Serious and Immersive Custom Stories Thread

[Lewk]

I wouldn't bash jumpscares in general, if I were you. The can be very good, if executed properly.

What I was expressing was my genuine, honest reaction to seeing jumpscares in a custom story. When I experience one in a game, the first things that come to mind are "This was annoying. This was stupid. This was not relevant to the story (in the case of most custom stories, anyway). This was a lame attempt of the developer's to put some immediate shock into the player, of which the fright only lasts a couple of seconds at most."

It just screams to me (literally, sometimes) that the developer is an imbecile who doesn't know two sh*ts when it comes to making a creepy or frightening game. I know that this is everyone's opinion of what the value of jumpscares are, but in my humble and honest opinion, it's an immersion breaker, and ruins the entire rest of the experience and whatever the story was.