What do you guys think the scariest games ever are? I've played Eternal Darkness and it was kinda scary because of the sanity effects. The only thing was I knew the game was just messing with me, I mean that's the whole reason I wanted to check it out in the first place so it lost alot of it's effectiveness. Other then that I don't have alot of experience with the Horror genre. Well, I played Silent Hill 4: The Room once. I couldn't stop laughing for some reason. Maybe because the guy looked kinda like Johnny Depp and because I was beating up dogs with a lead pipe.
Despite my previous let-downs I am still very interested in exploring this genre. I'll be the first guy to tell you I know jack shit about horror survival games, so educate me. What games do you guys think are the most horrifying of all?
" What do you guys think the scariest games ever are? I've played Eternal Darkness and it was kinda scary because of the sanity effects. The only thing was I knew the game was just messing with me, I mean that's the whole reason I wanted to check it out in the first place so it lost alot of it's effectiveness. Other then that I don't have alot of experience with the Horror genre. Well, I played Silent Hill 4: The Room once. I couldn't stop laughing for some reason. Maybe because the guy looked kinda like Johnny Depp and because I was beating up dogs with a lead pipe. Despite my previous let-downs I am still very interested in exploring this genre. I'll be the first guy to tell you I know jack shit about horror survival games, so educate me. What games do you guys think are the most horrifying of all? "
beating dogs with lead pipes makes you laugh uncontrolably?
" What do you guys think the scariest games ever are? I've played Eternal Darkness and it was kinda scary because of the sanity effects. The only thing was I knew the game was just messing with me, I mean that's the whole reason I wanted to check it out in the first place so it lost alot of it's effectiveness. Other then that I don't have alot of experience with the Horror genre. Well, I played Silent Hill 4: The Room once. I couldn't stop laughing for some reason. Maybe because the guy looked kinda like Johnny Depp and because I was beating up dogs with a lead pipe. Despite my previous let-downs I am still very interested in exploring this genre. I'll be the first guy to tell you I know jack shit about horror survival games, so educate me. What games do you guys think are the most horrifying of all? "
beating dogs with lead pipes makes you laugh uncontrolably? "
I'll have to question your state of mind if that's true.
Well Resident Evil was scary providing you were twelve years old. As was I.
No game has scared me more than the original Fatal Frame, and I wasn't even playing it. I watched a roommate play through it while I was in college and was freaked the hell out.
I think the scariest game I've played is Dead Space. I appreciated its atmosphere but to be honest I wasn't all that scared even with that game, perhaps because I knew the reputation the game had. Admittedly it did get me with a few of its jump scares though.
I think no game filled me with an innate, consistent, and high sense of fear like Fatal Frame. Silent Hill 4 was good for getting too me, Silent Hill 1 broke my fragile, young mind, and Silent Hill 2 made me want to curl up under a blanket and maybe start believing in a religion again... But nothing did what Fatal Frame did. It made me literally dread moving anywhere in that damn house. Every other game has made me want to move forward: to advance in the story. That game made me want to stop because I couldn't stand to deal with any more ghosts.
Unfortunately I guess it didn't help that the game was ri-donkey-kong-ulously hard. I couldn't finish it because I didn't have enough health. Which sucks 'cause I did want to, but I physically couldn't, and after halfway, I wasn't starting again. There was a rope here. It's gone now. Edit: Also I love that the guy with the Ernest: Scared Stupid ( a great film, btw ), is the guy asking about scary games.
Fear man! I cant stand scary ass ghost chicks..! Half Life: Opposing force also scared the crap out of me, because of those f'ing zombies and the fact that I was 10 years old at the time.
Slient hill 1, Silent hill 2, Silent hill 3, Condemned: Criminal Origins (if you have a good surround setup), Resident Evil (the GameCube remake), Fatal Frame 1, Fatal Frame 2
Penumbra: Black Plague is probably the scariest game I have played.
Dead Space is not scary. Primarily because the monsters do not pose a threat. Any game that focuses on killing hundreds of things simply can't be scary, at least not for long. The first 10 mins of DS is pretty good but after that it's just your average shooter.
I don't play many games that I consider scary, but when my friend and I were in 5th grade we played Resident Evil Code Veronica X for the first time and as soon as a zombie dog jumped at us we freaked out and neither of us touched the game for a long time.
Here's one that went under the radar a little, Clive Barker's: Undying. Sure it was mostly monster in the closet type scares, but that scared the poop right outta me.
I shit my pants quite alot on the original F.E.A.R afew years back, but it's definitely not the scariest game. I'd have to give that some thought. When playing SH2 was probably the most poop i've ever had in my pants..
Silent Hill 2 is by far the scariest game I've ever played. Right from the start, when you hear those footsteps, I just froze. I couldn't physically bring myself to go any further in the game. I've never felt anything like it before or after. It took months before I managed to play it again.
Recently, Bioshock scared the fuck outta me. The sheer insanity of the environment, the ridiculously chaotic battles, that you couldn't safely backtrack because splicers were always wandering around, and the fact that everyone you met was batshit fucking crazy. Rapture was fucking hostile.
The remake of Resident Evil on Gamecube was absolutely terrifying. I was totally scared, even when exploiting the glitch to have nearly unlimited grenade launcher ammo.
The haunted levels from the original Thief scared me when I was a kid. I could never make it through the third level, set in a huge crypt, and the haunted mines before that had me go to the menu many times (especially when I fell down into a room with a giant spider. Yikes). The most recent example for me is the opening of Bioshock, when you're still in the transit/elevator thing and a splicer kills some guy.
Silent Hill 2. It doesn't work how most other games would be conventionally scary - the characters and their realtionships just made me so sad and depressed, even playing the game as a 14 year old. It amazes me how I genuinely sad and attached to the characters I became and I really cared for James and as the story progressed, I found myself hooked. It has one of the greatest monologues in gaming history, and Pyramid Head really adds to the whole sense of disbelief and otherworldliness. I really can't say enough positive things about this game. So many memories of that game.
Silent Hill 3 on the other hand... In my first playthrough, I beat it in about 5 hours and was not into the character of Heather AT ALL. The mall setting was bollocks and they made it unecessarily confusing. I have yet to play 4 and 5 though :D
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