It's the month of Halloween and scary games, are you planning on playing any horror titles? Also, list your favourite horror games! Mine are:
1) Dead Space
2) Resident Evil 1 Remake
3) SOMA
4) Outlast
5) Dead Space 2
6) Until Dawn
7) Resident Evil 2 (PS1)
8) The Medium
9) Layers of Fear
10) Detention
I'm still new to the genre so there are a lot of horror games I haven't played yet, but I can imagine this list changing a lot once I've played some more. Right now I'm playing through The Evil Within and it's a brilliant game. I can definitely see it becoming a favourite game of mine if it continues being this good. I might also check out some other horror titles, although I haven't decided which ones yet. Maybe Corpse Party, Resident Evil 4, Amnesia or FEAR will be next!
@MatthewJP My stomach hit the floor when I came across the granny in the wheelchair in the basement in flat RE7, I can only imagine how I would have reacted in VR!
@LtSarge The Evil Within 1 and 2 are excellent, I may replay 2 here soon. Not sure I’d call it an outright horror but Prey might be worth checking out…It is also excellent.
“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.” C.S. Lewis
As mentioned, evil within were good games, most of the RE games, dying light (at night) was scary. I also have a soft spot for until dawn, some good scary segments in that. And again, the VR until dawn (rush of blood) is great scary fun.
But light horror can be really great like Death Stranding, The Last of Us, The Walking Dead and even Control has light horror elements. Bloodborne is a really scary setting for me too, but I still loved it. I also liked Until Dawn amd Hellblade.
And despite my reluctance with horror, I really like Resident Evil 1 & 2 Remakes. Both fantastic. Looking forward to playing REmake 3 this month.
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@Jimmer-jammer Definitely interested in checking out Prey! Speaking of The Evil Within 2, I was a bit hesitant in playing that game since I've heard it's open world compared to the first game. But after having played the first one for a couple of hours now, I can definitely see why an open world would make the sequel much better. I'm very excited to play through this series now.
@Th3solution Ah for sure. I love stuff like TLOU or Control. Horror elements like in those are great but I think we can agree they can’t be really called horror games
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I don’t think they call Control horror, but according to Sammy, TLoU is horror. As is Inside, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Demon’s Souls, and…. Returnal! 😄
@Voltan@Th3solution I do think there are different kinds of horror, not to mention that everyone perceives horror in a different way. For example, it's obvious that Resident Evil is a horror series. But I personally don't find the games as scary as franchises such as Dead Space or Outlast. They focus more on creating a dreadful atmosphere rather than having scary moments, so to me it makes sense why games like The Last of Us and Inside are considered horror games even though they aren't really that scary. They're more disturbing or unsettling so to speak, which fits in with the horror theme.
Thats about it ,. real shame they nerfed outlast 2 because of mass complaints at the beginning of its release . now its almost a walking simulator with some hiding . smh .
@LtSarge Very true. Many games have intense and scary moments, but aren’t really horror games. I remember while playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider that there were a few of the areas, caves, and tombs that were legitimately scary. But as a whole the game is not horror. But Control has a setting — the Oldest House — which is repeatedly creepy and there is a constant feeling of being alone and enemies that are relatively spooky with the crazy chanting voices in the background, etc. So I would call Control a light horror game. Same with Death Stranding when you are up against BT’s. They are very ghost-like and there is a tense feeling of dread, just like any horror game. These are the games I just absolutely love.
Even A Plague Tale which I recently played has some horror elements with the sinister supernatural creepy elements, dead bodies, rats, etc.
In movies there is a different genre they call “Thrillers” where there’s not horror styled violence and gratuitous gore, but there is a tension with jump scares at times and spooky aspects. Perhaps games could be sub-categorized that way too, because many lines are blurry when trying to compartmentalize game types. The same issue arises when we try to define which games are RPGs. In today’s games there are elements of rpg in almost all games. 😅
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Love horror games (also movies) - got a bunch in the backlog I should get round to this time of year including: darkest dungeon, darkwood, death road to canada, lone survivor, othercide, re5 & 6, savage halloween, spooky chase and Zombie Army 4. I know they're probably not all REALLY horror games but mostly horror themed so whatever.
Unfortunately I have recently started Disgaea 1 Complete so will probably be utterly fixated with that for the duration, ...well it does have demons and monsters in I suppose.
Games I have loved in the past include most RE titles, Evil Within 1&2, Prey/Bioshocks, Dead Rising(s), Dead Island(s) Dead Nation, Dead Space(s), F.E.A.R., Silent Hill series, Limbo, and probably a bunch more I can't remember...
Scariest one ever for me was one of the Project Zero games (can't recall which!) that I happened upon years ago. Had no idea what it was when I started but playing as a Japanese Schoolgirl armed with only a camera to defend myself whilst exploring what seemed like a typical Asian horror movie aesthetic was pretty terrifying. Think it's coz the ghosts/apparitions could come through walls behind you in areas you had just explored so kept making me jump and kept me very apprehensive. I'm really looking forward to the new one being ported to playstation!
@Th3solution It's interesting that you should mention thrillers because I played through Alan Wake earlier this year and it's described as a "psychological thriller". I don't think people consider that game to be horror but it's definitely horror themed if you ask me (and it definitely has a couple of jump scares to boot). Perhaps Remedy did try to make the thriller subcategory back in the day!
@Sorteddan You just reminded me about BioShock. I played through it a couple of months ago and ultimately, I was disappointed that the game started out as a horror experience but after a couple of hours it just became another standard first-person shooter. But those beginning hours were truly great and I wish it had continued like that.
I've never played Project Zero but I've heard a lot of great things about it. The only game I have access to right now is Project Zero 2 on Wii U eShop and it looks like a very spooky game. I definitely need to check out this series eventually, it seems like a very unique concept.
I'm going to be playing the remaster of Fatal Frame V: Maiden of Black Water when it launches late in the month.
A top five horror games list for me would look like...
1) Silent Hill (PS1)
2) Resident Evil remake (GC)
3) Corpse Party (PSP)
4) Silent Hill 3 (PS2)
5) Fatal Frame (PS2)
So, if it wasn't readily apparent from that list, I enjoy a very specific type of horror game: Japanese survival horror. I've played a LOT of horror games over the years, but nothing really measures up to that nearly extinct style of horror video game that was so dominant in the sixth gen.
Corpse Party is an exception. One of the oldest and best indie games ever made, and it's been circulating in some form since in the mid-90s, although it didn't make its way westward until the prettied up PSP port in 2010 or so.
@nessisonett I respect Silent Hill 2 quite a bit, and it probably has the best story of the bunch, but I strongly prefer the raw supernatural horror of the first and third games to the slow-burning arthouse horror vibe of SH2. I also can't stand pretty much any of the characters in that game.
The music is a pretty good reflection of these different tones. SH2's music often sound like independent rock, with a pronounced sense of melancholy and regret to it. Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure half of the tracks in SH1 were composed by using power tools that were laying around the studio.
Of course, all three are much more engaging than the flawed Silent Hill 4, which itself is a masterpiece compared to the awful sequels that came afterward. The early games in that series are, indeed, masterpieces. They remind me of some of the classic, inimitable masterpiece horror films of the 70s and 80s in that they represent highs for the genre in that particular medium which will likely never be topped as pure horror experiences.
@Ralizah This is actually pretty much my exact feelings on the Silent Hill series. Of the three good ones I also think 2 is the weakest which is a really unpopular opinion that you don't see often. Good to see other people flying the flag for 1 and 3.
The first game is still my favourite. It's absolutely ruthless. It's actually one of my favourite games of all time. It might be top ten. I've never played a game that scared me more. Not like in a dog jumping through the window jump scare way. It's more of a I turned the game off an hour ago and I still can't stop thinking about it WE'RE SLEEPING WITH THE LIGHTS ON TONIGHT kinda way.
They obviously did a better job of fleshing out the stories and with the voice acting and stuff in the later games but that just adds to the original's charm for me. The story of Silent Hill is fantastic because it gives you all of the information you need for an engaging narrative overtly, but if you go out of your way to read all the notes and extra stuff it really fleshes it out. It makes for a grim time.
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