Horror games actually horrifying?

[MeowTheMouse]

Silent hill was the creepiest most twisted thing I ever played, other than SH, I find games like amnesia as a joke. That is of course my own personal opinion.

 

[Deleted member 318366]

Resident evil 4 (GC version) scared the shit outta me a couple of times...but that was back when i was young lol.

 

[Thanatos Telos]

SCP Containment Breach, Amnesia, and Penumbra: The Black Plague.

 

[LockeCole_101629]

Silent Hill

those scene, fogs, everything
feel so small, cramp, suffocating with barely visible area.
omg...

I only play it for about 15mnts, and give up.
no, nope, NOPE. Good game? Okay... but NO.

 

[BlackWizzard17]

Sonic.exe play it

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

A note for Amnesia, if you find the original story bland like me, you can also invest in some custom stories that are quite scary.


Also, Cry of Fear, Afraid of Monsters, and Nightmare House 2 are quite scary as well. The first 2 are Half Life 1 mods, and the second is a HL2 mod.

 

[chavosaur]

I never had the chance to play silent hill, Ima pick it up on ebay ^.^
Resident Evil Revelations only truly scared me when I had to deal with those water creepers. They were so unnerving and the noises they made only made things worse >.>

 

[ShadowSoldier]

F.E.A.R (the first one) had me going pretty good. None of the shit was like BOOOM MOTHER FUCKER! but rather of how twisted it was. I mean the hallway scene.. shit that still haunts me. I am not ashamed to admit, I will never play the F.E.A.R games, I mean, look at this shit!



That terrifies me! It's not all big pop ups either. There's also that one game that was on the 360 that was pretty scary, Condemned I think it was called.

But as of late... I guess the only game that's really spooked me would be ZombiU, especially that damn nursery area.

 

[XDel]

It's fairly easy to find a good horror adventure...

...avoid the main stream offerings at all costs (as a general rule, with a few exceptions).

Take Resident Evil for example. A fun game series to play yes, but scary? Not in the least bit. The story is too sci-fi mixed with chinky comic book elements, and the voice acting in the old game also helped hinder the full horror experience.
This is what held Silent Hill back for me was the horrid voice acting.

Ironically I recall playing through Alone in the Dark years ago and being freaked out, then when Silent Hill and Resident Evil came along I felt a little disappointed. I thought to my self,"man with as good a graphics are, you'd think they could at least scare me half as good as an old DOS game did." Then again in Alone in the Dark you were alone. You were not busy in the diner chasing some female cop's hot tail, nor were you running around with a team of military trained what ever's trying to take down some giant corporation who had been performing unlikely experiments to comic book proportions.

I REALLY dig Eternal Darkness as it will mess with your head to be sure, but as far as really really really good Horror adventures, look no further than:





I'm honestly not sure if there is anything better than these two out there...

...if you want a genuine scare that is.

 

[Celice]

Someone suggested Spec Ops: The Line. I'm going to have to disagree with that being a "horror experience." It tries harder to draw a surreal landscape, realism warped with fantasy, and along with this unreliable footing, it also shocks the player with realistic depictions of war and confusion.

Mark the verb 'shock.' The game really has no greater horror value in this regard than the cheap jump scares, where most of the player's reaction is going to be from a non-expecting perspective. If you frequent any raw-upload site, you've already seen all the tricks the game tries to pull (grotesque depictions their fall-back card), and so it becomes some sort of cheap parlor trick that hardly moves you. It actually becomes an estranged satire of war, almost a parody, that makes it as comical as it is absurd. No, the only horror you'll find there is if you're naive and haven't bothered to really investigate what people do under traumatic conditions.

That being said, it is an interesting experience that I do suggest one try. It just isn't a horror experience.

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Aside, I still find it incredibly interesting how many people are unseated and feel scared, uncomfortable, and untrusting whenever they play The Stanley Parable. It's definitely an experience I suggest people try, as it's a free mod using the Source engine. It seems most of the horror comes from having many elements of perceived stability ripped from beneath the player, and puts direct emphasis on whether agency has a role in determining events. And whether you, as a player, have any chance to really have a meaningful experience--both within, and without, the game.

It's a true experience that many games utterly fail to attain. And it's horror in the same way that the early Silent Hill games are horror: they transfix your human eye on unreal conditions that betray your empathy and rationality, and seat you instead in a dark, devouring place that refutes all semblance of naturality.

 

[Qtis]

Half Life: They hunger? A good mod in the days, kinda scary. Probably due to me playing it mostly in the middle of the night :3

 

[weavile001]

slender sure is scary.
amnesia isnt is very scary.
resident evil 1,2 are one of the bests but the 5,6 are only action

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Slender is scary if you're a 3 year old girl.

 

[narutofan777]

well whenever i play dark souls and a skeleton jjumps at me I jump too.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Silent Hill 2 is pretty good although most games rely on jump scares instead of suspense and build up.

EDIT: Also Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. A very different Silent Hill game but really good, one of the better games for the Wii (it's also on the PSP but I can't attest to its quality as I played the Wii version).

 

[Hells Malice]

I'm sad that not a single person mentioned Corpse Party. Considering it is one of the very few horror games to actually be horrifying.
Barely any jump scares, just has you fucking terrified to progress for fear of brutal murder (which, hell, still happens on the good/true path).

I've never played a game that scared me until that. FEAR, SH, RE? What a joke, none of those are even remotely scary.

 

[Celice]

Here's a list of some horror games, with an explanation of WHY they're scary, that many people may not know about.

 

[AngryGeek416]

Resident Evil Remake. Best Survival-Horror game ever made hands down.

 

[The Catboy]

There are very few games that actually scare me and really it's only a few games Silent Hill 1-2, ZombiU, and Fatal Frame 1-2
Most games nowadays focus too much on action or jump out scares, which are only scary once, but then lose their charm.

Edit: I forgot about Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, nothing is scarier than psychological horror.

 

[Foxi4]

From experience I can recommend Fatal Frame - it's actually quite scary, even if it's mostly jump scares. The Calling is also pretty good if you're into that kind of games. There aren't a whole lot of good horror games out there.