Horror Games and Movies

[VincentX3]

I played a nice little Source mod called Nightmare House: Remake.


Kind of a mish-mash of F.E.A.R. and Fatal Frame.

Sadly, with the new HL2 and CSS update its unplayable.

Just saw both parts of that vid. Made me jump one or two times >:Z
To much F.E.A.R for one day.... >X(

 

[cormacdffy]

I thought the Condemned games were pretty darn scary. Also the Project Zero (aka Fatal Frame) games.

 

[VincentX3]

So I was looking up FATAL FRAME pictures for a friend of mine, and I came across this

Anyone know what it's called? I haven't seen any game on the wii like that so far >:O

I thought the Condemned games were pretty darn scary. Also the Project Zero (aka Fatal Frame) games.

I played the original Condemned loads of cheap scares in that game >:C
the dudes mental state was freakier though....

 

[VincentX3]

Silent Hill games (and a mod for Half-Life called Afraid of Monsters) are the only ones to scare me, and Silent Hill 3 was the scariest, in my opinion.

I can't think of a horror movie that's scared me since I was about ten years old. Some stuff has had good jumps or been a little creepy, but it is very rare that I truly feel scared.

I tried "Afraid of Monsters" a few years back =__=! still remember it

Between I think you had a flashlight which constantly ran out, low ammo and the monsters we're as tough as hell to kill.
That and it was totally pitchblack half the time.

Didn't make it to far, ran out of ammo after a few hours in the game, re-activating a generator or something of the sort downstairs >_<?
Good times..

 

[irrelevantnugget]

Well, throughout the entire game you (Harry) are looking for Cheryl, your daughter (as in SH1). The 'problem' is that Silent Hill again has various forms, but instead of a decayed and a nightmare version of the town in the previous games, SM has a 'normal town' version (including not so normal people, but there's still a lot of character interaction, which changes depending on how you play the game), and a frozen version.
In the normal version you simply cannot die. There's cheap scares everywhere, but you have to find them, and they're being announced by static anyway. After a while, if you enter a room where there's static, you just run around looking to trigger the stupid 'scare', then continue with your business.
The nightmare sequences... at first they are pretty intense, but since there's only 1 real type of enemy (ok, their looks change depending on your actions, but you'll hardly notice it anyway), but all they do is just grab onto you. All you have to do is a simple command to shake them off, then you can run again. If you 'die' (collapsing after the enemies have grabbed you too much), then you just go back to the last checkpoint you were at (and there's quite a lot in these sequences).

The ending is really good, just look it up on youtube (though again, there are different versions depending on your actions).

 

[irrelevantnugget]

So I was looking up FATAL FRAME pictures for a friend of mine, and I came across this

Anyone know what it's called? I haven't seen any game on the wii like that so far >:O

I thought the Condemned games were pretty darn scary. Also the Project Zero (aka Fatal Frame) games.

I played the original Condemned loads of cheap scares in that game >:C
the dudes mental state was freakier though....

It's sort of in the link you just used. Ju-On The Grudge: The Game. Pretty mediocre from what I've heard.

 

[viranimus]

After discussing the recent extra credits video a friend and I got talking on this. Hes in the position where he says no game is scary, citing Yahtzee saying that games defy being scary because horror is in a sense a lack of control, where as a game you are always in control.

However I refute this, It might be a suspension of disbelief but there have been a few instances where i was jolted by a game. One that comes to mind is a basement scene in vampire the masquerade where you keep seeing this figure in the distance when you turn corners and such but you only get a split second glimpse of it.

Another game that had a couple of good jolts for me was Silent hill 4 the room. Specifically one scene in the subway bathroom where you see a corpse in a bathroom stall as soon as you zone in and the fabled head room later in the game.

But honestly, the most scared I personally have ever been in a game came from an unlikely source. Everquest. I was playing on Rallos Zek, in its early days when being killed by another player gave them the right to loot all your gear that wasnt nailed down. I was a high elf wizard and honestly due to playing mostly solo I suffered quite alot of death. I was barely equipped and was trying to work my way up so I ended up in blackburrow where I happened across a dark elf girl. She was about four levels higher than me and made it abundantly clear she was going to kill me. I tried every trick I had to evade her like jumping down off ledges hoping to land in water and shadowstepping, but she just kept coming. It was like facing down my own personal Jason Vorheeves. I ended up dying by making a risky jump that I didnt land, and thus ended up killing myself, but in a sense won by depriving her of the kill and prevented her from looting my corpse. At the end of it all My heart was pounding in my chest, my fingers were sore from jamming them into the keyboard desparately trying to will the game to make me move faster and my eyes were watering as I did not have a second to spare a single blink in the exchange.

That was perhaps my most intense gaming exp and one that Ive yet to have anything else illicit so much actual emotion from.

 

[VincentX3]

Well, throughout the entire game you (Harry) are looking for Cheryl, your daughter (as in SH1). The 'problem' is that Silent Hill again has various forms, but instead of a decayed and a nightmare version of the town in the previous games, SM has a 'normal town' version (including not so normal people, but there's still a lot of character interaction, which changes depending on how you play the game), and a frozen version.
In the normal version you simply cannot die. There's cheap scares everywhere, but you have to find them, and they're being announced by static anyway. After a while, if you enter a room where there's static, you just run around looking to trigger the stupid 'scare', then continue with your business.
The nightmare sequences... at first they are pretty intense, but since there's only 1 real type of enemy (ok, their looks change depending on your actions, but you'll hardly notice it anyway), but all they do is just grab onto you. All you have to do is a simple command to shake them off, then you can run again. If you 'die' (collapsing after the enemies have grabbed you too much), then you just go back to the last checkpoint you were at (and there's quite a lot in these sequences).

The ending is really good, just look it up on youtube (though again, there are different versions depending on your actions).

Will do ^-^
But it kind turns off you're horror boner if once you die you respawn at the last checkpoint >=|
I mean, there's no real sense of danger like that.
But it sounds pretty good either way.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Fallout 3 can be chilling, and COD 4 on veteran is often terrifying.