Awesome games, indeed scary as hell. Can't wait for the Wii version but would have prefered it on the 360/ps3.
Printable View
Awesome games, indeed scary as hell. Can't wait for the Wii version but would have prefered it on the 360/ps3.
I'd say that the scariest for me was Thief III's Shalebridge Cradle, with the runners-up being areas like the cargo bay in System Shock 2. The Cradle level desensitized me to many typical horror devices, as I found F.E.A.R to be fairly tedious and not very scary.
An old game that I haven't played but have heard about is Enemy Zero. It is a Sega Saturn survival horror game on a spaceship filled with invisible aliens. Has anyone played this game?
http:////en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Zero
May I ask, being a person who hasn't played any of the Theif Trilogy. What is the storyline and what is so scary about the 'Shalebridge Cradle'?
Watch the 1999 movie 'House On Haunted Hill', specifically during the scenes in the basement/asylum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarathos
Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Mark
Yes, you´re right. It has been a while. Sadly I never played the first part...
A haunted asylum/orphanage what more could you ask for! The Thief games do a great job of making you feel how evil a place is, and no cheap tricks a truly haunting atmosphere that sucks the life right out of you. The games also really have a way of making you feel you are actually being there, Thief 3 uses unreal tech but the first two games use the dark engine, and no game can touch it's realistic feel, when you lurk in the night you can almost smell the fog. It aged brilliantly thanks to the fans;Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarathos
https://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8548/fppic03wk6.jpg
https://img444.imageshack.us/img444/7461/fppic02tg9.jpg
Unlikely candidate, I am currently playing King Kong and it's scaring the beejeezus out of me, these dinosaurs are terrifying alright, and the makers do a great job at what it would look like to be eaten by one of those puppies. They move and act incredibly lifelike, I hope they stay extinct because that is how I prefer them :sweatdrop:
Amazing game, movie2games projects are supposed to be bad, someone clearly hasn't been listening.
Project Zero! Of course! Fatal Frame, yes whatever you want to call it. Just how scary is this game? Well it has more to do with the mood and atmosphere. At the start in the mansion, it has a claustrophobic feel about it with winding corridors and strange dangling ropes etc. The places you go to have that real creepy feel about them. You're also only armed with a camera and you're not fighting zombies that you can blow brains out of with your thermo-powered railgun instead you fight ghosts that jump out of corridors, walls and doors. I now fear opening cupboards, small doors, wardrobes and entering Japanese shrines because of Fatal Frame.
That game remains one of the most haunting things I've played. I've got the first one for PS2. I still haven't passed it and I've had it since it came out in Australia, I even downloaded and printed around four or five pages of walkthrough for it but I've hardly touched it for quite some time.
I rarely have played it by myself and seldom (if ever) played it by myself at nighttime. When a mate of mine dared me to play it when he had never seen it before I had to comply. He asked repeatedly "How scary is the game?". But instead of answering I just switched the PS2 on and said no when he passed me the controller - instead I handed it to him, sat him down on the couch, turned the lights off (at night), pumped the sound up, closed all the doors and blinds and finally started him on a new game from the start. Then came the fear... :grin2:
Me and my bro got to the second night eventually but then we kinda left the game alone when it started to get really frightening. It doesn't have the gore and the blood as many other horrors, but the fear is in the very atmosphere of the room you are in - If you get what I'm talking about... probably not. :laugh4:
Heh, when we were playing it, just to lighten the mood, I'd crack jokes about it. Like "Why don't they just demolish the house?" or "Pfft, why didn't they just grab a hand-held video camera?".
Edit: A very scary moment that made me jump (not because of the atmosphere) was when I opened that wardrobe, a cutscene started and I knew it was going to be bad... the controller started shaking in my hands and then.... nothing there. There was a tape, voice recording of a previous team of explorers who had been there... as I reached out to grab it BAM! A mangled corpse of a journalist drops down and lands on my hand. My god that made me almost wet myself.
I am still too scared to play fatal frame so I have to resort the watching someone play it on youtube, and it's still scary.
.
Vampire Bloodlines. The haunted hotel scared the :daisy: out of me.
:end:
.
Thats rather similar to what happens in F.E.A.R. There is a water level where you have to adjust the level of water in a room so that you can swim into a dark pipe and go progress. But when you surface from the pipe, you are in a small room filled wth blood, and a door at the other end of the room has person on the other side but you can't quite see them. Obviously you have to wade through the blood and get to the door, which at first seems easy enough.When you get about half way, body parts start arising which prompts who to go faster and just when you are about to grab for the door handle, with high hopes of getting out of there, a skeleton launches itself out of the blood and tackles you backwards. I gave the game a rest after that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raz