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I enjoy them, though I prefer horror games where the player is made to feel helpless over ones where they are empowered. I remember having an argument with a friend about whether Devil May Cry constituted as a horror game and I disagreed with my friend who considered it his favorite horror game. My argument was that it's difficult to feel "horror elements" when your main character can totally kick the monsters ass and will call him a sissy mama's boy while doing it.
So games like Fatal Frame, Silent Hill, Siren, and some other obscure series I tend to like though I have not had the time to play them all.
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Yeah... how are you supposed to feel horrified, and have a need to struggle for survival, if your character is a demigod. Same reason people don't consider Resident Evil 4 - 6 survival horror. You're playing a bunch of ripped/beautiful steroid gods tearing hell through hordes of infected
Just saw a Jimquisition video a few weeks ago arguing that Bloodborne was survival horror. Which is an interesting argument I wouldn't disagree with since much of the game can be horrifying, because anything can kill you in one combo, sometimes one hit, if you get caught off guard. And for your first time through, around every corner could be something to catch you off guard. And you are desperate to survive. So it technically qualifies. Even if it is action oriented. You are not a demi-god
Having gothic and typical horror themes, doesn't automatically make something a horror or survival horror game
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I love survival-horror! Probably my favourite genre next to JRPG's.
It has ran into the same issue as JRPG's over the past decade where most of them suck tho :/ I mean I loved the Resident Evil series but the last true survival horror entry was Code Veronica on the PS2. Same with Silent hill, the only decent ones were 1-4. Everything after that is actiony garbage.
The only good survival horror game I played during the PS3 generation was the original Dead Space (2 and 3 also took the Resident Evil route of basically becoming crappy action games)
Really the only true 'survival horror' games I've seen this generation were Alien Isolation (was okay) and the PT demo from Konami (AMAZING!!!)
I'm always up for a Survival horror game. Good ones are almost unheard of these days tho, developers know they can make way more money if there just give the protagonist a shotgun with unlimited ammo
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The cancellation of Silent Hills must've stung for you, huh Tyson?
