I feel like the answer to that question is “you know even if you don’t know.” Given what we know about nuclear weaponry, I’ll refrain from being too cheeky about the vast, devastated, irradiated landscape known as “The Glowing Sea” in Fallout 4. Its story hits close to our past, and, hopefully, does not portend…
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The Horror that Surrounds: Into the Dark of The Depths
Fear of the unknown is a powerful motivator to, well…stand still. Very, very still. That’s the first thing I did upon entering The Depths in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. As Link, I just stood there, surveying the empty sea of seemingly nothing that lay beyond the lit circle of “safety” where…
The Horror that Surrounds: The Tragedy of Oakvale
In the first Fable game, the village of Oakvale is the home of the game’s hero. It’s a small but lively town with all the amenities any family might need. One fateful date, the village was ransacked by bandits, and only a few residents survived, including a young boy who would go on to shape…
Spooktober: The Horror that Surrounds
Fellow readers, writers, and players, one and all, we’ve made it. We’ve finally made it to the best month of the year. It’s that month when we finally know that summer is behind us, and a chill starts to set in. That month when the orange sun peers through autumn leaves as a restless fog…
Spooktober 2023 round-up and reactions
Another Spooktober has come and gone, and what a time we had! We came up with four themes – scariest horror subgenre, worst type of scare, scariest enemies, and scariest environments – and offered up our own articles for each. But that wasn’t all. We asked you, our loyal readers and supporters, to lend your…
Scariest Environment: The Great, Wide Open
You know the feeling. That feeling of entering a big, open space after traversing an obstacle-filled landscape and knowing that a battle against a formidable foe is about to take place. Yeah, that feeling. I can think of no greater moment of dread than that one, especially the first time you encounter such in any…
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…
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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