Horror Games Megathread

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Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Corpse Party is just creepy weeaboo guro porn, its not a horror game.

Play Fatal Frame if you actually want Japanese style horror.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2014 17:28

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 11:17

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Pathologic would be one of the best games of all time if it didn't play like poo poo and have a poo poo English translation because the atmosphere and writing is almost unparalleled when it comes to video games, but this is going to fix all that so you should all back it.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2014 19:03

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Contra Calculus posted:

So, anyone know if The Suffering is a good horror game? I kind of like the idea of a horror game taking place in the oppressive setting of a prison but haven't really heard of any besides this one.

As Jimbo referred to, The Suffering is more of an actiony horror like Dead Space but it still is real neat and has some really good atmosphere and more solid writing than you would think. I recommend it, just avoid the sequel, it sucks.

The PC version is also freeware.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2014 16:34

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

The stuff that DS3 does it with its co-op sounds pretty unique in general. Kind of a shame it was wasted on a not so great game.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2014 16:41

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

cat doter posted:

I think Dead Space's true strength was startling you with a new enemy that was difficult to beat at first, giving you a couple chances to get juuuust good enough at killing one of them, then throwing you into a situation where there's suddenly 4 of them and you're freaking out. It was great stuff.

I think, atmospherically, there's something valuable to the silent protagonist in a horror game. Storytelling wise, it presents a lot of problems, but if you look at something like the Resident Evil remake, there's a clear division between what are gameplay sections and what are story sections (cutscene versus gameplay), and during the gameplay sections, the player's character NEVER speaks, and this is essentially what Dead Space gets wrong by making Isaac a distinct character. There are long stretches where you never hear someone speak unless it's the crazy babblings of a person that gouged out their own eyes, or some ambient, difficult to place speech. This is fantastic for building a sense of dread, but if you suddenly have a character that exclaims "WHAT THE gently caress" or "I wonder what that noise was" it completely undercut's the player's own reaction to whatever element frightened them. Having a second character or a co-op buddy just compounds the problem.

Still, don't get me wrong, I have a great fondness for Dead Space 2, for an action-horror game with greater emphasis on action, it's probably one of the best games you'll play. I just want my action-horror games to err on the side of horror most of the time.

I do like in 2 that Isaac has a sailor mouth because he's just so sick of this poo poo.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2014 17:47

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

To be be honest while RE4 is more actiony I still thought it was tense and scary at times, i.e. I always dreaded the chainsaw enemies and the blind claw dudes. Not to mention the Regnerators. It just usually wasn't a lingering horror.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2014 18:43

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Lisa Trevor is also pretty cool.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2014 18:48

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

You might as well wait for the HD Remaster at this point.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2014 19:38

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Rangpur posted:

Are there any remotely decent horror games for iOS? I feel like 'good' is too much to hope for, but I'd settle for spooky and atmospheric.

Year Walk.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2014 21:31

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

One thing I liked about Suffering was how subtle it ended up being in some ways like the fact that Torque was never actually turning into a monster, he's just hulking out on adrenaline. The main game never hits you in the face with it, which is a nice surprise in a shooter game. The original scrapped opening totally did though and I'm glad they cut that out and made it a post-game bonus.

Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Sep 8, 2014

# ¿ Sep 8, 2014 01:00

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Lisa is actually nigh invulnerable because she keeps regenerating. If I'm not mistaken it was elaborated that Nemesis was actually created from her DNA in supplementary material.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2014 06:43

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Full Battle Rattle posted:

Didn't one of the early prototypes for RE4 end up becoming Devil May Cry?

Yep.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2014 15:27

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

It also still has a fixed camera too, which is the main reason why I dropped the game when I first fought Phantom.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2014 15:50

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

It worked well in 2 and would have worked well in Homecoming if they made Alex gay, but yeah I agree its mostly lazy as poo poo callbacks to 2.

Seriously though, Homecoming would have made a lot more sense if Alex was gay instead of being generically crazy.

Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Sep 19, 2014

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 00:32

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

King Vidiot posted:

I hope that Kojima at least uses the living toys in the actual game, we don't really see enough possessed toys in games. In fact I can't really think of any in recent memory. One of the early Resident Evil 4 builds had possessed dolls, but that version was never actually finished and released.

There ones in Fatal Frame 2.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 00:51

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Origins is a decent game, the soundtrack and some of the areas were nice. I've said it before but what really made it worse was forcing it to be a prequel and its clusterfuck of a development.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 06:45

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Yeah, I'd say Homecoming is the only Silent Hill game that really is legit bad, I still enjoyed my time with it though.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 06:49

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

The boss fight with the Abstract Daddy is also in a room filled with pistons going into holes in the walls.

And really I'd argue that there's still a lot of untapped potential with the series, so I disagree that the series needs to die. Silent Hills seems to be the game that will save it from from Konami's previous bumbling.

Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Sep 20, 2014

# ¿ Sep 20, 2014 05:55

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

King of Bleh posted:

Oh wow, I never made that connection at all. I've played SH2 a whole whole lot and I love that there's always some fresh little detail to pick up on like this.

Another subtle thing is that there are two Pyramid Heads at the end of the game because James killed Eddie and he feels guilty even though it was self-defense.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2014 13:22

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

You can't make a Thing game an action game though, because you most likely will end up not making The Thing scary because you're going to need to probably have more than one Thing to shoot.

I think the best way would be an adventure game.

*Edit* Though that co-op shooter ideas sounds good without jeopardizing anything that a single-player game would.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2014 19:57

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Jimbo Jaggins posted:

I finished Rule Of Rose.

It was really lovely in a lot of ways but I can't say I regret playing it.

Yeah, its one of those games that really needs and deserves a remake, because the gameplay is pretty bad, but everything else about it is great. It won't though, sadly.

On the bright side at least the other game I thought really needed a remake to get the gameplay it deserved, Pathologic, is going to get one now.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2014 02:06

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Macaluso posted:

Freddy's 2 is no longer horror. Instead, since the first game, the restaurant owners have come into money somehow and now the security office is totally locked down and safe but the power situation is less saved and more diverted. Instead you now assist the robots in capturing (killing) thieves and saboteurs trying to destroy the robots breaking into the restaurant by activating traps and opening/closing doors. The cameras no longer drain power, but the doors and traps use power so you gotta use them wisely. So you gotta do everything via the laptop camera system. If the power goes out of course the security office is no longer locked down and you're at risk from either the robots or the people breaking in

Deception with killer animatronics sounds rad.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2014 03:05

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

ManOfTheYear posted:

Is Evil Within ever coming out? It feels lie it was announced a forever ago, but maybe it just feels that way.

It comes out in two weeks.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2014 20:12

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

ManOfTheYear posted:

What worries you about the mechanics? Are there some glaring issues out of the bat?

There may be an invincible enemy that can one-shot you, or just bring you to one health, if you take too long throughout the game.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2014 21:13

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

And its supposed to be a stealth game, so getting rushed seems counter-intuitive.

# ¿ Sep 28, 2014 22:27

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

SkeletonHero posted:

Leon S. Kennedy overslept on his first day as a police officer. That was enough qualification to become part of the Secret Service.

He did successfully survive a zombie infested city on that first day though so it evens out.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2014 02:10

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

No Wesker is totally President in the later RE movies.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2014 04:10

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

I never heard of The Orion Conspiracy. Does it run on fine on Windows 7? Amazon has it for pretty cheap.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2014 16:19

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Kaboom Dragoon posted:

Anyone know if the PC version is better with KB&M or pad? Haven't heard too much about that.

From all the talk so far, definitely pad.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2014 02:44

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Yo, al-azad thanks for the info for Orion Conspiracy. Got it in the mail today and got up it running on DOS Box fine.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2014 01:19

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

al-azad posted:

Just don't be afraid to look at a FAQ. Like Alien, the beginning is a slow paced setup to the much more direct second half. Once you feel lost go grab a FAQ. It's how all old adventure games should be played.

Yeah, that's how I play old adventure games so it won't be a problem.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2014 01:31

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

catlord posted:

I loved what I played of Nocturne, but then I got a good computer and now I can't play it. Nothing I do to get it running works. I do love that it and Bloodrayne are in the same universe though. For the curious, the castle and the artifact from chapter one of Nocturne is the same castle and artifact from chapter three(?) of Bloodrayne.

The vampire agent is also Rayne's half-sister.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2014 23:04

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

A. Beaverhausen posted:

Hey, everyone remember that Clive Barker game? No, I'm not talking about that horrible abortion, I mean Undying. I adored that game as a kid, and the little journal that came with it Ala American Mcgee's Alice was really cool.

Yeah Undying's pretty good, its been on GOG for a while now.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2014 14:23

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Five Nights with Furries.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2014 19:05

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Tale of Tales feels like one huge troll against gamers and the games industry, but nope they're actually sincere, they are that pretentious.

I'm honestly hoping, their upcoming game, Sunset, is good though, because an expanded take on Gone Home that changes what's in the apartment due to your actions the previous night sounds neat.

Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Oct 24, 2014

# ¿ Oct 24, 2014 12:53

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Ha, I knew you can get through the whole section without fighting Dr. Salvador by not running into the house because I actually did that. Didn't know that though.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2014 00:42

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

al-azad posted:

He appears when you go into that house and also when you run up the path to one of the exits. Best way to deal with him is go to the roof of the big house and theres a platform you can stand where only one ganado at a time can reach you.

Huh, my strategy was to run into the small house right across from the house, because all the enemies had to be funneled through one door. You couldn't do that in Mercenaries because they added a window into the room.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2014 01:05

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

A. Beaverhausen posted:

It sucks so much the IP for one of the best horror games ever is owned by a loving moron.

No its not, Nintendo owns Eternal Darkness. Now if only they could get Retro to make a sequel...

# ¿ Nov 1, 2014 02:09

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

Thing is Silent Hill as a setting is really flexible by definition, its a place born out of the subconscious so you can do anything you want with it really, like 2, 4, Shattered Memories, and Downpour did. Homecoming was just the lazy as hell one that just cribbed everything from the old games without understanding how they worked and what they meant, i.e. the blood and rust Otherworld is Alessa's, Pyramid Head is James' personal demon, etc.

Accordion Man fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Nov 17, 2014

# ¿ Nov 15, 2014 21:16

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 11:17

Accordion Man: Nov 7, 2012; Buglord

P.T.'s puzzles were intentionally obtuse because it being a Silent Hill game was supposed to be a surprise and they didn't want people finding out immediately (Of course the game press hosed that up for them) so I wouldn't expect Silent Hills to be like that.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2014 21:24

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