I love this game, but there were unfortunately only a few really tense scenes for me.
When you first hit the sewers in the castle, you hear something land with a heavy thud in a tunnel beside you and it takes off running and it sounds like it's coming closer. It's the bugs or whatever.
The other moment for me was the spiked iron maiden thing that wakes up in the lab and you have to kill it with the thermal scope on the rifle. Plus the thing in the trash bag in the dumpster made me jump.
Yeah FEAR really had some of the best atmosphere, the events like you say were really unnerving, I just couldn't wait to get out of them. To this day I still have not played either of the expansions though when I own them. I don't want to taint my impression from the great experience that FEAR was.
I played the first expansion. It was kinda below average compared to how good the original game is.
The best moment of the whole expansion for me is when one of your companions is murdered by specters. You're in a garage or warehouse with a bright spotlight hanging from the ceiling. The companion stops, says he sees something, and the light starts flashing. With each flash he's surrounded by more and more of the specters and they kill him in pitch black.
1) you could look down and see your own legs. AFAIK, this is the only game where this happens, but regardless, it gave a real feeling that you were in the game.
2) guns were deadly. Even on the heaviest armoured enemies, if you had the autocannon, you could blast them into pulp in a second. same goes for the nades; and for normal troopers, the SMG was enough if you could aim properly. (this was fortunately balanced by enemies who wouldn't just stand there and take it)
3) the story was a bit crap and overused, but the occasional appearances of the girl ghost were really well placed. I had the feeling that, every time i saw her, i had barely excaped getting blow to bits by a few lucky seconds.
The only games that bother me that much are ones where you have no way to defend. Like Outlast, some parts of Silent Hill etc. When you're helpless I don't like it. Too vulnerable. It really does get to me...I get chills and everything.
Have it on ps4. It's a decent game. Story is convoluted and tough to follow but pretty soon you get the idea. Its very creepy and sets the mood just right. Made me jump many times.
I honestly will not play it at night if no one else is in the house because my apartment makes funky noises anyway..the ducts, stairs, pipes, etc.
The part that makes it the scariest game I've played is that you are completely helpless..and even if you hide you can be found by dumb luck sometimes.
I can watch mildly scary movies, and books don't bother me at all, but games can. I'm more scared of dying in most games (see minecraft). Most scary games will freak me out for the moment, but I don't think about them later. Scared of dying though. I've spazzed out before in minecraft because my house got blown up. :awe:
Scariest thing I can watch is dr who though. The freakin empty child. Kept seeing shadows for 2-3 days.
Half-Life 2 Ravenholm was about the scariest thing I've actually completed.
Doom 3.. tried it.. no thanks, too dark.. too much flashlight..
I've read enough to know that i'll never get through S.T.A.L.K.E.R.. I want to play.. but man, that lab, X18 or whatever may be way too much.
I keep telling myself I should go back to playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R, its an awesome game from what I have played so far, but damn, I got freaked out by the first real encounter in some long underground tunnel, never went back to the game since I went to a hub town.
I found the whole game to be dreadfully scary. Especially when the zombies came back from the dead as the crimson heads. I literally never got used to that.
I found the whole game to be dreadfully scary. Especially when the zombies came back from the dead as the crimson heads. I literally never got used to that.
Oh, when he said Resident Evil on Gamecube I thought he meant 4. The original Resident Evil is stressful to me, lol. Crimson heads and frog men... yeesh.
Is it just me? I tried to play Amnesia alone when it came out and I couldn't. I was too scared. I tried to play Metro 2033 alone and when I got outside and started to see the creatures I was too scared and I quit. I played Dead Space and quit 15 minutes in. I just can't do it, I get way to immersed in the game and I get way to scared to proceed. The only way I can actually play the game is if I take my self out of it and just play it without caring about anything, which takes away from the enjoyment of the game.
Crazy I am an adult male who turns into a little girl when I play these things. Like scary movies don't bother me I don't see why games effect me so much.
Metro 2033 is NOT a horror game. Last Light is even less so.
Metro may have been very creepy at times, maybe somewhat scary, but definitely nowhere near horrifying. The Chimera, Nosalis and those Rat-bipedal-freaks creeped me out, otherwise not that many things remotely scary.
Otherwise, I somewhat agree with you. I have sort of the same problem. I cannot play horror games. I tried.. I played Deadspace, and even though I was scared and creeped out of my mind, I pressed on, and got through about 15% of the game. But eventually it really got to me and I had to stop. Don't get me wrong, if I really needed to, I probably could finish the game, but it would be very unpleasant for me - it doesn't feel good to me to feel tense, to jump every time I see a scare. Some people enjoy it, it's adrenalin, but I had too much adrenalin in my life as is. (lets just say it wasn't all that calm of a life at all)
I played Penumbra and Cryostasis a bit, but quickly stopped. Perhaps there is not that much horror in these games, but the psychological tension these games build up was unbearable for me. It's like I expected to see the most horrifying monster I could possibly imagine right around every next corner...
Amnesia I didn't even touch... Just reading the review already made me decide against it. Way too scary. How twisted did someone have to be to come up with the likes of a monster you can see in PewDiePie's avatar on you-tube? To me, that creature is probably the most horrifying thing I ever seen...
I do like mildly scary games though. I thoroughly enjoyed STALKER. All 3 of them. I dreaded every time I had to go deal with bloodsuckers, snorks and controllers, and the very atmosphere built up a strong sense of dread, but I didnt regret a second of it. It was a wonderful experience...
I think it's not cool, when your senses are so dull, that nothing scares you. It's almost like you lost a part of your humanity. Perhaps you've seen too many horror movies. Women screaming, getting raped, pools of blood, torn into pieces, monsters with heads of children with disfigured bodies, - whatever... But if you watch it and it doesn't get to you, you should be concerned. Why? There are many reasons, but aside from you missing a soul, at least one of them is that when I play a scary game, I get the full experience the devs intended, and I enjoy it, but you are like.. "Ehhhh... meh.." But then, why even bother? I hope what I am saying makes sense.
Scary games in themselves generally don't scare me, but I have been so engrossed in a game that jumpy parts have made me jump. I remember the first Resident Evil when the birds first crashed through the windows made me jump quite a bit..I might have even screamed.... A few spots in Amnesia as well. Silent Hill while it had disturbing images I never found scary...more annoying. I never cared for the gameplay in them..which is bad because the stories were always so odd.
I do think that future games using Occulus Rift could potentially be very scary if done right because you could be so immersed in the game and only see what they want you to see, vs looking at a screen. It could start a whole new category of horror games that actually scare the hell out of you and make you scream like a little girl.
The scariest thing to me about Shadow of Chernobyl was how NPC's would just quietly sneak up behind you or crouch around a doorway and blow you away with a shotgun blast.
I can't think of how many times I've snapped out of my chair and banged my knees on the keyboard tray because of that. Just totally unnerves me.
Fear and Metro 2033 didn't bother me, Doom 3 did some and Deadspace did for sure the little that I played due to (mouse and movement bugs). Though am scared of many scary movies.
The only thing that makes me scared, in movies and games, is ghosts. Show me scary monsters that jump out of a closet and I laugh, show me dismembered people still dropping blood and I smirk, show me crazy people in an asylum and I fart, but show me a ghost and I go to the nearest corner in my room, crumble into a little ball and suck my finger asking for my mom.
Saying that, the scariest game I've ever played was Fatal Frame 2 in the Playstation 2 (you can get it for the PS3 via the Playstation store if interested)
To me the difference between a scary horror game and a not scary one is usually guns. In games where I have offensive weapons, it's hard to get scared. In games where you don't have weapons (say like Amnesia) it's much easier to get creeped out because your main strategy is to run away like a girl. :awe:
I found Dead Space to have good atmosphere and setting from the first 5-6 hours I have played. But god damn the FOV is horrendous in that game, at least half my screen(1080) is taken up by character which makes it feel cheap when you get jumped as you cant see shit.
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