Scary Shit

There's a bit of a trend amongst videogames

Take Dead Space for example

Another terrifying character was the regenerator in Resident Evil 4.

There's a bit of a trend amongst videogames

Take Dead Space for example

Another terrifying character was the regenerator in Resident Evil 4.

Deadspace and RE4 came out so long ago, you so fail since Silent Hill Wii is a more current game that actually does psychological. You have one biased mindset here since The movies always have movies like SAW and Hostel, which is very much based on 
physical torture.

the regenerator was so fucking scary it wasn't even funny :( 

Yo dawg, Silent Hill knows all this shit and does all the shit you say. Word.

" @StaticFalconar:   Then again, there's a good chance that he hasn't played the new Silent Hill yet. "

" @StaticFalconar:   Then again, there's a good chance that he hasn't played the new Silent Hill yet. "

" @Video_Game_King said:

" @StaticFalconar:   Then again, there's a good chance that he hasn't played the new Silent Hill yet. "

Yeah, but I don't have to see the latest Friday 13th movie to know what kind of horror I'm getting into there. "

Regenerators are trash. TRASH YOU HEAR ME?!
 
There was a thermal scope you could get for yur sniper rifle that would reveal their weakpoints, which made them somewhat easier to deal with, although ou still had to put a good deal of spae between th two of you. And of course the Handcannon 1-hits them :D
 
Regenerators are fucking scary though. That sound.... :(

I believe you are forgetting Heavy rain.  
The game has very compelling characters and story, it has the feel of a modern thriller, the kind of movie that you refer to in your post. Not only do you see a psychopath being born, you play as him, you learn his demons and understand them. And on top of that, you play as the dudes investigating his crimes.
 
Scary shit right there.
 
I actually played the game, (a friend of mine has gets video game previews because his dad works for the press), and I have to tell you, that game has the most powerful atmosphere ever. It often gets really scary and intense. By reading your blog post, I can tell this is the game you are looking for.
 
I believe this game is evidence that the gaming industry is maturing, and is a fruit of its growing ambitious spirit to innovate.

" There was a thermal scope you could get for yur sniper rifle that would reveal their weakpoints, which made them somewhat easier to deal with, although ou still had to put a good deal of spae between th two of you. "

" @StaticFalconar said:

" @Video_Game_King said:

" @StaticFalconar:   Then again, there's a good chance that he hasn't played the new Silent Hill yet. "

Yeah, but I don't have to see the latest Friday 13th movie to know what kind of horror I'm getting into there. "

Actually, to a certain extent, yea, you do. It's hard to write about something you haven't experienced. "

" I believe you are forgetting Heavy rain.   The game has very compelling characters and story, it has the feel of a modern thriller, the kind of movie that you refer to in your post. Not only do you see a psychopath being born, you play as him, you learn his demons and understand them. And on top of that, you play as the dudes investigating his crimes.  Scary shit right there. I actually played the game, (a friend of mine has gets video game previews because his dad works for the press), and I have to tell you, that game has the most powerful atmosphere ever. It often gets really scary and intense. By reading your blog post, I can tell this is the game you are looking for. I believe this game is evidence that the gaming industry is maturing, and is a fruit of its growing ambitious spirit to innovate. "

" @Video_Game_King said:

" @StaticFalconar said:

" @Video_Game_King said:

" @StaticFalconar:   Then again, there's a good chance that he hasn't played the new Silent Hill yet. "

Yeah, but I don't have to see the latest Friday 13th movie to know what kind of horror I'm getting into there. "

Actually, to a certain extent, yea, you do. It's hard to write about something you haven't experienced. "

Then the OP has shouldn't be trying to write a commentary on current trends of things if the author is in fact not up to date on things. "

Duder, there was a
 

I totally agree. The unknown is always scarier than the giant monster with big teeth. That's what made the original "The Haunting" so scary. You never saw the ghosts; you only heard them. 
 
Also, I think you mean instill not distill. I know its dickish to correct grammar, but I'm a teacher and old habits die hard.

" @StaticFalconar said:

" @Video_Game_King said:

" @StaticFalconar said:

" @Video_Game_King said:

" @StaticFalconar:   Then again, there's a good chance that he hasn't played the new Silent Hill yet. "

Yeah, but I don't have to see the latest Friday 13th movie to know what kind of horror I'm getting into there. "

Actually, to a certain extent, yea, you do. It's hard to write about something you haven't experienced. "

Then the OP has shouldn't be trying to write a commentary on current trends of things if the author is in fact not up to date on things. "

Writing a blog about horror games does not require me to play and reference every horror game. And besides I was commentating on the games that fail to understand these ideas as opposed to ones that are successful. They are just examples dude, calm down. "

The only thing that is scary is you Sweep, not the games. : - P
 
Just kidding.

I didn't think Dead Space was very scary. It was pretty predictable with its scares. I thought the unsettling atmosphere, with some of the crazed survivors, was done better than the scares. But then I did play the game with some DLC that made it a bit too easy, so that might have influenced me.
 
Regenerator though, yeah! Ironically it does have spikes, but that's only so it can impale your entire body if you let it get too close, which is awesome/terrifying.

" @Sweep said:

" @StaticFalconar said:

" @Video_Game_King said:

" @StaticFalconar said:

" @Video_Game_King said:

" @StaticFalconar:   Then again, there's a good chance that he hasn't played the new Silent Hill yet. "

Yeah, but I don't have to see the latest Friday 13th movie to know what kind of horror I'm getting into there. "

Actually, to a certain extent, yea, you do. It's hard to write about something you haven't experienced. "

Then the OP has shouldn't be trying to write a commentary on current trends of things if the author is in fact not up to date on things. "

Writing a blog about horror games does not require me to play and reference every horror game. And besides I was commentating on the games that fail to understand these ideas as opposed to ones that are successful. They are just examples dude, calm down. "

Yeah and because Someone more ignorant than you could actually read your blog and take it as fact, there are others around that will call you on your lack of knowledge. I'm not riled up and typing in all caps calling you names, I'm just simply telling you why you are wrong. Just like I could make a blog about how the SNES has better graphics than the 360 and I wouldn't expect everybody to be calm and say yes I agree with you. "

" I didn't think Dead Space was very scary. It was pretty predictable with its scares. I thought the unsettling atmosphere, with some of the crazed survivors, was done better than the scares. "

Poor spiky regenerators. All they wanted was a hug.

 Again - the fear is inspired by not knowing how to kill or defeat the seemingly docile enemy placed before you.      

Oh man, taking the chicago typewriter to those regenerators after the first playthrough where they succeeded in scaring the shit out of me was pretty darn satisfying. 
 
Also the scariest villain ever were the actual trousers in Walace and Gromit:The wrong trousers 
Damn things left one hell of a lasting impression on me

" @StaticFalconar said:

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" @StaticFalconar said:

" @Video_Game_King said:

" @StaticFalconar said:

" @Video_Game_King said:

" @StaticFalconar:   Then again, there's a good chance that he hasn't played the new Silent Hill yet. "

Yeah, but I don't have to see the latest Friday 13th movie to know what kind of horror I'm getting into there. "

Actually, to a certain extent, yea, you do. It's hard to write about something you haven't experienced. "

Then the OP has shouldn't be trying to write a commentary on current trends of things if the author is in fact not up to date on things. "

Writing a blog about horror games does not require me to play and reference every horror game. And besides I was commentating on the games that fail to understand these ideas as opposed to ones that are successful. They are just examples dude, calm down. "

Yeah and because Someone more ignorant than you could actually read your blog and take it as fact, there are others around that will call you on your lack of knowledge. I'm not riled up and typing in all caps calling you names, I'm just simply telling you why you are wrong. Just like I could make a blog about how the SNES has better graphics than the 360 and I wouldn't expect everybody to be calm and say yes I agree with you. "

Take what as fact? Could you please quote the exact line in my blog which has obviously been so carefully constructed to lure people into a false understanding of the videogame design process? I still don't really understand why you care so deeply about me referencing such a specific example as Silent Hill. The games I chose to reference were picked as examples that I have played and could justify talking about. To deny that many games still do actually use the techniques I described is fundamentally wrong, in spite of one example which I failed to mention. Just because Silent Hill uses psycological horror and I didn't mention it doesn't mean my point is now void. There's no need to be pedantic about it.  And the SNES having better graphics than the 360 is subjective. "

I think the Aliens in the Aliens vs. Predator were the scariest enemies I've ever encountered in a video game, as an adult. They would screech out of the dark, coming with fangs and claws, climbing out of holes, on ceilings and walls. Pouncing toward you, always screaming, and acid dripping from their mouths.
 
Also, they face-rape you, and send a baby into your body, that then bursts out like some kind of macabre stripper cake.
 
That being said, as a kid, it was the demon-children in the NTSC-U release of Silent Hill. Little, pale, naked children with knives were awfully creepy. It prevented me from playing the game again, despite having the fuel for the chainsaw, the second time around. To this day, I regret being crippled by the fear that prevented my best Evil Dead impressions.

The unknown is far scarier than just a monster. I replayed The Dig recently and that game (at least in the beggining) has a great atmosphere of the unknown. A game can be far scarier if the atmosphere presents the sheer feeling of terror.

" @Sweep said:

" @StaticFalconar said:

" @Sweep said:

" @StaticFalconar said:

" @Video_Game_King said:

" @StaticFalconar said:

" @Video_Game_King said:

" @StaticFalconar:   Then again, there's a good chance that he hasn't played the new Silent Hill yet. "

Yeah, but I don't have to see the latest Friday 13th movie to know what kind of horror I'm getting into there. "

Actually, to a certain extent, yea, you do. It's hard to write about something you haven't experienced. "

Then the OP has shouldn't be trying to write a commentary on current trends of things if the author is in fact not up to date on things. "

Writing a blog about horror games does not require me to play and reference every horror game. And besides I was commentating on the games that fail to understand these ideas as opposed to ones that are successful. They are just examples dude, calm down. "

Yeah and because Someone more ignorant than you could actually read your blog and take it as fact, there are others around that will call you on your lack of knowledge. I'm not riled up and typing in all caps calling you names, I'm just simply telling you why you are wrong. Just like I could make a blog about how the SNES has better graphics than the 360 and I wouldn't expect everybody to be calm and say yes I agree with you. "

Take what as fact? Could you please quote the exact line in my blog which has obviously been so carefully constructed to lure people into a false understanding of the videogame design process? I still don't really understand why you care so deeply about me referencing such a specific example as Silent Hill. The games I chose to reference were picked as examples that I have played and could justify talking about. To deny that many games still do actually use the techniques I described is fundamentally wrong, in spite of one example which I failed to mention. Just because Silent Hill uses psycological horror and I didn't mention it doesn't mean my point is now void. There's no need to be pedantic about it.  And the SNES having better graphics than the 360 is subjective. "

Even if you ignore my silent hill point, my other point still stands that movies are no better when you have SAW and Hostal or those friday 13th movies made every year (or every other year). Its not a matter of A certain industry growing up when other industries do it as well.  Every industry has certain formulas they use because it works. Just because you haven't played the games that doesn't follow the formula (like say Silent Hill), doesn't mean the industry hasn't "grown up".  But it seems anytime anybody writes a blog, all they want is praise and can't take criticism., so Let me get on my knees and suck your E cock for writing such a wonderful blog. I will now "calm down" and be like everybody else: Wow, great blog man. You have written the gospal of truth that PWNed all current devs in what it means to make scary stuff. Video game companies should like hire you as a consultant for scary stuff now. Your insight on this would push the boundaries of what videogames should be in the future. "

" the regenerator was so fucking scary it wasn't even funny :(  "

" @AjayRaz said:

" the regenerator was so fucking scary it wasn't even funny :(  "

Yes, but even worse in that game was Verdugo. "

 @Sweep: I don't know about you, but I thought we were just having a conversation as well. This is just how I talk, with sarcasm. Its not so much rage as "doin it for the lols". I don't mind the games you listed with spikey haeds and whatnot, but you just stamped a big rubber stamp of Fail on you when you imply that is all the video game industry has to offer.
 
@Sweep said:

"  Big spiky monsters might look cool - but ceased being scary a long time ago. Perhaps it's time the videogame industry did some growing up?  Thanks For Reading Love Sweep "

Pyramid Head pretty much made me shit myself as a child, and still does on occasion. Anyone who can continue to walk around after having a head-only iron maiden strapped to their head has to be bad news.

"  @Sweep: I don't know about you, but I thought we were just having a conversation as well. This is just how I talk, with sarcasm. Its not so much rage as "doin it for the lols"."

"  @Sweep said:

"  Big spiky monsters might look cool - but ceased being scary a long time ago. Perhaps it's time the videogame industry did some growing up?  Thanks For Reading Love Sweep "

No see, this right here does make it seem like you are totally being dismissive of the media as opposed to "the last few games I played did horror in the same formularic way that I am sick of it" which is what I think you were trying to say. "

 Big spiky monsters might look cool - but ceased being scary a long time ago. Perhaps it's time the videogame industry did some more growing up?

" @Oni said:

" I didn't think Dead Space was very scary. It was pretty predictable with its scares. I thought the unsettling atmosphere, with some of the crazed survivors, was done better than the scares. "

That was kind of my point dude ;) "

" Hellz yeah the penguin from wallace and gromit was a mastermind. "

Oh man, I had totally forgotten about that penguin. Now I'm gonna have nightmares again.

One of the best examples of something very capable of scaring and disturbing is Jack Nicholson in The Shining. A seemingly ordinary family man gone cuckoo chasing his family around a deserted hotel in the middle of nowhere is absolutely chilling in my mind. 
 
I think it's sometimes in the delivery though: the first time I played Resident Evil 3 I almost shat my pants when the Nemesis creature jumped through the window in the police station!

" I always found Nemesis terrifying in Resident evil 3, you just couldn't stop him and he would constantly hunt you down and even smash through walls. As soon as I figured out how to dispose of the regenerators in 4 they ceased to scare me... the guard in the tunnel whilst waiting for the lift was a lot scarier...although once again as soon as you figured one rocket would kill his face he no longer seemed as much of a threat.  Danny wallaces face in assassins creed 2 was also pretty scary. "

Dead Space was great with the scares, much of that to do with the unexpected. However, had the necromorphs resembled penguins, I feel that it would have lost some of it's punch. There is something inherently disturbing about monsters that look like horrendously deformed men, women and of course babies, the grotesque can be frightening and that's what it plays on.

I agree that the fear of the unknown is a powerful tool in the horror genre.
 
But i prefer much more the monsters than psico killers. True that many of them are not all that creative, but serial killers and more realistic enemies, unless allied with powerful cinematic and psicologic techniques, are a very bland threat and don't scare me.  Maybe born from the fact that serial killers are very frequent in movies, and even in some kind of games, especially as a kind of foe, makes me dissensitive.
 
Monsters on the other hand, though a bit lacking, present me the fear of the unknown. I don't know them, and they don't appear friendly, so i'm more lickely to get scared of them.
 
Having played Condemned and F.E.A.R., i have to admit that all the tension and fear i had was born from the unrealistic enemies. Drug addicts and serial killers, even deformed ones, present little challenge, even emotionally, if you know that a crowbar to the head will do the trick, but the silent assassins from FEAR, very fast and silent brought a real scare, and made me very conscient of my surroundings.
 
I on the other hand hope for more creative enemies, than the vulgar foes that are presented in all kinds of media.