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Halloween puts me in a good mood every year -- a whole holiday just dedicated to being scared. It's like heaven to me! The folks over at FEARnet know how I feel, and they provide the kind of horror goodness I love 24 hours a day. So when they said they wanted to do a giveaway on Destructoid, well, I was pretty down for it.

To celebrate what they call FEARtober (look after the jump for more details on that), they have given us a huge Grand Prize to give away, which includes an 80GB PS3, a copy of Fallout 3, Resistance 2, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, and a signed poster from the cast of Fear Clinic, which is FEARnet's newest online series. That ought to keep you busy inbetween passing out candy to trick-or-treaters!

We will also choose five first prize winners who will get one game of their choice from a limited selection (Fallout 3 (PS3), Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (PS3), Resistance 2 (PS3), Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360) or Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360)) and a signed posted as well. In other words, six total chances to win, and the contest is open to all countries. So what do you have to do to win this stuff?

Hit the jump to go to the comments and tell me what you think the best horror game of all time is and why. As you may have gathered from my choice of header picture, mine is Silent Hill 2. I'd tell you why, but I'm not eligible to win so I'll leave it to you! If you want to write an essay, a song, make a video, whatever, feel free to do it. The contest runs through November 2nd at midnight EST. Good luck -- this seems like a good reason to replay some old favorite horror games, doesn't it?

[Update: Winners were announced here!]

FEARnet, a leading horror site featuring streaming movies, original series and more, has launched FEARtober, a month-long celebration of everything Halloween.  New programming and content will premiere each and every day, including original episodes of Streets of Fear, the return of the how-to series Tricks of the Trade, Route 666: America’s Scariest Home Haunts, a “killer” Pumpkin Palooza by the legendary master sculptor Russ Leno, and more than 50 cult favorite full-length fear flicks.  FEARtober culminates with the premiere of Fear Clinic, starring Robert Englund (Nightmare on Elm Street franchise), Danielle Harris (Halloween franchise) and Kane Hodder (Friday The 13th franchise).  Fear Clinic, which explores where patients go to be cured of their most dreaded phobias by undergoing a revolutionary treatment no insurance policy would ever cover, will premiere Monday, October 26th, with new episodes premiering for five consecutive nights.  View all of FEARnet’s FEARtober content online at http://www.fearnet.com/feartober/index.html.


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Mark Pranger's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 17:46
Mark Pranger
Resident Evil 4, because it had amazing gameplay and generally freaked me out.
fromagex's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 17:50
fromagex
I think Dead Space is my favorite horror game. The environment alone made it amazingly creepy. That final boss though....really ruined the game.
HEL105's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 17:51
HEL105
Silent Hill 2. I made a point to play it alone at night with the sound turned all the way up....and it absolutely scared a 19 year-old guy. We're talking nightmares.
mrandydixon's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 17:52
mrandydixon
Dead Space. I've never been more absorbed in the atmosphere of a game, and its sound effects absolutely chilled my blood.

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.
waywardchemist's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 17:53
waywardchemist
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. It's moody and atmospheric and you never know when something is going to go very very wrong. It might even be worse if you know about some of the things that the game can throw at you but have no idea when it will throw them at you. It leaves you dreading going through every door.
dgonchild's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 17:55
dgonchild
I think I'll have to go with Resident Evil: Director's cut on the PS1. Yes, the dialogue was comical, but in my opinion there hasn't been a scarier moment in gaming than the first time those dogs jumped through that window in the mansion's hallway.
vitaminh's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 17:56
vitaminh
A few months ago, I told you guys about the most terrifying world of survival horror I've ever experienced.

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.
GEMPadre036's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 17:57
GEMPadre036
The House of the Dead 2 and 3 Return.
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.
Infinite93's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:00
Infinite93
Fatal Frame series. 2,3,and 4. 2 scared the hell out of me when I was younger. Has a lot of "jump" moments.
TheTom's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:00
TheTom
Silent Hill 2 - Silent Hill 2 is not about the big scares, it instead does something far more effective - it chills you. Yes, there are the moments when you hear a scream in the distance or you get attacked suddenly, but none of those moments carry the weight of the simple dialog between James and Maria when she tells him "I'm not your Mary." A loud jarring shock scare cannot capture the emotion when James learns the truth. Silent Hill 2 weaves and experience unlike any other and horror fan or not, you'd be a fool to miss this game.
simonwong1989's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:01
simonwong1989
Mine is FEAR. I remember watching my dad play it downstairs in the living room. the sound effects had gave me the biggest creeps ever! I as 16 i believe but still. I usually was downstairs, on my dads day off, watch him play it, with the surround sound speakers put up pretty much on full blast. I swear those sounds are actually psychological!

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.
---AMARU---'s Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:03
---AMARU---
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem will always be my number one horror game ever created. Not only were the scares cleverly designed, they didn't necessarily scare you as much as they made you feel extremely uncomfortable. The completely obscure insanity freak-outs were unforgettable as well; watching my body fall apart while fighting a group of creatures nearly made my heart stop beating. I love this game!
Girim Jung's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:03
Girim Jung
FEAR 2. Because it was really really disturbing. Gameplay was enjoyable.
LifeOnRepeat's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:04
LifeOnRepeat
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. NO CONTEST. Everything about the game is damn creepy, because a lot of times you don't even know if the game's actually supposed to do that, or is it just your sanity messing with your mind. Edgar Allan Poe quotes FTW!! Beat that, Resident Evil. Besides...does anyone remember the first time you get to the screaming heads floor where you get the Tome of Eternal Darkness? A memory card moment by itself if you ask me, but that's a different story...
Antwhan's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:04
Antwhan
i think the best survival horror game I've played might be Bioshock.

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.
Sonic9jct's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:05
Sonic9jct
One of the scariest moments in a game came from not an entire game, but moments throughout the span of the series; Metal Gear Solid. While things like Psycho Mantis and the fight with the Sorrow were enough to send chills down my spine, I remember being genuinely frightened when they explained the national levity of the situations in the games. Such as the part in MGS1 where Liquid explains Les Enfants Terrible and Big Boss's vision for a new world order. Not only did it all make sense in the context of the real world, but they also overlayed this entire part with live footage. Something seemed frightening about watching warheads get carried off, cloning labs in action, and warfields laced with gas as someone like Liquid Snake described how these things were coverups for the world and were true horrors. That game was truly persuasive in its anti-war messages by that footage alone by tying the game to the world we had grown all too accustomed to. After that play session, I turned off the Play Station and sat in unbelievable terror and disgust. And if THAT isn't horror, I don't know what is.
Collin Miranda's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:07
Collin Miranda
Silent Hill 2. Amazingly deep story line not often seen in video games.
Vhaius's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:08
Vhaius
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, I could only get through that after making sure I was playing the game with a friend. The little touches to the environment that made you think you were going insane or seeing things that weren't there, that freaked the hell out of me and blew my mind at the same time. One story I can think of is when I was anxiously searching through the mansion (in game) when (in real life) a cloud passed over the sun and the living room went momentarily dark we both squealed like little girls, it was awesome.
loquax's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:10
loquax
Is the UK eligible? If so...

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.
skyhawk101's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:11
skyhawk101
To me two of the greatest horror games ive ever played are american Macgee's Alice and Clive Barker's Undying which both had mazing stories and immersive gameplay. however i will say that Resident Evil 4 will be the horror game i remember but not because of its great story but because its a game i tackled with one of my best friends. We just sat in a dark room for a whole week keeping out of the freezing weather in march. It was a great time and deffinatly gave us some scares.
Diaport's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:12
Diaport
I would have to say that the remake of Resident Evil 1 for the Nintendo Gamecube would be the scariest game I've ever played. Spoilers are just ahead.

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.
Charles Robert Webb's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:12
Charles Robert Webb
Manhunt (PS2) - having the greasy, sinister voice of the brilliant Brian Cox commanding you to kill (kill!) was one of the more visceral and deeply unpleasant gaming experiences in recent memory.
abydos's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:12
abydos
Only 3 games have immersed me so much into the plot that I've actually been scared of looking behind the next corner and activated my adrenaline gland like no other virtual experience I've had. Silent Hill 2 - Restless Dreams, F.E.A.R. 2, Dead Space. Which is the best from those three, imo? Silent Hill 2. It not only has horror, but it's extremely emotional as well. Dead Space is an extremely close second.
Mikejenni's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:14
Mikejenni
I have to agree with the dogs jumping through the windows in Resident Evil. Scared the crap out of me! Fatal Frame and Silent Hill are tied for second.
sabrak's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:15
sabrak
Dead Space. The environment was so creepy. The sound effects were chilling and any other background noises behind me in the dark freaked me out. What a horror game. PS3!!!
Shoop's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:15
Shoop
Fatal Frame is probably mine for a horror game. I liked SH2 as a game slightly more, but Fatal Frame made me jump and scream out more-- especially when that broken-neck whore would randomly turn up behind you when you're trying to do something else.
Scientist tz's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:17
Scientist tz
Maybe I'll get booted out of the contest by people screaming "THAT'S NOT A HORROR GAME" but I have to go with Half Life 2. There's enough freaky shit in there to qualify it, in my opinion. The Ravenholm level is one of the most memorable single levels in video game history and even outside of that level there are plenty of headcrab zombies, giant bugs, and giant walking spider-things to freak a person out (not to mention the G-man.) The superb lighting and sound effects (especially the sound) bring it all together.
Batthink's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:17
Batthink
Resident Evil 2 was one of the best horror games I ever had the chance to play. There were so many reasons why this game made its 'mark on my soul'.

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.
Draconianviper's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:17
Draconianviper
Alone in the Dark 1 for PC. Block like zombies lumbering towards me, arms outstretched for the feed moaning for my demise and I hardly have any ammunition to fight them off. Fixed cameras were not your friends even more so with this game. Creepy midi music that still haunts me in my sleep. Having to come up with ways to block the fiends from getting to me. Knowing if I didn't push that crate onto the trap door in the floor in time, another zombie for me to deal with. Even blocking it didn't sate my desire for safety with the creature banging on the now blocked trapped door, trying to break through. And creepy crawlies leaping through the window when I think I'm safe. Your heart will hate you.
Rhodri Fabbro's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:17
Rhodri Fabbro
System Shock 2 for me. I played this game when I was 6 and I don't think I've ever not wanted to play a game more than it. Within the first ten minutes there was a ghost of a former crew mate on the haunted ship the game takes place in and I ran out of the room in search of my brothers to exit the game. I'm pretty sure I gave the game another attempt, I decided to go for the psychic class but again within the first ten minutes of the game I met a zombie mutant thing and I had nothin to kill it with I paniced and just exited the game before it even touched me. Since then I've never really played any scary games not out of being scared of them but they just never appealed to me I may give dead space a go though due to the good reviews and my brother owns a copy but I never bothered to play.
urahara's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:18
urahara
The best Horror game of all time is Alone in the Dark. You have monsters that cant be killed, a house that the owner commited suicide in, booby traps and much more.

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.
Trevor McGee's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:20
Trevor McGee


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.

Dangsterr's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:22
Dangsterr
Resident Evil Code Veronica x, in my opinion it had a deep storyline, it completely freaked me out after seeing the psycological story of Alfred, and what happened to Alexia.
Fugue's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:23
Fugue
Probably have to go with Silent Hill 2. Just the general atmosphere and the soundtrack always freaked me out.
Steel Squirrel's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:26
Steel Squirrel
I think the first Silent Hill was my favorite horror game. Sure the controls were off sometimes and it was a little rough around the edges... but it scared the crap out of me and I think that is what counts. After playing RE and RE2, I just realized that these games weren't actually horror games as much as action games. Silent Hill was the real deal.

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.
fundando's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:27
fundando
The original silent hill was the scariest game I have ever played. It was the only game I wouldn't play alone and has literally had me scream in terror.
hisao808's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:27
hisao808
The fatal frame series is some of the best scary games ive played. First of all its not like you have a conventional weapon. You have a camera! Its also a game thats not all in your face scarry but it has the traditional japanese suprise.(we all know that japan does it best) No gross monsters. No aliens. Its ghosts scary ghosts. The thing is ive done the whole resident evil thing when i was i intermediate school but it got repetative after a while. Dont get me wrong i love resident evil and all its glory but the fatal frame series was something so different that it just grasped my attention right away. the Fatal frame series are awesome games!
Death by Yeti's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:29
Death by Yeti
Penumbra
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
Steel Squirrel's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:29
Steel Squirrel
"You and the character both *know nothing..." I meant. >_>
IrohaEmperor's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:35
IrohaEmperor
Resident Evil because of Jill Sandwiches!!
kaciesaurus's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:39
kaciesaurus
Resident Evil 5 because you have to punch a mother fuckin' rock.
EternalDeathSlayer's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:42
EternalDeathSlayer
Resident Evil 4 because it was so intense that my heart almost exploded. It's still the only game that has ever made my hands sweaty and shaky right from the get go.

That shit was awesome.
VichusSmith's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:42
VichusSmith
I'm barely 30, so I haven't had much experience with horror games. For me, the first game that scared me was resident evil 3, because Nemesis was constantly hunting you down and you had to run for your life instead of doing the basic wandering around and puzzle solving.

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.
Cadtalfryn's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:48
Cadtalfryn
I feel inclined to say Resident Evil, because it opened a whole new world of possibilities and interests for me as a gamer. The first time around, it was such a tense experience that I couldn't play for more than an hour. However, even still, Dead Space is the most frightening and compelling horror experience I have encountered in a videogame. Dead Space didn’t just get me with jump scares, or have me frightened of Isaac dying, but got at me psychologically. In Resident Evil, aside from events such as the infamous dog coming through the window, once you were familiar with the game and desensitized to its “surprise” style of horror it could do little to truly incite fear in the player. In stark contrast, no matter how many times I revisit Dead Space, I feel frightened, tense and psychologically effected. Being locked in a pitch black room with the faintest flicker of light, hearing the unsettling sounds of malfunctioning mechanical equipment, seeing a helpless person get impaled by an enemy on the other side of a pane of glass, watching survivors go insane with the sickness that had befell them, seeing an enemy move away only to have it come through the walls at your flanks reminiscent of the Velociraptors from Jurassic Park, or experiencing the soundlessness of space and knowing that something, somewhere is waiting, lurking for you to cross its path and take you by surprise, and even taking a step forward into the next, dimly lit room evokes a sense of fear that extends far deeper than any media I have ever experienced.
casesomething's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:51
casesomething
Condemned: Criminal Origins is easily my favorite horror game. I can hardly stand conventional horror games that have you controlling characters that feel like boats. I also never really found them to be all that scary. One of the few conventional survival horror moments that made me jump was that first licker in the interrogation room in Resident Evil 2. I won't forget it because it was also the first time a video game ever made me truly jump. The fact that I was like 7 years old at the time probably didn't help though. However, when it comes to Condemned, the whole game is just so unsettling and incredibly atmospheric. It gives you that extremely uneasy feeling when you hear a crazy person knock something over in the room next to you and you hear their footsteps running all around. Rather than focusing on simple surprise scares, Condemned focused on not letting you get comfortable for the duration of your play time. The combat was also just plain intense. The brutality was unbelievable and it really felt as if you were hitting people over the head with pipes. It was simple, visceral and challenging. The story, I admit, is somewhat of a clusterfu*k. But that can all be forgiven because it's such an amazing experience, and can scare someone like me who is oh so manly and laughs at what are considered the scariest of horror movies. When it comes down to it, all the tacky surprise jump scares get old. Quick. When you come upon a game that simply doesn't let your mind rest at all and constantly keeps you alert, you have something special. Some people may like the traditional survival horror games, and I respect that, but me, I love me some Condemned.

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.
matty125's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:52
matty125
Siren for the Playstation 2 is greatest horror game of all time because ...well, you're going to have to play it to find out

...IF YOU DARE.
fetusmilk's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:54
fetusmilk
ALONE IN THE DARK
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 18:55
pedrovay2003
I'm inclined to say Dead Space, but I think the scariest game I've ever played in the first Fatal Frame. Even now, years later, no one has tried to copy the awesome camera mechanic that the series used, and the first game was the scariest of the bunch. Horror games in first person are about 10 times more heart-attach inducing than third person games, and Fatal Frame's camera left you feeling as if you were just sightseeing instead of fighting at times, leaving you with a feeling of inescapability. It's still one of my favorites of all time.
Sparta2020's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/26/2009 19:01
Sparta2020
alone in the dark: a new nightmare has got to be my favorite. In my opinion is was a more serious take on horror at that time when resident evil was just invading our playstation. resident evil had some of the crapiest dialouge as well as poorly done real cutscenes(yes even for that time)the overall elements that most say granted the game historical status to me were just terrible distractions from when i should be feeling scared of immersed in a situation.


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.
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