Wasn’t Stay Alive that lame ass movie that involved some kind of video game where if you get killed in it, you got killed in the real world?
Dude, all you need to do is hit on www.liveleak.com and you can watch people get capped in the face and get run over by semi’s all day long.
ALMOST. But his ass totally deserved to buy it. He had a BAD secret.
Yeah.
It wasn’t the whole movie that scared me ( I was 9) it was just the first 5 minutes.
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I was going to make a horror game thread lol.
What games would you recommend? I find the indie games have the uneasy feeling down better than most retail games. Yume Nikki has an unease and something disturbing about it. It’s about a girl experimenting on her dreams and there’s no direction for you to go. You just go out there and experiment in whatever way possible like a real dream, like entering and exiting a door, stabbing people and going through weird pathways.
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If you want a thrill, Ao Oni is hilariously fun. It might be stupid at first but it sort of is like imagining yourself getting chased by a scooby doo villian who will try to bite into your skull.
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edit: Also has anyone tried IB? It’s another sprite based rpg maker game but I hear it’s really freaky and anmesia-like with monsters popping out to kill you and traps but no way to fight back.
Figured one all encompassing thread is better. I’m kinda not looking forward to RE6 or Dead Space 3, need to find something else for my mainstream Horror game fix. Silent Hill: Downpour was a mixed bag. Like a really interesting main character in story wrapped up in a god-awful combat system.
Yeah, had Malcolm in the Middle in it, lol.
Lol what?, I had no idea he was even in the movie. Probably because I didn’t watch it [nor did I even want to]
That is a crazy-good show. It’s Star Trek minus space ships plus creepy.
Now there’s a movie that will push your buttons.
Twilight Zone OG is my favorite series of all time, has everything you could want and was legitimately good use of Television. Rod Serling’s work in general is very enjoyable. While he didn’t have as much creative control, Night Gallery and (obviously) Planet of the Apes are great works. Also he was a badass behind the scenes.
Jacob’s Ladder, very mind fucky film, and one of the few I watched right after and then sat around thinking about it. Oddly enough I’ve had like a dozen people mistake that for The Serpent and The Rainbow. The urge to slap them grew each time.
Yeah, I recalled watching Jacob’s Ladder back in high school(10-ish years ago), it was pretty effective, two scenes stuck in my mind are the hospital scene and the dancefloor scene. Yeah… and LOL at mistaking Jacob’s Ladder with The Serpent and The Rainbow.
Anyway, what are your fav highlights so far for 2012? Off the top of my head right now I can only recall “Cabin in the woods” being really satisfying… There might be others I forgot about though…
Woah. How in the fuck hell did I not see this thread?
Oh one more thing, anybody else read the recent Hellraiser comics(actually written by clive barker)? I only own the first compiled volume and I love it except the fact that its hard as shit to get my hands on the comics here. Sure there are other ways for me to get to read it but reading comics on the monitor screen can be pretty tiring and not as satisfying, to me at least…
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While The Shining is a functional haunted house pic it mainly focuses almost exclusively on back story to explain the fantasy elements the characters see, the lore of the hotel is the core of The Shining. Granted a lot of the film is subliminal and subtle to the point of inscrutability to 98% of viewers but still it’s as heady as horror gets. Which reminds me I don’t really like conventional horror, there are a few like Halloween or Texas Chainsaw Massacre for example but generally I only like horror films that have a psychological and/or surrealist bent to them like The Thing or Psycho.
Anyone have recommendations?
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Fixed. After that it becomes typical Hollywood autopilot dogshit fresh off the assembly line.
That was a really poignant and powerful film even for my jaded ass. Loved it, wish I could see horror films with that much conviction and intelligence.
Most people give films that are intended to be ambiguous and/or not have a conventional narrative a free pass on any internal sense of logic, not me I think films that use the artistic license as an excuse to be lazy and random need to be called out as such. That being said I loved it, it seems contradictory at some points but remember the intent is to make viewers see the film from Singer’s point of view so it’s only natural to be disoriented plot wise as long as the overarching theme connects it all together.
Triangle if you haven’t seen it, pretty decent psychological Horror tale. Can probably scrounge up a few more later, head is killing me right now.
Have there been any good/recent horror movies. The horror movie I saw was “Grave Encounters”; it was bad to be honest.
Thank you for namedropping these and giving me something to do this week. Michigan looks bonkers and I’m watching White Day now.
Semi-related, why do motherfuckers think it’s acceptable to LP/playthrough a horror game and then talk over every scene? People that pull those shenanigans should be shot, then arrested.
Yume Nikki looks really cool and creepy, although someone on IRC said it only has a few scary parts and is mostly boring =/. Amnesia is one of my favorite horror games it’s really succeeds at making the player feel defenseless, the only thing I didn’t like was that figuring out AI path finding made it a little less terrifying, still an amazing achievement in gaming IMO nice to see another fan:tup:
Dead Space 1 and especially 2 are the scariest (and among the best) games I’ve ever played. The action doesn’t in any way deter from the intensely creepy atmosphere, in DS1 after 2/3 of the way through you could horde enough ammo to feel safe from anything so that “edge of your seat” feeling was diminished but the light and sound design are so far beyond all other games I still kept my guard up. DS2 just ramped up everything a notch and was a lot scarier than the first because the sound and lighting which is the real star of the series was improved through the bigger budget and the menacing atmosphere designed to never make players feel safe stayed with me throughout due mostly to much better level diversity and a more natural pacing through them. The lore, the voice overs, the animations, the aggressive necromorph AI, and the overall vibe of both games really oozes with creepiness which combined with the lack of a HUD sucked me in like no other game, although a big part of that is only playing 3AM in the dark with volume blasted.
After that I’d say Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. It was really scary in a suspenseful way without trying to be at all. Nothing out of the ordinary could be happening but there’s always this nagging sense that something could happen so you have to be tensed up the entire time and I’m sure it wasn’t easy for the developers to figure out how to sustain that feeling of dread without constantly stimulating players.
System Shock 1 and 2 really laid the ground for all future games that relied on being intensely disturbing rather than flat out “scary”. I wouldn’t say SS scared me as much as it made me want to avoid confrontation and just finish the game so I wouldn’t have to be in that environment anymore lol.
Watching an older friend play The 7th guest gave me nightmares as a kid, and still to this day when I come back to it I’m reminded of the vibe 90’s pc games used to have. There was this sense of uncompromising fear meant to intimidate gamers. if you’re a fan of murder/mysteries and/or adventure games it’s a must play. The visual effects are dated buy still serve their purpose.
Alone In The Dark I think displays how point and click adventure games in the 90’s were inherently scary because most of these games required the player to have specific answers to dozens of puzzles, so you were always under pressure of impending death. And this is one of the best of the sub genre.
Next up is Clocktower series…midget with big scissors randomly appears to chase you throughout a mansion and you have no way of fighting back. Simple and effective.
Alan Wake scared me, the taken are just a really scary group of enemies and never once became protagonist fodder like most enemies in shooters. It also doesn’t hurt to have a really compelling twisty mystery to pull gamers deeper into the lore of a horror game, especially when it gets crazier the more you unravel.
There are others but let me know what you think about these first, also I’m ashamed to admit as much as I love horror games I never got around to playing any Silent Hill games, but that’s going to be fixed soon.
I can see how it would be tempting to group RE and DS, but RE6 has no intention of being scary it’s just trying to be a good action shooter while DS3 is going to focus on scaring players as much as the other 2 did maybe even more so. Check out the thread for footage and info you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
I put them together because I have the same lack of enthusiasm to play them. Co-op to DS3 kind of ruins the experience, and even lacking that it would be an AI partner. Most of the scenes I’ve seen are those big, blockbuster action pieces. Nothing really stood out or looked different enough to warrant my attention and money. Can wait on a price drop.
RE has never been scary, let’s get that out of the way. The series has a few creepy moments but you are basically playing a B-movie. RE5 was just meh, fun from a co-op perspective I suppose but nothing at all stood out. RE6 is being made by “New” Capcom and looks like a big mess to me, I’d rather wait for a future and cheaper gold edition with all the DLC included.
Alan Wake series is really fun, I love the story. I need a true sequel for that already.
Clocktower series is decent, Clocktower for SNES and PSOne are great, 2 was really meh, and 3 was gory as hell but was more disconnected from the others.
Here is a list of Horror game releases from Wikipedia, not all inclusive but if you browse Youtube checking them out, makes the job easier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Horror_video_games