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[SolidSnakex]

Thomas Grip

Frictional Games Creative Director
Best Known For: Penumbra, Amnesia

1. Silent Hill
2. Silent Hill 2
3. Resident Evil
4. System Shock 2
5. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Bruce Straley

Naughty Dog Game Director
Best Known For: Uncharted, The Last of Us

1. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
2. Resident Evil 4
3. Dead Space 2
4. Condemned: Criminal Origins
5. Outlast

Neil Druckmann

Naughty Dog Creative Director
Best Known For: Uncharted, The Last of Us

1. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
2. Manhunt
3. Silent Hill 2
4. Resident Evil
5. Condemned: Criminal Origins

Ted Price

Insomniac Games President
Best Known For: Ratchet & Clank, Resistance, Sunset Overdrive

1. Resident Evil 4
2. Doom
3. Left 4 Dead
4. Dead Rising 3
5. Parasite Eve

Swery65

Access Games Director
Best Known For: Deadly Premonition, D4

1. Splatterhouse (1988)
2. Nanashi no Game
3. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
4. Alone in the Dark (1992)
5. Silent Hill

Michiteru Okabe

Capcom Producer
Best Known For: Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, Resident Evil: Revelations 2

1. Resident Evil
2. Siren
3. Dead Space
4. Fatal Frame
5. Silent Hill

Yoshiaki Hirabayashi

Capcom Producer
Best Known For: Resident Evil (2002), RE 4, 5, 6

1. Resident Evil
2. The Last of Us
3. Dead Space
4. Siren
5. Enemy Zero

Akira Yamaoka

Composer
Best Known For: Silent Hill, Shadows of the Damned

1. Silent Hill
2. Siren
3. Dead Space
4. Manhunt
5. Prototype

Randy Pitchford

Gearbox Software President and CEO
Best Known For: Borderlands, Battleborn

1. Doom
2. BioShock
3. Resident Evil 4
4. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
5. Splatterhouse (1988)

Suda51

Grasshopper Manufacture CEO
Best Known For: No More Heroes, Killer7, Shadows of the Damned

1. Shadows of the Damned
2. Fatal Frame
3. Siren
4. Silent Hill 2
5. The Evil Within

Glen Schofield

Sledgehammer Games Co-Founder and General Manager
Best Known For: Dead Space, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

1. Silent Hill 2
2. Resident Evil 2
3. Condemned: Criminal Origins
4. System Shock 2
5. Fatal Frame

The top vote-getting game was Resident Evil, racking up 12 votes. Silent Hill 2 and Dead Space were tied at second place with 9 votes. Silent Hill is fourth place with 8 votes, and Resident Evil 4 scored 7 votes.

The developers' combined top three games match our Top 25 Horror Games of All Time list perfectly.

The developers' aggregated top five games only includes three franchises: Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Dead Space.

Four games were received five votes each: Fatal Frame, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Siren: Blood Curse, and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem.

Resident Evil is credited with kickstarting the horror genre, and after over two decades it's still king according to these developers.

Capcom cleaned up as the most popular publisher, securing 24 votes between the Resident Evil and Dead Rising series.

Games for our Top 25 list that didn't receive a single vote from developers: The Suffering, Sanitarium, DayZ, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Blood.

Some developer-selected games that Game Informer didn't necessarily qualify as horror for consideration in our list: Limbo, Doom, BioShock, and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.

A few oddballs appeared within the lists: Minecraft, Prototype, and Kim Kardasian: Hollywood.

Despite the current trend of first-person horror games, third-person games dominated the top of the list.

The most-popular indie horror games are Limbo and Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

The most-voted for first-person horror games were System Shock 2 and Amnesia: The Dark Descent, which both edged out Condemned: Criminal Origins by a single vote.

While Resident Evil is the most popular series on the list, no developer voted for a game released in the series later than 2005.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/featu...e-their-picks-for-best-horror-games-ever.aspx

The rest of the picks are in the link.

 

[BlackBuzzard]

Since when is Limbo a horror game?

Did Suda51 just put his own game at nr1 on his list, wow.

 

[Experien]

Since when is Limbo a horror game?

it is scary how good people think it is?

 

[Renekton]

Doom??!

 

[OniBarubary]

Swery picking Nanashi no Game? Fuck yeah man. More proof the dude is awesome.

 

[AkuMifune]

Doom??!

Doom I get. Prototype I do not.

Some great picks, some terrible ones and a couple trolls. And no RE2 Love!

My picks would most closely resemble Michiteru Okabe's.

 

[ThreePiMatt]

Dr. Chaos would be top of my list. That game scared the shit out of as a kid.

 

[MatrixMan.EXE]

LOL @ Suda51 putting Shadows of the Damned at No.1. I mean, opinions and all that, but still.

Some great taste in there overall, though. Would love to see Kojima's.

 

[Spieler Eins]

Since when is Limbo a horror game?

Did Suda51 just put his own game at nr1 on his list, wow.

And all Capcom employees going for RE, lol.

 

[Disgraced]

I like Swery's and the Naughty Dog dudes' lists.

 

[SolidSnakex]

Some great taste in there overall, though. Would love to see Kojima's.

Kojima doesn't like horror because he gets too scared, so i'm not sure if he'd have any.

 

[Big Icarus]

Apparently a lot of game devs think their games are the best games. I wonder why?

 

[fart town usa]

Suda putting Shadows of the Damned at no.1...

GTFO.

Game is a prime example of mediocrity and doesn't really come off as survival horror, at least to me it doesn't.

Great list and games all the same.

 

[Visualante2]

I really need to play those Fatal Frame games...

Since when is Limbo a horror game?

Did Suda51 just put his own game at nr1 on his list, wow.

Game provokes some amount of dread.

edit. Interesting pick from Pinchbeck with Shattered Memories.

 

[harSon]

Since when is Limbo a horror game?

Did Suda51 just put his own game at nr1 on his list, wow.

I died when I got to that

 

[javac]

Kim Kardasian: Hollywood

lol that's pretty random.

 

[BlackBuzzard]

And all Capcom employees going for RE, lol.

Damn arrogant Japanese

 

[Lady Siara]

Love that Call of Cthulhu got a nod. The first half of that half of that game is something special. Shame the other half is woefully inadequate.

Some other good mentions in there, but what the hell at choices like Bioshock and Prototype.

 

[Sephzilla]

Silent Hill 2 getting plenty of love makes me feel happy.

 

[Ridesh]

lol at Suda picking Shadows of the Damned.

 

[cafemomo]

Only one person with PE?

 

[Bass260]

Not enough Eternal Darkness picks

Props to the Gearbox team for including it.

 

[Cosmozone]

Thomas Grip, I like you.

 

[SolidSnakex]

I really need to play those Fatal Frame games...

The first three are on PSN

https://store.sonyentertainmentnetw...rame/cid=UP9000-NPUD20388_00-0000000000000000
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetw...rfly/cid=UP9000-NPUD20766_00-0000000000000000
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetw...nted/cid=UP9000-NPUD21244_00-0000000000000000

 

[Sephiroth_GR_]

Doom??!

Forget about Doom, WTF is Prototype doing in that list?

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Kojima doesn't like horror because he gets too scared, so i'm not sure if he'd have any.

Yet he's about to make the scariest game in years.

 

[oni_saru]

I actually laughed out loud when I saw Suda's number one. Haha xD

 

[FloweryMarston]

Neil druckmann picking manhunt makes my heart warm and confirms my suspicions of ND getting some inspirations from the game to make tlou =)

All around great picks. Suda 51 picked the evil within, did he play it?

 

[Timeaisis]

Suda51 put his own game as #1. Wow.

 

[ElTopo]

Swery65

Access Games Director
Best Known For: Deadly Premonition, D4

1. Splatterhouse (1988)
2. Nanashi no Game
3. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
4. Alone in the Dark (1992)
5. Silent Hill

This guy's a badass pimp.

 

[SerTapTap]

How does Fatal Frame always top these lists and still sell so poorly.

 

[Mister_Bubbles]

Minecraft is actually a solid pick

Spoiler

Edit: Hah!

. It's definitely had some of my most terrifying moments in gaming.

Clive Barker's Undying was pretty great at the time.

 

[ChoklitCow]

Great, great, GREAT lists.

Now, to see if people will actually make games remotely equivalent to them rather than pew-pew action scares.

DON'T LET ME DOWN, EVIL WITHIN.

 

[dark10x]

Interesting choices that I can see having an influence of the games these guys have worked on.

Of course, scariness is such a subjective thing, but I definitely agree more with some developers over others.

 

[jayu26]

Neil Druckmann

1. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
2. Manhunt

I'm not surprised.

 

[Raziel]

A lot of votes for Dead Space, is it that good? Which one is the best?

 

[aygomyownroad]

Only one person with PE?

It was a great game but never thought it was that scary.
Silent Hill 1 and 2 are up on my list.

I think Outlast is quite good so far

 

[Duress]

Dead Space? Really? I didn't think it was that scary.

 

[NotLiquid]

Suda51

Grasshopper Manufacture CEO
Best Known For: No More Heroes, Killer7, Shadows of the Damned

1. Shadows of the Damned

 

[SolidSnakex]

A lot of votes for Dead Space, is it that good? Which one is the best?

The original is generally considered to be the best if you want pure horror.

 

[BlackBuzzard]

Dead Space? Really? I didn't think it was that scary.

Its certainly the most horror out of all 3.

 

[Visualante2]

The first three are on PSN

https://store.sonyentertainmentnetw...rame/cid=UP9000-NPUD20388_00-0000000000000000
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetw...rfly/cid=UP9000-NPUD20766_00-0000000000000000
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetw...nted/cid=UP9000-NPUD21244_00-0000000000000000

Not in Europe, apparently... might pick up the PS2 copies instead.

 

[SirPainsalot]

Since when is TLoU a horror game?

 

[rrs]

Swery might have the best list here

Doom??!

It's not a horror game but playing it with low-rez graphics and like how it was on a IBM clone makes the game spookier.

A lot of votes for Dead Space, is it that good? Which one is the best?

Play the first one, it's spooky in the same ways DooM 1/2 are.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Where the hell is the father of horror Shinji Mikami???

 

[UberTag]

None of these devs have played Corpse Party.

 

[Chill Penguin]

Love that the Naughty Dog guys picked Fatal Frame 2. That game was terrifying, and largely overlooked among great PS2 games. Up there with Silent Hill 2 imo.

 

[fart town usa]

The first three are on PSN

https://store.sonyentertainmentnetw...rame/cid=UP9000-NPUD20388_00-0000000000000000
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetw...rfly/cid=UP9000-NPUD20766_00-0000000000000000
https://store.sonyentertainmentnetw...nted/cid=UP9000-NPUD21244_00-0000000000000000

Dude,

hell yes.

I owned 1 on ps2 and xbox, 2 on xbox and 3 up until about a month ago when I sold them at a local shop. Kinda regretted it but I just never played them, glad to know I can get em on my ps3.

I have the 4 too on the Wii, great game, shame it was never localized.

 

[Arkage]

Glad to see the original AitD and Call of Cthulhu there.

P.T. should count as a game

 

[Percy]

lol Suda.

Interesting to see what some people count as "horror" games here. I'd personally be reluctant to consider the likes of Resi 4 and L4D as anything other than action games tbh.