Listen to happy music while you play or watch scary games/movies? XD
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Not really what I'm trying to do, I want to experience the game itself, just not be as scared when doing it.
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I can relate so much, this is why I never touch any of my horror games no matter how much I wanna play them! And absolutely nothing worked so far
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I am on the same boat and i want so much to watch conjuring 2. Just avoid all those movies this is the only thing that works
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I would still be carefull with that if I were you. While it may be a bit less scary, it can still be incredibly scary (especially since you don't have control like you do when you play). I watched a let's play once. It hunted me for months to come (and this was with Until Dawn, so not even a super scary game). Everytime I was alone in the dark (aka about every night) I would think about that and start getting pretty scared.
Also, as for the main thread, I have never been able to overcome it. I'm usually not superstitious, but for some reason I always get scared for a long time if I watch/play a horror movie/game.
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Playing with friends (either in person or streaming it) will make it way more tolerable.
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Not that social for it, but I might get a close friend to go through with it with me.
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More like less scary than spending a week at your grandma's house and die more than once from boredom, friends eliminate all horror.
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Imagine yourself as something worse than the thing you fear.
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Damn you should really play Silent hill 1 through 4, you'd get the best scares of your life. Amnesia and Cry of Fear too, they"re pretty close to SH scare level. I'd love to experience such intense emotions as you, don't try to overcome it because people would kill to experience such kind of fear, you feel more alive than ever during those moments.
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It's not something you want experience. You can't sleep due to fear and you sleep during the day.you feel tired all the time and you have all those nightmares that wakes you up
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I guess you're right, I didn't know it has such awful consequences, I thought it was only a momentary problem, my bad.
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Actually, Silent Hill doesn't seem to scare me much, I haven't played all of them, but 2, 4, Origins and Shattered Memories don't scare me at all.
I enjoy the feeling during the moment, it's the aftermath that's problematic.
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My bad then, never thought about the aftermath.
But true, Silent Hill 2, 4 aren't as scary as 1 and 3 imo. Amnesia is the one to try if jump scares terrify you more.
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I own 1 and 3 on PS3, I'll give them a try, thanks.
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I thought it was far too much combat in SH. The games were empowering, not disempowering. At least SH 1 & 2 (the only ones I've played), and that just killed the horror mood for me. The scariest part in SH1 was the part right at the start, when you don't have a weapon and move through the tight alleys.
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It's exactly the opposite for me, yea not being able to fight back might be scary once or twice but it gets boring after a while, in Shattered Memories not being able to fight back, the entire game, made it tedious. Fighting back also helps a recurring theme which implies that the enemies you're fighting might be real people but distorted in your eyes. I think also the fighting back is somehow balanced by the fact it's clunky, that you have the choice to run past most enemies and the fact that most of the time you're inside some building in a totally different dimension, building that might be just suspended in an endless void, no matter how many you kill it doesn't solve any problems. In my opinion the combat adds greatly to the atmosphere.
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I'm not saying that there can't be any combat, but if there's too much, it ends up becoming empowering. If the enemies you have to fight are relatively far between, and you actually give the game time to build up an atmosphere, instead of just forcing the player to focus on the gameplay, that's when the horror feeling appears. One main issue with SH was how incredibly easy the game was, enemies were no real threat to you, you were basically a Doom marine in a group of imps in terms of power disparity.
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We'll agree to disagree then, I can agree with what you're saying for any other horror game but for some reason all aspects of SH combat and enemies just work great for me, in my opinion it's perfect the way it is.
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See some "the making of"s. Realizing what's "behind the scenes" tends to help with fear.
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There are no "spirits", they are just humans with strong infulences from a parallel universe. The sounds you hear at night and the "ghosts" people often see are real but they are just reflections.
Try to sleep now.
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I'm the same! Try playing short horrors and build yourself up to big ones! Get used to the jump scares etc :)
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Yeah honestly it worked for me! I'm still scared but not as badly! I gave The Park, Among The Sleep, Layers Of Fear etc a go and now I'm a lot better at handling scarier games for longer :D
Just throw yourself in the deepens!
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WUT? Sorry for the off-topic but...why the chicken turned into a kitten? D:
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I can watch you and talk to you when you play if Ally doesn't do that. <3.
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Deal with psychological horror? EASY. You only need to be horny and a human can't be both horny and scared at the same time. If you are horny, you won't feel any fear.
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Play with some friends and rip the shit out of each other maybe? Or if that's not an option I who have historically been easily frightened by games watch LPs of horror games, where you get pissed off at people for being scared unnecessarily or hear someone break what makes a good horror game down and can think about it logically more.
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I tell myself : Monsters don't sleep under your bed, they live inside your head. So I know that it's all not true.
I guess it's easier said than done, but know that nothing can be worst than what is in your head, and if it is, then u were meant to overcome it, because nobody else can but you.
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Rationalizing it, definitely easier said than done, can it be done just by practice?
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Probably. It never worked for me though. I KNOW that stuff doesn't exist, but I still get scared for it. If you have a good imagination, it will be really hard to get over it.
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That's one of the core issues of this problem.
I have a wild imagination.
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Am I the only one who likes the feeling of extreme paranoia after playing a horror game?
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I love horror movies but I don't do so well with the horror games. I become too immersed in the game and it causes anxiety but the thing that I found which helps me through the horror games is to talk out loud while playing. Much like if you were doing a gameplay video for youtube. It somehow reminds me that its just a game and relieves the tension.
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Speaking for myself, maybe I should just play more horror. I love classic horror, with the atmosphere and such - for example Stray Cat Crossing, without any jumpscares. At the same time I hate jumpscares, as I am easy to scare since I know my life, just be on the other side of the corner when I'm not paying full attention, and I'll jump a little when I realize someone's there :D In games I can predict quite a few jumpscares, but I'm still scared - I jump a little, I feel adrenaline course through my body, sometimes a slight dizziness in my head. Later one passes fast, but I remain tense in my body, and at the same time I'm angry at myself for not being able to control my reaction to something that I mostly can forsee. On the contrary, I still haven't finished SOMA because it felt like an utter bore with way too much walking, and enemies that are absolutely no challenge as there's no loss when dying (dying twice actually is beneficial, as resets low movement speed for a small amount of setback) so I don't even know what's up with me...
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Oh and I nearly forgot to actually answer, maybe that helps some - when I was younger, I used to read a book or two that I really liked, and was really peaceful before sleeping after watching something nightmare-worthy, as I often dreamed about my day - that worked pretty nicely.
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I never found aliens to be scary, quite the contrary, they seem fascinating.
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still scary :O
you could try to play horror games with friends, i found that co-op is awesome since you usually don't get scared, you just have fun and laugh if you die.
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You are scared of horror games too? :o. You need help? :P.
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these games are pretty awesome to co-op (they are a bit outdated but still fun)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/254460/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/254480/
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Already finished them a couple of years ago, not scary for me, but thanks.
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Does this sidekick's teleportation abilities scare you?
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If your relationship with psychological horror changed throughout time then something "inside" you must have changed. You just have to find what that is and turn it again like it was when you weren't so scared by this kind of content ^^
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What I always do, is just play games without sound or on waaaay too low volume and especially jump scares usually aren't that scary anymore.
...or maybe that's just me.
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Damn, I thought I was the only one. I absolutely love the idea of horror games (especially games like Alien: Isolation), and I can usually deal with the movies as I'm a huge Alien fan, but I can't bring myself to play the games. Putting myself in the position of the protagonist is way too much stress for me to cope with and I can't simply look away or turn down the volume like I can in movies. I really want to love these games but I can't and I feel like I'm missing out on a ton of stuff. I hope you find a solution and please let me know if you do because I want to enjoy this stuff as well. :)
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Good luck, If do find a way to deal with it, I'll let you know.
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Shamans really do exist.
Maybe you can get in touch with one of them and ask for examination.
By the way I am not kidding.
I use cosmic energy. my girlfriend use angels and I joined a ceramony lead by a shaman three weeks ago.
ps: Owen James is a very good Shaman.
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I'll try to keep it short but informative.
I absolutely love horror games and movies. Several years ago, nothing could scare me, but lately, games and movies involving supernatural entities and jump scares have started scaring me, no amount of gore, violence or brutality can do it, but movies like The Conjuring, and games like PT nearly give me heart attacks.
I have a very active imagination, and tend to get heavily immersed in games and movies, I also tend to keep events from such media in my mind, I get afraid of that stuff spilling over into the real world, despite the fact that I'm perfectly aware they're fictional. I don't get afraid of a serial killer, but I get afraid of a spirit.
Does anyone have any recommendations on how I can overcome this? I really love the atmosphere of horror games, but don't really wanna spend nights afraid of some evil spirit being out to get me (silly, I know), but I can't help it, please help me overcome this.
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