Canyarions idea thread: How to make Eternal Darkness scarier

[Mushlafa]

Originally Posted by bobcat

Well it doesn't really control your tv volume, but it says "volume"
and the meter goes down and gets lower and lower.

Freaked me out big time

Ya that was the only good sanity effect we got polayin through the game... for like a day... 3 of us sitting in a room.. and were fighting then all of a sudden bars on the tv come up with volume being turned down and we all looked at ech other for like 3 seconds and saw the remote on the ground and were like.. oooh.. that was a pretty good effect..

[Canyarion]

Yeah, too bad that the volume control of our TV doesn't work like that at all. So we didn't recognize it and immediately knew it was an effect.

Of course those 'funny' effects are nice, but they're not making the game 'scarier' and that's what my thread was meant to be about...

Of course we're thinking about the future of ED, so any ideas are welcome.


I was thinking that perhaps the caracters should be closer to eachother... With some people you're like "who was this guy anyway??"
For the sequel they could come up with a story that the several characters come together and then cooperate... But that sounds a bit too much like Resident Evil 0.

Oh yeah, to make guns more useful, you have to create enemies that have a ranged attack.

The scariest moments so far were: the guy hanging in the kitchen (especially when you're playing with the piano first and discover it after you've been in the room a while ) and Alexa in the bathtub with blood.
Those effects look a bit like Silent Hill ones, but they're damn scary.

[CrOnO_LiNk]

ED was awesome, but to make the game scarier, I think they should have added more girl-covered-in-blood-screaming-in-shower-scenes.... That scared the **** out of me.

And I think RE beats ED in terms of scariness, but overall, I liked ED more.

[Dark Samurai]

Originally Posted by CrOnO_LiNk

ED was awesome, but to make the game scarier, I think they should have added more girl-covered-in-blood-screaming-in-shower-scenes.... That scared the **** out of me.

And I think RE beats ED in terms of scariness, but overall, I liked ED more.

yea i remember that!

that fudgin' freaked me out and my little bro missed twice

did anyone get the one when the bleeding walls and the dripping blood???

[Blackmane]

Yea, I got blood dripping out of the walls, but it was in places where it was like, ok, why is there blood. I think it would have been cool if there were places, like the walls next to a door where you thought something weird was going on, were dripping blood, and then you open the door and see a lot of dead bodies, and then it flashes and your back.

Also, the first time I saw the dead bathtub girl, it freaked the s*** outta me. The camera zooming in skipping like that was really good and I didn't expect it at all.

[bobcat]

Originally Posted by Blackmane

Yea, I got blood dripping out of the walls, but it was in places where it was like, ok, why is there blood. I think it would have been cool if there were places, like the walls next to a door where you thought something weird was going on, were dripping blood, and then you open the door and see a lot of dead bodies, and then it flashes and your back.

Also, the first time I saw the dead bathtub girl, it freaked the s*** outta me. The camera zooming in skipping like that was really good and I didn't expect it at all.

Yeh the dead bathdub girl nearly gave me a heart attack. Far I jumped.

[GameMaster]

I think there should be times where the power goes out and your only source of light is the moonlight through the windows. So you're walking along through a dark hallway and then a ray of moonlight through the window reveals half of a zombie's face a couple feet ahead of you, and then it hides in the darkness and starts moaning.