DrBloodmoney Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Its not scary. Thats not bravado - Amnesia, Outlast and some other games have scared the shit out of me. This one is not scary in the slightest though. AIf you have a camera set up it will record your reactions to some of the jump scares. As my wife played through next to me, every one was just a video of us both sitting motionless and completely unfased. It's completely different to the type of fear in Outlast, for example. If you can get through a B-movie horror like Cabin in the Woods, you will be fine. It's tense, but never quite in the way traditional horror games are. You understood that Cabin in the Woods was a comedy, not a horror movie, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NarcissusBaz Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 I hate jumpcares... it's the lowest and cheesiest form of horror. If I suddenly jump on you on the street and yell really f-ing loud, am I the master of horror? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogeMalone Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 (edited) Not scary Edited September 6, 2015 by aLaNiSsAk320 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baddboys Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Honestly I am rarely affected by jump scares, and about 95% of the scary parts of the game are just that. There was only one moment, and I won't ruin it with a spoiler that made me jump. Both my brother and I jumped when it happened. But all in all I was not scared throughout the game. There where some very tense moments in the game which made it better than being scary. I find tense moments more satisfying than scary ones. 2/10 - not scary at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NarcissusBaz Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 (edited) Just started playing Until Dawn and it's not scary at all, true. But it's not that it fails to be scary, it just doesn't want to be It's like one of those teen horror movies/slashers you watch with your friends and have a few laughs. Love it! Plus the atmosphere and the environment are both great - eerie, but not scary. Edited September 12, 2015 by NarcissusBaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LxJingoizm Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 All I can say is I dropped my nuts at times... Still can't find them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilanYildirim Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 I've been playing for 6 hours, I'm not stone cold or super tough but but this game didn't tense me or scare me at all. I was getting sweat while playing Alien : Isolation but that game is not scary.0/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakebit10 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I just played through 8 chapters in one sitting and only had one moment I jumped a little. So I would say it really isn't scary. I don't scare to easily so that may have something to do with it. Outlast was a little scarier to me. If anything the first time I played Dead Space 1 I would say I found that scarier. Than again that was as far as I knowe the first horror themed game I played. So Until dawn isn't scary just some tense moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jak Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 (edited) About a 6.5 or 7 out of 10. About a 4 if playing in the daylight (I played in the daylight... serious difference) and with no headphones (which are crucial to hearing the tense music, horrific screams of many different things in the background, whether a bird, creature, girl, whatever, other noises, and more sound related aspects) like a little puss! I managed to beat Alien Isolation & Outlast. If anyone played Until Dawn and Alien Isolation, can compare this two? I wonder if I will be able to manage beat that with clean pants as well Until Dawn is legit scarier than Alien: Isolation. I played both... I've never jumped as much as I did in UD as I did in Alien. It's also worst that you're able to track the threat in Alien with a device, something you can't do in Until Dawn. Until Dawn also has more threats than Alien. Alien also suffers from having too many in-between breaks where the (main) threat isn't chasing after you at all and you're in lighted areas and progress as if you're playing an action game. Alien at times felt like a casual or noob friendly horror game. It's probably also worth considering that the Alien itself would have some predictable areas of spawn due to some give always. Until Dawn is also more horrific. Until Dawn has better and more horror traits, where as Alien really only does good at 1 or 2 things. My grammar has been bad all day. Edited October 31, 2015 by Mar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FumoNoPantsu Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 8/10 for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raccoon_0 Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 8-9/10 I get scared easily and this is the only horror game I can play thats why not 10 since it can't be that scary if I can play it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diskdocx Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 I really didn't find it scary. There were a couple of jump scares, probably only one that really caught me and I was genuinely startled. Not really a fan of horror movies/games, so I can't compare. I would say the game is more of a thriller than a true horror game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StorySays_ Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 3/10 Played it for hours and it really didn't scare me, the environment was spooky, but not that scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LunchCannon54 Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 It's certainly is unsettling at times and did make me jump, but it's not particularly tense or scary because you know nothing will threaten you outside of the QTE's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerUpMilk Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 It has scary moments but i would say outlast was worse. I would say there is one or two main scary moments and the rest is atmosphere/ jumpy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smellslikejavier Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 I hate jumpcares... it's the lowest and cheesiest form of horror. If I suddenly jump on you on the street and yell really f-ing loud, am I the master of horror? It's funny because there are still people that fail to realize that the "cheesy jumpscares" were done on purpose, the whole game is all about paying homage to teen horror movies, including bad dialogue, stereotypical teenagers, jumpscares, monsters, ghosts, killers, etc... You are not supposed to take the game seriously or think they were serious when they created the game, it's supposed to be silly and laughable, like most teen horror movies. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One-EyedSinner Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 I'd say 5/10 It's mostly jumpscares that made me scared whilst playing Until dawn... But as I progressed through the game the jumpscares began to get abit weak and predictable. Like when the background sounds stop or the camera zooms in on something you know it's gonna be a jumpscare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smellslikejavier Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 I'd say 5/10 It's mostly jumpscares that made me scared whilst playing Until dawn... But as I progressed through the game the jumpscares began to get abit weak and predictable. Like when the background sounds stop or the camera zooms in on something you know it's gonna be a jumpscare. Like I said previously, they were weak and predictable on purpose, like with all the other things they did in the game. Just a parody/reference/homage to teen horror movies, nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowerUpMilk Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 On a scale from 1 to Hotel Basement in The last of us, how scary is it? Bloody hell, I was addicted to that game and couldn't put the controller down but as soon as i entered that area I actually stopped for 2 days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CQC93 Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 1/10 I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NarcissusBaz Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 It's funny because there are still people that fail to realize that the "cheesy jumpscares" were done on purpose, the whole game is all about paying homage to teen horror movies, including bad dialogue, stereotypical teenagers, jumpscares, monsters, ghosts, killers, etc... You obviously haven't read my next post. You're referring to the comment I wrote before I even played Until Dawn and it was just a general thought on jumpscares, not anything referring to UD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damon8r351 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 (edited) Cheap jump scares only a hyperactive teenager would think are scary. It's a good thing that's what they were going for, because that's exactly what they made and nothing more. Edited January 12, 2016 by damon8r351 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okian2 Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I give it a 7/10.Played this together with my girlfriend.We both had some really scary moments. It does get a bit predictive as you get further in the game.But overall, pretty good horror game.Yesterday I let my father-in-law play but it was the mother-in-law who screamed the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yourwifemykidsx Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 3/10 comparing it to alien isolation which was 8.5/10 Pretty shitty game if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickgirl91 Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 I love horror games because they are the only media that can still scare me. That being said I've played all of until dawn and some of outlast. Until dawn wasn't as scary as outlast at least to me. Until dawn does have intense moments but it does have a intense and relax cycle. Outlast doesn't have the relief of the relax part because the atmosphere was so thick. I mean both games have you on edge the whole time but to me it seemed like outlast was more intense as an average but until dawns scares were more impactful since you had time to calm down again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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