What is the Darkest Game you've played?

[MiracleOfSound]

The Darkness was extremely downbeat and depressing at points.

It was almost too nihilistic and sad to play for long bouts.

Dang, beat me to it.

I was sick with a nasty flu when I first sat down to play it. So imagine the reality altering fevered mental state of someone sick with a nasty flu sitting down to play a game so grim and hellish at points that sane-healthy people would still shriek and cuddle their pink fuzzies. Took me a week to beat it. Took me a week to get over that flu too. Best damn flu ever.

Must've been quite the headfuck...

It's a beautiful game, gorgeous looking with a haunting soundtrack and great story.

But it was just so damn sad all the time, it made me dread playing it. Even though I loved it. The starving dog in the WW1 section was a real morbid moment.

The music in the subway is one of the best pieces I've heard in a game too.

 

[floppylobster]

Majora's Mask had a certain melancoly to it. I found it all the darker because it wasn't trying so hard to be, it just seeped in.

 

[ButanicXpandA]

Quake 4 is the darkest ive played... as if its not dark enough having to invade the strogg's home planet, but to be brutally turned into one of them >.< ... pretty dark.

 

[lizards]

darkest of da.........o thats not what you meant

 

[NIHILHATE]

Silent Hill on the ps1 and Another world on the SNES.

 

[THEMILKMAN]

Rule of Rose

Holy Hell.

If you played it then you know why. Great game though.

 

[JediMooCow]

OT: Condemned
The Suffering
Manhunt

Exactly. Condemned is dark the whole way through, The Suffering is extremely thematically dark, and Manhunt is dark and disturbing.

Wow STALKER has come up a lot. Looking like I might have to go back to that one. Just pointing out again that I kind of ment dark as in twisted.

I never saw S.T.A.L.K.E.R. as a 'dark' game. It was pretty simple in terms of theme. Your mission remains the same from the opening minutes: Find dude, kill dude. Can someone explain (genuine curiosity here) where the 'darkness' came in?

The cutscene at the very start, though; that was dark. I don't think I've ever watched a single cutscene more than I re-watched that one. Awesome, and creepy.

 

[JediMooCow]

Wow STALKER has come up a lot. Looking like I might have to go back to that one. Just pointing out again that I kind of ment dark as in twisted.

I never saw S.T.A.L.K.E.R. as a 'dark' game. It was pretty simple in terms of theme. Your mission remains the same from the opening minutes: Find dude, kill dude. Can someone explain (genuine curiosity here) where the 'darkness' came in?

The cutscene at the very start, though; that was dark. I don't think I've ever watched a single cutscene more than I re-watched that one. Awesome, and creepy.

 

[JediMooCow]

Sorry for double-post. Has been edited.

 

[Firia]

The Darkness was extremely downbeat and depressing at points.

It was almost too nihilistic and sad to play for long bouts.

Dang, beat me to it.

I was sick with a nasty flu when I first sat down to play it. So imagine the reality altering fevered mental state of someone sick with a nasty flu sitting down to play a game so grim and hellish at points that sane-healthy people would still shriek and cuddle their pink fuzzies. Took me a week to beat it. Took me a week to get over that flu too. Best damn flu ever.

Must've been quite the headfuck...

It's a beautiful game, gorgeous looking with a haunting soundtrack and great story.

But it was just so damn sad all the time, it made me dread playing it. Even though I loved it. The starving dog in the WW1 section was a real morbid moment.

The music in the subway is one of the best pieces I've heard in a game too.

it was a helluva mindfsck.

The World War Hell scenario was probably the grimmest of them all. Appearing there just after... well you know what happened. I won't even spoiler tag it. Just, that kind of somber experience coupled with going shoulder to shoulder in the trenches with the Brits. I almost lost my cake when I saw one man say his final prayer, blow his brains out, only to awaken forgetting what he just did and doing it all over again. A real purgitory of hell. o_o

The coup de grace? The plague infested cow in the town. Poor beast had to be in so much agony. I killed it just to end its suffering.

 

[Andantil]

Probably the original Fallout.

 

[ars731]

Half-Life 2- the whole ingame world has this rundown feel. you can feel that the Combine takeover has decimated the earth

 

[GoldenCondor]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl was unflinchingly grim in it's subject matter.

Yeah, this is about it.

Also Diablo II sets off a very lonely feeling, it's really creepy.

 

[Heeman89]

Bioshock

Also thought Run Like Hell was pretty dark too.

 

[bladeofdarkness]

condemned 1

 

[RanD00M]

I felt System Shock 2 to be much of a downer.But in the best way.

 

[Chonker]

Dreamweb, freakin awsome too

 

[RanD00M]

Also Diablo II sets off a very lonely feeling, it's really creepy.

Forgot about that.Haven´t played Dablo II in a long time.

Off-topic:Your avatar is awesome.

 

[Woem]

Planescape: Torment, because it went beyond being a game and intruded my thoughts. And of course classics such as The 7th Guest, The 11th Hour and the original Alone In The Dark trilogy.