Poll: Scariest game?
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I'm going to say Dead Space but only because it plays on my fear of being vulnerable in a beatup out of control spaceship, especially after watching a rock slam through the flight deck. It made me feel very helpless and uneasy at that point.
When it comes to scares in gaming, I go more by individual scenes than by entire games.
I'll also say right up front that the whole monster closet bit doesn't do it for me. I found that Dead Space was just an action title with grotty enemies who jumped out at you. UNITL, that is, you turn out the lights and don headphones. That's where the suprerior sound design can really amp up the atmospherics.
I also loved the sequence in HL2 when you first enter Nova Porspekt. You spend a good couple of minutes completely alone waiting for the other shoe to fall and it really gives you some time to soak up the creepy atmospherics.
I thought Bioshock had some nice moments but cashed its chips a bit early by presenting its scariest level less than an hour into the game (Medical Pavilion, dentist appearing out of the mist, etc). Also, anyone remember the masterful scene from the flooded lower levels of Fort Frolic with the human statue silently coming to life? Spooky.
As for RE5, it didn't scare me in the slightest.
I'll also say right up front that the whole monster closet bit doesn't do it for me. I found that Dead Space was just an action title with grotty enemies who jumped out at you. UNITL, that is, you turn out the lights and don headphones. That's where the suprerior sound design can really amp up the atmospherics.
I also loved the sequence in HL2 when you first enter Nova Porspekt. You spend a good couple of minutes completely alone waiting for the other shoe to fall and it really gives you some time to soak up the creepy atmospherics.
I thought Bioshock had some nice moments but cashed its chips a bit early by presenting its scariest level less than an hour into the game (Medical Pavilion, dentist appearing out of the mist, etc). Also, anyone remember the masterful scene from the flooded lower levels of Fort Frolic with the human statue silently coming to life? Spooky.
As for RE5, it didn't scare me in the slightest.
Funny. Some of us don't consider Silent Hill 1 and 3 comparable to Silent Hill 2.Z3r0H0urs said:
haha barney's hide and seek for sega genesis! i shit myself and couldn't sleep for a week...
but no, none of the games listed were actually that scary, though clocktower was pretty good on the horror. Demon's souls was good, but i dont think pitch black screens 90% of the time counts as horror
but no, none of the games listed were actually that scary, though clocktower was pretty good on the horror. Demon's souls was good, but i dont think pitch black screens 90% of the time counts as horror
i put dead space but condemned 1 wasnt on there, but the condemned series was pretty freaky all in all, they even managed to make condemned scary onling in the mode where one team was soldiers and the others were the psychos, that shit scared me
I voted dead space, but the very first game to creep me out was Nightbreed on the amiga. Trying to run away from those dudes from the graveyard, or if you get caught by the cops you'd wake up in an assylum screaming. I imagine it is so tame now but i was only young then..
See... some people get scared from different things. Murderers, monsters, and killer sharks don't scare me, but ghosts do. For some people, ghosts don't scare them at all but vampires do...Horny Ico said:
If you're disincluding Silent Hills 4 onward, then I say do the same for RE.
RE is completely pathetic horror-wise (but certainly not fun-zombie-killing-wise), but rewind back to RE2 and you've got a slow-moving, hugely underprepared, under-equipped, clumsy-as-hell normal person barely surviving room to room while even the weakest zombies can kill you in a matter of seconds if you're unprepared. That s**t was SCARY, especially in the replay and RE3 when you have an immense, beefy, fast-moving and unkillable Tyrant following you personally everywhere you go. HOLY CRAP.
In the Silent Hill series, I'd say 3 was the scariest. Subtle psychological stuff is what Silent Hill is known for, but for SH3 they also sharpened the hellish noises, the totally f**ked up creatures, and the disturbing body horror to a keen edge. I thought I was immune to the Otherworld, but when the very walls start screaming and twisting in on themselves it's time to accept mental defeat and go off somewhere to cry.
RE is completely pathetic horror-wise (but certainly not fun-zombie-killing-wise), but rewind back to RE2 and you've got a slow-moving, hugely underprepared, under-equipped, clumsy-as-hell normal person barely surviving room to room while even the weakest zombies can kill you in a matter of seconds if you're unprepared. That s**t was SCARY, especially in the replay and RE3 when you have an immense, beefy, fast-moving and unkillable Tyrant following you personally everywhere you go. HOLY CRAP.
In the Silent Hill series, I'd say 3 was the scariest. Subtle psychological stuff is what Silent Hill is known for, but for SH3 they also sharpened the hellish noises, the totally f**ked up creatures, and the disturbing body horror to a keen edge. I thought I was immune to the Otherworld, but when the very walls start screaming and twisting in on themselves it's time to accept mental defeat and go off somewhere to cry.
It's not nominally a horror title, but I found that Fallout 3 had a pretty good intimidation factor going for it. Early in the game, when I was still relatively weak, it genuinely felt as though death could strike at any time from anywhere. This was especially true of segments which required me to cover large stretches of terrain or embark on lengthy explorations of the ghoul-infested underground.
I've only played the fatal frame games, the silent hill games, and dead space...
definitely fatal frame
definitely fatal frame
Fuck that shit you guys said, those games wouldn't make me blink.
No, you want to know the scariest game ever made?
Scooby Doo Classic Creep Capers for the Nintendo 64.
That shit is horrifying.
No seriously though, allow me to explain:
I was very young playing this, and the Dark Knight scared the piss out of me.
The nightguard too. The terror of the chance at being caught scared me, especially when I was being chased. I wished the game could've had more involvement the kitchens in the game, making sandwhiches and shit.
I tried it again a couple days ago, and wasn't scared, but annoyed, the mystery seemed fucking impossible, until after some online help, where I discovered I had to jump into a painting. Yeah, I'm sure the kiddies this game was made for could figure that out easy. Anyway I solved one mystery and was halfway through the next when my little sister accidentally hit the reset button, and since I didn't have some 'Controller Pak' thing I had no saves. I stopped playing.
No, you want to know the scariest game ever made?
Scooby Doo Classic Creep Capers for the Nintendo 64.
That shit is horrifying.
No seriously though, allow me to explain:
I was very young playing this, and the Dark Knight scared the piss out of me.
The nightguard too. The terror of the chance at being caught scared me, especially when I was being chased. I wished the game could've had more involvement the kitchens in the game, making sandwhiches and shit.
I tried it again a couple days ago, and wasn't scared, but annoyed, the mystery seemed fucking impossible, until after some online help, where I discovered I had to jump into a painting. Yeah, I'm sure the kiddies this game was made for could figure that out easy. Anyway I solved one mystery and was halfway through the next when my little sister accidentally hit the reset button, and since I didn't have some 'Controller Pak' thing I had no saves. I stopped playing.
I have to play System Shock 2 with at one other person, no music and the lights on. In short bursts.octafish said:
I'm such a wimp!
Silent Hill.
1 was a cool introduction of sorts with the likely intent of being introductory to the series while still being horrifying.
2 was more about deep storyline with a melancholy atmosphere and was absolutely amazing.
3 was intended to be as disturbing as possible, and it did it's job well.
1 was a cool introduction of sorts with the likely intent of being introductory to the series while still being horrifying.
2 was more about deep storyline with a melancholy atmosphere and was absolutely amazing.
3 was intended to be as disturbing as possible, and it did it's job well.
X-Play voted Silent Hill 2 as the Scariest Game of All Time, the Least Funny Game of All Time, and the Abstract Daddy and Pyramid Head were respectively #5 and #1 on X-Play's top 10 Video Game Monsters of All Time.
All deserved!
All deserved!