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Jomb Deddorokku                  Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 6315 days Last view: 6315 days |
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| I was just wondering, what is the scariest game you've ever played? Mine used to be the Silent Hill series, but after recently playing Siren, that's changed. As much as I love the Silent Hill series, Siren is just better on so many levels. Resident Evil has never been very scary to me, more startling. | |||
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Sinfjotle Lordly? No, not quite.     Since: 11-17-05 From: Kansas Last post: 6314 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| Fatal Frame. | |||
Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within  Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6317 days Last view: 6314 days |
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| The original Silent Hill. It sawed at my nerves so badly that I couldn't make myself finish the school...although I was playing on easy and had literally maxed out my ammo and I'd seen friends kill the boss and I therefore knew exactly what was coming. I just didn't want to face that THING myself. And the prickling radio and the music and the moaning demon children all combined to turn me into a quivering ball of OHNOES.
I love the Silent Hill games because they start out very ambiguously, with an ordinary person winding up in a freaky environment with little to no clue as to what is going on, and reveal a disturbing story in bits and pieces over the course of the game. The atmospheres and music are always very well-done, too. They inspired me to write a novel that didn't turn out too badly, methinks, and they're always fun to watch. (And I can't wait for the upcoming movie.) Too bad I'm too much of a wuss to get any good at the games, though...  |
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Jomb Deddorokku Since: 12-03-05 From: purgatory Last post: 6315 days Last view: 6315 days |
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| I really like both the 1st and 2nd Silent Hills myself, but they have a couple minor flaws. For example, if i see something really scary, and it starts chasing me, i know i'm safe if i enter a door somewhere or cross the "line" into a new game area. In Siren you cant escape simply by entering a new area, because the entire building or outdoor area or whatever has no loading screens, so no matter where you run to you can conceivable by chased down and found out, makes stealth more important and you have to be more deliberate with your actions. The enemy AI in Silent Hill is passable, but mostly the enemies dont do anything but walk back and forth and then run at you. In Siren each monster has its own thing it's doing independantly.
Silent Hill 3 was less scary to me because of the story line, i found it to be some kind of cheap lovecraft knock-off in that department, though it had cool levels and some of the monsters looked good. I never played Silent 4 (or any later than that if there are any), is it good? |
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Snow Tomato Snap Dragon  Since: 12-31-05 From: NYC Last post: 6334 days Last view: 6319 days |
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| Fatal Frame 2. I played this game for only ten minutes... and almost shit my pants like... ten times. I've got to get me a copy of that.
Resident Evil 4 scared the daylights out of me. No other resident evil game has made me actually scream out loud. That man with the chainsaw.. just... 
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem.. was a very well done game. It didn't scare me as much as Fatal Frame or Resident Evil 4... but when your sanity levels go down freaky stuff happens to your game. Like, flies will appear on the screen.. or your game will shut off and you'll be sitting in the dark for like 15 seconds. There will be dead people hanging on nooses from the ceiling. And if you walk near the bathtub... well I don't want to give too much away. I nearly fainted with the bathtub thing though. It's definatly one of the more creative horror games out there. The original Clock Tower scared me... but I was also like 10 when I played it. So, yeah.. hah. |
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Thoughtless [Danielle] Thoughtless is my secret lover [Danielle] *flutters eyelashes* [Thoughtless] SECRET IS OUT I miss my two pussies :( (Part II) Since: 11-17-05 From: PR Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| Doom 64.
Never finished it for the sheer reason that I didn't like palying it alone. Reside Evil 4 has made me jump many times and I can say that it is the first Resident Evil game whereas I actually like getting scared. This time, I don't have to worry about having a heartattack and screaming bloody murder because the camera is facing the wrong way. Sure as hell beats not getting those strange looks in my house when I start screaming "Holy shit! AH! Fucking, fuck!! Die Die Die, why won't this work!! Cabron!" *Turns off video game system* |
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Alastor Fearless Moderator Hero  Since: 11-17-05 From: An apartment by DigiPen, Redmond, Washington Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| Superman 64. Seriously, that game is freaking scary. You play it and then you're like "I had no idea people stupid enough to think this was a good idea even existed, let alone were the head of largish companies. That's very disconcerting." | |||
Apophis Ropa  Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| Clock Tower. First time I played it, I screamed like a whiny little bitch. My roommate thought it was funny as hell. | |||
HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| Some of them have startled me, but I don't think a game has ever actually scared me. Except SMB1 when I was like 6 or so and it crashed. The graphics got quite messed up in a rather scary fashion.
Although RE's controls are rather disturbing...  It controls like an FPS, but in the third person. I hate that. |
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Zem Permabanned. Flaming, trolling, reregistering. Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6636 days Last view: 6636 days |
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| The problem with Eternal Darkness was that after you'd seen them all, the sanity effects just became gimmicky. They never messed with you aside from giving you a false scenario when you entered a room, so they never actually interfered with gameplay. And you couldn't even keep your sanity low to make things interesting, since you started losing health. And then eventually you built the green healing spell and sanity became trivial.
It was a cool game, but it didn't stay scary for long and it had nearly no replay value. |
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Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6317 days Last view: 6314 days |
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Jomb - Ah...you're able to think logically about scary games.  When I'm on edge thanks to unsettling environments and sounds, and I'm not skilled at survival horror action, rational thought tends to vacate my mind. Even if I'm in no danger of dying, the overall effect of the game just gets to me. I could probably get freaked out by a purely exploratory puzzle version of Silent Hill with no enemies at all. I remember playing The 11th Hour (a game that takes place in a dilapidated abandoned house) late at night and getting nervous, and you can't die or otherwise lose. All you can do is fail at solving a puzzle.
I didn't care for the story of Silent Hill 3 much, either. One of the reasons I liked 2 best is that its story was about personal grief and pain, not (as you said) some Lovecraftian knockoff, and it offered no explicit explanation for the freaky crap ensuing throughout the game. This gave it a plausibility of sorts that something like "Cthulhu's buddy is living in my basement" lacks. Pyramid Head obviously doesn't exist in the real world...but there are real-life phenomena that could explain James' experience. Without spoiling Jacob's Ledder, I'll just point to it as an example of what I'm talking about and mention that it was an inspiration for the Silent Hill series. Speaking of Lovecraftian knockoffs, I watched some friends play Eternal Darkness and it just did not grab me. It seemed spooky and interesting, but I knew it wasn't going to scare me. A guy finds some weird artifact and turns into Skeletor! What am I ever going to do? *pretends to hide under the bed* As far as Silent Hill 4 goes, I liked it overall. It wasn't originally meant to be a Silent Hill game, so its gameplay is noticeably different. Basically, you go back and forth between your apartment and a portal to some other world. The world advances through different areas as you progress through the game. Every now and then, you'll have to return to do some item-based puzzle or another. The exploratory aspect is quite linear and action-oriented. I thought the action was fun and one particular level was especially creatively designed and creepy. It was also interesting examining the same items in your apartment as the game progressed and getting different commentary from the main character. However...the second half of the game chafed my ass because it significantly ramped up the difficulty and tedium all of a sudden. You have to go through the first half all over again with some, erm, annoying baggage. Your inventory is limited and similar items don't stack, and the only drop box is in your room. In the second half of the game, you'll oftentimes have to pick up several things in order to finish a level, and getting back to the room to take care of things is much more of a burden after the midway point. Thus, it got to be a chore, so I just said feh and read a plot guide. |
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dcahrakos   490 Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6530 days Last view: 6530 days |
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Originally posted by Dracoon definently...ive yet to play a scarier game...although Fatal Frame 3 looks alot scarier, but I havent played it. (edited by dcahrakos on 01-12-06 09:48 AM) |
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Cruel Justice I have better things to do. Since: 11-18-05 From: At my house! Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| If it's a game that I didn't make, I'd say...
Silent Hill has the best suspense... Carnevil has alot of terrifying things flashing in from different angles. It left me shaking the first time I played it and gave me some horrible dreams. That's the sign of a damned good horror game. It's scarier when you're trying to kill an evil Barney the Dinosaur wannabe when the camera dashes to the floor diagonally, as if you just stumbled and needed to get up. Some sights, sounds, whimsical characters turning evil in front of your face, a crapload of blood and gore staining the screen (you could see it drip off the zombies and stain them), very realistic reactions to the shotgun all add up to a disturbing, cartoonish game. I love games like this so much. I'm trying to make an FPS with some evil happy-go-lucky enemies and a cheerful (but bloody) atmosphere. If you get a chance to play this, make sure you have enough quarters! The intro/demonstration is badass, it has Rob Zombie's "Superbeast" tune playing while zombies get shot up, torched, and even deep fried! "Welcome to Rickety Town! Have some fun! Then eat your heart out on a sesame seed bun!" 
 (edited by [GGS] Cruel Justice on 01-12-06 04:07 PM) |
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Surverus Newcomer Since: 11-20-05 From: England Last post: 6687 days Last view: 6687 days |
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| I’m not a big fan of horror games because I really don’t enjoy playing them. Well I do enjoy it but they just scare seven barrels of shit out of me.
The first time I remember being scared on a game was when I first got Resident Evil. Took me two years to finish the game because I had to keep stopping. Silent Hill was the next I remember scaring me at all but this wasn’t too bad really because me and a friend completed it together I never had the game so I never played it on my own. I haven’t played many other scary games because I just can’t play them. I can’t complete Doom 3 because I just can’t play it for a long length of time . |
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Kailieann Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| Clock Tower (SHING SHING SHING SHING)
Don't cry, Jennifer |
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Cruel Justice I have better things to do. Since: 11-18-05 From: At my house! Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| ClockTower 3 was pretty fun. Realistic until Alyssa uses her magic bow...
75% of the time, there was no high-powered weapon to help you. Alyssa just ran away looking for an escape from the killer. Every now and then, she'd stumble, which really draws out the reality of it all. The only disappointment was the short length of the game. I beat it in 4 hours. (edited by [GGS] Cruel Justice on 01-13-06 11:46 AM) |
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Kasumi-Astra Flurry Since: 11-18-05 From: Sheffield England Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
It's a shocking game when you get past your memory of Ocarina of Time. When you hear the rattles as the skull kid starts invading Link's mind. Termina being destroyed. The music on the final day, in the clock tower and observatory. Link being trapped in a deku scrub's body. Majora's mask posessing the moon and finally the children running around in the field before facing the wrath of Majora's Mask, the final boss. It's a seriously freaky game because it's so unexpected. |
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Sin Dogan 860  Uoodo Original Blend Armored Trooper Votoms Canned Coffee! Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6317 days Last view: 6316 days |
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Rydain: I looked up Jomb and got this:
The scariest game of all time is...Ghosts n' Goblins!  What? The graphics and eerie sounds of the flying burritos freak me out. I couldn't walk around my house at night without being scared shitless. |
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Chaos Force Just drifting by... Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6317 days Last view: 6314 days |
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Scariest game ever? Tetris, definately Tetris
Seriously I never really though of any games to be scary, but a friend of mine when he was younger used to be deathly afraid of the game "Attack of the Killer Tomatos" for the NES... (edited by Synthrax on 01-14-06 12:08 AM) |
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Toxic 250 TOX4ADMIN  Since: 11-17-05 From: I'm keeping a list. Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| FEAR, the hot game out for the PC.
Seriously, this game freaked me the fuck out. I was playing with a friend, in relative darkness circa 12AM at his house, and there's this one part involving climbing a ladder, and the freaky girl that's on the box is standing at the top of it, and we literally yelled out loud various obscenities. The next morning, his dad came by and was like "did I hear you guys like yell last night?" That game actually made me afraid of ladders (in the game that is), because every time I was expecting the girl to be there. |
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