Reza, can you please expand on your love of Silent Hill 4 as suggested in Cyclonopedia? Also, have you played any of the others in that series?
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Replying to @xenogothic
I did play the first two. Shudders! But the early resident evils were better imo. Here something for you from one of my gamer heroes on why resident evil is better:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1xLFhy-W4k …
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
Controversial! RE did define my childhood more than SH did so I’m inclined to agree with you but Silent Hill 2 has my heart these days. You should definitely check out RE7 and the RE2 remake though, if that’s your bag. The remake is beautifully faithful.
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Replying to @xenogothic
I will play them when I get the proper device. But what made these earlier games great is as Laserfrog mentions is the terrible controls like how difficult it is to aim at a bulky enemy. That truly contributed to the survival horroriness of these games.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @xenogothic
unlocking my privacy to jump in here, as it's something I've wondered for a while. This of course depends on the type of horror/anxiety fetish medium, and I wouldn't lump in The War Zone in that, as that's more low-level unease and dread than horror, but in terms of horror...
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to me these kinds of horror, as in resident evil and silent hill, and things like human centipede (the film) or even blakc mirror - I simply can't handle these things, it seems to me they are mostly for a market of people who need this tick in their lives...
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horror movies are for people who have never experienced true horror, or don't see much of the world for what it is, same with anxiety mediums, these are for people who I begrudgingly assume don't deal with real anxiety or self-hatred or whatever.
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granted mine is a narcissistic take, i'm more than likely wrong, and I understand absolutely the desire for extremity - it's my dreaded function, perhaps I'm just way too sensitive to these things (like the latents in octavia butler's work - i'm chaotic as hell)
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this a long winded way of saying is there not enough of a tick in people's own heads to materialise the affect they derive from horror/anxiety driven mediums?
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Replying to @terence_sharpe @NegarestaniReza
I think the opposite is true, at least in horror more generally. Watching / playing horror is the death drive in action, a huge capitalist glut that takes mass media, introjects screen trauma and distils it beyond the pleasure principle.
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My take on this is a bit different. Horror is when the otherworldly connects back to the mundane and the earthly.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @xenogothic
I would call that simply enchantment - so what word do we use for the ‘horror’ that naturally emerges within?
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