I've heard people say that on various forums as well, "you can't make a scary game with the vets, anymore, they're too OP". I never understood this logic. If the game's atmosphere is legitimately creepy, I don't think playing as a strong character will make much of a difference as long as the ammo is scarce (case in point: both Revelations games did a good job in the scares department despite playing as seasoned vets), and the point of a survival horror game is not to scare the character, it's to scare the player. Sure having a frightened newbie protagonist helps with the tension, but would playing as a Chris clone (or Heather Mason, the lone vet of the SH series)
really have made
this any less scary (provided Lisa was smart enough to take his weapons away after kidnapping him, which I can only surmise she would have)? I doubt it: