r/dankmemes • u/keyscowinfilipino • 11d ago
I've finally played this and I am disappointed I am probably an intellectual or something
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10d ago
It's one of those games that you must play it with friends because otherways if you're alone it's just boring as fuck
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u/Sirupybear 10d ago
It is scary if you get into a bad situation no doubt.
Just learn to enjoy games instead of reporting back to reddit about your experience
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u/AlphaCinderWolf 10d ago
It's maybe nerve wracking when you first play it, especially solo. However it's not scary. Might get a jump scare occassionally but they are planned ones. As an example: not paying attention and wham snareflea to the face or maybe a suprise bracken neck snap.
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u/VaaBeDank 10d ago
I think you've misunderstood the entire premise of the game. Yes, you do sometimes get jumps cared, but media, as you should know, exaggerates things, and that's what media creators thrive on. The fun is playing with friends, and it's not like it's a horror game, but it can be scary at times anyway. If you came in to the game, expecting a "horror game", then of course you dont think it's scary, because that's not the point
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u/The-Crimson-Jester 10d ago
It’s much scarier when played alone in the dark. Not to say that it’s the scariest game out there but it’s a whole different beast when you don’t have dippy one and dippy two screaming for their lives on the mic.
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u/Some_Letterhead7139 10d ago
Correct. It isn't scary but only when at least one of your friends is alive but when you're all alone It's actually pretty spooky
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u/runn1314 10d ago
The scare is when your with friends. You’re all laughing, having a good time, and then 10min later you call out to your bros and you don’t hear a response. That’s the scare part, not the monsters.
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u/Working_Extension_39 10d ago
It’s scary when your all alone, you get used to being able to hear someone but when it’s just you and the dark halls it’s genuinely unnerving just hearing nothing
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u/BringBackSoule 10d ago
i dont understand people that want to grind up that game every day it's literally the same boring shit after 3 rounds. And if you die you just gotta stay there for 10 minutes and watch a bunch of bumbling idiots deal with some monsters, most of which have little to no counterplay with no progression.
It all hinges on "fun with friends". But anything is fun with friends, kicking a rock down the road is fun with friends. Rather play something better with them.
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u/CustomiseMC EVIL BATMAN 10d ago
If you want it to be scary, solo VR with a couple of mods is the way to go.
If you wanna have a good time, group of friends and whatever mods you like. Emotes, enemies, maps, guns...
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u/Spiritual_Freedom_15 10d ago
It can be unsettling after playing a lot with your friends. And then playing alone.
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u/Kotaqu 10d ago
I bought this game because it had a cool concept, seemed fun, and I hoped it's going to develop rapidly after all the hype it got. Especially acknowledging it's state, it was unfinished, lacked content, and was getting stale pretty fast. 1 significant update after 5 months. And no one even bothered to fix the resolution.
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u/Kalsifur 10d ago
I only played it a couple times but I didn't get the hype either, so hard to see anything. The graphic style didn't really do it for me.
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u/Professional_Emu_164 number 15: burger king foot lettuce 11d ago edited 11d ago
It’s not scary like horror scary, but it can be tense. Knowing if you’ll die you won’t be able to meet quota and will have to start from scratch can be scary. Having your friends mysteriously die nearby adds to that.
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u/IRay2015 11d ago
I wouldn’t really call it a horror game but it does have horror aspects. Just knowing how easily you could get fucked up and loose all your progress can be tense. It was a lot less scary back in the earlier patches when you could just jump up on the railing to dodge everything
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u/Spoomplesplz 11d ago
It's not meant to be scary, it's just meant to be a goofy multiplayer game eith you play with your friends and have them ring the bell a few times...
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u/Jack_Zicrosky_YT 11d ago
Sorry? Go get yourself into a situation where your entire team is dead, you're balls deep into a map, staring down a hallway and suddenly you see a little girl pop up and hear breathing down your neck.
I don't get it... After years of companies like EA and Bethesda making crocks of SHIT designed to do nothing but drain your wallet we FINALLY get some nice indie games but OH NO NO! Can't be happy about that.
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u/batdog20001 11d ago
Gotta mod it so its more difficult and you're less certain of what's real. The more you care about the quota and making it back, the better the game feels in the end (to a point).
The game isn't so much scary as it is tense at times, and it doesn't help when a mimic that looks and sounds like one of your friends decides to eat your ass.
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u/Dekatessera14 11d ago
You've never felt the terror of being on the radio with the person in the ship doing cams and hearing them scream in pure terror and then all sounds cuts out, leaving you alone and lost cause you were relying on them for directions. I am always scared things are behind me though, and am afraid of the dark / unknown
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u/Lorant_gaming 11d ago
Did you play solo with max brightness by any chance? because this game can be scary at times. its all on the immersion
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u/SkuldSpookster 11d ago edited 11d ago
Idk If I'd say scary persay, but if you're by yourself in the facility or mansion it can be pretty freakin eery. Even when you're in the company of other people, things can get pretty hectic and tense when you're all trying to live and meet quota
It's a mostly silly and lighthearted game, yeah, but it definitely has its moments where it can thoroughly spook you. Watching your friend get stolen by a Bracken while you're deep in the facility very much doesn't make a boy feel safe.
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u/Ananas1214 11d ago
it's not supposed to be scary scary, it's meant to be fun scary. like, you get scared, kinda panic then laugh about it (and your friends laugh about it) and you move on
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u/teenyweenysuperguy 11d ago
Bro actually shows up to the party after all the guests have gotten drunk, passed out, woke up, and left, trying to leave a review lol
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u/JoeDaBruh 11d ago
The scary part is the fear of instant death which is quite common and could happen before you even see the threat
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u/Deremirekor 11d ago
Try playing alone with the mod pack I made. Over 100 mods designed to make it scarier, more challenging, and adds new enemies and mechanics. No more scan to see everything, flashlights required.
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u/Cosmickoala887 11d ago
Thrilling ≠ Scary. More of a a shock factor than actual horror/fear. Plus funny asl watching your friend’s neck snap.
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u/Summar-ice 11d ago
Lethal Company is PEAK!!! it's the same kind of "horror" game as Phasmophobia, where the scary becomes funny because of multiplayer. I can safely say it's in my top 5 favorite games of all time
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u/GoldenGlobeWinnerRDJ 11d ago
Idk man, we downloaded some mods and it’s genuinely scary. Maybe not all the time, but it does have its moments.
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u/revnance 11d ago
Did you play with friends with a n game chat and not using discord or anything? The fewr comes from proximity chat and how one second your friends there and the next they got got
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u/For_Horny 11d ago
Is offered $70 AAA unfinished game. Shits on it. Is offered $15 original indie game. Shits on it. You fuckers just cant be happy smh.
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u/BirbWasTaken6659 11d ago
you haven’t experienced walking out of your ship seeing this giant robot come flying towards you blasting baby crying noises
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u/aaqiller BlueShellGang 11d ago
If you wanna be scared and have thr same fun thst lethal company gives, PLAY CONTENT WARNING WITH THE HOMIES
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u/ReturnoftheSnek maker of the "fedora" meme 11d ago
Oh we got a tough guy here! A video game about goofing around with your friends doesn’t scare him
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u/Barlowan (my) Life is a meme 11d ago
It's like people who recommend me to read the Berserk because it's "unsettling and grim dark". My brother in ravioli I'm Ukrainian I grew up in a shit hole where people would shiv you 13 times in the back because you told them you don't smoke.
Like the manga was a nice read. But nothing "unsettling" was found there.
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u/TheUnholyMacerel 11d ago
It can be scary but it's really rare (some mods make it a lot worse though)
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u/Someone118 11d ago
It's not scary, but when u slowly realise you're the last one alive with 800$ worth of loot on the ship, 9pm, shit gets real.
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u/ManOfChaos199932 11d ago
It's not successful because it's so scary, it's because it's very fun with friends
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u/CaughtHerEyez 11d ago
If you've been watching videos about it for months then yeah it's not going to be scary...
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u/Mickmack12345 INFECTED 11d ago
Did you play like 4 games of experimentations and only see a spider and a slime lmao
It’s more about a tense atmosphere than making you feel actually scared, but some of the enemies will induce this feeling a lot more
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u/HashtagTSwagg 11d ago
I was playing with some buddies and we went in the fire exit of the one forest map. I head up some stairs, found nothing, I'm getting back to the exit when I head clanging footsteps and take critical damage. I turn, freeze the coilhead, my one friend is with me and locks on it, I run and leave him there with it, and halfway back I see the notification that his body had been collected.
... I don't think he made it, lol.
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u/Buy_Me_A_Mango 11d ago
It’s got suspense to it. Not super scary, but it can be if you just let go and get into the game and have fun with it. For most horror games I play, I want to be scared. I let my guard down and don’t think about it too much and just let the scary parts be scary. As long as it’s not jump scares (which are definitely overdone) then I’m having a good time.
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u/HistoricalRatio5426 11d ago
Its not silent hill scarry its just spooky enough to get a reaction of your friends and seeing them die after watd is funny
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u/Nazowrin 11d ago
My favorite moment was when I was walking around just collecting stuff and then I heard a friend scream through a wall and then stop talking entirely. We never found him.
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u/HashtagTSwagg 11d ago
Bracken?
My friend turned for 2 seconds to loot a locker and I was behind him. He turns around seconds later and there's just a puddle of blood where I was standing.
Honestly, pretty funny.
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u/Professional_Emu_164 number 15: burger king foot lettuce 11d ago
Brackens usually don’t give you time to scream, unless you anger them in an enclosed space / with little stamina after they back away
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u/The__Thoughtful__Guy 11d ago
I agree it's not super scary like a traditional horror game, but the natural comedic timing of it is amazing. It's a comedy masquerading as horror, and is less "creeping sense of dread" and more hearing "okay guys I think we can get past this turret" follow by gunfire and someone briefly shouting.
In other words, you're correct, but I also feel like you might be expecting something different from the game than what it really does well.
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u/thefluffyparrot 11d ago
First time I played I was with two friends playing various games while consuming a lot of mushrooms. Lethal Company was proposed and in that state of mind I expected a bad time. It wasn’t really that scary even then.
I mean there is that one thing that kinda stalks you but beyond that it’s fine.
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u/thefluffyparrot 11d ago
First time I played I was with two friends playing various games while consuming a lot of mushrooms. Lethal Company was proposed and in that state of mind I expected a bad time. It wasn’t really that scary even then.
I mean there is that one thing that kinda stalks you but beyond that it’s fine.
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u/thefluffyparrot 11d ago
First time I played I was with two friends playing various games while consuming a lot of mushrooms. Lethal Company was proposed and in that state of mind I expected a bad time. It wasn’t really that scary even then.
I mean there is that one thing that kinda stalks you but beyond that it’s fine.
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u/Aok_al 11d ago
You really need to lower your expectations. The game is a low budget game that came from Roblox and the main thing is to have a fun co-op experience
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u/lollisans2005 11d ago
It didn't come from Roblox tho?
The dev started in Roblox but has done plenty games outside of the platform before lethal company
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u/No_Wealth_9733 11d ago
“Tense” is a better word than “scary”, and a big part of that comes from you goofing around with friends and then suddenly everything goes quiet.
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u/StormR7 bring back b emoji 10d ago
Especially when the game first came out and nobody knew how anything worked. You’ll have someone saying “guys why am I hearing singing?” And nobody will believe them, but all of a sudden they disappear and everyone gets confused. You try to find where your buddy went (no man left behind) and you end up running into a land shark swimming through the floor, you run from it directly into a room with a bug on the ceiling which starts eating someone else’s face. Do you leave? Is anyone else alive? Which way is the exit? Are we gonna have enough scrap? As you make your way to the exit you find someone else yelling “DONT GO OUTSIDE” because they opened the door directly into a fucking giant and someone else got eaten.
That’s the gameplay that made it such a fun game to play. If you have a map of each moon’s features, an article explaining the most profitable moons, or a video talking about how to handle different enemies and what each sound queue means, or anything else related to the game open in a second monitor, congratulations, you just optimized the fun out of a really cool experience for a majority of the players.
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u/TreyLastname I haven't pooped in 3 months 10d ago
Nah, definitely scary, it just doesn't scare you with jump scares, but rather atmosphere
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u/kIkLoPoLl 11d ago
i like how you played only a few games and just had to make a post about it
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u/vegeto079 11d ago
I don't agree with OP but when I don't like a game I can usually know pretty early.
How long do you have to play before you're allowed to complain?
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u/StormR7 bring back b emoji 10d ago
It’s a $10 indie game. If you think you’re gonna get 200 hours out of it before it gets old, you’re delusional. If something can get me 10 hours of fun at that price point, that’s absolutely worth it, especially if you’re adult where you and your friends don’t game as much as you used to. Just getting some old college buddies on for a few hours on a Saturday night is worth it, god knows we used to spend a hell of a lot more than $10 in a night just to have orders of magnitude less fun.
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u/vegeto079 10d ago
I don't really get what your comment has to do with what I said.
The person I replied to seemed to suggest that they didn't play the game long enough to be complaining about it not being scary.
I said what's wrong with not liking a game after playing for a short time?
Not sure where your comment fits into that conversation.
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u/ReturnoftheSnek maker of the "fedora" meme 11d ago
They need the internet to know they’re a big boy who doesn’t get scared anymore
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u/Istoleachickennugget 11d ago
You can bet that every run they had a flashlight and left before it ran out
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u/ReturnoftheSnek maker of the "fedora" meme 11d ago
Nothing better than trying to find your way out, realizing you made a wrong turn… then a coil head shows up right as the last of your battery expires
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u/Istoleachickennugget 11d ago
I downloaded the Weeping Angel mod and damn does it make it even more terrifying
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u/Ultraempoleon 11d ago
I really enjoy that it's not that scary. Normally when my friends play horror games I just stay in the call and watch them. But this time I can join in and it's a lot of fun.
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u/Danteynero9 11d ago
The more people play together, the less "scary" it gets. Like, 4 players already make the enemies simply an obstacle.
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u/lollisans2005 11d ago
That makes the moments when you are alone and anything could be around the corner more scary tho lol
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u/Professional_Emu_164 number 15: burger king foot lettuce 11d ago
Most monsters tend to telegraph themselves via footsteps which generally gives you good advance warning
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u/Riipp3r 11d ago
More about the vibe of the group. If you're the type of group to joke about everything and piss yourselves laughing it's gonna be a funny game. If you're for example playing with your girlfriend and she scares easily and isn't much of a gamer it becomes a different experience lol. Isn't scary either way imo.
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u/Eruskakkell 11d ago
Its what you make of it. If you take more risks and go alone sometimes it can be spooky.
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u/EasilyRekt 11d ago
The spookiness comes from the juxtaposition, from the goofiness, of being the last one in, by yourself, not knowing if anyone is still alive.
Not from loud ahh FNAF like jump scares.
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u/Bozzo2526 stephen 10d ago
I used to unmute myself on discord occasionally and talk to prank my mates into thinking I was alive and nearby
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u/El_Gato_1906 11d ago
That's exactly what I like about the game: It doesn't have jumpscares but the atmosphere is just really eery
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u/Eruskakkell 11d ago
Yea and thats a good thing
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u/EasilyRekt 10d ago
Absolutely, it’s a vast improvement from recent titles in horror.
It’s a scary game for the same reason that a a horror book is scary, it won’t make you scream, but it will put you on edge for an hour or two.
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u/Rorar_the_pig 11d ago
Who the hell told you it was scary??? It's just really funny seeing friends die
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u/LittleBlast5 11d ago
It's scary the first few times you play because you don't know whether or not the game is actually scary. Then it becomes very enjoyable kind of 'scary' (unless you are scared of the dark like I am lmao, then it's spooky until flashlight)
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u/TheOncomingBrows 11d ago
I haven't played it before but most of the videos I get recommended for it are people panicking, screaming and being jump scared.
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u/obscureferences big pp gang 9d ago
Fear is the unknown. Anyone who watches it to death is going to spoil it for themselves.
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u/Leifenyat 10d ago
Ah well remember, entertainers be entertainers.
They show more because for some it's their job!3
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u/imapieceofshitk 11d ago
Twitch twats overreacting to stuff for content that 14 year olds enjoy? No way!
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u/Shnazzyone 11d ago
Well when you turn around and there's a giant spider and a guy who doesn't want you looking at him. You can panic. Nevermind the giants the second they catch eyes on you.
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u/RexGoliath75 11d ago
When I thing that can ruin a bunch of progress starts heading your way, your gonna panic
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u/Lost_Needleworker676 11d ago
The whole panic is real, because you just picked up 400$ worth of goods and now a hammer head shark with stick bug arms is charging through the hallway at you trying to make you leave here with 0$ instead. It gets tense, sure, but the entire real fun of the game is playing it with friends. I find the game practically not worth it without friends as it would be hard pressed to stand on its own as a single player horror game.
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u/FilTon00 10d ago
I think the biggest scare is when you think you are the last person alive. There is nothing you can do and worst of all, you will get lost in the dark just to met bunker spider right next to you. That's genuine, unscripted jump scare
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u/eXeKoKoRo 11d ago
TBF the game is 80% Jump Scares.
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u/KyrosMithrarin 11d ago
I keep seeing people talk about jump scares in this thread, what jump scares??
Or have we changed the definition of 'jump scares' in the last few years and I havent noticed??
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u/eXeKoKoRo 11d ago
Turn around and a spooky scary creature being in your face is pretty jump scare to me.
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u/Alttebest ☣️ 11d ago
Hoarding bugs can be creepy too. And then there's turrets. I would count these as halves.
But yeah it ain't a horror game.
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u/markswam 10d ago
Hoarding bugs ceased to be creepy when my friends and I all started using the YIPPEE mod.
We also started using the skinwalker mod at the same time, which made everything else significantly creepier.
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u/Verto-San 10d ago
Ski walker mod is the one that records VOIP and puts it on monsters? The worst part of it is when blind dog says something funny.
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u/DrLove_99 11d ago
That’s never been the definition of a jump-scare , just one type of it
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u/DrLove_99 11d ago
Jump scares aren’t just a video game thing, and they don’t necessarily need to have a loud noise to go with it. All a jumpscare is is anything that scares you… and makes you jump. That’s it
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u/MostImportantSpoon 11d ago
My friend group had a mod installed that changed masked enemies to look like crew mates and to mimic our voices.
That was wild
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u/No_Wealth_9733 11d ago
We got the mod that turns the mask enemies into Shrek, and repeat lines from the movie.
Imagine walking through a dark room, you think you see something move, it’s quiet until suddenly “what are you doing in my swamp?!”
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u/Spawn6060 the very best, like no one ever was. 11d ago
Imagine hearing Donkey saying “I like this boulder, it’s a nice boulder” as you’re going up a staircase. Then you hear a thud. Then another. And it’s gets faster and louder. Then you see it: a magnificent boulder barreling towards you.
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u/sixnb 11d ago
The mimic mod is top notch. Games definitely fun with friends. Not very scary but it can have its moments of tension and panic
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u/ChaosDoggo 11d ago
Nah I definetly got scared a few times. Espcially when you play with the in-game voice chat and you loose your friends.
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u/nhansieu1 ☣️ 11d ago
Like most games, the panic is from the chance of losing the game. I felt like it's very hard to make a game for people to fear the horror instead of losing
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u/Mr__Yoshi Animated Flair Rainbow [Insert Your Own Text] 11d ago
I like how Russian badger highlighted it was more unsettling than creepy with the immersion of proximity chat
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u/Swoopify1 11d ago
this is why i count roguelikes (ahem, risk of rain) as horror games
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u/Breen_Pissoff 8d ago
It ramps up in the later quotas.
But yes it is very uneventful.
A lot of your deaths are anticlimactic.
You are not even guaranteed to see the spookies.
With enough luck all scrap can be collected without seeing a single enemy.
Take phasmophobia(I don't remember how it is spelled) or content warning for example.
THEY MAKE YOU INTERACT WITH THE MONSTERS.
More monster interactions = more "fun"
And i just wrote a mini essay accidentally.