Too scared to play horror games

[Ymir2k]

I own Outlast, Amnesia and FEAR and i cant play any of them because i cant muster enough courage

Halp

[WhispersOfTheWind]

Find a friend, perhaps together you'll be less scared.

[Ymir2k]

Originally posted by HellsWind:

Find a friend, perhaps together you'll be less scared.

That absolutely does not help

[WhispersOfTheWind]

Originally posted by Ymir2k:

Originally posted by HellsWind:

Find a friend, perhaps together you'll be less scared.

That absolutely does not help

Well geez, I don't know. Seemed plausible to me but maybe you should work at overcoming your fears, understand for one it's a primal human emotion so it's nothing 'weird', it's more about tolerance how much you can take it so if you really want advice, I'd say build on your tolerance, do it bit by bit and see how far you'll come..

I've managed myself far but still can't stand some games like Five Nights at Freddy's and Penumbra or Soma... Amnesia I can't really yet handle fully because of the excitement, but yeah.

It's not weird.

[Citizen Cook]

Originally posted by Ymir2k:

I own Outlast, Amnesia and FEAR and i cant play any of them because i cant muster enough courage

Halp

Ha ha, me too. I can't play RE2 because chicken out on the splash screen.

[Your_White_Knight]

Hello there PewDiePie.... nice to meet you.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by Ymir2k:

I own Outlast, Amnesia and FEAR and i cant play any of them because i cant muster enough courage

Then don't. Play games that you like.

[Glass Mother]

Originally posted by Your_White_Knight:

Hello there PewDiePie.... nice to meet you.

That idiot has ruined his Amnesia Let's Play with his autistic behavior. Back then - even more than today - he chummed himself up to a target group that places no value on authenticity and cannot even spell "immersion".

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

People with phobias make the best streamers and content creators, extra entertainment value.

[Shingen]

Originally posted by Ymir2k:

I own Outlast, Amnesia and FEAR and i cant play any of them because i cant muster enough courage

Halp

The most important thing about horror games is they are made to make you feel a little fear :>
When i started with many horror games at beginning it was scary af for me. For example Resident Evil 7. I was so scared Jack gonna kill me but with time nothing was scary tho
Just play in it :)
If you are scared play with someone on voice call

Originally posted by GageTheSpartan:

EDIT: That reminds me, I still need to buy FEAR and do a playthrough on it...

https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/fear-bundle go get it :)

[Hyer Womba]

get a body pillow
then you wont feel alone when you play it

[Phazar]

I beat FEAR years ago, by playing it in the middle of the night with my headphones in. Remember, specifically for FEAR, that every entity can be defeated by the player character (save for Alma). You're a one-man army in that game!

[chiefputsilao✖️ping]

play minecraft, zombie mod

[Tammy the Muffin]

You can try to play with cheats. Safe choice is Alien Isolation with disabled Alien. You can turn him off with a bit of file manipulation magic. Or play "dark" games like Pathologic, which isnt really horror, but still spooky.

Sad thing is many "horrors" are meh and only way they can scare you is screamers and QTE

[aG| Wardog]

I found FEAR to be more of an atmospheric FPS than horror to be honest. Certainly somewhat creepy, but I ended up curious as to what caused everything, and felt sorry for the little girl, rather than scared of her.

Fantastic game though, for sure.

[-$ilver-]

Back in the day I had the original Silent Hill on the PS1. I had beaten it every which a way, got every ending and extra weapon there was and on my way with the key to get the katana blade, my soul reason for playing the game for so long and so many times.

Each time I would play it, I would be IN the game itself. There is no TV stand, no chair I was sitting in. No TV. No controller in my hand. I would zone out or into the game as it were and each time it was a scary experience due to the nature of the game.

On my last and most likely final play through, as I said I was on my way with the key to the locked closet to get the famed katana blade to put a hurting on the evil in that small little town. I decided to play the game as I thought normal people would play it. Not zoned out or into the game, just a person holding a controller, looking at the TV with a bunch of graphics on it with sounds coming out of it's speakers. It was no where near as scary if at all. Granted again I had played this game so many times I basically knew it like the back of my hand. But the gameplay and how I felt about it completely changed from the last play through to this new one.

As I said I was on my way to the house with the locked closest, key in hand for the beautiful and lovely katana blade. For what ever reason I had taken a break of the game to try out a new "used" game I had just purchased. I am assuming one of the first in the PS1 generation of combat racing games as it had both a password system and a memory card save. Seeing the option for initialize I chose that and the game saved! Yeah!!!

However to my shock and horror, worse than any from Silent Hill... that dollar dust bin trash game from Game Stop completely erased EVERYTHING on my memory card. The 20+ hours of Silent Hill. The 40+ hours of Persona which I was right at the crossroads to do the ending for good or bad. And a whole slew of other noteworthy games. All deleted in a flash, a press of a careless button. For some odd stupid reason that game allowed for the entire memory card to be deleted, just so I could save that piece of crap game. Sad times indeed. Never did play Silent Hill again nor Persona. It still makes me want to cry...