There is literally no reason for your character to be on said Town, heck once you discover the secret cultists devil shit and stop them you get rewarded with a "CONGRATULATIONS, YOU ALMOST DIED FOR NO REASON AT ALL"

Would make a really bad game.If you're free to escape anytime it's neither horror not survival.

@@kenjidev576 eh, it wouldn't make it any better if the horror game was the typical "you can't leave even if I told you to" bs, it's more of a unironic joke than aspect to the game.

@@kenjidev576 There's a Far Cry game where you can just, like, leave in the beginning instead of meddling in stuff that's none of your business and it was well received.

@@Nersius far cry 4 iirc, similarly I think batman does something similar as well

dragonpotter what about when your love triangle is between you, your dead wife, and a physical representation of that dead wife created by the source of the horror?

...Well in that case it'd at least be brilliant symbolism if it's set up well. Maybe would work better if it's a love box though. Make the fourth wheel some dude with a shape-helmet who's into inanimate objects...

@Patrick Murphy Silent Hill 2?....

dragonpotter you must be a very happy boy

While I like how J.P. always shits on all sorts of love triangles, I think it's important to remember that the plot device _by itself_ is not necessarily bad. Some of the greatest pieces of storytelling included love triangles, most notably Star Wars and don't tell me it wasn't lots of fun to listen to Luke and Han's constant bickering slowly transforming into a genuine friendship in spite of competing over the same woman. Jealousy is a natural human emotion and emotions are something that should be explored in art. The problem with this device is that it's hardly ever used to its full potential. More often than not we have a woman two guys lose their minds for, even though there's nothing suggesting that she actually possess any traits that would make her in any way attractive. The woman will also almost never make up her mind, instead relying on plot convenience to get rid of the guy not favored by the fandom (granted, Star Wars is guilty of that true, by asspulling the Leia's your sister reveal) so it doesn't look like she is being a bitch by rejecting a guy-Lord knows only the most despicable cunts out there ever do that. I think that Avatar did it best while also not overplaying it, as attested by the sharp divide between the fans as to whether Aang or Zuko should win over Katara in the end. Both these characters had something to go for, something that would make the audiences root for them and Katara herself was a very well fleshed out figure rather than just a pretty picture. So yeah, don't take J.P.'s rants too seriously. Two people competing over a single individual is something that happens in real life all the time and thus should be reflected in fiction. Just when you do, make sure you avoid the most glaring clichés. The best way to do it would be to just first create your characters and only _then_ start thinking which of them should be hooked up with which, based on their respective personalities. One of the most interesting thought experiments I've ever tried when thinking of a story was just to sort of create the basic elements and then let your imagination flow and see what would happen if, say, these two seemingly unrelated characters stumbled across one another at some point. Sometimes just letting your intuition take the reign is the best indicator of what your readers would enjoy as well.

Dude, you suck. You forgot to tell him about the blood!

Ahem outlast 2 Ahem

They had a rain of blood

Rain? Pathetic. You obviously need a repeat of Hurricane Harvey that is made up entirely of blood!

This is survival horror not creepypasta. Wait no that's not enough blood, sorry for bothering you.

where does the love triangle come in

Pepsi Man assuming The Corporation (EA + Activison) fills both the mandatory Nazi empire reskin and the dystopian future evil cyber punk thing, the love triangle must be some kind of EA, Activision and KZfaqrs blindly defending them thing, for an evil version of the trope. Then we have the Mary Sue, DE, with Warframe as their damsel in distress, kidnapped by Bungie which was tortured into becoming Activision's brainwashed puppet.

Visceral will block your progress. That will be the hardest part of the game.

Add Konami to make it truly scary

BioSpark Along with their pachinko machines

He got it. 2:08

man i feel like people will get bored with this game, i should keep them on their toes some how.....i got it when they go through doors they need to press a button as it prompts on screen or else the door is going to slam or hit the player and take a chunk of their health away. that will make sure the player stays focused!

press X to add a joke about QTEs... time up!

You mean quick time events, plural. At least one per cutscene.

He didn't miss it; it was just one and too fast and misplaced to be prepared for.

Not to mention an equally inexplicable layout.

What game was he referring to for that one?

Resident Evil 2.

Well truth be told, as bad as RE writing is in general, they did try to explain why police station had puzzles in it

Markiic Yes, and they also explained why the police force failed.

HowDo ILogin don't forget that zombies' skulls have the same disability as those tricky apex predators you mentioned earlier, and can be caved in with punches, or even by tripping, which slow lumbering corpses walking on broken ankles are prone to☝😐

This comment is gold.

To be fair to those military-trained soldiers, they ARE trained to shoot for center of mass., which isn't very helpful in trying to kill a zombie.

+@@omegaipodmaniac Doesn't mean it's hard to shoot at the head. Especially for a zombie.

+@A Person That's only if the virus is airborne or spreads through water and other bodily fluids. If it's only through bites then its chances of spreading are pathetic since everyone knows what happens when a zombie bites you.

In the Outlast DLC Whistleblower, the villain does figure out you are hiding in the locker, and captures you.

@bryan diaz varela yes

*Ao Oni intensifies*

Luckily, lockers never have shelves in it

I never really got this criticism though. Isn’t this more of a fault on the AI of the game rather than the actual writing?

101% proven

When all else fails, add a love triangle!

". . . And then, Nemesis introduced his hentai rape tentacle into Jill's sandwich while blushing. 'When will you notice me instead, senpai', Bitorez Mendez sighed as Nemesis' love finger travelled through Jill's intestines, his face contorting into a 'baka yarou' expression."

Magnaillusion I'd read the shit out of that book... (just for science)

Magnaillusion omg

And the enemies are just normal human beings (and even incredibly weak plague infested humans) Its not like the only reason you couldn't fight the Variants in the first game was because their bodies were turned into a breeding grounds for nanomachines which literally made them as tough as iron.

I mean, Outlast did have a moment where you fight back(but only in a cutscene), and the other two main baddies was Senator Armstrong if he played the trumpet and his nanomachines.

Melvin Merkelhopper actually the towers in the game gave them big boy strength

I loved outlast 1 and it’s dlc but outlast 2 was such trash

@Joseph Douek Yeah the main bad guy was a living swarm of them.

SylenDraws why do I feel like you're talking about FNAF/Undertale/Bendy's Ink Machine?

Those aren't shitty games, though... least Undertale isn't. Undertale won several best game of the year awards, and many people highly rate it. You can debate the philosophy all you want, but the game is simply well done. Contrast with the KZfaq coverage which was, excluding the music, excessive. Undertale's musical appreciation on KZfaq was completely warranted though. That stuff was great!

#TABS

mathig nihilcek The sprites ate horrible, the musics are all remix of others, even megalovania appeared two times before Undertale, there's too much Mettaton, the game is too easy, notice that I didn't need to bring the fanbase

mathig nihilcek I know. It's just there's people out there that like to shit on popular stuff.

Senaneone Cosmic Horror. Eldritch abominations are fun.

In the Epilogue DLC, which meant that could have done so in the main game but EA chose not to.

+Senaneone "Dead Space 3 had horror elements?" Yes, didn't you listen? A love triangle! They sure (and unironically) scare me.

Wait, Dead Space 3 was a thing? I thought I was having a nightmare that after waking up realized wasn't scary at all. Boy did I feel silly... until now.

Yea. What i do is play it on harder setting and limit my weapon crafting so i won't be so op. It actually got scary in some segments.

Slasher Movies are Horror Movies Horror Movies are not Slasher Movies

You again

or Love Triangle, or romantic stories in general.

Yes, slasher movies _are_ part of the horror genre. Just because they tend to suck does not make them any less horrorish. What defines a horror story in general is that it's at the very least supposed to rely on the audiences feeling a single extreme emotion all the way through, namely suspense. In a way they share this with comedies which in turn rely on humor. In both these instances the plot is of somewhat secondary importance: as long as the audiences experience lots of the given emotion, it can be considered a success. Now, whether is actually _does_ happen is another story altogether. And so, the likes of Friday the 13th may be shit (and I mean _all_ of these movies, including the original) that don't even hold a candle to Carpenter's The Thing but they are still horror movies nonetheless.

Low hanging fruit.

The sad part about that is that it's very clear that EA stuck its tendrils in the last game. I really did enjoy the Dead Space series and the concept of necromorphs were way more horrifying than any zombie that has been created recently. Now Visceral is gone and that brings a tear to my eye.

Been a dead space fan since I was little

Richard Bug No, now shut up while I put the zombies and slasher killer in a love triangle with the player character.

I mean, you could just play the good games, that(mostly) solves it.

What about the love dodecahexangle

There is just no escape...

Unless federal law considers it a crime punishable by death, then I can't really think how that's possible.

"Hey baby, why settle for just *three* holes to choose from?"

Why stop at zombies? Make every single character, named or not, a love interest! Zombies, humans, mutated dogs, sewer rats, that oak tree the MC passed by in the beginning of the story . . . The more it looks like a harem anime, the better!

The necrophiliacs will love it!

Yes! Every single npc, enemy and item should be a potential love interest!

necrophiles, not necrophiliacs. saves on character count.

agiar2000 anyone who does that in their videos is a human corndog lol

XD

Bendy and the shit machine

Nah, it's even funnier when he is talk about the stuff that Dead Space does, and the expectation he wouldn't mention the title goes out the window... Then goes along and mentions it along with the Visceral joke I've only seen him do book stuff, so was not expecting this gaming tropes to be under his belt as well

He did some movie and series too.

Bendy was actually okay.

Outlast and re7 to lol

A Halloween miracle c:

One more for the triangle

Try to survive that!

Miracles are real :)

クリスマスの奇跡

There's no such thing as a good jumpscare.

@@calypsokiosko9067 there is.

@@calypsokiosko9067did mascot horror cause that opinion to form

@@dachel683 Why are you lying?

@@lesstalking3007 erm, nuh uh

Survive?

Just make it another shooter and it'll all be fine

The Lax i try to forget it and remember the good things like the movie and the first two videogames

still loved teh lore though, fucking necromorphs that are the size of moons! MOONS!!!

I didn't. I remember it quite fondly. Even if it was a shit Dead Space game, it still beats most survival horror games. Which is quite sad.

i forgot dead space 3 had a love triangle.

Same here, dude

This video was almost a Jill sandwich.

"I have THIS."

dude, that could be the subject of its own freaking channel.

Then again, I think all the bad advice he already gives already reference all the bad fanfiction. The topics for said fanfiction and what those writings are mostly made up of could be their own channel.

It is easier to point out those rare one in a billion things in fanfiction that are actually at least passable, rather than ironically pick up the things that wrong with them. Because the answer is almost always "EVERYTHING".

The thing about fanfiction is that it isn't a genre in its own right. The things that are wrong with fanfiction are mostly just things that are wrong with unskilled writing; get a good author involved who knows their shit and these things disappear. Granted, it is a thing with its own quirks to some extent, so maybe an episode on fanfiction could work, but most of the things that _seem_ like quirks of fanfiction would just show up in other self-published amateur writing if you came across it in the first place.

what I don't get about fanfiction.net is how seemingly 2/3 of all works are about either Harry Potter or Naruto.

I can only imagine how badly the christmas video will destroy the Hallmark christmas movies.

In Halloween, you tend to get more candy than in Christmas

Miles Cobb It's probably for Halloween

*It was so amazing that Miles Cobb briefly swore in a cockney accent.*

The Lax Well the Entire Video is kinda a Resident evil 2 Reference (The Part with the Failing Law Enforcement and the 2 "Main" Characters which appear in the Video look like Leon and Clare)

Buuuuuut RE2 explains why the RPD was full with weird traps and statues and it also explains why the police force failed. The Chief Brian Irons was in league with Umbrella and installed the puzzles during a renovation so that no one could find the entrance to the Umbrella Lab and he was also giving his Police Officers, who all trusted him, false orders and disorganised them, he even killed some of them himself. It's all in the notes and files you find. But hey that would be another good terrible writing advice, everyone just loves to leave helpful notes and files around

The Lax I love how you (put the second part of your sentence in brackets)

@@JackOfen That is why it's called resident evil home of the corrupted.

I am currently. ... well at least I did until I reached the part, when the safe part is over ( I think). Since then, it's lying in my Steam Library and I'm too scared to touch it ...

Casual CraftMan It's awesome!

@ DerDingsreturnsnochmal Be brave! I quit several times after the safe part was over (and then I discovered that I misunderstood and that _still_ was a safe part and *NOW* shit really hits the fan), but it gets easier later on. No, you won't quit anymore, but you'll still be hiding in a lockers for fifteen minutes waiting for that thing to _just go away._

Until the "learning" part kicks in and you realise that it's a bad idea to hide in a locker again and again and again. ( Doh!)

Just on pure luck I did get through THAT level without dying once. That caused a lot of my nerve cells to die from stress, though. That was fun.

Adamay Gaming Yup! Isaac's new squeeze from 2, Ellie, broke up with him and got with the jack off of a captain in the third one. He then proceeded to win her back because plot.

Also, they turned one of the most badass women in gaming, into a damsel, to be saved and conquered. Ugh, she took a fucking screwdriver to the eye in DS2.

Adamay Gaming oh you better believe there was

paulman34340 You mean Tiedemann

Shadow-Monger It should have been Ellie to shoot Norton. Would have had a much more emotional impact. But at the same time the whole plot of DS3 is contrived to where it can be ignored like Alien 3 and head-Canon can end with 2.

bill wang It’s like Alien. It ended with the second installment. Thank god James Cameron broke away from the stepping-stone sequel to make it so the 3rd installment can be ignored all together (T2, Aliens). Same with Visceral (Dead Space 2) before EA destroyed their freedom and eventually them all together. But I will hold hope for BioWare, no matter how hard the CDPROBSIDIAN cultists shame me for believing.

Rainbowz4 Yes... You'r right

Out of all the millions of videos on youtube, we meet right here. Oh wow.

Rainbowz4 like his sex life.

@Joseph Douek facts, re6 is where i can agree with him

@Joseph Douek you haven't played re6? It's not the game we loved but for the story and it wasn't a bad game in general

@Joseph Douek also pretty sure he's playing at the difficulty they created for casuals, so he didn't get the real survival horror experience

Can I write both as well as not publish anything ?

I'm writing several books that spung from a cheesy fanfic that turned in a sprawling, self-important, head-up-its-own-ass "epic". Does that count?

I write a book. Ok I procrastinate on writing a book and make tons of notes, but I think that still counts.

I will plan on writing a ton of notes, how about that ?

Does being in a perpetual planning phase while only having one chapter done after two years count while being a stressed out college student count?

This. This is literally the best way to enjoy games in a nutshell.

I was being very sarcastic, I apologize if that did not translate well into text.

Dang. Of course you can point out a terrible plot if a game tries to make storytelling its main attrraction. The main point of a game is to be fun and memorable (and be a game but people will argue with that idea more often nowadays), whether it be found in the terrible story elements or the game play alone. Now, if you are trying to give a game a deep storyline over good gameplay, there will usually be a high chance of low replay-ability. Plus it's fine to point out terrible voice acting. Why do you think there is a classic mode to Freedom Planet?

I would argue that Resident Evil games had neither good storyline nor good gameplay given the use of tank controls, but that's very much opinions, and a bit of hyperbole. I just am personally frustrated when I cannot for the life of me understand the appeal of, say, Resident Evil or Metal Gear Solid, which so very clearly fail to be what they set out to be, but everyone and their dog it seems enjoys them in spite of, no, because of those very reasons that make them intolerable to me. If you're going to insert a plot into your game like Resident Evil does, and have a complex cast of characters and motivations, then by god I say you open yourself up to criticism over your story and voice acting. Some people might enjoy the bad voice acting and insane story, but I don't believe that makes it free from criticism regarding its success at being what it claims to be: a horror game. If it just wanted to be solely about the gameplay, it could have been 100% gameplay without plot.

Is it weird that I read the entirety of the first para in the video's sarcastic voice too?

I totally agree with you!

I agree too! This is amazing.

Well, RE was never really scary. It was an action game with horror elements, like MGS is an action game with stealth elements.

More like games that try to rip them off and act like the trends Resident Evil introduced long ago are still fresh.

Mega Guy43 it’s funny to see people say “ Resident Evil is not a horror game” because Resident Evil popularized the survival horror genre , and it influenced a lot of survival horror games. You can use weapons in survival horror games. Btw being scared is subjective.

Mega Guy43 RE was never scary my ass

XFlo Yeah, shitty, sluggish, stiff camera and controls terrify me. In the end what's scary about going into a room where there's sum zombie that just walks up to you and hits you till dead. The layout isn't tense or scary, it's sluggish. When it's not doing that, it's: "Oh no, big scary monstur is trying to kill me!!!" System Shock is a better SH game (not 1 tho. That one sucked). The player is not some helpless bitch, or a Demigod (unless you u really used psionic builds and exploits out the ass). The horror isn't the monsters it's the fact that despite your best efforts, you are woefully under equipped to deal with this threat. Your priority is to survive until you can finally face your fears and cast them down into the dirt. RE just feels like shit. The camera angles make aiming and movement a pain, the shooting is stiff, it's just awkward. I don't feel like I'm challenging these monsters at my best, I feel like the game itself is fighting me. RE4 was kinda better but even then I wasn't really scared. You let my guy do all the Kung Fu and Judo, while letting me shoot thrown boards out of midair? We sure this isn't just a Matrix simulator?

MariktheGunslinger ur mom lol

I believe he covered the mashing models together and adding a meat texture issue tho.

#Truefacts

That's cosmic horror, you pleb.

I survive by gaining the knowledge to open my myriad eyes

Damn it! GIVE KE DANTE PURGATORIO! AND PARADISO!

muddyviolet Gaming while wont I could take a crack at it. Step one you have to decide on what type of müder to focus. Is it the type a where the clues are so obvious that anyone paying attention has it solved so fast that you wonder if everyone in the story has brain damage. Or type b. Where the clues are something that the reader couldn’t have known even if he reread the book since you pulled something out of your ass, Now all you need is to find out where the muder victim is. In the love triangle since the victim is always in some sort of love triangle we have done our job and can go home.