I'd have to say the first Silent Hill is my favorite scary game. Mostly because it was made before Akira Yamaoka discovered trip-hop, so the soundtrack is creepily ambient and often harsh, as opposed to the good-but-often-unfitting music of the later games.
Other than that, anyone who likes scary games seriously needs to play The Suffering. Think Silent Hill as a third-person shooter, and if the main character were an escaped murderer instead of some random shmoe.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
