For the people who play survival horror...

...were any of you guys scared ****less at thought of doing so prior to your first horror game?

Like me, I get scared easily and I just recently started playing Dead Space, my first survival horror, cause
I heard it was a pretty solid game with an interesting story.
Did you guys naturally adapt to it? Cause as someone that's naturally jumpy when it comes to these
things, I want to know how much longer and I can keep this up(I'm on Ch.2) and whether I should play
other horror games(I've taken in interest in RE series, for the story of course).

Do you think survival horror is something only for those who can stand it?
Or can everyone eventually get used to it with experience?

...were any of you guys scared ****less at thought of doing so prior to your first horror game?

Like me, I get scared easily and I just recently started playing Dead Space, my first survival horror, cause
I heard it was a pretty solid game with an interesting story.
Did you guys naturally adapt to it? Cause as someone that's naturally jumpy when it comes to these
things, I want to know how much longer and I can keep this up(I'm on Ch.2) and whether I should play
other horror games(I've taken in interest in RE series, for the story of course).

Do you think survival horror is something only for those who can stand it?
Or can everyone eventually get used to it with experience?

redmangoose

I wasn't particularly scared of my first survival horror game...but then again, my first survival horror game was the first 'modern' survival horror game (Alone in the Dark, 1992), and I guess I was too young to even think it was scary. I used to really love zombies and werewolves as a kid, so I always thought it was pretty cool. :P

Nowadays I'm just too desensitised to horror games to be scared by them, with a few exceptions (like Thief 3's Cradle, or Amnesia).

After some time, I did not feel fear from Dead Space. I was bussy fight off the nercomorphs to feel scared. There were some jack in the box moments.

I'm not a person who's easily scared. I enjoy survival horror because it creates a tense atmosphere, and that tension keeps my interest.

I've been playing survival horror games for awhile and there is games that'll still freak me out. It seems like developers are stepping it up adding all kinds of new elements and features to freak ya out....and it works haha. Now I'm not really scared of any game...I use to be when I was younger but not anymore, but like I said I do get a little freaked on certain games with certain parts. Which I don't know if it's just me but F.E.A.R. 1&2 flipped me out sometimes. But I got use to it.

I'm more freaked out and scared about spiders then I am with any video game.

The only recent game that really scared me was Dead Space, and that was the first time I ran through it at 3 am with all the lights in the house turned off. The second and third times were more me just blasting away baddies. I can't wait for Dead Space 2 though!

The last game i played that actually scared me was Resident Evil 1, the long hallway where out of nowhere the dog's jump through the window. Since then, no horror game has scared me, some have gave me a nice unexpected jump but not scared me. But part of the reason could be resident Evil 1 was the first of it's kind and i was like 12 when i played it.

yeah im the same jayQ. My first survival horror was playing Resi 1 round my uncles house when i was 10. That brief cutscene of the zombie turning round and the dog hallway will haunt me till i die. Horrors games today do not really scare me at all, i dont think i was scared once through dead space. But strangely if i play the original resi it still makes me uneasy, it is as if i get "nostalgia fear" if there is such a thing.