Jade Knight 08
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Can't choose.... it's either RE:Remake or Dead Space!
Scratches is very good horror. Captures the "alone in the spooky house" atmosphere perfectly.Lovecraftian horror: Scratches
Silent Hill 2.
No surprise considering my avatar but still...
I own (or have owned) pretty much all consoles. I rebought a PS2 and I'm currently playing PS1 and PS2 games like Dino Crisis or Haunting Ground.
Where are those games today? There's nothing like it. Survival horror is pretty much dead.
Anyways, those games are fantastic but Silent Hill 2 is still the best horror game ever made, imo.
It still has great graphics (I'm playing the PS2 version on my HDTV), the story is phenomenal, the pacing is perfect, the sound (and soundtrack) is unmatched and the atmosphere...oh boy....the atmosphere.
I miss Team Silent.
What's your favorite horror game? And why?
The best one in my opinion:
I've heard of it, I thought it came out already. Thought it was the movie that tumblr was complaining about being cultural appropriation of Aokigahara... *looks it up*Nice explanation, I see where you're coming from, the total loss of agency part is absolutely something that is difficult to find in terms of realism at depicting it. Your Rosemary mention is reminding me yet again I still need to see Repulsion, the mental collapse/illness angle is something that gets me as some of the most effective horror when done right.
Speaking of Blair Witch...I'm guessing you're looking forward to The Woods? Seeing as it might be a stealth sequel and they remembered to make it found footage again! The former is one of my favs as well.
I don't need horror to be smart as much as I'd like to be engaged. I love me some "high art" horror, but I don't find it really correlating with scares for me. Nor gore either, but I love gore because I think it just makes for a grand ol' time.For me horror films just need to truly horrify me. In order to do that they need to be smart too. Just seeing some gore on a screen doesn't horrify me. It's all about the mind game. Classic horror movies like Martyrs, The Exorcist, A L'interieur, Texas Chainsaw Massacre match the visuals with a twisted head job. But horror games affect me totally differently. There's just more immediacy and immersion to it. I have to reactions to things that happen in horror games that I just would never have from watching a film.
Definitely the original Clock Tower for me.
The worst thing for horror is for the audience to become comfortable with it and sadly all too many horror games fall into this trap. Since most horror games involve some form of combat(for some reason), the minute the player becomes in any way proficient at said combat, the tension deflates. My initial experiences with the first Silent Hill are probably the scariest a game has ever been for me but sometime around the school(or thereabouts) the monsters become either trivial to fight or to run from. Resident Evil 1 becomes more action packed as it goes along(adding stupid one-hit kill monsters to try to keep up the tension). Eventually we get to the likes of Resident Evil 4(and 5 and 6) and the Dead Spaces, which expect you to kill pretty much everything you come across and nothing could be farther from horror than being an action hero.
Clock Tower makes the protagonist defenseless and gives the player very simple controls that are married to a character who seems to respond to them at her own speed and not the player's. Little pixelated Jennifer Connelly will walk, run, turn, and interact at your command but it feels like you are only telling her what to do and then she does it, putting you in an almost voyeur like role. The story is also kept to a minimum which helps to keep the playtime down which helps to limit the player's ability to become comfortable with the work. Add on some decent replayability, the requisite spooky atmosphere and jump scares and you have the tops.
Bloodborne might just be my #1. The lore in that game is so fucking crazy in so many ways. Eldritch horrors, horrific experiments and abominations, locations that get more and more surreal as you decend into the madness.
There are so many layers, there is so much happening behind the veil, only to be revealed once you start looking for it. I still can't fully grasp it all, or how anyone even comes up with stuff like this.
*Sigh*
Poor SH3, often ignored in favor for its predecessor. Maybe it's better to say the Silent Hill trilogy is the best horror game experience, since all three are excellent at horror in their own ways. SH4 can join too as the awkward red head child of the group.
Silent Hill Homecoming and Downpour can go burn though.
That section might have had the most "scares", but I thought the Apple Orchard house was the creepiest part of the game.Has probably the creepiest, spine tingliest bit of horror I've ever played , with the dept store dummies.
*shivers*
I have to admit...I've never played RE 2. But I really want play it. It's a shame you have to pay at least 80 to get the PS1 version in Germany. Maybe next month, lol.