Survival Horror
This was too funny to pass up
Via Destructoid.com, a fun list of survival horror clichés.
I like #5…
5: Architects are clinically insane:Can we truly be sure that Raccoon City’s inhabitants were the victims of the T-Virus? My personal theory is that, rather than becoming infected by a biologically engineered disease, they were simply driven mad by years of having to use keys in the shape of helmets and pushing blocks around rooms just to open fucking doors.
It seems that most buildings in survival horror games were designed by schizophrenic lunatics who felt that it should take two hours to get from the kitchen to the bathroom, with a collected eighteen miles of backtracking in between. Why does a hotel need a working music box to open a door? How did the local council give that planning permission!? It doesn’t matter, because it’s part of why survival horror is awesome.