|
I was just about to make a Scary Games Month 2014 thread and then I found this thread, and I'm glad I did! I'm playing through Outlast and its DLC this month, along with Resident Evil: Revelations on the 3DS. I hadn't played Outlast in a good while, I'd forgotten how relentless that game was.
|
#
¿
Oct 9, 2014 04:11
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 28, 2024 09:31 |
|
|
Brackhar posted:Yeah, I explicitly didn't pre-order on PC so I didn't have that pack.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 14, 2014 06:22
|
|
|
For people looking for a really goddamn scary game for free, Aliens vs Predator Classic is free on GOG right now. The Marine campaign is ridiculously tense, especially on higher difficulties where the lightning-fast Aliens can really tear you a new rear end in a top hat. Oh and the Alien spawns are random, both in number and location, so the game is still loving scary even on replays.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 16, 2014 04:47
|
|
|
Mr. Fortitude posted:Saw kind of went to poo poo as soon as John died. That was the point they should have ended the series but instead they went with the protege who didn't get what the original Jigsaw was trying to do route which was an excuse for random torture porn. The first 3 are pretty legit great and then the series kinda nosedives pretty hard, but Saw 6 is also great (partly because it's the only one in the series where you get the sense that the protagonist learned an important lesson by the end). They did squander the opportunity for a really shocking ending, though. I liked the games, mostly because they were legit interesting puzzle games that happened to have fatal, gory consequences if you hosed up. The combat mechanics in the first game were broken and borderline un-fun, but the environments really nailed the "derelict, abandoned structures" aesthetic. The games' "setpiece" traps were a bit of a letdown - they're pretty much just scaled-up versions of the basic puzzles that litter the entire rest of the games, which is kind of unfortunate.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 8, 2015 02:46
|
|
|
To be fair I think Routine was announced first, Alien: Isolation just managed to actually produce a real life game first.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 12, 2015 04:34
|
|
|
Improbable Lobster posted:They do not seem to be anywhere closer to release however My thirst for retro space horror (retro lo-fi anything, really) can never be quenched, I'm still really looking forward to Routine.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 16, 2015 22:58
|
|
|
SkeletonHero posted:The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth are definitely horror movies, they just aren't thrillers. Mimic is absolute garbage and doesn't even approach the lofty heights of "nothing special."
|
|
#
¿
Mar 21, 2015 21:19
|
|
|
Hel posted:Ok, I'm trying it then, is the DLc worth getting if I like the base game? or are they just bad cash ins? Alien Isolation is about to go on sale on Steam for like 75% off. The movie-based DLC levels are cool (and feature the original cast reprising their roles for the first time in decades) but they have more impact if you're familiar with the movie 'Alien'. I found the two DLC levels scarier and more intense than the base game, mostly because it was more claustrophobic and harder to avoid the Alien.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 27, 2015 23:46
|
|
|
Fojar38 posted:Is there any well known slasher villain who isn't supernatural? Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger are both supernatural. I guess Michael Myers isn't? The Jigsaw Killer from the Saw movies, The Collector from 'The Collector'/'The Collection'.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 29, 2015 00:02
|
|
|
Industrial posted:I haven't seen The Collection so maybe it changes but he sure as hell seemed supernatural in The Collector when he elaborately trapped the entire house in like 5 minutes.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 2, 2015 11:18
|
|
|
khy posted:Are there any other good horror games akin to Dead Space 1? Sort of a mixture between horror and action? Aliens vs Predator Classic ($10 on Steam) is loving terrifying if you're playing as a Marine. Yeah you shoot stuff, but the Aliens are lightning fast, do insane damage, bleed acid, and facehuggers are a one hit kill. Oh and the Alien AI is randomized so different numbers of them spawn in different locations each time you play, making it even more unpredictable. When the game originally came out in 1999, it came with a voucher for a free pair of underwear. I am not joking.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 2, 2015 22:42
|
|
|
Cold Fear is a cool game, and it's pretty much proto-Dead Space. A lot of the mechanics and enemies are very similar, and the plot progression is largely identical. I do wish they'd gone with their original idea of setting the game during the Cold War, though.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 3, 2015 01:45
|
|
|
Manhunt 1 owned and it's about as close to a faithful adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Running Man' as we're ever likely to see. I'd love another game in that series.
|
|
#
¿
May 1, 2015 16:36
|
|
|
RentACop posted:That's a shame, I always thought it'd be cool to have a game where you have a big area and there's a monster wandering around that you have to avoid based on its ai, and that sounded really close
|
|
#
¿
May 26, 2015 14:12
|
|
|
Renoistic posted:I am itching for a action-y horror game. Should I play The Evil Within or Shadows of the Damned? Edit -- alternately, Dead Space
|
|
#
¿
Jul 16, 2015 11:53
|
|
|
On that tangent, have they announced Dead Space 4 yet? If not, why not? 
|
|
#
¿
Jul 16, 2015 12:04
|
|
|
EmmyOk posted:Dead Space 3  >
|
|
#
¿
Jul 16, 2015 13:05
|
|
|
EmmyOk posted:Dead Space 3 brought in universal ammo and cover based shooting and that is very bad for a horror survival game. I am all for a game trying new things out to keep things fresh but Dead Space 3 was clearly just "we want to make Gears of War money". I played 3 with a friend and had fun with it but it was not a good Dead Space game. I did really, really like the gameplay in the DLC, though. If all of DS3 had been like that DLC, it could have been awesome and scary as gently caress.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 16, 2015 14:39
|
|
|
Yodzilla posted:Well poo poo now I kinda regret not playing the Dead Space 3 DLC. I wanted nothing to do with the game after I finished the main campaign.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 16, 2015 15:06
|
|
|
EmmyOk posted:Dead Space 1 was great for the incredible fear you felt whenever the game gave you loads of health and ammo because it always meant your poo poo was about to be hosed.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 16, 2015 15:29
|
|
|
Alabaster White posted:It was was a shooter originally on the DS. Like, the original DS. It was actually a pretty good novelty there, and it's not a dreadfully awful game outside of that, but it's definitely a 'guilty pleasure' kinda game. It is arguably bad on the PC but the core gameplay works. Even if you don't like it, you can probably recoup the price of the game if you get a foil card.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2015 02:52
|
|
|
Speedball posted:That's probably the non HD version with honestly horrible graphics.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2015 03:10
|
|
|
Speedball posted:Hmm. Hard to say. All I know is this: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/5s0IoRGRNjPDj4DSdJrBPZ0QIsVytsRt The developer also mentions it on their site: http://www.renegadekid.com/games.htm And here's some recent chatter from some news sites: http://nintendoenthusiast.com/news/exclusive-3d-dementium-remastered-screenshot-for-3ds-with-qr-code/ http://www.destructoid.com/developer-talks-dementium-remastered-for-3ds-293216.phtml It looks like it's not an HD remake like the PC version, but they're still making it 3D and changing some of the gameplay a bit.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 17, 2015 04:07
|
|
-1.jpg)
|
Crabtree posted:EDIT: Also gently caress being first now, Markiplier is always going to steal the spotlight whenever his videos are released and he'll take the top listing whenever his content comes out because he was first to scream at a facecam when the franchise began. This gold rush to try and out-compete the established names is never going to get old. It's aggravating because I generally find Markiplier's voice not-annoying, so if he did LPs of non horror games it could potentially be good/entertaining. But goddamn were his Spooky videos terrible.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 24, 2015 11:56
|
|
|
Crabtree posted:Yep, Game Theory and the like are already seemingly steamed that no matter how they keep reworking their little canon, more games keep getting made that ruin the intricacy of their lore that move this from some allegory of The Aurora Chuck E. Cheese shooting of 93 to the story of vengeful dead kids trying to protect children and stop purple whoever to just scary poo poo keeps happening. But this is what it ends with. Several teenagers shoving a small child into a robot's mouth for shits and giggles until it closes down on his little brother's skull.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 24, 2015 13:54
|
|
|
SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:I wish people wouldn't get *quite* so upset over their theories and just enjoy the drat game. Maybe that's why so many kids (literally kids, like 5-12) love FNaF because it hits that line of spooky and silly when you don't get caught up in all the theorycrafting.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 25, 2015 22:41
|
|
|
Ekster posted:There wasn't a convenient platform for village idiots to spout their garbage on in the 80s, though.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 25, 2015 22:45
|
|
|
SkeletonHero posted:In spite of. Ed McMillan accidentally made a near-perfect Skinner box, it just so happens to be covered in drawings of poop and dead babies. If the gameplay grabs you, you just sort of start glossing over the aesthetic in pursuit of the perfect run.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 13, 2015 06:46
|
|
|
I dunno, Outlast scared the poo poo out of me. Maybe it was just pushing all the right buttons for me, but I thought the setting was great, the camcorder mechanic was great, the sense of helplessness had me perpetually on the edge of my seat, all around I had a great time with Outlast and it was goddamn scary.
|
|
#
¿
May 24, 2016 23:24
|
|
|
Groovelord Neato posted:it's not a well designed game which is somewhat separate from being scary or not. and asylums are the most played out horror location next to summer camps. Like Dementium: The Ward did kinda, The Suffering had an asylum level (and was one of the best levels in that game), if we go back further there's Sanitarium I guess? Didn't parts of Eternal Darkness and Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth happen in an asylum? Batman: Arkham Asylum too I guess, but that's not horror 
|
|
#
¿
May 25, 2016 01:46
|
|
|
Accordion Man posted:I've said it before, The Suffering is a lot better than one would think at first glance. The Suffering is awesome, definitely one of my favorite Xbox games. The voice acting is awesome, the setting is really well realized, the monster design is clever, and the backstory bits you can unlock are really cool. The "twist" that you're not actually transforming into a monster, you just think you are was great, too. I even enjoyed the sequel, although not as much. It's been forever since I played those games, I should fire them up again.
|
|
#
¿
May 25, 2016 21:53
|
|
|
Mr. Fortitude posted:On a related note, it kind of came as a surprise when supplemental materials revealed Lambert was MtF transgendered.
|
|
#
¿
May 25, 2016 23:26
|
|
|
al-azad posted:Goddamn Alien is the coolest sci-fi property that has had a sprinkling of good stuff on top of total rear end in the past 3 decades. There was a long blog post I read, can't remember where, about the level of detail put into the made-up symbology on the Nostromo's console panels. Somebody's entire job was designing iconography that nobody in a theater in the 70s was capable of studying! Not just that, each deck of the Nostromo set was built as one continuous set with connecting corridors and everything, so the cast and crew had to actually walk from location to location within the ship as if it were a real enclosed environment. Also all the buttons and switches were functional - if the script called for a character to push a button to make something happen, the corresponding button was actually built to do what it was supposed to. Hell, Ripley's bridge terminal actually has a photo of Jones the cat as a kitten taped to it. The level of detail the set designers went into was insane.
|
|
#
¿
May 26, 2016 00:59
|
|
|
chitoryu12 posted:In my canon, none of the movies past Aliens exist. Ripley and Hicks get married and adopt Newt and Jones and Bishop is their robot butler and they all live happily ever after. https://youtu.be/hoRrZ3WCZD8
|
|
#
¿
May 26, 2016 14:25
|
|
|
So I just recently got an early model PS3 that can play PS2 games, and I haven't owned a PlayStation since the original PS1 was new, and I'm getting caught up on 3 generations' worth of back catalog. Are there any PS1/2/3 horror games I should keep an eye out for? I'm talking console exclusives, or games where the "best version" came out on PS1, 2, or 3.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 7, 2016 19:59
|
|
|
I've got The Suffering 1 and 2 for Xbox, and I've got Silent Hill 4 also for Xbox. I haven't personally played SH1-3, but I watched a friend marathon all three games over a Halloween weekend in college. I've also got Fatal Frame 1 and 2 for Xbox, but I think the series stopped there on that platform. As for an emulator, I've never really messed with any emulators newer than the Atari Jaguar (or MAME). I don't have a game controller for my PC, and using a keyboard to play games designed for consoles/controllers always felt weird.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 7, 2016 20:30
|
|
|
Yardbomb posted:OH MAN, the name sounded super familiar and I had to google it, but that game was cool as hell at the time. I have that game, but the box art isn't anywhere near as cool as that.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 7, 2016 23:41
|
|
|
VoidBurger posted:This looks cool. Wow, color me interested, this looks pretty slick. Sakurazuka posted:For a second I thought you were talking about Cold Fear and I was amazed anyone else remembered that game. I've got Cold Fear on the Xbox, I liked it well enough. It's basically a proto-Dead Space.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 12, 2016 02:33
|
|
|
Ineffiable posted:Deep fear is seriously probably the best resident evil clone and I have to say maybe one of the top ten games you should play on the Saturn. I checked out some YouTube vids and you've sold me on it, but I've got a question: eBay only seems to have listings for the Japanese version of the game, does that version have an English language option? If not, should I be trying to hunt down a US version of Deep Fear I guess?Also will my Saturn play it natively, or does it require the use of an Action Replay or whatever?
|
|
#
¿
Jun 12, 2016 15:59
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 28, 2024 09:31 |
|
|
blackmarketlimb posted:I still have the big metal edition of Prey with the little pewter figurines. Me too. I really liked Prey. The use of portals (pre-Portal) blew my goddamn mind, the setting was cool, the soundtrack by Jeremy Soule was excellent, and the weapons were cool as heck. They were all these bio-organic creatures, so the grenades were little spider-crabs that you snapped the legs off of to prime, and the sniper rifle had a literal tentacle that reached out and grabbed onto your eyeball to act as the scope. It was really unique. I liked the Prey 2 bounty hunter trailer a lot, and while the new Prey reboot trailer looks interesting, it isn't "Prey" as I know it. Then again the title "Prey" itself is mega-vague and had nothing to do with the first game's plot or gameplay, so it's sort of a non-issue anyway.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 16, 2016 01:02
|
|