this is something that’s f***ed with me for a while. even growing up when playing normal games (i loved spider-man ps1), it was so anxiety inducing to have any interaction with an enemy

i’m currently trying my best to get through silent hill 2 remake. i’ve become obsessed with the lore and so much more about this game and the franchise in general. i f***ing love it. i love horror in general as well, prob my fav film genre. but playing this game is almost impossible for me and i don’t understand why

i p**** out of almost everything. i’m currently in the first section of the game in the apartments and simply leaving the save room makes me hands sweat

i’ve been like this my whole life with games. idk if it’s the immersion or something else but does anyone else deal with this?

also im more pissed than anything at this situation. my partner got me this game almost 2 years ago and i wanna enjoy it so much but f***ing christ man this s*** makes me feel insane

really would love to play RE2 remake someday but i don’t think it’ll happen man

Re4 is more of an action game with horror elements

I get through them but my heartrate is jacked the whole time

Playing RE 9 I almost had a damn heart attack

see even that would be too much for me

i wish i had played more games growing up, i only recently decided i want to play more games. SH2 was one i’ve been wanting for years

i feel like if i played games growing up, whether it COD or halo or whatever, i would’ve have as much anxiety playing them now

that’s crazy to me

i recently have discovered i have epilepsy and one of the main things that causes me to seize is if i’m too overwhelmed/stressed out

i feel like that adds another layer of stress while im playing games

same

there’s a curve I think where you feel very powerless and then you become very powerful and that is very satisfying.

Like a fromsoft or any rpg really

im like this too but I have a higher tolerance than u do, I remember I couldnt play SH2 remake for more than 2 hours at a time

it’s so hard for me to get through that powerlessness tho

i love that idea of gameplay and i want the experience so bad lol

i’m also ass at this s*** bro i can’t dodge for s*** and i wanna get better at melee but im too F***IJF SCARED TO PLAY AND GET BETTER F***

i could, honestly, just be a coward, too.

There's this section in SH3 that legit scared me so bad near the end, you had to keep going back and forth between this area that had a monster that literally sounded like a chainsaw screaming in pain, I eventually started playing with 1 earbud out for a bit to make it easier for myself

I’m like you OP I can’t play straight horror games. Resident evil and Dead Space toe that line enough for me that I can enjoy them, but only certain resident evil games.

RE4 remake I think is a perfect “intro” to a horror-y action game. The other resident evil games, especially the first person ones, scare me too much. Currently playing through RE9 and it’s scarier than RE4 but that’s why RE4 is a great intro

i’ve always wanted re2 to be the first game i play in the franchise, but as time goes on i do think it’d be better to play re4

its crazy I was talking to my friend about this the other day. idk about you but all my first experiences with horror were traumatizing (maybe an exaggeration but had regular night terrors for years after type s***) and now as an adult even though I know it's just fiction and I can't be hurt it just becomes overwhelming. I just get so immersed that it literally becomes reality which is like what makes horror so amazing for so many people but its just that I find it hard to switch between that state of deep immersion while also treating like it a piece of fiction

i feel the same in that it’s hard to convince myself it’s fake

idk if my initial horror experiences were traumatic or not, i don’t think they were. the more i’m thinking about it, i think it’s that i never played many games growing up at all. and now im an adult jumping into remakes of already terrifying games that are even more immersive with modern tech and stuff

maybe there’s some non horror games out there that could warm me up to how immersive things can be without actually terrifying me

You are looking at it from the wrong perspective, you are letting the game make you p****

Take a horror movie for instance, stupid writing, stupid characters, and you realize its not scary. This character that decided to check out the sound in the basement of the abandoned house instead of leaving deserves whats coming to him

With a game you learn the elements and mechanics of these things. You know how they behave, you know what to expect, and then you navigate it like a pro cuz it aint s*** to you

im the same way op, my hack is just having someone in the room whether its a partner or a friend.

im usually good but when its running from something I can't see like outlast or the chainsaw guys in RE4 i can't get myself to play when im alone

i can legitmately say as someone that gets scared easily and doesnt fw horror at all games like resident evil, silent hill, or dead space legit arent that scary at all

all of which that i did not play until a year ago because of reason above lol

the worst out of any of these would be like resident evil 7 since they made more of an emphasis on being "scary" with jumpscares

i feel like once you beat anyone of those games it becomes a lot easier to play other horror games

Grown ass man

Don’t play outlast op

I tried RE2remake after RE4 remake (cuz the original RE4 is one of my favorite games OAT) and I was too spooked by Mr X lmao couldn’t do it