![]() ![]() ![]() Accept that it is messy and will just get messier. For my health, for my well-being, and for my hygiene.I'll enumerate some general tips below (followed by keener insight after having played over 150 hours):ġ) Do not obsess about keeping the world tidy, clear of gates, of monsters, of clues. I’m comfortable in my ability to play a game that unnerves me, makes me feel a sense of dread, or shows me something grotesque, but from a reasonable distance away. That being said, I think I’m just fine with not playing VR horror games. I’m nowhere near that point, as I still get a fright if I unexpectedly see one of my housemate-bestie-wives in a room that I’m not expecting them to be in. Will I be able to get to a point as I did with horror movies, where enough exposure could lead me to be able to play a VR horror game without breaking any equipment in fear? Who’s to say? Not me, that’s for sure. I can comfortably admire that a VR horror game could potentially be the purest way to get an immersive spooky experience, but I admire it from afar. That sense of immersion in a VR horror game is something that I don’t think you can get anywhere else. There’s no distance.Īnd y’know what? I guess that’s what makes them great horror experiences. I’ve seen the trailers for games such as The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR, and I’ve seen gameplay for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. Will I ever play them? No. How on earth do I look beyond that and not shit a brick when some Eldritch horror is screeching as it chases me through an empty office building? I somehow got my dumbass self into this situation, and if I get eaten by the Big Ugly Bugly Beast, that’s on me. I’m watching on as some chud makes a wrong turn or decides to fall over at the worst time, and I say loudly, “If it were me, I wouldn’t even be here.” I feel pride and comfort when I say this, and my brain pulses at the concept of being such a genius.īut when I play a horror game? It’s my fault. When I watch a horror movie, I’m not in trouble. It was at this comfort level that I tried to get into horror games, as that’s a whole genre that I’m missing out on because I’m a little baby guy.Īnd alas, it was at that point that I realised that the acts of consuming a horror movie and playing a horror game are divided by a factor that ultimately holds me back from getting an enjoyable experience from the latter: I’m in control, and the spooky scary baddie is after me. Watching horror movies got easier with each film I consumed, and then I too became a fan of the horror genre as a whole. I see these pieces of media for what they are: entertainment. ![]() I have no love in my heart for this beast. Of course, I’m going to have a “thing” about evil little doll boys. I wonder why I was so scared, and then remember even further back when my siblings/cousins decided to watch one of the Night of the Living Dummy episodes of the Goosebumps TV series, and they made me watch. It’s one of the silliest, campiest things I’ve ever watched, and it was hilarious. I know it sounds silly, but I was simply a child.įast forward to 2018 or 2019, and I watch that film again. I watched that movie when I was something like 8 or 9, and then proceeded to not sleep that night because I thought the wretched little fucker was going to pop out of somewhere and rip me limb from limb. There was once a time in my life when I thought Seed of Chucky was some of the scariest shit I’d ever seen in my life. That being considered, one could say that I’m still very new to horror as a concept. My partner at the time was a big horror movie fan, and I didn’t want to miss out on having a shared interest with him. I started watching horror movies regularly and then religiously around 5 or 6 years ago. ![]()
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