Re: GDC 2008 almost here!!
Agreed - I prefer implied menace than actual in-your-face blood and guts and gore. I like a balance though; I don't want to be thinking something truly horrific and disturbing is happening because sometimes the implied event is more upsetting than witnessing it firsthand. Y'know, screams in the background or the door closing just as so and so is advancing on a cornered victim...imagination runs wild and there's never any closure, so to speak...
When I first read about Alan Wake I did just think "oh look - fiancee goes missing, world turns a bit weird and here is our hero running around with a flashlight. Yeah, that's new." but now more info has been coming out about it, I really want to find out more and see what the gameplay is like too...