/vr/ - Retro Games

>pumping techno music plays while blasting zombie limbs off and a cheesy almost comedic backstory
Now HotD is horror themed but I wouldn't call it spooky

>>6972216
Some more spooktastic titles curated from my dignified library of gaming classics.

>>6972224
I guess this thread is just anything horror related. I don't actually get spooked by most retro games.

>>6972230
Some more expertly chosen titles from the library.

I've been playing Splatterhouse 2. The boss designs are so damn cool. I'm getting close to the 1CC

>>6972276
I remember seeing ads for splatterhouse in comic books as a child and I always wanted to play it. I need to play that game. Maybe I'll put the rom on my Wii.

>>6972287
I would definitely recommend it. The combat is satisfying and there are a bunch of great gore effects. It feels like the perfect Halloween game. I'm looking forward to playing part 3

I don't know if King's Field was supposed to be a spooky game, but not having music, low poly enviroment, slow gameplay and lack of NPCs make it a really spooky experience.

>>6972287
>Maybe I'll put the rom on my Wii.
Japanese VC has Splatterhouse arcade, if you've got the means/time/knowhow to load that up

>>6972276
Japanese hard mode is harder in that game (only get one heart) if it gets too easy for you

>>6972231

Yes, we're all above the age of 12 here so of course we're not actually scared by video games.

>>6972846
I see that at last a truly fearless badass has entered the thread

>>6972242
>RE4
Literally killed any interest I had in the Resident Evil franchise. The original trilogy are the only good games.

>>6972276
>1CC
>Splatterhouse 2
Is impossible without cheats.

Playing Eternal Darkness in the late hours and Rondo of Blood earlier with baseball games in the background.

>>6973112
>Is impossible without cheats.
PROTIP: don't get hit

>>6972216
RE3 is my go-to halloween game. More so than RE2.

>>6973225
You obviously never dealt with the elevator level.

>>6973260
it is the best survival horror game.

>>6972216
I have a fat stack of horror games but can't decide if I want to replay Resident Evil/Silent Hill/Others I've played or just want to try out the ones I haven't.

>>6972216
None of those games are spooky. Go play Clock Tower on the playstation for a genuinely spooky 5th gen game. The only spooky RE is 7.

>>6973397
Harry trapped in the Dr Katz dimension.

>>6972778
I'm playing on difficult on the US version. I don't really know what the different difficulties actually do so I just picked the middle one. It feels like a good challenge to beat it on one continue without feeling masochistic. Beating the game with only one heart per life sounds almost impossible

>>6972216
I guess I could revisit Typing of the Dead. Been awhile since I played that.

>>6972216
Is System Shock 2 retro? If so I beat that the other day for the first time. Kinda want to take another shot at Laplace's Demon but when I attempted beat it last year I got major burn out after you get to the other world.

Thinking of playing this. I tried it before but was too bitch-made to get through it. The atmosphere is unlike anything I've seen in another game.

Only other games I haven't beaten yet are: Silent Hill 3-4, Resident Evil 3 & Outbreak, Fatal Frame, Alone in the Dark 1-4, Eternal Darkness, Siren, Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen & Soul Reaver, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Nightmare Creatures, Alien: Resurrection, and Martian Gothic.

>>6973476
Scratches is neat. There's one scene in particular that gave me a huge feeling of dread and legit scared me when it happened.
Don't both with the bonus director cut thing though. It was just kinda trash.

>>6973496
I bitched out at one scene where you wake wake up in the middle of the night and there was a noise coming from the trophy room. I was able to play the other landmark horror games fine, but that game is too much for me.

>>6973459
Yes, and I actually thought it was older than that, but it's retro even for the old rules.

>>6972764
KF has music. Are you thinking of Shadow Tower?

>>6973280
You need to believe in yourself!

>>6973404
Difficulty only controls the number of hearts. I can do US hardest mode, but JP hardest is still on the to-do list.

>>6973508
>a game with no enemies
>scary
What did he mean by this?

>>6973652
>what is atmosphere
I pity you, really.

>>6972216
REmake 2 or maybe Silent Hill

This is one of my all time favorites that I feel is overlooked quite often because it is quite difficult but very rewarding if you get the hang of it. The game takes place over three days and you play small episodes or scenarios with a variety of character at different points in time. So you get to see how things change over time from various points of view. As you complete these scenarios eventually you will unlock secondary objectives in scenarios you have already played which in turn by completing these while replaying old scenarios will unlock even more scenarios. Doing things like unlocking a door or finding a specific item in one character's scenario will carry over to another character in a different scenario which will allow them to access a new area and hopefully complete new objectives. Its very easy to get stuck as some things needed for specific objectives aren't exactly obvious so I would recommend using a guide for this one. Definitely an underrated gem that I wish got more love even though it is kinda hard to get into at first.

>>6973657
>what is atmosphere
Something entirely separate from horror.

>>6973659
>quite difficult
No, it's just obnoxious as fuck and filled with some of the worst and most non-sensical ''''puzzled'''' in all of horror gaming. Which considering how stupid some horror game puzzles can be really says a lot.
It is scary as hell though.
>>6973665
You're actually a moron if you don't think they go hand in hand.

>>6973668
Atmosphere can be anything and everything, it's a vague, nebulous term. You claimed you were scared because of "atmosphere", despite there being no threats to be scared of, which is just an all-around stupid thing to say.

I don't know why you'd choose to die on this hill.

>>6973668
I liked the puzzles though I admit some are pretty convoluted which is why I recommend the guide. Sorry to hear you got filtered, bro.

>>6973652
I don't find enemies scary though. Even when you can't fight back.

>>6973665
>>what is atmosphere
>Something entirely separate from horror.
Holy shit you are actually retarded

>>6973687
So you don't find threats scary, but you find noises scary? Sounds like you've just got brain problems.

>>6973682
Atmosphere is the 1 thing that separates a horror game from every other genre. If Silent Hill had the same exact gameplay but had Banjo-Kazooie's atmosphere the game wouldn't be a horror game anymore.

>>6973695
Yeah dude I was so fucking terrified by the legitimate threat of pic related. Shat my pants. I MIGHT'VE LOST SOME HP!

>>6973682
lmao god you're stupid

>>6973713
You don't need atmosphere for effective horror and a fear response.

>>6973719
Yeah bro. Banjo Kazooi. Seriously a hardcore horror game. Full of legitimate threats and enemies. Shat my pants everytime.

>>6973719
>You don't need atmosphere for effective horror
Wrong actually. Sure you can be startled or jump scared but actual good horror 100% requires atmosphere. There's a reason games like the early REs and the early Silent Hills are consider the king of horror games.

>>6973719
Name one game that is scary and has no/bad atmosphere?

>>6973695
>Atmosphere is just 'noises'
Anon, do yourself a favor and just stop posting. You're clearly too stupid to have this conversation and are going to just keep getting BTFO

>>6973682
based retard

>>6973723
Wait, is RE2 your example of a "hardcore horror game" that "made you shit your pants"?
>>6973725
>There's a reason games like the early REs and the early Silent Hills are consider the king of horror games
Who considers them to be the king of horror games? The first somewhat spooky RE is 7. Every classic RE is schlocky B movie cringe, the only horror to be found is in the horrific writing and acting. If you found this shit scary as a kid, you'd have been traumatized for life watching freddy or jason. Silent Hill games are very atmospheric and immersive, but they aren't scary. The player is just too capable in relation to the threats you face, which is an absolute deal breaker when it comes to effective vidya horror.

Consider your typical slasher movie. Why does nobody carry a gun, despite there being more guns than people in the US? Because if they did, you wouldn't have a movie. Your protagonist needs to be vulnerable and feel pursued by a threat they can't physically overcome. In Silent Hill and Resident Evil, you're given more than enough ammo to smoke every motherfucker you encounter, how the fuck is this horror?
>>6973734
In the specific example I was originally responding to, anon claimed to have "bitched out" over some noises, yes.

Well this thread had potential and nose dived hard. Great job, autists. I need a new fuckin hobby.

>>6973772
>missing the point this hard
You clearly don't even know the game in question so why you're pretending to know what you're talking about is honestly baffling to me

>>6972216
Can you play HoTD without the lightgun? I mean SHOULD you?

>>6973802
I wasted a couple of hours on Scratches back in 2014 after seeing it recommended in an 8ch horror thread. Terrible game, doesn't hold up at all. A modern example of that genre done right would be Outlast.

>>6973812
>of that genre done right would be Outlast.
Oh, I get it. You're trolling. Good one, anon you almost had me

>>6973826
Not an argument, but okay, you go "bitch out" over some noises in an empty house.

>>6973830
Scratches is a point and click adventure game, retard. It's not the same genre as Outlast at all which is just an amnesia hide and seek clone. The fact that you don't even know that they're different fucking genres is pathetic on your part

>>6973812
>>6973848
Not to mention Outlast is actual shit that is almost 100% dependent on jump scares. You have shit taste in horror, get over it faggot.

>>6973812
>I wasted a couple of hours on Scratches
You didn't even get to night 2, possibly not even night 1. Actually beat the fucking game. It's pretty hard if you have too much ADHD to last till the horror sections.

>Outlast
Your example of a spooky game that doesn't need atmosphere to be scary is a game that drips with atmosphere and even has spooky night vision mode half the time?

>8ch
It all makes sense now. This thread is basically an 8ch/alt-chan thread. God what a shithole that place became thanks to people like you.

>>6973826
>>6973848
>>6973853
This dude is a cripplechan retard. There isn't much to discuss with him. Knuckle-dragging morons like him dragged that place into the fucking sewer. I bet he's one of those faggots who sucked Mark off.

>>6973848
See >>6973830
>>6973853
Daily reminder that trannies who sperg out over jump scares don't actually enjoy horror. The most popular horror media has always used jump scares to great effect.

>>6973807
I have two lightguns for the saturn, I wouldn't bother playing it with the controllers, it's not as fun.
I like House of the dead 2 on the wii, I don't have any gun accessories for the wii, but pointing the wiimote at the tv is close enough for me. I would like to get a gun attachment for the wiimotes for a more arcade like experience.
I got a good deal on typing of the dead with a dreamcast keyboard 10 years ago and it's good way to practice my typing since I'm not the best typer. Really that's more of an educational game, but a fun one at that.

>>6973913
I really need to invest in a dreamcast light gun at some point for HOD2.

>>6973905
This is exactly how I remember threads in 8ch being. So many retarded opinions and bait mixed in that it was impossible to tell which was which. All it's missing is people randomly posting the picture of Mark's asshole.

>>6973931
Do you really prefer nu-/vr/ where every single thread is just a bunch of bitter, aging men accusing other bitter, aging men of being zoomers whenever they have a disagreement on matters of taste?

>>6973905
The best part of this post is that from the start I wasn't even the guy who got scared and you've just been pointlessly lashing out because you're too retarded to argue in a way that doesn't make you come off as stupid as hell.
The fact that you're now adding tranny to it is just more proof of that, really.

>>6973951
>make silly statement
>get called out
>desperately defend said silly statement
>get fully blown the fuck out
>"h-hey it wasn't even me :)))"
Okay. I'm not surprised we ended up here, but hey, there's no way you were gracefully bowing out of that one.
>The fact that you're now adding tranny to it is just more proof of that, really.
When I'm debating someone who's being intellectually dishonest, I enjoy pushing their buttons, and it worked. If it didn't upset you, you'd have let it roll over you like water off a duck, but it hit home, so you couldn't help but bring it up.

>>6972242
>RE4
Yuck!

>>6973939
Yes. That is why I'm here and not on those shitholes. As bad as you think VR is I assure you 8ch and it's derivatives are much much worse. When I came back here it was like a breath of fresh air. Even nu-/vr/ happening wasn't enough to make me even glance at 8ch.

Imagine if this thread was the average thread but they also get worse and rarely better. You couldn't have a single conversation or bring up anything without some autistic faggot sperging out over something small and minute that no one would think about. Giving his shit ass retard take without actually having any points or examples to back them up that is so moronic it's impossible to tell if it's bait or not and there was a LOT of bait because everyone was so starved for attention. Imagine if 1/10 posts was just a smug loli shitpost with no actual point or counter point. They got so damn insufferable anons were making alt boards and alt chans, which went to shit when 8ch went down and also when 8kun banned loli shit because all the cancer flooded them. Now the cancer is here. This faggot ruining the thread? That was the average poster. It's like if the first week the rule change on here happened and /v/ decided to raid was just the normal state of the board.

>>6973979
Yeah that is almost exactly how this whole thing went down for the retard who said "Atmosphere has nothing to do with horror" then proceeded to use a game with heavy atmosphere as an example. Too bad he wont fuck off back to his sinking ship.

>>6974007
>>6973112
Stop samefagging

>>6974031
Effective horror was explained in detail in this post >>6973772 that you conveniently chose to ignore to continue attacking your failed strawman. Are you going to attempt to rebut that, or continue your off-topic sperg out?

>>6974052
>Your protagonist needs to be vulnerable and feel pursued by a threat they can't physically overcome. In Silent Hill and Resident Evil, you're given more than enough ammo to smoke every motherfucker you encounter, how the fuck is this horror?
Except Scratches does that because you have no fucking weapons to deal with the threats in the house. You didn't even get to the second night of horror. And your shit is still retarded because there are tons of games that give you no way to fight back that aren't horror like Micky Mania.

>>6974062
>Except Scratches does that because you have no fucking weapons to deal with the threats in the house
There aren't any threats in the house.
>And your shit is still retarded because there are tons of games that give you no way to fight back that aren't horror like Micky Mania
Here, I'll give you an analogy so simple even a child could understand it. Every car has tires, but not everything with tires is a car.

>>6974052
Your explanation was fucking trash
>>6973979
>only one person could disagree with me!
You're delusional

>>6974093
>There aren't any threats in the house.
Something you've avoided to this entire time is the fact that you didn't even make it to any of the nights except maybe the first one where nothing happens. There is no way to know if there are or aren't threats in the house unless you looked that up ahead of time (there are).
>Here, I'll give you an analogy so simple even a child could understand it. Every car has tires, but not everything with tires is a car.
Yeah. Without the ATMOSPHERE is suddenly isn't so fucking scary. Same reason why the 200 Mario party minigames where you're running away from something aren't horror.

>>6974105
Reminder this was every 8ch thread.

>>6974105
You clearly have no understanding nor appreciation of the genre, and are simply here to smear your shit all over the walls and argue in bad faith. I'm embarrassed for you.

>>6974118
>Gets repetitively blown the fuck out
>Refuses to acknowledge it
>Only thing he can do is act like everyone else is retarded despite none of his points stand up on their own
Dude just fuck off back to 8ch already. Did you leave because they called your favorite horror games walking simulators?

>>6974125
>so upset that the best you can muster is a 'no u'
Outstanding.

>>6974118
???
Says the fucking retard shitting on classis like RE and SH while trying to claim that Horror isn't benefited by heavy atmosphere

>>6974138
You conveniently ignore all the posts that completely destroy your moronic points like these: >>6974113 >>6973859 and have basically resorted to smug loli posting without the loli pictures to play it off as if you didn't get your ass totally handed to you.

>>6974138
>still thinks only one person is talking to him
lmao

>>6972216
>spooky games are we playin' boys?
I'm kinda boring this time around. Just playing SotN which I usually do anyways this time of year. Last season was RE2 for the first time and the year before that was Silent Hill. Guess I could play some DeCap Attack. Still haven't beaten that one yet.

>>6974150
>shitting on classis like RE and SH
If you think I'm shitting on SH when I've complimented it in the only post I brought it up in, you have the reading comprehension of a subhuman. There's really nothing I can do to fix that, sorry anon.
>trying to claim that Horror isn't benefited by heavy atmosphere
Every genre of media fiction benefits from "atmosphere", which, in properly descriptive terms, is just world building. This isn't unique to horror in any way, and isn't strictly required for something to elicit an involuntary fear response from the viewer.

>>6974153
Yes, I've chosen to ignore your repeated episodes of 8ch related PTSD. They really did a number on you, jesus.

>>6972216
Trying to play through as many survival horror games as I can before halloween. I recently finished silent hill 2 and started silent hill 3 along with being pretty close to finishing resident evil 1 and carriers. I’m hoping to at least play through silent hill 1-4 and resident evil 1-3. Obviously won’t finish the list by the end of the month but it’ll be nice to see how far I get.

i am going to try to beat silent hill, silent hill 2, and dino crisis before halloween

>blah blah blah I suck dicks
needs more SPLATTERHOUSE

>>6974047
>S-s-stop s-s-samefagging
>Doesn't realize that more than 1 person hates RE4.
Get a load of this cuck.

>>6975239
>hating resident evil 4
Cringe
Get out of my thread with that shit taste.

>>6975239
>pretending to be me
What a cuck

>>6974189
>Yes, I've chosen to ignore your repeated episodes of 8ch related PTSD. They really did a number on you, jesus.
Yes. You've chosen to ignore the posts that blatantly point out you didn't even play through scratches enough to get to the horror sections and the fact that nothing you said stands without any atmosphere. Desperate for any chance to not look like a fool you decided grasped for any straw you could and used the fact I mentioned 8ch as a copout, because I also pointed out your smug loli tactic they employed a lot there.

>>6974189
And you're going to pretend cripple-channers didn't act the same way about here? Half the memes about 8ch are a red anon throwing a green anon back to 4chan. Yet here you are getting your ass beat and pretending it's not happening because I'm also using your own shit against you.

So far I've streamed Silent Hill (in one sitting), Clock Tower SNES (fucking overrated trash), and currently on Parasite Eve.

Considering D and DOOM on psx as well.

>>6972810
Haha you're right of course. I play many scary video games to completion.

>>6972216
I just tried to play first Resident Evil and holy shit the tank controls are absolutely unbearable on a small D-pad, I get they put them because of system limitations and fixed camera angles but it feels so stiff and unresponsive, on keyboard it was at least playable, I completed first 4 Silent Hill games on PC that way
I guess I will switch to PC version then

>>6974830
The original Silent Hill games are all pretty short and around 7-8 hours in length
The RE games are even shorter if you go through them only once

Is The Suffering still worth playing? I'm trying to decide between this and Condemned

>>6973659
Good taste anon. I'd like them to go back to the series, it feels like they never quite got it perfect and there's still a lot of potential in the concept.

>>6975545
>Triggered that people hate RE4
Keep crying, your tears are delicious.

>>6975553
>Faking a screen shot after being proven wrong.
Wow you're desperate, just like the Democrats in congress.

>>6975747
>Clock Tower SNES (fucking overrated trash)
True, hipstercore

>>6975747
>>6976551
It invented the stuck door simulator, without it we wouldn't have Silent Hill.

Honestly I tried it for the first time recently and it was much better than expected despite being clunky to control.

>>6975941
I played The Suffering but only played the sequel to Condemned. They're 2 completely different games, both in gameplay and tone, and both good for different reasons.
The Suffering is very B-Movie-ish if that's what you're after. You're on a cursed prison island fighting monsters inspired by different forms of execution. There are important ghosts who are like the boss for a certain section of a game, but they aren't really your enemies or are directly hostile towards you. Their tone towards you is pretty neutral/friendly even though they are throwing waves of enemies, traps and are trying to kill you. At least that's how I remember it. The gameplay is 3rd person shooter where you have no limit on how many guns you're carrying, like Max Payne without the jumping/slow-mo
Condemned is a dark gritty game where the entire homeless population went crazy and became a bunch of serial killers. I remember the second game had grounded sketchy locations like meth labs in abandoned apartments and other homeless/crack head place.... before it went to shit halfway through and became a generic shooter (first game doesn't do this I think). It's a first person melee hobo punching game where you do shit like rip pipes off the walls to beat the crap out of crackheads.

>>6975607
>>6975637
>so traumatized by basedchan that you furiously hammer out a double-post several hours later

>>6975941
Condemned Criminal Origins is great, still holds up today.

>>6976531
Nobody is crying. You just have shit taste and you should be ashamed.

>>6977196
>Gets blown the fuck out
>Literally uses any random irrelevant thing he can to cover it up

>>6977323
You should be ashamed of how easily triggered you get over people's negative opinions of games you like.

>>6977798
You're gay

>>6977798
For someone that isn't triggered you're sure still whining.

>>6977985
Nah, I'm pretty sure that's you looking at a mirror.

>>6978101
You're delusional if you thought that post was "whining".

>>6972216
I'm very intrigued by the story set up so far.

>>6976551
The Clock tower series isn’t hipster in the slightest. That goes to silent hill or maybe the D series.

>>6975747
If you hated clock tower, you’ll definitely hate something like D. Stick to fnaf slenderman zoomer

6th gen spoopz

>>6978647
>blue stinger
Peak spooky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_yhqX29luE

>>6973112
that's good because resident evil is an overrated franchise and the ultimate redpill is realizing that they were never good to begin with.

>>6978581
Jokes on you I've already enjoyed D on stream and when it was new as a teen.

>>6978647

>>6972216
Resi 3 a shit

I'm finally playing this after having it for over a decade, pretty decent so far and digging the atmosphere a lot. Aiming's a bitch on console though, I can hardly fucking see the laser dot to hit headshots. Checkpoints are random as hell too.

Wondering if I should be playing this on PC instead, the framerate gets pretty choppy above ship with the bajillion particle effects and moving objects.

>>6978647
>No RE4
BASED!

>>6978552
some advice:
- rotate multiple saves - you can get stuck and/or get in an endless death loop if you're not careful
- once the game takes a certain very unusual turn in tone, you might want to consult a walkthrough to keep your head straight

otherwise it's a blast! have fun anon