OddballGreg - Silent Hills PT, Horror Games And Pure Terror

Image is from JackSepticEye's YouTube Playthrough of PT. (Ugly no?)

Are you a fan of being scared? Perhaps you're one of those odd people who enjoy the adrenaline rush that comes with terror? (I'll be frank with you, I think you're weird. Which is saying a lot coming from me.)
Despite my utter fear for most things horror, there has been some interesting news in the gaming world if you're into that kind of thing.

As is my won't to do, I was browsing the most recently uploaded videos from some of my favorite YouTubers when I noticed in my Twitter feed that JackSepticEye, a fun Irish commentator; made a tweet about his playthrough of PT. PT is short for Playable Teaser and was released somewhat mysteriously by developers under the name 7780s Games to the Playstation store for the PS4. Of course, many being the curious types that they are, the teaser was downloaded and played and promptly took the world of Social Media by storm as people realized that PT was not just any teaser, it was a teaser for a new Silent Hill game with Hideo Kojima and Guillerrmo Del Torro both collaborating to make it.

Of course... that kind of news naturally makes people lose their minds on the internet, considering Silent Hill is one of the mostly highly acclaimed horror game franchises EVER. (Not that I have any particular experience with it for reasons I will mention shortly.) More interestingly though, was that people did not actually know HOW to beat the Teaser to get to the trailer for the new Silent Hill game.

Hideo Kojima has a reputation for some absurdly difficult puzzles and just completely strange things in his games. So it's with little surprise that getting to finish PT seemed like a fairly random thing to many all over the web, the more enterprising took it as a challenge to figure out how the puzzle worked together, and eventually worked out a functioning method to complete PT every try. The story of how @tortoiseontour managed to figure this puzzle out is quite fascinating is well worth the watch.

As exciting and entertaining as the story is though, there's still no way in hell you'll catch me actually playing the Teaser or the actual Silent Hills games once it is eventually released. Why you ask? Because I find horror games to be beyond terrifying. (Haha, well... Tell noone.)

Strangely enough, I find it near impossible to even watch people play horror games, despite finding movies, stories and books about the subject to be rather unfrightening. I cannot explain why, but suffice to say, watching JackSepticEye play the Playable Teaser had me nearly fall out of my seat at the point where the header image came from, and I actually DID fall out of my chair during this Markiplier playthrough of Five Nights at Freddy's. (Two words... Bloody Bear.)

I can't explain to you why these things scare me so, they simply do. It's odd, and forcing myself to sit through them is often slightly unpleasant. Still, such is gaming and media these days, and there has simply been SO much talk about these horror games of late among the YouTube community. It would have been a shame if I hadn't spoken about it I think.

In any case, if you suffer from the irrational fear of horror video games too, or simply want to tell me I'm weird, please be sure to do in the comments below or via Facebook/Twitter. Also, if you happen to have any friends that enjoy interesting puzzles or just horror games, do be sure to share this post with them as well; I'm positive they'll appreciate it. Of course, if you would like to read about more interesting news like this in the world of gaming, do be sure to like the official TCSA Facebook page and/or follow us on Twitter using the associated buttons on the bar to the left so that you can get all the latest posts, as they're made.
Regardless of what you do, I thank you for having taken the time to read this post; hope that you have/had an absolutely FANTASTIC day, and I will speak again soon.

Sleep safely my friends.