d92d29 No.15495359
>catalog
>ctrl+f Horror
>no results
Let's fix that, guys.
watcha…
>…playing?
>…buying?
>…hyped about? Is there even anything to be hyped about?
>What did you think of the REmake 2 demo?
>How about the Pathologic 2 beta? Is Pathologic even horror?
>Favorite horror trope?
>Are jump-scares gay?
14a91e No.15495462
>>15495359
>playing?
Going to play Silent Hill 3 and Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem for Halloween next month
>buying
<buying
>is there anything to be hyped about?
No. In fact, you shouldn't get hyped even if you think there's something worth looking forward to, cause you never know how the suits behind it all will try and fuck you. Anyway,
>What did you think of the REmake 2 demo?
>How about the Pathologic 2 beta? Is Pathologic even horror?
Didn't play either one, I'll wait until they're released and we can see real footage of the game.
>Favorite horror trope?
Not sure about that, I have to think about it.
>Are jump-scares gay?
Yes, they absolutely gay, but I mean they're just another tool in the tool box, so maybe they won't be so gay if they're used correctly.
0231fd No.15495464
>What did you think of the REmake 2 demo?
Never played resident evil
>How about the Pathologic 2 beta? Is Pathologic even horror?
Haven't played it
>Favorite horror trope?
Just psychological tropes in general
>Are jump-scares gay?
Yes
Gimme a good free shooter spook game that isn't Fear, Doom or Prey
201ff7 No.15495472
I haven't played a horror game in ages, give me a PC something that will absolutely spook the shit out of me
0231fd No.15495488
>>15495472
First go download a DS emulator and then come back to me
0471f7 No.15495492
99094e No.15495502
>>15495488
not that anon but I have a DS emulator
d92d29 No.15495510
>>15495464
>a good free shooter spook game that isn't Fear, Doom or Prey
>>15495492 what this guys said, Clive Barker's Undying or Underhell (this one is a HL2 mod but it's still good)
d92d29 No.15495615
>>15495582
That game is great but it's much better played on an actual Ds.
One night playing it I actually dropped the console after a jumpscare, didn't break it but it was close.
4b57f4 No.15501676
>How about the Pathologic 2 beta?
It's pretty nice, but you still can't fucking save your game.
960b80 No.15502942
playing some resi games for some horror experiences. Initially decided to play RE 4 first with a hard mode playthrough, and will play the actual resident evil games as Halloween approaches.
>What did you think of the REmake 2 demo?
First gameplay impressions look sorta promising. Hopefully, it pulls through and doesn't do anything dumb.
a5fca3 No.15502986
Finishing up Silent Hill 1. Lots of mindfucks that make me excited to replay and scrounge up every bit of lore I can. I was excited to play SH2 but it can fucking wait.
My friend and I always do October game streams, I play the Horror games because he's a pussy but he plays a few horror-motif games to compensate. He wants to play Geist this year and I have yet to pick what I want to play. Maybe I'll do Fatal Frame.
Last year we played Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Luigi's Mansion PAL Hidden Mansion and I actually got him to play Resident Evil Remake. The best time we had was playing ObsCure co op.
547a55 No.15503041
>>15495472
Darkwood is pretty fucking scary. Miasmata also has its moments during the night sections, but can feel incredibly forced at times.
d92d29 No.15503043
>>15502986
>Finishing up Silent Hill 1
I hope you got that aglaophotis
25b0e1 No.15503105
>>15503041
Man, just about everything about Darkwood is great, but the sequence in the end to get the best ending is the most bullshit thing I've ever had to do in any video game ever. Worst part is I did it, and still somehow died on literally the threshold that would've taken me to the credits. Really soured any subsequent playthroughs, but damn that atmosphere and sound design is fucking spooky.
a5fca3 No.15503269
>>15503043
Nah I fucked up somewhere, got a bottle of red fluid and some kaufmann shit I skipped right by. I made a bunch of extra saves along the way so I should be able to get whatever I need, thankfully. RE1 prepared me for bad ends and replays.
d92d29 No.15503320
>>15503269
>some kaufmann shit I skipped right by
I think most people skips that part in their first play-through
At least with the bottle you can get a + ending
6f15e8 No.15504922
>>15503105
>close combat with a black chomper
Polen y u do dis
a31c6d No.15504954
>>15503105
>>15503041
Thanks for recommendation. Gonna pirate the GOG version of Darkwood and might support the devs later if it's good.
25b0e1 No.15504991
>>15504954
Funny enough about Darkwood as well, that's exactly what the dev wants you to do. Pirate first, support if you like it. Good luck with your playthrough, anon.
6e385d No.15505361
ec3d98 No.15506966
I find most horror games fall flat. Most of what I find gives a better horror experience is a game that isn't normally scary and perhaps gives you a pretty good sense of control over the game and even being fairly powerful. Suddenly it throws a curveball where you're suddenly in an unsettling location, facing unsettling foes, and it's better when it's just not really explained as to why the hell everything is just "wrong".
479609 No.15506972
Going to try Corpse Party, Phantasmagoria, Condemned. Maybe Amnesia and Resident Evil games.
f0e187 No.15506974
Did resident evil 4 had jump scares? I don't really remember but I do remember being very unnerving despite a game where you can shoot everyone up to pieces.
4b57f4 No.15507010
>>15506970
>Mixing up completely fabricated design with actual abyssal creatures
I like it.
547a55 No.15507030
>>15506970
It's kind of a pity that they could identify or claim to have identified all those deep-sea signals like The Bloop or The Whistle Or Maria as nothing more than icebergs calving and grinding across the ocean floor.
We need to make a Deep Sea thread at some point again.
Also, have some writefaggotry some Anon did a few dozen threads ago.
a77144 No.15507035
>>15506972
Kind of, there's a lot of moments where you'll go to flick a switch or something and 10 zombies will spawn behind you.
ec3d98 No.15507044
>>15506974
Jumpscares are the sugar-buzz of horror. only good for a "boo" and anything can be in place of the things that jumps out.
What I've found is that something that doesn't jump at you, possibly doesn't have any music, and is just THERE like it's always been there but clearly doesn't belong is often the most disturbing. Granted, it needs the right setting and ambiance.
>Metroid Prime 3
>the destroyed frigate
>only a few easy foes here and there, mostly just dead bodies and evidence of bad shit having happened
>Carnivores
>a stage with a temple
>there is wind sounds
>when you are there in the temple long enough, you will hear voices say something mixed in with the wind
>there is no explanation for this
ec3d98 No.15507152
>>15507030
>>15507010
here is another writefag.
And the interesting thing is, you don't need to "make up" too many horrifying things in the ocean as it's gone through a whole platter of horrifying creatures, but adding some traits straight from nightmares can help make them more horrible.
That said, I think this "pressure" game that doesn't exist would have potential to exist.
>random spawn point in an underwater base
>2 to 8 minute timer before earthquake hits that damages the underwater base but also opens a fault that unleashes shitloads of ancient and fake monstrosities
>need to find items to repair the escape vessels
>as time goes on, creatures may destroy sections of the facility
>to re-reach these areas (and some others), need to put on a deep sea suit and walk/swim around to get materials
>this is where you can get killed by either man sized creatures or bus sized creatures
>you can repair two different subs
>one is pretty speedy but it makes shitloads of noise and is likely to get one of the massive fuckhuge creatures to chase and devour you
>the other is a slow, traditional deep sea sub, but it's quiet and you have to do a progressive sneaking pathway to work towards he surface and safety
Throw in a map boundary during the final escape that is a giant tentacle that snatches you away into the void and we may have something.
A small indie game call Blood Bath Bay has the deep sea diver aspect and the horrifying "things" coming out of the dark to chew on you, but good luck finding any vids of it that aren't youtuber bait.
ec3d98 No.15507167
d91a00 No.15507198
>>15507152
I have fond memories of pressure threads.
ec3d98 No.15507225
>>15507198
Aye. Here is the trailer for blood bath bay. The game plays a lot smoother than the trailer shows.
ba911e No.15507330
>>15507044
This. Jumpscares are weak shit. The unknown and things that let your mind fill in the blanks are way worse.
289716 No.15508182
Gonna play either Eternal Darkness or Dead Space next I think. I also have Silent Hill 3, Haunting Ground and Penumbra to play. I may also restart Metroid Prime since I never finished it
I am looking forward to REmake 2, since I love Resident Evil 2. Also Darkwood is very popular on here, so I might get that soon.
39b295 No.15508235
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
About REmake 2, i must say, even if im really sad it wont be fixed camera with tank controls, its looking really neat and all the changes (save for the costumes) have been for the best.
About claire, i just think her design is bland as fuck compared to her original one, she looks like a discount zoey, wich is insulting considering zoey is a discount claire.
ec3d98 No.15508271
>>15508182
The Prime games fucking NAILED the atmosphere.
fd1f1e No.15508398
On last thread some anon mentioned
Marrow some sort of metroidvania with otherworldly horror elements. prticulary being hard and punishing just because (can only attack in certain directions, no map specially cause you need to backtrack,could only find one full playthrough in YT)
You play as some guy trying to save some orphans taken by some creaturesinto a mountain, revealing a buried city/town filled with fucked up beings worshipping some otherwordly god.
Exoder by the same author, pure platformer, each area has its own gimmick, similar elements like otherwordly horrors and such, also very hard to play)
Fear & Hunger, some sort of rpg maker game with detailed sprites, dark heavy ambience and dsimemberment mechanics. Also has a "Head or Tails" mechanic when exploring and looking for items.
377797 No.15508410
ANYTHING is better than tank control
You got to be masochist to like that
39b295 No.15508428
>>15508410
>being so braindead he cant handle tank controls
Look at this faggot!
Nigger its piss easy, your turn is dictated by the POV of the character, not of the player so that you can turn precisely and not fuck up when changeing screens.
377797 No.15508445
>>15508428
awful and unresponsive, illogical and braindead way to control
39b295 No.15508477
>>15508445
Factually wrong in all regards, , youre just a braindead moron that can get used to really simple controls.
Specially when things such as quickturn and dodge/push are added in.
51e9ab No.15509608
>>15508271
fuck, that brings me back
Prime 1 has the best fucking title theme
31c960 No.15509783
Anyone got prepatched roms for Sweet Home, Nanashi no Game and Nanashi no Game: Me?
0d15da No.15510252
>>15508428
>so that you can turn precisely and not fuck up when changeing screens
Well yeah, that's pretty much the only reason why it's used, or tolerated.
e1da08 No.15510273
wait, the re2make demo dropped? where?
d92d29 No.15510507
d92d29 No.15510515
>>15508410
I worked when you had to control 3d characters with a dpad
cfb2b1 No.15510709
>>15510515
You mean Wii games and 3DS games.
35840d No.15510727
Download UT2K4 and play Out of Hell
Be sure to remove the first save file in there and be sure to turn off the checker boarding in the HUD menu
Change FOV via console
Check PCgamingwiki of UT2K4 to see how to change res
lower fog to get better performance, the mod pushes the engine to it's limits and it was never meant to be played on multiple cores so yeah it runs like hot garbage in some sections
The atmosphere, top tier art design and the dread you feel as you become completely isolated in this Autumn hellhole is an experience like no other.
The gook who originally made this is also making a sequel/Remake in UT4.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/out-of-hell
59078c No.15510795
>>15495359
>that Poughkeepsie Tapes video
That fucking movie is all over the place, it was so disappointing. The actual "tapes" were all really well-done, they were all really unsettling and really made me feel like I was watching the recordings of a madman. But the absolute shit-tier acting during the "interview" portions of the mockumentary are a constant reminder that it's just a movie and makes it so much less scary. Also,
>the killer could be in THIS VERY THEATER RIGHT NOW OH NO
Anyway I've never been very interested in survival horror games but I've decided I'm going to try and play through the Silent Hill games for the month before Halloween. Gonna get the PC versions of 2 and 3 running thanks to this handy little guide and I just started emulating 1. I've played it for about 10 minutes so far and even though I haven't found it all that scary so far the game has great atmosphere. Took me a bit to re-acclimate myself to the PS1 tank controls I remember as a kid but it's not that big of a deal. Game looks pretty nice too after playing around with my emulator's video settings for a bit. I'm looking forward to seeing how the series progresses, even though I doubt I'll be able to get through them all before Halloween. I'm wondering though if Silent Hill 4 is worth playing, it's included in the guide but I'm pretty sure fans of the series don't like it. Should I even bother with it?
>Favorite horror trope?
That I find actually scary? Body-horror and grounded-in-reality psychopaths(like in Texas Chainsaw Massacre). But for cheesy horror tropes nothing beats skellies.
>Are jump-scares gay?
Yes. They're fine if they're rare but used regularly they're just annoying.
e1da08 No.15510953
>>15510795
4 is the unloved bastard child but i unironically love it. i want to tell you why but it's kinda a spoiler and you really ought to go in blind. it's a short game, it's worth your time
59078c No.15510966
>>15510953
That's enough for me, I'll grab it as well. I was thinking of playing it anyway just to see for myself I was just curious if it was one of those "shits all over the whole series before it" kind of entries.
>>15510727
This looks cool, I might try it.
2d266d No.15511109
>>15495359
hay fellas anyone know where to get silent hill 2 on pc? i dont feel like setting up the ps2 emulator
59078c No.15511114
>>15511109
Check the gitgud linked in the sharethread, there are 2 megas listed and a torrent hash. I'm also using this guide to get it to run well and look good
http://www.enhanced.townofsilenthill.com/SH2/
2d266d No.15511176
>>15511114
thanks a lot chief
3ff82a No.15511233
question, have there been any good horror games in the last 5 or 6 years that came out under the radar or has it all been shit. I wan't something new to play, but if there hasn't really been anything I'll probably just replay the Silent Hill games again.
3ff82a No.15511243
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>>15511114
>>15511176
Make sure you do this or the game's audio will be completely messed up and to annoying to even put up with.
e68c3d No.15511261
>>15511233
Darkwood was really good. Fuck-all else though.
59078c No.15511284
>>15511243
This is included in the guide I posted, but thanks for pointing it out
3ff82a No.15511304
>>15511261
I’ll have to give it another try. I think I may have wrote it off to quickly as just your average survival sim.
>>15511284
Ah, didn’t see that. That’s always the part that caught me up. Shame somebody hasn’t just packed the enhanced edition up with a nice little executable by now.
59078c No.15511347
>>15511304
>Shame somebody hasn’t just packed the enhanced edition up with a nice little executable by now.
I was actually thinking of doing that once I've got all the fixes and whatnot copy-pasted but I'm hesitant to do so. The first reason is that with the improved FMV's/audio files it would be quite large for my shitty upload speed but the second reason is that the guide says that they're currently working on a way to get around using WineD3D For Windows for people with Nvidia cards. I wouldn't want to upload an archive claiming "it's got everything you need pre-installed" while people with nvidia cards get weird graphics glitches when they use it. Whoever's working on those mods/guide seem relatively active so hopefully soon we'll have an extract-and-play archive we can pass around the sharethread for anons like me that are looking to play for the first time while avoiding troublesome PS2 emulation.
54a74f No.15511377
>>15508410
What's hard about pressing forward to go forward?
ec3d98 No.15511895
>>15509608
Especially after that horrifying tenseness of wondering if First Person could ever work for Metroid, being graced with that opening theme and the deliberate slow pacing was simply incredible.
>>15511233
Blood Bath Bay is pretty good if the deep sea bothers you, though it may turn into a type of comedy after you listen to your diver's exclamations when he's being attacked.
Alien Isolation is sorta fun, though for the best playthrough is to not fight any humans and instead bait the alien into butchering everyone.
And as other mentioned ,Darkwood is spooky shit.
4b57f4 No.15512019
>>15507225
He definitely polished it a lot since then.
47e528 No.15512204
>>15495359
>Poughkeepsie tapes.
My nigga. I might see if my brother and his gf want to watch that tonight.
What are some good S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mods to get that prolongs the hobo-phase and makes mutants harder? Also just about to try Condemned 1 for the second time again. I played through the second one on PSTRIPLE way back when on a rental and really enjoyed the combat and psycho-horror of it all. I also got F.E.A.R. installed and the two expacs in my library for when I need some spooky things to shoot at.
8c04db No.15512317
>REmake 2 says it will have Denovo
>o-okay…
Guess that's another game I'll never play.
35840d No.15512326
>>15512317
>A month is never
39b295 No.15512341
>>15510273
Yeah, theres a leon and a claire demo, dont know where to get it since i have no goystation and i dont think PC is getting demos (atleast not until release).
>>15512317
Meh, knowing denuvo, it will probably get cracked before a month passes, watch out if not before.
3ff82a No.15515783
>>15511895
>blood bath bay
>Deep sea platformer with horror elements
How have I never heard of this. It looks and sounds amazing?is there a good bit of game there or is it relatively small?
4b57f4 No.15516614
>>15515783
The current download says part 1 and that it's a one-man dev so I wouldn't be banking on xenoblade levels of scale.
bc30dc No.15516697
>>15508235
does look pretty good, hope it feels tense and not too many long cinematics that interrupt gameplay
bc30dc No.15516741
>>15508410
pic related
>>15495359
comfy thread
>…playing?
gonna start condemned then fear
>…buying?
pirate a few games mentioned itt
>Favorite horror trope?
deep sea? also shit that's grounded in reality but becomes weird
>Are jump-scares gay?
yeah, only one's i find alright is if there's no startling music or unnatural sound
sage for dp
2bbbe6 No.15517348
What, no one's asking for it this time around?
4b57f4 No.15517373
>>15517348
That usually occurs when it's posted in the OP.
7eca26 No.15517384
>>15517348
Asking for what?
if we want to fuck her?
yes
ec3d98 No.15517398
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>>15515783
>>15516614
Apparently he started with a Newgrounds flash (again, self deved) and eventually moved onto a 3d project. So far your goal is to explore and collect 30 snails that are supposed to be a cure for… I think a Zombie outbreak on the surface? Not sure. But you have to platform, run, dodge and use your 12 shots sparingly as it takes 3-4 shots to kill one of the danger fish and you don't get anymore ammo, so it's best saved for a moment where you keep getting caught by a specific fish again and again.
>>15517348
>>15517373
I think I know what you mean.
2a9b50 No.15517414
>>15495359
>>15512317
RE7 was cracked in like 24 hours or something anon, I wouldn't worry about it.
In other news, whats the name of that game that had a demo a while back that resembled Silent Hill 1 with its low poly and atmosphere? Isn't that getting a full on release? It seems like the indie horror scene is mostly dead these days.
7eca26 No.15517419
>>15517398
The more scary something is,the better a wife it'd make
4b57f4 No.15518342
Talking about deep-sea stuff, Diluvion has released some new edition that overhauls the game. I remember some hype over that ship-monster webm, but when the game was released, the news that it was poorly made spread like wildfire and I don't remember a single account of what the game's actually like. Maybe now's the occasion to pirate it?
c29dd8 No.15526173
Halloween is just around the corner now, lads. What games do you plan to play (or replay) to celebrate? Personally, this is my current list:
>Dead Space 3
>Alan Wake
>Silence of the Sleep
>Kholat
>Neverending Nightmares
>Halloween maps on Payday 2
>Killing Floor 2's Halloween Update
>TF2 Halloween maps
>SurHive if I can find a group to play with
What about you, anon?
de1fde No.15526185
>>15526173
i keep telling myself im going to play through F.E.A.R., extraction point, perseus mandate and F.E.A.R. 2 every single october but i always get to about the third level in the first game and get spooped.
c29dd8 No.15526197
>>15526185
Those games are great. If you can't handle getting spooped, just do this one simple trick.
POWER THROUGH ON FORCE OF WILL
d85e8c No.15526298
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>>15526173
I recently tried out Ghost Hunter on PS2 which I had never heard of until a few days ago. This game is extremely rad and I am actually surprised that it wasn't more popular.
Shit is like Ghostbusters with guns.
Besides that I'm planning on trying out Forbidden Siren and probably Haunting Ground.
7f0014 No.15526476
>>15526298
ghost hunter is fantastic the varied levels are like a cross section of ghost movie settings.
845a7d No.15526624
Playing dreadout, planning on buying Yomawari.
I've been trying to avoid RE2 until release date because re2 is my favorite game of all time with the REmake being my second favorite. But I already know it will surpass neither, so at the same time I don't care until I can actually play the whole game.
>>15509783
I did, before my old hardrive got wiped.
>>15508271
Why was Metroid prime so creepy? The fact that you felt so alone? The music? The first person aspect? Fusion definitely had it's moments too with SA X.
97c471 No.15526705
>>15526298
That looks really fun, I might have to pick up a copy for my PS2
08e2f2 No.15526790
emulate Project Zero 2: Wii Edition (undub, the english voice acting is garbage). do it now, you wont regret it.
7f0014 No.15526792
>>15526790
>Not directors cut on xbawks HEUG
08e2f2 No.15526794
>>15526792
the Wii edition is a million times better than the Xbox game, you dunce.
e22ad3 No.15526798
>>15506970
>the fucking grainy bird chirping sound effect.
This noise has haunted my dreams. Horror flash games are true terror.
08e2f2 No.15526800
>>15526792
the Wii version is a straight upgrade and can be emulated at 4K / 60fps on PC with any controller you want, or even mouse + keyboard. it has better voice acting, better character models, better camera and more content. why would you recommend someone to play the inferior version?
7f0014 No.15526810
>>15526800
because the remake in 4's engine alters the tone and turns into a shitty haunted house with far more jump scares and edits the story to make it less bleak to satisfy whiners?
Not even mentioning the motion controls of the time that were fucked up in terms of responsiveness and sensitivity. There was a reason they cancelled the 3DS game after and turnout out nothing but a shitty tech demo.
08e2f2 No.15526831
>>15526810
aka "I only played the Xbox version so that one is superior because I said so!!!"
fuck off dude, the Wii version is a literal upgrade in every sense and every Project Zero fan agrees. theres like 6 different endings aswell and all of them are "bleak". they didn't change anything other than adding those new endings that you can only get after you beat the game a 2nd time. they only added new shit.
>complaining about controls when you can use any controller you could possibly want with Dolphin
nigga, now I know you're retarded
de1fde No.15526847
>>15526298
>containment chamber has an obvious view port and a button
>disregard viewport, push button
1f787c No.15526895
>>15526831
>the Wii version is a literal upgrade in every sense and every Project Zero fan agrees.
nope people are divided on it
80fbc1 No.15526906
>>15508235
>nuClaire
>Looking anything like Zoe
you take that back nigger.
ed4ddc No.15526946
>playing?
Resident Evil 2 and Strange Aeons
>buying?
Maybe Resident Evil VII when it comes out on sale.
>hyped about?
REmake 2. A bit disappointed they're going with a more RE6-esque control scheme but the amount of damage it takes to deal with one zombie looks like it's going to keep the difficulty high, and by extension the atmosphere.
Also that horror themed FPS a friend and I have been ideaguying about, but we're both too retarded to start gamedevving. Maybe a quake/Doom mod
54a74f No.15527418
Just bought!! Darkwood for £6. Let's see how this goes.
845a7d No.15528455
>>15526906
Pretty sure he was referring to Zoey from left 4 dead anon.
534d83 No.15528623
>>15507044
Agreed, all of the skeletons in speedy time zone of massive creatures, far larger than anything else in the game, the destroyed buildings and the general sense of unease in the greylords mansion are great
534d83 No.15528629
>>15526173
Once again I am reminded that Dead Space 4 never ever, feels bad man
a315c4 No.15530336
>>15512204
What is dead air.
and some addons
Be aware of bloodsuckers.
Also. Try to not shotguns.
And rpk is your best friend if you find it
b15f5d No.15530491
>>15526790
I have Project Zero 2 on wii but I can't be assed to set it back up so yeah I think I'll just emulate it. I swear I'll go past the doll puzzle this time.
918cb0 No.15536697
>>15495462
>No. In fact, you shouldn't get hyped even if you think there's something worth looking forward to, cause you never know how the suits behind it all will try and fuck you.
>How about the Pathologic 2 beta? Is Pathologic even horror?
>Didn't play either one, I'll wait until they're released and we can see real footage of the game.
So you're a retard, got it.
05fb77 No.15540914
>tfw still no Hungry Ghosts translation patch
269b84 No.15541001
Enough with the spooky stuff, we need CUTE!
7db455 No.15541004
literally move to >>>/vg/ you fags.
ec3d98 No.15541169
>>15526624
>Why was Metroid prime so creepy?
A combination of things
>first game opens up in an area and you ,at fist have the idea that you're strong and badass until you get two rooms in
>everything is fucking dead
>the fuck happened here?
>only half dead opponents for the most part and broken shit with distant rumblings…
>something broken or a bigass creature on the way?
>it's both
>Prime 2 starts with poor dead soldiers and simple bugs
>suddenly dark hell world and you're gonna fucking die
>a sense of fear any time you are going to head into the dark world as you know shit is gonna get a HELL of a lot harder
>prime 3 starts off like a rambo film
>but then dials back and… well fuck you're alone again
>really fucking alone…
Basically, it set up the ambiance, music, tone, and environment *perfectly* to keep you on your toes with the added bonus of the first person aspect.
ec3d98 No.15541211
>>15526173
Probably:
>Shadow of the Beast remake
>Splatterhouse 2010
>replay the metroid prime trilogy
39b295 No.15541240
>>15526906
I said zoey anon, the chick from L4D, not zoe.
Shes very clearly a discount claire.
119c16 No.15541251
>>15541001
Nice thumbnail. cute thot though
b23cd0 No.15541287
>>15495359
>playing?
Resident Evil CVX. The more I play it, the more I love it. Honestly, might be in my Top 3 RE games by now.
>buying
Got REmake 2 pre-ordered for the Leon figure (then found out Europe is getting some cool as hell keys and the figure, and I have no clue why Capcom made that exclusive)
>hyped about
The only horror game to be hyped for is REmake 2 right now, and I don't feel too much hype for it in all honesty. Still playing it Day 1 as I'm an RE fan, if I imported Gun Survivor 2, I'll play a high budget REmake of the second game.
>REmake 2 demo
The RE Engine doesn't look too good in bright areas. The Leon demo looked much better, as do the few scenes we get in the car garage.
Gameplay is what I expected, REv style where you can walk and shoot, but not RE6 style with quickshots and sliding.
>Pathologic
Don't care
>Favourite horror trope?
This isn't a trope, but I love facial body horror. Rewatched Day of the Dead, and the opening scene where you can see a zombie with its full tongue flapping out cause its jaw is torn off is cool as hell.
Kids who are supernatural or monsters are also cool. Saw a bit of that in the first REmake 2 trailer and rumours say Claire and Sherry's game with have a Lisa Trevor like child zombie
>Are jump-scares gay?
If they're undeserved, yes. Jumpscares that are few and far between are fine. Best ones are hidden jumpscares, like in RE1 '96 where you can go to the front door and a dog will jam its head through it. That should've been in REmake instead of the gay ass 'dog jumps through cause Chris/Jill is retarded'
ec3d98 No.15542097
>>15541287
>Best ones are hidden jumpscares
Agreed. I don't wanna play a game and have shit constantly flying at me going "BOO". Give me an intimidating place where nothing happens UNLESS i go out of my way to investigate this weird ass off the beaten path corner
Like the horrifying demon jumpscare when you use the security camera in Suffering: Ties that Bind.
40117f No.15543965
>>15526790
>Do so
>Yep, works well
>Fight ghost girl
>Memories of playing Project Zero 5 hit like a ton of bricks
>That game dropped the ball with its mission design and hp bloated ghosts
>But man, using the gamepad as a real life camera obscura with pseudo-VR 360% gameplay was solid fucking gold
>New Project Zero with that gameplay and better game design never EVER because it literally can only happen on wiiU and that shit's dead as fuck
7f0014 No.15544402
>Copy of Outbreak file 2 i ordered arrives
>Its mint condition with not only the case with no gamestore stickers, or mess from the prior presence of one, AND includes the booklet but also all the inserts talking about 'new upcoming capcom games' like Haunting Ground and Viewtiful Joe.
Das it mane.
61ce01 No.15544456
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
For me, every month is October, and I've been playing the Original Killing Floor 1.0 mod for Unreal Tournament 2004, it's so fucking grim and edgy, I love it, and the menu music is so metal and loud it busted my ears on my first play-through. I loved it
dafd95 No.15547017
bump, nigger
But really, I'm here because I need suggestions on something very specific. I need something with themes of corruption. Not corruption of humans that makes them act shitty or sneaky in politics or some gay shit like that, or corrupted DNA making zombies, but corruption of the game itself, or the reality it takes place in. I thought of this because of webms related. There's something I find really interesting about this reality corruption thing that might stem from my interest in creepypasta before it got turned into teenage fangirl shit; particularly lost episode creepypastas.
Help an anon out?
1cbe6b No.15547046
>>15547017
You might want to try out Nanashi no Game its sequel. They're literally "creepypasta about a cursed game that infects reality - the game". They're ultimately fairly barebones, but they're short so I think they're must plays for horror fans.
a9504f No.15547048
>>15495359
Despite having probably a dogshit puzzle to finish with, Sanitarium is a great game.
ec3d98 No.15547487
>>15547017
Walk is pretty good at that.
1cbe6b No.15548583
>>15543965
Nintendo still co-owns the Zero IP, and the switch is essentially a standalone wiiU gamepad that can go main console. It can't use the dual approach but I'm pretty sure a better Maiden of Black Water could be done on switch.
The primary problem is that the game's unique brand of gameplay literally only works if you're standing up, able to turn around without any restrictions, and for some reason, P05 at no point instructed the player to do it, leading many who assumed it could be played seated to just dismiss the gameplay as shit. I never imagined a game not holding your hand and letting the player discover the meat of the game by themselves could spell its own doom, but here we are.
54a74f No.15549338
>>15547017
Guess you've played Eternal Darkness already?
dafd95 No.15549359
>>15547046
>>15549338
Maybe I should have been more specific. I do like the "corruption of something not inherently evil", but more like in a creepypasta "lost episode" or game creepypasta sort of thing, but not shit.
1cbe6b No.15554958
0a96d6 No.15555078
>>15549359
>creepypasta vidya that isn't shit
That's a tall order.
1cbe6b No.15557338
>>15554993
The effect is kinda ruined when the spooky corruption is in the thumbnail.
b0ec9b No.15557588
>>15557338
Also ruined because of the recycled smile.jpeg effect.
dafd95 No.15557684
>>15557588
I remember smile.jpeg scaring the shit out of me when I was a shitty teenager. Now I've seen it so many times that it's as normal to me as looking at the trees and grass when I go outside.
e4d9d1 No.15561922
>>15541211
>metroid prime
Is aiming with a wiimote better than an analog stick?
fc2608 No.15562822
>>15557684
Same with me, but also with "Jeff the Killer," before he even got that generic name. Sage for semi-vidya.
16b19f No.15563173
2fe650 No.15564374
Why do people say chronicles of riddick is good?
I just played escape from butcher bay, and so far its a really jank cooridoor shooter.
e82c05 No.15564388
>>15495359
>Are jump-scares gay?
100% gay and unrealistic. Ghosts in real life don't jump right on your face, they scare you in the most systematic way possible.
3ab0a6 No.15564421
>>15564388
>Ghosts in real life don't jump right on your face
They do in sleep paralysis, I got demon girls sitting on my face lol
2cca8b No.15564852
>>15564421
Makes you wonder if they just want you to get off their damn lawn, or whether they take active delight in scaring the shit out of mortals.
I suddenly feel like playing Ghostmaster again, despite of how much the game felt like a B-Movie in terms of production value
ec3d98 No.15565741
>>15561922
One and 2 should be played on the gamecube as they are not a twin stick shooter and the Wii versions of them don't have certain effects.
The 3rd game, on the other hand, was made with the Wiimote in mind and it's surprisingly good.
b99c10 No.15568515
>>15526810
>edits the story to make it less bleak
Nigga, the happy ending is the Promise one and that was in the original version. Wii version includes Shadow Festival, in which Mio arrives too late, is swept up in the Repentance, and becomes one of the damned spirits. The other is Frozen Butterfly, in which both Mio and Mayu's minds fucking snap and they just stay in the village, Mayu taking care of Mio like a doll.
Both very happy endings. Game nintentoddlerfied and ruined !
344f88 No.15569855
Fatal Frame 2 is overrated as fuck anyways. The only good PS2 horror game was Haunting Ground.
306617 No.15573863
>>15495472
White day english mod project, or the recent indie studio remake of the abandoned IP. Also darkwood is good. Also there's always the UT2K4 mod out of hell.
e82c05 No.15573883
>>15526790
Why can't more horror games have lesbians?
e82c05 No.15573935
I need more games like Demonophobia. I'm not a sadist, but I really love the atmosphere and the absurdly autistic sociopathic heart the devs poured into this game. I hate rape stuff with men in it, I think it's disgusting and degrading, it's a good thing Demonophobia has none of it. Yeah, the sexual violence is even more terrifying here, but I don't feel as much disgust as seeing rape.
I had a chat with some thai guy who was one of the playtesters for this. It was a joint project consisted of a bunch of programmers and 2chan artists, and it's one of the pioneers of the relatively obscure ryona trend in japan. The sequel Xenophobia was made by a completely different guy and it never got finished, just a passion project after all.
7151bb No.15573975
>>15510795
>the killer could be in this theater
I think that trope was started by The Town That Dreaded Sundown, which could have been a legit statement as the serial killer was seemingly never caught and to this day the cases the movie was based off of are considered by most as cold.
2605df No.15576581
>>15569855
Haunting Ground is a fine and underrated game, but you're pushing it here.
>>15573935
Well, as you said Demonophobia was the first of the ryona trend, so logically, you're not going to find anything closer than the ryona games. The only remotely similar games I know of would be Phantasmagoria (a FMV game which really pushed the envelope) and Brain Dead 13, with a more comical take on it, but the deaths are still pretty horrific if you think of it past the cartoony style.
07c7b9 No.15579505
Okay guys I asked this question once and I'll ask it again, you guys recommended me Deadly Premonition and I'm checking it out but I would like to have some examples besides that.
Do you guys have any horror games or anything really where the villain is a human, but the story still centers around paranormal happenings, and where the human antagonist is the cause of those happenings and is deliberately causing them for the sake of an agenda, bonus points if also paranormal in nature for example killing people in a ritualistic manner by the use of mind control so that you can turn a location into an eldritch version of itself but stories where the antagonist is just using his powers for a more down-to-earth goal like killing people for the sake of revenge/power/whatever are still alright.
299b1e No.15580072
>>15579505
F.E.A.R. sort of fits what you're describing
2605df No.15580808
>>15579505
So, paranormal happenings caused by a human, essentially ? Nioh
d92d29 No.15581274
>>15579505
Silent Hill 1 and 3
cb6254 No.15585108
>>15580808
You know what would be cool?
With poltergeists, you often have the explanation that they actually are the latent telekinetic powers of a still-living human who has a bit more emotional baggage than is good for it.
What if you had a poltergeist which was projected by a living human but actually does not know that? Like, say, imagine you have Adam Adamson, who has the means to project a poltergeist, but said entity actually believes it is the spirit of his late aunt Edna, whose tough love still produces intense fear in Adam.
From there on, it basically turns into a vicious cycle - Adam believes Aunt Edna is after his ass for one reason or another. Said belief in turn powers the poltergeist, and whenever an exorcist drives out the damn thing, "Aunt Edna" immediately comes back because Adam still believes she wants to haunt him.
You'd have to answer the would-be-ghost questions which only the actual Aunt Edna could know. Not that the entity would gladly watch on while you try to undermine its own existence.
35840d No.15585150
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>Afraid of Monsters was released 13 years ago
>Cry of Fear was released 6 years ago
>Still no word from the dev team about a new project
It hurts
e82c05 No.15585585
>>15585150
Cry of Fear could legitimately be one of the greatest horror games ever if it wasn't choke full of jumpscares. The enemy design is absolutely dreadful, the environment is very atmospheric, but it's really shitty and exhausting how the dev made every enemy encounter a jumpscare.
2605df No.15586139
>>15585585
I can tolerate jump scares because they're more nuanced and varied than anons usually imply. Take fatal frame. These games often use jump scares, but they're always pretty low key. The ghosts appear suddenly, but quietly. They use eerie sounds, not loud ones. Furthermore, these jump scares aren't the be-all end-all of the scene, as you're expected to either fight them afterward, or just photograph them as vanishing ghosts. There is a jolt, but they're only meant to keep you on your toes and maintain the tension, not raise your fucking heart rate.
Cry of fear, conversely, uses literal fucking screamers. Not all the time, but even once should be a federal offense.
3faf08 No.15586181
>>15585108
It sounds like it'd play out the same as Deadly Premonition or Silent Hill.
c00edd No.15588193
>>15565762
Did those guys ever made a new video?
256954 No.15588220
>>15588193
Not that I know of. Which is a fucking shame, because there's always been something weirdly uncanny about those automated late-night broadcasts.
35840d No.15588278
>>15585585
It's why Afraid of Monsters is a superior more condensed experience
e82c05 No.15589995
>>15586139
The problem with these masochistic jumpscare fanatics is they want to turn horror into a tasteless "extreme sports on your couch" experience instead of just a creepy suspenseful adventure game.
e3db74 No.15590172
Are there any worthwhile horror games for IOS?
e82c05 No.15590839
5c9758 No.15590865
b70dc5 No.15592704
>>15495359
>…playing?
Rule Of Rose. Haunting Grounds is also good and underrated honestly.
>Buying
Unfortunately there is not much Psychological Horror games out which is sad because i think Silent Hill proved that there is great promise with it.
>Hyped about
Nothing, wish there would be some kickstarters or anything to get us motivated towards awaiting new horror games.
>Favorite Horror trope
Ones psychological problems becomes the monsters in the game. Always thought Silent Hill 2 did this the best.
>Are jump-scares gay?
Fuck yes they are. Its cheap and it is not scary. It is not a natural kind of scary or even organic kind where you feel like the story and the music have immersed you into the lore and the world itself.
b70dc5 No.15592709
>>15565762
>ARG style videos
I would like something that entertaining. Especially if it felt like a video game and went into the real world of video sharing sites like youtube. It would really help immersion.
87c923 No.15592714
I'm playing Dark Deception from time to time. It's a free first person pacman with jumpscare monkeys instead of ghosts. The atmosphere is well done. Disregard the story though.
31e6bd No.15592718
>>15592709
>tfw Torment will never come back.
Was one hell of a good ARG, but no, some faggot had to hack the email of the guy behind it and the latter promptly took the entire thing offline.
07c7b9 No.15592755
>>15506970
The guy was lucky, it's better to hallucinate about being in a pleasant situation, when you find yourself in a lovecraftian realm of terrifying abyss monsters. The best thing that can happen to you then is that you quickly fall insane enough that your brain creates a separate world where everything is fine.
cc0859 No.15592769
Daily reminder that if you claim to hate jump scares, you aren't a real horror fan and don't actually enjoy being scared.
07c7b9 No.15592812
>>15565762
This first video was always so fucking scary to me, the knock was fucking heart attack inducing, but those bizzare sounds and the idea of "do not lookg at the ceiling" was so fucking terrifying. Like what? What is happening at the ceiling? L-like w-what will happen when I look?
07c7b9 No.15592835
>>15592769
Constant tension buildup is better than jumpscares at scaring.
07c7b9 No.15592847
>>15592835
By which I mean, something that has high tension and terrifying ideas, and no or little to no jumpscares will make me shit my pants after I step back from it and jumpscares will just make me scared once if at all.
07c7b9 No.15592858
Meta horror is the best kind of horror, especially horror that tries to claim that there is something in the real world that is of danger to you and does that well like that video I answered to in my last post. It best to leave reader/watcher/player with the thought that he might be in danger, and keep him thinking.
>But what if this wasn't just a game?
>What if there was something to that video?
Even if he knows it's not true, if done well enough he will get 100% spooked.
cc0859 No.15592861
>>15592835
>>15592847
I disagree. Without jumpscares, and the threat of them, there is no tension.
4ea64f No.15592869
>>15592835
That's kind of the whole point of jumpscares though. It's not the actual jumpscare that's scary, it's knowing that the game is willing to have them which creates the tension when playing that's scary. Faggots who complain about jumpscares don't seem to get that.
07c7b9 No.15592883
>>15592861
You can create tension by the way of sufficiently terrifying ideas. Lovecraftian horror doesn't need jumpscares, because it's supposed to induce existential dread, induce an existential crisis in you. Horror is at it's best when the ideas themselvs are enough to scare a viewer either by revealing something about himself, his worldviews, breaking something in his beliefs, or introducing a spooky idea like I said >>15592858 here.
>>15592869
I believe that there are better ways to create tension than jumpscares, not that jumpscares are completely useless, but they're not that necessary in my opinion.
cc0859 No.15592909
>>15592883
>Lovecraftian horror doesn't need jumpscares, because it's supposed to induce existential dread, induce an existential crisis in you
Where do you think we are? Most of us here live in "existential dread" every day of our lives, so that isn't new, and it isn't scary.
07c7b9 No.15592938
Think about it this way: Why would the literary genre of horror even exist if you needed jumpscares to scare the reader? You can't just write "AND THEN A SCARY MONSTER POPPED OUT", you instead need to write something disturbing.
I remember a shitty walking simulator horror game, I don't remember what it was called, which made you go through a small house looking for tapes that liken the way that the house is built to anatomy. And it was fucking terrifying just because the idea itself was scary, the problem was it would be better in text form instead of a shitty walking simulator.
The whole idea was that your house works kind of like a person, with the kitchen being the stomach, the corridors being the veins that circulates people, the bedroom being the brain, even the visual imagery is disturbing enough, but the ending was what made this story trully terrifying. It ended on the note that the bedroom is not only like a brain, but also like teeth. As we always lay to sleep during the night, giving ourselves on the mercy of the house to protect us from all the danger outside. We trust the house, but we grow weak and helpless in this very moment and we don't exactly know what might happen during that period. Maybe someone will sneak into our house and kill us, maybe the ceiling will fall on our heads. It ended with the explanation that the bedroom is like teeth, because it's the place where the house can betray us and grind us to dust. The idea itself is creepy in it's own right, it stays with you, and you start thinking "maybe I'm really not that safe as I thought I was", this is how you should build fear in viewers through horror. By making them realize some uncomfortable and deeply disturbing truth that will stay with them, or by making up a theoretical idea that is equally as scary as the truth and stays with the viewer as well.
cc0859 No.15592962
>>15592938
None of that shit is scary, I sleep with a loaded AKM within grabbing distance and a solid oak bedroom door that opens outwards and can't be kicked in.
07c7b9 No.15593009
>>15592962
Just forget about the thousand other ways you could die in your sleep, like for example the ceiling falling onto your head.
cc0859 No.15593020
>>15593009
I live in a white country with building codes in a decent home and a safe white neighborhood. That shit doesn't happen here.
4ea64f No.15593039
>>15592938
> "AND THEN A SCARY MONSTER POPPED OUT"
Jesus fuck! Are you trying to give me a heart attack here you cunt?
07c7b9 No.15593050
>>15593020
Not unless something goes wrong, which you have absolutely no way of predicting. An eathquake for example.
5fc57c No.15593063
If you aren't just baiting and actually think jump scares are good you are a faggot.
Having something pop out in front of you yelling "Boo! I'm a scary monster!" or "[INSERT REALLY LOUD SOUND EFFECT HERE]" isn't scary or horrifying. At best it's startling, at worst it's annoying.
cc0859 No.15593069
>>15593050
>Not unless something goes wrong, which you have absolutely no way of predicting.
Do you lie awake in bed at night fearing the 4 hours at best notice you might have if a planet-destroying comet in the oort cloud starts hurtling towards earth? Probably not, right?
But if I just snuck up behind you right now and grabbed you screaming, you'd be scared shitless. Jumpscares are true horror.
07c7b9 No.15593105
>>15593069
>Do you lie awake in bed at night fearing the 4 hours at best notice you might have if a planet-destroying comet in the oort cloud starts hurtling towards earth? Probably not, right?
Nigger have you never felt the dread of the fact that at any moment our planet can be destroyed by a gamma ray burts? That Earth can be fucking fried in a matter of seconds without us being able to do anything about it? I feel fucking terrified whenever I think about it, I feel deep nervousness and fear that stays with me whenever I remember it.
If you grabbed me and screamed I would be scared, and then after you stop I would stop being scared and never think about it as an especially scary experience.
4ea64f No.15593126
>>15592938
I guess I will give you a more serious answer since that was decent post though.
Thing is you're right. Literature isn't scary. It can be creepy or disturbing, but you can't scare someone with words. In a way horror writing is a bit like erotic writing in that you're ultimately trying to achieve an end which would work better via a visual/audio medium. But that doesn't mean you can't have some degree of success. What you're getting at is that there is more than one way of approaching horror and the way you prefer (and plenty would argue is better) is the approach which goes about being creepy/disturbing as opposed to being tense/scary.
85bdc7 No.15593129
>>15508410
Don't use the analog stick. Use the D-Pad to move. It pretty much makes tank controls piss easy to control, seeing that it was designed with D-Pads in mind initially.
cc0859 No.15593141
>>15593105
>Nigger have you never felt the dread of the fact that at any moment our planet can be destroyed by a gamma ray burts?
Of course not.
>That Earth can be fucking fried in a matter of seconds without us being able to do anything about it?
That's not how gamma-ray bursts work. It would destroy our ozone layer and we'd slowly lose all of our crops and most of the earth's plant life while no longer being shielded from solar radiation.
>I feel fucking terrified whenever I think about it, I feel deep nervousness and fear that stays with me whenever I remember it.
That's silly as fuck, anon. If you want to feel terrified about something, feel terrified that you're going to lose the game of life by failing to get your monkey cummies and activate the cynical biological copy machine.
07c7b9 No.15593143
>>15593126
>erotic writing
I would argue that erotic writing is technically better than normal porn as it stimulates the imagination of a person more than a picture would, leading to higher arousal, but alright. I can agree with you on the idea that there are different ways to approach horror, I was looking at it just from the literary standpoint which I find to be the most effective on me. I do admit there are other ways.
3b48a4 No.15593346
>>15506966
I loved the shift in gameplay in Combat Evolved when the Flood showed up. Suddenly things are very unsettling and the dark atmosphere contributes to it. That and Heroic/Legendary Flood are mortifying.
>>15510273
Nowhere, it's just a fucking video. I just checked my PS4 after seeing the OP, he sucks dicks as usual.
>>15510709
I prefer stick.
>>15541287
I wish that fucking png didn't have a retard's post in it, because it's otherwise fine. Gaiden is not fucking canon nor was it ever as it contradicting established lore right out of the gate. It's also shit, I played it on my 3DS and could only think about how severely disappointed I was that they didn't just push the game forward onto the GBA. The closest thing we have to a RE game on the GBA is Monster House.
>>15544402
>be me
>order outbreak
>get outbreak case and manual with copy of file 2 inside
Fucking jewed by some asshole on Amazon. Some other fucker ran away with $50 for a GameCube version
>>15592962
>procede to block door and burn anon's house down because he's a fucking retard that can't into safe barricades
All I'm reading here is that you can be trapped from that side. "muh windows" Easy target climbing out of that.
e82c05 No.15593704
>>15592769
Ghost apparition vids and pics scare me without needing any jumpscare. Jumpscares unnerve you for a second and give you heart attack. Daunting setting, creepy faces, and abnormal appearances haunt your mind forever.
941c96 No.15593728
>>15593704
>a bogdon behind a tree
>unnerving
935f05 No.15594656
PC is getting some corpse parties.
https://nichegamer.com/2018/10/15/corpse-party-book-of-shadows-and-blood-drive-head-to-pc-sweet-sachikos-hysteric-birthday-bash-head-west-for-pc/
https://archive.fo/yB9Cz
>Publisher XSEED Games has announced (via Game Informer) they’re porting a few Corpse Party games to PC alongside a new western release for another game in the franchise.
>The publisher is bringing Corpse Party: Book of Shadows and Corpse Party: Blood Drive to Windows PC, alongside a new western release for Corpse Party: Sweet Sachiko’s Hysteric Birthday Bash for PC as well.
>The PC version for Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is set to release on October 29th, followed by Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient and Corpse Party: Sweet Sachiko’s Hysteric Birthday Bash sometime this winter, and lastly Corpse Party: Blood Drive shortly after.
>It’s worth mentioning Corpse Party 2: Dead Patient was previously set for a release sometime this fall.
bbe604 No.15595034
>>15594656
Nice, No playstation version, I wounder if that has anything to do with sony fucking them over.
c00edd No.15595076
>>15595034
You can't port a game in three weeks, so it clearly has been a project to release one of games in time for halloween for some time. It's possible, however, that they decided to go all out with the entire series on PC in the future due to soyny's retardation.
a4ea13 No.15595145
>>15594656
Crtainly a big score for a glorified RPG maker title.
0c995f No.15595218
I might stream some eternal darkness or CoP miserymod 1.2. LSD is fun for a playthrough and I might try out that other game made by the same guy.
cc0859 No.15595274
>>15595218
>CoP miserymod
The only thing horror related there is your horrible taste.
4a7948 No.15597384
I want to see more games with symbolic enemies
like silent hill, cry of fear, and the suffering, where every enemy is a representation of something beyond simply being creatures of this world (like in every other game)
the malefactors of the suffering embodying the various methods of execution as well as the history of the island
the monsters of the other two titles embodying the various mental problems of the protagonist (cry of fear, sh2) or the history of the girl (sh1)
the bosses of rule of rose representing various adults and the abuses they were either subject to, or subjected others to (most notably the mermaid being a young woman who was sexually abused and blackmailed)
hell even the ghosts in fatal frame represented actual victims of the history of the mansion and it's hidden practices of human sacrifice
can anyone mention other games with symbolic enemies (enemies that represent something else)?
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the second type of enemy i like are human's who were made into monsters through means that can be found in our world, rather than by a curse, a possession, a virus, or some futuristic transhumanist technology.
the people you fight in the game of condemned are barely recognizable as human, most are homeless people who been changed by squatting in abandoned buildings or sewers, junkies who altered themselves with drug abuses, fetishists who had themselves surgically altered/mutilated out of mental illness, also people who were tortured into homicidal rage by serial killers or grotesquely burned by fires set by arsonists.
These guys looked inhuman, but they were all 100% human.
it's the same kind of horror you get from the cenobites, in that they appear as surgically altered humans that could very well exist in our world, rather than as the eldritch horrors they actually were.
the condemned games also did a good job of making human characters look like monsters, even without the metal cancer and brainwashing, they still be scary as hell.
anyone have any other games with "monsters" in them that are actually mundane humans?
another interesting idea for enemies would be humans with birth defects, like the the hills have eyes remake, they are humans, but with differences that set them apart from the rest of humanity, two heads (some form of conjoined twins or parasitic twins), atavistic traits (like tails, webbed digits, or bodywide hair), being excessively short (dwarfism) or tall (gigantism), having traits from the opposite sex (women with unusually high testosterone production or unusually low estrogen production - or both, the strong woman or amazon, men with unusually high estrogen production, unusually low testosterone production - or both, the hermaphrodite), skeletal deformities (such as hunched backs), an inability to produce pigment (albinism) or an inability to stop the production of pigment (melanism), or a disfigured face (from, say, congenital syphilis), being particularly obese (one a rarity, and often played up as a cannibal) or having a skeletal appearance (usually due to a genetic disorder rather than an eating disorder), or simply looking like a corpse (ala cesare from the cabinet of caligari).
All of these have been used in fiction as signs of inhumanity within humanity.
mutants, but not in any sense that we associate with fiction, and more in line with how they exist in real life.
(in works like the movie freaks, the hunchback of notre dame, the phantom of the opera, the invisible man - this was the motivating factor in becoming invisible, he originally wanted a cure to his albinism - and in a ton of other horror movies, particularly slashers, as being born disfigured and suffering maltreatment because of it was a backstory to many slasher villains).
d92d29 No.15597831
Is this even considered horror? It's a lot of fun that's for sure.
61ce01 No.15597853
>>15597831
The Pigsy bossfight was pretty fucking tense, whenever he spots you, he starts chasing after you really quickly chainsaw in hand, while making weird pig noises, never stopping until you manage to hide, it's specially tense because unlike most other enemies in the game, he's harder to sneak upon.
3b48a4 No.15597880
>>15597384
Have you played The Suffering? The Festers are slaves that were left to drown or be eaten by rats on board their ship when it crash landed because the slavers rightfully thought that they would kill and eat them if they released them. The result is a grotesque creature with it's insides crawling with rats that attack the player. A lot of the creatures in the game tend to be a product of the fucked up nature of the prison built on that island.
3b48a4 No.15597905
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>15597384
>the second type of enemy i like are human's who were made into monsters through means that can be found in our world
Ah, also Dead Rising's psychopaths. Though neither of the games I mention really touch upon the level of Silent Hill or Condemned. Dead Rising is also not scary either except for Overtime which always unnerves me because of how quiet it suddenly becomes in the mall.
f251be No.15597998
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>>15541287
>Resident Evil CVX. The more I play it, the more I love it
Code Veronica X is objectively the worst Resident Evil game tho
f1685c No.15598007
beat dead space 1, now am on 2.
what other games are like these?
d92d29 No.15598045
>>15597998
imagine being this much of a faggot
3b48a4 No.15598046
>>15597998
Oh great it's this shitposter again. Wasted RE digits too.
e82c05 No.15598180
>>15597998
I don't like code veronica x because it turned claire into a stronk smug womyn instead of the typical teenage girl with little to no combat abilities she was supposed to be in RE2. I don't like how they turned Leon into an acrobatic twink in RE4 either, but at least it made more sense because it was set 6 years after the fall of racoon city. CVX is only 3 months after RE2 for god's sake. Furthermore, I hate how Claire had a crush on Steve. She was very likely a lesbian in RE2. It utterly destroyed my headcanon.
f0e187 No.15598298
>>15598007
resident evil, i think one of the lost planet games was trying to ape dead space but was not as good, dead space extraction, decent light gun game
0a96d6 No.15598698
>>15547017
Distance does this. It's a survival racing game but it has some spoopy levels.
4a7948 No.15599077
>>15597880
The festers were the slave traders that abandoned the slaves.
Just like the infernas are the girls who falsely accused the women of witchcraft (while practicing it themselves).
And the marksman were the soldiers who shot german soldiers falsely accused of treason, not the soldiers who were shot.
Any time an innocent is killed, the executioner becomes an embodiment of the execution they had committed
The malefactors are the executioners, not the executed.
3b48a4 No.15599418
>>15598180
Claire was an adult in Racoon City and was taught how to handle weapons and self defense moves by her older brother who has military experience. She wasn't a "smug stronk womyn", she was saved more than once by other characters in the game because she couldn't save herself.
>acrobatic twink
>twink
Leon was fit as fuck in the events of Darkside Chronicles and RE4 because of government training, where the hell did you get twink?
>Claire had a crush on Steve
Other way around, she treated him more like a little brother until he was near death.
>She was very likely a lesbian in RE2. It utterly destroyed my headcanon.
Your headcanon sounds like unrealistic cuck garbage. Are you S.D Perry? Rebecca's not a dyke either you freak.
>>15599077
Really? I should have paid more attention to the wiki when I skimmed it yesterday. I'm on the Fester part of the game but I don't know what to do on the ship and I don't want to leave the guy making a raft. Would have made more sense if they were the reincarnations of the victims coming back to seek their revenge honestly though.
2a9b50 No.15599495
>>15598180
I didn't like CV because the environments were ugly and bland, the plot/characters was pants-on-head retarded even by resident evil's low-standards, and the puzzles were the pinnacle of ridiculous use bizarre object X on place Y.
I'm more than happy to hear why someone thinks it's awesome but as far as I'm concerned it definitely is a product of its time. If you grew up with good for you but I'll just go back to RE2 thank you very much.
3b48a4 No.15599752
>>15599495
>and the puzzles were the pinnacle of ridiculous use bizarre object X on place Y.
The only thing I disagree with because it's no worse than some of the puzzles in RE2/3 (looking at you water room) and is a moot point. The rest I agree with mostly, because it was the first Resident Evil game made fully in 3D and didn't have the advantages that prerendered backgrounds did on limited hardware. CV however looked fine on the Dreamcast and HD ports (aside from the shitty darkness the port had for some reason) CVX looks better but misses the softer shadows and older aesthetics. The advantages of using 3D backgrounds however mean the fixed camera can be dynamic and move in interesting ways with the level, which offsets the complaints of not seeing an enemy coming around a corner and gives the developer more tools to mess around with. Ideally, this is what they would have gone with going forwards with the series.
Now lets talk about actual flaws with the gameplay and not subjective aesthetic shit. There is a lack of enemy variety in the game and Bandersnatchers are boring after the first couple of times you see them. Controls don't feel quite as tight because you are no longer superimposed onto a 2d background and feel more weighty. The biggest flaw however is the Antarctica shift mid game when you are suddenly playing as Chris and might have given Claire some of your best options for what you assumed was a final boss fight which totally caught me and many others off guard at that point in the game, there was a sudden difficulty spike that cockblocked many who bothered to get that far. It's because of this that I never actually completed the whole game until like 2 years ago despite watching a walkthrough years before that. The HD port as I mentioned earlier is noted to be very dark, like they toned down the lighting a bit but it really just effects visibility of the player who had to tweak it. It's also only playable on console unlike RE4 which got a new Steam release that fixed some of the old port's problems.
Now onto the good, the "why I think it's awesome" part. The aforementioned 3D environments and camera angles were neat, and a great experiment to push the series forward with. I know there are advantages to per-rendered backgrounds (less performance intensive and you can render them at the highest resolution possible before scaling them down to the standards resolutions) but I hold it that dynamic fixed camera angles are superior to static camera angles without abandoning a large part of what makes Resident Evil, Resident Evil. Despite the lack of enemy variety there was definitely more detail and thought put into how Zombie behave and they are at their best here. Despite the fact that Steve was a bumbling Canadian Leonardo DiCaprio, Alfred unnerved me. Imagine a cross dressing freak tormenting you and fucking up your final escape plans, being at the mercy of some loony freak who used to torture people to death is terrifying in it's own right. Especially when you realized he only was the head of the training facility through nepotism, and the fact that the Umbrella higher ups needed to dump him in some corner somewhere where he wouldn't be an issue. Though he ended up making me laugh more in the following years because Alfred memes always made him a clown fag joke character. The gameplay is also just harder than RE2 in general. RE2 is probably the easiest game of the 4 main games made in the original timeline before the writer died, you have way too much ammo even if you forgo grabbing any on the way to the station. CV is actually complete and much harder than the previous games without resulting to designing some enemies around a stupid dodge mechanic like RE3.
At the end of the day we may not agree on everything, but at least you're not a hyperbolic faggot like the other Anon.
863484 No.15599808
>>15598180
> it turned claire into a stronk smug womyn
Shes the same character only now she has been investigating umbrella and getting into firefights for some months now.
> I hate how Claire had a crush on Steve. She was very likely a lesbian in RE2
Yuri is cancer, claire is the only female in all of RE to ever show any interest in men, resident evil is the most sexless series in the world for how hot everyone is.
>>15599495
I actually like rockford island, its a fucking gulag with a spooky mansion where a psycho lives.
e82c05 No.15599854
>>15599418
>taught how to handle weapons and self defense moves
She never showed either in RE2, so I assumed that what you're saying was added after CVX.
>where the hell did you get twink
He was a fruity pretty boy in RE4, how could you not see that. Just look at his hair and his gay one liners.
>Your headcanon sounds like unrealistic cuck garbage.
Cuck what? From her outfit alone she looks like a dyke.
>>15599808
>Yuri is cancer
Yuri is raison d'etre.
3b48a4 No.15599926
>>15599854
>She never showed either in RE2
>can pic up and use a handgun just fine
>has a fucking combat knife strapped to her sholder
>gets an unconvetional weapon like a crossbow and the more powerful weapons like the grenade launcher and the SMG in Claire A scenario
You're retarded.
>muh hair
Irrelevant, Leon always had shitty hair and was compared to celebrities at the time.
>muh one liners
Generic action game character staple with masculine lines is now homosexual apparently. Me thinks you're projecting your own love for faggotry here.
>how could you not see that
Besides how buff he is? The fact that he could cut a lock off with a fucking knife and hold off a man with superhuman strength trying to plunge a knife into him long enough to be saved? The fact that Ada and Ashley both want his dick? Gee how can I not see that he is a twink?
>From her outfit alone she looks like a dyke.
So long hair in a ponytail, sexy skintight spats under short shorts, likely designed by a Japanese man who didn't understand American apparel and wanted to make a sexy Female protagonist is looking like a dyke? Like >>15599808 said, she is one of the few characters to directly show interest in men ever in the series except for Assley and Ada.
>raison d'etre
So we live to be cucked by women and not reproduce? OK buddy, keep your crappy fetish to yourself.
863484 No.15599969
>>15599854
Yuri must be contained to yuri shit.
Claire liked steve, her boss in Rev2 and had a boyfriend in degeneration, shes completely not a lesbian, shes a cute younger sister that is yesguns and likes bikes.
>She never showed either in RE2
Nigger what?
She starts the game with a combat knife like her brother's and knows how tu use a handgun without any instructions, she just shoots at a slower rate than ada and lon wich just shows lack of experience.
How is spats, shorts, tight t-shirt and a leather vest dyke clothing?
Shes always very femenine.
>>15599926
I wouldnt say ada wants leon's D, id say she just likes to tease him (because shes worst girl and a huge cunt) and he ends up falling for it every fucking time because hes pussywhipped since 2.
3b48a4 No.15599992
>>15599969
Eh, she started to fall for him but obviously went back to using him with time because she is indeed, a cunt. That said she obviously still likes him, because she goes out of her way to avoid him in RE4 or she would have to kill him in the castle. The game literally wont let you approach him there for that reason.
>shes a cute younger sister that is yesguns and likes bikes
Tfw no qt gf like this
e82c05 No.15600134
>>15599926
>has a fucking combat knife strapped to her sholder
You know how useless knives are in RE games. She didn't look like she knows martial arts and such in RE2 either. Guns are easy to operate too, nobody taught me to shoot either but I operated my first gun in the range just fine.
>Me thinks you're projecting your own love for faggotry here.
Me thinks you've been conditioned by feminine looking boys in anime and games to think that they don't look like fags.
>yuri
>cucked by women and not reproduce
Spoken like a true incel tbh.
>>15599969
>How is spats, shorts, tight t-shirt and a leather vest dyke clothing?
Leather and shorts are.
863484 No.15600159
>>15600134
>Leather and shorts are
Anon where are you from?
Leather are what metalhead chicks use (claire even has a reference to queen in her vests), and all girls use shorts in summer.
3b48a4 No.15600199
>>15600134
>She didn't look like she knows martial arts and such in RE2 either.
Irrelevant, the argument is whether or not she knows how to defend herself with weapons.
>Guns are easy to operate too, nobody taught me to shoot either but I operated my first gun in the range just fine.
Any nigger can use a gun, it takes a competent person to use it to survive a serious situation. I hope you shoot yourself one day unless you are implying you taught yourself. However someone taught by ex special forces is going to be way better than you.
You are obviously grasping at straws after getting BTFO in this category.
>Me thinks you've been conditioned by feminine looking boys in anime and games to think that they don't look like fags.
Then you think like a retard because Leon has a masculine face unlike those characters and muscular body, the latter of which is ignored by you every time I mention it. I also didn't watch anime like that as I kid. I watched shit like BoBoBo.
>a women fucking the object of your affection
>getting off to watching and not the idea of participating
Yes this is cucked.
>incel
Thanks for outing yourself as a retarded dyke Redditor. You can go back now.
>short shorts are dyke cloths
Wew
e82c05 No.15600224
>>15600159
Not even metalhead chicks in my place wear leather that looks like that unless they're tomboy dykes.
>>15600199
>the argument is whether or not she knows how to defend herself with weapons
She did more than that in CVX, she did all sorts of moves like Lara Croft.
>Leon has a masculine face unlike those characters and muscular body
So do twinks in gay parades.
>getting off
Fapping is for incels tho.
3704bb No.15600238
Silent Hill 4 was hated simply because the core mainstream crowd of purists doesn't accept any game that doesn't star Alessa in any way shape or form.
It's actually really deep, plays off of a meta-narrative of the rise of the hikikimori and voyeurism (the first .gif is a nod to this, your gameplay even involves trying to spy on others outside your room) . It's also a Silent Hill game that the original Team Silent wanted to make outright scary.
3b48a4 No.15600249
>>15600224
>lara croft
Another hyperbolic retard. As if running and jumping is the same as backflipping around a T-Rex.
>muh twinks
"Twink is a gay slang term used to describe young men in their late teens to early twenties. Usage of the term varies, but traits attributed to twinks can include attractiveness, having little or no body or facial hair, a slim to average build, or appearing to be younger than their chronological age. The term dates back to at least 1963, but may be derived from the older British term twank."
You don't even know what you're saying means. Twinks are scrawny faggots you fucking retard, and Leon looked his age in RE4. Filtered because I am tired of giving you (You)s.
3b48a4 No.15601981
>>15600238
Explain why she isn't in Silent Hill 2? Silent Hill 4 does not hold up to the other three games, fuck off retard, there is no such thing as a "mainstream purist" that is that autistic over a single fucking character that isn't pyramid head.
c00edd No.15602845
>>15599926
>Besides how buff he is? The fact that he could cut a lock off with a fucking knife and hold off a man with superhuman strength trying to plunge a knife into him long enough to be saved? The fact that Ada and Ashley both want his dick? Gee how can I not see that he is a twink?
Twink is the direct opposite of everything you just said, you retarded faggot. Also, next time you want to unleash autism about shlock-the franchise, just make a resident evil containment thread.
3faf08 No.15602863
0be250 No.15603471
0be250 No.15603483
>>15592812
The idea that something is watching is spooky. As animals, we've evolved the ability to pick up fear from watching our peers. When we watched our moms or siblings scream because of a spider, we learned that there's something about spiders that is to be feared. But what is the reason for that fear? It's not the fear of spiders, because we've never had a reason to fear them until we had learned they were feared.
The fear however isn't coming from the spider itself however. They might appear ugly, but when that fear was learned, it wasn't because the spider was threatening anyone. It was simply because there was an implied reason; and that reason is unknown. The fear of the unknown is naturally inbred into humanity so that we may acquire the ability to perceive threats from otherwise innocuous things.
That's what the video is playing on. There's a perceived threat, something that will likely kill you if you're not careful, something that is unknown, and worse yet– unknowable. Without anyone around, you have to rely on your own paranoia to identify threats, and you do so quite readily. That's why the knock at the door is so terrifying.
c00edd No.15603494
>>15603483
The reason why the knock on the door is so terrifying is because it makes you believe something is threatening you in real life. It's as basic as you can get and that's exactly why it works.
0be250 No.15603510
>>15603494
Yes actually.
I wish I could figure out what kind of trick is used to make things sound like they're coming from somewhere else.
ec3d98 No.15603633
>>15592869
Here is the best thing to do with a jumpscare:
>game is a little spoopy
>jumpscare early on
>player will instantly suspect jumpscares for the rest of the game
>there are no more, everything else is leveraging on tension
>you are so busy expecting jumpscares that you miss the actual spoopy stuff the first time through
>second playthrough you find much more subtle things that plague you
One of the best examples is from PT. Everyone was so obsessed with the spooky ghost gal that most players missed out on more subtle things. For example, you can hear a radio/phone call that says pointless shit, but in the middle of it, suddenly lists off a series of numbers. Well, because it's a puzzle game, you will try to remember them, and a common manner to remember numbers may be to repeat them out loud over and over again as you wander around… only to eventually discover the killings and horrible things were done by a person who was said to be constantly repeating "a series a numbers over and over again like a type of mantra."
THAT is the layer of spoopy I'm looking for.
3b48a4 No.15605511
>>15602845
Imagine being so fucking retarded that you can't perform a simple search.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twink_(gay_slang)
I really hope you meant to reply to someone else because you have nigger-tier reading comprehension.
09482d No.15609006
>>15603633
this implies that everyone will make a second playthrough
ec3d98 No.15609527
>>15609006
It doesn't need to be a second playthrough, just a decent enough experience that makes you think.
cd0781 No.15609572
>>15603633
That's pretty cool, anon. Where did you get a video of a jew going through puberty?
9e0045 No.15609679
>>15600238
I love SH4 anon but it failed because it shouldn't have been a mainline entry into the SH series and needed some more time and creativity to avoid forcing the player to go through the levels all over again except now you're being hunted by Walter and the super ghosts WHILE ESCORTING EILEEN WHOSE HEALTH AFFECTS THE ENDING
is the candle healing thing before the final part of the game a glitch or actually working as intended?
>>15603633
PT has been talked to death and most people tune out when they hear someone sperg out about how good it was but it really needs to be said that it was a goddam treasure and filled with genuinely spooky shit people are still trying to copy to this day (for better or worse). Assuming the ruse-cruise is in fact still firmly in port and Death Stranding is it's own thing entirely, Konami deserves everything it gets for leaving SH to rot after tickling our balls so thoroughly
cc0859 No.15610118
>>15603633
Webms not related, right? PE isn't even a little bit scary. Still better than RE though.
232445 No.15610196
>>15495359
OP where does your fourth picture come from and does it have a happy ending?
14c9a0 No.15610340
>>15610196
a simple reverse image search on (((google))) would have gotten you your answer for the source, which is The Poughkeepsie Tapes.
e82c05 No.15611486
>>15605511
Well, Leon is a twink for Krauser.
04766d No.15611516
>>15609679
>he changes his opinion of a game according to the community consensus
Found the NPC.
04766d No.15611520
>>15605511
>lel you don't know what twink means
Honest men don't speak sodomite slang, faggot. You just outed yourself as a cuck who keeps in contact with the pozzed.
ec3d98 No.15611543
>>15610118
Yeah, webms unrelated. PE is not exactly scary, especially thanks to the battle system and full RPG gameplay. It's got good concepts but other than things looking weird, it's not much for spooks.
No, spooks often have to be like a magic trick; you expect one thing, but then something else happens.
89fbdb No.15611853
>>15611520
>Knowing things is dishonest and weak