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Ever wonder what truly terrifying moments stick with gamers? We asked the crew about the worst thing they've ever seen in a horror video game. Get ready for stories about jump scares in VR, haunting houses in Visage and Silent Hill F, and the fear of playing as a victim in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre game. What's your scariest gaming moment?
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Hello
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What's the worst thing you've ever seen in a horror game? Oof, the worst thing Joe
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I'm getting chills thinking about it. If you don't know me, I'm quite the VRsman
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And I think VR works best in the horror genre. There's this little game called Paranormal Activity on the MetaQuest 2, I believe
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And this was sort of my first foray into VR horror. horror i don't count resident evil 4 that's not really a horror game but you essentially go into
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this big abandoned house trying to solve a mystery so you just walk into the forest you go into the
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house everything seems fine until things start getting a little bit spooky so you're just walking
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around you're picking up like objects seeing what has happened here you've got like sort of notes
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and things like that that are very like of the horror genre and once you've spent a good 10 minutes
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in this house nothing's really happened it's a little bit boring and then the music box will
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start playing by itself and that is your cue this is when stuff starts getting a little bit spooky
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so yeah you continue like investigating and all that and what i remember doing is turning the
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music box off then you go down the corridor and you go into a room and the the music box starts
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playing again and this is when you start thinking okay things aren't necessarily going to be that
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great here and then i just remember this bit very distinctly a picture frame on the wall falls off
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and it's like because you're so like immersed in it it's like oh my god that's when i start
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getting scared then you turn around and a door like slams shut so it's like okay i'm gonna go
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and try and open that door it doesn't open so then you turn around again and you hear this
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other door down the corridor open itself so you slowly walk towards this door bam this sort of
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figure just runs past you and oh my goodness when I was playing this game I got the fright of my life
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and like literally talking about it now it's so weird because it's such a jump scare moment which
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doesn't usually get me but like all of the stuff prior to this when you're walking around the house
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and just the atmosphere that this game sort of brings to the table and especially because it's
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VR you get so immersed in it it just like made me take the headset off and just nope out I was just
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Like, you know what? That's enough paranormal activity for me to do
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Touched again. Yeah, oh my goodness. It's just, it's so well done
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And I still haven't went back and played it since then. So, yeah, that moment has just stuck with me
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as is the scariest moment in any horror video game. We're here
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We're here. Howdy there. Can you tell me your name? We can, sir
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Well, I can be whoever you want me to be. I can be. This got very sick from all of a sudden
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I can be the sheriff from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre or I can be Rick Grahams Carl
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what are we doing today? Josh, you need to tell me what the worst thing you've ever seen in a horror video game is
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Oh, I know I bang on it about the game Visage a long time I can feel this heart in my head
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it feels weird, man What are we talking about? Visage? Yeah, I talk about Visage all the time
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a really scary horror game first person inspired by PT you're trapped in a house
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there's spooky goings-ons and that game has so many just terrifying set pieces one of my favorites and one that's similar to you has footage that i
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will never ever show again of me screaming like a small baby where you are again trapped in this
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house and all of the lights go out and you have to pick up a flash camera and that is your only
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light source so every time you click that button and the camera goes off and you get a little
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brief snippet of the room anything could be hiding there And the fear and trepidation that you feel as you press that button every single time so you know where you going just terrified as to what might appear or what might not appear and your brain is going to
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fill in completely terrifying but that is a bit too flashy one scare that you can miss comes when
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you enter a bedroom upstairs and you walk in you and it's really dark and you might notice
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a little hand sticking out from under the bed and you might think that's not my beautiful hand how
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of that game here and you might go and investigate the hand and then in this like really ominous
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silent scene your character for whatever reason crawls to look under the bed and again silence
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silence silence you kind of peek in what's going on there and then without much fanfare just this
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face appears it kind of goes and i swear now i don't do it justice but i was pulling my hat off
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and i was not looking and i i said i cannot look at this and um it was terrifying and just watching
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it back then I forgot how scary it was I was watching it with headphones on in an office
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and eating my lunch you know it really worked so hopefully you've played visage it's an absolutely
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banger game and that bit in particular even though you know it's coming now because I've
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just explained it it'll shit you're up it's you video games that haunt us I'm actually going to
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pick a game I haven't played which I think says it all which is Until Dawn. I saw a scene from that
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game which yeah I was like nah this isn't for me. One of the things about being a video editor is
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you just look through footage of games when you're making a video stuff that you've never played
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before. Sometimes you get spoilers and that sucks and I don't know what I was editing that had Until
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Dawn in it but I saw a scene in it of Rami Melek's character, don't know his name, tied to a wall with
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this big monstrosity machine heading towards him spinning blades all the works and it really freaked
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me out everyone's screaming and panicking you know he's like help me help me i can do monsters
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and i can do ghosts just the wrong arm i keep doing that i do ghosts and all this but the fact
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that you know people create like healing devices really screwed with me and also the fact that it's
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like a face i've seen in tv mr robot one of the best tv shows of all time to see that rather than
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a completely cgi face a face i recognize screaming and terror was quite i don't know it's quite
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effective maybe he's okay maybe he gets off scot-free i don't know i clicked off the video
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was like, I don't think I'm ever going to play Until Dawn. And every time I think of that game, I think of that scene
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and I go, no, it's not for me. Mr. Bloodborne, man
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what is the scariest horror moment in any video game? Oh, well, seeing as I am dressed as John Bloodborne
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I'll give some honourable mentions to Bloodborne, because, you know, I like to never shut up about Bloodborne
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It could be one of many moments from that game. You know, you've got kind of when you first get the blood ministration
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and the horrible flaming werewolf made of blood comes out the floor
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There's lots of blood in that game. Sounds nice. It comes out the ground and it looks like it's going to get in. It burns into flames
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You know, you've got Father Gascoigne in the cemetery, like hacking up the bodies of various huntsmen
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You've got, you know, the blood moon descending after you've defeated Raman
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You know that everything's about to get even worse. Blue Man. You know, yep, that's right
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That's Bloodborne, that's all Bloodborne. So what's the game called? That game is called Bloodborne
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But I'm not talking about Bloodborne. I'm talking about, I want to talk about Silent Hill F
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But not this character, even though this was a brutal boss fight the first time around
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Silent Hill F is a great game. I'm really, really glad that Silent Hill is very much back
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I've said this before. Is it? Yes, it is. Silent Hill 2 remake was apparently very good
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but you don't get any points for just remaking a game that was already a classic
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he says hypocritically as someone who loves Black Mesa the point is Silent Hill F is a truly original unique new take on Silent Hill And I played it the day it came out really into it
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You know, did kind of the first few sections and thought, yeah, this game's really good. I'm really enjoying it
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Now to stop here because this game has not been out for very long. So spoilers for Silent Hill F
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Like in the other Silent Hill games, you go between like your fog world and your sort of nightmare world
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and in this one it's a kind of it's like a ritual shrine kind of area and you've done all these
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weird meetings with a kind of fox god type guy and then at some point the main character hinako
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who is who is a school girl yeah a young girl you are led into this room she sits down this is where
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the game really like kicks into gear because she's then kind of surrounded by these these maidens in
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also in fox masks who who bring some kind of case with what looks like an arm in it and then
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one of them also hands her a saw and gives her a little thing to bite down on and she takes this
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saw right and she she just she bites down on this this little bit here and she's just right she just
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saws her own arm off and it's it's like it is horrendous you know i was sitting there watching
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this going oh jesus christ you can feel it you can you know and it takes a while it's properly
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you can hear it tearing the flesh and tearing the bone apart you know it is really really nasty
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and then that you know and then that other out she she then has grafted on this gigantic like
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big white like wolf or fox like arm you know like this great big claw which is then kind of used to
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attack enemies in the nightmare world and it kind of goes on from there there's a there's a moment
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with a horrible branding and a moment where like you know part of her face is peeled off and replaced
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with a fox mask, which are all nasty in and of themselves. But the moment where she completely unexpectedly
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gruesomely hacks off her own arm, bloodily and horribly, is just like
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I was like, right, okay, now this game, as this has started, you know, welcome to Silent Hill
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It's something else entirely, I mean, I think, right, I'm in. And, you know, come to think of it, you know
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having a massive, one massive beast-like arm that's bigger than the rest of you
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and a lot of red, bloody symbolism that seems to symbolise a very specific female function in life
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Reminds me of something else, actually. It's a lot like Bloodborne. Oh, God
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Ooh! Oh. Oh, Jesus. Tom
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Yes. Poker Tom. Yes. what's the worst thing you've ever seen in a horror video game now i don't know about you
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but have you ever been to lavender town that place is creepy as hell it's potentially one of the worst
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places in kanto and if like me you've visited you know it's the worst and the music they play
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through all the speakers terrifying in fact there are dead pokemon just around horrific it is the
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worst place in the world and I think as someone who knows his way around Pokemon I can confidently
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say that it's the most terrifying thing in any video game ever. It really is, it is a huge shift
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Like my other option for a game is going to be the Flood in Halo but I just don't think
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canonically Pikachu would have played that. So anyway like I was saying important things
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love in the town, don't go back there. You'll scare the sh** out of you. I had a point at some
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But then I put this on and I lost it all. I can only apologize
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Onto the next person. What is the worst thing you've ever seen in a horror game
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Unfortunately, there hasn't been an In the Mouth of Madness video game, so I can say the untold horrors as depicted in Sutherk Kane In the Mouth of Madness I haven finished There still like one leg leg that I haven painted here Also no you just got sock You got sock as well
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Yeah, I'm going to be really cheeky here. I'm going to go with the fact that I've not played a lot
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of single player horror games because I'm a bit of a baby. I love horror movies, but horror games
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I find them an altogether more stressful experience. I go into them and I'm like, ah
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But, I do like to torture myself in different ways, and one of those
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ways is playing horror multiplayer games josh knows what i'm on about right now so i for years
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have maintained that the texas chainsaw massacre is like the most terrifying movie ever made it's
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one of the greatest films of all time the original obviously directed by toby hooper and then when
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they made a game about it i was like i'm not going near that i get scared just looking at still
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images of the texas chainsaw massacre i can't go back and play a whole game about it that would be
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insane and then Josh Brown got to play it and he was like you in this game this Texas Chainsaw
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Massacre this is pretty pretty good yeah there are some really silly character additions that
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they made they don't have the rights to all the movies which means that you can't get chopped up
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from Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 in there which I'm still devastated about but then it became free
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on PlayStation Plus earlier this year last year last year it was last year and I played a
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I've played a lot of it. I've played a lot of Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the game
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And I scream every single time that I'm in the basement and Leatherface is there
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He could be a really bad Leatherface player. Wait a minute. So what's who is the player as the victims in this scenario
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Well, I've done a lot of family playing as well. You know, it's fun being the cook and going
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You know, the secret is meat. We all love the meat. But there is something, you know, uniquely compelling about, like
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outrunning awful people, Josh Brown. even when they're really overpowered and suck
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I really hate Nancy. Oh my God, what the hell is with her
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She sucks so much. But the actual mode I'm talking about right now
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it's the worst map in the game. You know the church? Oh yes. The church sucks
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I hate the church so much. Not the concept of the church
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this should be clear right now. I hate church. I mean the actual map in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game
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It's the one that introduced Bill Mosley into the game, which is great, even though he's playing a completely different character
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It isn't chopped up, which, oh my God, it hurts me so much. But I've got gameplay for you all right now
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
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This is me running around in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre game and being like, hey, this is pretty great
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But you know, sometimes the enemy team can like, the family can just rush the basement and it just ruins
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it just scuppers all of your plans because you're not good at, as a victim, that particularly well
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especially when other people keep on making noises, and they have a Leatherface and a Johnny
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who, oh my God, I hate Johnny so much, as you can see here
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And yeah, no, the sight of hearing my cousin get butchered alive
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by one of these freak cannibals in the distance, and then realizing, okay, maybe I can get out
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and then no, no, first it was Leatherface, and then it was Johnny
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yeah so this is probably the worst thing that i've seen in a video game and i imagine it's the
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worst thing that everyone else has seen in a horror video game because they don't want to hear my
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screams the screams they're not aesthetic screams they're not jamie lee curtis screams these are
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like like hope like ned flanders when he discovers the the the when they exhume the corpse of the the
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plant that he's killed that's what it's giving right now when i scream when i'm playing a horror
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game i have like such a stock generic bloke scream where it doesn't come out of the pitch
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She goes, Nah, I'm all there going, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
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The church killed him. The church killed me