• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Honestly, Minecraft.

    Everyone remembers the moment they first realized nighttime and darkness is unsafe.

    And as the years go on, more and more lore and items and events have been added that makes the game even more unsettling when you stop to think about them.

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      3 days ago

      makes the game even more unsettling when you stop to think about them

      respectfully disagree. I ive recently been playing a Minecraft version 1.5 mod and omg it’s so much more eerie than modern versions. It doesn’t help that torches burn out after a while lol

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      4 days ago

      The first time you heard that sssssSSSSSSBOOM right behind branded every player with an eternal fear.

      Also, shoutout to the moment they added fire spread. Way back in ye olde alpha days, you’d just randomly set stuff on fire to keep monsters out. Then fire spread suddenly made this dangerous and the world feel a whole lot more risky.

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        3 days ago

        That brief period where fire spread was super op- you’d stumble upon decimated wastelands from natural fires.

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      5 days ago

      When real-world horrors are too existential and complex to implement, more tangible, definite horrors must be created to make a game world a better approximation of reality.