Does anybody have a link where I can try out the SCP game?

here ya go
also, allow me to correct myself. SCP containment breach is NOT a beta.




it's still alpha.

Thanks alex
Also I watched the trailer for the Slender game and the model was quite laughable. If they improved it immensely I might give it a try but until then, I wouldn't be able to take the game seriously. For a horror game, I've always felt the visuals need to be top notch, visuals just seem important to a genre that's about scaring your pants off.

@ Harley Quinn yeah when i first saw the trailer for slender i laughed as well its more scary if you actually play the game, but i do agree with you horror survival games are the only Genre of games that need top notch visuals in my opinion

Visuals themselves are the least important factor in any form of horror. It's the end of the movie when you finally see the monster that is the least terrifying scene, because nothing is visually terrifying about a monster. It is the idea of the monster that creeps into your thoughts and leaves you peeking around corners for weeks. The same applies for games.

Sound and atmosphere are far more important than "The Monster" ever will be. The crunch of leaves beneath your feet, the heavy chug of panting, tired breath, the hot clouds whisping off your lips, the crackle of twigs and branches. It could hear any of those things, and that's what gets the hair standing on edge. Not what it looks like.

True. The monster is never scary once revealed in any movie.

Except in Aliens Resurrection. But well, that was for whole other reasons...

I disagree, horror movies with no budget are usually terrible because while the plot could be fantastic, the monster is so unrealistic and cheesy that it just ruins it. The model for the Slender game just looks half assed, and I feel it affects the rest of the game.

Well that's why I said Slenderman needs to look more human. It's called Fridge horror.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FridgeHorror

The horror sinks in slowly.

(07-15-2012, 07:18 PM)Harley Quinn Wrote: I disagree, horror movies with no budget are usually terrible because while the plot could be fantastic, the monster is so unrealistic and cheesy that it just ruins it. The model for the Slender game just looks half assed, and I feel it affects the rest of the game.

The Alien in Alien looks terrible. It is an awesome movie. The trick is making it so you don't have a good look at it, ever. Horror movies with a low budget (such as Slugs) are normally terrible because the script and actors suck.

For it's time it was very good though, I guess that's the point I'm trying to get at. I should have made it more clear in my posts, eheh x)

(07-15-2012, 08:15 PM)Goemar Wrote:

(07-15-2012, 07:18 PM)Harley Quinn Wrote: I disagree, horror movies with no budget are usually terrible because while the plot could be fantastic, the monster is so unrealistic and cheesy that it just ruins it. The model for the Slender game just looks half assed, and I feel it affects the rest of the game.

The Alien in Alien looks terrible. It is an awesome movie. The trick is making it so you don't have a good look at it, ever. Horror movies with a low budget (such as Slugs) are normally terrible because the script and actors suck.

actually the alien in alien was pretty terrifying for it's time. the director was smart and made the aliens design aesthetic tie into the theme and mood of the movie
there are a lot of scenes in alien where the alien itself is actually silently blended into the background, watching the crew.

The design is brilliant, and how it's used is brilliant. But then you see the whole thing (such as when it's floating off through space) it looks pretty pants and I'm guessing it wasn't too expensive to pull off the actual Alien (as in the costume itself). And even if it was, you could still use it today (in a budget film) and be fine if they rest of the film was good enough that you didn't care the monster didn't look amazing.

My point is that low-budget horror films are normally terrible before you even see the monster or they use really really bad CG instead of a 'decent-ish' puppet.

Bringing it back to Slender Man, if you simply never saw him but was just aware he was there until the end, what he looked like would be really unimportant. How you use a monster will always out trump what it looks like and you can get away with a monster looking crap if you know what you're doing.

Even though Paranormal Activity isn't seen as a great film by many (and it's sequels are god awful) it managed to scare people with nothing more than a few thuds and bangs because it used the craft well (even if it used very cliché material).

(07-16-2012, 06:14 AM)Goemar Wrote: The design is brilliant, and how it's used is brilliant. But then you see the whole thing (such as when it's floating off through space) it looks pretty pants and I'm guessing it wasn't too expensive to pull off the actual Alien (as in the costume itself). And even if it was, you could still use it today (in a budget film) and be fine if they rest of the film was good enough that you didn't care the monster didn't look amazing.

My point is that low-budget horror films are normally terrible before you even see the monster or they use really really bad CG instead of a 'decent-ish' puppet.

Bringing it back to Slender Man, if you simply never saw him but was just aware he was there until the end, what he looked like would be really unimportant. How you use a monster will always out trump what it looks like and you can get away with a monster looking crap if you know what you're doing.

Even though Paranormal Activity isn't seen as a great film by many (and it's sequels are god awful) it managed to scare people with nothing more than a few thuds and bangs because it used the craft well (even if it used very cliché material).

The only people I've ever seen scared by P.A. are people under 14, and my sister, but she's terrible with horror movies eheheh.

paranormal activity was weird

it was like half of the theater was watching a different movie when i went

no joke, the entire left half of the theater was screaming their heads off while the right half was bored out of their minds

eventually people on the right started yelling out jokes and at one point a guy yelled out "look man the monster just wants some action" and the whole theater cracked up

yeah movie sucked though