What do you hate about a horror game?

The horror.. it's so spooky

The creepy sounds when everything is calm.

I hate the fact that they're horror games.

Scary movies/games really don't scare me, so I don't really watch/play them. Though I loved Bioshock 1 & 2, if that counts as horror.

Such things as darkness and long corridors are exactly the point of horror games.

Edit: Their jobs is to take us out of our confort zone ya' know :D

Not being able to shoot those damn things.
Monsters are fun when you can shoot or control them, not when they crawl in the walls, make noise when you can't see them, etc.

Paintings of people. It creeps me dafuq out. The same happens in real life lol

that i lose years of my life for how much scary they are D:

tbh, the one thing I hate about horror games? When the horror is lost because your character is carrying firearms, or heavy/effective weapons. Part of good horror is not being able to fight back easily: killing things with assault rifles and shotguns being an example of exactly what is not good horror. Its best when you have to fight with your wits as much as your weapons. I love the stuff that sends a chill down my spine, or leaves me thinking, or even fearful, after i finish. Might not make sense to some people, but that's my two cents. :P

Too much ammo for guns and medpacks (or regenerating health).

The fact that they're horror games. Some games have great concepts but I chicken out when I hear it's a horror game. Same goes for movies,but almost anything scares me,FIFA 06 startled me a couple of times..

Everything that shocks me... and I'm quite easy to shock :/ I hate, that I know there is something up, but it shocks me nevertheless. So I just don't play any horror games ;D

Cheap thrills. I like it when the game works hard to put me in the right mood.

That you cant sleep at night.

1. Screamer/jump scare/sudden scary things pops up on screen
2. dark/ no lighting
3. scary creature encounters
4. scary BGM, SFX, sound, noise, etc..
   but i like playing them when someone (normal human, not crazy scientist or whatever) is around

When it's not scary but it's supposed to be.

I want it to be as scary and twisted as possible. I want to be scared and full of anxiety during playing.

I don't like it when the only scary part of a horror game is jumpscares. I do like when the whole atmosphere / environment is scary and in-depth, e.g. with spooky noises and various disturbing items that can be found lying around.

Long dark corridors. You know shit is going down if there is a long dark corridor!

I hate that there are not any real(istic) horror games. All of them are bad and they don't scare me at all... :(

The puzzles in Silent Hill 3 are fucking hard as fuck. But the game is scary, and is amazing. The best horror game there is.

When inanimate objects move when you look away and back again (puppets from Nightmare House 2 anyone^^?)

• Poor controls without a reason for them. Back when they were released on the PS1, you would be playing Resident Evil 1 - 3 with a digital pad, so tank controls made sense. Later we got Resident Evil 4, which uses that style of control despite the ability to use dual analog on consoles of the time. I've seen one interview where the speaker stated it was easier to limit the movement of the player than improve the AI of the enemies for a more maneuverable player. Unacceptable.
• Limited ability to save. Speaking of Resident Evil again, though not the only game with this flaw, you can safe only so many times as you require inventory items. Given other games have trained me to save regularly, this mechanic has always been highly irritating to me, and I'll use my Action Replay MAX disc in PS2 games to bypass this limitation.
• Limited inventory space forcing regular runs to storage chests. Yes, Resident Evil again. I'm not demanding the ability to carry everything on my person, but please let me take more than 6 items. Factoring in a weapon, some ammo, a healing item, a save item, a puzzle item and a space for whatever I'm going to need to pick up next, there was a LOT of backtracking in games with this kind of limitation.