Current Events > Games like Outlast, penumbra, and Amnesia are not fun

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Like they were cool when they came out for a little. But, horror games where you just run from a dumb AI and hide under a table and wait for it to stupidly walk away so you can run to the next puzzle is so lame after the first hour.

it kind of ruined horror games for a long until RE7 reeled it back in

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I think Alien Isolation had the right idea on how this type of game should go. There are three enemies in that game: humans, androids, and the alien. Humans are a minor issue and can be killed pretty easily. Androids take and deal enough damage that it's usually easier to avoid them than it is to kill them. The alien, naturally, cannot be killed and can only be avoided. Even then, the alien can be somewhat "scared" away by using flame-based weapons, so you're not entirely powerless.

I think PT caused more issues than Amnesia did tbh. After that, so many horror games became variations of "walk around and weird, nonsensical shit happens that you can affect by random, arbitrary actions."

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It's weird you picked the ones that successfully pulled it off. I agree with you, put the 2 games you gave as an example that I played are some the exceptions. It's definitely oversaturated with a lot of garbage ones tho.

The worst is that PSVR for some reason only has the trash games in the subgenre. It's perfect for this subgenre, yet they don't put any actual good games on it. Instead we get hour long games that move at a snails pace. Then we get RE7 and they're too lazy to even support Move.

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I like watching other people play them but they are too stressful for me. It's why I never even attempted Alien Isolation. If I can't fight back it really freaks me out and I dont like it.

They are all terrifying and great. I disagree.

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