How to make playing games scarrier?

[Cheesus333]

1. Find a genarator and plug it in to your console, TV and other necessary equipment.

2. Bring to Generic Scary Haunted House Clichéd Location (tm)

3. Play scariest game you know of.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Play on a dark and stormy night as the howls of a white wolf in the distance send shivers up your cowardly spine, play alone in a dark house that creaks and groans as the wind rattles the very bones of the old structure, play in a darkness like black velvet, a darkness so intense it once drove the previous occupants of that very house completely insane.........

 

[ElephantGuts]

I find that there are two main things that makes a game really scare:

1) Difficulty- Games where you will die a lot and every second is a desperate fight for survival will make a game much scarier, it immerses you more in the game and makes the situation more serious.

2) Amount of control you have- A main reason movies can be scarier than games is that in movies you are forced to sit there and watch everything, but in a game you can just go around blowing the shit out of everything. If you make the enemy difficult to kill, sneaky, and make the player more vulnerable, it becomes more of an uncontrollable, desperate situation. Then you're scared.

Also, a lot of things screaming and appearing out of nowhere.

 

[cookyt]

Play in a dark old house with the volume turned up... alone... during a thunder storm... with all the doors unlocked...

Don't tell me you won't scream when you friend or family member comes up to you to "check up on you."

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

Half-Life, Halo and Resident Evil 4 aren't horror. Try Silent Hill, (Forbidden) Siren, Project Zero, Condemned etc.

I don't know, "We Don't Go To Ravenholm" was pretty jumpy. When you first walk into Ravenholm, the atmospherics are wonderful. I thought so anyway.
Father Grigori made me feel safe though.
As for RE4, I'm not sure why so many people regard it as the strongest of the series. It's the most predictable, the most irritating and the least atmospheric.

Make them more like the second Silent Hill.

Fixed.

 

[Evil_Valentine_Marshmallow]

i think the only way to make games scarier is to make the player more vulnerable, but not like dying easier. I mean have the on screen character look completely normal, no guns, no powers, but that will probably seem unfair and uninteresting. So i guess what im saying is make horror games more psychological. Like being in a big big maze with no solution, the only way out is to shut the game off and to turn it back to find that the main character was dreaming or something.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

As scary as some games are, how can we make them better.

(Don't do the obvious, like play at midnight)

Easy. Death in games kills the real you. It'd really add a new level of tension.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

My hero!

I don't see how anyone who has played RE1, RE2 or RE:CV could regard RE4 as the best in the series. I even prefer RE3.

RE:CV is the best for my money.
Need to buy that again sometime, lent it to someone and never got it back. Can't even remember who I lent it to.

 

[disturbedpanda]

1. Late at night

2. No lights

3. Make sure you have to piss before playing BUT DON'T GO!!!