Scary games
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Amnesia and Stalker, for me. Amnesia got my pulse going mostly because my friend, who had completed it before me, was stood behind me holding onto the back of the chair and would scream and shake the chair whenever something freaky happened, he was especially annoying on the water level when I kept missing the jumps and having to get out of the water. Stalker has to be on my list purely for the atmosphere that and the invisible enemies who throw things at you. Dead space was a wicked shooter and had a pretty good story but it wasn't scary for me, made me jump a couple times at most. Fear was better in that sense as the scares were less predictable and those invisible ninjas scared the pants off me the first time through.
Mine used to be Dead Space, but then I had the chance to play Penumbra. (Haven't played Amnesia yet)
Dead Space is scary in the same way your best friend jumping at you from behind a corner yelling "BOO!" is scary.
Penumbra suspends your fright until your imagination is doing all the actual scaring, and when you finally see something scary you are terrified.
Dead Space is scary in the same way your best friend jumping at you from behind a corner yelling "BOO!" is scary.
Penumbra suspends your fright until your imagination is doing all the actual scaring, and when you finally see something scary you are terrified.
The first few segments of Dead Space got me into scary games, Amnesia is probably the scariest though. I do like Dead Space 2 but not as a scary game, just as a fun shoot up twisted aliens game. the Penumbra games are good as well but they weren't as good as holding me to the game as Amnesia was. FEAR ended up annoying me more than scaring me... but i did like the visuals, twas a pretty game for its time if i recall.
I actually found the original Dead Space more horrific than Amnesia, not that the later isn't "scary" but the graphics, atmosphere and especially sound design in Dead Space draws me in and leaves a tense, aggressive mood (in a good way). Melee combat in the original Condemned had a similar effect.
The premise of games like Homefront I find more genuinely scary, not because I fear N. Korea but that I know that the vast majority of people are perfectly happy to condone the most hideous crimes against humanity, if not actually take part themselves. The atrocities Nazis carried out are still well within living people's lifetimes, and this was in "civilised" and "progressive" Western Europe. Just think of what is happening in Syria whilst we sit here relaxing... protecting my family and nearest and dearest from a situation like that terrifies me far more than any fictional monster ever could.
The premise of games like Homefront I find more genuinely scary, not because I fear N. Korea but that I know that the vast majority of people are perfectly happy to condone the most hideous crimes against humanity, if not actually take part themselves. The atrocities Nazis carried out are still well within living people's lifetimes, and this was in "civilised" and "progressive" Western Europe. Just think of what is happening in Syria whilst we sit here relaxing... protecting my family and nearest and dearest from a situation like that terrifies me far more than any fictional monster ever could.
No competition. Amnesia: The dark descent. I have only managed to log 2 hours on that game because I'm freaking terrified of it! A mostly unknown lovecraftian monster, merely glimpsed or seen as a siloet (at my point of play at least) with random noises, creaking floorboards, and absolutely no way to defend yourself, with your only option to run and hide in a closet, hoping it doesn't find you? I get chills just thinking about it.
If you can play that game in a quiet, dark environment and not be scared at all the entire way through, then you're broken in the head because you can't feel fear which I am sure is a condition of some kind. Seriously. Scary.
If you can play that game in a quiet, dark environment and not be scared at all the entire way through, then you're broken in the head because you can't feel fear which I am sure is a condition of some kind. Seriously. Scary.
Yeah. I wonder why they took that direction and making it more action based. I thought the first one really was on to something, with the melee combat and the detective things. Also, remember that school levelLimecake said:
?Second one made it too much actionesque for me. The company lost its focus. Especially once you start having that 'shout' power. I wonder if we'll get a third one, hopefully to conclude the story.
Haven't played Amnesia yet though, is it a bit like Call of Cthulu?
EDIT: Catpca: "Polaton all". But sire, to Polaton all would mean the end of human life as we know it !
While Silent Hill 2 is my favorite game in the series, Silent Hill 3 might be the scariest game ever.
To give you some idea, by the time I entered the hospitals alternate world? I had to put the game down for awhile. About three months. The stress got to me.
To give you some idea, by the time I entered the hospitals alternate world? I had to put the game down for awhile. About three months. The stress got to me.
Noop, just Lickers and G and Mr. X and lots of zombies and the Ceberuses and Sherry and Tofu.Rheinmetall said: