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13 August 2019 20:31![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
haptalaonCompletely inexplicable fan behavior: "Bioshock isn't really a horror game and..."
Stop right there, delicious friend. I get that Bioshock is a lot of things, and it's a touch dismissive of its ambition and haunting qualities tol describe it as merely "a horror game".
But, my dude, the comment you are replying to says "I'm not really a fan of horror", and you're disagreeing with the categorisation to recommend this person a game about zombies chasing you around an abandoned city filled with ghosts, mad Nazi doctors, needle horror, jump scares, blood everywhere, creepy children/creepy things happening to children, capitalism, peeling wallpaper and rust on the floors and flickering lights which sometimes fail and plunge you into darkness, Landweirdy memory tapes you can find with the voices of the dead, crackling out of the static, dangling bodies, piles of bodies, dismembered bodies, bodies posed and encased in wax for art, bodies which jump up and attack you when you get close...oh for sure, as a fan of the series, it's a perceptive comment, and proven by the fact that Bioshock: Infinite can be a recognisesble sequel to the game while not really being a horror game at all, and that's very interesting.
But the question "is this a game which I, a not-fan of horror am going to like?" To which the answer is like absolutely not. And I've seen this same conversation happen...more than once...
Stop right there, delicious friend. I get that Bioshock is a lot of things, and it's a touch dismissive of its ambition and haunting qualities tol describe it as merely "a horror game".
But, my dude, the comment you are replying to says "I'm not really a fan of horror", and you're disagreeing with the categorisation to recommend this person a game about zombies chasing you around an abandoned city filled with ghosts, mad Nazi doctors, needle horror, jump scares, blood everywhere, creepy children/creepy things happening to children, capitalism, peeling wallpaper and rust on the floors and flickering lights which sometimes fail and plunge you into darkness, Landweirdy memory tapes you can find with the voices of the dead, crackling out of the static, dangling bodies, piles of bodies, dismembered bodies, bodies posed and encased in wax for art, bodies which jump up and attack you when you get close...oh for sure, as a fan of the series, it's a perceptive comment, and proven by the fact that Bioshock: Infinite can be a recognisesble sequel to the game while not really being a horror game at all, and that's very interesting.
But the question "is this a game which I, a not-fan of horror am going to like?" To which the answer is like absolutely not. And I've seen this same conversation happen...more than once...
