Amnesia killed the horror genre

[Mexxi]

I get sick and tired of people saying how scary Alan Wake, or Dead Space (I hear it from my girlfriend so much that it annoys the hell out of me). Both fun games with great atmosphere, just one problem. Your character is just as powerful as say any iconic movie horror villain.

i get sick and tired of people saying how scary amnesia is. true it has great atmosphere, but unless you're a 14 year old girl it can't really scare. its repetitive gameplay style kills any anticipation.

What Amnesia did perfectly is having you like a main character from a horror movie who must overcome all the horrors while living through the pain that can't be undone.

pain that can't be undone? whatever that means...amnesia forces you to run away. you don't have to face your fears and that is what's truly scary. play some zombie missions of dark project, or shalebridge cradle from deadly shadows and you'll know what real fear is. amnesia can't hold a candle to those experiences in terms of scariness. even the stone age old alone in the dark 2 is more scary than amnesia, because you have to face monsters with only little to attack and without knowing if you survive. there's no holding your hand, no respawning after you've been killed and no removing the monsters for you if you just die enough.