This is my first time dipping into horror art. This piece was more difficult than I expected. There were a lot symmetrical structures which I found challenging to paint while maintaining a proper contrast between light and dark. In the end, I think it turned out alright
You know I was thinking more about why it is Alien: Isolation scares me more than any other horror game but it wasn't until I saw this video that I figured it out.
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None of that was scripted. 99% of Alien: Isolation's horror happens totally organically within the context of gameplay like that. There are very rarely scripted jumpscares, no mandatory combat encounters at all and no set path the Alien follows. The game just drops you into a relatively open ended area with an objective and says "it's in here somewhere and the only way out is through, good luck." Because the Alien is unpredictable and highly adaptive there's no 100% safe route to take or reliable place to hide so you live or die based solely on your own moment to moment instincts. This creates an extra layer of pressure and uncertainty that is genuinely paralyzing.
Resentment is such a big part of Benny鈥檚 motives towards House, feeling he鈥檚 underserving to rule and shouldn鈥檛 have the right to keep the title of Vegas just because he claimed it first long ago. Say what you will, Benny puts the effort in, through honest and dishonest work albeit, but he puts in the effort. Not saying House didn鈥檛 but House had the luxury of having a lot of that effort done before the war and subordinates to do so after. House is untouchable, something everyone wants in the Mojave, if not for the power, but because of the security. House takes that for granted seeing how easy he thinks it is to buy people. Benny, a Mojave native, has to be irate about that seeing how he has seen the heights and slums of both lives.
Also with the AIs it鈥檚 so telling because in a lot of ways, Yes Man has more autonomy than House鈥檚 major personality securitrons. Yeah, Yes Man has to be helpful but he鈥檚 aware and able to be snarky and coy. Benny has an issue with not being listened to but that鈥檚 the only perimeter Yes Man needs to act on. He can鈥檛 condescend but lord you can tell when he wants to. House鈥檚 AIs serves specific and highly detailed functions but are confined to act in accordance. They are subservient to a T and are extensions of House while Yes Man really is a creation that adapts further, hence his desire for the assertive upgrade. Benny made something, or at least was okay with a helper, that can progress for itself. House made things that replicate or facilitate an era of the past and don鈥檛 hold the power to contest it.
Alien Resurrection聽is a 2000s Horror FPS game聽based on the 1997 film of the same name. The game was developed by Argonaut Games聽and published by Fox Interactive聽for the PS1.
Following the same basic plot of the movie, the game takes place years after the events of聽Alien 3聽and follows a cloned聽Lt. Ellen Ripley聽awaking aboard the USM Auriga and trying to escape from the聽xenomorph-infested research spaceship聽USM Auriga聽along with a crew of mercenaries.
When the Xenomorphs bred from the queen that was extracted from her cloned body escape containment and begin running rampant aboard the Auriga, Ripley must unite with a group of rag-tag mercenaries to escape the vessel
This will be a 64-participant bracket of a bunch of horror game protagonists! Tournament will start tomorrow. Below I have a list of participants and a view of the bracket. Please let me know if there's any big ones I missed!