Spookin' With Scoops suggestions

@Spuirrel: My suggestion of it was sincerely ironic. I do want to see more people playing that terrible game, as a way to feed my Retsupurea fandom. And it's also just such an awful excuse for a horror game that it's just stupid to suggest.

Monolith stuff like AVP2 (Marine) F.E.A.R (first one) but you gonna need a PC for that :(

Clive Barkers Undying

Have an episode with Kessler and lemon.

Scratches, it's from the guy working on that Asylum game. It's mostly one massive build but ends with such a great payoff!

I'm glad you're looking into Containment Breach, i find the SCP fiction riveting, if the game frustrates you at any point i recommend checking out the SCP website to learn how the monsters operate, there are also documents inside the game with their profiles. 
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-173
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-106
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-895 - covers some of the odd stuff you might see
 
There are other SCP's in the game but i have yet to see how they interact with the player.
Also an update to the game came out recently make sure you get it.
 
Another recommendation, a game in the Chzo Mythos, 6 Days a Sacrifice. Old style adventure games scare the shit out of me.

Penumbra: Overture - the single scariest game I have ever played

Someone posted this on Reddit. Give it a look see.

@ChrisLoserkiD: beat me to the punch but seems like a solid list!

edit: Wait a minute, phantasmagoria is on that list!!! shut it down!

@Amafi said:

It's not a scary game, really, but the haunted hotel in vampire the masquerade:bloodlines.

Fantastic quest and it can get pretty spooky.

Agreed. In a similar vein, I'd say the Shalebridge Cradle in Thief: Deadly Shadows. Either of these would be good for a "quick and dirty" segment.

2 SPOOKY 4 U

My pick would have to be condemned I think, it scared the crap out of me!

@ChrisLoserkiD:

lmao D2

Oh my god. D2. Oh god. D. OH GOD. D2 is more fitting for a comedy segment. Same with D, frankly.

Play Kenji Eno's Enemy Zero for the Saturn. I've always wanted to see it. Survival horror against invisible enemies!

Also, Dino Crisis.

My pick would be "The Lurking Horror", by Infocom.

@ChrisLoserkiD: Wow, that is actually useful. Do you know if there is a higher resolution version? It's pretty blurry.

Receiver would be pretty interesting, it's not strictly a horror game but it is pretty atmospheric, randomly generated and will occasionally spook.

@NegativeCero said:

@ChrisLoserkiD: Wow, that is actually useful. Do you know if there is a higher resolution version? It's pretty blurry.

Here.

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@BeachThunder said:

@NegativeCero said:

@ChrisLoserkiD: Wow, that is actually useful. Do you know if there is a higher resolution version? It's pretty blurry.

Here.

For future reference, if you see an image posted on the forums that ends with "_super", remove that part of the URL to view a higher resolution version of the image.

I'll keep that in mind, thanks!

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth and the Penumbra games, for sure.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is fantastic but very infrequently scary. In any of the games, you'd need to play for several hours before you encounter anything really frightening. Plus, it's really difficult to get into, so it's not something you can just pick up and play for a video.

Cry of Fear might be worth looking into. It's not a very good game at all, but it's pretty scary.

Pathologic is absolutely terrifying, but in a really odd and unorthodox way. It's just kind of weird and unsettling - nothing makes sense and everything feels foreign. Definitely worth checking out, but don't expect jump scares or anything.

That's about all I can think of. There's a ton of console games I haven't played but would love to see, like Fatal Frame and maybe some of the older Resident Evil and Silent Hill games.

I remember being freaked out by the first Clock Tower. The whole "serial killer hunting you down" thing was freaky. I was just a kid though, so I wasn't used to horror games at the time.

Never played it, but does the ps2/xbox era The Thing hold up? I remember it getting decent ratings at the time.

None of these are really under the radar but that isn't by accident. These games are totally worth revisiting.

I would like to see you try to play a little bit of one the original Alone in the Dark games. For some of the first attempts at the genre, they got a lot of things right. It's interesting to see how much of what we consider to be a part of the canonical "survival horror" template is layed out in the first game. You can get all 3 for 6 $ on GOG. http://www.gog.com/gamecard/alone_in_the_dark

Why not Silent Hill ? I think it's likely that a significant portion of the viewership has little or no exposure to this game and although it's certainly no longer impressive to look at, I think the fact that it's a seriouslyeffed up pixelated brown mess completely works in its' favour.

The GC remake of Resident Evil is still gorgeous and spooky as shit: A lot of people somehow manage to miss it but it contains my favourite piece of videogame writing ever. http://residentevil.wikia.com/Keeper's_Diary

Edit: Anyway thanks for posting this topic because there is A TON of great looking stuff in this thread that I'm excited to check out.

Most of my best recommendations have been mentioned:

Fatal Frame 2,Siren and Amnesia are the only games I can really recommend as truly scary

Call of Ctulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth starts slow and isn't that scary once it turns into a shooter about halfway in, but the scene where the locals hunt you down is INTENSE.

Penumbra: Black Plague should not be missed by any Amnesia fans.

Thief 2 & 3 and System Shock 2 have some pretty great moments

I liked Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, but found the controls during chase scenes really frustrating.

Condemned 2 isn't so scary but bleak and disturbing in a lot of places, has a great bear scene too.

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is also not explicitly scary, but gets pretty disturbing at times.

Eternal Darkness is also pretty great.

I will also second the Haunted House in VTM:Bloodlines. I thought going in, "I'm a Vampire, why should I be afraid of Ghosts?" but the that scenario delivers some genuine jump scares and creepy atmosphere.

I would love to see you try Pathologic, because it instills you with a completely different kind of horror than any other game, but it takes a lot of time to really build up and I think it would be hard to get across in a short segment.

Please play Illbleed. It is completely ridiculous, but still manages some great creepiness and shocks.

Hey guys, we'll give this a legitimate shot for the first time tonight! 10pm PST, with the archive up later. At least in the beginning, it's gonna be me in my apartment playin' scary games by myself, but it can totally become other things (like, say, finally doing something with that copy of Eternal Darkness) as it goes along.

@patrickklepek said:

Hey guys, we'll give this a legitimate shot for the first time tonight! 10pm PST, with the archive up later. At least in the beginning, it's gonna be me in my apartment playin' scary games by myself, but it can totally become other things (like, say, finally doing something with that copy of Eternal Darkness) as it goes along.

I'll try to stay awake for it! Good luck Scoops!

Can't wait for Penumbra and Scratches :o

Can't wait! What time did he say he would be doing it again?

edit: Oh nevermind he posted! Sweet I'll be watchin.

I threw this together just now.

@psicode: And it looks lovely.

@Vexxan said:

@psicode: And it looks lovely.

Indeed. Looks great.

So is this delayed? Or did I miss it? Nothing on the schedule atm.

where is it?! :(

@patrickklepek any plans to bring the feature on giantbomb or will it just be archived on twitch ?

@jimmyfenix: I think he said he was going to stream it live on twitch and then have it archived on Giant bomb as premium content.

Yeah not sure what's going on with this. There was a stream last night but I had to go to sleep before I could watch much of it.

@papercut said:

The Suffering?

I second this one just because I've never seen the gameplay of this one and I'm just curious about how it actually is.

I'd LIKE to suggest the RE1 remake on the Gamecube, but let's be serious- it's a Resident Evil game, I don't know how jazzed he'd really be to play it.

I'd like to see Scoops go back through the first three Silent Hills. It would probably kill the nostalgia though

There is a half life mod called Cry of Fear that i would suggest.

Wait a sec. Did it happen or was it delayed? Can't see anything new on the twitch channel.

I don't think Patrick saved a local copy (this time). But he said it would be archived "warts and all". That being said, the stream got much, much better once Patrick upped the bitrate. The games seem to run fine, it was just the streaming quality was so bad, everything was pixelated. Once the bitrate went up, everything smoothed out and we could see what was going on.

As long as those settings are saved, the next Spookin' with Scoops should be good to go from the start.

So for those who watched, were there any good spooks? Anything on par with the Fear Gauntlet besties like the guy knocking them down the escalator or the chick jumping from the closet?

I'm sure you have but did you ever play the first dead space.

@Brodehouse: Nope, sadly Patrick had some problems with bitrate so all of the Penumbra sections were near unwatchable. He fixed it when he switched to Scratches but he didn't play a substantial amount of it. Both games have a slow start so nothing really interesting happened. It does have potential though, since Patrick actually lets himself get frightened instead of killing the mood with jokes or something.

Those pixels last night were terrifying!

I missed the spooks!? Nooooo :(

I fell asleep like 15 minutes in. :(... I guess making them earlier is not good for the Spookin?

Chromakey suits are really cheap you guys, and so are chromakey backdrops. We could totally get him a suit and background for under 50 bucks on ebay. Having a floating scoops head in the corner of the screen seems really apt for the spookin part.

@thabigred: A man in that suit, streaming something at 12am... it might attract some weird people. 0.o