The difference is that stage names are still names. No celebrity wants a stage name of Dr PeePee or any of the other childish tags.

In an international scene, it tells a lot about the historical scene you come from, a scene which often dates back 2 decades, before esports really existed.

Imagine you’re a dude trying to cross some water to go spy on/steal shit from/assassinate somebody, and you want to do it sneaky like.

Counter-point: Brad Pitt circa 1998

I think it’s pretty obvious

Man, remember when assuming that inborn traits equaled bad was considered something that you shouldn’t do? I remember that.

More Perfect: An excellent podcast about the Supreme Court

yeah I laugh so hard after seeing this and it was on Zealot difficulty

This might sound like a weird pick, but I think 7 Days to Die does a good job of implementing crafting and weapon-degradation in a horror game. The game doesn’t pause while crafting, and crafting/building makes noise that can attract enemies at night.

the assault rifle is virtually useless haha.

sounds like you and i need to make a game.

I think you have a really convincing theory, but I’ve yet to see a game pull off what you described and also be scary (as scary as amnesia and outlast). For me, amnesia and outlast were super scary in ways that no other game has come close. The water monster in amnesia made me almost pee my pants. I’m just…

Those are good points. For me though, I think the good horror games create that sense of lost hope in different ways. Amnesia seemed to do that gradually throughout the game. Outlast did it in several different places.

The main problem with this genre (both in games AND movies) is that people mistake surprise for terror. Jump scares are the cheapest form of entertainment. It’s fairly easy to build suspense and then pop some grotesque thing out and make a loud noise. It is significantly harder to build actual terror. Like most people…

You wrote “Horror is confront the monster.”

I would say the first Dead Space definitely qualifies as a horror title. Dead Space 2 definitely is the Aliens to Dead Space 1's Alien.

The great thing about Dead Space is that the weapons aren’t really weapons. For the most part, they’re tools that the character repurposes to fight enemies.