Since the genre is in dire need of a breath of fresh air, let's pitch ideas for horror games that will never get made
I'll start:
>first person
>enemy AI like the alien from isolation, could be anywhere doing its own thing or stalking you
>more than one enemy, some are immediately aggressive, some play with you
Hears the catch
>your character is deaf
>you feel vibrations on the controller when something nearby moves
>you could be walking, feel a slight vibration, turn around and realize some nigga has been following you for who knows how long, and you take off running because now it's aggressive.
>or you're not being careful enough and turn a corner to come face to face with a baddie
I think that the absence of music and an oppressive silence can be effective, it would be interesting to see
The sound design would have to be done in an interesting way, no sound at all wouldn't work, maybe have it extremely muffled, or the occasional white noise, maybe the characters heartbeat increases and you somewhat hear it.
>wanna do something innovative
>remove audio
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>>342244737
>no sound at all wouldn't work
>>342243818
Pretty gud. But give us a wat to defend ourselves so it's not just a walking sim like amnesia.
If the sound came through like super muffled almost like your underwater that would be cool.
Here's my idea.
>open world in a big bustling city like NY or something
>PC is just walk in round doin own thang check-in out some stores n Shit maybe.
>slowly more and more of these guys in black robes show up.
>they just watch you from across the street, from Windows etc.
>eventually you hear chanting growing louder and louder
>no one but you notices
>hear a roar of monster behind you
>nobody can see it but you
As you flee through the streets with chanting and the sounds of the monsters following you nobody tries to help nobody runs from the monster nobody even looks at you. They just can't see or hear what's happening.
Give it hiding mechanics like in dumpsters and hobo tents. As well as being able to defend yourself against the robed guys. With like rusted pipes and Shit you find. And maybe use the bystanders as meatshields against the monster I dunno.
R8?
>>342243818
you get call.
is from father
then a skeleton pops out
>>342246701
Indigo Prophecy out of 10
Okay, okay, listen to this one:
>Sold on steam as video recorder software for let's players and shit
>When you open it up, a video opens of a guy talking to the camera
>He says some shit went down in an important government facility and that they have no idea what went on
>They're putting this out to the masses in a desperate attempt to discover what happened, as they still haven't figured it out
>message will self destruct
>game crashes
>a new file is added to the desktop
>it's a fuck-ton of videos, audio files and archives
>some are surveillance footage, some are audio recordings, some are straight up HD Filming
>it's all separated in dates
>it shows government agents in some sort of underground facility just researching some things and shit starts to get weird
>by the final day everything goes to hell
>you have to piece it together and figure out what happened
>opening the software now leads you to the software used by the facility, open to use but blocked by codes and specific people, which leads to more videos, audio files and archives
>Basically Her Story + Night Trap and This House Has People In It
r8/h8
Horror is about execution, not the idea
>>342248298
True, but everything needs a setting, no?
>>342246969
What's that?
How about a game where you are the monster, and you have to survive special agents with military training that are sneaking around your mansion. Think about it for a second would turn the whole genre on it's head.
