The suspense of a potential jump scare looming around the corner may be a legitimate way of building up tension and while I wouldn't go far as to say they were cheap scares I do think it's a lazy way to spook people because it gives you the assurance that at least a certain portion of your audience will pounce back in their seats. There are films that does it well but when you aren't restricted within the traditional story-telling formats, and can tailor the experience in such a way to put the player in the middle of it there are so many creative ways of going about scaring people. I believe it's lazy because there isn't much else to do and just walk in to it. Suspense doesn't work like that in real life and there is so much to do with an interactive medium. It's not that I think they are cheap but I just expect more from video games, to be a little bit more unpredictable. It's a tired trope to me. But all the more power to you if you enjoy it.
@jesus_phish: @hurricaneivan29: Whenever Phil dares to express his opinions in public, however bluntly or crass, the backlash always turns into personal attack. He may be intentional in his wording or not, either way no big deal but I see no one discussing Youtube's policies on stuff like this with him in a normal way. Everyone seems to be stuck in the way he acts all the time.
@sweep: Look, could you please stop being passive aggressive with me? There is no need for any of that. I did watch the nineteen minute video. It's the people insulting him in this thread that didn't get the point.
@sweep: I was referring to the negative comments on this thread against Fish. I was going to write up a long post in an effort at explaining myself and how it is irrational, unjust and mean to have such emotional opinions about a person no one dissing him ever met but then promptly decided it would end up not being seen by anyone and be completely futile. Do you see the absurdity in that? No one knows this guy and a majority of the people are vocally abusing him. It's cruel and no one deserves it. We've all been an asshole at some point in our lives and he gets shit because he is in the spotlight, regardless of the behavioural ethics surrounding being famous.
I stopped reading the comments section of web sites on the internet a while ago and I generally regard the GB forums as sort of an enclave, meaning, I believe the personality based structure of the sites are the main guys fosters somewhat of a friendly and rational community. Seeing people dismiss him like that ruins that illusion for me. People being people, I guess.
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