[ SECRET POST #2779 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2779 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

11. http://i.imgur.com/SGTbQVG.png

[(Anonymous)]

Outlast? Five Nights at Freddy's? I dunno.

[feotakahari]

I just looked up Five Nights at Freddy's. Good lord.

[croik]

Five Night's at Freddy's is so great, I definitely second that rec.

[elaminator]

I don't play a lot of horror games because...well, I'm easily frightened in video games (not so much in other mediums), but Outlast...good lord. I've only watched walkthroughs of Outlast, but I could never ever play that myself. I was constantly screaming at the screen and jumping in my seat just watching someone else play it. The whole 'you can't defend yourself' shtick is kind of terrible, but effective.

Will probably watch a let's play of Five Nights at Freddy's now, and hate myself afterward. Thanks?

[darkmanifest]

Funny you mention Five Nights, I just discovered that tonight. Jesus H, it got me really good once.

[icecheetah]

If you want a short free game, Deep Sleep is excelent, one of the few games to ever make me not want to sleep at night. It's sequel, Deeper Sleep is good too, but while some say the third part, the Deepest Sleep is pretty good, I found it lacklustre in comparison.

And I thought Fatal Frame II was the winner of the "Scariest Game Ever" title? (Though it didn't scare me particularlly)

Edit: A friend suggested Corpse Party.

[mikoxxx]

Ugh, this reminds me of how Amnesia suddenly decided to stop on me somewhere in the middle and I never figured out how to get to work again.
:(

On the other hand, yes, I also don't think either of them was frightening in any way, they were just fun and made me kinda nervous sometimes, but not shit scared or anything.

The only game I was seriously scared of was one I played online a looong time ago called Hotel 626, I think? It scared me to my very soul, idek. .__.

[(Anonymous)]

Weird recommendation incoming…

Try Spec Ops: The Line. You might finish it and not understand why I recommended it. But you also might fall completely in love (the way I did).

If you do decide to check it out, though, don't investigate spoilers and don't give up on it (it intentionally takes a while to get going).

It's in a weird genre, but it might give you some food for thought at least.

[dethtoll]

Oh man. I played that like back to back with the first season of The Walking Dead a couple years ago. Fucked me up for a week.

I think it qualifies as a horror game because it's a major deconstruction/savage critique of tacticool manshooters like Battlefield. Whereas other games downplay the horrors of, or even outright glorify war or play up the America, Fuck Yeah! aspect (and even Call of Duty, which has always had a seething anti-war sentiment just below the surface, tends to hide it beyond a very sanitized approach to the actual combat) Spec Ops rubs your nose in it.

[inthecorner]

Horror games can be difficult to recommend, since people in general tend to be frightened by different things. Maybe a Silent Hill game? Dead Space? Fatal Frame? Or, on the indie scale, games like Lone Survivor or Yearwalk? I don't know, I'm just throwing out titles here.

[dethtoll]

I liked Dead Space 1 and 2 alright, but Dead Space Extraction, weirdly enough, was the scariest for me.

[ariakas]

Different things frighten different people. I honestly have no idea why this is a secret and not simply "I didn't find Amnesia scary - recs?" comment.

[toku_mei]

Amnesia scared the shit out of me, and usually I can handle scary games - I think I hadn't encountered a game before where you have no defense against the monsters. You literally have to hide in closets and pray. And you say you get less scared when you actually see the monsters - sure, but that's why the protagonist can't look at the monsters without going crazy, therefore encouraging players to never get more than a glimpse of them. And if you take too long, you go crazy as well, so the game discourages you from going at a comfortable pace. I mean, to each one's own, but there hasn't been a game that's kept me on edge so much as Amnesia. I love the concept and want to replay it so badly. But in the middle of the day. With the lights on and windows open. and like a thousand friends there for moral support.

[dethtoll]

I'll be honest, Amnesia's whole "you're such a useless ninny you can't even pick up a board or something to protect yourself from monster duckfaces looking for scones" mechanic really hurt the game for me (on top of being a by-the-books Lovecraft knockoff, but that's a different rant.)

And I hate that it's become a trend. I'm not asking for a BFG 9000 or anything, but it would be really nice if I could at least DEFEND myself, even if it's just to stun the enemy long enough to make my escape. I actually had someone give me shit because I got excited when they announced Routine would let you have some minimal self-defense. "blah blah this game is a tiny bit different from a game you hate and that's enough to sell you on it? that was easy" hurrrrrrr. If anyone thinks the difference between "wuss" and "wuss with a gun" is "tiny" they really don't understand the problem at all.

Sorry, this turned into something of a rant -- Amnesia is one of "those games" for me.

[dethtoll]

Cry of Fear. It's free, and it's on Steam. It's pretty much a first person Silent Hill set in Stockholm.

Afraid of Monsters: Director's Cut is an earlier work from the same team (the founder of which made the original version of AoM when he was just 14) -- it's a little uglier, a little harder, and you need a copy of Half-Life 1 which goes for about $10 on Steam these days but if you can put up with its foibles it's still one of the scariest games I've ever played.

While the Thief series of games doesn't have a focus on horror (it's a stealth game centered around breaking into noblemen's houses and stealing all their shit) it is host to some genuinely scary, disturbing and creepy experiences, culminating in The Cradle, which is pretty much a love letter to Session 9. The original trilogy can be had on gog.com or Steam, and the new one (which I haven't played) is going for fairly cheaply on Steam last I checked.

Silent Hill 1, 2 and 3 are classics by this point, though I caution against getting the HD remakes of 2 and 3 -- they really, really dropped the ball on those. Which is a shame because Silent Hill 2 remains one of my favourite games ever made.

The Last Of Us tends to follow more in the vein of Silent Hill 2 in that it's melancholy mixed with horror. It's definitely a horror game, but it mixes up dealing with clickers with dealing with bandits, raiders, and other people with guns who want to kill you and take your stuff (and possibly eat you.) And it's very pretty.

[silvereriena]

I get scared so easily so I don't even wanna touch the Amnesia games with a 10-foot pole.
The only game I can think of that might work for you is The Last Door (unless you've played it already). The first 2 episodes are on Kongregate already. I didn't think an 8-bit game would freak me out but I WAS WRONG.

[(Anonymous)]

lol I could barely even handle watching the lets plays for Amnesia and nearly pissed myself when I actually played it. I can handle horror movies just fine but my threshold is much lower for video games since I get so immersed in them. I wish I had some recs but many of the recent horror games (for the PC anyway) are mostly just knock offs of Amnesia and Slender so idk.

[nightscale]

I think the problem with these two games is that they're somewhat over-rated, so while a lot of people may very well find them scary it's all a bit over-blown so that when new players play them it could very well be underwhelming for them.

For me both these games never fail at scaring the shit out of me, never-mind that the monsters are kind of goofy looking and not all that scary when it comes down to it, they do something that just hits all my fear-buttons.

[(Anonymous)]

I loved Amnesia, and there were parts in that game where I stopped and couldn't bring myself to continue playing it for weeks because jesus christ, but its memetic status has probably hurt it for new players, which is too bad. Also, it's got some problems that can really spoil your ~immersion~ if you're aware of them. They've got a new game in the works, though, so I'm excited for that.

I still got scared seeing the monsters though. They're silly, I guess, but those baying noises the Brute makes are just stool-softeningly horrendous. And it kills you in one hit, which means not only do you have to respawn, you might respawn somewhere else with more monsters in the area than there were before, since the game sometimes changes things when you get killed.

This doesn't really have anything to do with the secret. I just really like Amnesia.

[rivia]

i don't play horror games because i'm just not a person who enjoys being scared too much, however the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series was pretty fucking scary for me. some of the games are fairly old, they have a lot of bugs (and a lot of fan-made patches and mods to counter it), however the games all have such an incredible atmosphere, it was so completely unsettling to play some parts. the series is set in the Zone, which is an alternative universe version of the chernobyl power plant area that the devs built and modelled on the actual area, except in this alternate universe it either blew up again/blew up way worse or something, and so there's nuclear blowouts, anomalies, mutants and artefacts to collect.

[(Anonymous)]

catch missingno on ur pokemans

that shit is freaky

[i_paint_the_sky]

Silent Hill is a given, though you probably already know that (and it's been mentioned already). I've only played Silent Hill 2 and Shattered Memories all the way and they definitely had some good moments but both tended to be more psychologically complex than actually scary. I've been absolutely terrified by the first one though and there's a lot I know about Silent Hill 4 that scares me, though I've only just started playing that one.

Another one that comes to mind would be TellTale Game's The Walking Dead series. Like the comic/show, the scares often aren't the point but it can get crazy intense at times.

Also, I've heard really great things about Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. I just haven't managed to get my hands on a copy of it :(

[(Anonymous)]

I think Amnesia isn't that scary but many of the Custom ones can be amazing.
I would recommend Siren games and Fatal Frame series for the atmosphere but that's my taste. I don't seem to recall games that don't show the monster.

Sometimes it bums me too, especially in movies. They just usually have to push something in there to be the grand epic reveal which ends up being laughable against what I created in my own mind.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm apparently a wuss. I didn't even make it to the first monster before I turned that game off and uninstalled it.