What is the perfect eerieness?

[graykin]

Not sure why you would need a warning for a link for a discussion about corpses in a horror setting...

Corpses in video games have never been terrifying, horrifying, or disgusting for me, personally (unless I'm simply suppressing unpleasant memories). They're just such a natural part of video games (don't know if this is a good or a bad thing), that, really, when you've seen one corpse, you've seen them all. Games have been able to include some fairly realistic mutilations--just look at Left 4 Dead 2, where you can blow off limbs, rip open their chest cavities and see their organs, and blow holes clean through people whilst watching their entrails slop out on the ground.

But there is always a disconnect--a sizable buffer from reality that prevents the sort of true revulsion that would arise in real life. No game has ever made me want to turn away from a dead body.

From a gaming perspective, dead bodies are totally lame. In real life, however...that is a totally different story.