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Theory of Everything | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Resident evil and silent hill were both scary when I was a kid but I think it would look silly today.
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7fqx | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah it is a weird phenomenon that, does the ability to scare get adjusted with what you expect from the most current 'realistic' graphics. Having said that people apparently find Darkwood scary, and that's a top down, retro-ish game.
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Red Tower | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 For a moment I've read "Dinkwood" (as in Dink Smallwood) and was thoroughly confused.  Anyway, for anything to be scary one needs to be engrossed(?), to lose oneself in the fake world.  It happens less the the older one gets, when one is jaded, a cynical bored old bastard is only scared by the horror shitshow that is reality.