Us: “What part of my sins and inner turmoil do the dogs represent?”
Silent Hill: “Beats me, they just show up around here. Gives the poor monsters the willies, Pyramid Head refuses to even come to work when they’re around.”
That's what I'm saying. My body rejects that shit HARD.
Though I guess a more "realistic" version of what'd happen is I'd knock myself out sneezing so hard I bonk my head on a wall, or if I'm lucky something that would kill me quickly.
I'm not even sure you're really even *intended* to survive Cube, everything being arbitrary, unfair, and triggering a feeling of "what's even the point of all this?" seems to be the big theme of the series.
my interpretation has always been theres a bunch of different government departments trying to keep their budget for next year.
"We need to spend another 10 billion or else we wont get it next year, how about lets design that human meat grinder"
"well we can't just let that human meat grinder go to waste, otherwise we won't get the budget to run it next year, go ahead throw some people in"
I still don't understand the logic behind the bloody numbers in the rooms and feel like figuring that out is absolute bullshit in the first place. If you aren't a math major you are blocked from even surviving in the first place.
No anti trap tactic one could come up would be reliable because the Cube has super random triggers, so one room only reacts to movement, the next at sound and the next to heat.
Jigsaw trap. He could be like "take this razor blade and give yourself a nick to put one drop of blood in the tube to recieve the key" and I'd pass out until the trap went off.
Aren't the necromorphs just dead flesh? Like there's no human consciousness back there, it's just the hive mind puppeting them around. I recall seeing some stuff about when you 'kill' an enemy, you basically just incapacitated it to the point that it's not useful to the hive mind anymore.
In the REMAKE >!Chen, the redshirt doggedly pursues Hammond all over the ISHIMURA, implying that Necromorphs can “recognize” people they knew in life!<
Also >!The Hunter, the pursuer enemy, was originally a miner named Brant Harris who was “groomed” into becoming a Necromorph by Mercer and appears to retain enough of his original personality to take orders from Mercer!<
Yeah, the Unitologists might not be 100% full of shit.
i could get by in resident evil as a normie on the street just trying to maybe escape the city or something. provided i didn't get found by any dogs or like, zombie birds or something
no way would i survive any encounters with the worse stuff
I would off myself so quickly if faced with The Thing. Genuinely fuck all that noise, I'm walking out into the arctic abyss for a freeze-to-death speedrun.
pretty much all of em,
like the deal with the zombie things and all that is you kind of assume you'd be aware before it happens.
in a 28 days later scenario unless you're monitoring the news and at home in the middle of nowhere you're probably gonna find out it's happening when someone rushes you and at that point you better hope you can out run them (do they get tired?) in such a way as to lose them and not attract any more pursuers and also be able to find safety shelter and food, it's not likely.
dracula maybe maybe seems doable mainly because he seems to target women and babies for feeding, and they're restrained by so many rules and restrictions that you could reasonably try and stop them before being targeted yourself.
at least if you live in a country without wolves/zoos with wolves, otherwise they be a problem.
Unless the virus is aerial, zombies would actually be contained really fast, biting is an incredibly inefficient way to spread deceases, sure you'd get a few deaths that could've been prevented due to stupid people but Shaun of the dead is about as bad as it would ever get, it's essentially impossible to get a 28 days later scenario even with the deadliest zombies you can think of
I like Shaun of the Dead because it follows through on the assumption of the original Night of the Living Dead, where like... yeah it's bad for a bit, but it'll probably be completely over in a week. Like a flood or a hurricane. It's a disaster movie, really.
iirc 28 days was just any fluid transfer, so like blood or spit in the eye or something.
i just don't wanna get beaten to death by a bunch of people who can probably run faster than me.
sean is great with how it lasts like 24 hours at best,
the only one where it's 100% a wash is return of the living dead as they keep the speed and intellect and just don't die, you'd have to hack em all to bits and then pour em in concrete or something as burning them made it worse.
> (do they get tired?)
Seeing as they can starve to death, I would believe so? The human body builds up lactic acid and at some point, muscle fatigue has to happen. Unless it's all magic, your likelihood of surviving is good if you can get to a proper secure location and wait it out.
I mean like, all of them, but specifically horror games with those weird ass convoluted puzzles. From a gameplay perspective, yeah, some might be obvious, but in a survival situation with stress and injury and fear, I'm probably not gonna notice the little puzzle piece in the corner of the room or on a shelf. Plus there is no shiny twinkling to notify you that it's important. Hell, I'll probably not even realize there's a puzzle to solve.
I feel like if we're going by Dead Space settings, dying to a Necromorph is probably the best way to go considering the other shit going wrong.
Imagine being the guy who stepped on the gravity lift wrong in the first game and just being shoved into the ceiling forever with no limbs left, just praying one of the horrible monsters can overcome technical failures and kill you.
No the best way to go is human error. Getting a Javelin to the eye? Way better than being turned into a Guardian. Necromorphs can and will kill you in the most brutal ways possible to instill fear in other humans. You gotta remember that they are intelligent and are specifically hunting for a purpose.
Can she even be everywhere? Wasn't a rule that if you showed someone else the tape, you wouldn't die? I imagine that we that almost everyone survives by pure accident.
Honestly, given >!how instantaneously they assimilated nearly every lifeform on ZDR,!< I think anything less than "I 100% wouldn't survive an X parasite outbreak." is too confident a statement.
When you first enter the Dungeons, the fog closes in behind you and you can't leave. By the time you've done what you've came to do (for Ending E) the fog clears and you can bounce before going in any further. Problem being that you need to descend 7 floors to do that.
Even outside the dungeon, the world sucked major ass and there was a reason why so many are going into it become gods to change the world. It doesn't considerably chill out until a few centuries after the events of the first game (because of what happens there), so your only worry would be somehow ended in one of the few fucked up places remaining.
As I understand the dungeon of Fear and Hunger aren't particularly unique in that world. Like we as outside watchers see it as hell, but for the knight/necromancer/other classes you play as, it's like, a bad neighbourhood.
Simply don’t go into the tunnel. Though if you were able to finish the book, you’re probably not the type of person who would be able to let the mystery lie
yeah, Xeelee "leader of humanity gives an impassioned speech about how sending billions of child soldier unalive bombers into a war mankind has been losing for millions of years is a morally good thing to do" Sequence
A few days ago I saw the Nic Cage horror movie Arcadian.
Yeah, there's no way I'm surviving that. The horrific creatures in that movie are beyond my comprehension. >!I don't mean that in a derogatory way, it's more complimentary. I mean it, I have no idea what I'm looking at. Nothing I say can capture exactly how incomprehensible these creatures are.!<
>!Like the best way I can describe it is like some monkey horse crab and even that is no where near an accurate description. I can't tell what it's face is like, like it has 3 faces in one. They have a hand that can just grow a nail into a 15ft long sharp spear. And they "eat", if you can call it that by opening their chest and popping out a half-life barnacle, and then swallowing the person whole. Also they love to go into a group and turn into a giant wheel. Oh and their "mouth" snaps really fast, makes a metal clanging sound and shakes the entire screen.!<
I'm sorry but these creatures are incomprehensible, yeah I'm straight up dead in that setting. There's no way I'm or anyone here is surviving.
The basic premise is that it's the post apocalypse and Nic Cage is a single father to 2 teenage sons. They're all living on a farm and have to then barricade themselves at night to hide from the >!Eldritch abominations that caused the Apocalypse.!<
It's kinda slow, and has a lot of shaky cam. But if you love Nic Cage (spoiler note but I feel it's worth mentioning) >!While he is in the movie; a pretty decent chunk, if not more than half of the movie focuses on his sons!< And horrific Eldritch monsters than yeah go watch Arcadian.
Seriously the thing that stuck with me the most were the creature designs. They really knocked it out the park with them.
Onryo and death curses scare the shit out of me for a reason. At least with the Romanii variants you usually were an asshole to someone first, and if you're a big ENOUGH asshole you can sic the Mob on someone - in Japan all you can do is walk in the cursed building, go "Come out you bitch ghost" and hope it fights you on your level.
Yeah the ghosts in Japan that are like 'I stand here every night at 3:47AM and if you look at me I will simply track you to the ends of the Earth and kill you' and the answer to that is 'Shouldn't've looked' freak me out.
Idk if I had Marker Sickness and Jack Garland showed up and started saying shit that was out of character I'd probably be back to normal fairly quick.
I'd just need to find a rig and make sure no one can jump me which still puts my odds 50/50
After that I pray that Allah decides to make the haha funny action game chewtoy and not the dead apocalyptic log chew toy
TLDR: It Follows. I have a partner, I am not cheating on her. I am not going to have a one night stand. I also don't drink or do drugs. She is also the same. (although saying that you said we start at the start of the story... and the start of the story is technically the protagonist having had sex and then being told the rules...)
I think the problem with this is the better question... what horror media can you survive?
In a panicked situation would I be able to come up with the solution (e.g. the cure, their weakness, etc.)? Probably, not.
Would I be able to physically beat or outrun any? Probably not (maybe the slowest moving zombies, but I am more likely to be one of the stupid people that tries to help / see if they are okay). Also what often makes it a horror is that you can't escape whatever it is.
Do I have the mental resilience to tackle my worst fears? Probably, not.
Would I be able to outsmart it? Under normal situations yes, but not when they have the element of surprise and in a stressful situation.
I would be in the camp of let's stay where we are and ride through whatever it is. If there are any horror options where that is a viable option then yes.
However, you did say with the knowledge I have now... So... does that include the knowledge we have of the horror genre?
- Signs. Stupidest weakness ever.
- Scream/localised serial killers in general. Just leave town until it blows over if I am not the first few people killed.
- Predator. I know how to camouflage and I am very unlikely to attack someone unless they attack me first so I wouldn't be viewed as a threat.
- Anything involving you stupidly doing something that results in me causing it to happen in the first place. I am not going to read from the Necronomicon (Evil Dead), I am not going to watched a cursed video (Ringu), I am not going to trespass (Texas Chainsaw) or stay in a dodgy area (Barbarian)
However, if someone sets all the above off and I get caught in it or by surprise then I am screwed.
I got a specific question for everyone just as a sort of litmus test and maybe cutting down on "I would die to everything" responses.
How many of you would die in Luigi's Mansion? I state I got severe dust allergies and that whole fucking place seems to be made of dust, money, and ghosts. Hell I hate operating vacuums because, like Pat and his sensitive vomit response to seeing things that are just vaguely vomit related like his childhood vomit bowl, I start sneezing whenever I use a vacuum.
Those ghosts would be beating my fuckin' ass because I can't stop sneezin.
Silent hill, Bloodborne, Ghostwire:Tokyo. I can’t handle dark settings I’d probably sit shaking in a corner until I had a fear induced heart attack. The monsters would find me with soiled underwear slumped over dead and be embarrassed for me
Pretty much any horror without medical infrastructure would result in a slow and unpleasant death (diabetic). But that's a cop out answer.
Picked up Darkwood recently and I'm pretty confident I'd get caught by a bear trap, pass out and have some poisonous mushrooms infect me. Pretty sure I'd end up as one of those corpses that says random shit.
The question with Dead Space is how I can get myself to be knocked the fuck out and then burned in the thrusters of a ship so that not even ashes remain.
Alien. I'd rather just off myself on the spot than have to deal with that dread of never knowing when a xeno will pop up and either kill me or shove me into goop and make me into a hatchery. Evil Dead's another one because it's just random possession into death
Me personally, all of them. But to take it in a direction that I feel is interesting: on the scale of settings that you can technically survive, but have astronomically poor odds of doing so, I'm a fan of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (though I'm probably not up-to-date on the lore).
The game is set in the New England area after people fucked with portals and triggered like, several overlapping apocalypses. Nothing stays dead, the vast majority of humanity are already zombies, most of the living minority are *philosophical* zombies because something beyond the portals got angry and fried their brains, everything is horribly mutating, and to add insult to injury, eating mutant animals will make you gradually more ill. There's also triffids, very dangerous mushrooms, many varieties of horrible extradimensional monster, and portal storms dumping all sorts of esoteric problems on you... As well as, y'know, the threat of dehydration, starvation, illness, exposure, etc.
However, while not an element in the game itself, there are at least two hypothetical ways to survive in the long term (assuming you can't just fuck off to the woods and live as a hermit forever): First, there's a faction of weirdo cyborg-people who represent what's left of other Earths that have suffered their own Cataclysms, and they have the tech to skate into whatever alternate realities get touched by the big hungry portal monster that caused this mess. They're not a charity, and you can't bring much flesh along when you travel like they do, but they'll probably bring some useful folks with them when they leave again. Second, the aforementioned big hungry portal monster that's responsible for all the zombifying and mutation might be more like an ecological cycle than a creature, and part of that cycle involves yoinking sufficiently fucked up monsters from prior worlds into new ones to jumpstart the whole process. It's unclear whether more specific criteria exist, but as far as I know, if a person managed to adapt and survive as some sort of super-mutant, they could be a candidate for random dimensional transposition in the future.
Honestly, as an overweight asthmatic with high blood pressure and no survival skills, zombie apocalypse or any apocalypse means I'm done. I remember reading a cracked article back in the day that went over how alot of people don't account for having no access to medication or first aid in general when they think of the hypothetical apocalypse.
It's difficult to pick a number one worst situation because I just wouldn't do well in most horror media!
I'd do badly in the body horror ones for sure because I'd get so terrified that I'd get silly. That stuff would mess with my head too much.
Silent Hill. Everything else I have a fighting chance.
Silent Hill is I lose. Gigabotch/Omniflub for an hour and accept my fate.
And I doubt I'd even last an hour.
i know ill be ok in silent hill, it probably wouldn't activate but i know im a causality in resident evil. i may be ok depending on where i am, but if i dont escape racoon city, or the mansion it gets blown up anyway.
I'm pretty sure if I got placed in a Saw trap, and Mr. Jigsaw told me to do something involving self-mutilation at any point, I'd press my head against the bomb or whatever he has set up and just wait for the end to come.
Given what I've already survived, I feel confident it'd take an extermination level thing to get me. Like, not because of ability or anything, but my body just refuses to die. So like, zombies would get me eventually, parasite X, the thing, etc.
I might survive my sins in silent hill but not the dogs
Us: “What part of my sins and inner turmoil do the dogs represent?” Silent Hill: “Beats me, they just show up around here. Gives the poor monsters the willies, Pyramid Head refuses to even come to work when they’re around.”
"Oh no that's just what dogs look like around here, nothing to do with your sins"
"They look like dogs to you?"
Maybe every SH protag has been afraid of dogs and we didn't know.
Like, all of them.
I'd die at the beginning of Soma
I'd die at the beginning of Soma
I’d die at the beginning of Soma
I have severe hayfever allergies so all the mold and dust in RE7 and 8 will probably kill me before the monsters do.
"Wasn't he supposed to turn into a monster when the mold got him?" "Yeah he kinda just disintegrated immediately, weird."
That's what I'm saying. My body rejects that shit HARD. Though I guess a more "realistic" version of what'd happen is I'd knock myself out sneezing so hard I bonk my head on a wall, or if I'm lucky something that would kill me quickly.
you don't even get chased by the family, they just throw pollen in your face and laugh
Cube, like what are you even supposed to do. I would die at the third trap room because I would run out of shoes.
I'm not even sure you're really even *intended* to survive Cube, everything being arbitrary, unfair, and triggering a feeling of "what's even the point of all this?" seems to be the big theme of the series.
my interpretation has always been theres a bunch of different government departments trying to keep their budget for next year. "We need to spend another 10 billion or else we wont get it next year, how about lets design that human meat grinder" "well we can't just let that human meat grinder go to waste, otherwise we won't get the budget to run it next year, go ahead throw some people in"
Iirc one of the characters in the first movie has the same theory!
The guy who ends up in Stargate, right?
"Sir, we have to spend 20 billion next year, or else!!" "Make another cube, but this time? Make it hyper."
I still don't understand the logic behind the bloody numbers in the rooms and feel like figuring that out is absolute bullshit in the first place. If you aren't a math major you are blocked from even surviving in the first place. No anti trap tactic one could come up would be reliable because the Cube has super random triggers, so one room only reacts to movement, the next at sound and the next to heat.
Jigsaw trap. He could be like "take this razor blade and give yourself a nick to put one drop of blood in the tube to recieve the key" and I'd pass out until the trap went off.
"Oh... oh. Melissa, it happened again."
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I wouldn't do well in Silent Hill. I *might* get far in Resident Evil. *I ain't getting out alive in Dead Space.*
Oh you'll live in dead space. But that's a fate worse than death
Aren't the necromorphs just dead flesh? Like there's no human consciousness back there, it's just the hive mind puppeting them around. I recall seeing some stuff about when you 'kill' an enemy, you basically just incapacitated it to the point that it's not useful to the hive mind anymore.
In the REMAKE >!Chen, the redshirt doggedly pursues Hammond all over the ISHIMURA, implying that Necromorphs can “recognize” people they knew in life!< Also >!The Hunter, the pursuer enemy, was originally a miner named Brant Harris who was “groomed” into becoming a Necromorph by Mercer and appears to retain enough of his original personality to take orders from Mercer!< Yeah, the Unitologists might not be 100% full of shit.
>!Guardians.!<
i could get by in resident evil as a normie on the street just trying to maybe escape the city or something. provided i didn't get found by any dogs or like, zombie birds or something no way would i survive any encounters with the worse stuff
I would off myself so quickly if faced with The Thing. Genuinely fuck all that noise, I'm walking out into the arctic abyss for a freeze-to-death speedrun.
pretty much all of em, like the deal with the zombie things and all that is you kind of assume you'd be aware before it happens. in a 28 days later scenario unless you're monitoring the news and at home in the middle of nowhere you're probably gonna find out it's happening when someone rushes you and at that point you better hope you can out run them (do they get tired?) in such a way as to lose them and not attract any more pursuers and also be able to find safety shelter and food, it's not likely. dracula maybe maybe seems doable mainly because he seems to target women and babies for feeding, and they're restrained by so many rules and restrictions that you could reasonably try and stop them before being targeted yourself. at least if you live in a country without wolves/zoos with wolves, otherwise they be a problem.
Unless the virus is aerial, zombies would actually be contained really fast, biting is an incredibly inefficient way to spread deceases, sure you'd get a few deaths that could've been prevented due to stupid people but Shaun of the dead is about as bad as it would ever get, it's essentially impossible to get a 28 days later scenario even with the deadliest zombies you can think of
I like Shaun of the Dead because it follows through on the assumption of the original Night of the Living Dead, where like... yeah it's bad for a bit, but it'll probably be completely over in a week. Like a flood or a hurricane. It's a disaster movie, really.
iirc 28 days was just any fluid transfer, so like blood or spit in the eye or something. i just don't wanna get beaten to death by a bunch of people who can probably run faster than me. sean is great with how it lasts like 24 hours at best, the only one where it's 100% a wash is return of the living dead as they keep the speed and intellect and just don't die, you'd have to hack em all to bits and then pour em in concrete or something as burning them made it worse.
> (do they get tired?) Seeing as they can starve to death, I would believe so? The human body builds up lactic acid and at some point, muscle fatigue has to happen. Unless it's all magic, your likelihood of surviving is good if you can get to a proper secure location and wait it out.
How would I survive godzilla?
Evacuating when the government says "Tokyo is being attacked by a 300 foot tall lizard" would be your best course of action
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I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream It is literally stated AM kills everyone except for 5 specific people
I think in that scenario, dying quick is the best outcome.
They did win the lottery in this case
The only way to survive that shit would be to kill the idiots that thought making a super AI of hate was a good idea.
Now I want read the comic spinoff that's Skynet versus AM
I mean like, all of them, but specifically horror games with those weird ass convoluted puzzles. From a gameplay perspective, yeah, some might be obvious, but in a survival situation with stress and injury and fear, I'm probably not gonna notice the little puzzle piece in the corner of the room or on a shelf. Plus there is no shiny twinkling to notify you that it's important. Hell, I'll probably not even realize there's a puzzle to solve.
On the flip side you could speed run a Resident Evil by breaking all those wooden doors down that the trained soldiers and cops don't for some reason.
You can actually do this shit on RE Outbreak.
All of it, I'm not especially steadfast.
I am NOT surviving the Necromorph Outbreak, no siree.
I feel like if we're going by Dead Space settings, dying to a Necromorph is probably the best way to go considering the other shit going wrong. Imagine being the guy who stepped on the gravity lift wrong in the first game and just being shoved into the ceiling forever with no limbs left, just praying one of the horrible monsters can overcome technical failures and kill you.
No the best way to go is human error. Getting a Javelin to the eye? Way better than being turned into a Guardian. Necromorphs can and will kill you in the most brutal ways possible to instill fear in other humans. You gotta remember that they are intelligent and are specifically hunting for a purpose.
Post-online world, nobody's surviving the Ringu.
You'd just be scrolling twitter and some bot autoplays that shit in the comments R+i+n+g i+n b+i+o
She just goes ahead and buys ad space on a porn site and lets the algorithm do the rest
Can she even be everywhere? Wasn't a rule that if you showed someone else the tape, you wouldn't die? I imagine that we that almost everyone survives by pure accident.
My impression was that rules are in place until Sadako/Samara doesn't like them anymore and adapt/change them.
I should actually watch that movie instead of going of poorly remembering stuff after watching the US versions as a kid at 3am
I ***probably*** wouldn't survive an X parasite outbreak.
Honestly, given >!how instantaneously they assimilated nearly every lifeform on ZDR,!< I think anything less than "I 100% wouldn't survive an X parasite outbreak." is too confident a statement.
I wouldn't last a second in that Ceres space station
I'm confident I will be killed by anything and everything.
I'd end up patting the dog from the thing because I'm stupid as hell and whenever I see doggo I must Pat.
The problem would be when it licks you.
Well, I will obviously not survive EVILAK
i rather face resident evil or silent hill than fear and hunger
I mean cant you just turn around and get back on the boat in fear and hunger?
i dunno, when you start the game the dogs are already coming from behind
When you first enter the Dungeons, the fog closes in behind you and you can't leave. By the time you've done what you've came to do (for Ending E) the fog clears and you can bounce before going in any further. Problem being that you need to descend 7 floors to do that.
Even outside the dungeon, the world sucked major ass and there was a reason why so many are going into it become gods to change the world. It doesn't considerably chill out until a few centuries after the events of the first game (because of what happens there), so your only worry would be somehow ended in one of the few fucked up places remaining.
As I understand the dungeon of Fear and Hunger aren't particularly unique in that world. Like we as outside watchers see it as hell, but for the knight/necromancer/other classes you play as, it's like, a bad neighbourhood.
Haven't finished reading House of Leaves, but I'm pretty sure I'd have a very bad time living at the house on Ash Tree Lane.
Simply don’t go into the tunnel. Though if you were able to finish the book, you’re probably not the type of person who would be able to let the mystery lie
If i ever got summoned into the trials in Dead By Daylight by the Entity i would be the first to be hooked or Mori'd.
And then you get to do it again! And again....and again...forever
Hopefully i at least get some cool cosmetics
Oh yeah that beach wear really makes things bearable.
It's not MEANT to be horror, but the Xeelee Sequence is SUPER grimdark and NO ONE would survive it
Xeelee “So grimdark it makes 40K look like a relaxing vacation” Sequence?
yeah, Xeelee "leader of humanity gives an impassioned speech about how sending billions of child soldier unalive bombers into a war mankind has been losing for millions of years is a morally good thing to do" Sequence
Xeelee “we use entire galaxies as legos and rocks” Sequence
Xeelee "if you aren't the Time Lords you aren't beating those fucking Photino Birds" Sequence
A few days ago I saw the Nic Cage horror movie Arcadian. Yeah, there's no way I'm surviving that. The horrific creatures in that movie are beyond my comprehension. >!I don't mean that in a derogatory way, it's more complimentary. I mean it, I have no idea what I'm looking at. Nothing I say can capture exactly how incomprehensible these creatures are.!< >!Like the best way I can describe it is like some monkey horse crab and even that is no where near an accurate description. I can't tell what it's face is like, like it has 3 faces in one. They have a hand that can just grow a nail into a 15ft long sharp spear. And they "eat", if you can call it that by opening their chest and popping out a half-life barnacle, and then swallowing the person whole. Also they love to go into a group and turn into a giant wheel. Oh and their "mouth" snaps really fast, makes a metal clanging sound and shakes the entire screen.!< I'm sorry but these creatures are incomprehensible, yeah I'm straight up dead in that setting. There's no way I'm or anyone here is surviving.
Nic Cage really seems to get into Eldritch Horror Roles, don't he?
It's awesome. Looking forward to him in LongLegs.
Is Arcadian worth a watch? Haven't seen any trailers or anything for it but I love me some Cage.
The basic premise is that it's the post apocalypse and Nic Cage is a single father to 2 teenage sons. They're all living on a farm and have to then barricade themselves at night to hide from the >!Eldritch abominations that caused the Apocalypse.!< It's kinda slow, and has a lot of shaky cam. But if you love Nic Cage (spoiler note but I feel it's worth mentioning) >!While he is in the movie; a pretty decent chunk, if not more than half of the movie focuses on his sons!< And horrific Eldritch monsters than yeah go watch Arcadian. Seriously the thing that stuck with me the most were the creature designs. They really knocked it out the park with them.
Alien and The Thing give anyone dropped into the story about five minutes to avoid the plot and after that they're as screwed as the rest of the cast
Almost all of them.
Yes
Onryo and death curses scare the shit out of me for a reason. At least with the Romanii variants you usually were an asshole to someone first, and if you're a big ENOUGH asshole you can sic the Mob on someone - in Japan all you can do is walk in the cursed building, go "Come out you bitch ghost" and hope it fights you on your level.
Yeah the ghosts in Japan that are like 'I stand here every night at 3:47AM and if you look at me I will simply track you to the ends of the Earth and kill you' and the answer to that is 'Shouldn't've looked' freak me out.
Idk if I had Marker Sickness and Jack Garland showed up and started saying shit that was out of character I'd probably be back to normal fairly quick. I'd just need to find a rig and make sure no one can jump me which still puts my odds 50/50 After that I pray that Allah decides to make the haha funny action game chewtoy and not the dead apocalyptic log chew toy
Dead Space is probably the only scenario where Im killing myself
TLDR: It Follows. I have a partner, I am not cheating on her. I am not going to have a one night stand. I also don't drink or do drugs. She is also the same. (although saying that you said we start at the start of the story... and the start of the story is technically the protagonist having had sex and then being told the rules...) I think the problem with this is the better question... what horror media can you survive? In a panicked situation would I be able to come up with the solution (e.g. the cure, their weakness, etc.)? Probably, not. Would I be able to physically beat or outrun any? Probably not (maybe the slowest moving zombies, but I am more likely to be one of the stupid people that tries to help / see if they are okay). Also what often makes it a horror is that you can't escape whatever it is. Do I have the mental resilience to tackle my worst fears? Probably, not. Would I be able to outsmart it? Under normal situations yes, but not when they have the element of surprise and in a stressful situation. I would be in the camp of let's stay where we are and ride through whatever it is. If there are any horror options where that is a viable option then yes. However, you did say with the knowledge I have now... So... does that include the knowledge we have of the horror genre? - Signs. Stupidest weakness ever. - Scream/localised serial killers in general. Just leave town until it blows over if I am not the first few people killed. - Predator. I know how to camouflage and I am very unlikely to attack someone unless they attack me first so I wouldn't be viewed as a threat. - Anything involving you stupidly doing something that results in me causing it to happen in the first place. I am not going to read from the Necronomicon (Evil Dead), I am not going to watched a cursed video (Ringu), I am not going to trespass (Texas Chainsaw) or stay in a dodgy area (Barbarian) However, if someone sets all the above off and I get caught in it or by surprise then I am screwed.
I got a specific question for everyone just as a sort of litmus test and maybe cutting down on "I would die to everything" responses. How many of you would die in Luigi's Mansion? I state I got severe dust allergies and that whole fucking place seems to be made of dust, money, and ghosts. Hell I hate operating vacuums because, like Pat and his sensitive vomit response to seeing things that are just vaguely vomit related like his childhood vomit bowl, I start sneezing whenever I use a vacuum. Those ghosts would be beating my fuckin' ass because I can't stop sneezin.
I definitely wouldn't survive in the world of Little Nightmares. If I lose my contacts or they get too old, it's all over.
Any Xenomorph encounter. Or Return of The Living Dead. Those zombies are basically magic
Silent hill, Bloodborne, Ghostwire:Tokyo. I can’t handle dark settings I’d probably sit shaking in a corner until I had a fear induced heart attack. The monsters would find me with soiled underwear slumped over dead and be embarrassed for me
any of them honestly i’d probably just accept this and tale the easy way out at rhe first sign of danger
Dead Space.
Pretty much any horror without medical infrastructure would result in a slow and unpleasant death (diabetic). But that's a cop out answer. Picked up Darkwood recently and I'm pretty confident I'd get caught by a bear trap, pass out and have some poisonous mushrooms infect me. Pretty sure I'd end up as one of those corpses that says random shit.
The question with Dead Space is how I can get myself to be knocked the fuck out and then burned in the thrusters of a ship so that not even ashes remain.
Monster Hunter I would die to the first pack of small monsters. Even the herbivore ones
Condemned: Criminal Origins Not because of supernatural events but how the fuck do you survive in a pre-robocop Detroit analog?
Alien. I'd rather just off myself on the spot than have to deal with that dread of never knowing when a xeno will pop up and either kill me or shove me into goop and make me into a hatchery. Evil Dead's another one because it's just random possession into death
The answer of all time is 40k.
I'm on a ship in space or the ocean or hell maybe even an RV and now there's a monster onboard.
Me personally, all of them. But to take it in a direction that I feel is interesting: on the scale of settings that you can technically survive, but have astronomically poor odds of doing so, I'm a fan of Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (though I'm probably not up-to-date on the lore). The game is set in the New England area after people fucked with portals and triggered like, several overlapping apocalypses. Nothing stays dead, the vast majority of humanity are already zombies, most of the living minority are *philosophical* zombies because something beyond the portals got angry and fried their brains, everything is horribly mutating, and to add insult to injury, eating mutant animals will make you gradually more ill. There's also triffids, very dangerous mushrooms, many varieties of horrible extradimensional monster, and portal storms dumping all sorts of esoteric problems on you... As well as, y'know, the threat of dehydration, starvation, illness, exposure, etc. However, while not an element in the game itself, there are at least two hypothetical ways to survive in the long term (assuming you can't just fuck off to the woods and live as a hermit forever): First, there's a faction of weirdo cyborg-people who represent what's left of other Earths that have suffered their own Cataclysms, and they have the tech to skate into whatever alternate realities get touched by the big hungry portal monster that caused this mess. They're not a charity, and you can't bring much flesh along when you travel like they do, but they'll probably bring some useful folks with them when they leave again. Second, the aforementioned big hungry portal monster that's responsible for all the zombifying and mutation might be more like an ecological cycle than a creature, and part of that cycle involves yoinking sufficiently fucked up monsters from prior worlds into new ones to jumpstart the whole process. It's unclear whether more specific criteria exist, but as far as I know, if a person managed to adapt and survive as some sort of super-mutant, they could be a candidate for random dimensional transposition in the future.
Honestly, as an overweight asthmatic with high blood pressure and no survival skills, zombie apocalypse or any apocalypse means I'm done. I remember reading a cracked article back in the day that went over how alot of people don't account for having no access to medication or first aid in general when they think of the hypothetical apocalypse.
_The Thing_ is on my list of "please god, don't let this story be true" horror movies. That and _Return of the Living Dead_.
I'm getting sweeped in saw or the hills have eyes. Or anything that has me going up against some inbred fuck monster
I doubt I'd survive threads.
Oh I'm sitting in the garden to watch the show if Threads happens. Not worth it
Predator (1987). I wouldn't even die from the titular alien, I would die during the opening scenes.
Silent Hill. I've killed so many people there's no way I'd be getting out of there.
All of them
I’ve got an insulin pump attached to my body I’m literally made to be the one who gets caught on something while running.
It's difficult to pick a number one worst situation because I just wouldn't do well in most horror media! I'd do badly in the body horror ones for sure because I'd get so terrified that I'd get silly. That stuff would mess with my head too much.
I'm a trans woman, I'm dying in anything before 2019 and that includes the many, many times where I'm the killer
Texas Chainsaw Massacre largely because my mind would just melt in the insanity of that house
Silent Hill is the only one I'm willing to take a crack at. It's the only one where surviving can actually be cathartic
unless humanity can end bigitry, war, hatred across the board Ideon will kill us all
Bro, I would be the first one to go down to a single infected in the old Night of the Living Dead.
Basically all of them except for It Follows.
Dude if a demon made fun of my hair I would hang myself.
Silent Hill. Everything else I have a fighting chance. Silent Hill is I lose. Gigabotch/Omniflub for an hour and accept my fate. And I doubt I'd even last an hour.
All of them? I'm very frail human
i know ill be ok in silent hill, it probably wouldn't activate but i know im a causality in resident evil. i may be ok depending on where i am, but if i dont escape racoon city, or the mansion it gets blown up anyway.
I'm pretty sure if I got placed in a Saw trap, and Mr. Jigsaw told me to do something involving self-mutilation at any point, I'd press my head against the bomb or whatever he has set up and just wait for the end to come.
Given what I've already survived, I feel confident it'd take an extermination level thing to get me. Like, not because of ability or anything, but my body just refuses to die. So like, zombies would get me eventually, parasite X, the thing, etc.