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It's DBD still scary?
Since the last year, DBD has changed a lot on color and feels-like, with each update we get brighter and noisier maps, which changes the feeling of the game making it less scary.
In my opinion, i think DBD its evolving to some kind of scary mobile game ( which has a lot of customer and its cheaper to develop ) so they kind of lost interest in PC/Console and by doing so it lost its dark/scary feeling
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The game looks less scary than before
I'd argue the maps are actually darker then they were before. The maps have a darker, more eerie look to them now. It's not at all scary though. Too much exposure to something and it stops being scary. The only time I actually get scared by DBD these days is if I get jump scared by a Ghostface or something but jumps cares are more startling then scary. I'm not actually afraid of Ghostface but him suddenly appearing still would make me jump lol. So basically, the maps may look spookier but I'm completely desensitised to this game now so it doesn't frighten me.
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The game looks less scary than before
I think the reworked maps are a lot brighter now and you can see the killer from a mile away.
Perks like spine chill ad to that.
I think Midwich is a good map that has random creepy stuff, like noises and the things that rattle in the cages.
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The game looks less scary than before
It was scary at first cuz we werent used to it and now its so sweaty its hard to remember its a horror game at all
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The game looks less scary than before
The maps and how nurse looks now is really scary for me at least. But the rest of the killers they aren't scary tbh maybe i'll change my mind after they update the models of the characters and the maps lol
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The scariest thing in DbD
If all 3 survivors are constantly swarming you to bodyblock and flashlight blind while you're chasing a survivor...
How are gens still getting done?? Who repaired all 5 gens!? 😱
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The game looks less scary than before
i think it just depends on how much you play the game because my new friend played for the first time and he kept on screaming any time the killer was chasing him, but as you play more I think you start to realize the killer isn't so strong as long as you know how to loop, have proper perks, and know how to counter that killer
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The game has not changed - look scary as always
This game stopped being scary after I got more than 100 hours playing it.
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The game looks less scary than before
The game is only ever scary the first time you are playing it, and everyone playing it now knows it's not really meant to be that type of horror game.
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The game has not changed - look scary as always
Which isn't truly and really related to whether the game itself is actually scary now is it?
OP was referring to the updated graphics, change in art style, and overall visual presentation of the game, and whether or not that affected the horror experience / how inherently frightening the game was or wasn't.
Saying "Oh yeah, I've played over 1000 hours of the game, I've seen every single killer, every realm, every map variant with said realm, and have memorized nearly every single perk such that nothing truly surprises me anymore in this asymmetrical experience and I act properly and accordingly given whichever circumstance" really doesn't answer that question now does it?
Yet every time people ask the question "is DBD scary?" or something similar like "is DBD an actual horror game" that exact response or something in the same family of responses comes up as the most common answer. "Yeah, I've played 200,000 hours of the game. This is baby #########, and if you think the game is scary you're just a new player or a complete baby *spits*".
I don't mean to rip on you specifically, I know you did comment a little bit on the changes made to maps, it's just so tiresome to see Dead By Daylight as a horror experience constantly get a bad rap because of players who have been desensitized to it. As if how much you play and how that affects your psychological expectations and fear response is somehow within the game's power to change or do anything about. Or that it's somehow the fault of the game, or the devs who are making, that you or anyone else are no longer personally and individually scared by it.
For example I'm Terrified of the Outlast franchise. I think I've played through the first game maybe two or three times, the whistleblower DLC once, and the 2nd game I recently finished maybe a month ago. But I've no doubt if I played through each game 10+ times back to back to back I'd end up memorizing every single scene, jump-scare, I'd know pretty well how the AI acts and reacts, and some of the quickest and most efficient ways to get through different parts of the game. Somewhere along the line, it wouldn't be scary anymore.
Dead by Daylight is absolutely no different.
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The game looks less scary than before
To be honest, even when I was new to the game, I still wasn't all that scared. I'm usually a total wimp when it comes to horror and I don't remember being very scared at all. In fact, the only killers I can remember genuinely frightening me when I first started playing was Doctor and Hag. Hag predominantly because of jumpscares and Doc because at the time, the whole madness mechanic startled me. My overall lack of fear could come down to the fact that I played predominantly with friends at the start and games were relatively easy. (My friends were also new FYI, the game had just come out as that month's free game for those with PS Plus so there was a huge influx of new players). Does the maps being darker and more atmospheric make the game scarier for new players specifically? Maybe. It'd be hard to prove that was the case without conducting some kind of experiment. Would I have been more frightened if I'd played solo? Maybe. Though I probably wouldn't have played in the first place if my friends didn't all play it at the time.
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The game looks more scary than before
Have you SEEN all of those deadzones on the new maps? Spooky scary.
(alternatively, have you see the amount of pallets on some of the OTHER new maps?)
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The game looks less scary than before
I used to have more hours in F13 & that game still scared me. It's not about the exposure as you get used to the game, it just lacks ambiance.
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The game looks less scary than before
It has the potential to be scary again, but right now it definitely isn't.
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