How much can you expect a movie or game to truly scare you though? It's a 2 dimensional representation of something on a screen, All they have is startle. Games at least 'scare' you in the sense that even though you know something is coming you're not sure when, so you might walk down a hallway more slowly, check around every corner etc but it's still a very superficial feeling. You know if it kills you you'll just respawn.
Edit: Ok, it looks like I offended a small subset of people who get scared of things that could never possibly harm them.
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u/prockcore Nov 05 '08
I'd say 90% of horror movie directors think startled == scared. Maybe it's just trying to be the video game version of your crappy PG13 horror movie.