Amnesia killed the horror genre

[kailip]

@ dmdmdm
Just imagine that you could experience the above (attacked by the monster from Deadspace2 or Amnesia) in REAL LIFE ...

Standing in a fully enclosed futuristic armor suit with a dozen futuristic weapons with plentiful ammunition attacked by the 7th monster of a kind I've killed before on my ship, and standing in a cotton shirt with a dozen...tinderboxes and a lantern attacked by a monster in his home.

One of them is going to result in 'Yikes, he jumped out at me, now watch the way his limbs fly off' and the other will be 'Oh Christ no don't find me oh God.'

Do you see why people would say these are different genres? One of them seems very action-y with horror elements, and the other is...horror.

True , but in Dead Space (1 and 2) case using HEAVY weaponry by upgrading them to the MAX is a choice , NOT a nessasity .

Try completing Deadspace using only the standard (without ANY upgrades) plasma-cutter and by trying to OUTRUN the monsters ...

It"S POSSIBLE , but it"ll give FEAR a whole new meaning , and also more a feeling of SURVIVAL-Horror.

Just remember , it"S YOUR CHOICE how you want to play/experience Amnesia (with or without tinderboxes) and Dead Space series (with or without upgraded weaponry).
Different choices give different experience of both games.

And this guy was talking about immersion... In the real life, would you CHOOSE to don't upgrade the weapons?

LOL...