Amnesia killed the horror genre

[Duskofdead]

Nope, main stream industry killed the horror genre years ago.

Name one truly scary game other than penumbra series and amnesia the dark descent and what was released in atleast 2005-2010

Very true. I remember how many things Valve slipped and admitted they changed, reworked, removed, or made easier while developing the Left 4 Dead games because of playtesters finding things 'too scary' or 'too hard' or 'too depressing.' The first game, for example, apparently lost more story and cut scenes because most of these involved the survivors somehow dying or being overwhelmed or having their vehicle crash and the playtesters found that 'too much of a downer.'

If they were trying to make a horror game, why the heck were they playtesting for people who clearly dislike horror?

Of course the real answer was, they were never really making a horror game. They were making an action game with horror decorations that they wanted to mass sell to the mainstream gamer market primarily on consoles. So everything is easy, forgiving, and you're wildly overpowered compared to pretty much everything you run into in the game.

So kudos to Frictional for making a real horror game, a truly immersive experience, and doing it for PC instead of turning it into AMNESIA: RELOADED... DANIEL'S BACK WITH A VENGEANCE, AND THIS TIME HE'S ARMED for PC-xbox crossplatform. Which you guys know would be exactly what we'd get if they tried to make a game like Amnesia but simultaneously had to make it marketable for xbox, lol.

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that would be, because, the other horror games are not that scary...

That's because, imho, most of the market thinks horror = blood and sudden spooks. And not psychologically created tension and immersion. No one but Amnesia's team seems to have "gotten" that it's entirely about the 2nd. Amnesia makes you afraid when absolutely nothing is around threatening you... constantly.