Talk:Pale Luna/@comment-4643170-20140317022737/@comment-24704351-20140324195047

If someone is referring to video game pastas one would assume they're familiar with the most well-known example of that genre. Speaking for myself, I'm probably older than the average creepypasta fan (28), and the last video game console I owned was SNES. Video game pastas don't really do much for me, especially ones based on stuff that came out after 1998 or so. A lot of it works by preying on childhood nostalgia, causing one to mentally retreat to a period in their life when they were naive and innocent and might not have picked up some creepy detail of a game or show. And reading about something sinister lurking just below the surface of something they loved dearly as a child makes the reader re-experience the vulnerability of a child, when you were a lot easier to scare. It doesn't really work so well on things that, if you experienced them at all, it was when you were an older teenager or adult.