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Honestly that's the worst mindset to have when looking for horror games. It's just setting yourself up for disappointment. Here's a better question to start a horror game thread with:

Which horror game you played had the most creative environments?

Siren series is pretty creepy. Scratches has a pretty good atmosphere and soundtrack that can make you feel uneasy.

>>14634997

Amnesia the dark descent plus custom stories and the penumbra games

>>14635092

I also forgot to mention you can find both games for PC.

Clock Tower has a Win 95 version, after all these years I still have it downloaded on my pc, and System Shock is on Steam but you can also probably find a free download online too.

I started playing Darkest Dungeon on the Vita and the only hard part is how god fucking awful the control scheme is. There's a reason why no one fucking uses the back touch pad, you goddamn retard.

>>14635076

Are there really any good custom stories?

Can't go wrong with the Siren games altho the first one is a bit hard to beat, you can still enjoy it with a walkthrough tho.

Siren 2 and Siren Blood Curse are great and fairly straight forward compared to the first.

>>14635092

system shock 1 or 2 aren't really horror games in the slightest. they have it as bit of set dressing, but it's definitely not effective.

>>14635131

The vast majority of horror games aren't unless you as the player make them out to be.

>>14635118

The one thing i hated about blood curse was the fact whenever you entered mind jack,the framerate would dip to 10-15fps.

>>14635136

no, the devs need to put some effort in, not do the blood writing on the wall or basic bitch zombie behavior. none of the system shock games are scary. They're more goofy than scary.

>>14635142

>Not do the blood on the wall

I swear to god I can't remember a single horror game that didn't have that.

What game do you recommend then?

>>14635139

Yeah that legit made me feel ill, effective if that's what they were going for since the characters looked as tho sight-jacking was incredibly painful but made for piss poor gameplay. I really hope they bust out a new Siren game someday, its one of the few horror franchises that actually unnerves me and makes me uncomfortable. Only other series to do that is Fatal Frame which is now shit

>>14635146

silent hill 1, 2, siren 2, scratches

>>14635148

the director just finished with gravity rush 2 and expressed interest in doing another action/adventure game. Not sure if he'll ever go back to Siren but I'd be interested to see if that happens.

>>14635154

>SH 1,2

1 seems to arcade-y to be scary, 2 seems too tryhard to be scary.

>>14635157

Considering that some of the ex team silent guys were keen to work with Kojima on silent hills, including masahiro ito who was confirmed for working on it and who has said on his twitter that he'd love to work with some of the old guard on another silent hill or horror game, I think the chances are that if Team Siren started working on a brand new horror project or another siren game, we'd see some of the old talent re-emerging which would be fuckin sweet

>>14634997

Can't add much because most posters already posted my suggestions, just gonna add, Real Life

>>14635162

So you haven't played them? They're a world apart from system shock. Slow, deliberately paced game play which plays with player psychology far better than any other survival horror game. The feeling of being trapped in a new environment you haven't got your grasp on yet and knowing something dangerous is trapped in there with you is a unique horror to the game. Far from arcadey or tryhard (what does this mean?)

>>14635168

There's still a lot of interest from these people in doing survival horror games, Masahiro Ito is also very active and easy to engage with - I've even spoken to him and introduced him to Garage Bad Dream Adventure. I think the biggest problem is there is all these skilled people with an interest and history in the genre but nobody to foot the bill and get the project underway.

>>14634997

Nanashi no Game, otherwise known as the Nameless Game, is a NDS game that combines 3D world exploration and playing a NES era jRPG from a cursed cartridge. There's a fan translation patch and it can be pretty atmospheric, plus, I'm always a sucker for this kind of setting. There's also a sequel called Nanashi no Game: Me.

I've played the first Siren, genuinely disturbing game and I dug the constant shifting between different characters.

What's the best way to play Siren 2 if I've got a toaster that won't run PS2 games for shit? Is there a best practice for circumventing region coding on a PS2?

>>14634997

If you liked Fatal Frame, you might give DreadOut a try - basically an Indonesian budget clone of that series. Just stay the fuck away from the Keepers of the Dark standalone expansion.

>>14635317

if you aren't loading on OPL, what are you even doing with your life?

>>14635615

Does it load and play well if I have an NTSC PS2?