What makes a good horror game?

Due to the F3AR post, I thought id make this one...

Now theres many game names being thrown around, so in everyones PERSONAL opinion, what makes a good horror game in all your books?

To me, it's something like silent hill (the first 2 anyway...). Atmosphereic, dark, grimey and one big psychological mind fuck.
I can't view something like resident evil scary anymore (mainly becuase ive desenseitized myself to zombies lol but also, the series is action now, not survival or horror, and therefore can no longer be counted :/.

The game of The Thing made me jump in certain points (and the parnoir of "is your mate a thing or not.." was a good little feature (its just a pitty they bullshited about the randomness of the infection, everytime i went through the game, the same people turned :/).

Howeever....scaryest game i ever saw (but unfortauntly never had the chance to play) was call of cuthulu (wasn't even sure if it was released). There was no health metre, no armor and such, instead you had a SANITY metre. The more you were hurt, or the more you saw, the more insane you got, to the point where people you had met previously in the game (that were dead) would start showing up and making your life much harder, I thought this was a very nice feature. Ontop of this it had very moody lighting and some nice moments.

yeah dark and grimy, but also scares that you can never get used to no matter how many times you play

A good horror Game should scare you subtle, and sometimes directly. You should shit in your pants because of the atmosphere, and maybe some rare panic moments (Dead Space, first Encounter of the Regenerating Bastard). Everybody is scared of smth else, but nearly everybody dont like the darkness, so it needs to be dark, (Bye, RE 5 !) and well, the most important thing is the atmosphere. Anyone knows the Mod "Flesh"? its supposed to be a horror mod, but i rushed through the levels like im in a J&R In My opinion, Atmosphere is everything.

i think a good horror game isnt a always a good playable game..

i mean.. the more you can't see, the more you get scared.. also the music and the atmosphere are some high rated points in horror genre..

dead space gave me some shock moments.. because you only can see above one shoulder and you can't see anything in the left or right of your body (possible in most 3rd person games)

also fear 1 (well.. only played the demo x.x)
fear 1 scared me while the ghosts attacked me (can't see those little fuckers)
and alma... god damnit she was scary..

but i don't play many horror based games..

The Atmosphere.

Crash-Override wrote:

Due to the F3AR post, I thought id make this one...

Now theres many game names being thrown around, so in everyones PERSONAL opinion, what makes a good horror game in all your books?

To me, it's something like silent hill (the first 2 anyway...). Atmosphereic, dark, grimey and one big psychological mind fuck.
I can't view something like resident evil scary anymore (mainly becuase ive desenseitized myself to zombies lol but also, the series is action now, not survival or horror, and therefore can no longer be counted :/.

The game of The Thing made me jump in certain points (and the parnoir of "is your mate a thing or not.." was a good little feature (its just a pitty they bullshited about the randomness of the infection, everytime i went through the game, the same people turned :/).

Howeever....scaryest game i ever saw (but unfortauntly never had the chance to play) was call of cuthulu (wasn't even sure if it was released). There was no health metre, no armor and such, instead you had a SANITY metre. The more you were hurt, or the more you saw, the more insane you got, to the point where people you had met previously in the game (that were dead) would start showing up and making your life much harder, I thought this was a very nice feature. Ontop of this it had very moody lighting and some nice moments.

Eternal Darkness was also great. With those creepy-ass TV moments.

However, it's the atmosphere.

They Hunger has an amazing atmosphere, you don't really feel how scared you are until you just stumble on a zombie or a headcrab and just yell like shit.

This is helped out by the fact that the headcrabs have fucking FACES.

AVP2000 also had an awesome atmosphere.

go play Limbo on XBLA... that's what makes a good horror game lol...

Seriously the atmosphere is only the beginning...
Most of that game is done in silhouettes and you cant tell the difference between scenery and traps that will brutally kill you.
There is no music apart from spooky ambient wind sounds (Mechwine?? Vic?? xD)
Anyways yeah you gotta use your imagination alot in that game and when you a small boy and have no idea why your in this world you start to think of some pretty fucked up reasons why he is there.. like you have to use dead bodies of small children as stepping stones to get across water and stuff at some points, others there are children in the background who have hung themselves and yeah lol heavy game..

2D platformer released only on XBLA...

PENUMBRA

if you get into that game and totally emerse yourself it will be some of the scariest shit ever

katatonic717 wrote:

PENUMBRA

if you get into that game and totally emerse yourself it will be some of the scariest shit ever

You already said this in another thread :P lol

Seriously watch the video of Limbo... that game is intensely disturbing

penumbra wasnt scary tbh

i wished Limbo would be released on PC, but no! I hate Platform-Exclusive Shit

TheCaptain943 wrote:

i wished Limbo would be released on PC, but no! I hate Platform-Exclusive Shit

same

TheCaptain943 wrote:

i wished Limbo would be released on PC, but no! I hate Platform-Exclusive Shit

I dont mind it IMO

I played the demo of that lil game, creepy as shit ._.

katatonic717 wrote:

TheCaptain943 wrote:

i wished Limbo would be released on PC, but no! I hate Platform-Exclusive Shit

I dont mind it IMO

I played the demo of that lil game, creepy as shit ._.

i watched a 1 h gameplay of it. Awesome. Want.

TheCaptain943 wrote:

katatonic717 wrote:

TheCaptain943 wrote:

i wished Limbo would be released on PC, but no! I hate Platform-Exclusive Shit

I dont mind it IMO

I played the demo of that lil game, creepy as shit ._.

i watched a 1 h gameplay of it. Awesome. Want.

That's pretty much the full game lolol... It's short but my god best XBLA game ever.

i heard it takes about 3 hours to finish it.

TheCaptain943 wrote:

i heard it takes about 3 hours to finish it.

True i havent finished it, i just played the demo lol

Games made for consoles are just plain fucking stupid i mean what the fuck do you think the consoles are made from :\

kgprodigalist wrote:

Games made for consoles are just plain fucking stupid i mean what the fuck do you think the consoles are made from :\

THERE IS HOPE FOR THE FUCKING HUMAN RACE YET!!! this man deserves a medal!!

kgprodigalist wrote:

Games made for consoles are just plain fucking stupid i mean what the fuck do you think the consoles are made from :\

Its an XBLA game aswell, which means it was made with XNA, which means they could compile it for PC if they wanted but obviously they just want the money off XBLA... they should sell it on steam tho make a fukn fortune

Steam > XBL

doomlord1992 wrote:

Steam > XBL

Me > Ya mum

Jenkins wrote:

doomlord1992 wrote:

Steam > XBL

Me < Ya mum

doomlord1992 wrote:

Jenkins wrote:

doomlord1992 wrote:

Steam > XBL

Me < Ya mum

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