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Pasta OfDoom
SrsBsnsIndeed
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Posted - 2012.08.25 22:50:00 -
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I always enjoy a good horror game, but I've run into a problem recently. I've played the more mainstream ones, Dead space, FEAR, and such, as well as Amnesia, Penumbra, and things like that.
My problem is that the games scare the absolute **** out of me, up until I either a: get killed once or twice or b: avoid/kill my first 2 or 3 enemies. Then I cease seeing the enemies as frightening and just as a gameplay mechanic.
For example, I was making progress in amnesia painfully slowly. SPOILERS AHEAD (sort of) I eventually made it to the storage (up until now any encounters, whether they were purely cinematic like in the wine cellar, or like in the guest room and could actually kill me, had reduced me to a whimpering wreck.). Then, I opened the door where that one servant grunt or whatever is waiting, panicked as usual and hid in a nearby room. Then after changing my pants I got back to the game and decided to get past it, and while running I realized I could troll it with the table in the middle. I spent the next 2 or 3 minutes lowering my sanity and trolling the enemy, and from that point on I couldn't really be scared of enemies.
The problem is that this is really taking the fun out of horror game for me. After that, in the prison I basically sprinted through the entire thing trying to find the correct door to use the poison on. I'm about to enter the morgue, and I'm hoping that'll make the game a bit more frightening again, but the issue still remains that horror games lose the ability to scare me somewhat quickly.
So my question is, does anyone know a horror game that will terrify me all the way through, from beginning to end?
Also, post your experience with horror games here. I'm curious if anyone else is into them, and if there are any good ones I've missed out on. |
Alpheias
Euphoria Released Verge of Collapse
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Posted - 2012.08.25 23:28:00 -
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Play the game until you stop being scared, take a break at that point and continue later. I'd kill kittens and puppies and bunnies I'd maim toddlers and teens and then more |
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
1937
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Posted - 2012.08.25 23:29:00 -
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Silent Hill 2? |
Pasta OfDoom
SrsBsnsIndeed
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Posted - 2012.08.25 23:30:00 -
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That's the problem, once I stop being scared with a game the game is basically pointless. I've been waiting to play amnesia again, tried it for a little and not much. Although I am looking at a game called The Path, it seems interesting. |
Nerath Naaris
Pink Winged Unicorns for Peace Love and Anarchy
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Posted - 2012.08.25 23:55:00 -
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I never felt scared playing so-called horror shooters like the fabled FEAR or Doom. My guess is that being afraid simply does not fit at all with the image of the elite soldier that basically kills everything in sight.
I had better luck with "sneaky" games, the scariest episode I had in a game so far was the infamous Shalebridge Cradle from Thief 2: Deadly Shadows followed by the Oceanside Hotel in Vampire: Bloodlines.... all without blowing up a gazillion of zombies or w/e. Or perhaps it was exactly the lack of constantly having to blow up something that allowed me to concentrate on the atmosphere. Forum-unbanned since 2011.10.20. |
Shalia Ripper
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Posted - 2012.08.26 03:13:00 -
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TBH, the original Half Life creeped me out more than FEAR and the like. And it did it WITH THE LIGHTS ON! Why can't I just delete my signature CCP? WHYYYYYYY? |
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
1939
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Posted - 2012.08.26 03:16:00 -
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You want to play a scary game, play Catherine... what the hell is wrong with japanese people? |
Selinate
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Posted - 2012.08.26 03:32:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:You want to play a scary game, play Catherine... what the hell is right with japanese people?
FTFY |
Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.08.26 03:48:00 -
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horrors games aren't even scary. random things jumping out at you isn't scary its shocking. |
Bommel McMurdoc
East Khanid Trading Khanid Trade Syndicate
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Posted - 2012.08.26 04:42:00 -
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oh man, I dunno if I'd ever rank any other game quite as fearsome as Doom 3. I got that game when it first came out, didn't know what to expect and every turn I would just go "oh god oh god oh god." Kind of put me in the frame of mind as if I was on the Nostromo (you better fricken know what i'm talking about!) and the xenomorph pops out and nabs me. It got to the point where I would just save the game and chill out before going back to it.
after Doom 3, it's been rare to get spooked like that. as herping yourDerp mentioned, it just becomes "shocking" than being scared. |
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Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2012.08.26 04:45:00 -
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Herping yourDerp wrote:random things jumping out at you isn't scary its shocking. While that is true that shocking a fear is different. Fear can come from worrying about or where you will be shocked. |
Bommel McMurdoc
East Khanid Trading Khanid Trade Syndicate
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Posted - 2012.08.26 04:58:00 -
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I just remembered something...
Bioshock... Yeah... That game scared the crap out of me.
Bear with me for a moment, I'm hard of hearing, Just got a cochlear implant, sounds are relatively new and I'm still learning how to differentiate them. Anyway, there's a place in there where some fricken guy is always laughing and every time he laughs I get spooked and would spend like 10 minutes scanning everywhere looking for the guy. Needless to say, I found the sucker, Saved game, shot him with EVERY BIT OF AMMO I had. Reloaded, killed him with one shot and moved on. |
Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2012.08.26 05:02:00 -
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Bommel McMurdoc wrote: Anyway, there's a place in there where some fricken guy is always laughing and every time he laughs I get spooked and would spend like 10 minutes scanning everywhere looking for the guy. Needless to say, I found the sucker, Saved game, shot him with EVERY BIT OF AMMO I had. Reloaded, killed him with one shot and moved on.
Bommel McMurdoc + Comedy Club = CNN Breaking News.
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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
1940
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Posted - 2012.08.26 05:11:00 -
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Alara IonStorm wrote:Herping yourDerp wrote:random things jumping out at you isn't scary its shocking. While that is true that shocking a fear is different. Fear can come from worrying about or where you will be shocked.
Only if you're a console tard |
Webvan
State War Academy Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.08.26 05:17:00 -
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Selinate wrote:Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:You want to play a scary game, play Catherine... what the hell is right with japanese people? FTFY *chuckles* actually that means about the same thing.
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Anyway, drug use? Or how about lighting candles in the dark and screaming into a mirror for five minutes before play? Married? Have a mother in-law, place a framed picture of her next to the screen? I don't know, none of it works for me... |
Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2012.08.26 05:17:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Alara IonStorm wrote: While that is true that shocking a fear is different. Fear can come from worrying about or where you will be shocked.
Only if you're a console tard Yes because Surfin will not be afraid of the heart attack that will be induced by her seething hate towards consul gamers.
Just shocked by it. |
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.08.26 05:20:00 -
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Alara IonStorm wrote:Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Alara IonStorm wrote: While that is true that shocking a fear is different. Fear can come from worrying about or where you will be shocked.
Only if you're a console tard Yes because Surfin will not be afraid of the heart attack that will be induced by her seething hate towards consul gamers. Just shocked by it.
Well it would certainly prove my hypothesis of console gamers being weak |
Bommel McMurdoc
East Khanid Trading Khanid Trade Syndicate
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Posted - 2012.08.26 05:23:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Alara IonStorm wrote:Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Alara IonStorm wrote: While that is true that shocking a fear is different. Fear can come from worrying about or where you will be shocked.
Only if you're a console tard Yes because Surfin will not be afraid of the heart attack that will be induced by her seething hate towards consul gamers. Just shocked by it. Well it would certainly prove my hypothesis of console gamers being weak
"Lenin' would be proud of this comment. =P |
Alara IonStorm
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Posted - 2012.08.26 05:35:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Well it would certainly prove my hypothesis of console gamers being weak Remember when video game players were the ones who were weak.
No that everyone plays games you would think that would make everyone equal.
**** no, we'll redraw the lines. |
Evelyn Meiyi
Meiyi Family Holdings
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Posted - 2012.08.26 06:56:00 -
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Pasta OfDoom wrote: Also, post your experience with horror games here. I'm curious if anyone else is into them, and if there are any good ones I've missed out on.
I don't as a rule, play horror games -- I'm too jumpy to really enjoy them. Parasite Eve , though, was one that really got me. Eerie, atmospheric and unpredictable. I had to stop playing ten minutes in because I was too tense.
That said, the second one was...not scary at all. It was more of a monster shooting gallery with a tacked-on story. |
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Saint Lazarus
Pwn 'N Play Nulli Secunda
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Posted - 2012.08.26 19:55:00 -
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Try playing DayZ.
The zombies WILL eventually stop scaring you when you learn how to deal with them.
But other people? they're always scary, you might go hours without seeing or hearing anything, so random shot whizzin past your face tends to evoke quite the reaction.
Any single player game will eventually get old, there isnt much you can do about it, though I found Amnesia held up pretty dam well, a more varied selction of baddies would have helped tbh |
Charles Baker
Estrale Frontiers Project Wildfire
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Posted - 2012.08.26 21:50:00 -
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FEAR wasn't scary, it was a Psychological horror intended to make you think (the birthing scene in particular if anyone remembers it was interesting) however as the series went on it went downhill, i didn't even bother with three, even after Alma raped me at the end of 2 :( i would give a recommendation to silent hill 2, however i'd also recommend you don't use guides and don't have any friends tell you about the game first, because that ruined it alot for me. |
Jett0
Surface Warfare Tribal Band
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Posted - 2012.08.27 01:34:00 -
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Hands down, Amnesia is the scariest game I've ever played. It's true, though: It relies mostly on fear of the unknown, so if you die enough times, the monsters lose their effect. Still pretty amazing, especially for an indie company.
Maybe the sequel will have better AI.
If you like ghost stories, give Fatal Frame II a shot. Occasionally plays sober |
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
1946
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Posted - 2012.08.27 02:01:00 -
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Saint Lazarus wrote:Try playing DayZ.
The zombies WILL eventually stop scaring you when you learn how to deal with them.
But other people? they're always scary, you might go hours without seeing or hearing anything, so random shot whizzin past your face tends to evoke quite the reaction.
Any single player game will eventually get old, there isnt much you can do about it, though I found Amnesia held up pretty dam well, a more varied selction of baddies would have helped tbh
I met a total ass in that game. We took cover up in a tower and he was out of ammo so, me being the awesome person I am, I give him some ammo. Then he shot me and took all my stuff
Later I was driving around a truck mounted AA gun and I saw him in the airport control tower through the window. I parked the truck and got in the BFG and proceeded to process him into a state where the zombies could just use a straw |
Omega Sunset
Caldari Roughnecks
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Posted - 2012.08.27 03:31:00 -
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I don't know about "scared" but EQ1 used to give me the creeps. But that was before they added maps and made most MOBs easy to outrun. Now faydark and such places, you can almost see kittens wrestling in the distance if you look hard enough Quick! run to the pok book for protection from teh kittens! Yeah... |
Brujo Loco
Brujeria Teologica
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Posted - 2012.08.27 16:13:00 -
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Pasta OfDoom wrote:That's the problem, once I stop being scared with a game the game is basically pointless. I've been waiting to play amnesia again, tried it for a little and not much. Although I am looking at a game called The Path, it seems interesting.
*Edit* I've played bits of Silent Hill at a friend's house, never really seemed that scary. It was a fun game, it just wasn't as scary as I had hoped.
The Path is a "experimental" game, I have finished it, and ... well. its entertaining , but a bit open ended.
If you really want a game to frighten you, I COULD recommend some, but they are so old the UI might be bonkers to you or the low graphics might put u off.
DARK SEED is to this day one of the most bizarre and scary games I have ever played, the ending is .. well, special, (wont spoil anything) and to top it off it has a direct H.R. Giger art theme over it.
Problem is, the game is OOOOLD ... but if you look around the screenshots you can find in google of it you will see why some people like me, cherish this little game.
Others that are kinda scary in the fact they are interactive Gore B movies , are called Phantasmagoria 1 and 2. But alas, also OOOLD.
Games like Fear, Dead Space, blah blah ... they just end up being 3rd person shooters of zombies. Thats why you get into mental lockdown.
For horror, I can recommend those two heartily in that they were made before the stupid mold of placing everything in DOOM style layouts.
Give a try to Clive Barkers Jericho and forget the GAMEPLAY (wich is atrocious sometimes) and just focus on the story, which is marvelous. But if the gameplay annoys you too much then you wont enjoy the story, I just played it to listen to the narrator and see how events unfolded, very nice solid story there, up to this day the Karma Bomb concept is appealing to me.
As a fourth option .. I could give u a a hint ... but that game is a game I have avoided playing purposefully. To play it is to enter a world of madness, yet only some people can give you the key. I can give it to you, for a price. Im one of the keykeepers, but alas, I dont know if you would be up for it. ...
Inner Sayings of BrujoLoco: http://eve-files.com/sig/brujoloco |
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