I really liked the Godzilla one until it got all gay with the trapped dead girlfriend and explaining what the deal with the monster was. Horror in general is more effective when explanation is kept to a minimum and you're left with questions. Questions for which your imagination tries to fill in the blanks and leaves you even more freaked out. So many promising creepypastas are written like conventional set-up -> problem -> resolution stories that fall flat by the end because it's ultimately mystery and unfamiliarity that instills fear. Explanation and resolution completely dispell the fear and remind you "oh yeah, it's just a story".
I really liked the Godzilla one until it got all gay with the trapped dead girlfriend and explaining what the deal with the monster was. Horror in general is more effective when explanation is kept to a minimum and you're left with questions. Questions for which your imagination tries to fill in the blanks and leaves you even more freaked out. So many promising creepypastas are written like conventional set-up -> problem -> resolution stories that fall flat by the end because it's ultimately mystery and unfamiliarity that instills fear. Explanation and resolution completely dispell the fear and remind you "oh yeah, it's just a story".
The concept itself isn't a bad one per se - it was just poorly executed. Godzilla NES was one of the first creepypastas of its kind so I'm willing to be a little bit more lenient to the ending nowadays but it could've been given more mystery without a doubt. A lot of the fun of the story is travelling through these bizarre worlds with twisted, odd and sometimes mundane creatures with Zach and trying to "figure" things out without really figuring anything out about it at all. The story felt kind of tacked on at the end as an afterthought.
Is Creepypasta even still good? I remember back in the day I really liked Slender Man (even though most takes fucked him over and made him boring, which is why he lost relevancy) and a few others were interesting, but then it kinda jumped ship, especially when channels like Retsupurae and Bad Creepypasta came about and people started wanting them to read intentional parodypastas.
Seems recently the Backrooms has reignited the flame but just... somehow it doesn't feel the same.
I used to really like ritualpastas though, like 11 miles or the devil game. What I like is most of those felt like they could be a real thing, whereas most pastas are obviously fake.
What even counts as creepypasta? Is it just any horror story written on the internet?
Maybe I'm just jaded, maybe my standards are just too high, but I don't think I've came across any good horror media online. There's a few with some decent ideas but nothing that really pulled off anything I'd consider overall "good."
rezzing a dead thread I guess, but I have to get it out. I recently listened to Borrasca for the first time (Creepcast for some of it, MrCreepyPasta for the rest of it, then I actually read the 5th chapter on my own) and I'm still fucked up about it. I was expecting some kind of goofy Slenderman bullshit but then I got fucking human trafficking and incest and rape and abject cruelty and it's just stuck with me since. The feeling will fade but now every time I think about it I'm all shook up and disgusted. It's a great story but I literally cannot recommend anyone else to read it. Anyone else triggered by Borrasca?
rezzing a dead thread I guess, but I have to get it out. I recently listened to Borrasca for the first time (Creepcast for some of it, MrCreepyPasta for the rest of it, then I actually read the 5th chapter on my own) and I'm still fucked up about it. I was expecting some kind of goofy Slenderman bullshit but then I got fucking human trafficking and incest and rape and abject cruelty and it's just stuck with me since. The feeling will fade but now every time I think about it I'm all shook up and disgusted. It's a great story but I literally cannot recommend anyone else to read it. Anyone else triggered by Borrasca?
Searched specifically for creepcast on the forum because I just finished the "Pen Pal" episode and it was just as bad, not as in the production or anything, but the story. And that same problem is one I have with many of these more realistic pieces of horror fiction that I personally just label as "Misery porn".
In essence, the main character participates in a pen pal project as a 5 year old, releasing a balloon with basic information or whatever on it so they can get a pen pal for the duration of the project. This escalates into the protagonist having a gay pedo stalker from 5 to ~15. Protag has some run ins with the stalker without knowing, the story is written from the perspective of a now adult protagonist looking back on events.
The stalker presumably kills his cat (no overt mention, heavily implied), kidnapped his childhood best friend, kills a love interest (who is also best friend's sister), keeps the kidnapped friend alive for 2 years doing God knows what.
Then after those 2 years the stalker locks himself with the childhood friend (who is now dressed in protag's clothes and is overall made to look like the protagonist) into a coffin and via a setup makes the father of this best friend bury himself together with the childhood best friend alive in a coffin where the best friend tears out the stalker's throat who then dies but is unable to get out so eventually dies in there.
It's kind of hard to put it into words but I'll try:
I will defend creators' and writers' and the like right to write and create any story they want but there's just something about this sort of story that just makes me hate it.
It's well written and all but the subject matter along with that sort of ending is just godawful to me.
More as in: There's nothing "fun" about it, no fun speculation, no fun "what ifs", no fun creature or supernatural element to speculate about, nothing except "Yep this is fucked up and happened, the end.".
For all the complaining people do about urbanspook for example, that whole series has room for speculation to the "artist" and everything. Pen Pals and Borrasca don't have that. It's open and shut. It's awfulness and that's it.
And I fucking hate it, purely because of how realistic some of these stories get. These are things that, while maybe not to the same extent, happen. And that just makes it so much worse.
The world already is an evil and dogshit place, I personally really don't want to distract myself via fiction that's so realistic in it's evil that it might as well just be a true story if that makes sense.
I never consider "misery porn" as Creepypasta because it resembles fucked up fap fetish porn pretending to be horror/exploitation films (The Human Centipede Trilogy, Salo, Nekromantic, etc.) - in fact most "creepypastas" aren't actually creepypastas at all - they're spooky stories that stole the term from 4chan.
For all the complaining people do about urbanspook for example, that whole series has room for speculation to the "artist" and everything. Pen Pals and Borrasca don't have that. It's open and shut. It's awfulness and that's it.
That's exactly how I feel about Urbanspook. It could be a lot better but the author is clearly trying to do more than just make people sick even if his technique needs improvement (that and the Fucktoy Cory episode is a reference to OneyPlays which floors me every time I see it - it's actually a good reference).
To lighten the mood a bit how about I share one of my favourite actual creepypastas from 4chan's /fit/ board?
The only pasta I've ever read that I thought was decently well-written (in prose and structure) is Ted the Caver. There's some weak points near the end but overall I love the slow burn, it's a long pasta that works, and it keeps the mystery all the way. Exploring the cave is a fun and interesting read even before the creepy stuff starts, the writer really makes you believe he's an enthusiastic spelunker who is experienced and knowledgeable about caves
The first time I read it, which I think was the early 2000s (this is an old ass pasta), it was on its own website and the title was just "The Cave," I think
Edit: Yeah the Godzilla NES creepypasta is great because of all the good work put into the images, but the story falls flat at the end with the muh autistic girlfriend who wasn't really my girlfriend but she was or could've been or I don't know, and the demon or whatever killed her, then showed up in the game cartridge somehow. The unfinished sequel which it seems is totally dead now goes down the predictable and unoriginal route of "mysterious organization researching this mysterious weird thing"
The best part of the final few episodes is the image of Solomon with "STILL THE BEST 1973" underneath. Totally unexplained and pretty funny. The best parts of it (other than the huge amount of "gameplay" images) are the TV screens and Face questions, which are also unexplained and pretty much window dressing
I really liked the Godzilla one until it got all gay with the trapped dead girlfriend and explaining what the deal with the monster was. Horror in general is more effective when explanation is kept to a minimum and you're left with questions. Questions for which your imagination tries to fill in the blanks and leaves you even more freaked out. So many promising creepypastas are written like conventional set-up -> problem -> resolution stories that fall flat by the end because it's ultimately mystery and unfamiliarity that instills fear. Explanation and resolution completely dispell the fear and remind you "oh yeah, it's just a story".
The concept itself isn't a bad one per se - it was just poorly executed. Godzilla NES was one of the first creepypastas of its kind so I'm willing to be a little bit more lenient to the ending nowadays but it could've been given more mystery without a doubt. A lot of the fun of the story is travelling through these bizarre worlds with twisted, odd and sometimes mundane creatures with Zach and trying to "figure" things out without really figuring anything out about it at all. The story felt kind of tacked on at the end as an afterthought.
I think it's like UrbanSpook where someone is good at something, in this case making sprites, and they need some kind of mechanism to show off their work so they put it in a flawed story. I like the Godzilla creepypasta but the ending is terrible and nothing that was seen in the game mattered or made any sense. Why is his dead GF and the demon that haunted her in this game? What has it got to do with Godzilla and why do all of the creatures seem to be real beings trapped in this game? What was the other demon demon statue about that was seen in a temple next to the main demon? What was the point of anything that happened at all?
Searched specifically for creepcast on the forum because I just finished the "Pen Pal" episode and it was just as bad, not as in the production or anything, but the story. And that same problem is one I have with many of these more realistic pieces of horror fiction that I personally just label as "Misery porn".
I just listened to that the other night. I love the Creepcast so far, but yeah Pen Pal went full Borrasca and just became horrific because of how realistic it is. The writing is top-notch but ugh, yeah, it's just miserable. Good to read at least once, but a super downer.
i thought the russian sleep experiment was a cool idea but it makes no sense to lock them in a gas chamber instead of putting them in restraints and using needles and they would have shot them by the point they started smearing shit across the windows
Was about to start new thread but then found existing one.
Personally I like NES Godzilla but I hate that the new monster that gets unlocked to beat the bad guy isn't a Godzilla form/variant, but a new monster entirely. That feels wrong to me.
Backrooms is on my mind right now tho, and....
So I was thinking, "is there a Creepypasta concept that doesn't get turned lame?"
Like, I can forgive the original 4chan post being just some crap a dude made up in like ten minutes, but... when you "noclip out of reality" why is it sending you to endless yellow hallways? Think about when you noclip in a game or go to a "glitch world" in old Metroid games for example... they're weird because of how the game is attempting to make sense of the data. The Backrooms is.... actually kinda normal and boring.
This is really less a complaint on the initial 4chan posts and more on that the later attempts to expand it wind up being rather lazy and putting no thought into it.
How difficult would it be to revive and rejuvenate our beloved Operator?
I am looking to approach a new variant of the story. I am not looking to bastardize it for zoomers, rather I am looking for ways to give it more meat on its bones; give it an actual reason to incite fear in any of its readers rather than it being a tall man who appears in photographs near children.
