Topic: October is here! Which horror games will you be playing?

@Th3solution no you can play each SH stand alone without an issue!
Think of it like resident evil but even more disconnected

@Jimmer-jammer very true 👍

@Yousef- @Jimmer-jammer @colonelkilgore I am pretty sure I played the first game on the PS1, and I think I played another one — whether it was SH2 or SH3 or one of the other offshoots, I can’t be sure. I remember zombie nurses. They were very impressive to a young lad. Other than that and the deceptive use of fog to hide the hardware limitations of the time, it’s all a vague mess in my brain. Unfortunately there was an impression at the time that it was a lesser Resident Evil wannabe.

@Th3solution the fog is part of the atmosphere. When SH2 was ported to PS360, which had more powerful hardware and thus didn’t need the fog, the removal of the fog did a lot more harm than good. Whether incidental or otherwise, it’s a critical part of its artistic merit.

@Th3solution aye nurses always are sol, even zombie ones 😉

after the pushsquare review - silent hill 2 remake. i never played silent hill before (besides the P.T. demo) so im looking forward to it & i hope its actually scary because i wanna be spooked

@Th3solution I think both games have zombie nurses in them. In the third game you play as a teenage girl. For me the Silent Hill games were the more effective horror games compared to the Resident Evil games, which felt more action orientated and hammy.

@JohnnyShoulder Ah, I see. The more I think about it and read about this Remake, I’m fairly sure now that I never played SH2 and probably only played SH1. I have absolutely no memory of Pyramid Head and apparently that’s an iconic part of SH2.

Chances are I’ll really like SH2 since I enjoyed RE1-3 more than RE4 (although I’ve yet to played the RE4 Remake) when things started getting really action-ey.

I’ll try to avoid the temptation to buy SH2 Remake since I do want to play RE4 and Dead Space Remakes first. What a great thing to have a whole slew of 9’s and 10’s to choose from in the survival horror category.

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My backlog of horror, horror adjacent, and zombie games to play is just ballooning —
Days Gone; RE4R, 5, 6, 7, 8; Alan Wake 1&2; TWD4; Callisto Protocol; Dark Pictures Anthology; Dead Space; and now SH2. Add to that I want to do a replay of TLoU P1 in its remake form too.

I count 16 games. 😅 The good thing is most horror games tend to be in the short side, by modern standards, 10-20 hrs. So it’s not quite like having 16 RPGs in the backlog (although I’m sure I have that many of those too… 😆)

@Th3solution RE4 is better played through and out of the backlog since it’s only 16 hours ish and won’t take that long. Dead space remake is a bit meaty going by my friend’s remarks.
The RE games are probably not great binged. Breaks are preferred.
By the time you’re a quarterway through these 16 titles, SH2 would likely go on sale.

@Th3solution Yeah I will hopefuly play the Dead Space remake soon, but had had the same intentions with Calisto Protocol last year and I never did.

This breaks my rule of not playing a remake or remastered game i've already completed the og version of. The closest were Dark Souls and FFVII, but I had never completed them originally.

@Yousef- Yes, that’s what I figure. I already own all those (or have by virtue of PS+) except for AW2 (also likely to be more steeply discounted by the time I get to it) and RE8 (maybe will be in PS+ by then? If not it’s already quite cheap but no need to get it now.)

I think my order will be to do Little Hope and then RE4.

@Th3solution @JohnnyShoulder
I have been playing Dead Space for the last week and give it two thumbs up. It's bloody brilliant. Move it near the top of your to do lists.

Or dont, it's your life after all.

@Th3solution I can totally see an RE ending up on ps plus.

@JohnnyShoulder I have a similar philosophy — if I played the OG and it’s a simple remaster or bare bones remake then I don’t feel inclined to play it. My exceptions here are RE4 since I never finished the original, and TLoUP1, which I felt no need to play the PS4 remaster, but seeing as it’s now 2 generations later from when I played it at launch, perhaps it’s worth a replay and experience it again in all its PS5 4K glory.

I only played an hour or maybe less of the OG Dead Space so it’s basically fresh for me.

@sorteddan Sounds like a ringing endorsement! Definitely will get to it.

Did you try Callisto Protocol yet?

@Th3solution
Yes I played CP last year (I think) and, to be honest, it was a bit of a slog. It is fun in places but it is vastly inferior to Dead Space in all areas. It's like some devs decided to make a Dead Space like game for the current gen before they knew about the remake. If I remember rightly the most fun I had with it was trying to speedrun the game on hard mode just to finish the trophies. It was basically trying to ignore the exploration and combat and just run from objective to objective. The fact that I enjoyed trying to avoid the majority of the game more than my initial playing of the game is my lasting impression of it.

@sorteddan Thanks, that’s consistent with what I’ve seen at large. I’m just curious to experience the game since it cost $160 million to make. That’s a lot for a 10 hour game. Do you think that the presence of Dead Space Remake as a comparison product made CP seem worse? Perhaps if it released in a vacuum without another space survival horror within the same year then maybe it could have found an audience?

I'll probably play SH2 Remake a long time from now. After ER & SOTE (which will take a while most probs), Eldest Souls (yes, that's a real game actually!), Jedi Survivor and then whatever it's sequel turns out to be - if it's out by then.
Then Death Stranding: Director's Cut,.Digital Deluxe Edition, then SH2R , as I have said elsewhere I def want a break from Souls/Soulslike games at some point in the near future.

@Th3solution
Maybe but I think the comparisons would be inevitable anyway. When I first saw the reveal trailer for CP I thought "Ace. That looks like Dead Space Rip off" - just watch some gameplay from each game and you'll sed what I mean, they've pretty much just ripped the character design and posture. And then me and anybody who fondly remembered playing Dead Space would be been a bit disappointed when it didn't match up.

Also CP has way too much crawling through vents. Not sure why that's now popped into my head but it's true!

Finished Little Nightmares 2 in around 6 hours and went back to collect all trophies and stuff. Got the platinum in around 9 hours.
Just watching the credits roll on my first playthrough of Dead Space remake and have to say, as I've already stated above, I thought It was bloody brilliant!!! Took about 17 hours but I did spend a good 3-4 hours on Chapter 10 just backtracking to various parts the station for collectables and side missions and stuff.
Unsure whether to move on and start RE4Remake or jump straight in for the Dead Space hard mode plasma cutter only run but leaning towards the latter... Can see that final boss causing a few problems in that. @LN78 How is your run in that going? (If you're still at it).

Also think I'll makes a start on Little Hope this evening, when the darkness sets in.