You know how some games really try to creep you out but yet fail miserably? Well, looks like Jericho may actually do what it's intended to do: Give you nightmares about little baby chickens running around with their heads cut off. Turn off the lights, crank up the sound, and watch this latest trailer. If you need to grab your teddy bear for comfort, then I won't judge you.
I can only hope I look that good when I'm a zombie knight.
When the zombie uprising comes, I'm gonna stomp Frank West's "I've covered wars you know"'ing ass into the ground.
Meh to the trailer. Eternal Darkness still holds the title IMO for creepiest game.
I get more scared with halo after not being sniped for 15 mins and trying to sneek around..... then BOOM and I need new pants.
Thats, unless there are lots of things jumping out at me, doesnt look that scarey.
That does look pretty scary. Let's hope it all works out in the end.
Eternal Darkness is pretty spooky, too. Some of the endings for the chapters really get you, too. But I never jumped out of my seat from ED. It was more psychological. Jericho looks like those 80's horror movies, but with a medieval motif. Stuff that would really gross me out, but (hopefully) not as bad as say Hostel or Hills have Eyes.
If Clive Barker's involved, you can count on every character you encounter being chained up and stapled together like that guy. What a pretentious hack!
My scariest GOW moment is in Act 3 in insane mode. When you're underground you have the cavern full of exploding wretches that can kill you in two swipes and their exploding carcases can kill you in one. That's fucking scary knowing that room is coming up for you.
I only got to see the first 20 seconds before the combination of Comcast and Gamevideos.com cut the video short. I have much lower standards for "scary" than most, and I have to say that I would not want to run into the chained up, heartless zombie/knight in an alley. Or anywhere, for that matter.
System shock 2 was the scariest game I ever played, so I'm hoping bioshock will be equally so. Didn't find that trailer especially scary. Hard to judge a game by a single trailer though.
Soo yeah.... I agree with the fact that GameVideos blows ass. I know next to nothing about computers but I think they need to get a better server for that shit.
Open sores, running wounds, and moist cherry red viscera hanging from various poorly sutured slashes and orifices is NOT scary. It's dull, but also nauseating. Who the hell wants to sit down and play a game where some half-assed "monster" (lotsa teeth, lotsa hair, scars) stumbles around in chains dropping the contents of its bowesl in high def?
60 FPS THX incontinence?
No.
99% of "horror" games are shit.
Pure shit.
They need to hire some actual writers and stop letting these adolescent developers just circlejerk their b-movie spunk onto the storyboards.
I agree Lezbro- it seems game developers are pulling stuff from what they see in horror movies, which I'm sad to say aren't what they used to be. Creature effects, gore, and action were used in the past as a way to enhance the story, not take its place.
We need more psychologically horrific games- not more of this inept, sterile horror movie masturbation.
What's really scary is that professionally trained marksmen can't control their weapons enough not to shoot the restraints of a target that isn't moving. Just goes to show you that you can't find good help these days...
If the heartless zombie knight actually used some sort of power to deflect the bullets into freeing him, I'd be more into the game, but that whole setup was just retarded. It's like the bad guys from the A-team showed up and shot everything BUT the stationary zombie.
Anyone ever play Clive Barkers Undying? that game was made quite some time ago and was really creepy/scary. I think 'ol Clive will pull through and make this game wicked.
I still need to play Clive Barker's Undying. Eternal Darkness wigged me out proper (playing in a pitch black basement with the sound cranked up FTW), but I haven't played a horror game since that has topped that. Too much nowadays is just over the top gore mixed with "jump out" moments.
I thought for sure there would be some sort of scary jump at the end. The Jericho title was up for an uncomfortably long time...but nothing...no new monster only slightly seen. I think this game is going to be about ten minutes long and it's only going to have the one zombie night guy and it'll turn episodic where you'll have to buy a new ten minute level with a new enemy every two months for 800 Microsoft points.
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12:04 PM on 03.19.2007
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playing RE4 intoxicated and hearing a chainsaw = scary
When the zombie uprising comes, I'm gonna stomp Frank West's "I've covered wars you know"'ing ass into the ground.
Meh to the trailer. Eternal Darkness still holds the title IMO for creepiest game.
Summa wouldn't know about Eternal Darkness, he hates Nintendo and all things good! haha
Thats, unless there are lots of things jumping out at me, doesnt look that scarey.
Eternal Darkness is pretty spooky, too. Some of the endings for the chapters really get you, too. But I never jumped out of my seat from ED. It was more psychological. Jericho looks like those 80's horror movies, but with a medieval motif. Stuff that would really gross me out, but (hopefully) not as bad as say Hostel or Hills have Eyes.
i've seen chihuahuas scarier than this game.
I'm pretty sure there are tags and a webpage. But yeah it's coming for the 360.
This game, could have some good moments.
Open sores, running wounds, and moist cherry red viscera hanging from various poorly sutured slashes and orifices is NOT scary. It's dull, but also nauseating. Who the hell wants to sit down and play a game where some half-assed "monster" (lotsa teeth, lotsa hair, scars) stumbles around in chains dropping the contents of its bowesl in high def?
60 FPS THX incontinence?
No.
99% of "horror" games are shit.
Pure shit.
They need to hire some actual writers and stop letting these adolescent developers just circlejerk their b-movie spunk onto the storyboards.
We need more psychologically horrific games- not more of this inept, sterile horror movie masturbation.
Plus, that thing's voice sounded like my friend's mom that has smoked 34 packs a day since she was 6. *shudder*
Was I supposed to hit play?
but uh... still want to look at some in game art besides a dead chainmail covered heartless zombie...
I'm serious, think about that.