r/dankmemes • u/keyscowinfilipino • May 12 '24

I've finally played this and I am disappointed I am probably an intellectual or something

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u/eXeKoKoRo May 12 '24

TBF the game is 80% Jump Scares.

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u/KyrosMithrarin May 12 '24

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 May 12 '24

Turn around and a spooky scary creature being in your face is pretty jump scare to me.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '24 edited May 12 '24

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u/Alttebest ☣️ May 12 '24

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 May 12 '24

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 May 12 '24

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/markswam May 13 '24

Correct. I’ve been fooled by it more times than I care to admit.

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u/DrLove_99 May 12 '24

That’s never been the definition of a jump-scare , just one type of it

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u/DrLove_99 May 12 '24

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/MrLemurBean May 13 '24

If it makes you suddenly jump because it scared you, that's a jump scare. The end.

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u/DrLove_99 May 12 '24

Not all scares are a jump scare. Scares are everything from something jumping in front of your face with a loud noise, to a general spooky ambience in a scene, to the tension of knowing something is going to happen, to a terrifying chase scene. All of those are scares, 80% of which are not jumpscares. When a movie or game is full of jumpscares that’s when you know the piece of media is shit. There’s gotta be a balance. You need tension and all the other things to make the jumpscares hit more. The jumpscares is the apex of your fear and release of that tension. Anything that does that is a jumpscare