Amnesia: The dark descent.... were you afraid ?

I prefer games like Dead Space to Amnesia because I prefer horror games that are like "sure, try to shoot the enemies, it's not going to work" to games that are like "just hide until they go away". Don't get me wrong, Amnesia's horror atmosphere is amazing, but it kind of feels like a Splinter Cell game in the sense that I'm just waiting for the "guards" to go somewhere else. Dead Space isn't the best example, but games where you have a gun and it just isn't very effective are a lot more scary, because they eliminate the "well, if I had a gun, this wouldn't be so bad" element of games like Amnesia.

One thing that Dead Space does extremely well imo, is their intros. The whole thing where you being chased and cant do shit all about it really does well to get the blood flowing as you enter the game's world.

I guess to me, how well Im able to "deal" with a threat determines how scared of something I am (exluding jump scares). In Dead Space, it all depends on how much ammo Im carrying (also some areas are dreadful).

In Amnesia I cant do shit all against something bad. I guess the reason is that I REALLY allow myself to get immersed. Game feels more realistic. It not being in the future, the main character breathing heavily when hes scared all does wonders. The only way that you can not be scared of something is if you remember that a monster is just a badly programmed AI :p Something that can be stopped by a knee-high wooden bedframe placed across a doorway (lulz).

I dunno, the way I judge horror games is not by gameplay and such, but by how scared I get. Dead Space had some good jump scared, excellent atmosphere, and a few areas that I dreaded. But I finished it.

In Amnesia, I've have had a few areas where I literally was afraid to move forward. No horror game to date has done that to me. And its atmosphere is beyond excellent (IMHO). I have not finished Amnesia. Ive had it for like 4 months and I havent completed half the game.


EDIT: FUCK YOU EMOTICONS

EDIT 2: Bollocks.

How can you be afraid in dead space ? You have so insanely powerful guns like line gun and force gun AND YES I did play on impossible and finished it !
How can you say that Juggernaut (or whatever that invincible thing is) was not scary when you followed by a sentence " I like 'sure, try to shoot the enemies, it's not going to work" ? That doesnt make any sense at all. On that note, the thing is that you can't kill is that you always have to be on your guard when the chase starts, so you have a permanent feeling of despair, as you can't kill it, only run further.

Amnesia was like a thousand times scarier, but still, I was much more afraid at for example Silent Hill or the game that I never finnished, Forbidden Siren.

As far as horror movies go, Uzumaki is my all time favourite

Plus having the foam finger gun that literally shoots with a sound of a guy saying "bang bang" really takes out the fear of the game.