Silent Hill excluded, what games have you been weary to play alone?
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I just heard about this, the first Clocktower on the Super Famicom, if anyone's played it, is it any good?
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Silent Hill excluded, what games have you been weary to play alone?
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I just heard about this, the first Clocktower on the Super Famicom, if anyone's played it, is it any good?
Wrong board.
But Clock Tower on the Super Famicom is excellent.
Seriously, it's one of the scariest games I've played, and it's a SNES game for Christ's sake.
Pretty short, though.
Ahh fuck me, can someone please move it?
teach me to post drukn again...
The only game that's ever actually given me a scare is Eternal Darkness (Bathtub scene). I've played multiple ResEvils, SH, some other completely forgettable 'scary' games...didn't freak me at all. And I didn't even really enjoy ED's gameplay mechanics...
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. It's not scary most of the time but there's this one mansion that's the freakiest thing I have encountered in a game.
Those fucking masks that chase you after you pick up the key in SMB2. :|
The only game that actually caused me to stop playing was AVP2, marine campaign. Those were scary as shit.
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Originally Posted by Aces & Eights
it's a pretty standard point and click style adventure game. Nice graphics. Some good surprising moments, and some goofy "wree! wree! wree!" BGM while you look at a "scary" image moments.
try playing Clive Barker's Undying in 5.1 surround sound and a big screen TV.... no other game is like it (at least in my experience).
Fatal Frame 2 is a nice, somewhat scary game. It really has the atmosphere part down pat, which is where most of the fright comes from.
I wish that there would be another Clive Barker game. Perhaps turn it into a series. His books could be used for source material. I'm suprised that Undying was never brought to consoles. It seemed to be a perfect fit.Quote:
Originally Posted by TobalRox
Not to say it was a great game by any means(although it was better than it got credit for) but Shadowman was scary as shit.
Undying sold like ass, unfortunately. You know EA. Quality has nothing to do with any of their decisions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Changeling
No doubt about it outside of Silent Hill, Undying is one of the scariest games around. Other that come close:
System Shock 2
Sanitarium
Missing Since January (If you let yourself get into it)
Doom III
Siren seems to be on the Fatal Frame 1/2 level from what I have played.
Siren is scary, but certainly far from good.
I'd have to go with Doom 3. Also, it probably sucks nuts now but Alien Trilogy on the PSone was pretty freaky. The first Resident Evil also had its moments. (Damn dogs!)
Alien Trilogy is great for the soundtrack, but you have to get the sound turned off for the full effect. If you can get your hands on a ps1 mouse, play Alien Resurrection. AVP 1 also works if you have a PC.
Since you mention doom, I like mind on PSX thanks to the music. Should also try it on 64, cause it's about as perfect you can get before 3 came out.
1 more, The Thing.
I'll give another shout out for Undying. That had some seriously messed up moments. Esspecially when you'd see something from the corner of your eye, think nothing of it, and turn to check it out in hopes of a clue... then there would be something to scare the bejesus out of you. I was playing it on my laptop during a blackout... not very bright of me. Like the time I read "Whisperers in the Darkness" during a blackout with a flashlight... on my porch.
Sanitarium is one thats always stuck in my mind. It didn't really scare me, but it left me uneasy, and after playing it I walked home from my friends house at night, and my mind did all the scaring that the game eluded to.
I finally broke down and opened the copy that I picked up for $10.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tain
It's funny how this game almost seems like it doesn't want you to progress anywhere.
I also picked up Obscure yesterday, but I'm not sure yet what I think of it. It was really fun playing it two player for the time that we did, but damn is it hard to get the hang of combat at first.
Doom, but it would have to be in the original low-res format.
No survival horror game has scared me yet. They just make me fall asleep. And A friend and I just finished Obscure. It sucks. I was player one, and you have to babysit your partner the whole time. You're trying to run away from a monster, and doing so makes him go off the screen and probably die. It's an interesting concept that could have been done much better.
i agree. i have both games and have yet to play thru either of them. both because they actually scare me and im not too good at them. i think a lot of the scariness comes from that as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
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*
Tales of Symphonia and Grandia Xtreme. Bored the hell out of me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aces & Eights
English screwiness aside: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.Quote:
Originally Posted by SXA
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.
that Daylight game looks the best.
This. I don't think I finished it because I was tired of my heart rate rising whenever I played it for more than 10 minutes.Quote:
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Aw, you quoting that made me think Shidoshi was back posting.
No way, 1 is the far better Fatal Frame.
Nu uh.
Korly loves Tekken. That really says it all.
I don't think constantly chasing your idiot sister is as scary as being completely alone, but don't get me wrong, I think all 3 of the Fatal Frame games are awesome.
Fuck Nintendo.
Still Doom. It's dark, you have no friends/help in the whole game or a reprieve from the solitude, it has disturbing sounds and enemies can come out of nowhere.
The very idea of ghosts is so silly that I just can't get into it, especially when you tack on a magical camera.
Agreed. The first game is more focused and better paced. It also had the benefit of being unlike anything else in the genre when it came out. Crimson Butterfly was still very good, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Korly
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Outlast is coming to PS4Quote:
Originally Posted by Korly
Wow, don't read the descriptions of any of the games you haven't played. They flat-out tell you most of the ending to Silent Hill 2 in that article!
If someone haven't played SH2 by now, they deserve to be beaten.
I'd rather them just play the game and enjoy it.
It's in my pile of shame...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
Put on your nurse's uniform. Pyramid Head is on his way to your house.
How did you know I have a nurse's uniform?!?
No mention of Condemned or Condemned 2? I thought they were pretty scary. Also Doom 3 in an Event Horizon kind of way.
The first half hour of Doom 3 in the dark with the sound turned up was freaky as hell when it first hit PC, had no idea what to expect.
Resident Evil 1 and the damn dogs once upon a time.
I recall some recommendation about playing Doom 3 without the lights out and with headphones...some 3D sound effects or something. So I did that. And I thought it was fucking scary.
Edit: Although I still though Condemned was more interesting. And also scary.
Many of these have been listed already, but here is IGN's take on this year's best horror games.
Everyone needs to play Year Walk. It's probably my favorite iOS game.
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Top Horror Games of 2013
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Slender: The Arrival
IGN Score: 6.5
Slow year, I guess.Quote:
By trying to stretch the initial concept over five separate scenarios, Slender only succeeds in proving that some ideas are better left in the experimental phase.
Slender makes the list but no mention of Knock-knock?
It seems like there were a ton of horror games released this year on PC.
Just downloaded it. I'll wait to play it alone in the dark.Quote:
Originally Posted by FirstBlood
I'm really liking Fatal Frame 3. And it's got progressive scan mode, so it looks less assy than the 2 older ones do.