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Well a yesterday i was talking to RuYi and we got onto the subject of horror games.
Which ones make us jump, which we would never play in the dark and which we
just love to play.

For me its Doom 3 and Quake 4, i cant play those games in the dark...lol scares
the crap out of me and to tell the truth i hate playing them when am all alone.

But on the other hand i love RE4 and RE series in general, scary too but just
good as well.

So whats your favorite horror game? which one do you play in the dark or dont
play in the dark? and which game makes you jump?

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That latest FEAR demo scared me.

I'm a Silent Hill maniac. Any part of it is good. Tbh, I don't like shooters where everything is.. silent, then all of a sudden you get a heart attack.

RE4 is so creepy all alone and with headphones..-

I uninstalled it.

I played entire Doom 3 without lights, with a headphone, after 12 in the night home alone lol

Somewhere in the beginning of the game there is this monster that jumps trough the stairs as you walk on them and I screamed REALLY HARD and backed off from the monitor in one motion, throwing my headphones on the floor and turning on the light

And there was this part in FEAR (1) where you climb up some stairs to a ventilation shaft, and the moment your head enters the vent shaft this girls is RIGHT IN YOUR FACE and it scared the sh*t outta me lol

Favourite horror game would have to be Silent hill 1 / 2 though, but that's more tense than plain scary most of the time.

For me its RE4 when i really think about it, the parts were you have Los Ganados
after you in number.

But nothing EVER prepares me for this....scares me shitless each and everytime


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and this fight with the "right hand"

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Nah the chainsaw women were the scariest by miles.

^ Bella Sisters, they scared the hell out of me when I first jumped in the pit -.-; xD


Scariest is anything Silent Hill for me. You don't have an arsenal of weapons to just shoot the crap out of everything. Things are often not explained and you are left with your imagination to wonder and there are wtf monsters. Hell is win.

Heheh, true that.

And RE2 is the best RE there is imo. Didn't like RE4, tried to play it on a computer. :/

When I was younger I'd always play games at a friends house, and at that time it was Quake and Doom that were the scary games for me. Later, when I got more into videogames, I never bothered to replay them, and the only horrorgames I played were the Silent Hill and Resident Evil games.

Although both had me scared a bunch of times, I always thought the SH games were scarier. The story, atmosphere, and the the evil was more symbolic. I love Resident Evil, don't get me wrong, but its characters were trained people that knew what to do in situations like this. The creatures behaviour could be explained by the viruses and what not - in SH it was always so much more psychological and symbolic, and the fact I couldn't always explain what was going on and why made it more scary than the RE games. Besides that the characters were just average people without training that suddenly found themselves into that place (after receiving a letter from their dead wife what turf.)

Even so, if I had to pick one level that had me terrified from start until the end, it's the Shalebridge Cradle level in the stealth game Thief: Deadly Shadows.
That level is absolutely brilliant, it has everything a good horror level needs IMHO.

There were moments where I sat in dark corners and not daring to go further (I hid in a fireplace for over 10 minutes), and moments I really screamed in fear. The level is brilliant in every way. It doesn't need hordes of zombies and other creatures to scare you - I was scared even when there wasn't anything going on. The noises you hear, from squeaky doors to the cries of a baby, it won't fail to send chills down your spine and it won't give you a second of rest, nor the illusion of being safe. In the Shalebridge Cradle, you are always on your guard.

Garrett, the character, isn't a trained agent like in RE. He doesn't have the strength, nor the equipment to fight off hordes of monsters - it's best to avoid them. You feel vulnerable all the time, which makes it even more scary.

When I entered the building, I hated the darkness, I hated how I couldn't see anything or anyone until it was probably too late. Later, I stumbled upon a generator, and I was so happy. With a mechanical scream it started working and turned on the electric lamps, light I longed for so badly. And right then, I hated the light, and I would have done everything to make it go away, for now I could be easily seen by whatever remained there.

I thought to my self several times "I need to get out of here as soon as possible." When I did leave the Shalebridge eventually, I had explored every inch of it.
I think if a game or a level, designed to scare you, designed to make you hate it, achieves that, it has succeeded in it's every purpose.

OMG long post what turf.

The shed freak scare was nothing compared to the Shalebridge Cradle.

I forgot to mention I really got something against whatever wields a chainsaw.
The Chainsaw Freak in RE5 wasn't all that tough, but whenever he popped his baggy head up I'd make a run for it and let my co-op friend deal with him. When I played solo I pretty much turned the area into a mine field to make sure he'd be dead before he invaded my personal space. >>

I let my co-op partner deal with him, I kept my distance and dealt with the other Majini. Second time I had to meet him I brought a whole lot of mines. I made a whole trail of them kekekeke.

Heh Ru you always tell that story about the dark house and you sitting on every corner .

Can't help RE5 being stuck in my head.
Hmm.. Resident Evil 4.. Chainsaw Guy...
Can't remember all correctly, but I'm pretty sure that right after I saw him, my interest for the attaché case increased greatly.


I know lol. It's just so memorable.

RE4 is one of those games that I rather watching people play than playing it myself.

Fatal Frame 2 on PS2, one of tha most chilling game i played

I used to be scared of playing horror games. I watched my brother play RE4, but I grew intrest of it and played it for my wii. I'm not really scared, its more of the games like FEAR with crazy popups and stuff that get me freaked out. I could never play those games in the dark, unless im with someone else. Theres just this thing about having someone else with you that makes you grow steel balls to play games your most scared of. Zombie games are one of my favorite genres now Ghosts freak me out though..

None, games don't scare me, maybe something real would scare me but not that, it's just a game lol

Nothin like playing silent hill in the dark while your girlfriend is watching and YOU scream when something crazy happens. LOL

*shivers*

So true, when I played RE4 with my brother next to me it was ok, kind of creepy, but ok, then when he left I was playing it by myself and the suspense + the crazy mexican voices screaming "Forastero!! Te voy a matar" or whatever, just made me uninstall it ASAP.

Well new FEAR is scary. First one was too but FEAR 2 is more. Resident evils are pretty scary. And I have to admit that CoD:WaW zombie mode when played in dark and with high volume is pretty scary. Not too scary but scary in nice way. It gives nice vibes to game play.

I lend the first FEAR from a friend some time ago.



I didn't get further then the first map/level/... But I watched all the walktroughs on youtube. x]