The future of horror will be in High 8

Posted by Jurassosaurus [63.50.221.129 - pool-63.50.221.129.phnx.grid.net] on 03 April 2002 at 03.20.44 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: The future of horror posted by Gremlin on 29 March 2002 at 10.32.56 ZuluTime:

Or at least, that's what the Blair Witch people would have had you think.

Seriously though, one of the scare appeals to SH2 was its grainy, High 8 look to it. While that worked well for the game (and for Fatal Frame; as long as we're on the subject), I don't think that would translate very well either. Movie goers seem to be less interested in revolutionising genres than they use to be. I blame the shrunken attention spans, and obsessions with eye candy.

Then again, if they advertised for it like they did for Blair Witch...

: As for the future of horrorgames: I've got a certain interest in that right now; I've been looking into modern videogame production [the last game I bothered to write ran on a Commodore64] lately; I'm working out the levels for the Subheroes game here.

Interesting, are you just looking at it as a general PC game, or have you thought of bringing it to any of the home consoles?

I've got a opening title for the PC version:


Created on Amiga.

Dumbed down for the Windoze environment.

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• Er, and by that of course, I mean Hi-8 posted by Jurassosaurus [63.50.218.44 - pool-63.50.218.44.phnx.grid.net] on 03 April 2002 at 06.02.32 ZuluTime (0)