Necromancer G Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 I play many scary games. Once I was playing eternal darkess and the game blacked out. I found out it was progammed into the game. But seriously many of these games dont bother me. This is only because the malaria pills the army gives you to prevent it, one of the more extreme side effects are night terrors. You eventually begin to forget about fear and more about what if. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sangel2525 Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 RE: not really scary, as has been said it's more shock-scares, like Friday the 13th, where you know somethings gonna happen so it's more the suspense building up that scares you. Silent Hill: also not particularly "scary" I would catagorize it as "hellishly freaky", the game tries to show you a little weirdness, and then go, "oh yeah? you think that was weird? check out THIS!!" It's just a lot of stuff that you can't even believe that you're seeing. Then it goes further, and further, until you really think you'll lose your mind. Fatal Frame: this is where fear comes into play. You don't get guns, you don't even get a stick ala Silent Hill, no, you get stuck in a creepy old, truly dark, house with nothing but an enchanted camera to fend off pissed ghosts. It's funny that if you try to tell someone about this horrifically scary game you played, where you're a girl in a house who takes pictures of ghosts, they will probably laugh in your face. But, this game seriously, blows at least the other two away in sheer terror. If they do laugh in your face, let them borrow the game, tell them to play it late at night.... then hide in their closet, and as they are walking around in the dark, jump out and grab 'em! See if they laugh about it then! OK seriously don't do that. On some levels I do totally agree here. I really got sucked into horror games a while back. The best ones are the ones where you feel the most powerless. Honestly while I really do enjoy Resident Evil, I don't consider it much of a horror game. When you play Resident Evil for the very, very first time without knowing what's going on does have an eerie feel. However once you learn about genetic experiments in order to create biological weapons. It becomes less horror more sci-fi. Silent Hill on the other hand is pure horror, I remember playing the playstation version for the first time and loving it. The reason I loved it, is because I had absolutely no idea what was going on. It was based in the supernatural, where as Resident Evil focuses more on science. With the supernatural you never know what to expect. I remember getting a little freaked after my first I guess, "cross over" in the school when first playing Silent Hill. I loved the sequels, though okay 4 was iffy. But the second game had such an amazing, yet disturbing story it did unsettle me just a tad. Fatal Frame is really spooky in that all you get is a camera! No weapons! The best way to freak someone out playing a horror game is to take power away from them. Fatal frame did a good job with this, and it did have an eerie feel. Personally I like Silent Hill above all because the story just kind of hooked me, and unsettled me at the same time. There's also a bunch of older games on the PC that names elude me. There was Clock Tower, which was great! With the Scissor-Man. All you could really do was hide, and hope he didn't find you, that was brilliant. I wish I could remember the names of other titles, but I've always loved horror games if they're done right. Just like how I love horror movies, and novels if they're done right. Hack and slash, aka slashers are a genre of their own, and rarely creepy. But horror is the stuff that kind of unsettles you for a while, not so much leaving cheap one second scares, but more so a lingering unsettling feel. The kicker is this can be done with minimal gore if the author/director is clever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blacksnake89 Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Scariest game I ever played is a toss up between Condemned: Criminal Origins or believe it or not Oblivion. Not vanilla Oblivion my friend completed a mod called Shadows of the Necropolis and it's really freaky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halororor Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I just bought project zero 2 for the PS2. Anybody know if it's any good. I haven't started playing yet as during day you can't see ANYTHING on the screen, it's just too dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palpenious Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 I was going to mention Clock Tower, but figured I should keep it relatively short. Clock Tower was a creepy game which didn't give you any weapons either, the second gave you a gun, but I never got too far in that. System Shock was supposedly one of the scariest, but I never got to play it. Echo Night was another really scary PS2 game, very reminiscent of Fatal Frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forgottensteel Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 I think a good horror game is F.E.A.R just the amount of jumps you get from it are great! ^^ Great fun to play in the alone in the dark you get so pulled into it. Alone in the dark is another good one. Just when your climbing a cabble and it snaps sending you halfway down a building, or climbing up a winch as a helicpter dangles on loose metal is always a heart pounding experiance! At lest in my case anyway ^^ Resident evil 4 and the remake for GC are good ones to (but sometimes the scares arn't great i have to admit that) But definatly having a zombie burst through the door and grab you when you least expect it (RE: Remake) or the door you just blocked being toren down by a chainsaw weilding nut that just seems to eat bullets like nothing on earth (Re4) can really make you panic. I remember when a zombie burst through the door when i was Chris in the remake, he missed me but gave me a hell of a scare! @.@ Haunting ground is another good one, being when the main character goes into panic mode and wont stop running and being in a place full of psychos and having to hide from them (Word to the wise, DONT hide in the iron maiden...you could probably guess why) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxSilverHeartxX Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Oooo! Resident evil rocks! Resident Evil 4 is the best in my opinion, it's so....different! (And Leon is awesome!! xD ) I used to be so scared of it though! Maybe cause the first time I played it I was 9... LOL! Especially the Regenerators, man those things are creepy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jojo man Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 I've never played the Resident Evil games, so I can't really give an opinion about them. But F.E.A.R. was really creepy. Doom3 was as well, but it never moved past the "Monsters jumping out of the shadows" approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BunnySnatcher Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 i guess the scariest games i ever played would be bioshock, eternal darkness, and F.E.A.R F.E.A.R and bioshock are probably the scariest though, i dont know i don't get scared easily, oh that reminds me! my favorite bioshock video :woot: you might want to turn up your sound to medium no its not a trick video were some freaky image of a zombie appears and screams loud its just plain funny :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forgottensteel Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Oooo! Resident evil rocks! Resident Evil 4 is the best in my opinion, it's so....different! (And Leon is awesome!! xD ) I used to be so scared of it though! Maybe cause the first time I played it I was 9... LOL! Especially the Regenerators, man those things are creepy! Got to agree with you there Regenerators are scary! My bros terrified by the things....but try taking on the things with the first rifle you get and its a whole different story. I hate when you get to the prison and one of them jumps you, their breathing is so freaky! @.@ I think U3 (IT) is another thing thats scary in RE4, and the worse part is you get timed when you hit all the switches!! Man that parts scary sometimes! ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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