What part of "survival" horror do they not understand?

Have you ever encountered that person who seems to not understand the survival aspect of a survival horror game? It started about 2 weeks ago when school started to become nothing due to exams coming up. I started bringing my laptop so I can play RE2 during the do nothing classes. Some of my classmates wanted to give it a try. I tell them "It's a survival horror game. If you don't use your ammo right, you'll run out of ammo when the heat really packs in." So what do they do? Blast away all of their handgun ammo before they even reach Kendo's Gunshop. They then proceeded to quit and claim that the game is unbeatable. Please tell me I'm not the only one who's run into a situation like this.

Not exactly this but I once met a person who claimed to be a hardcore gamer and asked me what games I like the most. I replied "horror games" and he asked "what console are those on?" Rarely have I felt the urge to punch someone in the face like that time.

Nobudy wrote:

Have you ever encountered that person who seems to not understand the survival aspect of a survival horror game? It started about 2 weeks ago when school started to become nothing due to exams coming up. I started bringing my laptop so I can play RE2 during the do nothing classes. Some of my classmates wanted to give it a try. I tell them "It's a survival horror game. If you don't use your ammo right, you'll run out of ammo when the heat really packs in." So what do they do? Blast away all of their handgun ammo before they even reach Kendo's Gunshop. They then proceeded to quit and claim that the game is unbeatable. Please tell me I'm not the only one who's run into a situation like this.

Dude, the only times I've ever had problems in a RE game was when I was 8 and Playing RE3, or struggling through CVX a few years ago...

PWNERX wrote:

Nobudy wrote:

Have you ever encountered that person who seems to not understand the survival aspect of a survival horror game? It started about 2 weeks ago when school started to become nothing due to exams coming up. I started bringing my laptop so I can play RE2 during the do nothing classes. Some of my classmates wanted to give it a try. I tell them "It's a survival horror game. If you don't use your ammo right, you'll run out of ammo when the heat really packs in." So what do they do? Blast away all of their handgun ammo before they even reach Kendo's Gunshop. They then proceeded to quit and claim that the game is unbeatable. Please tell me I'm not the only one who's run into a situation like this.

Dude, the only times I've ever had problems in a RE game was when I was 8 and Playing RE3, or struggling through CVX a few years ago...

I struggled through CVX also the main part was when on the plain having to fight tyrant for like the 3rd time what about u

leonada wrote:

PWNERX wrote:

Nobudy wrote:

Have you ever encountered that person who seems to not understand the survival aspect of a survival horror game? It started about 2 weeks ago when school started to become nothing due to exams coming up. I started bringing my laptop so I can play RE2 during the do nothing classes. Some of my classmates wanted to give it a try. I tell them "It's a survival horror game. If you don't use your ammo right, you'll run out of ammo when the heat really packs in." So what do they do? Blast away all of their handgun ammo before they even reach Kendo's Gunshop. They then proceeded to quit and claim that the game is unbeatable. Please tell me I'm not the only one who's run into a situation like this.

Dude, the only times I've ever had problems in a RE game was when I was 8 and Playing RE3, or struggling through CVX a few years ago...

I struggled through CVX also the main part was when on the plain having to fight tyrant for like the 3rd time what about u

The same thing, and not using the knife. Until I mastered the CVX knife, I would waste ammo fairly quickly.

PWNERX wrote:

leonada wrote:

PWNERX wrote:

Nobudy wrote:

Have you ever encountered that person who seems to not understand the survival aspect of a survival horror game? It started about 2 weeks ago when school started to become nothing due to exams coming up. I started bringing my laptop so I can play RE2 during the do nothing classes. Some of my classmates wanted to give it a try. I tell them "It's a survival horror game. If you don't use your ammo right, you'll run out of ammo when the heat really packs in." So what do they do? Blast away all of their handgun ammo before they even reach Kendo's Gunshop. They then proceeded to quit and claim that the game is unbeatable. Please tell me I'm not the only one who's run into a situation like this.

Dude, the only times I've ever had problems in a RE game was when I was 8 and Playing RE3, or struggling through CVX a few years ago...

I struggled through CVX also the main part was when on the plane having to fight tyrant for like the 3rd time what about u

The same thing, and not using the knife. Until I mastered the CVX knife, I would waste ammo fairly quickly.

i wasted all my ammo fighting the tyrant before the plane fight

Mass Distraction wrote:

Not exactly this but I once met a person who claimed to be a hardcore gamer and asked me what games I like the most. I replied "horror games" and he asked "what console are those on?" Rarely have I felt the urge to punch someone in the face like that time.

He wouldn't deserve it. As for the CVX Tyrant, use the anti-BOW rounds. Save them for the plane. Then, use your enhanced behind arrows.

I actually saved the BOW gas rounds. They were helpful for getting away from Steve.

PWNERX wrote:

I actually saved the BOW gas rounds. They were helpful for getting away from Steve.

when i got it on the 360 i used the BOW gas rounds on Tyrant and i just ran from steve when that part came i only really had the trouble when i was borrowing it from my brother a few years ago

Nobudy wrote:

Mass Distraction wrote:

Not exactly this but I once met a person who claimed to be a hardcore gamer and asked me what games I like the most. I replied "horror games" and he asked "what console are those on?" Rarely have I felt the urge to punch someone in the face like that time.

He wouldn't deserve it.

Wait, what? Of course he'd deserve it. What he doesn't deserve is to be called a "gamer" of any sorts.

I become so used to playing the older RE games that I ended up saving my ammo for RE4, RE5, and RE6 just to find out that I had over 9000 ammo stocked up by the time the game was over lol.

Nobudy wrote:

Some of my classmates wanted to give it a try. I tell them "It's a survival horror game. If you don't use your ammo right, you'll run out of ammo when the heat really packs in." So what do they do? Blast away all of their handgun ammo before they even reach Kendo's Gunshop. They then proceeded to quit and claim that the game is unbeatable. Please tell me I'm not the only one who's run into a situation like this.

Well this generation of gaming is being raped by FPS games that demands the player to shoot without a care in the world about ammo usage and what not. Considering that a majority of people these days play those kind of games, I am not surprised someone coming straight from CoD would have trouble playing an old school survival horror title. It's a shame but it happens all the time. It's irritating that games these days are not demanding the player to think out what they should and shouldn't do in order for the best outcome of their gameplay experience.

Mass Distraction wrote:

Nobudy wrote:

Mass Distraction wrote:

Not exactly this but I once met a person who claimed to be a hardcore gamer and asked me what games I like the most. I replied "horror games" and he asked "what console are those on?" Rarely have I felt the urge to punch someone in the face like that time.

He wouldn't deserve it.

Wait, what? Of course he'd deserve it. What he doesn't deserve is to be called a "gamer" of any sorts.

Oh no I meant to type "He would deserve it." Since I was typing from my phone, and my hands are pretty big, I tend to misspell a lot and my spell check is very inaccurate. I need to disable it.

@Sargent: Precisely. Survival horror is about surviving. Only kill or "down" the enemies that are in your way nothing more or less. Just as Leon was saying to Greg in Degen about not being careful, and running out of ammo WILL be fatal. It's like these guys can't play without using the infinite ammo code. I've shown them hands on that if they play the game right, you can have well over 100 handgun bullets by the end of the game.

@Industrial: In the case of 4, there's still an incorrect way to use ammo. The reason they give you melee is because if you only use your handgun and not the knife or melee, then you have the possibility of running out of ammo as early as the 1st village assault.

Mass Distraction wrote:

Not exactly this but I once met a person who claimed to be a hardcore gamer and asked me what games I like the most. I replied "horror games" and he asked "what console are those on?" Rarely have I felt the urge to punch someone in the face like that time.

I know that feeling.I even wrote an essay about the different horror genres,but didn't have the chance to read it to the class.

will1234562 wrote:

Mass Distraction wrote:

Not exactly this but I once met a person who claimed to be a hardcore gamer and asked me what games I like the most. I replied "horror games" and he asked "what console are those on?" Rarely have I felt the urge to punch someone in the face like that time.

I know that feeling.I even wrote an essay about the different horror genres,but didn't have the chance to read it to the class.

Imagine if you used that for a college essay.

Nobudy wrote:

will1234562 wrote:

Mass Distraction wrote:

Not exactly this but I once met a person who claimed to be a hardcore gamer and asked me what games I like the most. I replied "horror games" and he asked "what console are those on?" Rarely have I felt the urge to punch someone in the face like that time.

I know that feeling.I even wrote an essay about the different horror genres,but didn't have the chance to read it to the class.

Imagine if you used that for a college essay.

Wes Craven would be proud.  

Nobudy wrote:

will1234562 wrote:

Mass Distraction wrote:

Not exactly this but I once met a person who claimed to be a hardcore gamer and asked me what games I like the most. I replied "horror games" and he asked "what console are those on?" Rarely have I felt the urge to punch someone in the face like that time.

I know that feeling.I even wrote an essay about the different horror genres,but didn't have the chance to read it to the class.

Imagine if you used that for a college essay.

There was a guy in my speech class who gave a speech on his addiction to World of Warcraft lol.

Ssplain wrote:

Nobudy wrote:

will1234562 wrote:

Mass Distraction wrote:

Not exactly this but I once met a person who claimed to be a hardcore gamer and asked me what games I like the most. I replied "horror games" and he asked "what console are those on?" Rarely have I felt the urge to punch someone in the face like that time.

I know that feeling.I even wrote an essay about the different horror genres,but didn't have the chance to read it to the class.

Imagine if you used that for a college essay.

There was a guy in my speech class who gave a speech on his addiction to World of Warcraft lol.

I hope it was followed by a sudden intervention.

They don't get survival because they are the "new generation" of gamers. It's nothing offensive, it's just how it is. In this age of information, there are many media out there and everyone is getting brainstormed with countless information everyday. Because of that, life is lived "fast". Everybody lost their patience or just never had it in the first place if they are younger.

It's like you wouldn't have patience to go through Super Mario Bros 3 right now because it's hard as fuck and you'd break the joypad in two after some time and just proceed to play a game you like because there are gazillion other games out there, as opposed to how it once was. When RE first came out, it was so unique because there weren't games that were similar to it at all. Etc.

So, in this case just apply that Super Mario Bros 3 logic to your friends who are used to easy games where you have checkpoints every 5 minutes or less and where you can shoot all the time because why the fuck not?

There were games that were similar to RE even back then. It was only RE that caught the world by storm.

In any case, what Shrike said is exactly the reason why so many great games will forever remain as indie titles.

I love my indie titles. I generally feel more involved with what's going on. There is a plethora of them out there for about 1/10th the price of any major title games as well. I actually picked up Terraria a while back for 2.99 and probably put 100 hours into it. That is more than I put into re6 and for the price I could have bought enough Terraria's for the whole neighborhood.

Gotta love those Steam sales.

Mass Distraction wrote:

Gotta love those Steam sales.

Ah man, they are the best! I also got Lone Survivor on sale. It is a side scroller survival horror game. It is short, but it is a very good game and has most of the key elements of survival horror of old.

In this game they put quality of experience at the front. The graphics and very basic controls are something most modern generation gamers would not even pick up though. Maybe one of the problems with modern survival horror games is that they are putting all of the effort into visual display and fancy game controls because it is easier to market. I mean, who cares if the game you are playing has a satisfying experience as long as you look cool doing it, right?

Oh yes, I know the game. I've Let's Played it.

In the end, not my favorite game but it had its fun moments.