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Also, the first time one of those giant arm things popped out of its hole and began dragging me back to its mouth two drops of pee came out. Seriously.
If you don't know what game it is, then don't click that link, for what is seen can never be unseen. You have been warned.
It is easily the most fun of the many horror games I've had the privilage of playing. Plus it's a crowd pleaser. People always have fun teaming up and blasting Zombies anytime I get it out.
Onc I turned 18, i thought to myself, its ttime to grow some balls. So i installed FEAR. Think I had to change my underwear a good 4 times, and that was just at the 1st stage. If people remember, it was when the door slams on you and a thing just pops in front of you. I was playing it at night, with my headset on. I have not done that again since. After finish playing it, I still rmemeber I couldnt sleep coz all i kept thinkin was Alma is in my room! Alma is in my room! WTF! S*($!! Embarassing, but still, was amazing game nonetheless. Even today now that I'm 20, i still get a little creep running through my spine when I play FEAR 2 even though i thought it kind of lost a bit of its BOOO!! factor!! Either way, FEAR is my favourite horror game and .. most memorable to say the least.
It was generally terrifying and was frighteningly graphic and cerebral early on. All the scripted scenes where you get jumped or the fear of facing a big daddy that you know is waiting to pummel you with your pistol and wrench. The ghost you see haunting Rapture's former hot spots and the creepy characters that are all psychotically trying to kill you. Now the end may seem completely 180 from how the game was moving, but it was scary how bad it was in comparison to the rest of the game.
System Shock 2. The graphics look pretty simple nowadays, but the feelings of isolation and fear when you play are stronger than any current gen game has managed to produce. It's a fantastic example of tailoring a game perfectly to the generation's technical capabilities. It's scary as hell, you feel alone, confused, desperate, and it's a constant battle to survive. Not only was it a great scary game, it shaped the future of the FPS genre in general. It's got my vote.
First of all, you're back in the mansion from the first Resident Evil game. If you had played the PS version of RE1 without learning about the GCN version, you'd be surprised to know that Capcom made quite a few changes. Some of them, for instance, would be leading you into Lisa Trevor's home, and if you tried killing her when you want to leave, it wouldn't always work.
Aside from Lisa Trevor, you'd run into crimson head zombies that run at you. Sure, L4D is filled with zombies like that. However, you're on your own in RE, and they take a lot more damage before going down. You could always do things the easy way by devoting two of your inventory slots to be able to burn zombies who are killed, but good luck burning every single zombie you come across.
The zombies themselves are pretty scary in this, too. Forget that they can eat you for a moment; in this game, they open doors. They pour out of windows. They come back and run, claw and bite at you if they're not incinerated. I've been introduced with Resident Evil since I was around 10 years old, I play horror games and watch horror movies for fun. But Resident Evil for the Gamecube still creeps me out when I play it.
1. The first game became was popular enough to allow hype to be built up for the second. By the time my friend purchased the game so we could both see it in action, we were excited like two rabbits linked to the mains. I can easily remember the beginning of the game, running from burning zombies all around. :O)
2. It had a (Japanese only) advert made by George Romero. I had hardly heard of anything from him at time, and he was famous for his zombie movies. It could well have been a catalyst for making more films.
3. It had two CDs on which you could play both characters. However, just because you managed to beat the game once, didn't mean you had the same experience as the other character. The 'finished' Tyrant agents and new events kept you on your toes. But the best thing about this was the fact that previously 'safe' rooms weren't that safe anymore. I was ambushed by a Licker in a room I thought I was able to get a respite in, and that was a truly clever scare tactic.
Plus as one of the original horror games, alot of timings and ideas how to do a horror game have been modified from this game or its sequels.
On and btw I mean the original Alone in the Dark from 1992, not the 2008 one.
Clock Tower for the Playstation hands down. Easily one of the most intense games I've ever played, every second creepy and disturbing, the music and sound effects are haunting, you almost never know when you're going to be attacked nor where from it'll be coming. You might be checking a locker and suddenly the Scissorman will pop out and give chase, or he could simply just find you running around. You never know. Not to mention that you're almost helpless, aside from a push or kick to the groin if you're not too panicked.
Occasionally you can use an item to temporarily knock Scissorman out and make a run for it, but he never stays down for long. The most you can do is hide until he goes away, but even then that's not guaranteed safety since sometimes he'll find you and will impale you while you're hiding. So much replay value too with multiple endings, multiple playable characters (2 main, 2 sub), and so many things to see it'll be hard to imagine seeing them all even after obtaining all the endings. It is truly one of the most frightening games I've ever played.
The moment I walked into Silent Hill and realized that things were really messed up... I was on edge for the rest of the game. Wandering through the dense fog with only a radio to tell me I was in some serious danger... that was terrifying. Also... the first time I walked into the school and the real world turned into the bloody, chains and barbed wire alternate world... I nearly shit myself and felt this horrible feeling that I was just not safe anywhere.
It created such a terrible sense of loneliness and fear that your ass would clench each time you heard the siren--the alarm signaling that things were about to get awful. The great part was when you would get through all of that maddening, disturbing stuff... then you would return to the slightly less dangerous foggy town and be grateful, if only for a little while, that you weren't in some boiler room with a metal grate floor and bloody bags of flesh wrapped in barbed wire hanging from the walls.
I can't think of another game that has disturbed me as much as Silent Hill did when I played the very first one. I just feel like a lot of other attempts at horror fall flat and just turn into action-fests that lose the ability to relate to the main character like you can in Silent Hill. I missed out on the 2nd one. I heard it was pretty great, but I did play the 3rd one and enjoyed it quite a bit.
I think Silent Hill just got the feeling right. You and the character both no nothing about the strange town you come across in the beginning and together you unravel the mystery of it while trying not to soil yourself.
When you are walking around and hear a noise in the distant, followed by a soft shadow becoming larger approaching you, you cringe in fright wondering what to do next. You pan around quickly looking for a place to hide because you only have a hammer to defend yourself. You begin to panic as you hear the beast draw closer. You see a door close to the shadow and without hesitation run to the door to hide inside. You pull the door close to yourself heart beat up, sweating, scared wondering if you made any noise to upset the shadow. You see the light begin to disappear. Just darkness through the crack of the door. You hear snarling and quake with fear. You watch the shadow as it walks away. Light coming back as a sign of hope. You wonder why you are playing this game
That shit was awesome.
No, I did not play Silent Hill 2, which is still considered to be one of the scariest games in horror.
I have played other Silent Hill games and you feel more unequipped to face the creatures chasing you, but I played those games later in life.
Oh, and the sequel you ask? Hated it. In my opinion the combo system completely ruined the game. No longer was it simple and devastatingly brutal. It became a stupid fighting game which had the player completely focused on using combos, rather than what is actually happening, kicking addicts' asses. It seemed to completely ruin the immersion in a genre where immersion is the most important part.
...IF YOU DARE.
Alone in the dark on the other hand provided me we a more serious horror element that i could appreciate fully. The cutscenes were rendered in 3d instead of poorly actioned ones, that immersion with the enviroment that i was suppose to feel when in certaion cituations was also there. Alone in the dark in my opinion is a more serious, role defining take of the action/adventure horror genre.