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01 November 2011

this game will #!%& you up for life [More:]Or at least keep you from sleeping unless you are simply impossible to scare.

($1.00 to the movie Crazy People re: the post title)

You know when people kept saying Blair Witch Project was terrifying and then you saw it and were left wondering to yourself what you were missing that other people were getting out of the experience? Because... while it was interesting and a bit different, your housecat has actually scared you far more with sudden nighttime appearances and if Mr Fluffington is scarier, then really how scary could the movie be?

Yeah this is what you wish that movie had been. Unless you actually thought that movie was scary in which case don't buy this game as you will probably die while playing it. It's still $4.00 for a while longer on the Halloween sale (not much longer though) if you think you are up to it.

The scares in this game are not like what most games throw at you where something nasty jumps out of a locker and tries to eat you, rather the terror is like a thick fog that surrounds you the entire time and no matter which way you go, you only find more fog. And there are things making horrible noises in the fog but you never see them or if you do, you die.

Even Doom 3 managed to make me jump a few times and that game isn't scary at all, so it is likely I'll never finish this one. But if I do finish I'm doing it right - headphones, lights off. And you should do that too. Just don't ask me to buy you a new chair afterwards.
The game is amazing but it is anything but pleasant and I certainly would not call it fun so don't expect it to be. Having said that, here is something fun (and a bit bloody/NSFW).

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 01 November | 05:47
yeah I really wanna give it a shot. For some reason my laptop doesn't switch from integrated graphics to the graphics card for it so I couldn't play the demo
posted by Firas 01 November | 05:54
This thread reminded me that we have a page on the wiki for sharing MeChazen's gaming IDs. I added a Steam section so we can make with the friending.
posted by chrismear 01 November | 08:04
Wow, this sounds like something right up my alley. Thief II is one of my all time favorites, and this looks like it might be one of those sneak around ones. Too bad I missed the 4 dollar sale. I might have to look this one up...
posted by eekacat 02 November | 20:31
There was a post on the blue about this game not long ago. Lots of great comments on it there.
posted by jbickers 03 November | 12:55
This looks AWESOME. I'm not much of a gamer, but I think that might have to change. jbickers, thanks for the MeFi link; I somehow missed that thread and I'm looking forward to reading it.

You know when people kept saying Blair Witch Project was terrifying and then you saw it and were left wondering to yourself what you were missing that other people were getting out of the experience?


Y'know, I saw BWP in the theater with a friend --- and what I remember incredibly vividly is not the movie, but coming home to his wife (who didn't go because she knew the cinema verite would make her sick) and jabbering like crazed birds about how it WAS NOT SCARY, NOT AT ALL, SO WEIRD THAT EVERYONE THINKS THAT WAS SCARY, OH JEEZ WHAT WAS THAT NOISE?

I don't know why, but even as the not-especially-scary story was playing out, something else (probably the immediacy of the shaky-camera coupled with the primal fear of being lost in the woods) was reaching down into our brains and yanking some deeply buried instinct.

I can completely understand people who didn't find it scary, because the story didn't scare me; something else did. I suspect some audience members are more susceptible to whatever instinctive fears that movie plucks. I'm really looking forward the game now that you say it plucks 'em harder!

I also remember that we pulled up into the drivewa
posted by Elsa 03 November | 13:30
Oops! Failure to edit! There's a long story about what happened when we pulled into the driveway, but it's too long to get into and really just fits in with my main point: we were all nerved up and jumpy, but not because of the narrative.
posted by Elsa 03 November | 13:31
This looks AWESOME.

*psst* When Maine legalizes polyandry, call me. ;)
posted by Eideteker 03 November | 14:01
I was single for a lotta years, mister. Where were you then?

Oh, right. You were probably in high school. Yikes.
posted by Elsa 03 November | 14:13
OMGWTFBBQ! Tech moments with younger folks. || Rejected Halloween candy.

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