August 9, 201015 yr I've been trying to think of good/decent games that are scary/horrific and there are not many rpgs/rpgish games here. What games am I missing? System Shock 2 Penumbra Condemned 1 and 2 Dead Space Silent Hill Fear Effect Shadow Hearts? ok, some of those could hardly be called rpgs, but they are fairly immersive nonetheless... is sanitarium a good game? Killing is kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there. and the other player is there. and it's just the two of us. and I put the other player's body in my van. and I am the winner. - Nice Pete.
August 9, 201015 yr Sanitarium is awesome. Add Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth to that list. I guess Cryostasis is pretty scary as well. And Alien vs Predator, especially the second one. Edited August 9, 201015 yr by Purkake
August 10, 201015 yr Stalker: SoC or CoP Thief: TDP Not RPGs either, of course, but they're good games. Edited August 10, 201015 yr by Zoraptor
August 10, 201015 yr Yahtzee made four horror point-and-click adventure games before he started working at The Escapist. They're really, very good and might be just what you're looking for. They're also completely free. 5 Days a Stranger 7 Days a Skeptic Trilby's Notes 6 Days a Sacrifice *** Bioshock, Doom 3, Stalker, Fear, Vampire the Masquarade: Bloodlines. That's all that comes to mind atm that's worthwhile.
August 10, 201015 yr Kinectimals http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Compone...t1.grid-6x2.jpg Truly, the face of horror. Edited August 10, 201015 yr by Orogun01 I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you.
August 10, 201015 yr VMBL? At least the haunted house part I think you are more likely to find point and click adventures with horror themes. Recently started on Still Life and Post Mortem. I have another rather unknown game, which uses spooky atmosphere to great effect without being an actual horror game, called 'The Void'. NecroVision? Sort of like Painkillers evil twin. “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
August 10, 201015 yr Sanitarium was hands down my favorite horror game. Doesn't Max Payne have some messed up baby crawling on the ceiling or something? As for RPG's, I remember Ravenloft in the old D&D goldbox being pretty solid.
August 10, 201015 yr Dead Space isn't scary. FEAR is just creepy. I hear Metro 2033 has its moments too. "Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"
August 10, 201015 yr Dead Space isn't scary. FEAR is just creepy. I hear Metro 2033 has its moments too. So do we categorize the games as just creepy, scary and horrifying?
August 10, 201015 yr Arkham Asylum had this moment where it convinced me my PC was about to die. I was both scared and horrified . Edited August 10, 201015 yr by Serrano
August 10, 201015 yr If your computer can somehow run it correctly, System Shock 2 is about as scary as it gets. "Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"
August 10, 201015 yr Kinectimalshttp://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Compone...t1.grid-6x2.jpg Truly, the face of horror. Indeed. In 7th grade, I teach the students how Chuck Norris took down the Roman Empire, so it is good that you are starting early on this curriculum. R.I.P. KOTOR 2003-2008 KILLED BY THOSE GREEDY MONEY-HOARDING ************* AND THEIR *****-*** MMOS
August 10, 201015 yr Alan Wake "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
August 10, 201015 yr Oblivion was pretty horrifying. Don't really want to play anything like it ever again, for sure. edit: Fallout 3 was creepy for a while when traveling through the sewers/subway. After a bit though the novelty wore off and it ceased being creepy. Edited August 10, 201015 yr by Slowtrain Notice how I can belittle your beliefs without calling you names. It's a useful skill to have particularly where you aren't allowed to call people names. It's a mistake to get too drawn in/worked up. I mean it's not life or death, it's just two guys posting their thoughts on a message board. If it were personal or face to face all the usual restraints would be in place, and we would never have reached this place in the first place. Try to remember that.
August 10, 201015 yr Fatal Frame series. Survival horror, though - not RPG. I feel a disturbance in the force. It's as though a hundred devs simultaneously facepalmed, and then fell silent bc the nda is still in place. twitter
August 10, 201015 yr Shalebridge Cradle level of Thief: Deadly Shadows Penumbra Clocktower The Suffering Kinda-sorta Incubation Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13.
August 10, 201015 yr AvP2 with surround sound and played in a darkened room could really hit the creepy, nervous atmosphere... "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
August 10, 201015 yr Author i've been hearing good things about fatal frame 2 directors cut, but it seems i'll have to track down a used copy if I want to play it... Killing is kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there. and the other player is there. and it's just the two of us. and I put the other player's body in my van. and I am the winner. - Nice Pete.
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