Resident Evil: Horror or Action?

Both of you knock it off.

Nemesis, the point is that it does not need to be personally scary to you to be considered horror. I didn't find RE5 very scary, and I've always been terrified by the RE games in the past. But that doesn't change anything.

Originally posted by Peach
Both of you knock it off.

Nemesis, the point is that it does not need to be personally scary to you to be considered horror. I didn't find RE5 very scary, and I've always been terrified by the RE games in the past. But that doesn't change anything.

Wait wait wait. So you're saying that I'm thinking that RE5 isn't scary and so I think that it shouldn't be frightening to others? I don't think I said anything like that and sorry if there was a misunderstanding.

I know this is off topic but I have a question, are you still disturbed from what I said last night in the Problem thread?

What you've basically been saying the entire thread is that RE5 should not be considered horror because you do not find it scary. However, that is incorrect.

And you're right, it is off-topic.

Originally posted by Peach
But that doesn't change anything.

4 is without a doubt horror.. the opening chapter of 5, and very sparse bits here and there, I can see the horror in them.. but for a very very large portion of the game, its very flashy and filled with action sequences

like honestly

Spoiler:
did you seriously feel any kind of dread or panic as wesker came at you with some damn wire-fu? lmao

the only conclusion I can come to is the only reason its considered horror (or survival / horror) is just because its predecessors were classified as such

Originally posted by SaTsuJiN
How doesnt it?.. I've been trying to think about it lol..

4 is without a doubt horror.. the opening chapter of 5, and very sparse bits here and there, I can see the horror in them.. but for a very very large portion of the game, its very flashy and filled with action sequences

like honestly

Spoiler:
did you seriously feel any kind of dread or panic as wesker came at you with some damn wire-fu? lmao

the only conclusion I can come to is the only reason its considered horror (or survival / horror) is just because its predecessors were classified as such

Because the definition of horror applies to it in literally every single, factual way. Might be why.

It's not a subject for debate. It's fact. WHY do people keep using "Did you feel fear or dread?" as clarification? It doesn't matter if you did or not.

-AC

hor⋅ror

Adjective.

7. Inspiring or creating horror, loathing, aversion, etc.: The hostages told horror stories of their year in captivity.

8. Centered upon or depicting terrifying or macabre events: a horror movie. <---Not open to interpretation.

What does Resident Evil do? It's a game depicting terrifying AND/OR macabre events. The example given was; a horror movie. In this case, a horror game.

P.S: If you're gonna form a troll group with people, make sure your members can be trusted. One of them has already ratted you out.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Because the definition of horror applies to it in literally every single, factual way. Might be why.

It's not a subject for debate. It's fact. WHY do people keep using "Did you feel fear or dread?" as clarification? It doesn't matter if you did or not.

-AC

or do you mean to say that just having something contain zombies makes it horror

Calling Re5 Horror is way too broad.. but meanwhile calling Re4 Horror hits the nail right on the head

Originally posted by SaTsuJiN
then wouldnt that mean I could just 'factually' label anything horror despite what it actually contains?.. cuz thats the message I'm getting here

or do you mean to say that just having something contain zombies makes it horror

Calling Re5 Horror is way too broad.. but meanwhile calling Re4 Horror hits the nail right on the head

How are people managing to get the exact opposite of what I mean from my posts?

You label it horror specifically BECAUSE of what it contains. If it contains something that is clearly meant to be horror, obviously or by common sense telling you that it is, then it is. It doesn't matter if you find it scary.

For example, are there horror movies you DON'T find scary? Yes. End.

-AC

Prove that a certain definition of the term would definitively apply in this context.......

I did, just then.

"Centered upon or depicting terrifying or macabre events: a horror movie. <---Not open to interpretation.

What does Resident Evil do? It's a game depicting terrifying AND/OR macabre events. The example given was; a horror movie. In this case, a horror game.".

-AC

Who's to say that particular meaning of the term applies, and not one of the other meanings that are open to interpretation?

1) The dictionary.

2) Because it even goes so far as to cite the horror genre.

-AC

1) What? Where does the dictionary explain that that's the only definition that applies when used with the term "horror movie".

2) That that particular definition makes a direct reference to the term doesn't mean that it's the only definition that can possibly apply when used with that term.

Then go list them all, they all apply except for ones that are not referring to horror in the sense we are discussing it.

We're discussing horror as in a medium with which to depict supposedly frightening events. Not horror as in "It was horrible.", or what have you.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/horror

Go see for yourself.

The only kind of "Horror" we're referring to is the fictional kind, and what consitutes something being one. What constitutes something being one has been listed, and it doesn't involve people having to be scared.

Facts.

Now run along.

-AC

No!

I will never run along!

You ultimately made the claim that Resident Evil 5 would unambiguously qualify as a horror game, so if you wish for people to accept that claim as being true, the burden would fall on you to prove up on that claim, meaning a full analysis of every single meaning of the word and explaining how only the meanings that are not open to interpretation apply in this context.

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I have given that.

Not every single meaning of the word is applicable to context. There are different meanings of every word and not all are applicable to the same thing; simple rules of language. E.g: Rape. Rape can mean raping a female, raping a country of its sources, raping in the colloquial sense.

It depends what you're referring to. Here, it's the genre of horror media and what constitutes something being a part of that, and what makes it NOT part of that.

It not being scary to YOU personally does not qualify it as not being a horror, I have provided dictionary definitions to prove this.

Now, shh.

-AC

Ok, kids.

Whatever works.

-AC

Originally posted by ApolloIceCloud
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Admit defeat and I will remove it...

You'll be banned and it'll be removed anyway you silly troll.

-AC