/v/ - Video Games

>>15936687

>fear 1

Absolute classic

>fear 2

It's ok, fun but not as good

>fear 3

no

Other than Stalker I can't think of any other prominent paranormal games other than your generic horror game but if you're into games like fear then you should check Underhell out. Be prepared for disappointment when you realize the next chapter will never release.

>tfw no game like SWAT 4 but all spooky cults, paranormal, vampires, monsters and more

>>15936864

God why does no one use that fucking theme? It's so fucking cool.

>>15936687

Did you also play Extraction? And don't play the other F.E.A.R. games unless you want lewd scenes with Alma.

>>15936954

I started it, haven't finished.

>>15937060

Spooky.

>>15937073

Didn't both sides get fucked by a necromancer or something like that though? It's been a shit ton of time since I played the game

>>15936687

>Also are the sequels worth playing?

I remember hating F.E.A.R. 2 and loving F.3.A.R.. However, the general consensus is that F.E.A.R. 2 is the "consolized" version of the first game, and F.3.A.R. isn't worth playing because it's by a different developer and designed to be played with co-op. F.E.A.R. Online never happened.

I'd say Second Sight fills that criteria.

>tfw there will never be an action FPS quite like FEAR

>tfw there’s nothing even comparable that already exists

It hurts

>>15938076

Forgot the video

>>15936933

The general theme isn't uncommon. It's happening in the background of SCPshit, and Hellboy is like Men in Black but with paranormal, mythological and eldritch shit instead of aliens.

You're right about how approaching from the perspective of the actual tacticool operators like FEAR isn't as common, though.

>>15937073

Necrovision is incredibly fun and has very cool aethetics, gives a slight B-grade console shooter feeling in the early WW1 portion of the game, but once you get into the illuminati vampire cult stuff it plays a bit more like painkiller. My only regret is that I was hoping Lost Company letting you play as zimmerman would be more diabolical, but it sort of wasn't, my favourite part is the barbed wire psychic powers.

>>15937091

Trying to remember, vampires have been fighting the demons from hell in the underground, the vampires try to employ zimmerman anc in the process make him a necromancer during WW1, he uses zombies and monsters against the eternal anglos including the player, player defeats zimmerman and becomes the necromancer, then goes to hell, kills satan, and depending on your difficulty setting, you end up with an ending somewhere between 'it was all a dream' and 'become the immortal lord of hell, the vampires, and the humans'

There's that Mummy game that has you as a part of a secret military organization that does nothing but go Belmont on paranormal entities, that was a really cool idea. It's an okay game but it has the worst bosses I've ever seen in a metroidvania, that includes both Guacamelee games.

some shin megami tensei games are close but don't fit for different reasons:

>Strange Journey

story is about UN forces investigating a world in the antarctic, but not very much infighting among the humans, it's more like doom the jrpg

>Devil Survivor and early Persona games

lots of conflict between humans using demons/personas but not as much military, party members don't belong to military, but there are occasional enemy military factions such as the SDF and SS (yes, that SS)

>Digital Devil Saga

this might fit the most but I haven't actually played it so I can't confirm, characters are clearly part of a military group in an apocalyptic setting, and the intro is pretty much exactly what you describe, but the game was really laggy on my ps3 so I couldn't get very far

the Raidou games might also fit but I haven't even touched them so I don't have a clue

>>15936687

Again with this Fear meme? It was the blandest corridor shooter of its generation, people dropped it when they noticed the copypasted levels.

The jumpscares? Ripped off The Ring and they're completely at odds with the rest of the gameplay: Fear's not an horror shooter, it's a one gimmick modern shooter with jumpscare cutscenes.

I get it that weebs aren't familiar with anything outside of jrpgs, so they latch on whatever has a modicum of japan in other genres. But we're not all bottom feeders like you.

>>15938076

>tfw there will never be an action FPS quite like FEAR

You could try play any game ever that has bullet time as its sole special feature, and turn it off sometimes to watch some ebin slenderman video on youtube.

>>15938076

>>tfw there will never be an action FPS quite like FEAR

How about Trepang 2 though?

>>15938169

In the Raidou games you play as what amounts to a male miko with demon manipulation powers in a military inspired school uniform, he isn't a soldier or working for a military organization. He only fights Rasputin and the demon powered robotic Japanese commies in Soulless Army.

>>15936704

expedition soon

OP you make this thread like once every fortnight and the answer aint changing any time soon.

>>15938144

bully her with your dick

>>15938601

Let me dream

>>15938605

But anon, you can do that in real life.

>>15938519

>waaa muh consensus is cracked

You will always be a redditor even on an imageboard. I'm old enough not to fall for these retarded fads and tell the oblivious kids that your spin is bullshit. Fear was only ever sold on graphics, particle effects especially.

You purposedly latched on a b-tier FPS because you betas feel the social pressure from popular games uncomfortable, so it's always about finding your hidden niche when no one will call you a normalfag. Congratulations you are eating shit thinking it's hipster chocolate.

>>15936687

>Also are the sequels worth playing?

2 + expansions is good, imho.

3 is the shittiest sequel I've ever seen. Aside from the game not being anything like the previous 2, you start in the brazilian amazon, where they should speak portuguese, but they speak spanish instead (It's a minor thing but I speak both so I was mildly offended)

>>15938605

And when you get it, you will just shit on it for being a MGS clone with zombies.

>>15938673

If the devs were so eternally incompetent to add something as lame as zombies rather than /x/-tier paranormal beings then yes, I will shit on it.

>>15938221

Oh shit, that looks really good. I’ll have to download the demo and give it a play

Shadowrun for the 360 and Windows Vista

>>15938851

>shadowtrash

It was never good

>>15938853

Never claimed it was, it just fits the category of what OP asked for.

Unpopular opinion: I liked Fear 2 the most and have replayed it multiple times, including no-slowmo run on the highest difficulty. It was really fun. I loved Fear 1 as well but I prefer 2. It looks beautiful even now, has the most creepy segment in all Fear games, the weapons felt really good, loved the death animations of the enemies. Too bad it was so short. The expansion was also fun but surprisingly hard on the highest difficulty setting.

Threads with highly specific questions that could easily be googled.

>>15938882

I like it's style the most even if the yellow filter isn't as subtle as the radio and it had stuff like the school ghosts section where it wasn't hard or fun to play through, but had that terrible constant flicker and non-stop noise to give you headaches.

It had a lot of nice setpieces even if the story had to take liberties to shove shit like the Replicas back in but it wasn't the best in terms of leveled being designed around shooting. I like it a lot tho and it definitely blows the lame xpacs for the first game out of the water. Haven't tried the DLC.

>>15937060

Red Alma best Alma

(((F.E.A.R.))) is gay.

>>15938667

Fuck thanks for reminding me anon, will have to replay this game.

>>15938196

You don't understand what makes Cawadooty-tier shooters bad, and try to push the same criticism onto FEAR although they do not fucking apply. Cawadooty-tier shooters are not bad just because they are linear, but because they have nothing to compensate for being linear. Being linear in itself is not a bad things, this just means that the entire fun of the game will be taken from arena-type fights rather than exploration type-gameplay. Your entire game becomes a set of encounters that you go through one after another, this is not a bad things as long as those encounters are fun and interesting. FEAR's encounters ARE fun and interesting, they have good enough AI for the enemies to be a threat, the guns are different enough to be used in variety of situations and, to give the enemies different roles and priorities despite them being basically the same enemy It's obvious that you shouldn't approach an enemy with a shotgun up close, and in an open area, that same weapon will be less effective than an assault rifle, as well as throwing a few different types of enemies that make stuff more interesting, and the moveset is varied enough to make moving fun, frantic and interesting. Most importantly though, you are not stuck to a fucking wall, which means that you will be changing positions a lot and that your movement is actually important, you need to use strategy against your opponents and move in an logical fashion otherwise you're going to get fucked, and if you do things well, you are rewarded with a really awesome sequence of movement that just looks and feels great. Your yearly Activision trash is not good not because of it being linear, it's not good because it's encounters that are supposed to compensate for being linear are dogshit and not really interesting as it doesn't have good gun variety, it doesn't have intelligent AI, it doesn't have the free range of movement that FEAR had, it doesn't have enemy variety, it has nothing.

The Ring ripoff scenes are just dressing to give it it's own flavor, and don't actually matter. But they're still cool, they're not good as horror but they're pretty cool in the sense of a dark action story with horror elements. It feels almost 90's anime-esque, with it's Akira-tier plot and general cyberpunkiness. It is very cool, but it's not important and even if you don't like it, doesn't make the game much worse.

>>15938959

>they're not good as horror but they're pretty cool in the sense of a dark action story with horror elements

I think the horror elements in FEAR are more intended to create tension rather than induce pants-shitting fear. There'd be a pretty major whiplash is you're kung fu kicking enemies in one room while being expected to hide in a closet from scary little girls in the next room.

Instead the horror is merely the glue to hold your attention and keep you immersed during the downtime inbetween the gunfights, which is honestly much more preferable than simply walking from point A to point B (which is technically what you will already be doing).

>>15938986

Yeah that's the thing, FEAR is not really a horror game, it's an action game with horror elements. That's why I said that Alma isn't really that important to the game despite everything, she is the cherry on top, what really makes the game are the Replicas.

>>15938986

You remind me of Condemned, which was a game that went from fighting insane hobos and investigating murders, to having shoot-outs and punching demons while chugging booze and combating the Illuminati and screaming at people to make their heads explode but you still have that one fuck-off rabid bear level and SAW-tier shit everywhere.

I think I liked Condemned 1 over 2 for being, while not as "spooky," a lot more cohesive and grounded.

>>15938196

>>15938198

>>15938666

Nah, it was just a tense FPS with good level design and ai. It's great since modern videogame NPCs are either just bullet sponges a la Destiny or just glorified whack-a-mole like RDR2.

>>15938152

Clive Barker's Jericho?

For fuck's sake OP, this isn't even a question. The team of marines who has to face off against demons/ghosts/aliens/monsters is such a fucking common idea. Almost every FPS in the past had the same plot, from Doom to Half-Life.

>>15939287

Aliens, demons, and monsters, yeah; but I can't think of many examples of them fighting ghosts.

>>15938986

The idea of the Replicas is actually far more disturbing than the spooky ghost shit, or rather, the spookiness is amplified by what the Replicas are, they're people, but they're not, they're obedient and trained, until you throw a grenade and they're shouting curses.

>>15938624

Nocturne had some pretty great characters. I really should have gotten around to those Blair Witch games over Halloween.

>>15939287

No nigger, this is not the theme I want. I want a team of marines having to face against other marines with demons/ghosts/aliens/monsters being a looming threat and the thing they're fighting over.

Think of FEAR how Replicas are fighting F.E.A.R operatives and ATM security guards over Alma, trying to free them. I know Replicas aren't fully human, but it still counts, as they are not portrayed as your typical monsters. I want shit like the End of Evangelion where Nerv and SEELE are shooting each other for the control of how the end of the fucking world will look like. I want a conflict between people, human against human, but the source of the conflict is paranormal, eldritch or horror-inspired in general. FEAR is the closest that came to it in vidya terms by having a human antagonist albeit a powerful psychic controled by the paranormal controling a bunch of clones an a corporation trying to cover their tracks as antagonists. Some SMT games were close. DOOM is completely not what I had in mind.

I want something paranormal happening, preferably something paranormal and of great impact and humans killing each other over the control of that paranormal thing. Be it whether or not to release a vengeful psychic ghost as in FEAR or anything else. That is not a common theme.

>>15938628

This might be the only instance in which the player is the ghost/paranormal entity (with the ability to posses objects, animals, people) vs the military organization.

Though there is a multiplayer mode of ghosts vs humans.

>>15938169

The protagonists of digital devil saga aren't military so much as they're a mix between mercenary band and tribe. They're embroiled in constant conflicts, but they're very much their own men. The opening cutscene gives a much more militaristic vibe as the game itself is.

Also go play it, faggot.

I'm reminded that "mundane forces fighting each other over supernatural causes" is what SMT X FE should have been.

>>15939480

Still sounds like it would count, I like this already and I will play the game.

I remember playing this a few years ago shortly after clearing F.E.A.R.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeDZKDz-_RI

Think Dante's Inferno with guns, the visuals are just as interesting.

No scorpion Vaginas though.

>>15941072

>no arguments

HAHA u lose!

>>15941085

>(((F.E.A.R.))) is gay

<Your very existence is a joke, man.

My argument is just as valid and backed up with facts as his is.

>>15937060

We really need more pregnant Alma stuff. That was just way too sexy to end the game with, the devs really underestimated that.

>>15943345

I dunno posting fujoshit anime isn't helping your case

>>15946479

>LoGH is Fujoshit

Normalfag detected. Back to 4cucks with you.

Bump

>>15939630

Jericho was slammed because of its pretty egregious use of QTEs, but I forgave it because I loved the atmosphere and the team members you could play as. They all had really distinct and creative supernatural abilities as well as decent characterization (One of them is an autistic blonde who's so good at math she affects reality). The premise of a cursed city that inevitably pulls you down its history of being plagued by primeval evil and corrupting every army that tried to fight it is fucking neat also.

It's not as good as undying and there definitely are janky parts, but it's definitely worth checking out.

>>15945232

Downloading it now, will report.