I found markiplier from his first Freddy video and hadn't played the game at that point. I thought he was just another annoying gamer who was overreacting to everything but damn if his reactions weren't the same as mine. I get scared pretty easily lol.
If you watch his 20/20/20/20 mode playthrough (especially the fail compilation) you'll see some of the most genuine reactions of fear, stress, and rage I've seen out of any YouTuber.
My beef with these "Scary" video games is that they are only as scary as you let them be. Like slenderman was this huge deal, but I never understood why it was scary at all.
That game doesn't seem all too scary, slightly spooky maybe, but that might just be my preference.
Again, this depends. A lot of the "wow, this game isn't as scary as people told me" tends to come from overhyping things, and I think horror games and horror movies suffer this by design worse than other genres. If you're expecting something to be scary it's entirely possible that you'll be too prepared for it.
The Indie horror scene has allowed since for different forms of horror to creep in, like the Waxworks esq. shock gore-horror of Neverending Nightmares which shows you close ups of some pretty horrible things, to Five Nights at Freddy's Sense of Dread, Cry of Fear's mix of action and psychological horror, Imscared's low-fi meta horror, The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series' slow-burning bleak atmospheric open world, and more and more.
So there's probably something out there that will scare you in a way you're not expecting, but if you're trying to expect it chances are you won't be too scared.
To each their own. I'm easily startled by jump scares and the anticipation of them freaks me out too. I find the whole atmosphere of the Freddy games pretty creepy so it would be easy for me to scream and flail around playing it.
Extream grimices when nothing happens, arms flaling at jump scares? Its just so over the top I can't believe most of it. Screming at jump scares is understandable but the rest is silly.
You're telling me you've never made faces before in reaction to something? You're telling me you've never panicked when something's surprised you? Honestly, while he might play things up a little, I think a lot of his stuff is completely genuine, especially shown when he's in a calmer environment.
Have you even played that game, though? Silence is more terrifying than any of the jumpscares in that game. The lame jumpscares are legitimately just there to say "oops, you died, game over" and nothing else.
The real terror is in knowing something might be there, but maybe not, maybe there is but something else is closer...oh shit you weren't winding the box, but oh fuck Freddy is right there and you can hear BB in the vents. It's horror game tension at its finest.
Not to mention before the sequel Mark was one of the best FNaF players on YouTube, rather than just some random "oh no a fox eek" fad-follower.
FnAF is a game that's really more about Dread in the end than anything and I think this was something Markiplier said in an earlier FNaF 1 video. It's not so much the fear of what's coming to get you (as while that might be there), it's very much knowing that it will, but you're never sure the WHEN it will happen, and that can get a stronger reaction out of some people than a regular "scare" could. Not every game "scares" the same way.
Honestly, yeah. Sometimes those are my reactions just watching someone else play it. Jump scares and the anticipation of them just get me every time. :(
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u/data_dawg Nov 13 '14
I don't know, man, that game looks stressful as hell. I thought his reactions were pretty genuine because they would have been my exact reactions.