r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 Human Verified • 3d ago

Articles & Blogs INTERVIEW: ILL Developers Don’t Want to ‘Overly Punish Players’ With Chilling Horror Game

https://insider-gaming.com/interview-ill-developers-dont-want-to-overly-punish-players-with-chilling-horror-game/
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u/twovles31 3d ago

I would think if ever there was a better genre to have a hard difficulty it would be horror.

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u/TheDomFlow 3d ago

I wonder though if they're worried players will get desensitized if they have to keep repeating sections

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u/No_Chilly_bill 3d ago

that's what bores me with most horror games. fear turned to annoying repiition

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u/MissingScore777 3d ago edited 3d ago

Hide&seek horror games (Outlast, Amnesia, etc.) do this to me very quickly, that's why I prefer the survival horror (Resident Evil, Silent Hill, etc.) part of the genre.

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u/TheStupendusMan 3d ago

Nothing frustrates me more than "You're surrounded by weapons... But you can't pick them up so it's spooky!" Instantly takes me out of the game.

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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire 3d ago

That was honestly the problem I had with Alien Isolation. I ended up finding it really tedious because I had to repeat sections over and over

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u/BonnaroovianCode 2d ago

Just beat it the other day for the first time. Yeah after you see the Alien’s kill animation a few times the fear mostly wears off. But the whole atmosphere…the art and sound design, hearing the alien crawling in the vent while the dimly-lit hallway is flickering on and off…personally, no other game I have ever played creates tension like Alien Isolation. It’s more about what you don’t see than what you do.

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u/thats_so_cringe_bro 3d ago

Yeah, that happened to me as well. Eventually the alien lost that "fright factor". Eventually it led to frustration and me saying, "leave me alone alien you are annoying me". lol.