Talk:BEN Drowned/@comment-24466828-20150103214447/@comment-24466828-20150106212704

@Masterofkirby

Just because a lot of effort was put into it doesn't mean it deserves a 10/10. In that paragraph, you mentioned that my points are all valid so if all these points are valid then maybe it deserves less then 10/10. Even though a lot of effort went into it, a story should be considered 10/10 because of how flawless it is. Since we're both agreeing with my points then this is obviously not flawless.

That's why I think it's overrated. People call it one of the scariest creepypastas of all time. I think that the scares are okay because there aren't lots of tense moments. Most of them are glitches. NES Godzilla had more tense monents because it had parts with the monsters chasing him and I thought it did better with paranoia and atmospheric because in this game the narrator can walk away but in NES Godzilla, the narrator couldn't walk away as you find out in Chapter 8.

The reason I don't think Ben Drowned's footage is superb is because it really doesn't scare me. It just seems like a montage of glitches. NES Godzilla's footage really doesn't look that fake. It may not be as fancy as Ben Drowned but even though the footage looks better graphically, it doesn't do well with the scares. The screenshots provided more scares then that glitch montage/video evidence did.

NES Godzilla had more variety then this one did. It's story line was much better because the "dead person haunting a video game" plot didn't seem that original to me. But NES Godzilla's story had more effort put into it. Even though Ben Drowned's story was longer, it doesn't mean it's better. What matters is what has the better storyline. NES Godzilla's story seemed much better in my opinion.

Also, when you mentioned realism, I really don't see how unrealism makes a story worse. What creepypasta out there has nothing unrealistic about it? Ben Drowned had some unrealism too. Like a dead boy's ghost being in a video game. If you don't think that's unrealistic then nothing is. But NES Godzilla also had paranormal beings in the videogame. And don't say that the ending of NES Godzilla made it more unrealistic because they both offer the same concept. Ben was in the narrators dreams here so that's the same concept. Paranorml beings affecting the narrator from the outside. Ben Drowned used this concept by having Ben appear in hs dreams. Nes Godzilla used this concept by having Red affect the narrator from the outside.

The last thing I want to say is why do you feel this story has less effort? Even if you think it was because of the screenshots then I can easily counter that by saying the story was the shining part and they clearly put all their effort into writing it.

So I think NES Godzilla is the better one because of this.