Playing Resi 2 as a 5 year old kid, Lickers and G ripping your head off and making you go back to when you last saved, made me wet myself, get frustrated and get me cous to do the game for me. (NO I DID NOT WET SELF LITERALLY!).
Good psychological horror games?
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well as far as the SH stuff goes, theres something to be said about the graphics. Unfortunately going back to some of the classics because of the graphics being less then wanting you may find some of the true horror games less then horrific simply because fast moving blobs trying to eat your face no longer look like cutting edge monsters.
That being said the old Alien vs Predator or even just the video game Aliens does some major mindmessing juju when you play as a marine. There is no radar that the enemy is in front of you only a motion sensor that triggers off at any motion, including an elevator door that keeps opening and closing, while not triggering off on the aliens camping over head.
If you liked FEAR you may want to check out STALKER and Dead Space as they are more or less in the same line. Dead Space gives you a sense of dread since when you walk into a room, any room, you know something is going to happen your just not quite sure what or when.
That being said the old Alien vs Predator or even just the video game Aliens does some major mindmessing juju when you play as a marine. There is no radar that the enemy is in front of you only a motion sensor that triggers off at any motion, including an elevator door that keeps opening and closing, while not triggering off on the aliens camping over head.
If you liked FEAR you may want to check out STALKER and Dead Space as they are more or less in the same line. Dead Space gives you a sense of dread since when you walk into a room, any room, you know something is going to happen your just not quite sure what or when.
If you have a computer that can run it, I recommend Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason. For lack of a better immediate description, think of it as a Russian Bioshock. If you want to know more, simply ask.WayOutThere said:
I liked the game, but come on...WayOutThere said:
I imagine FEAR on a low difficulty level would have been kind of generic and boring with its scares. What made the mood was the non-supernatural elements. The Replicas set up ambushes and stood guard silently, and were lethal enough that you *really* wanted to spot them before they spot you. At this point - wound up, concentrated on creeping forward and trying to spot a shadow of a Replica around the corner or hear their sounds - you are temporarily much more receptive to a scare of a different nature. It's worth noting that this one-two punch demands setting the difficulty high enough that the Replicas become a problem for you. My one and only playthrough was on hard difficulty, dark room, headphones, interruptions removed.
I think I played it through in about 4-5 sessions.The writing pretty much collapsed towards the end, IMO. A lot of what Alma, Fettel and especially the player character did made no sense to me. Another type of incongruity that bugged me was the enemy placement and AI. Now the AI would have been good for a generic enemy with no sense of tactics, but these were supposed to be elite infantry.
Super Mario,
This game caused more mental problems than anything that ever followed. How many kids suddenly wanted to be plumbers so they could slay dragons to save the princess? How many began to include turtle stomping into their daily routine? How many suddenly wondered where the toilet really led too? And how many times after playing did you start wondering If you could trust animals/plants/objects ever again?
"Does that block have a face on it? Is it gonna fall and kill me? Have I eaten enough green mushrooms today?"
This game caused more mental problems than anything that ever followed. How many kids suddenly wanted to be plumbers so they could slay dragons to save the princess? How many began to include turtle stomping into their daily routine? How many suddenly wondered where the toilet really led too? And how many times after playing did you start wondering If you could trust animals/plants/objects ever again?
"Does that block have a face on it? Is it gonna fall and kill me? Have I eaten enough green mushrooms today?"
And so it should. Scariest game I've ever played and I've got nerves of steel. For the first third of the game you don't have any weapons, just your wits, and it makes for some really intense moments. Especially when your character starts going mad.WayOutThere said:
This whole "beyond reality" thing is the most effective form of art I know of. However, I can think of very few examples of it. There is FEAR, The Matrix, and a handful of anime (anime is the best place to find it). I appriciate what little of it I know of.Nutcase said:I liked the game, but come on...WayOutThere said:
I was overdoing it a little I admit but FEAR is a pretty solid example of what I'm talking about.
Edit: I should also add that I was trying to descibe what I meant by "beyond reality" as much as I was describing FEAR.
Hmm, FEAR sounds interesting. I never had an interest in it because I'm not really a fan of FPS. But I just might have to check it out now.
Oi, never heard of that one before. But sounds nice ^_^theSovietConnection said:
Gotta check it out ;-)
Yeah, but it relied more on shick scares than actual atmosphere. Sure, the graphics and fighting system were better, but weapon disintegration? Bad idea.BlueMartian said:
I didn't like FEAR, it just didn't do it for me. But each to his or her own!WayOutThere said:
As you said about Half Life 2, it was shooty. FEAR is a lot like that, too. It's an FPS. Condemned, the best psychological horror in my opinion, was so up close and personal that you couldn't help but feel scared becuase you knew WHAT your enemy was, but not WHY. The dead and forgotten places filled with litter and inhabited by the homeless gone mad, it's the atmosphere which is the important thing in psychological horror. Yes, Condemned had jump scares, but that's really a must. It frightens you, but it sets the adrenaline off in you and creates that primal fight or flight feeling. But it's the atmosphere that pervades you; that's omnipresent. Every dark corner or door might hide a psychotic madman...it might not. That is fear. And, as Lovecraft said 'the oldest and greatest emotion of mankid is fear. And the strongest of this is fear of the unknown.'
Make your player fell there is a threat everywhere when they're really isn't, scare him with shadows, sounds of ambient oddity, and remember, the dark might be scary, but it's the light which shows us that fear in all it's nameless horror.
The shooting action in FEAR, while excellent, was just filler meant to connect horror sequences. At least, that is how I view it.Timewave Zero said:
Fatal Frame. It's the only game that has truly scared me. Forget that Resident Evil and Silent Hill garbage, this is the series for fear fans.
EDIT: For the record, Silent Hill was a great game, just not much on the fear side of things. I never felt scared or worried in Silent Hill, but was always nervous and scared in Fatal Frame.
EDIT: For the record, Silent Hill was a great game, just not much on the fear side of things. I never felt scared or worried in Silent Hill, but was always nervous and scared in Fatal Frame.