Thoughts On: Horror Games Topic

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02/20/2010 11:05 AM

I hate horror games but lately I've finally mustered up the courage to tap into the genre.

RE4 scares me. Like when the gigantic mutant fish jumps out of the water and eats you if you shoot too many fish. And zombies. I really find zombies frightening. I was playing it on the Wii, and that really draws you in, and...well...

I watch my Dad play Clock Tower 3(PS2) a few years back and almost had a heart attack. He was playing the part where you were being chased by the crazy guy who killed the little pianist girl. And his panic level was at maximum, he couldn't hide, and he had to run in panicked circles. D:
My Dad also was playing RE: Archives, and that frightened me too because the enemies DIDN'T EFFING DIE. HE KEPT SHOOTING AND THEY DIDN'T DIE.
That scares the SHIT out of me. In fact the entire PREMISE of the original RE's scares the shit out of me.

Now, in RM games, I don't really play 'horror' games, but for some reason Reives's 'A Mirror Lied' scared me too. I have a wild, active imagination and I'm always thinking something really horrific will be around the corner.

My friend also sent me a video of some FPS- I'm not sure what, but you got jumped by a goddamn BEAR.
That was frightening, and you could hear the players going 'HOLY CRAP ITS A BEAR! RUN! RUN!'

Orig

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02/20/2010 06:38 PM

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@ Orig: Are all of these old school games that you can get on an emulator? Also, I have a request, at least for this thread. If you post all these new and intriguing games, include their platform in parenthesis. Example: Resident Evil (PS2). Anyways, I'm always up for new games, so I'd like to look for these you mentioned.

I played an RM game here called the Longing Ribbon, and it was surprisingly good. It's my first RM game and although it's taken me a while to figure out how not to die on the first encounter with enemies, the atmosphere and situations make for a spooky game. I was able to really get into and thought the sarcastic dialog choices were hilarious. I never thought an old school-styled graphics based game could be scary in any way. This game changed my mind and thus I'm looking forward to looking up some of your posted games Orig.

Most of them are PC, while a couple you might have to use DOSbox for. Yeah, the only ones that aren't PC are Eternal Darkness, which is for Gamecube, and Dark Corners of the Earth, which is either Xbox or PC.

And The Longing Ribbon was a great game too. Lots of WOAHSHIIIT moments. Other good RM horror games: Backstage, Desert Nightmare... uh, there might be more, but I can't think of 'em at the moment.

Sweet Home (NES) was probably the very first survival-horror game. It's actually kinda scary! Especially since it's an old RPG. I hear the spiritual successor, Demon of Lapace (SNES), is very similar, but it hasn't been fully translated yet.

Kyrsty: That's Condemned 2. The Condemned games are nice too. Well, I actually haven't played the second one, but I had fun with the first.

Mortifere

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02/20/2010 07:48 PM

Ah, thanks Orig. And I will look up some of those RM games too. I still haven't beat The Longing Ribbon (I must really suck at the combat scheme because I keep dying, but that won't stop me haha).

Ah yes, forgot about Condemned. I remember being genuinely freaked out in the first one because those guys came out of nowhere and the grotesque murders and creepy locales. The second one, I thought was going to lose it's edge because the whole premise was already exposed in the first one. Instead, they ramped up the creepiness factor. A tiny spoiler: In the second Condemned game, one of the scarier moments for me was when I was walking through the halls in the department store and the damn mannequins kept teleporting around just to be creepy. They didn't move or anything. But everytime you turned around, they were in different places and in one instance, you tried to walk back out of the room and they were blocking you. I was freaked because the tension was building, thinking that they things were going to move and jump me in any second. . .

Neok