The best Horror game of all time is not belong to resident evil or silent hills imo but..

[Vigormortis]

Holy fuckballs! I knew Cage had a serious creep factor, but those office signs are some whole next level shit! Please excuse french, but the tone i am getting from those images are like a society of robot alien squidlizards trying to learn how to blend in with humanity. Does he lead a cult? Because that is very culty behaviour.

Maybe that's why he equates a character's ability to emote with how many polygons it's made of, he genuinely doesn't understand what human emotions are. Maybe that's why he's plastered his studio with the word. He may think that if he stares at the word long enough he'll gain some sort of insight into its meaning.

 

[minkus_draconus]

I could be wrong (memory not what it used to be) but I got my first taste of that in the Soldier of Fortune games. you could shoot off limbs, make them drop weapons or react depending on where they got shot.

Eh, I never got the opportunity to play that when I was a kid. The only reason I got FEAR was because I bought it off of my friend on the down-low. My parents were smart and paid attention to the games I played, so I had to be careful about games I purchased when they weren't around.

Ahh. I was in my mid 20's when the first one came out. I am old.

 

[ZeD [taken 0]]

FEAR isn't even a horror game. It's an action shooter with some jump scares and occasional creepy atmosphere. I was never once made afraid by any of the FEAR games, only surprised.

Action horror game.
You personally not getting scared is irrelevant.

Just because you call Gone with the Wind an action movie, it doesn't mean it is. If the game isn't scary, it's not a horror game.

Because Gone Home doesn't make an effort to be a horror game.

It's like saying, say, Louis CK isn't a comedian because you don't find him funny.

 

[Sharia]

As much as I enjoyed FEAR, I's sorry, but I just can't put it up there with SH1-4 myself

 

[Mikejames]

That's a weird way to spell Rule of Rose.

Lord of the Flies meets Silent Hill was great. The combat's painful, but everything else was severely underrated. Music, atmosphere, use of narrative symbolism, etc.

Really wish we could see a remastered edition someday, as unlikely as it may be.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

The first FEAR game was... passable, for what it was- a military-styled FPS with a not-bad-at-all bullet-time mechanic and a horror story backdrop. I will give it credit for knowing how to let atmosphere build, rather than constantly put jumpscares in the player's face. The second and third games... did not do their predecessor justice, though both of them did each have one interesting level (the school in 2; the superstore in 3).

I'll say that the Half-Life 2 mod "Nightmare House 2" actually out-FEARed FEAR. No bullet-time, but much creepier.

Scariest "game", still by a long shot, is the Shalebridge Cradle from Thief 3. It had all the hallmarks of good horror.

You. Yeah, you. I like you. The Cradle, despite being limited by the chopped-down-for-Xbox overall game, was masterful. I can still remember the absolute dread I felt wandering those halls.

 

[Smithnikov_v1legacy]

FEAR was a pretty good action game, but not really that horrifying.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

That's a weird way to spell Rule of Rose.

Lord of the Flies meets Silent Hill was great. The combat's painful, but everything else was severely underrated. Music, atmosphere, use of narrative symbolism, etc.

Really wish we could see a remastered edition someday, as unlikely as it may be.

Didn't quite fall for Rule of Rose. Good set-up but I feel the horror dies out the more fantastic/wondrous the story gets.

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

so do you think FEAR is still best Horror game ever??

Interesting question, have you stopped beating your wife?[footnote]Look up "loaded question"[/footnote]

I don't really play horror games all that much, so I don't have much of a pool to choose from. There were some games I played that had great horror elements, such as Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines with the Ocean Hotel mission. Personally I think that horror works best as an element of a game, as opposed to the game itself. That being said, I did enjoy Amnesia a fair bit, it managed to play off of your paranoia quite well.

 

[B-Cell_v1legacy]

Interesting question, have you stopped beating your wife?[1]

Come on what kind of question is that? I cant even hit any women in any circumstance even if they beat the shit out of me. I respect them.

anyways the thing is Fear is only horror game that has Excellent Combat. cant think of anything else.

FEAR and System shock 2 are imo best horror games ever. Stalker too if its count but it was not praise for horror elements either.

 

[Mikejames]

That's a weird way to spell Rule of Rose.

Lord of the Flies meets Silent Hill was great. The combat's painful, but everything else was severely underrated. Music, atmosphere, use of narrative symbolism, etc.

Really wish we could see a remastered edition someday, as unlikely as it may be.

Didn't quite fall for Rule of Rose. Good set-up but I feel the horror dies out the more fantastic/wondrous the story gets.

That's fair. I personally liked how it switched back and forth with brief glimpses of reality spliced into the fantasy aspects, until they both come full circle in the end. But you could say it's more surreal and macabre than outright scary.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

That's a weird way to spell Rule of Rose.

Lord of the Flies meets Silent Hill was great. The combat's painful, but everything else was severely underrated. Music, atmosphere, use of narrative symbolism, etc.

Really wish we could see a remastered edition someday, as unlikely as it may be.

Didn't quite fall for Rule of Rose. Good set-up but I feel the horror dies out the more fantastic/wondrous the story gets.

That's fair. I personally liked how it switched back and forth with brief glimpses of reality spliced into the fantasy aspects, until they both come full circle in the end. But you could say it's more surreal and macabre than outright scary.

I personally liked the whole concept and the aesthetic/art direction, but like you said, the game feels weirder than scarier.

 

[Skatalite]

anyways the thing is Fear is only horror game that has Excellent Combat. cant think of anything else.

Because if there's one thing a horror game needs, it's excellent combat.

 

[DefunctTheory]

anyways the thing is Fear is only horror game that has Excellent Combat. cant think of anything else.

Because if there's one thing a horror game needs, it's excellent combat.

Nothing makes a game scarier then being able to murder everything in the room before anything can even take one pot shot at you.

 

[Wylade]

Personally, the American approach to horror doesn't entertain me. I get TERRIFIED by it, can't play more than 45 minutes of Dead Space without my shoulders hurting from the stress, but it doesn't leave me with a lasting impression and generally just kinda drains me.

Eastern European horror, on the other hand, now that's where my interests thrive. The existential questioning that comes from games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R or (my personal favorite) Metro: 2033, that unnerving feeling that no matter how prepared I am I can go from hunter to hunted in an instant. Jump scares and big, planned "scary" moments fall away to let the fear of failure subtly take over your every move. Feeling isolated certainly instills a certain sense of dread, but I find that for me, having people relying on me to not fail, to have my failures effect them, works better.

 

[minkus_draconus]

Personally, the American approach to horror doesn't entertain me. I get TERRIFIED by it, can't play more than 45 minutes of Dead Space without my shoulders hurting from the stress, but it doesn't leave me with a lasting impression and generally just kinda drains me.

Eastern European horror, on the other hand, now that's where my interests thrive. The existential questioning that comes from games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R or (my personal favorite) Metro: 2033, that unnerving feeling that no matter how prepared I am I can go from hunter to hunted in an instant. Jump scares and big, planned "scary" moments fall away to let the fear of failure subtly take over your every move. Feeling isolated certainly instills a certain sense of dread, but I find that for me, having people relying on me to not fail, to have my failures effect them, works better.

What do you think of Japanese horror? PS2 heyday ones like Siren, Kuon, Fatal Frame, Echo Night? I just noticed that From Software was responsible for a lot of PS2 horror/survival horror I liked. I hope one day, between dark souls games they can give us some more horror. And maybe some more insane games like Metal Wolf Chaos.

 

[DOOM GUY]

F.E.A.R. is an amazing shooter, but... best horror game of all time?

Not a chance, it's hardly horror to begin with.

 

[Snakebigboss33]

I think FEAR is one of the best horror games. Its definitely better than the stuff released nowadays which are walking simulators. FEAR is an example of a good FPS horror game, but everyone wants a P.T. nowadays.