Author: cary

Scariest enemy: The bigger they are, the faster I run!

When I look back at my past in gaming, I don’t know if I can pinpoint the origin of this particular fear. My first encounter with a thresher maw in Mass Effect comes readily to mind. If there was anything before that, it might have been one of many of the massive demons in Doom…

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Worst Type of Scare: Something BIG Approaches

Not to spoil what’s likely to be in my next Spooktober post, but, I don’t like overly-large, beastly antagonists. It’s bad enough when you’re minding your own business and they pop up out of nowhere (looking at you Fallout’s mirelurk queens!). What I fund much worse, however, is when they ambiguously but distinctly announce their…

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Scariest Horror Subgenre: Lights, Camera…NO Action, Please!

Strictly speaking, I am the world’s worst authority when it comes to horror games. They tend to fall so far outside my comfort zone that, were it not for the internet, and magazines before it, I’d hardly know they exist. Well, all except for one game: Doom. That game…boy oh boy…that game was the first…

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