Originally Posted by
Morbon
Which FEAR are you playing?! The first two, and extraction point + perseus mandate are tons scarier than Amnesia! I play all my games at night with the lights off.
F.E.A.R. became less and less scary as the series went. You just kept knowing what to expect. All through the game, mostly all scares are jump scares. A girl appears, some monsters around, poof, she's gone, you shoot the hell out them.
Or probably just the girl appears and/or an image of a bloody man on your screen for less than a second. All of them are jump scares, and frankly, there comes a time where you know when to expect those.
They used those kind of scares so much, that every time I enter a room, I know that either the girl is gonna pass from a side of the room to the other, or appear at the end of the corridor, or probably just charge towards me.
In amnesia, the atmosphere is what gets you, plus, you can't defend yourself. All you can do is either run or hide, not shoot the crap out of the grunt/brute when they appear, that's what makes it scary. And remember, the scary atmosphere is what qualifies a game as horror, not a non-stop amount of "BOO! *shoot!!*".