This looks really interesting thanks for the link. I think there was a thread for games like this awhile back and I recommended this one then and I still recommend it today https://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/adventure/which/1523/
The Suffering scared the shit out of me. When I saw the first guard get stabbed in the back of the head by that giant razor blade I just went “NOPE!” and turned off my xbox. I think I was about 13 or 14 at that time.
The last hour or two of Amnesia had me cringing. All the torture rooms were absolutely terrifying.
And those kinds of things don’t get to me easily.
As my signature and Maxey say; Silent Hill 2.
Maxey, I now love you even more.
Obviously you haven’t played F.E.A.R. . I’m doing a replay right now(3rd time IIRC) and it still scares the crap out of me, even if I know what’s gonna happen.
For the ones who’ve played it, the double scare from Bad Water and the whole level itself might be the creepiest part in gaming history. Also down in the sewers, near the beginning of the game(where you rotate that bridge).
:fffuuu:
I actually was disappointed with amnesia. After a few encounters with the monsters, it just came too predictable. After playing the penumbras, you just kind of know when there’s going to be a monster and when there’s not. I have to admit though that the water parts got me panicking pretty hard. :ffuuu:
Penumbra 1 and 2 in the other hand made me shit brix. The whole underground facility with all the laboratories and mining shafts was way more scarier than the boring medieval castle in amnesia. It’s just easier to empathize when the environment is something that I could end up to. Also, there was a way more interesting/disturbing (or should I say, existing) plot.
Amnesia had a story. Granted it was pretty minimalistic but it was there.
They don’t make creepy games like they used to…Phantasmagoria, Nocturne , Amber:Journeys Beyond, Shivers, Kings Quest 8: Mask of Eternity, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Sanitarium. Some of these were’nt really creepy but had some creepy atmosphere to them.
I heard Phantasmagoria was a terrible game.
The sequel maybe. I’ve heard only good things from the original.
Back when I was but twelve in 1999, in the waning days of the reign of the Playstation- back when I was poor, and I didn’t have any sort of gaming device, save for a hand-me down 1990 Gameboy, I used to go over to a friend’s house to mooch off of his superior tech. (Seriously, remember when you thought that shit on the PS was so amazing that it probably couldn’t get any better?) Anyway, Sony used to send out these mail-away demo disks with new games on them. One of them that he’d gotten had a game called Silent Hill. So, after playing through the two or so other games on the disc we decided to try it out. For YEARS afterward, I wish I hadn’t. It started you at the beginning of the game. I wasn’t really sure what to make of it. I remember the silence. The lack of visibility. No clearly defined objective. The disorienting camera angles- like I was being watched. Then I remember that dog. The one on the other side of the fence with the Beware of Dog sign. I remeber it so clearly. Blood smeared everywhere and the sound of flies buzzing above its mutilated corpse. It really put me ill at ease. I played to the part where you’re in the place with the mangled guy suspended in the barbed wire. I was freaking out at that point. I’d never seen a horror movie before or anything of that sort. Then, out of nowhere, those little naked grey things jumped me from both sides. That was it. My friend and I screamed bloody murder and practically climbed over eachother to turn the damn thing off.
You just took me back 10 years with some of those names. I loved Amber, by today’s standards it’s laughable, but still a great adventure game in my opinion.
I read a lot of the quake 4 stroggification scene on this thread.
I gotta say that all that scene made me do was laugh.
Reason 1: Thre’s only 1 pain scream and 1 looping struggle animation
Reason 2: Nothing is even holding you to the fucking table.
Metro 2033 and some parts of Prey really creeped me out.
So happy so many people here know about Silent Hill 2. It’s much more than a game.
For game that old, it had AMAZING graphics too.
It’s not like Silent Hill is an obscure franchise or something. It’s actually pretty well known among gamers.
Forget the franchise.
Silent Hill 2 stands alone. It’s story was so complex and ground breaking. I just added some pictures. Not to mention the Silent hill 2 theme - “theme of laura”, is my favorite song of all time.
The game truley changed my life.
I played it when I was very young and it made no sense. But as I got older, it began to make perfect, symbolic sense. I cried at the end - no movie, book, or other game has ever made me cry of sadness. Infact, I never cried during a movie or anything – ever. The game made me rethink my life.
This, a thousand times this :fffuuu:
In Silent Hill 2 the mannequins actually do attack you… Haha, ironic…
I haven’t played too many horror games.
But out of the ones I have played, I would have to say that the Condemned games and Nightmare House 2 scared me the most.