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The Stryker Force
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Hey guys! Great to see you all back here on the Game Creators Forum, and once again from the FPS Creator section, I'm showcasing and reviewing another game that really deserve some respect and recognition from everyone out there on the web!

This is The Briefcase, quite possibly one of the BEST and most AUTHENTIC horror experience yet, surpassing Lewis' Alpha Project, and managing to hold itself on the mantle of Slender and Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

This is a game worth checking out! So come on over to TheStrykerForce and see what I have to say about this game!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si3c9DRmCIs

and as always, leave a comment or suggestion if you feel like it

PS contact Doopus and tell him about this review to see if he likes it or not.
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No enemies? No weapons? Only thing you can really see are the lights. Just walk around a dark building... You need more than a few sound effects to even remotely consider it best horror experience.

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Posted: 15th May 2013 21:34
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Quote: "No enemies? No weapons?"


are you saying you atleast need weapons...?

nah - better with enemies and NO weapons.



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Posted: 15th May 2013 21:47
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I don't think it's wise to compare this game to Amnesia or Slender. Once you get over the sounds, it really isn't that scary at all (like you said in your video).

The scariest game I've seen made with TGC products is Which, by Mike Inel.

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Quote: "Amnesia or Slender"

Pffff pathetic piece of thrash
Quote: "Which"

That's a good one

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Posted: 15th May 2013 22:50
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Amnesia was an awesome game, don't know how you could say otherwise.

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Quote: "Pffff pathetic piece of thrash"


Amnesia is definitly a GREAT game, Slender however, I personally dont find to be scary - at all..

But amnesia - imho, is the best horror game i've ever played



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Posted: 15th May 2013 23:26 Edited at: 15th May 2013 23:30
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That was boring, yawn till jaw broken, and not caused a single eyebrow move. For me. Design is poor, story is lame, hero motivation is stupid as decapitated chicken's. Boo!!! Srsly, due to high ranks by internet reviews, I tried hard. No. That game is bad.

Slender is just piece of trash made by monkey in Game Studio for a banana.

Here is some games of my choice: Clive Barker's Undying, Pathologic, Tension, Resident Evil, and maybe The Path (I just bought it a day ago). They not so good at scaring, but at least have a serious potetial that I respect.

P.S. still I have not seen any, ANY, horror game that statisfy me 100%. Probably this is impossible.

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are you saying Res Evil is scary..?

Pathologic has a nice very nice atmosphere, but scary? now - given, i havent played it a lot but atleast the first hour is hardly scary

actually... none of those - except for The Path and Tension, which i havent tried - is scary to me..



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Quote: "are you saying Res Evil is scary..?"

you missed
Quote: "They not so good at scaring"


And I forgot to say of Which, by Mike Inel. It is very good project, but grpahics need to be redone from scratch.

I am installing ThePath right now.

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Which is indeed quite scary - but, Amnesia is still the game that has scared me the most

and after that comes F.E.A.R - might however been due to my young age, and easily scared nature - but it certanly scared the shoe out of me



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Oh well, looks like this review wasn't as compelling as my Alpha Project one...

But still, thank you guys very much for the positive feedback! What do you guys think I should change in my next review (which will be on HMS Diptera)?
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Didn't you want to review "Euthanasia"?

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The stryker force - a tip of sorts, it can become a bit annoying if you keep making new threads each time you make a new video, just make one thread - and bump the thread, and update the main post once you post a new video



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True! Make a "my indie game reviews" thread I'd watch.

The briefcase was a neat minigame but I will admit ...you exaggerate its scaryness (scariness?) a little. If you like horrorgames, I can send you a list of all I know.



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Oh yeah, some more feedback to the video I forgot to mention before. You have a good voice, and it's clear to follow your train of thought. I did noticed you said "what makes this game so great" about 10 times within those 6 minutes to bridge your thoughts. You should use some different phrases, because that got a little annoying over time.

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Hey I just played The Path from Tale Of Tales, that is very much intersting mystery to review.

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Quote: "True! Make a "my indie game reviews" thread I'd watch.

The briefcase was a neat minigame but I will admit ...you exaggerate its scaryness (scariness?) a little. If you like horrorgames, I can send you a list of all I know.



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That's actually a fantastic idea guys! Next time, I'll make a thread where I'll post up all my Indie Game Reviews.

As for this review... I admit it's not my best, since I made it on a day I was really tired and stressed after school, and I guess I kind of rushed it, so I'm really sorry about it.

Quote: "Didn't you want to review "Euthanasia"?

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I admit, I'm a little scared of playing it through, but I must conquer my own fear of the unknown! So I'm putting HMS Diptera on hold and reviewing Euthanasia in it's place! Stick around for this weekend!
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I forgot about Which. That actually made me jump when the girl started violently stabbing me.

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AAAHH SPOILER[b][/b][u][/u]


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I guess it's just highly subjective how scary a game is. I thought FEAR was a nice action game but I honestly didn't consider it scary in any way. However, games as Slender or the SCP ones (Containment Breach and 087) really get me.
Regarding the Briefcase - haven't played it, so I'm not really in a position to judge how scary it is - but admittedly the review sounds a little exaggerated. Nontheless I like those videos and will keep watching them.

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Quote: "Slender or the SCP ones (Containment Breach and 087) really get me."

You mean the game where you just go down the dark stairs and nothing hapens?

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And the game where you just walk around in a forest and a badly made tall man with "no face" comes up to the screen while a sound which - if anything, makes me fear for my ears health happens?



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Quote: "And the game where you just walk around in a forest and a badly made tall man with "no face" comes up to the screen while a sound which - if anything, makes me fear for my ears health happens?
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In my opinion, what makes a good horror game is not what DOES happen to you, but what could POSSIBLY happen to you.

It's the element of uncertainty (I mentioned this in my video) that really drives fear home. This is the reason why despite RE6 having fantastic, scary and ghoulish creatures, it didn't scare me all that much. It didn't have the true roots of fear.
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.... in slenderman the only possible thing to happen to you is having that "scary face in your face-jumpscare" happen



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Quote: ".... in slenderman the only possible thing to happen to you is having that "scary face in your face-jumpscare" happen"


We're talking about video games. What could possibly happen to you as a player? Nothing. Neither in Slender nor in Amnesia or The Briefcase for that matter.
But apparently there are lots of players who could barely cope with the experience of playing Slender due to being scared.

Quote: "You mean the game where you just go down the dark stairs and nothing hapens?"


Well, not exactly, at a few points something does happen, and unless you have watched somebody else play it before, you have no idea what (and when) exactly. And as The Stryker Force pointed out, the element of uncertainty comes into play. The SCP games have a pretty good atmosphere and when you play it for the first time, you have no idea what to expect.

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Are we talking being scared - or being startled <jumpscare>?



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Quote: "I admit, I'm a little scared of playing it through"


Thats what I wanted to hear

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Quik, sit in the dark with a decent sound system, fullscreen slender and find all 8 pages. I bet you're a little scared at times.


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I always play my games in the dark - with a decent sound system, I honestly dont find slender the least bit scary



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I guess it's just a matter of perspective - I played through amnesia without barely a twinge, and whenever people goad me into playing slender it never scares me slightly. On the other hand, ten years on from playing it the first time, I still find the first Tomb Raider a bit scary.

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Very agree.

Quote: "And the game where you just walk around in a forest and a badly made tall man with "no face" comes up to the screen while a sound which - if anything, makes me fear for my ears health happens?"

That is not the sense of the game. You can just walk the road by 100 meters straight to Grandma's house and finish the game in few minutes. That's will be game over. You need to [spoiler] to [spoiler] all of the "red hoods".

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Quote: "That is not the sense of the game. You can just walk the road by 100 meters straight to Grandma's house and finish the game in few minutes. That's will be game over. You need to [spoiler] to [spoiler] all of the "red hoods""


He's talking about Slender. You're talking about The Path.

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Quote: "In my opinion, what makes a good horror game is not what DOES happen to you, but what could POSSIBLY happen to you."


Yes.
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Horror is a very difficult thing to pull off. I remember playing Siren Blood Curse for the first time and it was the scariest thing I'd ever experienced in a game, but as the game went on the zombies went from terrifying to irritating to ridiculous and the game got so dull I gave up on it (they gave you some weird mind powers which totally destroyed the horror atmosphere). It's a real shame because the first 20 minutes or so was brilliant and really made me scared to play on, I've never felt so vulnerable in a game.

I think horror is more about psychology so different things will affect people differently, I don't think there is much that EVERYONE would find scary. I found Heavy Rain quite disturbing but I wouldn't call it a horror game, it came out at an ideal time for me to get engrossed in it so I think that amplified the effect.

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Quote: "I think horror is more about psychology so different things will affect people differently, I don't think there is much that EVERYONE would find scary. I found Heavy Rain quite disturbing but I wouldn't call it a horror game, it came out at an ideal time for me to get engrossed in it so I think that amplified the effect."


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