Just wanted to share this.

**Frost** · 10-07-2011, 07:24 PM

http://memebase.com/2011/10/06/internet-...n-amnesia/

The title of this says "Dead Space: Scarier Than Amnesia?" I nearly raged all over the place until I looked at the comments. The fact that almost everyone was like "wtf Amnesia is the scariest game ever" and that some even knew about Penumbra made my day.

I know I found out about Frictional Games reeeeally late, but I'm very proud of how much they've achieved.

Probably not much to discuss here, sorry.

**Kman** · 10-07-2011, 08:05 PM

Speaking of that... I was talking to someone in school yesterday who said dead space was the scariest game ever/*facepalm* BUT WAIT, it gets worse. When I told him dead space wasn't scary because all I did was use jump scare after jump scare. He then replied "yeah of corse it does! That's what true horror really is!"/*mega facepalm* and no I'm not done yet, he then asked me what games I did find scary so I said games that actually cause psychological terror, which he then went on to say "ok well then name a few games that use this so called 'psychological terror'" so I said games like amnesia, penumbra, silent hill, fatal frame, etc. So he replys "wtf none of those games are even scary, i didn't jump once playing any of those"/*mega ultra super facepalm* see THIS is why I hate dead space. Because it's just further fueling the belief that jump scares=horror. Thank god there are still people that can tell the difference between the 2 :|

**Mina Darsh** · 10-07-2011, 08:47 PM

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!

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.

~~Googolplex~~ · 10-08-2011, 10:31 AM

Amnesia is just same scary as Penumbra.
But Penumbra has more complex physic puzzles and is even a better experience at all.

But Dead Space? If I see this game, I'm automatically not interested to play it.

**Tanshaydar** · 10-08-2011, 10:51 AM

(10-07-2011, 08:05 PM)kman Wrote: /*mega ultra super facepalm*

I'm glad you didn't kill yourself and came back to write this post. Probably I'd have killed myself before reaching last point.
Personally, I found Dead Space: Martyr scarier than both games.

**Mina Darsh** · 10-08-2011, 11:07 AM

(10-08-2011, 10:51 AM)Tanshaydar Wrote:
(10-07-2011, 08:05 PM)kman Wrote: /*mega ultra super facepalm*

I'm glad you didn't kill yourself and came back to write this post. Probably I'd have killed myself before reaching last point.

I was imagining the sound of a skull cracking when I read that, yeah. Tongue

**Kman** · 10-08-2011, 07:53 PM

(10-08-2011, 10:51 AM)Tanshaydar Wrote:
(10-07-2011, 08:05 PM)kman Wrote: /*mega ultra super facepalm*

I'm glad you didn't kill yourself and came back to write this post. Probably I'd have killed myself before reaching last point.
Personally, I found Dead Space: Martyr scarier than both games.

Oh believe me, I felt a VERY strong urge to punch him in the face and run...

**Yuhaney** · 10-08-2011, 11:26 PM

Personally I find Dead Space to be the scariest game I have played.

Dead Space sure did have a lot of jump scares; which are kinda annoying, yes. But sometimes they just make me laugh at myself, which I enjoy and it compensates them.
But then again, Dead Space has great sound effects (if you play it with 5.1 sounds) which created the atmosphere for me that made it the game scariest game I have played.

I'm not saying that Amnesia (or Penumbra) has bad effects and it's an awful game... Amnesia has great sound effects and atmosphere as well!

I just believe this is one of those subjects that are about personal taste.
And mostly discussing about them, will lead into a flame war of some sort.

**Tanshaydar** · 10-09-2011, 02:33 AM

First Dead Space sure had its psychological scares, and they were frigging awesome. And some of the disturbing scenes might be even better than Amnesia and/or Penumbra.
However if we look into overall quality, Dead Space falls into the Doom 3 pit, while Amnesia does not.

It's not matter of which game appeals which personal taste, but claiming "jump scares" to be real horror :/

**Hunter of Shadows** · 10-09-2011, 03:40 AM

(10-08-2011, 10:51 AM)Tanshaydar Wrote:
(10-07-2011, 08:05 PM)kman Wrote: /*mega ultra super facepalm*

I'm glad you didn't kill yourself and came back to write this post. Probably I'd have killed myself before reaching last point.
Personally, I found Dead Space: Martyr scarier than both games.

great book

Quote: First Dead Space sure had its psychological scares, and they were frigging awesome. And some of the disturbing scenes might be even better than Amnesia and/or Penumbra.
However if we look into overall quality, Dead Space falls into the Doom 3 pit, while Amnesia does not.

It's not matter of which game appeals which personal taste, but claiming "jump scares" to be real horror :/

I don't agree, I think for some people there is some definite dread that dead space plays upon, the fear of when you're going to get jumped, to the point you wanna scream FUCKING COME OUT AND GET ME ALREADY

But of course they won't

There's more of it, but at the moment I can't really think of a way to say eloquently what's on my mind without sounding like tarzan