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It's when a video plays a really loud noise to startle the user. It isn't really a scare and neither a good way to do horror as anyone can do it.
Ghouls in Fallout 4 sometimes pop out of nowhere and hit you from behind.
Good movies you don't even have to see any gore, take the "hook" scene in Texas chainsaw massacre, you see the hook, you see the girl, you see him lift her up and your mind does the rest. OUCH!!!!
The house I lived in at the time, was found to be mysteriously burned to the ground later that week...
I jumped out and went running to the deserted back-end of the campground.
About a hundred yards out, I rounded a tree and came face-to-face with a full-grown male moose (or something like that).
I froze in shock for just a split second after looking up at the huge towering beast, then did an immediate about-face and ran all-the-way back to our camp spot.
I never said a word about it to my brothers or parents.
Because anyone can do it then it's bad? K den.
The only other way I see horror being better is anticipation which needs a consequence, for example you are being chased by a monster, if you haven't seen it but just know then it's pretty because you are scared of seeing this monster, if you find out that you can't find the monster in this game then it isn't scary anymore.
If you first come into contact with a monster a sudden noise is good, it will create adrenaline, why not add it? While I find being carried away by said monster or the anticipation of it more scary I see why jumpscares are scary.
One night I left my friends house pretty late. I was kind of wasted and not really paying attention as I walked past that fence. I heard a soft skittering noise [Rosco running] and I turn my head to look. I just happened to be right next to one of the holes, and Rosco was there with his face sticking out only a few inches from mine. He barked once, and then he was suddenly much further away... Aparently I leapt over a parked car into the street. The only part I don't clearly remember is how I got on the other side of the car.
[Edit]: I missed the part about it being from a game. Since jump scares are such a cheap tactic, none really stand out in my memory. All I can really think of is way back, playing [the first] Resident Evil in the dark. The crappy camera angles and sparse enemy placement made for a few sudden shocks.
But recently I got a boatload of them playing 7 Days to Die, mostly when I was first learning the game. There was just never enough time before nightfall, I didn't know how to build a zombie-proof shelter, didn't know where anything was, and what I did manage to do was constantly stressful because I was always overheating or freezing as I starved and dehydrated.
I spent quite a bit of time in my underwear since I didn't know certain clothes could cool you, and while I was worrying about that kind of stuff, the zombies would catch me with my pants down.
Really it was embarassing, the zekes in that game are your brain-dead, slow, loud, shambling variety, the kind only dumb TV characters get eaten by. Yet I'd be busy and suddenly "GAH! WHAT THE **** WAS THAT!"
The game got a lot easier and less scary as I learned more, especially my "There's always one behind you" rule. It doesn't matter if you just checked, one is there now. Coupled with all my awesome traps and labyrinths of death, not to mention a small arsenal I began to feel pretty safe.
Even so, they could and can still surprise me. Last bad jump-scare I got was when I was relaxing one night in my fort built atop the Working Stiffs store. It was surrounded by trenches filled with spikes, while the interior of the building beneath me was also filled with spikes, a necessity since zombies can just spawn right there.
I was sipping some nice red tea when the entire ****ing building came down, dropping me on my own spikes and in the midst of a horde. The stupid rotters who had been stuck in the trenches outside had, over the course of weeks, tunneled beneath the structure and undermined it.
Naturally, I lost my **** both figuratively as it scared the crap out of me and literally as I died almost immediately. Worse, I couldn't get it back, it was surrounded by spikes. Damn zombies.