don't want to actually kill them if they fail to get away in time is a perfect example. Especially if they were never meant to actually get away, and you were just trying to back them into a corner for effect. RE: Which Is More Annoying? - DRedshot - 04-06-2012 Spoiler below!
'Poofers' actively make the player less scared of the Grunt/Brute/Suitor in general, which not only makes you bored whenever you see the poofer, it also makes you fear the actual monster less, no matter what custom story it's in. Teleporting naked guys are dull, boring and cheap scare tactics, but they don't directly affect your experience of other custom stories. I gotta admit it really made me jump when I first saw it, but then it got overused. The same would be the case for any scare tactic which got overused. RE: Which Is More Annoying? - Robby - 04-06-2012 Flying Jesus gets boring and annoying quickly. Poofers (on my opinion) feel great the first time, but after a while, they'll get annoying as well. One good thing with poofers, if you use them periodically, and then place a real monster after those, you'll "trick" the player into thinking "oh, nother poofer", and when they'll walk into it... you get the idea. RE: Which Is More Annoying? - Kreekakon - 04-06-2012 (04-06-2012, 04:23 PM)Nemet Robert Wrote: One good thing with poofers, if you use them periodically, and then place a real monster after those, you'll "trick" the player into thinking "oh, nother poofer", and when they'll walk into it... you get the idea.I've experienced that feeling, and, IMHO, no, it's not good. It's more annoying to encounter that than being scared in my opinion. RE: Which Is More Annoying? - kiruclanz - 04-06-2012 After you go through a level door, if the room in the level you go in has any kind of monster (triggered or not) make the door lock behind the player when he spawns in the next level XD that would piss me off. I'm actually doing that in my custom story. RE: Which Is More Annoying? - Electra - 04-06-2012 Just to add more tinderboxes to this fire of heated discussion, what are things people add in custom stories that really make it lose the effect or things that are overdone waaaay too much? (Feel free to keep discussing TNG and poofers though, this is really helping me out when I start my custom story work ) RE: Which Is More Annoying? - Cranky Old Man - 04-06-2012 (04-06-2012, 05:00 PM)Electra Wrote: Just to add more tinderboxes to this fire of heated discussion, what are things people add in custom stories that really make it lose the effect or things that are overdone waaaay too much? (Feel free to keep discussing TNG and poofers though, this is really helping me out when I start my custom story work )I don't know about you, but I'd like to play 24_iron_maiden.snt at my funeral. It's such a catchy tune, so I'm sure everybody will love it. It never goes out of style, really. RE: Which Is More Annoying? - Prelauncher - 04-06-2012 (04-06-2012, 05:00 PM)Electra Wrote: Just to add more tinderboxes to this fire of heated discussion, what are things people add in custom stories that really make it lose the effect or things that are overdone waaaay too much? (Feel free to keep discussing TNG and poofers though, this is really helping me out when I start my custom story work )On that I´d have to say key puzzles. I mean, who locks every door in their house and hide the bloody keyes allover the place. A little more imagination on the whole puzzle bit would be nice. Don´t get me wrong, some doors are locked and requires a key, but in a lot of CSs, there is way to many locked doors RE: Which Is More Annoying? - JenniferOrange - 04-06-2012 I think threads that complain about TNG and poofers are the most annoying. Just saying. |