Scary Games

When Resident Evil first came out on PS1 it scared the shit out of me. The first time a dog jumped through a window, I almost peed my pants. I also didn't know not to waste ammo, so I spent a lot of time running away from zombies or trying to kill them with my knife. Nothing really scared me since then. Well...maybe that one room in Silent Hill 3...you know...the one with the "mirror". *shudders*

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Originally Posted by Aces & Eights

what games have you been weary to play alone?

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Tales of Symphonia and Grandia Xtreme. Bored the hell out of me.

English screwiness aside:

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Originally Posted by SXA

The only game that actually caused me to stop playing was AVP2, marine campaign. Those were scary as shit.

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I don't remember part 2 that much but the first one scared the living hell out of me. First time I played it was with the music off and at about 2am, so the only sounds were the motion detector and the hiss of either steam or hiding Aliens. Once it sunk in how easy it was to die the atmosphere hit me that much more (plus this was back when you could only save between levels), some of those levels made me never want to play in the dark again.

I asked about scary games in the Zack & Wiki thread but this discussion doesn't belong there. Mods, maybe bring it over here?

In the meantime...

Dreadout looks very fucking cool:



More info about Dreadout (which just finished it's indiegogo campaign, and should be out in November)

This article at Bloody Disgusting mentions a few other promising looking scary games:

Outlast:



It's been described as "Amnesia meets [REC] meets Mirror’s Edge meets Cloverfield"


The Evil Within:



It's the new Shinji Mikami joint, and it'll be a split-gen release sometime in 2014.


Daylight:



It's an Unreal Engine 4 game that is described as "a procedurally generated psychological thriller".


There's already a thread for Among The Sleep (the one where you're a baby) and Mech mentioned a bunch of other promising new stuff in the other thread.

Are you guys looking forward to any of these?

For me it's Siren.

It's a very very difficult game, but if you get into it and look past the flaws it's incredible.

Reminded me of Uzumaki - which would make tremendous game if you could hold up the tone of the comics.

Silent Hill 1&2 are the two most scary games ever, IMO.

I just beat the GOG version of System Shock 2. Brilliant game with some tense, scary, lonely atmosphere. Plus, some of those hybrids come out of nowhere, and those fucking spiders..ugh! Those things were horrible.

PSX Doom with the new, non-MIDI, dark and atmospheric soundtrack had a pretty damn high scare factor.

SNES Clock Tower with the English patch is actually a rather fucked-up, creepy game. I'd recommend it.

Resident Evil 2 has provided me with my biggest game scare to date (Mr. X bursting through the fucking wall after you had just killed him in the previous room...I had to pause the game and take a minute to recover after that).

Friday the 13th on the Commodore 64 was creepy, especially when one of your fellow campers would get randomly killed and a shot of their head with a machete impaled in it would instantly pop up on-screen accompanied by this super-loud digitized scream. In fact, the tension of waiting for that to happen was the main scare factor of that game.

Anyway, I just read through this thread, and I see all the love Undying gets...it's on GOG now, I might have to pick it up and give it a try.

Is del Toro's game still in development? I think that was with THQ...

Fatal Frame 1 on Xbox is still the best scary game.

Fatal Frame 2 was scarier than 1

Here is a collection of TNL threads about recent and upcoming horror games:

Damned
Dreadline
The Evil Within
The Forest
Insane
Miasmata

The search function is not helping much, as I know there are others.

Undying is a cool game, but it isn't really scary.