Scream detection?

[bluel0bster]

Just a note though for you YouTubers: I do think that if you just scream, mess around and have fun in videos, they're going to be much more entertaining for both yourself and your audience but that's just my experience.

I'm going to take a wild shot in the dark and guess you're a PDP fan, to a greater or lesser extent. You'll find that the majority of people on this forum are pretty hard core FG fans, and those who really appreciate these games do not appreciate enternetainers (<- not a misspelling) ruining the experience by catering to the lowest common denominator by appealing to a vast audience with almost slap-stick style humor (hahaha, let's watch this guy get scared, scream his !@# off, and smash stuff because there's a physics engine). This sorta stuff really devalues the game in my opinion by centering the experience around laughing at the misfortunes of the player, and really has nothing to do with the game in question itself. I don't think I'm in the minority, at least among fans of FG and their games, on this subject.

This is also why, to a certain extent, most people don't audibly react to scariness in video games. If you're actually scared by a game, chances are you're very immersed in the experience. If you're very immersed, audibly screaming will likely take you out of the experience: if you're screaming, you're reminded you're not inside the game world, you're outside if playing a character inside the game world. If that makes any sense at all.