What are some really good ones out there? (Preferably for the playstation 2) What are all of your favourites? Right now I've started playing the Thing, fans of the movie will be pleased with this one.
I own "The Thing" for X-Box.
It's pretty good except for the controls which are the absolute worst!
Other than that it isn't too bad.
I am a sucker for any Resident Evil game, and Fatal Frame is pretty erie as well.
Silent Hill is excellent, but if you are squeamish, you might not want to start with this one - it's fairly intense.
I wanted to get The Thing (computer version, I don't own any current consoles), but the reviews didn't make it sound that appealing. They said that it's short, only lets you save at selected points, doesn't let you pan the view properly and that sometimes a team member will check out as uninfected, but then change into a thing a couple minutes later even though they haven't been out of your sight, just because it's scripted to happen, making the whole trust system pretty much worthless.
I still have a PS1. I really liked Silent Hill....creepy game.
For the PS2, I definently recommend Fatal Frame and Fatal Frame 2 (not sure if this one is here yet...it is in Japan).
Silent Hill 3 is also a fantastic game. Scary as hell!
And just in time for Christmas will be The Suffering. A graphic bloody survival game set in a 50's prison. As you try to escape the creatures that are taking over the prison; the blood that accumalates on you stays! By the end of the game you'll be looking like Ash in the end of the original Evil Dead!
WOOT!
man, i'm really annoyed that i haven't heard of fatal frame, what's it about? i'm hoping that this isn't one game that is yet to be released down under, because i love horror games, especially silent hill 2+3 and resident evil 2
Fatal Frame is a Japanese game where you have to take pictures of ghosts and supernatural happenings. Quite quite creepy.
Check this one out.
hmmm... maybe i've heard of it, is your character a little girl? because i remember there being one game out there with a teenageish girl with a camera on the cover, and it sorta sounded good; you went round finding wierd things and if there was anything bad going on, you couldn't exactly fight back because you weren't that strong. never played it though
sounds good!
Naturally, console only... :{
It seems like the best horror games are the ones that bring us back to the root of our fears - fear of the dark, fear of the unknown. Silent Hill and Resident Evil does that on multiple levels (I know, I already mentioned these, but they are the best examples:
(1) The sound of the radio. Hearing nothing but squealing static in a darkly-lit room means you're about to get the snot beaten out of you and you don't even know what the monsters are; which brings me to point #2:
(2) The monsters, for lack of a better description, seem to come straight out of a Clive Barker night terror. They are misshapen, make totally wierd noises when wounded/dying, and generally look scary as hell in the dark.
Resident Evil used to do this for me, before the 4 sequels sucked the life out of the franchise. But there are still parts of the original game that freak me out:
(1) Pretty much any scene with the Hunters. Whenever they crouch and leap toward you with that totally bizarre scream, ESPECIALLY OFF CAMERA, that still gets me.
(2) The dogs through the window. I love having friends over who have never played, then when it gets to that scene, watching their reactions...so priceless...
I would suggest that whatever horror video game you get, play it through like usual a few times, get the hang of it. Once you can memorize where everything is, play the whole game through without any memory card jacked in. It adds to the whole "one life and then you die" mindset.
Game on!
Neon Noodle wrote:
> (2) The monsters, for lack of a better description, seem to
> come straight out of a Clive Barker night terror. They are
> misshapen, make totally wierd noises when wounded/dying, and
> generally look scary as hell in the dark.
I always thought the creatures more Lovecraftian, but I can see what you're saying quite well.