i think that more survival horror games should have an disabled main character in some manner. Think about it, most of em are about making the main character feel vulnerable and weak, as well as trying as best you can to manage resources. I have never played a single survival horror game in my entire life, but i have had type 1 diabetes for almost my entire life, and let me tell you in an zombie apocalypse i would likely be one of the first to die with the stress of having to handle my blood sugar alongside keeping myself fed and not eaten, playing as an 6 ft tall perfect specimen is probably much easier and way less scary than playing as an person paralyzed from the waist down, it might be scarier to have some spooky monster chase you if you are deaf and unable to hear the monster coming for your ass, unable to pinpoint its location in the dark, or the opposite, only able to hear the monster but never even able to physically see it because you are blind. Fighting an monster is a much scarier task if you have only one or even less arms, surviving in the wasteland with all those rusty sharp metal objects is a hundred times more scary if your immune system has been weakened and a single cut or cough might kill you, from an objective standpoint having an disabled protagonist should be a more scary experience and yet i cannot think of a single survival horror game where the protagonist has any disability at all, what the heck this is an golden opportunity
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i think that more survival horror games should have an disabled main character in some manner. Think about it, most of em are about making the main character feel vulnerable and weak, as well as trying as best you can to manage resources. I have never played a single survival horror game in my entire life, but i have had type 1 diabetes for almost my entire life, and let me tell you in an zombie apocalypse i would likely be one of the first to die with the stress of having to handle my blood sugar alongside keeping myself fed and not eaten, playing as an 6 ft tall perfect specimen is probably much easier and way less scary than playing as an person paralyzed from the waist down, it might be scarier to have some spooky monster chase you if you are deaf and unable to hear the monster coming for your ass, unable to pinpoint its location in the dark, or the opposite, only able to hear the monster but never even able to physically see it because you are blind. Fighting an monster is a much scarier task if you have only one or even less arms, surviving in the wasteland with all those rusty sharp metal objects is a hundred times more scary if your immune system has been weakened and a single cut or cough might kill you, from an objective standpoint having an disabled protagonist should be a more scary experience and yet i cannot think of a single survival horror game where the protagonist has any disability at all, what the heck this is an golden opportunity
i am soup, with too many ideas (all of them very spicy) who has made sufficient homebrew material and character to last an thousand human lifetimes