There are a lot of horror game tropes I hate, like:
Jump scares
Cliche monster designs such as mutilated human, ghost woman, singing/giggling little girl, and worst of all, asylum inmate :cringe:
Having 'insanity' as a game mechanic
I also hate when horror games basically screams at you to "Be scared now!!!1!" including things like:
Player character breathing heavily when they see something you're supposed to scared of.
Camera effects such as shaky cam, blurry cam, blood on camera or 'insanity vision'.
A monster screaming in your face
A loud jumpscare music sting
Now, I know what you're thinking, "Dirt_Owl, do you even like horror games at all then?"
The answer is no. No I do not.
Jump scares only work because you're already feeling tense.
arguably because you know a jumpscare could come up
I mean there's also plenty of horror monsters that don't use jumpscares or they're at least clearly established as scary well before any jump scare. The Thing has a couple jump scares but your scared of the monster well before they come into play, same with Alien, actually the first Halloween as well. You don't think Micheal Myers is just some ugly dude until a jumpscare happens.