but given the huge amount of games coming out, the average has dropped to a pretty low standart. They are S***e for various reasons (in case of AAA games most of the time not for the lack of skill or expierience, but for too small budgets and "business reasons", in case of Indie titles often more because of the lack of skill on the side of the dev AND "business reasons"). Most games released today are S***e, no matter if AAA or Indie, no matter if shooter or horror game.
Well, scratch that, both the Indie and the Horror part. Having said that, lets face the fact that many of todays Indie horror games are S***e. Especially S***e games can make for very entertaining videos if the Youtuber is good at entertaining his viewers while playing this "game". while the games they play might not be Steams top of the crop, thus of course not doing to well. because they ARE youtubes top of the crop. You will find many of the top youtubers can make good money off videos of games that don't do nearly as well. For various reasons, because they enjoy watching the "pros" playing, because someone is just fun to watch no matter what he/she plays or how well he/she plays (PewDiePies Scream escapades, or Jim Sterlings very sarcastic takes on Steams underbelly of S***e titles com to mind). many people enjoy watching other people play games more than playing the games themselves. Preferably, scar some people for life.Ĭlick to expand.That is the crux with todays Youtube culture if you ask me. Some other people have to make all horror funny in order to cope.īut no, the goal of any horror writer is to shock, frighten and disturb the audience and leave them with as much negative energy and baggage as they can. You're the rational-minded denial type, "everything has a logical explanation" sort of guy.
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but the same images, within the frame of a movie screen, are just enjoyable fun.Įverybody has their own way of coping with horror. It's almost funny to hear someone say what you're saying, because you're basically saying that gruesome images of people dying in real life is traumatizing. Likewise, people who consume horror don't feel joy from horrifying events and circumstances people have to find a way to cope with these feelings, to respond to these stories and images. People who do BDSM don't feel pleasure where others feel pain they feel pain.
For some of us, channeling these things into a concentrated form of controlled entertainment helps us to cope and manage with these feelings. Horror is about indulging fear, irrational thinking and paranoia-things we normally suppress. Just because someone does something, however routinely, that doesn't automatically mean that they enjoy it. (I'll say everything here so I won't have to keep going in multiple posts) an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust: