The horror stuff there is the games' horror elements but that still doesn't make the game horror, its horror comes in other ways.

Plus the premise isn't really scary, and gore and darkness don't make something horror or scary either, since darkness and gore don't make something scary as there are tons of games that have them that aren't scary. I have seen the excuse that cause SS Classic has gamma lower by default it means horror, as if darkness means horror on its own, or that we know it was meant to be that way. It’s like saying doom was a horror game (back when Doom 3 was coming out) cause it wasn’t either Yes it had horror elements but it never was a full horror game in the traditional senseĪnd SS1 has some darker areas so the idea that “they didn’t have the tech as it was limited” or that 'standards were different' is false too and doesn't work since level 3 was horror and they could have made the whole game like that if they wanted.Īnd even if they intended to (which they didn't) that isn't what we got or what it would be. No it wasn’t, at least not a traditional one, it had loud music, it is bright and colorful at many points, you didn’t run low on resources really, you could save at anytime, respawns were free once unlocked, and you were a hacker fighting robots, mutants, and cyborgs, with a fully equipped arsenal.Īnd the horrors, story, and loneliness present (when they were) were enhanced by the music not the other way around I hate the people that use the excuse for the Remake changes and say “well SS1 was a horror game” Now I suppose this is all subjective, but I feel like I have some facts to back it up I went over this in a thread already but wanted to move it here as I feel like it is maybe its own discussion

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