With how open and mysterious space is, how come space horror games are not so wanted?

Open isn't the right word.
Space is empty.
Like, actually empty.
>The universe is estimated to be roughly 99.999999999999% empty of matter.
You also can't have sound in space. Zero gravity is also a complicated aspect to work around.
It's not viable for a game.

>>715214441 (OP)
So that's it. What we some kinda dead space.

astrphysicists are a bunch of retards/jews making up random bullshit that gets disproven at first opportunity

space is scary because it's big and empty. kinda like elden ring

CHAOS

>>715214662
zero gravity isnt but breached vacuums and what ever made up thing that lies in the void is

>>715214441 (OP)
Yeah yeah we already heard it

god bless the JWST (aryan) for demonstrating what a bunch of retards these fags are

lol imagine taking astrophysics seriously

Kubrick (jew, antisemite) faked the moonlanding for NASA (masons)

>>715214441 (OP)
complete crock of clickbait shit

>>715214662
you're literally describing open world games. what is this thread about? fippy bippy?

Depends on what you mean by space horror. Plenty of games already did your typical sci-fi horror. Realistic space games make space too boring for horror to really work. On the other hand you can craft certain scenarios that are creepy or maybe scary by suddenly encountering something you've never seen before. Anyone that has played Elite probably remembers the first time they were interdicted by a Thargoid.

>>715215253
wasted 5 minutes reading that slop.

>>715214662
>Space is empty.
>Like, actually empty.
So exactly like modern open world titles. Not seeing the problem here.

>>715216779
damn, took you five minutes? When's the last time you read a book? You sometimes have to sound out the words when you read a post here?

>>715214441 (OP)
>it takes hundreds of years traveling at max speed to leave the starting zone
Terrible game design.
Space isn't really a setting anyway. You are on something in space, but the space part is not important.

>>715216779
thanks for saving me 5 minutes

Interplanetary travel seems cool until you realize it would be exactly the same as going to different places on one planet but with exponentially more contrivance

>>715214441 (OP)
every planet is trapped in a giant void in space dipshit, it's called space

>>715214791
>be ancient greek
>get sick
>doctors bloodlet me
>just keeps getting worse
>see a different expert
>turns out its my yellow humours
>now praying to hera for a change in my stars, hope everything will be okay
This is the level of expertise today's astrophysicists are at if I'm being honest.

>>715217012
>planetary travel seems cool until you realize it would be exactly the same as going to different places on one planet but with exponentially more contrivance

>>715216751
>Anyone that has played Elite probably remembers the first time they were interdicted by a Thargoid.
And the second time, where they were sent back to the insurance claim screen.

>>715214662
It's a video game, it doesn't have to be realistic with 99% of space being empty.

>>715214441 (OP)
Wait a minute that symbol....

There's anywhere from 100 to 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone.
I know most of them are probably stars that are either too small or too big, or have only a few planets or none, but at the very least there's hundreds of millions that are the right size, the right amount of planets, and of those millions probably have a planet in the goldilocks zone that could be like Earth. The moment I learned about this when I was a kid back in the 90s was the most mind blowing thing I had ever learned, changed my entire perspective on life in general.

I used to just lay in bed at night with my eyes open as my mind went black and I just imagined the massive void and scale of space and how much there was out there and that we are just trapped on Earth without any real ability to ever find out, certainly not in my lifetime or many generations after me and possibly never.

>>715214441 (OP)
this do be buckbreacks the >oh my science!
fags

>>715215253
better than most stellaris stories

>>715214995
kek

>>715214441 (OP)
we dont get a lot of science fiction games in general. even though the military sci-fi genre works really well with vidya

but we do get science fantasy garbage all the time because gen x niggers and millennials cant allow star wars to die

>>715214441 (OP)
is this a warhammer 40k thread

>>715218875
Is that a question or a statement?

>>715216779
got to the 2nd line and realized that shit was austistic fanfiction

>>715218256
>anywhere from 100 to 400 billion stars
That's a pretty fucking huge margin of error don't you think. I don't think I can take anything from these people seriously when they can't even narrow that down any further.

Earth was banished to the void when god realized how fucked up it would be.

>>715214791
>some journalist or literal AI bot writes a clickbait headline
>"why are scientists like this?"

>>715219372
I keep fucking telling people this shit is real.

You can ignore the entire AI blurb below the original post if you want, it's just sensationalizing it but I think it's poignant you can ask an AI to regurgitate other people's work and random people will just ignore it entirely because of AI.

>>715218256
That sheer scope of the universe is what makes the fact that there is no intelligent life (or even complex life) out there all the more horrifying

>>715219245
Bud, it literally takes light over 87,000 years to move from one side of our galaxy to the other. Yeah, we can't count every single star in our galaxy because we can't see even a small tiny fraction of the stars in our galaxy, all we can do is point our telescopes into the sky, see oh there's this many stars in this area, and in this area this many stars, and then get a rough average as to the density of stars in this area and calculate that for the entire galaxy. Of course there's a huge error range, the center of our galaxy is one massive black hole and around that is the massive galactic bulge which contains a massive number of stars. Not to mention the spiral arms themselves which we can only see a fraction of with telescopes.

There's clearly hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy alone. There's more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth.

>>715219245
no, it's just a big range
they're not saying they think there's 250 billion stars with a margin of error from 100 to 400 billion
there are different estimations based on different equations that we're making to extrapolate from the portion of the galaxy we can see
it's not just looking up and counting

>>715219612
or that there is so much intelligent life out there, some of it billions of years old, but they are all trapped in their solar systems or in a cluster of solar systems since maybe relativistic travel is impossible. That is honestly more scary, that there could be loads of other life out there but it's all segmented and trapped where it sprang up forever.

>>715219761
>or that there is so much intelligent life out there, some of it billions of years old
if there were, we should have seen their signals

space is fake and gay

>>715219514
I'm not gonna ignore the bottom writeup because it's AI, I'll ignore it because it's 5x as long.

>>715219846
That shit could be decayed or scrambled to the galactic winds as soon as they leave their solar bubbles. Interstellar space is much more energetic and active than was first thought as our probes have gotten their first small taste of it.

>>715214441 (OP)
>scientists say

>>715219982
maybe, but it seems kinda unlikely that there would be intelligent life out there for billions of years and we just never heard from them at all
if there were actually ancient advanced alien civilizations you'd think at least a few of them would be sending extremely loud signals to make sure other species heard them eventually

>>715220171
Unless they don't want to invite predatory species to their corner of the galaxy. Or their tech developed in a completely different direction from ours.

Why isn't there a Subnautica game set in space that isn't a comedy game like Brethedge? The first third of Dead Space 3 when you're still in orbit around Tau Volantis is one of my favorite experiences in gaming. We need more of that.

>>715220261
if there were actually large numbers of aliens going back for billions of years, odds are that at least a few of them would not be operating under dark forest hypothesis (as we aren't), and many of them would develop radio technology (as we did)
like it's possible they're just wizards or something, but the use of electromagnetic waves for long distance communication seems like it would be a popular path

>>715220314
have you played outer wilds? not exactly the same as subnautica (it's a puzzle game no crafting) but you might like it

>>715220465
There is a non-zero chance that Earth has been blockaded from communication or blacklisted from contact by whatever other intelligence is out there. We are the India of space, and have been rangebanned from the galactic internet.

>>715220841
>forced 22 minute restart, unable to soak up any atmosphere and always rushed by the bullshit timer
miss me with that shit
wake me up when its timerless, no i dont care 'if the story requires iiiiit', it doesnt and thats bullshit

>>715214441 (OP)
>other galaxies are full of life we're uncontacted niggers banging rocks together in the darkest part of space africa

>>715220904
that's probably the best solution, prime directive

>>715220996
>yfw we ARE the gayniggers from outer space

>>715220965
ok well your loss I guess

>>715220841
I've been teetering on the edge of trying it. It looks like a really interesting story, but I've had the ending spoiled for me already. I am getting older and seem to be gravitating to less action oriented games, but I just haven't had that push to play it.

>>715214441 (OP)
>giant void in space
isn't this just the universe?!

>2019+6
>developers still don't understand why Freelancer was good
It made space INTERESTING.

>>715214441 (OP)
Interest in space is correlated with high IQ and interest in horror is correlated with low IQ.

>>715221161
I dunno how much of the ending has been spoiled for you but it's really about the journey. Figuring out the logic and how everything connects. Also the DLC is very good doubt you got that spoiled. It's a weird game you can only play once.

>>715221385
this is true, i get panic attacks every time i try to read some of this space shit :V

>>715214662
actually, it isn't. there are a lot of background radiation and quarks and other bullshit
it would actually take infinite amount of energy to create even a tiny space where there truly isn't anything

>>715221385
That doesn't make sense because space is horrifying

>>715215253
I'm glad I skipped ahead otherwise I might of read a bunch of worthless nonsense for no reason

>>715221647
It isn't, when you understand it.
There's literally nothing around, no way for anything to hide. It's trivial to have perfect information of everything within a fathomable distance from you at all times. There's nothing more simple and comforting than a space where you can truly be aware of everything.

>>715219761
>Intelligent life exists
>however they are all extremely stupid compared to humans
Predicting this now

>>715214441 (OP)
>a giant void in space
SPACE IS THE VOID
ASTRONOMY IS AS FAKE AND GAY AS ASTROLOGY, AND INFINITELY MORE REDDIT

fuckin scientists and their made up bullshit

>>715221806
How the fuck does the endless nothing not freak you out? ITS FUCKED

>>715221893
tesla fanboyism is the eternal mark of the pseud

>>715221806
My man
There is no way to track the full range of literally infinite range around your position. It's why we can't even track asteroids that might hit us until they're almost hitting us.

There is no more vulnerable place than floating around in the vacuum.

>>715221385
I'm interested in the bone chilling horror I feel in a space games when you jump into a system and the star (or god forbid, a black hole) suddenly fills your whole screen. What's my problem? Am I retarded? Am I secretly a genius? What does my subconscious know that I don't?

>>715214441 (OP)
>>715214662
the reason why we haven't seen a galactic government is suspected to be because races that were that advanced have left this universe in favor for another. It's not talked about because the theory is not as popular as other theories but if this theory is real it would explain alot from both a scientific and religious aspect. on the downside it would also mean that this universe is scheduled for demolishing

>>715214441 (OP)
I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS OUT THERE

>>715214441 (OP)
This headline is misleading, it's not earth but our entire galaxy what's sitting in a void of space

>>715222112
>There is no way to track the full range of literally infinite range around your position
Of course not. But you can be more aware of your surroundings in space than anywhere else.
>It's why we can't even track asteroids that might hit us until they're almost hitting us.
Pretty much entirely bullshit. Even to the extent that it's true, it's very much ONLY true for literal asteroids. Anything even vaguely alive or active will radiate energy that you just can't hide.

If your true fear is just that you might get hit by a rock sure, but random death to something so arbitrary is an everpresent risk here on earth. And a much larger risk here on earth. Hope you don't ever walk near a road.
>>715222150
Black holes really are the one truly terrifying thing you can do with space but they really are pretty hard to just accidentally stumble into.

>>715222403
roving gangs of black holes looking to suck up any gimmedats they can get their grubby event horizons on
don't you dare relax

>>715219514
>>715219896
this

are we trapped in a giant void, because we just are, okay?
I love it when they don't give any proof.

>>715214441 (OP)
Omg how am i gonna get to work tomorrow

>>715222926
did you read the article or something?
or are you complaining that a headline written by a journalist doesn't have enough proof

>>715214662
>>715217024
>>715221306
>>715221893
I've read the paper this article is referring to, the point is that earth and our entire galactic sector is sitting in a pocket of space devoid of matter in comparison to the rest of the universe which is much more dense with matter. The headline is retarded

>>715222579

>>715216779
>>715221779
faggot patrol out tonight

>>715222403
Nothing. The universe outside of Earth is just a backdrop, placed there by our creator(s) to make for a plausible setting for our existence. We aren't meant to go out there, because it is irrelevant to their intentions for us. We probably aren't meant to try to figure out quantum physics either, and the reason it seems so fucked up with shit like entanglement is because everything at that level was just jury-rigged to make things work.

>>715223680
why does the backdrop have so much useless stuff in it?

youre retarded if you think we can observe things 10000000000 miles away

>>715223743
Why? Its literaly just capturing photons

I just want sentient alien life to be confimed in my lifetime

>>715225109
there comes a time in a boys life where he has to learn that just like santa claus, photons and indeed all forms of radiation aren't real

>>715223743
We can, but they're events from years/centuries ago

>>715225469
Best bet was finding fossils of simple microscopic life forms in the Mars mission samples but that was canceled.

>>715222079
When electric universe theory becomes accepted as the best working model you're the exact kind of pseud retard that'll pretend you knew it would be all along for reddit updoots.

>>715214441 (OP)
This theory has been kicking around for awhile.

>earth may be trapped in a giant void in space (a giant void)

>>715214441 (OP)
BROTHERS CAN YOU HEAR THE VOICES TOO?

>>715214441 (OP)

ISN'T THAT THE CHAOS SYMBOL FROM WARHAMMER 40K!?