@devise22: Silent Hill 2 always felt more like a thriller than a horror game to me, the game’s aim seems to be making you uncomfortable rather than scare you kinda like the Fincher movie Se7en. The soul crushing dread of being truly alone is what makes the game so unnerving, along with the triphop based soundtrack which never felt scary in the traditional sense.
Dead Space just has this RE4 thing about it where it starts out promising but after you see the same necromorph predictably pop out an airlock for the 15th time it starts feeling obtuse. The horror just feels so matter of fact, and in your face with how monsters constantly rush at you, and there is a lot of dialogue and banter between the supporting characters like RE4 that it kinda ruined the atmosphere of being alone on a spooky spaceship.
I don’t know, I just never thought the Dead Space games were all that great horror games. But yeah, a lot of horror games don’t age well especially the old Resident Evil games where zombies feel like a joke compared to how they look and sound like now in the Resident Evil 2 Remake. They are terrorfying, and sound horrible in a good way, whereas the zombies in the old games sound like a bunch of old men who just got out of bed. In contrast, I’d say the original Nemesis is way more scarier than his recent incarnation who feels more like a predictable nuisance like the necromorphs than a scary predator. I like Mr X because of how the audio mixing for stomping footsteps, as well as his music (especially the origknap OST) which still works really well with the new game. RE7 is probably the most scary Resident Evil game but definitely think RE2 Remake feels like a proper scary Resident Evil title again.
@devise22: Abby had Dan, Alex and Vinny around when she played RE2 Remake which still scared her quite a bit. I think her playthrough here just says a lot about how its horror aspect isn’t all that effective anymore. Or maybe she just doesn’t find this game all that scary, which is pretty different from person to person on which horror game is more scary.
@humanity: I feel this game plays more like an action game ala RE4, a game that didn’t seem to scare Abby that much either where they’d also talk a lot and ignore the game. I’d never found the Dead Space games scary all that much.
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