Board 8 > Any good "scary" or "horror" games?

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So I actually feel to play a good scary/horror game, the problem is that there never seems to be a game that's actually "scary" for me.

For example Amnesia: The Dark Descent, it was a good game with a "scary" atmosphere, but it wasn't really scary for me. The only time I got actually scared was when I opened a drawer and skulls were rolling out, which was the last thing I was expecting.

And that's where I think that the problem is: everything is expected. It's like it's written big on the game "Oh hey this is a horror game where zombies are after you and you can't fight them". I just know they're there, I know they're coming, and when I encounter them, I'm just like "Oh **** run" in a way that I have to survive, not in the way that I got scared of it and run out of fear.
Taking Amnesia as example again, I know those zombie's (or whatever they are) are there, so after a while I was just like "Ohai there" and just went through a door or jumped in a shadow.

So yeah, any good "scary" horror games or anything where you aren't expecting the right things and scare the crap out of you a lot somehow?

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Silent Hill 2

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

Seems like Silent Hill is pretty much the opposite of what he wants, it's all about atmosphere in that

Eternal Darkness is good, and Fatal Frame has a lot of Boo moments as well

You could also try eversion and Yume Nikki

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Dead Space / its sequel

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Ryo8889 posted...
Silent Hill 2

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

I've played a Silent Hill game sever years ago, and while it was a nice game it has more scary atmosphere than actual scariness. So I have to pass that.

I've heard about Eternal Darkness before, but I don't have a GC, so I won't be able to try it.


metaIslugg posted...
Seems like Silent Hill is pretty much the opposite of what he wants, it's all about atmosphere in that

Eternal Darkness is good, and Fatal Frame has a lot of Boo moments as well

You could also try eversion and Yume Nikki

Fatal Frame looks interesting, might try that out.

Eversion was just a "wtf"-scary game, not really the scary I'm looking for. Dunno about Yume Nikki, need to look more into it.


MoogleKupo141 posted...
Dead Space / its sequel

As far as I've heard, Dead Space starts out scary, but gets predictable after a while. It does look like a good game, and would like to play it sometime, but it won't be for the scariness since it gets, well, predictable.

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A little out of date, but a good start.

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FFDragon posted...


A little out of date, but a good start.

While there are some games in the pic that look interesting, there's still no way to tell if those games suit for me. Especially since I see games that aren't "scary" for me at all, like Resident Evil and Doom.

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Not really a big horror fan but the only thing in a horror game that ever managed to creep me out or disturb me so far was the mirror room in SH3. >_>

*shrug* I guess they just don't seem terribly scary simply because they are interactive and not really a lot of consequence (if you die you can just reload), and tend to try to make things more scary by giving you less control or screwing you over (bad controls, limited saves).

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A little out of date, but a good start.

Beated to it.

Really, there aren't many games where things are completely unexpected.



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If you can't suspend your disbelief even for that you'll never get scared.

Frightening atmosphere is the best way to get scared, otherwise what you're looking for is surprise. Like loud noises and sudden movement.

Dead Space has a lot of jump scares, which sounds like what you want

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Amnesia: The Dark Descent has a great atmosphere

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You could try the Clock Tower games. Although they're kind of like Amnesia, in that you are utterly defenseless and have to get away from the serial killers

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I don't really understand your concept of fear then. It would be better if you could give us an example of a game that did frighten you. I mean, a game like Resident Evil seems to be fine, because it constantly has things jumping out at you, and it's pretty much impossible to know what to expect as there are always bigger badder versions of everything out there. There's also ammo management, so there's a chance you could get into an encounter with some acid spewing zombie in the bathroom when you walk in looking for ammo, and you would have nothing to combat it with. That's kind of frightening.

But at the same time, the only thing that's ever able to convey actual fear is atmosphere, which apparently doesn't phase you.

So my suggestion is to take one of these suggested games, and then set some sort of personal challenge to make the game much harder. Perhaps limit your weapons. Or for the hardest thing ever, no saves. You're required to beat the game in one sitting, but that means that if there is an unexpected baddy in the next room, he could literally ruin the game for you.

But that's more technical fear. If you're not scared by Amnesia's atmosphere, I don't think there is much hope in the horror genre for you.

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A little out of date, but a good start.

Huh, Vampire TMB is supposed to be scary?

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For the most part, no. The Hotel, oh god yes that was horrifying

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Play something with some absurd difficulty, only time video games actually scare me is if I'm nearly done with something stupidly difficult. As far as "omg something jumped out im gonna die!" I can't think of any game that I've gotten that into, for horror games I just like stuff with creepy atmosphere like Silent Hill.

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Oh yeah, I just got past the Oceanview Hotel and was pretty scary, or at least tense. I thought by that game being on the list there were more parts like that.

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Though I would also say that early mission that takes into the artificial limb place was tense too.

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There is one part later that isn't really Hotel scary, but more 'Oh god I'm gonna die' scary. Game has its moments

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fatal frame 2

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shadosneko posted...
Really, there aren't many games where things are completely unexpected.

I know, which is why I'm asking here so that I actually know which ones are the right ones.


Tornadoman78 posted...
F E A R

I have to admit, it actually looks good back when I played it a bit. I should pick it up again and play through it, scary or not.


MarvelousGerbil posted...
Killer 7 (GC/PS2)

Killer 7 looks more like an action than a scary game?


pjbasis posted...
If you can't suspend your disbelief even for that you'll never get scared.

Frightening atmosphere is the best way to get scared, otherwise what you're looking for is surprise. Like loud noises and sudden movement.

Perhaps I need more surprise like loud noises and sudden movement combined with scary atmosphere. Those are the kind of things where I get scared since they happen suddenly without any warning.


biolizardfan posted...
Dead Space has a lot of jump scares, which sounds like what you want

Yeah, but as said in an earlier post, they get expected after a while.


DeathChicken posted...
You could try the Clock Tower games. Although they're kind of like Amnesia, in that you are utterly defenseless and have to get away from the serial killers

It's not a bad thing that it's like Amnesia, since it was a good game, but it didn't had the right scariness. Clock Tower seems interesting, maybe I'll try it.

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EDumey posted...
I don't really understand your concept of fear then. It would be better if you could give us an example of a game that did frighten you. I mean,

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But that's more technical fear. If you're not scared by Amnesia's atmosphere, I don't think there is much hope in the horror genre for you.

I've only played RE4, maybe there's a problem with that? Other than that RE just seems to be a action-adventure game which isn't that horrifying to me.

Anyway, I can't really give a game as example since the only game that actually "scared" me was Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare when I was a kid. And with "scared" I mean that I was feared for whatever was going to happen next, that something could jump at me at any moment.
The great thing with the game was that it wasn't filled with monsters, and thus that you were cautious at every moment for the monster, till it actually happens with does scare me somehow.
Then again, I was a kid back then and never got far, so I could've missed a lot or just have the boring experience like now.

Yes, there are worse enemies when you go through the game, the problem is that that's the main thing I expect: the enemies get worse in some way through the game, no exception. So I'm not surprised when I encounter a worse enemy unless it's so much worse that you aren't prepared for that level yet. Then it is frightening.

Ammo never has been a problem for me in horror-like games. I'm not the kind of person who just shoots, and thus often has some bullets. Yes, I'm looking for ammo, but since I already have ammo I look for them prepared for whatever is going to jump at me.

Atmosphere is indeed not enough for me, you need a lot more to scare me. I admit it is a factor though, if it doesn't have a scary atmosphere then you can't get scared easily.

Setting some kind of goal is actually a great idea.... Hardest difficulty, no deaths, limited weapons. Now that might get me afraid quicker.....

But really, is Amnesia supposed to be that scary? I must admit Amnesia had the right atmosphere, the problem was that you easily know what to do.... most of the game was just avoiding monsters, which is easily done by moving to the next room or hiding in a shadow. And that just destroys a lot "scariness".


Blulum posted...
Play something with some absurd difficulty, only time video games actually scare me is if I'm nearly done with something stupidly difficult. As far as "omg something jumped out im gonna die!" I can't think of any game that I've gotten that into, for horror games I just like stuff with creepy atmosphere like Silent Hill.

That is a great idea, I always play on normal difficulty (or a similar one), which is not exactly easy, but not hard either. Perhaps I should try a higher difficulty and try to not die, that would change my mood.

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It's worth pointing out that playing these games at night, with head phones, ups the scare factor significantly.

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Also Haunting Ground, which is more or less Clock Tower 4 (that's what it was going to be, before it was made its own game)

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...and I'm not sure what you mean about hiding in Amnesia, since doing that with a monster nearby would just drain your sanity and kill you that way. And they could follow you from room to room

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metaIslugg posted...
It's worth pointing out that playing these games at night, with head phones, ups the scare factor significantly.

I completely agree, the problem is though that I always play games at evening/night and never during day since I'm doing other stuff then. So in some way playing a game at night doesn't increase the scariness for me anymore, but it surely doesn't prevent the scariness like during day.


DeathChicken posted...
Also Haunting Ground, which is more or less Clock Tower 4 (that's what it was going to be, before it was made its own game)

Noted, looks interesting too.


DeathChicken posted...
...and I'm not sure what you mean about hiding in Amnesia, since doing that with a monster nearby would just drain your sanity and kill you that way. And they could follow you from room to room

Maybe I worded it wrong. If you hide in a shadow without light without the monster seeing you will make the monster pass you. Sure, being in the shadow drains your sanity, but if done right it does work.

And with going to another room I mean passing an area load point so that you get a loading screen. The monsters don't follow you through those area's.

And I doubt the "losing sanity kills you" talk, I hear a few people talking about it, and I never had that happen, I frequently got to the point that my sanity was as good as empty, so I was all dizzy and was difficult to walk through the game, but I still lived.

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OctilIery posted...
Sounds like the issue is with you, not the games.

Well no ****, Sherlock.

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Try breaking into the Catacombs of Paris at night IRL.

That might be scary.

Or Auschwitz or something.

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Ayuyu posted...
Try breaking into the Catacombs of Paris at night IRL.

That might be scary.

Or Auschwitz or something.

That would be crazy. XD

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From: waveon_196 | #026
I've only played RE4, maybe there's a problem with that? Other than that RE just seems to be a action-adventure game which isn't that horrifying to me.

lol

go play the others

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shadosneko posted...
From: waveon_196 | #026
I've only played RE4, maybe there's a problem with that? Other than that RE just seems to be a action-adventure game which isn't that horrifying to me.
lol

go play the others

Give me reasons?

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Thief series.

It's built around stealth, so the whole time you've got the fact that if you're spotted, that's pretty much it. Any time you're not holed up in the corner of a dark room, there's the possibility that a guard you missed could be about to step around the corner behind you and blow all your hard work.

Then you get to the missions with zombies. Who won't die. And who make the single most terrifying sound effect I've ever heard.

And then, in the third game in the series, you get Shalebridge Cradle. While I haven't played the level myself, it's widely reputed to be absolutely ****ing terrifying. It's set in an abandoned orphanage. That was also an insane asylum. At the same time. And it's alive. And it hates you.

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