/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5979002
Parasite Eve 2

sweet home
supposedly the shadow hearts games are sequels to koudelka

Bloodborne? Technically Dark fantasy but dark fantasy = horror + fantasy

>>5979002
FF7 is pretty spooky at parts

Some SMT games have horror elements.

>>5979025
I played the first two shadow hearts games, both were great

There's a Wizardry clone with a ghost mansion dungeon for SNES called Laplace no Ma. It's bad though with really annoying music.

>>5979062
Amazing cover. Then you play that shit and it looks like nes dragon quest 1 graphics.

>>5979008
knorke

Aren't most rpgs horror enough?

>>5979002
I wouldn't even call PE1 a horror game. It's more like an "action" game. PE2 is more horror than it is.

>>5979568
More like sci-fi horror. How's it action if it's somewhat turn based?

>>5979640
He's trying to parrot what he heard someone say about them not being real SURVIVAL horror games but he's completely fucking it up.

>>5979568
>It's more like an "action" game.
Something being horror or not has nothing to do with how actiony it is. You're mixing up things and either think it's exclusively for survival horror or think that horror absolutely has to scare you.

>>5979648
Shame, I used to like parrots.

>>5979640
>>5979650
alright, then how is it a "horror" game? You're always perfectly capable of fighting whatever is in front of you (except at the very end of the game), and aya always bravely faces whatever it is without "horror"

>>5979652
>You're always perfectly capable of fighting whatever is in front of you

I guess Resident Evil and Silent Hill are no longer horror games. Go back to /v/ and play Outlast and all the other walking sims where you can only hide.

>>5979663
You didn't answer the question. How is it a horror game?

Is skyrim a horror game?
Half-life?

>>5979652
>You're always perfectly capable of fighting whatever is in front of you (except at the very end of the game), and aya always bravely faces whatever it is without "horror"

I fucking hate this definition of survival horror as it's not only VERY, VERY Modern with games like Amnesia the Dark Descent, but it seems to solely include an entire genre of horror games where you can't fight back and assume that's all the genre is.

Survival Horror to me will always be what Resi 2's manual described it as

>You see an enemy in a hallway
>You can try to avoid it or shoot it if you have the bullets
>What's more valuable to you, your bullets or your health?
>What's worth it to you?
Tight resource management that's more about the idea that you could run out of supplies and be forced to make bad decisions rather than being brutally hard, and forcing you to run out of supplies unless you do things one specific way.

FFS Sweet Home, the game that was considered the first Survival Horror had turn based JRPG combat.

>>5979675
>Half-Life
You do realize they wanted parts of Half-Life to be scary, right?

Also
>THIS

>>5979676
>>5979680
PE2 was a horror game. Shit had a scary atmosphere, enemies were introduced in a "scary" way, tight quarters/lack of retreat options/limited resources/tank controls, you get the idea.

PE1 plays more like a regular rpg, though granted some of the FEV's were scary.

>>5979675
Well, >>5979680 beat me to it. Shit like this. I can't stand hide and seek games. Although I did enjoy snes Clock Tower and Clock Tower 3 on ps2.

>>5979675
>How is it a horror game?
Games that have a spooky, or macabre atmosphere.

Even adrenaline pumped up Doom is a horror themed game.

>>5979002
This thing I guess. Never played it myself only saw my friend doing it once. Something about a boy with psychic powers and using drugs to control them.

despiria and baroque

>>5979002
Corpse Party

>>5979002
Sanitarium

>>5979568
What are you talking about? It's 100% horror. Horror is not just ghosts. Biological monsters that put people on fire and melt the entire population of New York are absolutely horror. Sewers, empty parks, scary hospitals etc. are totally horror.

>>5979652
Horror is a theme, not a genre of gameplay. PE is typical horror: oppressive atmosphere, doom and gloom, death, and monsters. As for gameplay, it's a quirky single-character JRPG (which could have had any theme whatever).

>>5979002
Vagrant Story isn't typical horror but atmosphere is very heavy and oppressing, especially during first few hours. You will love the combat coming from PE.

>>5980937
Nah, it isn't even dark fantasy. Definitely not horror. It just has some mild horror elements, like all fantasy/adventure things do.

>>5979002
All of King's Field games are pretty scary.
Shadow Tower is even more so, at least the first one.

>>5980735
Horror is a huge genre. I mean half the SMT games could be called horror. These guys who think horror is about game mechanics aren't getting it.