Are you scared yet??

[Merrik Waters]

Recently I have been rather disappointed in the amount of "Scary" games that have been coming out. Just because it is included in the "Horror" genre does not mean it is scary. The last game that I played that truley made me jumpy was dead space and that was only because I played it at like 2 in the morning with surround sound (THE ONLY WAY TO PLAY SCARY GAMES).

I was even a bit disappointed in Fear but that is another story for another time. In your guys (and gals) opinions: What makes a game scary? What changes should be made to the genre to make games MORE scary? And what, if any, games does everyone else find scary?

 

[Hippobatman]

It's all in the atmosphere. You must feel vulnerable.

Bioshock had that, at least in the beginning.

There's no fear to be experienced if you know you can easily eliminate any random encounter.

 

[TheEnglishman]

The Scarecrow sequences in Arkham scarred me.

Admittadly it was night and I was alone but the game had done a nice job up until than of getting me into a routine with detective mode and maps and so on. Than BAM!!! they remove all of that and leave me hopelessly running around from basically a God, trying to din shelter from certain death.

As well as that the game did a nice job od building a quite, spooky atmosphere, making you wonder what's around the corner.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

*chuckles* a Mario and Sonic avatars so close together

Nah, no games really scare me. Maybe I just don't get sucked in enough.

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

I got silent hill 2 just recently(Randomly also.) I have to play that.

 

[Willwillwritehiswill]

Have you played condemned? That's a scary game, i like that.

 

[EvilBug]

Clock tower for the snes freaks me out for some reason. I feel as if I am there.

EDIT-

Have you played condemned? That's a scary game, i like that.

That game was pretty freaky, well the first one at least.

 

[Jonny49]

There is a game that you can buy of Steam that my brother showed me. It was a game played in a first person perspective and you were in a coal-mine looking for something about your fathers death if I recall correctly. The idea of it was all based around stealth, and you couldn't actually fight your enemies. In-fact, if you looked at them your character would panic and then the enemy would see you.

I can't remember what it was called, but it sure freaked the hell out of me.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[syndicated44]

Adventure horror games scare the living crap out of me. Any other horror game that gives me a weapon I usually just try my damndest to kill everything.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

Who ever said you needed guns in a game? Give us a combat system that works, or provide plenty of places to elude the monsters that are chasing us. The more options the better if we are limited in our combatant options. When its a level playing field, or slightly tilted in the favor of the enemy, that can make any game tense(and scary).

 

[Weaver]

I hear Fatal Frame is terrifying.

 

[Valkyira]

I agree that Dead Space was the last actual horror game but it was ruined by the fact you can become a walking tank. The whole point of Horror games is vulnerability. If you have bollock loads of weapons, you just feel too much of a badman to care about the 'horror' aspect.
I want a game where you have no weapons what so ever, only the option to run like a pussy and hide like one too.

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

good atmosphere is key to horror. And also, you can't be a super powered space marine. The game has to clearly show that you are just some guy, with now super awsomeness. Best way? No guns. Everytime you get a gun in your (virtual) hands, things seem to just falls to pieces at your feet.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

it's funny that nobody mentioned the underrated game called "Call of Cthulhu: Dark corners of the Earth" that was a insane game! hahaha

 

[_zuul]

combat.


if you can kill it and not run out of ammo, IT ISN'T SCARY.


granted, this isn't always true

 

[Jharry5]

I played Silent Hill 2. Alone. At night.
Bad idea. That's easily the scariest game I've ever played...

 

[Mr.Black]

I'm such a pansy I can't even finish Doom3 or Dead Space.

 

[General Vagueness]

Not to sound above it all, but I don't get scared by much any more, and when I do it usually isn't that bad. Things do freak me right the heck out though and I come across some new creepy thing at least once every week to 10 days, and of course video games pretty regularly provide me with moments like this:

The best examples I can think of of the last one are when a Zelda game drops you into a bunch of powerful enemies, when you first encounter the Flood in Halo (which was also creepy, gross, tense, and suspenseful), and pretty much once a minute or more in Castlevania games until you really get the hang of them and at least once or twice a block/level unless you're an old pro.

 

[rokkolpo]

i try to avoid any truly scary game.

scariest stuff i played was re4.
i've watched others play really scary games,but not me.