How Technology Will Push the Horror Genre Forward - Daily Reaction

PSLS - After the infamous Playable Teaser – or P.T. — demo was pulled from the PSN store earlier this year, there has been a great deal of attention being placed the horror genre. Even so much that a new upcoming game called Allison Road has been making waves and exciting fans. With that in mind, the Daily Reaction crew discusses the current advancements in horror titles, and how modern technology could be playing a big role in what we see from the genre over the next few years.

[excaliburps]

Horror games on VR is a logical and awesome move. Maybe use the DualShock 4 in unique ways too.

[freshslicepizza]

play it with surround sound headphones on too, that would be pretty sweet.

[ps5fanboy]

Any game in vr could work given the right controls , imagine a super Mario game in v.r , I'd buy Nintendo again ha ha.

[Wedge19]

This is a great concept. Technology is what pushes the industry, but perhaps even more, the limits of the technology push the creative decisions to increase the immersion. I'm excited to see where it goes.

[ZaWarudo]

Yeah, and hopefully technology will find ways to clean my pants more effectively.

[PaleMoonDeath]

Hm.. I kind of like my "gather around the big tv" approach, it hasn't failed me yet when it comes to horror, but if I could use this to terrify everyone I know that would be a very attractive selling point.

Imagine playing P.T for the first time again, this time with a headset, you really wouldn't last that long without pausing now would you?

[cplus]

I'm happy I played it the first time with a headset.

[PygmelionHunter]

So did I. Probably the scariest gaming experience I've ever had.

BTW, f*** Konami.

[Decastis]

I watched the trailer for Allisons Road and I can tell that in VR it will be scary as shit!!!

[TheDreamCorridor]

I'm still sitting here, wondering why Konami threw away millions and millions of dollars by cancelling Silent Hills.

[Lionsguard]

Because they're making a lot more money in mobile gaming and Pachinko machines and they didn't feel like letting Kojima who was known to go over budget make the game. What I'm wondering though is why they aren't trying to let another studio finance and make it instead and just collect cash from it.

[TeamLeaptrade]

Yeah I'm not much too good with horror games, but I really want to try a horror game wearing a VR headset. I imagine it'll up the horror that much more for me.

[urwifeminder]

Still never played a scary game suspenseful yes scary no , seems a lot of people get confused about this .

[specialguest]

Horror games even with crappy low polygon count graphics like the games I've played on the Oculus Rift is still scary as sh*t. The immersion factor is what really does it. In VR you really feel like you're there. If you think playing Silent Hill alone in your room at night is too much(Which I do), VR horror takes it to another level.

[Foxhound922]

Could you imagine a game like Outlast while playing it on Morpheus? Give me the creeps just thinking about it

[Morgue]

vR sounds cool ( again? ) a fad that happened and passed in the 80's when I was a teenager and seeing those huge booths where you were a tank or whatever else. While today's technology surpasses that, I probably will to.

Just not my thing.

Edit.

I'd probably barf at my old age.

[hardcorehippiez]

i played vr in the arcades in the late eighties. i already know what the immersion is like but the graphical capabilities now seem to bring it to a whole different level. i am looking forward to getting morpheus

[rolfhorror]

Loving the VR prospects thats coming out soon, but I'm a little worried that people are going to get traumatized and some will die due to shock/heart-failure in VR-horror. VR will need some kind of panic button and "ejector-seat", so players can get out of the nightmare in a snap, and not turn into something like the movie "Strange days (1995)". Although closing your eyes will take away the visuals, that may not be enough.
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