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Dissapointed Owl posted:Cross-post from the General Chat Thread as this seems the most likely place for people to have played the game in all of Games. There used to be a thread for horror games, then there weren't any non-lovely horror games so the thread died. This trend seems to have reversed somewhat in the past couple years so here's another thread!  Now SPOOKTACULARLY updated with brand new imagORY for the year Two Thousand and SixSCREAM! OOoooooo! (MOSTLY) RECENT RELEASES Until Dawn  Thread here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3728551 PS4 exclusive, basically a slasher film in video game form.  Soma  Thread here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3742659 Frictional's (the makers of Amnesia: The Dark Descent) Next Big Thing. Not as heavy on the horror but really good and contemplative. Alien: Isolation  Thread here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3642590 This came out and is actually really good, I'm happy to be wrong about my expectations. The hiding from other humans parts I'm not too hot on but it's a really tense game in the vein of Amnesia: Dark Descent. The Evil Within  Thread here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3672159 Among the Sleep  This was a really cool idea put together by a small Norwegian studio. It finally released at the end of May 2014, after a successful Kickstarter ended in May 2013. You play a child (a literal child, not a manchild) and wake up one night to find something is wrong in your dark and spooky house. As far as horror goes, this wasn't in my top 10 as it's not particularly scary throughout, but instead it ended up being a really touching story. There are some platforming elements but I didn't find them too annoying, and the game isn't long enough to overstay its welcome.   Outlast  This is the loud, in your face, found-footage entry to the horror game scene. It's basically the V/H/S of horror games, it tries to shock and throw a bunch of stuff at you and there's not much subtlety to be found. Many people found it annoying, but I loved it for those reasons. This is one of the few horror games I've played recently (during the last year anyway) that's given me feelings of dread. Sure there are a lot of jump scares, but they mostly work.   -addon for Outlast: Outlast: Whistleblower DLC  I haven't played this yet, the general consensus seems to be it's just more Outlast. So if you like Outlast you'll probably like it. It's supposed to take place right before the first game. Amnesia: The Dark Descent  This has been out forever now and you probably know about it, but it's horror done really well. I'd go so far as to say this is already a classic in the horror games genre. You need to play this if you have even a passing interest in horror games.   Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs  The name Amnesia, the engine, and time period/setting are about the only things this one has in common with Dark Descent. It's made by The Chinese Room and not Frictional, so the story is a lot more Dear Esther and a lot less Dark Descent. If you liked Dear Esther, and also like overwrought narration about the plight of the bourgeoisie in 1800s London you might like this way more than I did.   Anna  I finally bought it because it was on Steam for $2. It's a story heavy horror adventure with some great concepts that just falls apart in the gameplay. It takes all the worst things about old adventure gaming logic and marries it with a painfully clunky interface. Even the Extended Edition, which was recently released and has improvements to the inventory and controls, is a chore to use. Still it has some good ideas buried in the mess, some uniquely done scares, and an overarching theme touching on women's roles in society throughout history. If you love working through difficult puzzles you might get something out of this.    al-azad posted:Now let me tell you about my other favorite game, Scratches. RightClickSaveAs fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Apr 30, 2019 |
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UPCOMING HORROR GAMES Routine (expected release date: who knows, sometime in the next year maybe)  There's a team of only 4 people making this and it's been in development a while. The fact that it will use permadeath kinda worries me, but maybe it will work really well within whatever the game turns out to be, there hasn't been new info in a long time. The 80s sci-fi aesthetic looks totally rad. And tubular. I've always wanted to hack into a space station computer using Tandy equipment (this may not actually happen in the game, but still. FLOPPY DISKS. TAPE STORAGE. RETRO-FUTURISTIC.)   Just look at that blocky CRT monitor  Alpha Gameplay Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAcAd1fUiy8 Asylum (release date: who knows, 2014 sometime maybe  The creatively titled game from the makers of Scratches. Hey at least they're embracing the whole thing and being completely upfront about where the game will take place. Another Kickstarter project which successfully funded February 2013. There was a Kickstarter update in May about how they're switching the game to Unity, so that probably will add to the delay. "Asylum is a chilling journey through the intricate floors of the Hanwell Mental Institute, in which unimaginable atrocities have occurred in the past. Over four years in production, this horror adventure aims to marry cutting edge visuals with thrilling storytelling to give you the ultimate experience in fear. From the designer of the award-winning and cult sleeper hit Scratches."  
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AllLuckySevens posted:Recently downloaded dreadout on steam. Seems like a fatal frame-esqu experience, I'll update with impressions. Any FF fans here? Always loved the idea I never played Fatal Frame though so I can't compare it that way.
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I forgot about Asylum and The Evil Within, I'll add those to the list. This is shaping into a decent year for horror games.Niggurath posted:It's just a shame that it got released so half-assedly....and with the unnecessary skeezy costumes. Seriously, what was the point in those?
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Hellburger99 posted:I just played through and "beat" Knock Knock. It's not really as scary as some of the other entries in this thread, but I like the atmosphere it builds and the sound work is top notch. The game is built like sleep-over/rite of passage style games kids play at sleepovers, like Bloody Mary or One Person Hide and Seek, so if you're interested in sorta urban legend, folklore-y stuff, it might be up your alley. And speaking of Ice Pick, there was a rumor several months ago they were going to be remaking Pathologic and using Kickstarter for it, but there hasn't seemed to be any news since then.
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Hakkesshu posted:I'm pretty sure they've already shown the drinking bird  Also  Also Scratches was good, I loved exploring the mansion, but I hated some of those puzzles. I just don't have the patience anymore, and that game is a prime example of my love/hate relationship with adventure games. It's cheap on Steam and goes on sale all the time as well. RightClickSaveAs fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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It's probably worth mentioning that if you get Scratches: Director's Cut, which is what's on Steam, don't expect too much out of "The Last Visit", which is an extra "chapter" that was added. It's only a few minutes long and has a dumb ending. You might as well check it out if you have it, since it won't waste much of your time, but it doesn't add much.al-azad posted:Now let me tell you about my other favorite game, Scratches.
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Barfing Cumlord posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2p_fwvOKKA
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Fingerless Gloves posted:A horror game I regret playing is Doorways. If you haven't played it, the storyline is something along the lines of you are a detective who can enter people's minds to understand their crimes or something along those lines. It's basically an first person adventure that takes lots of inspiration from Amnesia, but without their skill. e: finished Chapter 2, it's not the worst thing I've spent $3.50 on, but it's pretty dull. There is a lot of backtracking and jumping puzzles. The other puzzles aren't too bad and are mostly intuitive, but they like to hide things in weird places for a few of them. RightClickSaveAs fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Jul 6, 2014 |
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Fingerless Gloves posted:The puzzle with the statues and spears was a pretty good idea, but really random at times. I'm sure I dashed past ones which caught me on other runs. The statues were a pretty good idea in general, but I could have done without walking through that same corridor full of them 4 times. Changing the move speed on you throughout the game is one way to control the pacing I guess, but takes control away from the player more than I like to see.
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Outlast and the DLC are on sale for $5 and $4.50 on GamersGate: http://www.gamersgate.com/games?prio=relevance&q=outlastpromo That's about the price it was during the Steam flash/daily sales.
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The Dead Space series in general dropped the ball early by making you such a killing machine so quickly, which ruins most of the tension and turns it into an action game. Which is fine if it's an action game, but they tried to sell it as a horror game, which it is not in this reviewer's eyes. |  JordanKai posted:Miasmata sounds like it would be right up your alley.
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Not as good as that picture, but I'm pretty pleased by it I started a contest in the PGS Steam gifting thread to give away a Steam key for Neverending Nightmares (alpha access now, beta access and the full game when it comes out this fall), if anyone is interested: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3513572&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=696#post431988541
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All the parts of Silent Hill 4 that take place in the apartment are so well done they almost carry the rest of the game. Using a first person perspective for the first time to force you into that space, and then slowly taking away your feelings of safety throughout the game was masterful. I don't remember any other parts of the game though.
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Spacedad posted:I think the biggest problem with a lot of horror games (the ones that are very seriously attempting to be scary) is that too many of them are rational, when the biggest strength horror games have is when they drag you deep into a feeling of being in a totally irrational fever dream. I think a lot of them cling far too much to the structure of a linear game where you are meant to do things that make sense, such as solving puzzles or defeating enemies. Or even where you can just plain 'die' and then respawn from your save. The Silent Hill games did that really well too, especially in 2 where James keeps running into these random weirdos and having bizarre conversations, although I was never sure how much of that was due to translation issues.
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Doom 3 works better as a horror game than as an FPS, there are definitely a lot of good horror moments. The problem is it gets too tedious, and the scares start to be telegraphed.
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It looks like there was a teaser trailer released a few months ago for Draugen, the Red Thread Games project that was confusingly announced during the Longest Journey: Dreamfall: Chapters: Part 1 - Rapidly Expanding Title Kickstarter was in full swing so no one really noticed or cared. So, "2015" sometime maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74aA2rbU45Y (turn down your speakers at the end there's a super obnoxiously loud music/noise sting) quote:Gone Home meets Amnesia in a story inspired by Norse mythology, Norwegian fairy tales and national romanticism, Dostoyevsky, Hamsun and H.P. Lovecraft.
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al-azad posted:I've sung the praises of Anna and it's a shame the atmosphere is wrapped around an obtuse game because it has the best scares I've seen in a video game.
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Soho Joe posted:Lone Survivor is a 2D zombie game with a survival/thriller focus that will absorb your soul if you let yourself get immersed in it.
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Cardiovorax posted:Sanity basically runs on how much you stay in the dark and how much you look at monsters. It restores every time you finish a main objective. I'm not gonna spoil more than that, because it's honestly a really good game and you'd miss out on the experience. Just know that light is your friend, but also your enemy. Because things can see you when you're in the light.
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al-azad posted:What really nailed Half-Life 2's atmosphere for me is the idea that an alien race would use parasites as biological warfare. The concept is seen in classic horror like War of the Worlds where the Martians spray their goo to change the landscape but I've never really seen sci-fi that had the enemy bombard entire cities to turn them into alien zombies. And there's nothing you can really do to combat it because headcrabs are like cats, they can fit anywhere.
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weekly font posted:Yeah this is great and the first "I'm scared video" ever iirc. It was probably genuine and TDD can actually be that scary. Unfortunately it started a trend and people feel the need to turn every scary game into four hours of this now. Here's my favorite one called "Brad finds an iron maiden" that also seems really genuine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=env3EtA7KXQ
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Alabaster White posted:That's like, the fakest-sounding screaming I've ever heard, and the situation isn't even the slightest bit scary. If you watch this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVmxR4P4Uzw it doesn't sound like he's trying to be a fake scream guy, I think the game just genuinely wound him up to that point, he seems pretty sincere in all the videos. If not then I'm dumb and completely bought into it. RightClickSaveAs fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Aug 5, 2014 |
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BlueDestiny posted:Sounds like Outlast, since that's the only horror game I know that lets you look behind you while running. I remember thinking how scripted that all looked when I first saw the trailer, and it was, but I still really liked the game.
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Does it seem like top-down indie horror games are suddenly starting to pop up on Steam, or am I just now starting to notice them? Darkwood looks like the one that's getting the most attention, but I've seen a few new ones in the past couple months or so, Motte Island and Blackbay Asylum being two examples. I don't know how good they actually are though.
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woodenchicken posted:I dunno if it's cool to post about these things here, but the first teaser trailer for the Pathologic remake is now up, and they seem to be ramping up to an ARG over at http://feverishfeeling.com Fojar38 posted:This was also posted several days ago but I get the feeling most of those houses were resistance shelters rather than residential homes when they were bombarded. The Combine don't often use headcrabs because they are difficult to control and can actually pose a problem for their own occupation forces if it gets out of hand (which we started to see in Episode 1 with infested Combine soldiers.) Headcrab bombardment is intended to be a terror tactic, and its deployment against members of the resistance is intended to set an example of why you shouldn't resist the Combine. The Combine can just use regular old footsoldiers or bombardment if their goal is strategic. So, those houses and whatnot were resistance bases, not just average joe civilian homes, and Ravenholm was a massive resistance stronghold before it was bombarded.
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Bieeardo posted:Del Toro's done 'The Strain' recently... which really isn't saying much.
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Outlast had a bunch of what I considered jump scares that worked for the game. Especially the first couple, going into the library and having the body swing in front of your face while a super loud noise plays. That one was definitely a jump scare, although you knew something was going to happen, the suddenness of it and the fact that there's no actual danger (yet) puts it in that category. And then right after that, as you squeeze through the narrow opening in the hallway, you get grabbed by the big Sergeant whats his name guy and thrown down to the bottom floor. That one is also unexpected and suddenly thrusts you into a whole new, unknown area of the hospital, which I found really terrifying. The jump scares in general worked really well on me, there's tons of scripting but it's well orchestrated and spaced out pretty well too.
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The lobby is so tense. You're in a big, exposed part of a completely unfamiliar area, you don't know exactly what's going on yet, and the whole place is just full of shadowy corners that could be hiding anything. It took me a while to get up the nerve to start finding my way around there.
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I seem to remember hearing complaints about Outlast being obnoxious here and there, particularly complaints about the jump scares, but I don't have any specific reviews in mind. I loved the game.Ularg posted:(I actually don't mind Markiplier, he doesn't do the screaming or rape jokes that pewds does and he's usually funny as a regular player thing)
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adamantium|wang posted:The demo version is the first two nights. The first to get you to understand the mechanics, and the second ramps up the difficulty and starts to change the rules on you. Dude bases his entire review on the tutorial half of a demo.
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I liked Knock knock enough for a couple plays (I still never got the good ending, the game is pretty hard), but it got pretty tedious. The randomized outside areas didn't help, I swear I was wandering around in the woods for a good five minutes once before the house popped back up. In related news I discovered that I'm too much of a wuss for Five Nights at Freddys. The game is nerve wracking. I finally got to night 3, but that's after a few tries and playing during the daytime.
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Bulkiest Toaster posted:I just heard about this game called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. It looks like some sort of spooky adventure game where you play a detective who can talk to the dead trying to find some kid who went missing.
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mr sad posted:I'm surprised this thread hasn't spent more time talking about P.T./Silent Hills. I just heard about it on the Rooster Teeth podcast and spent the next twenty minutes reading about it. Even looking at still shots of the game had me creeped out. And it seems like Silent HillS is a ways off still, so who knows how it will turn out. I'm not holding my breath too much, especially if it goes console exclusive.
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Yardbomb posted:To be honest Amnesia just didn't do it for me at all. I loved the Penumbra games so when I saw those dudes were making Amnesia, I was pretty hyped for it. I don't regret giving them my money and all cause hey, I like their games and now their new one looks really good, but something about Ye Olde Spooky Castle™ just didn't work for me and I'm always a little disappointed that their game I liked the least blew up harder then the others. Hakkesshu posted:That's weird, because I never even knew there was a sanity "meter" and an accompanying fail state in Amnesia until I read about it on the internet long afterwards. It seemed entirely organic to me, and I never worried about maintaining it at all.
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Most of those bundle games look very not good, but I'm considering getting it for Lucius and giving the other keys away or something. Lucius hasn't been on sale yet for $5 that I've seen. I've heard it's a mediocre game, but hey, it's a fairly recent horror. The premise is kinda neat, you basically play Damien.CottonWolf posted:Neverending Nightmares hits on the 26th of September. I'm debating having a Kickstarter horror month, with that, then replaying Knock Knock and Pathologic. This game is going to be awesome. I backed it and I've been playing the builds as they come out, it's currently in beta with a full playthrough and looking fantastic. I'm probably going to start a separate thread for it soon, it's that good. I have a feeling it's going to get dinged in reviews due to the length (about 1-1/2 hours) and lack of traditional gameplay, but it's a tightly focused and incredibly unique experience with a lot of attention to detail. I really haven't seen anything like it.  
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Oxxidation posted:That is some extraordinarily bad voice acting, good Lord.
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ladyboy pancake posted:Contrary to what I expected, watching videos of Five Nights at Freddy's did not actually prepare me for playing it.
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Sad Mammal posted:The monsters are called Abstract Daddies and they're meant to symbolize the heavily implied Angela's rape by her father. If you've never seen Translated Memories, which is a translation of a Japanese guide book that goes into detail on all the monster designs and such in the Silent Hill games, check it out here: http://www.translatedmemories.com/book.html This is the one for the SH 2 monsters: http://www.translatedmemories.com/bookpgs/Pg48-49SH2Creature.jpg
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