Monthly Musings: The fear! The FEAR!

Firstly, make sure to put "The FEAR:" in your c-blog title, and secondly, check the Monthly Musings tag before you set it live.

Since this is a pretty vague theme, I'll point out a past article written by Dtoid staff that would still apply: this one, by Ashley Davis,  is about her real-life fear of virtual water. Though the article is more about Banjo-Kazooie than Silent Hill, it includes a pretty indepth explanation of the poor girl's true terror toward murky water in videogames.

Similarly, Jonathan's post yesterday on underpowered game protagonists had a couple of interesting references to the terror inherent in controlling a weak-ass protagonist who can't go all Niko Bellic whenever he feels like it.

Though I'm definitely looking forward to reading some articles on survival horror games, those don't represent the beginning and the end of this theme: there are a lot of things that have potential to scare us and, perhaps just as importantly, a lot of things that sadly don't, but should. 

Anyway, yeah. Pretty vague theme, and you can more or less come up with your own definition of what "fear" is (I'd personally say that really, really epic scenes make me somewhat "fearful," if only because they give me a sense of  scale and how small I am in relation to the world I'm playing in), but I remain interested in seeing what you guys come up with.