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Scariest Game You've Ever Played?
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Also thanks to the fellow that recommended the void, nothing like a little Russian gaming to make you hate yourself. My copy should be arriving next week, Pathologic will be installed shortly.
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Silent Hill 1&2
Fatal Frame: Crimson Butterfly
Dead Space
But believe me, there are probably more. I'm a big wuss when it comes to horror games.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
At first I thought you were saying Journey is scary and we wuz about to have WORDS, brah.
Then that guy screamed like a little girl.
Also, I booted up Pathologic and puttered around for a half hour. Goddamn, the atmosphere is that of unease, like something is just wrong with the town around you. Real sense of dread like in STALKER, but I sort of wonder whether or not I get anything a little more potent than just my handgun.
The translation is rather poor. I was warned of this frequently though, and honestly it kind of works in Pathologic's favor. I'll start the game proper with FRAPS to take some screenies.
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The worst part is most of his stuff probably dropped in the lava and is gone forever. He looks pretty far underground as well, that's going to be a long trek from the spawn point.
What I really want is a Fallout-esque rpg where you play a vampire hunter. And when the sun goes down, shit should get really, really bad. Vampires should be hard to kill and much more powerful than you. And if you want to get really crazy, have it so that you are the only one who even knows about them and you have maintain a level of subterfuge lest the general populace (and the law) consider you a horrible murderer.
The Collective, who made the original Buffy game for Xbox (which was awesome), were working on a game called Harker for a while, based off the Dracula character, but it got canned.
Look at you hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone.
Bioshock really toned the creepy down compared to that game.
"how can I help you sir" KABAM.
I accuse you of violently mis-remembering that game. Did you mean Chaos Bleeds? That was.... well still bad but not AS bad.
Diablo 1 scared the shit out of me, though. Probably because it was the first scary game I every played. When I opened the door to the Butcher I think I actually squeeled and didn't stop running until I got back topside.
Also as a Lovecraft fan, I really really want to play Cthulu: DCotE but I've heard the BC is terrible on 360. Has anyone played it that way and did it run alright?
I did and it seemed to be fine. Until the "running and locking doors" bit which made me throw the game out a window but that's mopre a design problem then anything else.
It's a shame, because there is some really awesome stuff in there. J. Edgar Hoover's finest video game performance.
Wasn't the Hacker the main character of System Shock 1, not 2?
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Yeah, I think I remember quitting the game due to a graphical glitch. Really enjoyed it until that point.
Oh well. That's what Youtube is for.
There are three basic options for playing this game: Original Xbox, Xbox 360 BC, and PC.
I've heard the 360 BC is the buggiest, as it maintains all the bugs the others have but throws on top other problems. Notably, I've read the music doesn't often play in some parts and certain things can corrupt your save. I've also read an update supposedly fixed most of these, but I can't confirm. I'd consider this your worst option.
I've heard the original xbox version is the least buggy (it was the first one released). I don't know what bugs it does have, but I've heard it doesn't have the ones that plague the other two systems. This would be a solid choice if you have an original xbox available, though the image quality is obviously poorer than PC.
I've personally only played the PC version, purchased through Steam. It has two notable bugs. At one point, the camera pans towards a lady, and the game will often freeze. Supposedly, this is caused by having too many processors (this is an old game), so changing the "affinity" for the game under task manager to only use one processor fixes this; it did for me. The other and most significant bug is one battle in which you have to hit some specific targets with a cannon, but the pc version often bugs out and makes them invisible. They are stationary, so you have to look up online where to blindly shoot in order to pass. This doesn't seem to affect all PC versions, as Helloweens' lets play did not contain this bug. If he reads this, please let us know how you managed this. Some people will also say the ending is bugged but it's actually just hard as balls.
They're not horrible bugs, as far as bugs go (don't need to no clip through bullshit like Vampire:Bloodlines), and supposedly an unofficial patch exists to fix even those, but I skipped it because I read it changes a lot of other unnecessary stuff to make the game easier. Either way, I still managed to beat the game and really enjoy it, I would pick it up if you can.
Sure, but that line is also a quote from the intro of SS2.
Also, Fatal Frame 4 is aces, really creepy stuff. Grasshopper was involved, and so far it's been a nice and tense little experience.
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But that level. That fucking level. Like someone mentioned earlier in the thread, it's what you never see that scares the shit out of you. I recently played it again when it came up for sale on Steam and I still found myself pausing every so often to calm myself down.
System Shock 2, Resident Evil, Siren Blood Curse, Condemned 1+2 and Clive Barkers Undying were all awesome too and are all still on my shelves.
Man. I need to dig up my undying CD.
The guys behind that level just need to settle down and make a game so I can never sleep again. I forget a lot about the rest of the game, but damn if the Cradle doesn't stay with you.
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Totally.
I admire the newer games' attempts at scare but I've gotten desensitized over the years. Amnesia is creepy as fuck, but I have yet to turn it off because I was too scared to continue.
It was pretty terrifying, although not quite as scary as I had heard it was.
There's one line from that article, though...the part about
That always gives me the goosebumps and makes me look around.
What are some classic gaming enemies/conventions that terrified you when you were younger?
I was inspired to make that topic when someone in a Reach party admitted to being too afraid to play MGS when he was younger an account of the ! noise. You've no doubt also heard people admitting to being afraid of the Sonic underwater drowning theme, or the Fantos masks from Super Mario 2.
I've even had a couple of people tell me they were terrified of a particular moment in Final Fantasy VI when
I especially remember an old friend saying he couldn't sleep that night because of that.
For me, it would have to be the first boss from Lifeforce on the NES.
Scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.
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I believe it is caused by running Vista or Windows 7. It should work fine on XP, but it'll bug out on newer OSes, making it essentially impossible to progress. You can just download a save to skip over it, though.
A little further on I ran into a gamebreaking bug playing it on the 360, not sure if it was unique to my save but I didn't have the will to restart. Played through fine later when I pulled out my oXbox.
(turn down volume for loud)
Playing with my best friend and his girlfriend, dark room, late at night. This happens, the g/f screams, falls off the bed, I throw the controller at the screen, and jump into my friends lap.
Man, scary games have given me so many good memories.
A fair few people consider Amnesia to be pretty similar to such a game.
To once again quote the fantastic article.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
When I was a little kid, this little game came out. Pilots were stranded on Fractalus, and if you didn't fly out and pick them up they'd run out of air and die on the hostile world.
Only problem was, there were aliens masquerading as pilots.
So you'd set down next to a beacon and a pilot would come running up in front of the ship. They'd knock on your airlock until you let them in. You could tell who was an alien at first, because they'd have a green face. Later on they learn that this is a dead giveaway and wear helmets just like humans.
If it was an alien... well, just look at the video. 4:49. Freaked me the fuuuuuuuck out.
And I was just a little kid.
If you left your airlock open or failed to raise your shields in time when they pounded on your windshield, they'd break in and kill you.
I've heard Amnesia doesn't quite stack up to the Cradle, but you can attribute that to a singular level having that much focus over a whole game.
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I don't think any single game could do that. It's very hard to keep stuff like that fresh over the course of an entire game. In the case of the Cradle, the suspense built up in the first half is because you are EXPECTING something. You'd have to shake things up and introduce different mechanics every level, or something.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
The fucking hands in Zelda
All things are subject to personal views. I think The Cradle conveys a really masterful atmosphere as well, and it really trumps some of the more modern examples of horror in gaming. I can't really find anything to be afraid of in say the modern Resident Evils, but I can certainly find something inherently wrong with not being able to see what's coming for you.
Some really interesting views in here, I gotta say.
And to the fella that's wanting to hijack, I say go for it. I'll accept all forms of nightmare fuel.
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