Amnesia killed the horror genre

[Vivec]

This should be renamed the Dead Space 2 vs Amnesia thread. Jeez. ;P

On topic, though, I wouldn't go so far as to say it killed the horror genre. It just put into perspective how many "horror" games didn't really scare you so much as give you gore and really ugly enemies to fight. There are plenty of things that I'm sure will scare me. The Cradle from Thief 3, Ravenholm from HL2 (sometimes!) and so forth. I would actually say Amnesia has revived the horror genre, because now the zombie shooters might have some competition from psychological horror and survival horror. I mean survival horror, not kill-everyone-with-a-huge-gun horror.

My two cents. =P