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I think the Graphical progress made it a bit more difficult.
A good part of horror is the stuff you don't see and you often left to fill in the blanks. Fear of the unkown and all that.
This is why these goldsource horror mods remained actually scary. Granted L4D can be scarry too but for completely diffent reasons.
This is why there is this flood of PS1 style games. Less detail allows viewer to fill in the blanks and make scares more effective.
Granted more realistic look can be effective too. Look at FNAF JR's