Just wanted to share this.

[Mina Darsh]

I dunno, it might purely be opinion, I must say that psychological terror can make me very tense and be like: "I'm so NOT going through that corridor!" Though the most intense scares for me were the suddenness of something scary. For example the movie Drag me to Hell, that movie gave me the largest shock I've ever had, not even a game has beaten it so far.

Spoiler in case someone is still planning to watch that movie:

Spoiler below!

I'm speaking of the scene where there is no tension build up with music at all, main character is haunted by some old women who put a curse on her and not long after the old women died. The main character hears a rumor that she may be able to repel the haunting women and gets to action, she dives in her shack to get some equipment. And then, out of nowhere with no music at all, she pulls away some cloth curtain and -BAM- the old haunting women jumps right at her! (Camera in this case.) For some reason that made me scream the wallpaper off the walls... T_T

Though yeah, in Dead Space's case, tension gets build up, and I must say, it is a bit of a party pooper... I mean, it's really like when the music starts building, I already know something scary comes and in my opinion, it risks being less scary.