'DBD isn't a horror game'
I see this said a lot to justify overly comedic or non horror things in this game and it gets on my nerves more than anything. so far starters, DBD IS a horror game. It doesn't matter if it 'stops becoming scary' its still a horror game with a horror centric theme that, until last chapter, has always kept the horror centric theme.
DBD being horror is what makes this game successful and I'm sorry but straying away from horror to move onto other genres is just…weird. So what because the game stops becoming traditionally scary (at the devs fault btw) that means we just move on from the horror genre and start fresh? Everything in DBD people try to use as justification doesn't make sense especially since the mascot skins such as Robbie or Clowns community skin are often used as justification despite mascots being an extremely common fear (John Wayne Gacy hello?) and the Robbie skins are in a league of their own as literal icons in the horror genre.
Bottom line is its ridiculous that people fight so hard for DBD to stop being a horror game when it being horror is what made it so famous in the first place and I swear moving away from that will be something that kills this game
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That would still be considered horror for those people.
As if your definition on horror aren't already completely based on your own subjective thoughts and idea of what horror is.
Which i am going to disagree with every single time because i think that's completely wrong in what you're saying and that it does project and provide it's themes onto it's gameplay more than enough.
Running to avoid excruciating pain is still enough of a reason for anyone to want to keep themselves safe from harm and temporary death.
Which i am going to (again) disagree with every single time because i think otherwise.
Which the gameplay does.
We're talking in circles at this point and none of us are going to change our minds on the matter, so i'm ending the conversation here since we're basically getting nowhere and i don't feel like dragging it out any further than it already is.
Would have perferred ghost rider as a killer at this point. but thats just my personal opinion.
This might just be the most ignorant discussion I've seen on this forum.
It's okay to not know why Dungeons & Dragons is horror. …but acting like you know more about Dungeons & Dragons than the people who actively play it?!
dnd may not be entirely horror. But ravenloft is horror based. But it doesn’t seem like it if you only hear of the horny bard jokes. I will say having acerak would’ve been cooler (having traps like his dungeon and having a deactivated tomb of horror as a map, but that would just be a better trapper.) but they chose him due to
Just because it isn’t traditional slasher doesn’t mean it isn’t horror.
and btw Vecna is just cool
people don’t
Vecna is a genocidal wizard who had cults following him who knows secrets about the universe and has spells to change reality and kill people in an instant.Skull merchant is just Boeing and Jeff bezos if we want to use your logic of ignoring major parts
jfc this thread got pedantic. OP did a little trolling and then sat back to watch it burn. Masterful. I mean the original statement was blatantly false, the game is horror and Vecna is horror, but this low effort dumpster fire and how long it kept people riled up at each other? That's kind of impressive.