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Plenty
of other sites carry screen captures from video games, true.
1.
IMAGES AT MY SITE ARE NOT TOO DARK TO SEE
The
first major difference to discuss? I've noticed that many screen
captures at professional gaming sites are far, far too dark.
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So dark that one cannot even make out what is in the image. I
have therefore taken some of the images into photoshop and have
increased the brightness level.
2.
SHOW ME THE BADDIES.
If
you're like I am, you are mainly interested in seeing the creepiest
shots of the game, to get an idea of the sorts of monsters you'll
be fighting.
With
professional gaming sites, you'll have to wade through many irrelevant
screen shots before you see the zombies.
You'll
have to sit through screen captures of empty warehouses, forests,
or sewers. Numerous costume shots of human characters, posed as
though they're Vogue magazine models.
When
Resident Evil 4 came out, how many of you deeply cared
about what the main character, Leon Kennedy, would look like?
Did you honestly care about the color blouse Ashley would be wearing?
Or
were you more interested in seeing what the bad guys would look
like?
You
probably at one point or another found yourself at a professional
gaming site's Resident Evil 4 screen captures section
having to drudge though page after page of snaps of Leon or Ashley
- (and you didn't give a whit about what Leon or Ashley looked
like).
I
have noticed that even some fan sites - maintained by lay persons
- toss in screen captures of everything but the kitchen sink.
They too will make you dig around for pictures of zombies.
3.
SLOW DOWNLOAD TIME
Not
to mention that unless you have a cable connection or DSL, the
graphics-heavy, pretty professional sites take all day to download.
I'm
still using a dial - up connection myself. Usually when I come
to a screen capture page on a professional gaming site, the screen
capture preview images are the last thing to download.
One
has to sit through numerous pop-up ads and wait eons for fancy,
in-page Flash files to download before the snaps even begin to
show up.
Talk
about annoying.
CONCLUSION
And
this is where my humble photo gallery collection of scary video
game screen captures come in. I've culled the web to present you
essentially only with the screen captures containing the bad guys.
In
some cases, if I felt a screen capture showing a locale was very
creepy - say, for instance, a desolate, old church grave yard
- I've included those shots as well. For the most part, though,
the images in my gallery are of zombies and monsters.
The
preview images for all the screen caps on my site are 45 by 45
pixels, and there are no ads on the page to download, so you should
be able to begin viewing the screen capture previews fairly quickly.
Please
keep in mind that at this stage, I do not think I plan on including
screen captures for every single scary game, nor do I
plan on including every single creepy screen capture
for every game that is listed.
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