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tehsage on 11 February 2009

Resident Evil Remake is by far the scariest game ever made.



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bbsin on 11 February 2009

No, Deadspace is not scary. The main character is far too powerful for the game to be considered scary.

Isaac can pistol whip and stomp his enemy's limbs off for Christ's sake, how is that considered scary?

In order for a game to be scary there should be several things present.
1. Crappy controls (so it's hard to turn around and run away)
2. A weak main character
3. Few weapons and bullets along with very little health.



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tehsage on 11 February 2009
bbsin said:

No, Deadspace is not scary. The main character is far too powerful for the game to be considered scary.

Isaac can pistol whip and stomp his enemy's limbs off for Christ's sake, how is that considered scary?

In order for a game to be scary there should be several things present.
1. Crappy controls (so it's hard to turn around and run away)
2. A weak main character
3. Few weapons and bullets along with very little health.

 

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lestatdark on 11 February 2009
bbsin said:

No, Deadspace is not scary. The main character is far too powerful for the game to be considered scary.

Isaac can pistol whip and stomp his enemy's limbs off for Christ's sake, how is that considered scary?

In order for a game to be scary there should be several things present.
1. Crappy controls (so it's hard to turn around and run away)
2. A weak main character
3. Few weapons and bullets along with very little health.

Laura from enemy zero hands on XD

1. Tank mechanics were her coup de grace, she could hardly turn, let alone run
2. Two hit kills from invisible enemies? Yeah...
3. Only weapon in the last 30 minutes of the game, and it was just a friggin sonar gun?

If you can find a weaker main character than that, then by all means i will consider it the most scary game of all time XD

 



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Phoenix_Wiight on 11 February 2009

i'm just glad no one is saying bioshock, because that was one of the least scary horror games ive ever played.

but my vote goes to the gamecube REmake



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Son1x on 11 February 2009

Only scary game I played was Aliens vs Predator 2, as human. Back when it was released, I was really scared, all those dark forest or destroyed (aka no lights) buildings.



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im_sneaky on 11 February 2009
Phoenix_Wiight said:
i'm just glad no one is saying bioshock, because that was one of the least scary horror games ive ever played.

but my vote goes to the gamecube REmake

Bioshock wasnt horror. It had some suspense, and some creepy parts, but it wasnt a horror game.

Fatal frame 2? Your character is a little japanese girl with...a camera.

 



 

 

exindguy on 11 February 2009

RE: Is Dead Space the scariest game ever?

No: Penumbra Overture takes that crown in a walk.




superbeast1370 on 11 February 2009
PelshyX5499X334279YZ said:

I played through the first 2 chapters on medium and it felt easy because I could kill enemies in two shots and be handed a ton of ammo.  The game is excellent but why is this declared to be scary by so many websites and gamers?  Am I not far enough in the game, or just not appreciating the creepy atmosphere enough?  Anyway what are your top 5 scariest games (they can scary just for being terrible games too)

Mine are:

5.  Doom 3 and Resident Evil 4 (tie)

4.  Silent Hill 4

3.  Condemned

2. Silent Hill 2

1. Resident Evil

 

 1) Resident Evil 2 & Code Veronica (tie)

 2) Silent Hill 1, 2, and 3 (tie)

 3) Fatal Frame II and III (tie)

 4) any of the Forbidden Sirens

 5) The original Devil May Cry (though an action game, there were some spooky parts)

 6) Half-Life 2 (I can't remember which episode, but it involved an out-of-power elevator and then some other parts)

 7) System Shock 2

 8) Doom 3

 9) Bioshock



Domo-Kun on 11 February 2009

Fatal Frame is pretty good.

I can honestly say the only 2 games that have ever really scared me are Silent Hill and Fatal Frame.

In terms of psychological horror, nothing has come close to SH1. There were times where I had to turn off the PS1 for a while because I was getting too scared. It scared a buddy of mine so bad that he didn't want to walk home alone after dark. :P



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