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Canas Renvall Vice Captain
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 Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:14 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:56 pm
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:27 am
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Thee Stranger Actually, I think the spirit thing that Ash was always running from was revealed in Evil Dead 2. And that was the ******** up monster head thing with all the other heads and s**t on it that tried to grab Ash, and then Ash stabbed it in the eye with the chainsaw. It was a spirit up until then, but if you remember, in Evil Dead 2 they cast that spell to manifest all the spirits into the flesh so they could all be sucked into the portal and s**t. Err.. Vigoro? I was actually referring to Ramirez, but yeah... Well, okay, maybe not so much what is scary per se. More like what is horror, I guess. The core elements that make it what it is. What truly scares you may be subjective, but there are certain conventions to it that are universal. And I have to agree that horror in its purest form is basically the macabre. Like, "the horrors of war". Horror being blown up babies and watching your buddies die right in front of you and s**t. All the death and the corpses and decay. But I don't so much agree that terror is just a "boo!" thing. Terror is the feeling you'd have as you abruptly began plummeting downward at 3,000 feet in an airplane, and you were suddenly faced with the harsh reality that you were only a few moments away from dying a very horrible and bloody death as you were about to be crushed and mangled and ripped into bloody bits upon impact. And if you somehow managed to survive the initial impact, your entire body would be splattered and charred in firey jet fuel from the ensuing fireball. That's pure, unadulterated terror right there. Of course, there's really no way a videogame could possibly evoke that kind of genuine feeling of intense panic... so maybe "boo!" tactics are the closest thing. Still, I don't know if I'd call that terror. I'm not sure what you'd call it, other than a scare.
ah i gotcha. you know what started me on my tangent though? my government professor xD we got on the very same subject and i was talking about horror movies and he started with that whole "but was it horror or terror?" i tried to tell him that terror is defined within in the same realm because something terrifying can be horrifying. so why bother bringing it up if i agreed with you guys to begin with?
i just wanted to see what you guys would say haha. and it only proved my professor was wrong haha. well partially xP it was fun hearing the different perspectives.
oh and bio............OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG! THATS FREAKING AWESOME! biggrin the toilet creeped me and grossed me out at the same time xD i loved the peering through the window view too. omg....that brings back memories. |
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:06 am
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:07 pm
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:11 pm
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:27 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 5:13 pm
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Oh my god. I was already in love with Fallout 3. But now I've fallen completely head-over-heels. Why? Because it has a direct reference to Snatcher!
When I first went to the Minefield for one of the missions in the Wasteland Survival Guide quest, I stumbled upon a house called "Gibson House". Now, being that I'm a huge fan of Snatcher, it automatically came to mind. Even the house's architecture looked quite similiar to Gibson's house in Snatcher, but I thought nothing of it at first, chalking it up to coincidence. But then, there were two neighboring houses: The "Gillian House" and the "Benson House". Now that's quite a coincidence. Gillian Seed, Jean Jack Gibson, Harry Benson and Benson Cunningham are all characters in Snatcher. Right then I was thinking, "Is this a Snatcher reference or just a huge coincidence?" Because then I found another house called the "Zane House". There's no character in Snatcher named Zane as far as I know. So anyway, I picked the locks, went through all the houses, looted anything of value, and moved on with my life.
Today I'm out exploring the map, just kinda ******** off, when I stumble across this building. When I get in there, I hear this dude screaming. I run down the corridor only to find his corpse... with his head cut off, resting in front of his lap. When I hover over the corpse, turns out his name is Gibson! In Snatcher, you find Gibson's corpse in the exact same state.
So I search the body, and he's got "Gibson's Key" and a note on him which reads "Search the House!" In Snatcher, when you search Gibson's corpse, you find both Gibson's Key and a note with this exact same message. So I went back to the Minefield and went through Gibson's House again... and inside, there's a miniature model house! I can't believe I missed it the first time. So I unlocked it with Gibson's key, and got some nice loot out of there.
So you probably might have guessed that in Gibson's House in Snatcher, he also has a little miniature house. Although in Snatcher, there's nothing inside of it when you search it. It only serves to throw players off, thinking that Gibson's note meant to search the miniature house, when he really meant to search his house for his PC88 computer terminal so that you can read the contents of the floppy disk you find in his desk (the exclamation point on the note in Snatcher is made up with the read and write holes of a floppy disk).
I mean, there's lots of references and homages in Fallout 3, but this probably the most elaborate of them. And it's something nobody would catch or think anything of, unless they played Snatcher.
Holy ********, man. It made my day!
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 6:34 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:18 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:00 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:59 pm
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Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 6:45 am
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