>What have you been playing
Condemned Criminal Origins:
After playing Amnesia the dark descent, I wasn't sure that there was a horror game with combat that could ever be as terrifying to capture the feeling of helplessness and tension.
Whilst condemned isn't so much about hopelessness, the fear is still there, and it's in fucking droves. This game will have you checking every fucking corner, every crevice, looking behind you constantly. The only way it would be more perfect is if it made you feel NEVER safe, which the last level is doing a fine job with.
Rating: Condemned is a game that I am only able to play in short installments. It's fucking unnerving in all aspects, it's not about helplessness, it's about the unknown and the disturbing. If you stop to long to think or take too much in, it'll overwhelm you. Spooky as fuck, extremely visceral, ridiculously potent atmosphere, feeling of helplessness even though you're armed, but the taser needs to be fucking nerfed or have charges, seriously that thing makes the game a bit of a cakewalk honestly
Soma
From the creators of Amnesia. I can't help but feel a little disappointed by this game, the concept is really nice and fresh but the monsters either feel really cheap or really weak. 1. A laboratory filled with a blind monster who "Roams" the lab, but actually just breaks the fourth wall constantly and teleports to your position whenever your character makes a sound louder than a fart 2. The same level where monsters only react to sound, so you can shine a flashlight in their eyesockets and they won't react unless you turn it on next to them They also do have a sense of proximity so getting too close can be dangerous3. Some overweight teleporting faggot who uses wallhacks and constantly teleports his fatass around. If you're in the same room as him he uses cheatcodes to find out which corner you're sat in, but don't worry, he can't do a fucking thing if you stare at the wall/close the door behind you so he can't get in.Till the chase scene anyway, which feels kinda lame too. 4. A giant testicle on legs which has lights growing off of it that stumbles around the station and acts more like a guard from thief than an actual terrifying monster.
The game is kinda predictable, and it really doesn't capture the same level of fear as Amnesia or even condemned. The game is disturbing at best especially given the source material and basically just run of the mill horror at worst. Enemies teleporting to your location and predictable shit kinda saw to that. Haven't completed it yet though, so maybe there will still be some surprises. If you ask me though, the 'Monsters' are just that though.. Monsters. The only thing that really scared me so far was the first time I encountered the teleporting fag, and even then that was before I found out he was weak to the most mundane fucking shit. Condemned managed to be more scary with less body horror and more human Traits in it's enemies, that should tell you enough about how well soma works as a horror game.
Rating: Spoopy, Outstanding sound design, interesting premise. Feels a bit too far fetched to be believable let's build a rocket and fill it with robots of ourselves to fly into the moon instead of repopulating the planet and re-terraforming the earth! lNigga a goddamn meteor the size of Mexico killed the dinosaurs and life still exists, and everyone gives up after a goddamn 'Comet' kills everyone? Bitch please. Also everyone is either a robot or dead now because reasons.
Resident Evil 7
I've only just started playing today but I'm getting really good vibes so far. This game sorta feels like a cross between condemned, farcry 2 and resident evil 4, which is a very good combination in my opinion. My only real complaint is that aiming is fucking hard if you have the reticle off. Just forget that shit, it's not farcry 2 or condemned, only taking influences from them.
Seems scarier than Soma so far as well, probably because it relies less on 'Oh hey, check this incredibly sophisticated Sci fi facility out, oh hey it's that strange brown red shit again, ooh look another enemy with an easily exploitable weakness, yay!' to 'fuck, goddamn resident evil and mansions.. Where is that immortal nigga gonna appear from next.. What if I ran out of bullets? What's down this creepy basement level? Holy shit this game is claustrophobic.'
Rating: Pretty spooky, the game does horror very well, feels more conventional, but at the same time not cheap in the slightest. Genuinely scared when that Bitch followed me down to the basement and they could have done a cheap fucking scare but they didn't. Hats off to you RE7 Devs for not being predictable fucks.