Running out of ideas!

[Kman]

Palistov is completely right about installing fear instead of frustration, I still think to this day that the prison was one of the least scary parts of the main game (for me at least) just because finding your way around it was next to impossible, since it was a super confusing maze and another monster spawned all the time. Now I think that the concept behind that area was great, but if they had varied monster encounters I wouldn't have gotten so annoyed with it. What I mean is aside from one or two of the monster encounters in the prison, most of them spawned from a very far away distance and they usually spawned when the player was located conviniently right next to a great hiding spot. For me this became more tedious and boring since you knew that there was some way to avoid the monster and it was almost always easy to finnd, and once you found it you would end up sitting in that hiding spot for a long time completely stopping progress on getting out of the maze. Just something to think about, hope it helps!

EDIT: oh shit, just realized this thread is months old XD i'll leave this up for just to help people anyways though