Pic unrelated. I played through all SH games and wasn't scared AT ALL, despite people saying they're scary as shitRE was also not scary. So what are some actually fucking scary horror games? The kind that makes you literally stop playing because you're too scared to continue??
>>12019318second life
Fatal Frame series and Echo Night Beyond Westerners are not desentisized to Japanese horror
>>12019318Dark Seed 2, a riveting depiction of what life is like as a NEET. I'd also recommend Harvester, a brutal game about what it's like to be gay in the racist, homophobic 1950s.
amnesia dark descent on first playthrough, don't read any guides or anything, must play blind
After watching the films The Shining and Eraserhead I came to the conclusion that all horror games are total nonsense.
Pathetic, embarrassing thread.
>>12019363Pathetic, embarrassing post.
>>12019318hard as shit too
>>12019318How's anyone supposed to help you with this? We're not you, and everyone's different. I played SH1 as a 16 year old on release and it scared the fuck out of me. If I were to play it now in my 40s it's unlikely. Have any movies scared you, start with that.
>>12019318Have you ever been scared by a video game? If not then you probably won't find one. These games scared me when I was a kid but I'm not gonna shit my pants and run to turn the tv off as a grown ass adult. If I turn off the lights, put headphones on and turn the volume all the way up than I can still get a bit of that unsettling feeling back but that's about as close as I can get to being really scared.
>>12019318>The kind that makes you literally stop playing because you're too scared to continue??not retro, but I've only gotten that with VR
I have the feeling the people who say they aren't ever scared in games are like totally emotionally retarded autistic people that can't get immersed in things, or they aren't playing in a dark room with cranked up headphones.
Forbidden Siren 1 and 2.Amnesia The Dark Descent.White Day a Labyrinth named School.Outlast.
If you don't find SH1 to be scary then you probably just aren't scared by video games. Give Siren a try I guess >>12019361Watch The Vanishing 1988
>>12019318Try Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. It's not all scary, but the scary bits are pretty good, but probably won't stop you playing. I've been playing a bunch of horror game recently and the scariest one I've found is Visage, but it's not retro. I could only play that one for like half an hour at a time.
>>12019318Top Banana for the Amiga.
>>12019361Horror game visuals can't match movies and the stories pale in comparison to written works and even most movies.
>>12019440Movies are not interactive, which automatically makes them non-scary to me
the game you're looking for probably isn't retro. from my experience the only games that really scare the shit out of people are built around a stalking predator, which wasn't really a huge thing back then outside of a few lighter examples like nemesis and clocktower. play nun massacre and see if that does anything for you. indie trash but it's the most obvious example of being locked in with a dynamic killer hunting you.
>>12019440disagree. silenthill series is a cut above the vast majority of horror movies I've seen in terms of creativity and atmosphere. the shining and eraser head are more examples of how badly horror movies tend to fall short than anything else.
>>12019318The issue with horror games is that it is entirely subjective, I've seen people who are beyond terrified of games like Eastern Minds and I've also seen people who are scared of fuckin Myst. It's impossible to tell you what a scary game is without knowing what your fears are.Also most of the people who are "scared" in almost any Survival Horror game is less from the actual things in the game and scared from running low on ammo and healing items and having to walk back through enemies to a save room. It's less being scared and more being very tense and on edge than truly scared.Anyways if you want a short list of games off the top of my head Fatal Frame, Siren, System Shock, Clock Tower, The Dark Eye, Waxworks, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream are some maybe worth looking into, while I personally don't like some of these games a lot of people do.
>>12019318Rapelay is scarier than every slop mentioned ITT
>>12019696Scarier than the shitty Rainbow Islands clone that shakes the game up and down and randomly inverts the screen?
>>12019318no such thing. fiction isn't scary.I'm glad the quality of horror games isn't based on how scary they are, or i'd never be allowed to enjoy any of them.
>>12019318not a survival horror but a point and click horror instead,Dark fall:the journal is pretty spooky since the atmosphere/ambience is on point.
>>12019337>Echo Night BeyondHm...really? It has great atmosphere but I wouldn't call it that scary
Why the fuck are so many people mentioning Amnesia?>2010Not retro. FUCK
>>12019389Sh1 didn't spook me that much but Yume Nikki did when I played it the first time
>>12019915All right then the Penumbra games.Happy?
>>12019318>mommmmmmmmmmmmyyyyyyy! the pictuws on the tv scween aw scawwy!
>>12019318Aliens isolation Is not a retro game, but this is the only game that really put me under pressure from the start to the end, and is the only game I experienced that was make pump my heart faster.Off course played in a dark room, I never played a game like this anymore and for me is the peak of the videogame industry
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>>12019318B3313 is scary as fuck
>>12019350amnesia is hardly retro, but I agree, I played this game with my cousin in the room and she was too scared to go outside, she called her brother to pick her up because was too afraid to come back home alone.Anyway, game is awesome, definitely worth playing
>>12020119isn't that the opposite of what op is taking about
I don't think games can be inherently scary, just like movies. The most they can be is creepy unless you're a child or woman and can't differentiate fiction from reality.
>>12019318Corpse Party. I enjoy the whole IP, but if we're sticking to /vr/ then the RPG Maker OG titles and even some of the fan titles, so much good stuff that focused a lot on the atmosphere, and the fact you play as a bunch of fragile teenagers add to that.
>>12019386>I have the feeling the people who say they aren't ever scared in games are like totally emotionally retarded autistic people that can't get immersed in thingsthere's some truth to this
>>12023728The original from 1996 looks really weird. It reminds me of Sweet Home
>>12019318i'd like to say that i don't play survival horror because they are too scary (and they can be quite terrifying) but the real reason is that they have shitty 3rd person viewpoints that intentionally make things difficult to see, play controls that leave you frustrated and angry, and a lack of ammunition and supplies that leave you feeling deeply unsatisfied. i get it, you're in a horror movie and you don't have enough anything. that's the plot of most zombie films. but the people in zombie films and horror movies are retarded. they run up the stairs instead of out the front door. they never call the police or do the logical thing. their actions are predetermined by some idiot screenwriter to cause the maximum amount of discomfort for the audience, and these games are designed the same way. i just don't like them and i never will.
>>12023750It's the peak of the franchise for me, give it a shot if you haven't already, anon. I recommend the fan made remake Corpse Party -Rebuilt- though.
>>12023728I fully agree. There's many scary scenes but the new version's jailbait scene was the scariest to me. Sachiko (not named Sachiko) was 16 years old in the original but the remake made her about 6-8 years old. This means her jailbait sex scene had a terrifying reveal that your hormonal teenage player character fucked a prepubescent girl 10 years younger and thus deserves to go to jail.
>>12019338>NEETWhat is your secret? Trust fund? Sugar Daddy? Anyhow, there aren't any really scary games. There are intense games.
>>12019318There are none unless you're 8
>>12019318When I was a kid I was terribly scared of Forbidden Siren, then i got scared by the starting section of Silent Hill Homecoming (even though 4 and Downpour didn't scare me at all, I don't know). Nowadays none of them scare me neither do I search for scary games, I think it really depends on the person, its experiences and moment in life
>>12019386Most likely yeah. People who don't immerse themselves in the game world and just abstract its systems like "now I must find the crank." "Now in that corner there's likely a jumpscare". Analyzing it instead of enjoying it
The only horror game that ever scared me was Dead Space but it's not retro
Not retro (though has retro gwaffix) but Voices of the Void made me feel intense fear. There was one night I felt afraid in my apartment, even after shutting the game off and going to bed. Had a nightmare too. The only other game to scare me as badly was Cry of Fear. Played both in my 30s btw. Also if you're not playing your horror games or any serious game for that matter in a completely dark room with headphones on and no distractions you're literally doing it wrong and depriving yourself of the experience.
I genuinely think this is the "scariest" as far as pre-Resident Evil goes. I would love to know what the reception would have been like in the weat, had it been localized.
>>12023986Meant in the west, not in the weat
>>12023984>Pic related What is that
>>12019318The first Crysis, not the game itself but the open water at the edge of the map
Fear is an emotional response to stimuli which can be controlled like any other emotion. If you control your fear so much that you aren't responsive, you're missing the point of why people enjoy horror to begin with. The best horror is made by those who can see horror in the mundane, because they want to see it.
>>12019318The first Clocktower is genuinely scary during your first playthrough. The sequels suck unfortunately.
>>12024035Idk, but its from a pc game called Golden Heart. Not a horror game, pic was not related.
Lost in Vivo, no contest
>>12024725this is the one
>>12019318I've gotten scared by literally every horror game I've ever played. It's sick. Nearly every horror movie too. Makes the genre so much fun it's unreal.
Silent Hill 4 minus the burping monsters is terrifying
>>12024917>the burping monstersWhat were they thinking?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb46vCuT8_w
>>12024917The Patient would've been better if the sounds of them getting stomped and hurt were switched
>>12019318As far as retro games go, I think the Fatal Frame series is the only one that actually scared me a little bit.Siren is also creepy as fuck, but it quickly becomes more frustrating than scary.Not all of these are retro, but>RE7This is probably the most consistently scary game I've ever played.>RE8Mostly not scary at all, but there's one scene where you absolutely will shit your pants. Everyone who's played it knows exactly what scene I'm talking about, and anyone who says they didn't is lying.>Visage>Amnesia: The Dark Descent>Outlast>Alien: IsolationThe sleep medication is kicking in, and I'm getting too sleepy to elaborate. These are all pretty scary, though, and I'm hard to scare.>>12019338I'm not sure why anon described Harvester in this way, but while we're on the subject, it's awesome (it's not scary, though).>>12019389I dunno. I think some games are scary, but I've tried a dozen times to finish SH1, and it's so boring that I never manage it. I really want to.>>12019696Shut the fuck up faggot
>>12024979>why anon described Harvester in this wayWell, he's always been a kidder
>>12019318You're wrong. Silent Hill is the scariest and creepiest game. Everything about it is disturbing. I think it's fair to say that's it's scarier than Silent Hill 2.
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>>12025340ha ha
>>12026113Old news, but yeah. Steve was apparently in prison multiple times for CP.
