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Survival Horror: What The Genre Is Doing To Survive

February 25, 2010 in Blog comments 1

While many believe the survival horror genre is dying, not everybody feels that way. Blastmagazine takes a look at the survival horrors of this generation and what devs are doing to help the genre survive.

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There are definitely some innovative and different approaches to the genre that are emerging in the next-gen era, and the combination of western and eastern influences are most certainly what makes the genre so much fun to play. Recognizing survival horror’s colorful past and anticipating what gamers will want from the genre in the future is difficult, but so far the genre is evolving and changing with the trends rather nicely.
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    Ech0ez Feb 25, 10
    Would an FPS be 'evolving' if it removed the 'FPS' aspect from majority of it? Survival Horror isn't evolving. Several new kinds of Horror games have evolved from it, but to call them Survival Horror is making 'Survival Horror' too broad of a generalization, you may as well call all shooters FPS regardless of whether they're first person or not.

    it needs to be simply changed to a 'Horror' genre, with things like Action-Horror, Haunted House Sims and Survival Horror as sub-genres with in it. The range and variation between Horror games is simply too large and different now to try and call them all one kind of Horror, that has always had a rather specific definition.


    Also going off on a tangent for a moment here, the reason they're making Dead Space 2 less scary is because it's too scary for some people? This is a perfect example of when 'mainstream' is a bad thing.

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