by mento
This list serves two functions: The first is to track the Shitstorm of Scariness October '12 (and '13) (and '14) (and '15) side-project of Messrs. Matt and Pat of the "Two Best Friends Play" Machinima series, in which they record themselves getting terrified at the best (and worst, ho boy) the survival horror genre has to offer. The second - and mostly incidental, if I'm being honest - purpose is to provide a list of scary games for y'all to consult for ideas this upcoming Halloween, or for whichever secular holidays scare you most. I know I'm terrified of Columbus Day, because... well... I guess I just find it difficult to talk about.
Have a safe and sane Halloween/Columbus Day everyone! And my thanks to Matt and Pat for adding some sterling entertainment to an already busy month, as if this crazy Quick Look deluge wasn't enough.
(Since they're doing it all over again for 2013, I'm adding the new games to the list. They've picked some really odd ones this year.) (Ditto for 2014, though the list is shorter as the first three weeks were taken up by week-long playthroughs of previous games Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Escape from Bug Island and Rule of Rose.) (Still going for 2015 too.)
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October 1st. What better way to start a series than with a licensed game for the Wii? Can't think of a thing.
October 2nd. Come to Innsmouth for the dread lord of R'lyeh, stay for the creepy fish people.
October 3rd. Will you accept the collect call for five bars of horror? Escape is only possible if you have a reasonable and affordable plan. (For escape.) Roaming charges?!
October 4th. Why is all this hobo murdering strangely familiar...?
October 5th. Fuck you, mountain!
October 6th. A legitimately good horror game. Or was, before all the cast whitewashing. But then that was the Japanese developers making fun of Americans for all their white J-Horror adaptations, and I guess a game where you get chopped to pieces by zombies that bleed from their eyes is as good a place as any for some sarcastic meta-humor.
October 7th. Closers be acting all like zombies in the mall?
October 8th. Not-Sadako is at her most psychiciest in this "survival horror but with way more guns" sequel. Oddly enough, ghost rape wasn't brought up at all.
October 9th. That pixel art horror game with the skinny dancing guys I ought to get around to playing one of these days. It's intimidatingly cryptic though.
October 10th. I'm with Matt and Pat, this game is just way too creepy and perhaps not in the way it was intended. More "Dead or Alive: Paradise" type creepy.
