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Personally, I think games.
Personally, I think games.
With a game your using more concentration so even something that makes you jump is twice as frightening. All of your nerves and senses are heightened due to the concentration level needed for playing a game, when concentrating your more likely to get sucked in to a frightening thing
Having said this, it is easier to identify with characters in a film because they are humans rather than computer graphics. All gore is terrifying in a film as it looks real and like it's happening to a person, whereas the graphical quality is not yet that good in games to make it seem real
But, things that involve special effects are worse in games as things like ghosts look like they're in their natural environment. Camera techniques can be frightening in each if implemented properly
I tend not to be scared when playing a horror game as I'm concentrating so hard on playing. Things jump out, but I deal with them like I would on any other game.
For example Resident Evil 4 is scarier than a lot of films but then The Shining is scarier than a lot of games.
> rite so your sayin games r scareier than movies but movies r scareier
> than games make up your mind
If you were intelligent enough to read the first sentence of my post you wouldn't have such a hard time understanding.
I d i o t
> Films are more frightening. You're in control when playing a game so
> you get to decide how to play out the story, which really takes any
> scariness out of it.
Apart from when you're moving your character into dark places/water/other.
Films are nothing compared to a scary and tense game.
> I find that games are more immersive than movies and therefore
> scarier.
Couldn't've put it better myself. Films very rarely scare me personally, but games on the other hand, there's loads that cause me to jump and scream profanities at the top of my lungs.