I look at horror and I'm like nope. Screw this, we're going to play Ratchet & Clank and watch his fuzzy ears or watch an episode of the cutest anime I can find. I think my problem is jumpscares. I hate them and they're used almost everywhere for horror. Still scared of Redeads even though they polygonal as hell in OoT. Not all jumpscares, though. Some of them only piss me off like in Dragon's Dogma, there are random events that can happen. Guess what one is? A chimera leaping at you. Guess what I was doing at the time? One of the many escort quests and this one would give you a pretty nifty sword that's apparently only purchasable at "stage 6" of the game. I'm only on stage 1, but kinda of over-leveled -- I say kind of since even at level 30 to 40 at barely chapter 2 of the game, enemies aren't super easy, but they're not super hard... some of them are even tough like the random bandits who can 2 shot you for no reason... Getting Final Fantasy XIII vibes here -- 'cause there's so many goddamn quests and places to explore. Anyway, I digress. Once that chimera leap at me, only a, "Oh, for ****'s sake..." was all I could think about, and then an *** whooping occurred for the chimera. Luckily, I think the NPC got stuck or ran away to a safe location, so he wouldn't have to stick around like all dumb NPCs, but still... Really, Mr. Chimera? Really? And in broad freaking daylight. I think even one of the traveling Pawns you could hire was around and helped me give him a righteous smackdown along with my 3 other Pawns.
Atmosphere, however, is fine and I like them since you get this creepy feeling that slowly builds, disturbing you as you venture one, but not really "shocking" you. Something like traveling at night in Dragon's Dogma, the hospital in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain -- I really want to see Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions make a horror game that's all atmospherically disturbing --, maybe The Deadly Premonition -- I don't remember it since watched bits and pieces of it --, Bloodborne, Majora's Mask, Tokyo Ghoul's kinda of there, and maybe Pandora's Tower... eh... That one's not a horror game.