Im gonna say silent hill 1 and 3
I played silent hill 1 when I was like 12 and I just got to the hell world for the first time at like 11 or 12 at night, that was a scary ass night
amnesia probably would be scary but things just dont really scare me anymore
One half of the game is when you spend time in your house, looking around for clues and missing pages of your wife's diary (which, by the way, your wife commited suicide). The entire time you're doing this, the game will randomly send your wife's ghost after you, who will fuck with your head.
A scary game for me is a game with a huge reward for staying alive, a huge penalty for dying, and the potential to be really easy or really difficult randomly.
Minecraft has all of those things;
While mining in the caves your rewards for staying alive long enough to bring your precious diamonds up to the surface and into a lovely safe chest.
The penalty for death is losing all your items, losing all that time you spent gaining them, possibly hours work down the drain.
And the possibility to be really easy ("I'm safe in here, a small dug out room in a cliffside, door secure, a few skeletons outside but I can just wait until morning and watch them burn.") or be really difficult (... I'm having trouble picking an example. There are hundreds of rare occurrences in minecraft which would result in certain death while still being rare enough to not expect it or prepare for it. From the obvious creeper falling on your head, to a sand/gravel cave in, to a spider jockey spawning next to you, to running out of food in a cave and 3 skeletons coming after you, etc.)
I found some parts of Bioshock and the first Fear game to be quite tough to get through. But a lot of that might just be my natural aversion to first person shooters. I think Bioshock especially had a lot of cheap scares that relied on how you can't see the whole screen at any time.
But I bloody loved that about Bioshock, that was a massive part of the games charm for me.
I think the scariest game I've ever played was Condemned. That had a good mix of quick jumpy scares and long running, high adrenaline fight or flight moments. It kept the tempo up right the way to the end too, unlike Bioshock that seemed to go full action in the last few stages.
That Nightmare House mod looks awesome by the way.
BioShock was the first game I had to turn off because I was too scared, if that counts for anything. Could be to do with it being the first proper horror game I played though.
Saying that, I don't think it is really a horror game... Ah, whatever.
I'd have tried Amnesia by now, but my PC renders that game so badly I don't think I'd get the full impact.
Plus I tried the demo and I got stuck at the part with that invisible water monster or whatever. Then it just went from possibly scary to me being lost and bored.
But I'm going to say some other game since this thread will be drowned in "Amnesia!"
Metro 2033 got me scared for some reason. The ghosts, the dark ones, and some of the levels when you're own just made me hide in a corner until I had the courage to go out.
Most of us are familiar with the unofficially crowned scariest game ever, which is Amnesia. I have however stumbled across a game EVEN more terrifying. It's a Half Life 2 mod called Nightmare House 2 [http://nh2.wecreatestuff.com/], I would assume a lot of you are in the possession of Half Life 2 on Steam, in which case you can download it and go ahead and poop your pants for free.
I'm really quite serious in that this is the scariest game that I have ever played. Though it has a lot of cheap scares, it does blend in really well with the claustrophobic and hostile atmosphere that it sets.
If you think you know a scarier game, go ahead and tell me in the comments.
EDIT: Oke, about Amnesia. I'm not easily scared and Amnesia barely scared me, it had some stuff. But it lost it's touch of adrenaline so fast for me, the horror rush was gone after my first encounter with the grunt. Then it became almost like a minecraft creeper, provoking it and when he nearly gets you just outrun him again. For me Amnesia was a scary scavenger hunt, I play these kind of games for the thrill of being scared and Amnesia just wasn't scary.
I've played that mod and it was straight up boring. No suspense, no tension building, no subtlety, no nothing. It was half life 2 mashed up with dead space, neither of which deserve the title of a horror game.
gigastrike said:
I've played Amnesia and I was very disappointed. You could always tell if the monster was near (the music is a dead giveaway), and they were so easy to hide from that I felt like I was toying with it half the time. Even the "water part" that people point towards as one of the scariest points in the game was incredibly transparent, and I could straight up outrun the monster. The only reason why I even bothered staying on the platforms was because I felt that I was cheating if I didn't.
People always say that I have to get immersed, but isn't that the game's job? Even games that aren't meant to be scary become scary when you actually look at it from your own point of view and treat death like it actually matters.
The music does NOT always give it away, as my friends and I found out. We played it as a group of 8 people in my basement and we also subscribed to the "music=monster" mentality. Well, several times we would not hear any music at all, open a door to find one of those cloaked bastards sprinting up towards us (the ones that are faster than you) and would smash in the door and kill us in under two or three seconds. It was after one such event that one of my mates started crying and we had to turn the game off for a while to get him to recover.
I'm not sure if the game plays differently based on how you play because we could never outrun the monster in the water parts except that last one where you have to in order to escape. And those cloaked ones showed up a lot more than the grunts did, which can flat out sprint and kill you no problem.
Anyway, as you can probably tell, I'm in favor of Amnesia as the scariest game. When it can make a 42 year old war vet cry when surrounded by seven of his friends, then you really have something special.
Silent Hill 3 actually makes you feel extra vulnerable because you play as a timid young girl, genius right there! Yeah, that game makes a little poo come out
From the looks of the video, that is all it has. Being dark (Doom 3) and stuff jumping out at you like that with the volume shooting up to make you jump isn't "scary", more annoying than anything. For me, Amnesia takes the cake. It has more atmospheric and suspenseful "scares" rather than the shock "scares".
I came a little late into the fray, so since I know everyone will mention the "Penumbra" series and "Amnesia: The Dark Descent", I'll mention a three obscure, but scary games. Note: These are all adventure games.
"The Lost Crown". It has some terrible voice acting, but boy is that game scary! D: Dear God, I lost a lot of hours of sleep to that game!
"Barrow Hill". It has some really freaky moments! Only played bits and pieces, but it's creepy!
"Scratches: Director's Cut". The ending scared the ever-living shit out of me! Great, spooky atmospherics, definitely a must-buy for anyone who likes adventure games and spooky settings!
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