Scary games

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#21

Tale of Tales’ The Path.

[indent]"[i]There is one rule in the game. And it needs to be broken.
There is one goal. And when you attain it, you die.

Six sisters live in an apartment in the city. One by one their mother sends them on an errand to their grandmother, who is sick and bedridden. The teenagers are instructed to go to grandmother’s house deep in the forest and, by all means, to stay on the path! Wolves are hiding in the woods, just waiting for little girls to stray.

But young women are not exactly known for their obedience, are they? Will they be able to resist the temptations of the forest? Will they stay clear of danger? Can they prevent the ancient tale from being retold?

The Path is a game about growing, about changing, about making choices, about accepting the consequences of these choices. A game about playing, and failing, about embracing life, perhaps by accepting death.[/i]"[/indent]

This game, right there, is the best example that life can be beautiful and horrible at the same time.

#22

I have yet to play a game I could really say was scary. I have played games I was told were scary, but didn’t find them scary. Thief: Dark Project, F.E.A.R., Dead Space, Cryostasis… etc… All were good games, but not particularly scary. Then again I use to be a paranormal investigator, lived in a demonically possessed house for a year or so, then in a haunted house next to a actual Indian burial ground, write horror, laugh my way though horror films, and was once pulled out of my bed in the middle of the night by an invisible force and then went back to sleep after I remade the bed as the sheets were on the floor (one of many experiences). So maybe my level of scary is a tad higher then most people. lol

Still there are a few games that manage to tackle creepy atmosphere pretty well and actually made me jump once or twice. Making me jump is pretty rare…

Doom 3
Nightmare House 2 (Fantastic mod!!)
Silent Hill (the first few were pretty good, haven’t played “The Room” and “Homecoming” yet)
Resident Evil (The first few games back before they switched from zombie to parasite)
The Suffering (not bad over all)
Alien vs Predator 2000 ( Play as Marine… check out the update mod! https://www.moddb.com/mods/aliens-versus-predator-classic-redux )
Fatal Frame Series
Clive Barker’s Undying
Probably more, but have played thousands of games and can’t remember them all.

Games I have been told are scary but haven’t tried yet:

7th Guest
The Penumbra Series
I have no mouth and I must scream
Phantasmagoria

Tomorrow I will start playing “Amnesia: The Dark Descent” and have some hope that it will be more creepy than most games. Played the demo and was definitely impressed by the atmosphere they created.

#23

WTF?!, Quake 4 isnt scary, it’s just a fps with very much gore…
With very much gore, i mean that your legs get chopped of…:3

#24

Overall they’re not very scary, but the Stalker games have a very well-done post-apoc atmosphere and a few moments that ought to make you jump.

#25

Stalker is a more atmospheric tension where you often just feel a bit uncomfortable with your surroundings rather than outright terrified.

Quake 4 did this to some extent, but most of its “scares” come from cheap shock tactics as used in Dead Space. That said Quake 4 has some pretty cool creepy looking areas, but nothing that’ll make you lose sleep. Although I often wondered why most marines were perfectly fine with waiting around, alone, in a dark, creepy, enemy infested factory or facility with no back up on the way.

FEAR was also a game with shock tactics, but to me they were pulled off far better than in other games. Really the parts where it shines are the Alma and Fettel scenes with the unsettling lighting and confusing areas. Fights with the semi-invisible ninjas were extremely tense for me, feeling like a lovable remake of the HL1 assasins. Sadly there are hardly any of these encounters in the game, which sells it a bit short.

I’m going to chuck in a suggestion for Day of Defeat Source. While it has a fairly run of the mill setting and no proper horror or fear elements, one can’t but help feel the true terror of war when you see a teammate cut down as he rounds a corner by a machinegun or a sniper takes your helmet off. Desperately trying to hide during the overtime slaughterfest is quite tense too.

#26

The Thing

#27

Haha what

#28

Yeah, someone is a little Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. :S

Deathmonkey, good call on The Thing. I completely forgot about that game. Undying is a pretty good one too. I didn’t find it super scary, but it is awesome.

#29

Silent Hill Series. Scary as fuck

#30

Dudes, what about Nosferatu - The Wrath of Malachi?

#31

System Shock 2, even more so as it doesn’t rely on graphics to achieve its scares. As there is never enough ammo, it can get pretty tense

Also, has anyone tried the Overlord expansion for Mass Effect 2? I found that a bit scary in an unsettling way. The VI screams at you from monitors, but at one point, you hear someone screaming ‘make it stop!’ through the noise…

#32

This guy knows, Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth is a GREAT game, with a great atmosphere and with awesome story, very well narrated, just as every single HP lovecraft book

Even the OLD call of cthulhu is good, which is abandonware (Free), and a graphic adventure :stuck_out_tongue: (Shadow of the comet)

#33

Only Romanian fanboys like that game.

#34

first F.E.A.R. game is scary. Play at midnight, turn off the lights and turn up the sound.

I think the same for Dead Space. Atleast the first levels.

I can still remember that Cold Fear was pretty creepy at the beginning of the game.

#35

For the greatest effect, get really immersed, and also imagine life from the point of view of the guy who got his arms and legs ripped off and his useless torso turned into some mechanical component now forever fastened to a wall.

#36

Resident Evil 2

#37

Actually I prefer Count Chocula. :smiley:
Besides that was 15 years ago in a haunted house. Moved out and then shit like that stopped happening. Go fig eh…

Anyway…

A couple other good games I remember are:

D (yup that’s the whole title… For PS, Sega, Computer, 3D0)
BioShock (while not really scary it was great on atmosphere)

#38

I remember reading about that in PC Gamer a few years back. Is it a solid game? Looked kind of like an interesting mess to me.

#39

Hmmm, well, i will be able to get back on my pc this evening, so i will instal the F.E.A.R demo and Nightmare House 2, just to check out.

#40

Call of Cthulhu like others have said. The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games are pretty scary sometimes as well.

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