Jump Scare

John and I finished playing Dead Rising.  We'd completed all the missions, found all the blueprints, had all the combo-vehicles.  We'd reached level 50 and killed countless zombies.  (Actually, they were countable, something like 64,000 ish.)

Anyway, we started a new game that I found called Alien, Isolation.  Sam, "Oh, that's a jump scare game."  Me, "huh?"

We started playing and it was vastly different than Dead Rising.  It was much slower paced and very quiet.  You start out on a ship with four other people but are quickly alone on a space station.  It was like a really big floating airport and in complete disarray.  Luggage all over, stuff piled up, knocked over and falling down.  And it's really quiet, did I mention that?  Oh, and you're not supposed to run because it can attract unwanted attention.  So we're sneaking around, peeking around corners, collecting different items, climbing through ducts, completing one small mission at a time, all alone, in this big empty space airport, you can't climb over anything so you're always taking the long way around, very methodical, low key music, very steven spielberg waiting for the shark to appear and Sam can barely sit still, "I can't take this! The suspense is killing meeee...aaahhhh. Something's over there. Oh, oh no, it's not. I can't take this. Ahhhh" Tom is looking up hints on the computer, helping us find our way through the maze, completely unfazed. Meanwhile Sam is slowing inching his way out of the room.  And this was going on for over an hour when we finally ran into another person, Axel.  He was a good guy but not a "good guy". Then we had to sneak past some bad guys and Axel gets killed and we run into a tram and turn around to close the door and there's an alien RIGHT THERE and Sam and I both screamed at the top of our lungs. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH" Sam made a beeline for his bedroom.  Both of the sleeping dogs flew off their beds, "What? What's going on? Is it the squirrel? Where is he?" I looked over at John and said, "That scared the shit out of me!" <pant> <pant> "Did that scare you?" John was just sitting there on the couch, staring at the t.v., "yes."  Me, "Should be stop playing now?" John, "yes."

so that's a jump scare....

maybe we should get a nice Lego game....