Other than RE1 & Remake, what other non RE games gave you good scares. I mean the creepy ones not cheap jump scare like Doom 3, FEAR & Dead Space.
For me, RE1 on PC was the 1st scare game i've ever encountered. It's pretty scary as it was something new back then and the classic horror mansion storyline, getting lost & lack of ammo really makes the game creepy. Had problems playing it alone and at night.
After that was D, played on 3DO system, it was roughly the same age as RE1, but the experience was different. It was scary but short. No guns & health packs.
Then came a time where i tried playing old games on emulators, and
Snatcher CD was the 1st that gives me the creeps. It's not a scary game but very creepy even though it came in bits & bytes. The plot, the music, the voice acting.
After Snatcher was Clock Tower, translated to english. It's simple side scrolling point & click game, came in 2D pixels. Yet the scare factor far exceeded what RE1 game me. The music & sudden pop up of scissor boy, typical orphan adopted story, deaths after deaths. The Mannequin room was unforgettably scary to a point i actually shivered (And most of the time nothing happened). Could sleep. Kept thinking about Scissor boy... Up til now it's still top scary games i've played. Only after finishing the game i realized you can fight scissor boy...
Then came Haunting Grounds. Another helpless girl spending most of the time running away from crazy people. Big mansion. No weapons. Panic mode, tripping down, dying of all causes, crazy people want to tear her apart.
After that, back to PC, this time it's Condemned: Criminal Origins. Saw it on the shelves of a book store for 3 bucks. I heard about it, it's one of Sega's rare horror game. And yes it's scary. Took me good 2 years to complete it. Just couldn't pull myself together and play it.
The latest scary game i felt real scared is Siren: New Translation on PS3. It's the most realistic game i've ever played in terms of how realistic the person ingame looked. They use photographics on them, the whole environment was one of the spookiest, even more than any silent hill games. Lack of weapons & low health means how easy it is to die. The game was pretty short, if you know what to do, each scenario can be finished under 5 minutes. But for 1st timer, dang it scared the **** out of me. Took me 1 year to complete such a short game coz i couldn't take it.
There are other notable horror games i've played, but the impact was not as big as the above mentioned, maybe it's because the environment i was playing under.
I've played Silent Hill 2,3,4, I have to say 4 is the scariest out of them. Especially in the Room. I so hate that room, just hate it!!! You can look outside the room but can't get out and you need to exorcist the room full of ghosts. And the unbeatable ghost (even with silver bullet) is so scary because they are fast, spooky, unkillable & kills you in few seconds.
Other notables are Amnesia: The Dark Decent, Call of Cthullu, Fatal Frame series (heard about it but not played yet), Tomb Raider at one point was spooky... Bioshock 1 was a bit creepy. Alan Wake's environment is pretty much up to Silent Hill standards. Killing Time for 3DO was pretty creepy with the low res video they use. Have yet played Eternal Darkness for Gamecube.
Forgot to mention one of the earlier games i got scared of, Altered Beast, and yes you start out in a cemetery & the wild animals you tun into & the pigs that jumps at you are pretty spooky for 2D pixels.
So that's about it for the games i've come across.
One thing i wished was I get to play them on a Silent Night, you know with Big TV, surround sound headphones, windows opened with wind blowing in & lights total out. Man that would have been an experience! At the cost of sleepless nights perhaps...
Well games aside, i find the movie Scream amusing. And lastly i recommend Salem's Lot. My friend said he has problem with open windows after watching it, i have yet got myself to take up the challenge this movie poses... so yea that's about it.
For me, RE1 on PC was the 1st scare game i've ever encountered. It's pretty scary as it was something new back then and the classic horror mansion storyline, getting lost & lack of ammo really makes the game creepy. Had problems playing it alone and at night.
After that was D, played on 3DO system, it was roughly the same age as RE1, but the experience was different. It was scary but short. No guns & health packs.
Then came a time where i tried playing old games on emulators, and
Snatcher CD was the 1st that gives me the creeps. It's not a scary game but very creepy even though it came in bits & bytes. The plot, the music, the voice acting.
After Snatcher was Clock Tower, translated to english. It's simple side scrolling point & click game, came in 2D pixels. Yet the scare factor far exceeded what RE1 game me. The music & sudden pop up of scissor boy, typical orphan adopted story, deaths after deaths. The Mannequin room was unforgettably scary to a point i actually shivered (And most of the time nothing happened). Could sleep. Kept thinking about Scissor boy... Up til now it's still top scary games i've played. Only after finishing the game i realized you can fight scissor boy...
Then came Haunting Grounds. Another helpless girl spending most of the time running away from crazy people. Big mansion. No weapons. Panic mode, tripping down, dying of all causes, crazy people want to tear her apart.
After that, back to PC, this time it's Condemned: Criminal Origins. Saw it on the shelves of a book store for 3 bucks. I heard about it, it's one of Sega's rare horror game. And yes it's scary. Took me good 2 years to complete it. Just couldn't pull myself together and play it.
The latest scary game i felt real scared is Siren: New Translation on PS3. It's the most realistic game i've ever played in terms of how realistic the person ingame looked. They use photographics on them, the whole environment was one of the spookiest, even more than any silent hill games. Lack of weapons & low health means how easy it is to die. The game was pretty short, if you know what to do, each scenario can be finished under 5 minutes. But for 1st timer, dang it scared the **** out of me. Took me 1 year to complete such a short game coz i couldn't take it.
There are other notable horror games i've played, but the impact was not as big as the above mentioned, maybe it's because the environment i was playing under.
I've played Silent Hill 2,3,4, I have to say 4 is the scariest out of them. Especially in the Room. I so hate that room, just hate it!!! You can look outside the room but can't get out and you need to exorcist the room full of ghosts. And the unbeatable ghost (even with silver bullet) is so scary because they are fast, spooky, unkillable & kills you in few seconds.
Other notables are Amnesia: The Dark Decent, Call of Cthullu, Fatal Frame series (heard about it but not played yet), Tomb Raider at one point was spooky... Bioshock 1 was a bit creepy. Alan Wake's environment is pretty much up to Silent Hill standards. Killing Time for 3DO was pretty creepy with the low res video they use. Have yet played Eternal Darkness for Gamecube.
Forgot to mention one of the earlier games i got scared of, Altered Beast, and yes you start out in a cemetery & the wild animals you tun into & the pigs that jumps at you are pretty spooky for 2D pixels.
So that's about it for the games i've come across.
One thing i wished was I get to play them on a Silent Night, you know with Big TV, surround sound headphones, windows opened with wind blowing in & lights total out. Man that would have been an experience! At the cost of sleepless nights perhaps...
Well games aside, i find the movie Scream amusing. And lastly i recommend Salem's Lot. My friend said he has problem with open windows after watching it, i have yet got myself to take up the challenge this movie poses... so yea that's about it.
