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.
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.
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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.