Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of The Earth was a great game. It was flawed, but had some great scares and atmosphere nevertheless. Though you'd probably have to download it at this point.
It doesn't count as survival horror at all, but if you've never played Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, do so immediately. ing astounding game.
I've been playing Clive Barker's Jericho lately and it's really neat so far. Unfortunately, it's more on the shooter side of games, but it's cool - there's zombies and horrible Barker-esque creatures all over, and you are a part of some sort of occult special forces unit. I know, how uninspired. But it's about as entertaining as the original F.E.A.R. I'd say, which means it's worth a try.
It really is too bad that most horror-themed games are first-person, but I think that's an aspect sort of similar to the original Resident Evils in that a sort of 'fixed' perspective is slightly scarier due to the fact that your vision is going to be more limited. I dunno.
One thing I have noticed about good horror games though, is that they always go really fast for me. It's likely because I rush through them because they're scary though. Ravenholm, for example, is always a ing race. :stongue:
DuBam
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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Thanks for yet another great post, I'll look into those that I can find :)
You wouldn't mind posting a few videos or something from some of those games you suggested?
About that last line you wrote, regarding running through.. Have you played any of the Silent Hills? It just occurred to me that the first two times I played them (3rd one in particular), I was so scared of just 'looking around', that I always just looked at the map, took the right direction,
and simply ran from point A to B :stongue:
Halcyon+On+On
I'd be more than happy to dig up some gameplay videos for you, but I am at work for the next 9 hours and all games/video sites are blocked. :/
And my Silent Hill experience is quite minimal. I remember playing the first one and that it was really pretty frightening, but I recall there being a fixed, 3rd person perspective... it has been years though, so maybe I have it all wrong. Though I wouldn't put it past them to give you camera options for the express purpose of not using them. :stongue: Seems more tense that you would in fact be afraid to see all that you can at all times, and you know how those guys like to play psychological games within their games.
If I were home, I'd go visit 4chan's /x/ (Paranormal) board. I promise you will find some great recommendations there - those people never turn their ing lights on.
Capitalizt
Fatal Frame 2 + 3 = excellent horror games..scarier than Silent Hill IMO.
Halcyon+On+On
Yeah, so I guess none of my recommendations were even survival-horror. :stongue:
Capitalizt
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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
pssh...those aren't real horror games. Skip ahead to 5:50 here to see the type of scenes Fatal Frame games are filled with..
quality is horrible since it's a cam of a TV, but you get the idea. ;)
Part 2 is awesome..about twin sisters than wander into a cursed village that appears once a year.. They get trapped there of course and slowly learn the whole creepy tale of the village that has a dark past..including ominous tales of other twins murdering each other...mwhahaha :wtf:
I paused it a bunch the first time through to catch my breath when sh!t happened..like this..lol
I only played 15 minutes of Fatal Frame and had to turn it off. It's that good.
DuBam
Holy ! Fatal Frame looks better than anything I've ever imagined. Nice work with the camera too, I like how the angle is sort of fixed, but still seems to move a bit around too.
I was worried that it's either an Xbox or Nintendo exclusive, or for some other platform that I don't own..
The first and second games in the series were released for the PS2 and Xbox. The third game is only available for PS2, and the fourth game has been released exclusively for the Wii.
But reading this made me a happy, happy man :)
PS2 means that I can play the first three in order without any hassle, and I can probably (hopefully) find them at a very decent price. :)
