https://ginger-maya.dreamwidth.org/ ginger_maya - Dreamwidth Studios Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:14:26 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios ginger_maya personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/1149611/633329 https://ginger-maya.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://ginger-maya.dreamwidth.org/445.html Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:14:26 GMT https://ginger-maya.dreamwidth.org/445.html Amnesia: The Dark Descent<br />So, I'm something of a gamer, right? It's not like I am particularly hardcore and involved in the community (other than the gamer fanfiction community XD), but I do like my RPGs. Recently, I decided to try something different and looked for a genre that would suit my tastes. I am not into car chases, so no Need for Speed and the like for me, I am not particularly fond of pure First Person Shooters - the last one I played and liked was Blood 2 all the way back in 1999. And I like fantasy. Given all that, I decided that maybe, just maybe, Survival Horror would be a good idea. So, do I go and get something like the latest Resident Evil or Silent Hill? NOOOOO.<br /><br />The shallow person that I am, I get into a video game store and browse around the titles in the Survival Horror shell, then reach a pretty box showing a barely lit dungeon with a pretty red rose on the stone floor on its front cover. "Oooh" I think. "Pretty. And romantic. Looks good, I'm buying it." Did I mention I'm shallow?<br /><br />So, I come home, install the thing, figure out the settings and begin to play. About an hour passes.<br /><br />...<br /><br />OMG WTF DID I JUST BUY THIS IS UNBELIEVABLY SCARY!!!?!! *HIDES IN A CORNER AND WHIMPERS* T_T<br /><br />Turns out I bought the scariest video game made in recent history, at least according to ALL people who reviewed it. Well, at least that means I am not being a wuss due to having no experience in the genre.<br /><br />My character, Daniel, spends most of his time gibbering in a dark corner, hiding from the monsters that want to tear him apart, and I spend my time gibbering behind my screen in sheer terror as well. I can't even play this thing for more than an hour or so. At some point today one of these creatures suddenly burst from the darkness and I SCREAMED like a lil' boy, causing my dog and my mother to come barreling in my room thinking something was wrong with me. Cue awkwardness and me trying to explain that no, I totally didn't get scared by a frickin video game to the point of shrieking like a loon. Nope, totally didn't happen.<br /><br />T_T I both want to play and finish this thing and I am too terrified of it at the same time. I think I'll give it a few days of rest, play some Dragon Age, have graphic gay sex with pretty elves, then go back to it again. I think. I hope.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=ginger_maya&ditemid=445" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://ginger-maya.dreamwidth.org/445.html games intimidated public 0