/vr/ - Retro Games

I love Resident Evil to death, REmake and 4 are two of my favorite games of all time, but I was honestly a lot more creeped out by the first 3 Silent Hill games than I ever was when playing a Resident Evil game.
Let me explain why.

Resident Evil is technically a sci-fi game with horror elements, whereas Silent Hill is more supernatural horror.

In an RE game you are always grounded in reality, you know that everything you see is actually there, The only things that can hurt you are the monsters, all of which are animals mutated by a virus.

In SH, you never know what is real or not and monsters are generated seemingly randomly and out of thin air. But the main reason its just so damn creepy is because of the location. I have never played another horror game where I felt like the location itself was out to get me. In RE there areas where you feel safe, but in SH that is never the case, because you feel like you are in danger by simply being there. I was scared because I felt like the place itself was out to get me.

You heard me, Silent Hill made me afraid of a fucking geographical LOCATION.

Which is why, in my opinion, Silent Hill was actually scarier than Resident Evil.