- Also it was supposed to be one or two tweets and I wasn't falling asleep when I started. Bye.
- I wrote this late at night because I don't have another real forum for it and so people don't complain about me clogging their timelines.
- Except for the one point in the game where it says no fuck you, go get the camera you don't really need.
- Outlast has limited batteries, but they're too plentiful. And if you know your way around an area, you can travel in darkness with impunity.
- Amnesia was cool because you had to worry about your lamplight, since in darkness you went insane. You were worried about supply constantly.
- And it's not like I've never liked a horror game. I love the first Amnesia, even if both games are similar in structure.
- But you have to want to make the player play along. Outlast doesn't. I can get over the boring parts faster if I break the facade.
- So maybe horror games just aren't for me because they "break" so easily and playing along is so much more key to the experience.
- these problems (regressive to-do lists, bad stealth) are in lots of games. But when horror fails all you have is are these trite systems.
- If you try to hide, it's a bad stealth game.
- Hold shift and run by it to the checkpoint. If it kills me, restart at last checkpoint and try again (this has worked numerous times).
- Horror games try to up the tension by eliminiating combat, but that just makes them less scary. When I see an enemy I know what to do.
- I screwed up on a previous tweet: I can be scared by lots of things.
- Once you're lost your fear, most "pure" horror games are adventure games with monsters and manipulative music.
- I'm not saying I'm unscarable or whatever. I am. But when any enemy can be avoided by running enough circles around a floor, I'm not scared.
- When my dude dropped the camera, I burst out laughing. I wasn't scared of enemies by then, so I was like well that'll be another 10 min
- "Instead of adapting to the lack of light like a normal human being, let's risk our lives to go get it!"
- "You made it over this gap after seeing like three killers below! Yeah! But whoopsie, you dropped your camera!"
- "Aw shucks, the sprinklers don't work! Gonna have to find the two valves needed to turn them on again!"
- "In order to put out the one tiny area of fire you need to get through a room, go turn on the sprinklers instead of using any other water!"
- "Got the keys! But whoops! [comical sound effect] The key was stuck in a body that fell through the chute! Down we go!"
- "You're gonna need three fuses to get this key in the laundry chute!"
- It doesn't help that Outlast has as much in common with a Dick Van Dyke skit as it does a horror movie.
- After the first death it's impossible to be tense or scared. Yeah I'll get startled at jump scares, but I'm not thinking about survival
- Outlast made me think that I just don't like horror games.
Sunday, January 19, 2014
A bunch of tweets in a blog post
Suriel Vazquez 
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