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Hairy-man
02/04/18 11:39:01 PM
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Whats your GOAT horror game? Im looking for something new to play.

Mine is obviously RE2. But I need some more recs new and old
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chill02
02/04/18 11:40:35 PM
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Eternal Darkness
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Hairy-man
02/04/18 11:41:46 PM
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chill02 posted...
Eternal Darkness


I have heard great things about this but never gave it a chance. What makes it so good?
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R_Jackal
02/04/18 11:41:57 PM
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Fatal Frame 2 or Kuon. Probably Kuon moreso, but they're close.
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chill02
02/04/18 11:42:25 PM
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Hairy-man posted...
chill02 posted...
Eternal Darkness


I have heard great things about this but never gave it a chance. What makes it so good?


The story, combat, and sanity effects
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AlternativeFAQS
02/04/18 11:44:02 PM
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Prey (2017)
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Hairy-man
02/04/18 11:47:08 PM
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R_Jackal posted...
Fatal Frame 2 or Kuon. Probably Kuon moreso, but they're close.


Fatal frame 1 scared the shit out of me. Never played 2

AlternativeFAQS posted...
Prey (2017)


Its a horror game?
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008Zulu
02/05/18 3:01:05 AM
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I always like the FMV game; Ripper.
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02/05/18 3:02:08 AM
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Hairy-man
02/05/18 8:51:19 AM
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How bout morning CE
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ledbowman
02/05/18 8:53:36 AM
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Silent Hill
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TableLicker
02/05/18 8:54:58 AM
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I second Eternal Darkness.
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medzz
02/05/18 8:56:06 AM
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resident evil 4
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02/05/18 8:59:45 AM
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boxington
02/05/18 9:02:51 AM
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Bloodborne.

I've never felt as tense playing a game as my first playthrough.

HM: Silent Hill 2.
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02/05/18 9:04:59 AM
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ledbowman
02/05/18 9:17:32 AM
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Tmk
02/05/18 9:17:57 AM
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I suppose it kind of depends a bit on in what way I'm answering it. Favorite for the horror itself, or favorite from a game perspective...I'm honestly hesitant to even consider the RE games horror games. I guess they are, but it just seems so...silly and quaint compared to Silent Hill for example.

RE struck me more as action games with a horror backdrop. I guess that's slightly unfair though. They DID try. Sometimes.

So... Favorite horror game in terms of actual horror, would be SH3 I think. It's definitely a SH game so it's basically just me trying to choose between 1 2 and 3. I think 3 was the one that had the most appeal to me.

In terms of as a game I think it'd be RE3 however, I really enjoyed that game a lot, and played it a ton.

I will give a shoutout to Eternal Darkness as well. It's not the best game around or anything and it's certainly got flaws and in ways can feel sort of unpolished, and the most standout mechanic you are incentivised from even experiencing (sanity meter) which is weird. But, even ignoring the concept/narrative-structure, it's actually a really interesting game, design-wise. Because, well if you don't know, Eternal Darkness is a survival horror game. Absolutely. It has many of the trappings of one... But, where it differs most is in the blending of themes and time periods. This is a game where you will use everything from a roman sword to a sort of modern day assault rifle, and magic. Yes, magic. Literally magic. There are a variety of spells including healing and protective and the ability to even enchant your weapons, as well as an attack spell and a summon spell...

I'm not sure if there even exists a single other game that plays quite like Eternal Darkness. I can't say how much you or anyone new to it would really like it, especially since obviously by now it's dated and the gameplay is so weird in what it merges that it's hard to predict who would get into it. But perhaps it's worth a look purely for the sake of that it's a pretty unusual game, so what it does have to offer, you probably haven't seen elsewhere.

But yeah, it's a survival horror game, not too much unlike SH or RE (classic ones, rather) in how it plays, in a basic sense, but it does have a somewhat evenish focus on both firearms and melee weapon combat, but also has magic, and it's Lovecraft-inspired, very clearly so, and the narrative structure is that you play as a main character reading about all these other people's experiences that tie together throughout time, and by learning about them you play as each as their own chapter, so there's variety there. Also a choice you make near the start of the game will have a lasting impact on what you face throughout the game so there is some incentive to play through it multiple times if you're into that.

Actually you know what, I'll also throw in The Suffering. The Suffering I recall being a bit crude in some ways, but I remember it being a fairly solid (for the time at least) third person (but IIRC with the option to go first person if you want) action game. Like, it doesn't use horror as an excuse for controls that make you feel inept. That also happens to be a horror game. And the enemy design I think was really good on it actually. Both in appearance and diversity in how you fight them. It also had a sequel I do not recall liking very much though the details of why are lost to time, but I just remember feeling pretty lukewarm on it.

One thing The Suffering did is that it would randomly show you flashes of images while you play, accompanied with various jarring or eerie sounds. Now on the surface these are a cheap jump scare at times I suppose, but I appreciated them because of WHAT those images showed, tended to be clairvoyant. So the game was randomly showing you flashes of horrors yet to come that you may be nearing, or cryptic images that will make sense later. I thought that was neat. Of course it's peanuts compared to Eternal Darkness' sanity effects.
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Tmk
02/05/18 9:24:31 AM
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Oh yeah and just as a very brief summary of the concept of The Suffering: you're in a brutal prison and things quickly go very badly as supernatural and/or demonic things are happening, and the monsters you face are basically personifications of different ways people have been executed throughout history. Including...most boss fights.

So the demons are like representations of real horrors throughout history. Execution methods ranging from beheading, firing squad, burying alive, hanging, burning at a stake. It leads to a really diverse cast of monsters, though perhaps not a super high variety of different types, but the ones that do exist are pretty different from each other. Then again I suppooooose it's not like a RE game had a huge variety of enemy types either. Like, the hunters, dogs, spiders, zombies...those are kind of the main ones anyway. Maybe Suffering's bestiary was on par/average.
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nevershine
02/05/18 9:26:20 AM
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Gotta go with REmake
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YINever
02/05/18 9:31:09 AM
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play eternal darkness; it's pretty unique and we probably won't see one again as long as nintendo prefers to make 30 kirby games instead
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trappedunderice
02/05/18 9:38:21 AM
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DocileOrangeCup posted...
gonna sound like a douche but P.T.

Came in to say this.
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Veggeta X
02/05/18 9:47:18 AM
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RE2 for sure.
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LinksLiege
02/05/18 10:05:40 AM
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Hairy-man posted...
I have heard great things about this but never gave it a chance. What makes it so good?

The story is super-Lovecraftian which is always a good thing.

The gameplay itself isn't great but it's serviceable. It's mostly there as a vehicle for the Sanity mechanics, which are basically the devs trying as hard as possible to fuck with you, the person playing the game. And it's done brilliantly. People always talk about specific parts of the Sanity mechanics which are their favorite aspect of the fuckery, but my personal favorite part of this isn't actually related to Sanity - you'll know it when you see it, if you play the game. I'm reluctant to mention it here, even with spoilers. :x
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TheGrindery
02/05/18 10:09:05 AM
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What about D and D2? I wanted those for the Sega Saturn but never found them. Did they get PS1 versions?
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Nomadic View
02/05/18 10:15:51 AM
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The original Resident Evil.
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Hairy-man
02/05/18 7:03:56 PM
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Im definitely going to get Eternal Darkness
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Turbam
02/05/18 7:06:12 PM
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Silent Hill 1 and 3
Resident Evil remake, 2, 4, and 7
Fatal Frame series
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Cleo_II
02/05/18 7:07:32 PM
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Its funny, I love horror movies. But I just cant play horror games. I get way too scared. I only ever watched my brother play them. The only one Ive ever played was Until Dawn and I havent been able to finish it lol
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Darmik
02/05/18 7:18:57 PM
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Condemned is a great one
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Hairy-man
02/05/18 7:45:58 PM
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Turbam posted...
Silent Hill 1 and 3
Resident Evil remake, 2, 4, and 7
Fatal Frame series


Youre gonna spit in my cereal, but I could never get into the Silent Hill series

Cleo_II posted...
Its funny, I love horror movies. But I just cant play horror games. I get way too scared. I only ever watched my brother play them. The only one Ive ever played was Until Dawn and I havent been able to finish it lol


Until Dawn was awesome. I really enjoyed the story

Darmik posted...
Condemned is a great one


Condemned 2 was so good. And so creepy. Especially the bear
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SwatterXX
02/05/18 7:54:04 PM
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trappedunderice posted...
DocileOrangeCup posted...
gonna sound like a douche but P.T.

Came in to say this.
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GiftedACIII
02/05/18 7:56:17 PM
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Fatal Frame
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EverDownward
02/05/18 7:56:35 PM
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Quiet Mountain 2
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Tezlok
02/05/18 7:57:14 PM
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Hairy-man posted...
Fatal frame 1 scared the shit out of me. Never played 2

it's better in every way. you get twin sisters. and the story is more indepth and you have a whole village instead of one mansion.
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02/05/18 11:04:02 PM
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Tmk
02/05/18 11:06:14 PM
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Hairy-man posted...
Youre gonna spit in my cereal, but I could never get into the Silent Hill series

Which ones did you try?

Because if you started with like, SH4, then that'd make a lot of sense. >_>
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Hairy-man
02/05/18 11:11:03 PM
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Tmk posted...
Hairy-man posted...
Youre gonna spit in my cereal, but I could never get into the Silent Hill series

Which ones did you try?

Because if you started with like, SH4, then that'd make a lot of sense. >_>


I started with the first one. But by the time I did, other games were already much more advanced. It didnt age well imo

But I did play Homecoming, and it was creepy. But didnt grab me still
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Skye Reynolds
02/05/18 11:24:22 PM
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Resident Evil Twwwwwwwoooo
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Tmk
02/05/18 11:24:45 PM
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Yeah age is not kind really.

Homecoming is not very highly regarded. Really it's just the first 3 Silent Hill games that fully feel like SH games, everything after that has some problem(s) with it that wonk it up.
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Hairy-man
02/05/18 11:27:28 PM
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So would you recommend Silent Hill 2?
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boxington
02/05/18 11:29:35 PM
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Hairy-man posted...
So would you recommend Silent Hill 2?

it has one of my favorite videogame stories, so I'd say yea.

and I say that as someone who couldn't get into the first Silent Hill due to the gameplay.

at least SH2 has 2D controls (the player moves in the direction that you press on the controls, rather than moving like a tank)
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darkprince45
02/05/18 11:30:31 PM
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Silent hill 3 for me easily
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Vertania
02/05/18 11:34:04 PM
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Fatal Frame 1
Clock Tower 3
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SoundNetwork
02/05/18 11:40:31 PM
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PT and SCP Containment breach were the only recent horror games to scare the poop out of me
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Tmk
02/05/18 11:42:51 PM
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Well 2 or 3 would at least look less dated but it might be too late. Dunno.
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BuckVanHammer
02/05/18 11:44:00 PM
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Re7 in VR was pretty rad.
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