entrerix Posted August 9, 2010 Posted August 9, 2010 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.
Purkake Posted August 9, 2010 Posted August 9, 2010 (edited) 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, 2010 by Purkake
Zoraptor Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 (edited) Stalker: SoC or CoP Thief: TDP Not RPGs either, of course, but they're good games. Edited August 10, 2010 by Zoraptor
Serrano Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 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.
Orogun01 Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 (edited) Kinectimals http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Compone...t1.grid-6x2.jpg Truly, the face of horror. Edited August 10, 2010 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.
Gorth Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 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
Hurlshort Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 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.
WILL THE ALMIGHTY Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 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!"
Purkake Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 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?
Serrano Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 (edited) Arkham Asylum had this moment where it convinced me my PC was about to die. I was both scared and horrified . Edited August 10, 2010 by Serrano
WILL THE ALMIGHTY Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 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!"
I want teh kotor 3 Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 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
Wrath of Dagon Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 Alan Wake "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
Slowtrain Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 (edited) 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, 2010 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.
deleteduser Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 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
Oner Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 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.
Raithe Posted August 10, 2010 Posted August 10, 2010 AvP2 with surround sound and played in a darkened room could really hit the creepy, nervous atmosphere... "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
entrerix Posted August 10, 2010 Author Posted August 10, 2010 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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