Why can't I find a Scary game anymore?

[MattKirby]

Two really good scary games IMO are CAll of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth, and Penumbra: Black Plague

 

[Jabbawocky]

Most games that are advertised as horror these days unfortuantly can't tell between being scared and giving an adrenaline rush. Okay the difference is very little but I have never really been put off to play a game because I have been scred by it recently.

 

[PureBredGentleman]

I'd say it's a combination of things.

A) Yes, you've probably become desensitized to most things horror-related these days.

B) In most games you're given guns or some other way to directly defend yourself. Games would be so much more terrifying if you were actually in the shoes of someone trapped inside of a situation where they don't know where to go, and have no means of getting themselves there. I hesitate to say "You have to stealth around everywhere", but when it comes to -survival- horror, it seems most logical. Many survival horror games that come out make it so that the protagonist is (for starters, not afraid) fully capable of defending himself rather masterfully with whatever he has around him.

Clock Tower (original) child with scissors chasing around a girl with nothing to defend herself. Terrifying.

 

[Blow_Pop]

Because most 'scary' games these days just rely on things jumping out and gore which really isn't all that scary and have abandoned the true art of mystery and tension.

This. The art was lost long ago.

I like the psychological ones. I especially like the Silent Hill series cause it fucks with your head. You hear a noise but nothings around.......playing it after midnight all the lights turned off and the sound turned up...nothing better.

 

[Stikibunn]

Well, since no one's brought it up yet, I'll mention Clock Tower.
I thought Clock Tower for the PS1 was pretty creepy, but more at the first main Act, in the college. The place was so huge and quiet, not to mention all exits were locked and there was the serial killer looking for you.

Plus, discovering people's bodies while you're hiding from Scissorman is pretty messed up.
Oh, and lets not forget the times where you hide somewhere, but he finds you...

Ugh, and the title screen music gives me chills...
I've never played the 3rd one though, and am still searching for the first one on the SNES.

I smell a wiki article...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_Tower_(PlayStation)

Oh, and that one part in Condemned 2...two words: Grizzly Bear.

I loved the lack of combat ability in Clock Tower 3.
And the ability to play as a loli didn't hurt either.

Scariest game ever

 

[Hyperactiveman]

You've desensitized yourself

This! - Because censorship and ratings have failed ever since 2000 more and more scary movies, games and other media have been able to sneak past the FCC's and OFLC's barricades making them not so scary.

Thats why now modern day horror video games/movies/music videos has to go into really sick psychotic stuff in order to scare you!

 

[mangus]

dead space is best played in the dark with headphones. And not on normal difficulty, because that's just too easy. I thought FEAR 1 was fairly scary, but not in the same dread-inducing fashion I got from dead space.

 

[Raptoricus]

Im afraid youve gone into the genre too late. Its going downhill at increasing speeds.

But if your still interested try the earlier resident evils, Silent hill 1 to 4 (shut up, 4 may not be canon but its a scary game by its own right), fatal frame 1-3 (a.k.a. project zero)

Other noteworthy mentions are Comdemned: Criminal Origins (PC) and F.E.A.R. (despite being generic shooter #13 in a dozen it still has good mindfuckery)

Theres more out there but I didnt name the ones I havent played yet myself.

I'm a big survival horror fan, and I have to totally agree with this, I haven't played better than these, and to be completely honest, I'm doubting that I ever will.
(I've never played Condemned though, might have to check that out).

 

[quiet_samurai]

The first two Silent Hill's, the third one os prety good too though. And Fatal Frame, that game is insane. I actually had to stop playing it for a while because I was freaking out.

 

[iJosh]

I'm having the same problem. I'm just not scared by games anymore. Ever since Resident evil 2 on N64.

RE5 was really fun though. I finished it to 100% everything.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

The only games that scare me are the ones that fuck with your head. Like Fallout 3. The game is in no way scary but the Quest inside Tranquility lane is so fucked up its almost scary how it screws with your head.

 

[Ben Jamin]

Either go for Condemend 1 or Skifree.

 

[WiwuX]

I've heard good things about a game called Obscure, which is also two-player.

Also, and this may sound silly, Metroid Fusion had me scared during my first play-through. Granted, I was 14... I'd still call it the scariest 2D-game ever made (yes, scarier than Darkseed)

 

[headshotcatcher]

Because lately all games are more based around killing hundreds of 'scary' enemies that pop out of the dark, instead of being silent hill-scary.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Now With the resent releases of horror game i thought it was time that i went off the RTS genre for a while and went back into Survival horror!

My first game i tryed was Dead Space, i had heard a few good rumours about this game and that it had alot of "O s*** moments" now playing through the game i wasn't scared at all the only thing that did scare me was getting to the last checkpoint withought dying due to the amount of enemys it was throwing at me

The second game was the very famous RE5 which i played all the Resident evil series and they all (if only at one point) scared me..s***less...But i was met with bosses i knew should be scary but they weren't and a story that was ruined due to the 32 trailers on Gametrailers.com

Now these two game were recomened to be the scariest! and i was met with failure..could someone recomend a good horror game and tell me why these game have been hyped up to be scary but they aren't?

Go play all the Project Zero games, or Fatal Frame if your from America. Then go play all the Silent hill games. Those are the scariest games of all time.

 

[Fraught]

Well, I played Condemned: Criminal Origins, and even after playing that for a while, even that didn't scare me.
Every horror game after that hasn't scared me one bit, Dead Space being a good example.

 

[asdrian]

yeah but the feeling just startles you and doesn't scare and overly reapetes with makes you insensitive after 2 or 3 times Boo

 

[SP MeaslyBinkie]

Penumbra series is probaly one of the few "recent" horror games that I can think of apart from that I can only think is of Silent Hill 2&3 but thats all I can think of.

 

[Straitjacketeering]

I know what you mean about not finding games all that scary anymore I could be playing deadspace full surround sound in the dark on an Imax and I wouldn't flinch yet do the same several years ago and i'd be crying for my mother.

 

[LowFatLoki]

You could always wait for the saw game to come out. /sarcasm

If you're looking for horror, diving into the past gen of games is the closest your going to come.