Recommend me horror games

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Why would you want horrible games?

*re-reads*

Oh. Go with FEAR, Condemned and The House.

 

[esperandote]

Fatal frame is the scariest game i've ever played, as for this console gen maybe just fait for silent hill shattered memories, it looks promising.

 

[PureChaos]

ShadowMan. AMAZING game and SOOO creepy

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Damnation. If you have a fear of suck, that is.

 

[The Madman]

System Shock 2

An old PC game, any computer could run it really and there's a fan made patch to make it run on newer machines (mostly). This game... It really digs into your head, using a different sort of horror than most games try for. Most just either go for cheap scare tactics or an abundance of gore, sometimes Japanese style ones get a bit weird, but that's about it.

System Shock 2 wears you down. Slowly. It doesn't really start scary and there are very few 'boo' moments, instead it just relies on building up pressure bit by bit whether through intense atmosphere, lack of ammunition, story, or the presence of one of three enemies. SHODAN, The Many, and Xerces. Each one of those could easily star as a villain in any other game, but here they're all together in one gloriously disturbing mindf@#%.

Every camera is an enemy, every door an obstacle, every room a trap. And all the while there's the voice logs of some poor doomed survivor playing in the background and SHODANs terrifying voice taunting you from afar. The Many, urging you to just die, give in, give up. Xerces, the machine, even now giving announcements in a flat voice for shopping holidays and bring-your-daughter-to-work-day.

It drags ya down, and before you know it despite the shitty visuals and the mediocre combat you'll be hooked. Hooked, and terrified.

 

[Darkblaven]

First Clock Tower only!

Condemned, and the first half of Condemned 2 .

Also, Saw: The Videogame is coming out soon and it looks like it could actually be good!

THANK YOU! Finally someone who agrees with me! I can't wait til the Saw game comes out, the 360 version comes out on my birthday!

 

[DrDeath3191]

Wait for late November on Wii. Shattered Memories and the new Dead Space should be out by then. Until then, of course, you could play Cursed Mountain.

 

[Teh_Evil_Lady]

Fatal Frames 1 and 2 are awesome. Trying to find 3. *sigh* will never get a chance to play 4 unless I learn Japanese

 

[Starke]

STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl dips into horror pretty effectively at times.

Beyond that:

FEAR, AvP2, and Call of Cthulhu have all been mentioned already.

 

[Erana]

Uninvited is a good, old-school horror/adventure game.

 

[Melion]

Fatal Frame 3

 

[Socius]

Barbie adventure

 

[The_Prophet]

Condemned. /thread
Honestly it's the scariest game I've ever played. Watch yahtzee's review if you need anyone to confirm it. And no, not Condemned 2, just Condemned.

 

[manicfoot]

As someone else mentioned - Eternal Darkness. If you like old school survival horror mixed with mind fuckery similar to that found towards the end of MGS2 you'll absolutely love it.

 

[MonstersInMyCloset]

I'm pretty dissapointed in the lack of horrorgames for the new gen. consoles. I'm not an expert in the horror genre, but as far as I see, the options boil down to Dead Space, Silent Hill: HC Condemned 2 and Siren Blood Curse. I have Siren, but the other two is, from what I've heard, not very good if you want a scare. SH:HC should be a disgrace to the series. Condemned I have played and completed, but it was only good for about the first half(that first half was pretty damn good though). And even then, it wasn't really horror as much as it was a really gritty and brutal setting.

Now, I haven't played THAT many horror games, but I've loved the 3 first SH games, Resident Evil 2 & 3, Dark Fall(an old p'n'c horror-adventure) and Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, nack when I was playing on my PS1, and I really feel like playing some good horror games now.

So what should I look for? I realize there's not many options when we're talking current gen consoles, but since the PS3 and X360 is bacwards compatible with PS1 and Xbox games, there might be something there I could get? I have a wii too, if there's anything there.

I have already ordered Project Zero/Fatal Frame 1 & 2, so what else should I get, my fellow Escapists?

Do tell a little about the game you recommend, instead of just namedropping. Or try and convince me Dead Space is good, if you think so. Are there any titles on the horizon I should look out for?

did you not like SH: the room?

i thought it was very underrated and extremely creepy

 

[Malkavian]

Eternal Darkness is an old Gamecube game inspired by Lovecraft mythos. For a 2001 game, it's really aged well. I still play through it once in a while, and getting to control all the different characters keeps it interesting while the plot unfolds. That is, if you can find a copy.

Hmmm... I can play gamecube games on the wii, right? I came across Eternal Darkness in my own research, and that looked infinitely cool.

If you don't mind PC games, though, try the first two Penumbra games. They're adventure games inspired, again, by Lovecraft. Interesting story even if it does go a bit Indigo Prophecy at the end, and the mechanics are both intuitive and fun. Not too graphics intensive but keeps up a chilling atmosphere.

Gonna look at them. when you mentioned, I recalled I could get them for free(I review for a website).

Sorry for listing another PC title, but the original F.E.A.R. (neither of the expansions, sequel is okay but not as good) is a great FPS with a really well thought out story with plenty of niches filled depending on if your focus is on finding all the little details or just killing waves of enemies. The gameplay gets a bit stale and predictable near the end, but the story was more than enough to get me through the rest of the game. The horror elements are well-implemented and varied, with hallucinations abundant and a creepy little girl thrown in as well.

I've played FEAR. It was pretty good, yeah. Can't be bothered to look at the sequel - I played the demo and was very dissapointed.

On the 360, there's the two Condemned titles. Although the forensic science parts definitely feel tacked on with a sort of pixel hunting that I haven't experienced anywhere other than point and click adventure games. Combat is a big part, mainly featuring the protagonist beating the shit out of psychopathically possessed hobos with sledge-hammers, fire-axes, bits of steel piping and whatever else you can find. Sometimes relies too much on things jumping out to scare you, but usually it keeps an entertaining and genuinely foreboding depth to it.

I've played the 2nd one, and it was great, the first half. Once things started witht he cult, it really went south. Does the 1st deliver all the way through?

Fatal Frame 3

Not an option, I'm afraid. I don't have a console that can play it.

Wait for late November on Wii. Shattered Memories and the new Dead Space should be out by then. Until then, of course, you could play Cursed Mountain.

Oh, I hadn't heard of Cursed Mountain, other than I new there was a game called that for the wii. Gonna look into that.

System Shock 2

System Schok 1 and 2 are two games I've always wanted to play, but never got around too. Gonna consider it now, though. Thanks.

I would recommend either F.E.A.R. or Condemned: Criminal Origins. Both of those games scared the hell out of me.

If you want to go old-school, I would recommend Aliens vs. Predator 2. Back in the day, that game made my skin crawl.

I have lost count of the times I've played that game The Marine part was incredible, it really captured the feeling on being that lone marine that was knee deep in it, against two foes he had no chance of competing against.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth - An Lovecraftian FPS set in the Cthulhu Mythos that has a great atmosphere. Though the second half of the game turns into more of a shooter amd get's a bit bland.

I used to have this for the PC, but lost it. Never got through it, but maybe I should pick it up again. Good idea.

did you not like SH: the room?

i thought it was very underrated and extremely creepy

I haven't had the chance to play The Room yet, but it's definitely on the list. I've watched my old roomie play it for a bit, and I really liked that they'd tried something new with the series.

 

[Fauxity]

-snip-

1. Yes you can. Complete backwards compatibility.

2. All the better then.

3. There were some interesting parts in the sequel that made it worth playing for me, but yeah, wasn't as good. And they took away the ability to peek around corners which somehow pissed me off a lot. I also found myself barely ever using the reflex abilities. You just don't really need them anymore.

4. Eh...Well...Most of the way through.

 

[Lukeje]

Eternal Darkness is an old Gamecube game inspired by Lovecraft mythos. For a 2001 game, it's really aged well. I still play through it once in a while, and getting to control all the different characters keeps it interesting while the plot unfolds. That is, if you can find a copy.

Hmmm... I can play gamecube games on the wii, right? I came across Eternal Darkness in my own research, and that looked infinitely cool.

Don't forget that you'll need to plug in a GCN controller and memory card to play it though.

 

[TPiddy]

First Clock Tower only!

Condemned, and the first half of Condemned 2 .

Also, Saw: The Videogame is coming out soon and it looks like it could actually be good!

THANK YOU! Finally someone who agrees with me! I can't wait til the Saw game comes out, the 360 version comes out on my birthday!

I've been a fan of the movies for a while now because they've got that cerebral edge that sets them above 'torture porn'. The game looks like classic adventure gameplay where you find this and combine it with that and take it here, but with the added element of the death traps and scariness found in the Saw series. Could be a sleeper hit!

 

[Malkavian]

I remember RE2 scaring me shitless a few years ago. And I mean shitless, as in, not being able to sleep at all shitless.

I played RE2 long time ago, when I had my ps1. Then, a few weeks ago, I was lucky to get it cheap, together with Dino Crisis. So now it sits on my shelf, waiting for me to go back to Racoon City. Can't wait.

Eternal Darkness is an old Gamecube game inspired by Lovecraft mythos. For a 2001 game, it's really aged well. I still play through it once in a while, and getting to control all the different characters keeps it interesting while the plot unfolds. That is, if you can find a copy.

Hmmm... I can play gamecube games on the wii, right? I came across Eternal Darkness in my own research, and that looked infinitely cool.

Don't forget that you'll need to plug in a GCN controller and memory card to play it though.

Yeah, thought so. I'll have to see if I can pick up some GC peripheral cheap somewhere.