Are Amnesia players adults or teens?

[jiersk]

Fifteen, but having suffered severe depression and trauma at a young age I was forced to mature very quickly.

I'm sorry to hear that I hope you are doing better now.

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I think the reason some adults might not be scared by Amnesia is because they're not used to playing FPS games, so that the controls become a barrier between them and the game. Since a sense of presence is created by an uninterrupted flow of information and feedback between the player and the game, their lack of fluency in FPS controls prevents them from immersing themselves and getting scared.

When I made my uncle play Amnesia, he was quite clumsy at first and sometimes during fast-paced moments he got confused because he simply wasn't sure what was going on. But eventually he got into it and started feeling 'em shivers.

Well I let the people who I let play Amnesia get used to the controls first. Otherwise they won't immerse, like you said.

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I want to thank everyone who has responded to this thread. I really like it to read through these threads and to write somethings myself too. So thanks

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Anybody who can't figure out how the controls in Amnesia work (which are as minimalistic as you get) is retarded. Sorry, but it's true. It has nothing to do with tech savvy, but the basic skills all mature human beings have: the ability to manipulate muscles and joints, functional memory and the ability to react to visual and aural stimuli. Even a child could master the controls after only playing the "tutorial".

Sorry Bridge but I really can't agree with you here. Learning these controls for the first time can be hard. You might know what WASD and the mouse do after the tutorial, but that doesn't mean you can move as good as people who are really used to it.
And do you still remember playing a game on pc for the first time? I don't think you directly knew how to play it good, even after the tutorial. No offence ( really ).