For true horror game fanatics and addicts, it's difficult to find a game that scares us anymore. Yes you can find games that have there moments and games which have startiling the player down to a mastery. But what about games that kept you scared all the way through or almost all the time? For me personally, fatal frame and fatal frame 2 where the scariest games I ever played, but the original clock tower for the super nitendo after getting past the clunky controles was surpriseingly scary as well and resident evil the remake for the game cube also gets honorable mention in my book. So do tell, what is the scariest game you have played and why.
Whats the most scary game you ever played and why?
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The first was System Shock 2 - it made me jump. Then it was Silent Hill ...2am in the dark on your own with the sound up and you only being like 10 years old was scary. Then F.E.A.R - some psychological horror going on in that one, it plays with your mind. I've heard Dead Space is a little creepy, but I haven't had the chance to play it yet.
Should really be in Game Discussion and it has been done umpteen times before. Please use the search button in future.
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The Resident Evil remake for the Cube was brilliantly atmospheric. More than enough shit your pants moments to be had exploring that mansion. Especially with the innovation of the crimson head zombies to make things even more pant wettingly scary. I think mainly the combination of the fixed camera angles, the often helpless feeling combat system and the scarcity of any good ammo is a winning recipe for horror.
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The Resident Evil remake for the Cube was brilliantly atmospheric. More than enough shit your pants moments to be had exploring that mansion. Especially with the innovation of the crimson head zombies to make things even more pant wettingly scary. I think mainly the combination of the fixed camera angles, the often helpless feeling combat system and the scarcity of any good ammo is a winning recipe for horror.
Silent Hill...
It may be because I have a low tolerance for clunky, difficult controls, claustrophobic halls, loud scary noises, muderous zombie children, blood stained floors, that siren... but I haven't got a quarter of the way into the school yet... I need some manly types with me when I'm playing to stop me from being scared. ;P
It may be because I have a low tolerance for clunky, difficult controls, claustrophobic halls, loud scary noises, muderous zombie children, blood stained floors, that siren... but I haven't got a quarter of the way into the school yet... I need some manly types with me when I'm playing to stop me from being scared. ;P
Probably F.E.A.R, that game was brilliant in some ways, samey environments notwithstanding. Seriously, I distinctly remember standing at a desk inside Armacham HQ, terrified to move, just because of the environment. One of the things they did well was messing with your mind; usually, the music would be exactly as you expect, getting louder when the game got scarier. Other times, they'd start to build up the music, let it reach a crescendo, then...nothing would happen. Still other times, scary stuff would happen without any audio clues at all. It kept you on your toes.
The fist time I played BioShock, I thought it was pretty creepy, but after the first time it lost its shock value. Same with all other games I have played, but I think the one that scared me the most the first time I played it was FEAR. Just like many others here. But with all scary games, after the first time I played them, they ceased to be scary.
I never got into Penumbra. Was it any good before the monster swarm?Silver said:
And, personally, I'd have to say Fatal Frame and Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. Especially DCotE. I've never felt more absolutely powerless in the face of horror.
It was probably the most atmospheric games I've ever played. The very first encounter had me terrified, the first few hours had me almost shaking at times, and it was just awesome. I think it got better later too, after the bloody tons and tons of enemies, but I had to quit, it just lost all appeal, to me, at that point.TGLT said:
System Shock 2. No contest. It's the fact that you know there's something hideous somewhere around because you can hear them but you don't know exactly where they are. You spend a lot of time in that game hiding with your back to the wall ready to unload all 2 bullets from your almost-broke pistol into the next mutant or malfunctioning security bot that comes past, and trying to work out where the "A thousand eyes look" or "Little ones need lots of meat to grow up big and strong" is coming from. Having said that it gets less scary as you progress through the game because of the fact you become a cybenetically enhanced killing machine. But that's also awesome so it doesn't matter.
