Horror Games

[Good ol' horror games No.1381629]

Quite a request, /vr/. I want you to bring out the most retro styled horror games out there. Pic quite related.

[Anonymous No.1381662]

Sanitarium?

[Anonymous No.1381675]

>>1381629
I've started playing SH1 this week on Hard difficulty. Reached the first boss. I have to say those little suckers are the most unimaginative monsters I could think of in a game, or at least when I saw them, not that I played many games, but they just seemed too simple. I heard they're the replacement of the original japanese release...not sure... but they don't die, do they?

[Anonymous No.1381685]

>>1381675
Just accept them. It's part of the experience.

[Anonymous No.1381718]

>>1381675

They were actually little children with knives in the original US release. Scary as fuck.

They die and yes, I fucking hate them.

[Anonymous No.1381729]

Also completed silent hill 1 on hard lately, these little fuckers are not that annoying as you say, But i really hate these flying suckers.

[Anonymous No.1381735]

>>1381729
These skinless aerodactyls always made me run in a zig zag pattern to avoid getting hit. Silent Hill 1 has the best diversity with their enemies. Going outside is always a threat in that game.

I miss this series so damn much ;_;

[Anonymous No.1381753]

>>1381718
well that explains them being in the school a lot better than "the imag eof small menacing animals"

[Anonymous No.1381783]

>>1381753
>>1381675

Playing PAL? Don't do that mate. It's censored. Those Mumblers are from the sewer levels, which make sense.

[Anonymous No.1381821]

>>1381629

The ones I know that are good:

>RE 1, 2, Remake
>SH 1, 2, 3
>Fatal Frame series

[Anonymous No.1381823]

been stalling at the boat for the last 4 months, i just lost the will to go past Cybil

[Anonymous No.1381827]

;_;

[Anonymous No.1381829]

>>1381718
This explains that corpse in the locker room as well.
>>1381729
I actually fared better against the flyers and dogs. They did well to add to the stifling atmosphere of the avenues. Though I only felt the first flyer threatening.
>>1381783
I'm downloading this version http://www.emuparadise.me/Sony_Playstation_ISOs/Silent_Hill_%28E%29/52771
>>1381821
No RE3?

[Anonymous No.1381830]

Still aiming for a sub 36:XX time on Normal difficulty. Feels like I'm getting worse. Fucking sewers.

>>1381718
>>1381783
I always thought the mumblers were scarier. But I still wish every version had Grey Children because they look cooler

[Anonymous No.1381831]

>>1381729
>Dat demo where he owns these bastards

The monkey like things on the late game are the worst , once they start chasing you, its impossible to turn and shoot as they follow really close behind you

[Anonymous No.1381832]

>>1381829
>No RE3?

I never liked it. It's just kinda goofy and falling under "sequelitis".

[Anonymous No.1381834]

>>1381830
what happens if you end below 36h?

[Anonymous No.1381839]

>>1381834
Nothing at all. But the fastest recorded completion is 35:29, I would like to beat that eventually.

I think if you complete it faster than 1:30:00 (maybe the cut-off is 1:00:00) you unlock ever special item at once. For example, normally you would need both one Good and one Bad ending to get the Katana, fast completion gets it after just one playthrough with any ending.

[Anonymous No.1381867]

[Anonymous No.1382161]

survival horror on the PS1 is so awesome. Resident Evil 2 and Silent Hill are the best games on that console

[Anonymous No.1382173]

Speaking of retro and Silent Hill, these covers are hilarious.

[Anonymous No.1382178]

>>1382173
I mean look at this shit.

[Anonymous No.1382183]

>>1381629
Countdown Vampires.
Illbleed.
Overblood.

[Anonymous No.1382187]

>>1382183
Also the Blair Witch Project games.

[Anonymous No.1382192]

>>1382178
>>1382173

It feels like an action game on these drawings

[Anonymous No.1382193]

>>1382178
>DMC
>Horror

Choose one

[Anonymous No.1382194]

Anyone else surprised as fuck that the Blair Witch Project spawned three games?

The symbol even becomes an enemy.

[Anonymous No.1382197]

>>1382193
Wasn't DMC originally supposed to be Resident Evil 2 but then it became its own game?

[Anonymous No.1382203]

>>1382193
>June '01 Magazine
>Talking about PS3 already

Are we really different from today's generation ?

[Anonymous No.1382206]

>>1382203
@
>>1382178

[Anonymous No.1382241]

>>1382194
oh man, what a blast from the past.
I remember demos for these games being included in pretty much every PC-gaming magazine CD, they sucked obviously.

[Anonymous No.1382258]

>>1382197
It uses some of the assets from the first attempt to make RE4.

[Anonymous No.1382285]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lWaQe8LPW0

[Apartment Raptor No.1382896]

My favorite retro horror game is and always will be ClockTower on the SFC. Too bad the only version we got was the shit PS1 remake with that horrid early 3D replacing the absolutely gorgeous pixel art from the original version. Totally destroyed the entire horror element when you can't tell what any of the deformed blobs on the screen are supposed to be.

[Anonymous No.1382902]

>>1382896
It is not a remake, it is a direct sequel to the first games. Some of the plot references back to it

[Apartment Raptor No.1382975]

>>1382902
Huh, my bad. I've only seem bits and pieces, but never been able to give it to actually play due to it's scarcity. I've just always been under the assumption it was a remake, but the PS1 remake only came out in Japan, it seems.

[Anonymous No.1382979]

Eternal Darkness isn't quite retro officially but it's a great horror game.

[Anonymous No.1382993]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjl3yLYePmE

[Anonymous No.1383774]

[Anonymous No.1383805]

[Anonymous No.1383812]

>>1382993
>I know what I'm spookin out to tonight

[Anonymous No.1383820]

>>1382194
Yeah, those games were pretty awful.

It's worth noting, however, that they sprang from and ran on the same engine as the actually excellent PC horror game Nocturne, which came out in 1999. The main character of Nocturne is in at least the first Blair Witch game as far as I know, so they share a universe. Also, Bloodrayne was initially planned as a sequel to Nocturne.

So what the fuck is Nocturne? It's a pretty neat survival horror game where you play as a mysterious secret government man hell-bent on eradicating your typical cast of horror movie monsters. It didn't sell well but in my opinion the action, characters, graphics, and general atmosphere make it well worth playing.

[Anonymous No.1383860]

Funny playing SH1 again I forgot how much fun it is to just explore the city between the set pieces

[Anonymous No.1384489]

>those songs at the amusement park

[Anonymous No.1385000]

>>1381629

Reminder that "horror" is a broad genre. "Survival horror" is a subset of that.

[Anonymous No.1386179]

This game is still surprisingly shocking in the amount of gore it has. The creepy music and FM sounds add to the dilapidated and spooky atmosphere.

I highly recommend firing up MAME and giving it a shot!

[Anonymous No.1386220]

>>1382975
The original clock tower, "the first fear" was released on several consoles, incl (iirc) PS1. Google it and you should be able to play it on console/emulator. As an aside the gameplay feels much different from the sequel, and imho has a much stronger aesthetic

[Anonymous No.1386223]

>>1383774
I'll see you and raise you

[Anonymous No.1387635]

>>1382896
>>1382975
Clock Tower PSX is actually a lot better than Clock Tower SFC, so actually play the damn game before judging it through first impressions. In fact, I'd say the only thing Clock Tower SFC has over the PSX game are the graphics.

[Anonymous No.1387663]

X-Multiply always deserves a mention in these sorts of threads.

[Anonymous No.1387702]

>>1381832
So I guess Code Veronica is out of the question too.

[Anonymous No.1387729]

>>1382193
DMC is atmospheric as fuck though. And it was supposed to be RE4 which explains the fixed camera angles.

[Anonymous No.1387752]

>>1383820
I played the first one and yeah that guy is the guy that you start with but the game is like unplayable

[Anonymous No.1387767]

>>1381867
kek

[Anonymous No.1387783]

>>1387702
>So I guess Code Veronica is out of the question too.

Which is doubly goofy and doubly sequelitis.

[Anonymous No.1387786]

>>1382193
>>1387729

DMC1 and a tiny bit of the beginning of DMC3 have horror elements. 1 being the one with the most. That is partly why I love it.

[Anonymous No.1387809]

>>1387783
Well yeah, but it still delivers on the gameplay and scares.

[Anonymous No.1387819]

>>1387809

Atmosphere and scenario are very important in those games. As is level design, atmosphere. The "story" doesn't have to be great. But it has to make me go "oh that's interesting. I wonder what the answer to the mystery is?". With Code Veronica I'm just shaking my head at how stupid the game is.

[Anonymous No.1387826]

>>1382285
Hey, he's not alone at all!
It's not that dark either.

[Anonymous No.1387830]

>>1387819
The game has atmosphere, but I understand what you mean about the "story". It is pretty silly.

[Anonymous No.1387838]

No love for Dino Crisis?

[Anonymous No.1387853]

>>1387838

5 times I've tried to play it.

5 times I got bored and stopped playing.

First was a rental when it was released. Last was a few months ago.

[Anonymous No.1387879]

>>1387853
Why do you find it boring anon?

[Anonymous No.1387912]

>>1387879

It's kind of RE but less interesting. The environments are just grey slabs. The music isn't that good. The characters are goofing on the scenario which ruins it. If they don't care why should I care?

With RE games, I'm kind of going "woah this place is cool. I want to see more and explore it".

[Anonymous No.1387953]

>>1387912
You should check out the sequel. You are running around in more varied environments and it has more of an action game feel to it instead of RE:Dinosaur Edition.

[Anonymous No.1387960]

>>1387912
Yes thats true, but at least for me gameplay wise its a fun game. I mean the dinosaurs are hard to kill, they follow you there is more survival to this game like in RE1 (but its also boring to see little enemy variety). Also the puzzles and branch choices give the game a diferent taste from RE

[Anonymous No.1387962]

>>1387953
Not to mention it shows that the tank controls can actually be good.

[Anonymous No.1387980]

>>1387953
I remember being loving the jungle from this game it looked so awesome

[Anonymous No.1388371]

>>1384489
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP8qKtehiPM

[Anonymous No.1388405]

>>1384489
>Firefighter Hammer Master Race

[Anonymous No.1388445]

>>1382979
6th gen still isn't retro?

[Anonymous No.1388469]

>>1388445

Correct.

For fuck's sake we're only a few months away from it being "One generation ago" for Sony and MS

[Anonymous No.1388586]

I hate that I can't talk about my favorite horror series, Fatal Frame here.

[Anonymous No.1388594]

>>1388445
>>1388469
Yeah, who in their right mind wouldn't consider this retro, right? PS2 was, like, my first game console ever, how the hell is it not retro? Right? Even early PS3 is kinda retro-ish. Isn't it?

[Anonymous No.1388617]

>>1388594
What a silly strawman.

[Anonymous No.1388619]

>>1388617
>strawman
Look up that word, you seem to be confused about it's meaning.

Here's another "retro" screenshot for you.

[Anonymous No.1388621]

>>1388619
No, it's most definitely a strawman, acting as if people who want to talk about the PS2 because they're younger or it was their first game console.

[Anonymous No.1388631]

>>1388621
That was just an insult. The point stands: you're calling this:
http://youtu.be/6lu_jciwzQo?t=3m4s
retro. Which makes it perfectly fine for me to make fun of your lack of intellect.

[Anonymous No.1388637]

>>1388631
I actually haven't called anything retro, certainly not a PS2 game. Swing and a miss, champ.

And FYI "retro" is an arbitrary distinction, not that I think the PS2 needs to be added to the board's on-topic list any time soon.

[Anonymous No.1388641]

>>1388637
>I actually haven't called anything retro, certainly not a PS2 game.
Then sod off, because I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to >>1388445 and >>1388469 for saying, quote
>6th gen still isn't retro?
and agreeing with it.

[Anonymous No.1388643]

>>1388641
>Then sod off

Why should I? It's a discussion board and I've every "right" to be here as you do.

I see piss-poor arguments, I call them out. You weren't making a good case, so I argued against it. Anyway, back to horror games...

[Anonymous No.1388651]

>>1388643
You're yet to call out the one single argument that PS2 it is laughable to call PS2 games "retro".

All you're replying to is insults. Slut.

[Anonymous No.1388654]

>>1388651
>You're yet to call out the one single argument that PS2 it is laughable to call PS2 games "retro".

Trying to figure out how such a poorly constructed sentence came out is scarier than Nemesis and Mr. X put together.

Am I right?

[Anonymous No.1388656]

>Ctrl + F Martian Gothic
>Don't see it

So. Martian Gothic.

Really nice entry from the end of the PS1's lifespan. Kinda tank controllers but it was a really interesting concept.

[Anonymous No.1388662]

>>1388643
>>1388641
>>1388651
>>1388654

Shut the fuck up. Both of you.

I can literally hear the grunting and panting from the two of you furiously jacking off to the other's argument.

[Anonymous No.1388664]

I started Galerians the other day and it seems like a neat game so far, though a lot of the enemies seem to lack depth perception.

Also, nothing will ever be as awesome as the time I accidentally made some dude's head explode for the first time.

[Anonymous No.1388667]

>>1388654
Cool, a typo is all you needed to dodge the argument once again. Victory! You finally won! PS2 is retro now! Yay. Oh wait, you "didn't say that". Well, you must've won some other argument than. How great.

[Anonymous No.1388723]

Lets be honest with ourselves /vr/. SH and RE literally are the best horror games ever, at least at first they were. Its no coincidence that the genre seriously died out once both game series changed. Sure there are those new ones made by the indies but it isn't even close to the same. Indies are just making it more niche then it was before.

SH I would say is without a doubt the best horror series. RE second place but might have the more fun gameplay imo. I want both of these series to make a glorious comeback ;_;

[Anonymous No.1388729]

I picked up Silent Hill 1 a few weeks ago, and I couldn't get into it thanks to the tank controls. I don't know how we dealt with that shit in the 90s.

I got to the school and stopped because it was a frustratingly clunky pile of ass. It kinda takes you out of the mood when you concentrate more on fighting the controls than the environment/monsters/puzzles, you know?

[Anonymous No.1388741]

For that guy who said PS2 isn't retro yet, well no it isn't and imo shouldn't be for the foreseeable future.

>came out late 2000
>so it should at least need another 2 years or more to even be considered retro

However the big problem with this is that Much of PS2 plays functionally similar and even looks similar to modern games. Notice how NES-Snes-Genisis-PS1-64 etc, are very different from any modern game today both in looks and mostly the way you play? PS2/Xbox/Gamecube games have far too much similarities one can draw even with PS4/One/WiiU games. Which are literally barely an upgrade from PS3/360.

I guess others might have a different opinion than I do but I say it should be 20 years with the exception of 64/psone era due to the fact that they are functional and appearance wise very different from even their successors Wii/PS2.

[Anonymous No.1388747]

>>1388729
>It kinda takes you out of the mood

Key word it takes "you" out of the mood. I am not trash at games. Especially not easy horror games like the SH and RE series. Your just plain bad at games to not be able to play tank controls. I will never ever have a problem with them.

I am playing fallout 1 right now and it felt a little weird for me to control since I never played an RPG of its type before. In just the tutorial cave area I eventually got the hang of how to play the game and its mechanics. Did I come to this image board and whine and give up like you did? Nope

These games were meant to be played this way. Not with a 3rd person camera controls like every single game in existence now.

[Anonymous No.1388869]

i recently finished a replay of SH1 as an experiment if my ipod touch could actually emulate a ps1 game. Turns out it can (but it eats the battery, holy hell) and the games is still very intense, especially since this was like the fifth time ive replayed it. The touch screen controls were a little wonky and oversensitive/undersensitive at times, but other than that it worked well.

the scariest part for me was the run from the mall/grub boss fight to when you get to the amusement park, motherfucking monsters are on your ass the entire time and you dont get a single second of respite in the nightmare world.

one thing i really liked that isnt present in the later silent hill games is the gradual and subtle transformation of the levels between normal and hell, especially near the end when youre running through the sewers to the amusement park and the entire level goes from "normalish sewer" to "rust fences and blood" as you run through it. I actually never noticed that one before this playthrough.

I do think that anybody that says that old silent hill/resident evil survival horrors were only scary because of the limited ammo is smoking crack. not even being conservative with the weapons, i was swimming in ammo and health items by the hospital and drowning in it by nowhere. the hospital was the only place i chose not to blast fools all the time because that was when you get the best melee weapon in the game, the fire axe

[Anonymous No.1388890]

It wouldn't be a /vr/ horror thread without Waxworks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqRgDkWXA0

[Anonymous No.1388901]

>>1388729
I think it's a bit harder to control than RE. In fact, I found SH1's controls complicated the first time I played it, but I got used to it eventually. Which is not strange since RE3's controls are more 'fixated' or 'rigid'. Each does it in its own way.

[Anonymous No.1389054]

>>1382183
>Illbleed
>"Retro styled" horror games

Illbleed is illbleed styled.

[Anonymous No.1389093]

>>1388643
you faggot spend the whole day arguing here, after a while of reading posts with similar writing style i am sure it's only one big shitlord

[Anonymous No.1389117]

Any love for Parasite Eve 2? I already know 1 was better

[Anonymous No.1389127]

Hey this game scared me when I was a kid.

[Anonymous No.1389140]

Hey horror bros, can I get some recommendations? I dunno, other than the RE and SH series, I've only played:

>System Shock series
>Sanitarium
>Alone in the Dark
>Clock Tower

Would love for more titles to play. NES, SNES, Genesis/Saturn, PC, PSX, whatever.

[Anonymous No.1389146]

Thought Alone in the Dark was the original survival horror? Think again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhgf1c6cj3I

[Anonymous No.1389557]

>>1389140
Which Clock Tower did you play?

[Anonymous No.1389569]

>>1386220
Is the Playstation version the one where you can be attacked by a retarded googly-eyed zombie in the trophy room (where you usually just find a corpse in the SNES version)?

>>1382993
That scene has THE catchiest music.

[Anonymous No.1389607]

>>1389127
Picked this up at SDCC last year

[Anonymous No.1389608]

>>1389607
comes in an oversized NES box

[Anonymous No.1389772]

>>1382183
>Illbleed
Fuck yes. Every time I see this scene I lose my shit. http://www.twitchDOTtv/zharay/c/1539951
HOOWAH. HOOWAH. HOOWAH.

[Anonymous No.1389789]

>>1388656
That ending was awful though. You get used to the shitty controls and the lackluster voice acting, and then there's no fucking ending. It had great potential. Also the person who voiced the chick is now very anti-videogames. Ironic.

[Anonymous No.1390087]

http://theisozone.com/downloads/pc/homebrew/jennifer-18/

scariest game i ever played

[Anonymous No.1390089]

>>1389569
the sequel (also PSX) is p. cool

[Anonymous No.1390094]

>>1389789

I just really dug the atmosphere of it. I think they left it open-ended on purpose, but yea- I totally agree that it didn't feel like you got the big payoff in the end.

Doesn't it almost seem like that 'Doom' movie with The Rock totally ripped off Martian Gothic more so than Doom?

[Anonymous No.1390096]

>>1389117

One of my favorites, man.

1 was better in a different way, but I loved all the different power paths you could take, the boss fights were excellent, and the controllers were completely fine after playing enough RE3.

[Anonymous No.1390097]

>>1390094
It does now that you think of it. According to MikeNnemonic you were supposed to be drinking sake or something at the end and they left it out.

[Anonymous No.1390262]

>>1389140

Thief: The Dark Project and Sanitarium are both great horror games. Funny that most retro horror games have poor gameplay but great atmosphere and yet modern horror games are fun to play but lack atmosphere and generally lean towards action. Thank god for indie, we are entering a new golden age of horror all thanks to PewDiePie

[Anonymous No.1390270]

>>1389117

I love PE1 and PE2. They're really different games though. PS2 is kind of much more standard "RE-style". I still like it. My main complaint is how limited it is, as you just kind of explore this rather boring town in the middle of nowhere. Dude I want to explore LA or NYC.

[Anonymous No.1390279]

Waxworks.

[Anonymous No.1390434]

>>1390262
Amnesia and all those other haunted house simulator games are terrible. If that's the golden age you're talking about I have to say it's a pretty disappointing one.

[Anonymous No.1390434,1]

>>1389054
the sad thing is the fact we will never see fanservice like that one again in videogames because we are now in times of "political correct".