Favorite horror games

[Anonymous No.8998490]

What horror game do you like the most? SH2 for me. I was going to replay the first 4 games but I might try out something else.

[Anonymous No.8998513]

>>8998490
I feel like my view of the genre is distorted by how iconic the RE and SH trilogies are. Outside of them it's kind of barren. There's some oddball Japanese stuff on the ps1, fatal frame and clocktower are alright, siren is...siren, and then there's just a sea of The Suffering tier trash.

[Anonymous No.8998520]

>>8998513
I've honestly never played any horror games that weren't RE or SH (at least any that I can remember).
That's mostly why I made this thread. Maybe someone can recommend a nice game or two.

[Anonymous No.8998536]

I have to go with SH2. Check out Eternal
Darkness on the Gamecube of you haven't played it yet.

[Anonymous No.8998549]

I prefer the only retro Silent Hill.

[Anonymous No.8998605]

>>8998490
Of the b tier console franchises fatal frame is definitely worth checking out, maybe skip the first one and play 2.

echo night is a ps1 title worth checking out though it's more of a gloomy adventure game, you give closure to lost souls, the horror component is basically rushing to turn on the lights with clunky 5th gen fps controls to make the ghosts non hostile, back before fromsoftware became an annual sportsgame publisher.

thief TDP(thief gold ruins one of the best horror levels in the original version) is a surprisingly effective horror game hidden in a stealth game.

As far as point and clicks, Harvester, it even has a real life horror story attached.

[Anonymous No.8998656]

>>8998520
Play Amnesia: The Dark Descent, bro
don't look up anything, just play it

[Anonymous No.8998716]

>>8998490
For me it's Haunting Ground.

[Anonymous No.8999161]

>>8998605
Idk about b tier but I'm playing ff 1 and 2 atm. Ff 1 really picks up at demon tag, it's a visually beautiful game and well directed. It's not resident evil, it takes a much slower tension filled approach, really good game so far even if I think the scariest game of all time hype is extremely overblown.

[Anonymous No.8999179]

Fatal Frame. It's actual rare when a horror game has fun combat

[Anonymous No.8999286]

[Anonymous No.8999473]

>>8999179
This. Fatal Frame 3 to this day is one of the 2 horror games that made me scared, the other one being the original SH.
>If you try to snap a picture of Kyouka before triggering the battle she jump scares you.
Kino...

[Anonymous No.8999479]

>>8998716

[Anonymous No.8999997]

>>8998605
Fatal Frame 1 is just as good as 2, 2 just gets hyped up more for some reason, but the game is piss easy. Maybe that's why it's every e-celeb's favorite. Don't skip any of the first 3 Fatal Frame games.

As for other horror games, you've got RE and SH. I've yet to finish Siren, but it's wonky. Corpse Party is technically retro, since I think the original version came out in '98, but play whatever the most updated version of that game is...something like Corpse Party RF I think it's called. I think Clock Tower on SNES or PSX has a mouse hack that makes it better to play.

[Anonymous No.9000008]

>>8998513
I really wanted to like Fatal Frame 2, but the clichéd J-horror ghosts and jump scares got way too repetitive after the first couple hours.

[Anonymous No.9000019]

>>8998490
It wasn’t scary but I had a good time playing it.

[Anonymous No.9000130]

>>8998520
Siren is very much a love it or hate it game and can be maddening to play but the horror atmosphere and aesthetics are fucking top tier.
The Project Zero games (Fatal Frame in burgerland) are really good spook em ups.
It's a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine but I'm really enjoying playing through Blue Stinger right now.

[Anonymous No.9000145]

>>8998490
i have good memories of SH3 with my friends
i hope they're doing well they had good taste in vidya

[Anonymous No.9000160]

>>9000130
I never managed to finish Blue Stinger, but I have a soft spot for it. It was one of the Dreamcast’s launch games I got with the console on 9/9/99 along with Sonic and SoulCalibur.

[Anonymous No.9000168]

>>9000160
It's a quintessentially "Dreamcast" game. Everything about it just oozes that specific brand of style that was everywhere on the console.

[Anonymous No.9000178]

>>9000168
>tfw no Blue Stinger spin-off starring Dogs Bower

[Anonymous No.9000185]

>>9000178
I could see myself getting quite invested in a Dogs Bower cinematic universe.

[Anonymous No.9000310]

>>8998490
I really liked Siren back then

[Anonymous No.9000416]

>>9000130
>spook em ups

go fuck yourself-up

[Anonymous No.9000426]

>>9000416
You don't like spook em ups? What about Monster Mashers? Ghostly Games? Shriekers? Haunty Hoos? Terror Times?

[Anonymous No.9001398]

>>8998490
Dead space

[Anonymous No.9001462]

>>9000426
I vote Terror Times and I also speak for everyone and no one can change this.

[Anonymous No.9002212]

>>8998490
For me it’s Eternal Datkness: Sanity’s Requiem on the Gamecube.

Just started playing this week, it’s fucking incredible. The “sanity meter” is pure genius and really gives it a terrifying atmosphere

[Anonymous No.9003194]

clock tower 3?

[Anonymous No.9004117]

>>8999997
>that VN
The most unforgettable horror porn game I've ever played. No other game had a bunch of elementary schoolers gangbang a teenage girl against a wall. And the teenage girl loved it. No other game I've played had a 17 year old bishonen guy drink a 14 year old girl's piss and chase her down the hall to rape her, only to wind up getting anally raped by a 32 year old fat man. I still remember the scene where a 16-17 girl was hiding under a bed as her same age best friend was having sex with that same 32 year old fat guy on top. She heard every moan, bed shake and sound. In the wrong end she was discovered under the bed by her friend and made to join. A most terrifying scene was when an unwilling girl relives another girl's sex memories. The girl in the memory consented but the reliving girl didn't. It didn't matter that she was mentally screaming, her body in the memory did all the motions and actions as in history. It's like mind control rape except the victim was fully aware. Another scene the same girl and a friend were almost raped in a magic sex ritual, saved by the girl's older sister, and the backlash made the older sister want to rape her younger sister and friend.

The loli in this pic is freakishly lewd and once disguised herself as a teenage girl, fucked a boy until he nearly came, transformed back saying
>You thought you were having sex with a highschooler weren't you? I'm an elementary schooler all along!
And leglocks that boy, forcing him to cum inside her unprotected, when he screams in fear upon learning this. This isn't even getting into the tentacles, the gay sex, the lesbian sex, the incest, the sequel's mother/daughter lesbian scene, etc. The first chapter alone contains lots of lesbian sex scenes with an unavoidable girl masturbating in the bathroom. Truly horror is intrinsically connected with sexuality.

[Anonymous No.9004146]

>>9004117

[Anonymous No.9004362]

>>8998490
>What horror game do you like the most?
Rule of Rose.
I really like the story and atmosphere even if the gameplay is pretty dubious.

>>8998605
>skip the first one and play 2.
Awful advice.
FF1 is better than FF2 for a start (arguably) and also if you come to like the franchise and want to play more you have to play FF1 to understand FF3 and FF5 anyway.
>b tier
Eh?

>>9000130
Have you played Illbleed? Same developer as Blue Stinger and similarly insane.

>>9003194
>Clock Tower 3
It's... not great.
Haunting Ground is basically better in every way as a successor to the original games.
Clock Tower 3's appeal is basically how ridiculous the plot and characters are- because it definitely isn't the gameplay.

[Anonymous No.9004880]

>>8998490
SH3 and FF3 are among my favorite games for the ps2, i absolutely loved playing them and I almost 100% FF3 (I was only missing about 10 photos before my ps2 stopped working years ago)

[Anonymous No.9004909]

>>9004362
I was being a little cautious with a newcomer, 2 is more well rounded imo, but yeah if you're a fan obviously go back and play the original
>b tier
no disrespect, just meant one rung below the big 2, clocktower, siren, fatal frame.

[Anonymous No.9004929]

>>8998520
I really liked Carrier on the Dreamcast. People give it shit for being too similar to RE but it's a damn good clone in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.9004932]

>>9003194
I'd say it's worth downloading a rom and checking out if you're a fan of the genre but I wouldn't recommend it if you're just looking for a 'good' horror game. weird game with a lot of questionable choices.

[Anonymous No.9007109]

>>8998520
Haunting Ground

[Anonymous No.9007118]

>>9002212
also recommending this. played it again last halloween and while it's aged i still liked it. it can be a bit if a slog going through the same environments multiple times but the story is interesting and the characters are fun for the most part.

[Anonymous No.9007165]

>>8998490
Reddit Hill 2 fucking sucks and you should be ashamed for having such a terrible taste

[Anonymous No.9007171]

>>9002212
>on the Gamecube.
why even mention this detail? your post looks like something you copied from reddit or gamefaqs on a thread asking about Le horror hidden gem

[Anonymous No.9007178]

>>8998549
Bingo. SH is the best. I don't even know if you can really call SH2 all that scary, it's more accurate to describe it as unpleasant or oppressive. Menacing, perhaps. The scares are few and far between.
>>8998656
Yeah, Amnesia (at least the first half) is very well done. The first five or ten minutes are even excellent; though still not quite as good as the first five minutes of Silent Hill.

[Anonymous No.9007182]

>>9007171
Hey anon, why don’t you stop being a giant dickhead for once?

[Anonymous No.9007197]

>>8998656
>>9007178
>Amnesia The Reddit Descent
not retro

[Anonymous No.9007261]

>>9007165
Mindless contrarianism. What's the argument for SH2 being a bad game? It's popular?

[Anonymous No.9007276]

>>9007261
It's not bad as a game, but it isn't scary.

[Anonymous No.9007305]

>>9007276
That's subjective. I personally don't think any horror games are scary but I still love the genre.

[Anonymous No.9008104]

>>9007178
>>9007178
I think 2 has strong enough buildup on a first playthrough to work. The nurses and mannequins are scary enough when you're dreading a big bad making an appearance, and then the character drama takes over at the end. On repeat though it definitely suffers when you know the extent of the monsters you'll encounter.

[Anonymous No.9008105]

>>9007305
It was the same for me, but I got a pair of noise-cancelling headphones and started playing horror games exclusively at night
It can get really fucking scary

[Anonymous No.9008118]

>>9007305
>>9008105
Also, I started dressing up like the character to fully immerse myself and get into the role
Not full-on cosplaying, but wearing a pair of jeans and a coat while playing SH 1 and 2 really makes you feel like you're there
It's not about looking like the character, but getting the tactile feeling of the clothes

[Anonymous No.9008351]

>>9008105
I do play horror games at night with the lights off, I'm just desensitised I think.

>>9008118
I hope your dad didn't walk in while you were playing Fatal Frame.

[Anonymous No.9008384]

>>9008351
>Fatal Frame
nah, I can't self-insert as girls, obviously

[Anonymous No.9009801]

>>8998490
I guess I prefer the same thing that everyone else does in the genre. I'll go with Silent Hill 3, probably for the music and its pretty amazing hardware-pushing visuals. I kind of fell out of favor with the genre, despite the huge modern resurgence of the games, so the scope of what I have tried is kind of limited.

>>8998716
Great choice. I can vouch for this being pretty cool in its day.

[Anonymous No.9009818]

>>9009801
>despite the huge modern resurgence of the games
you mean those soulless walking simulators trying their best to be like P.T and Amnesia? i liked the horror genre better when it was semi-dead in the 7th generation

[Anonymous No.9009823]

>>9009818
you're replying to a thoughtless shitposter.

[Anonymous No.9009837]

>>9009823
SH3 is his favorite game and not Reddit Hill 2, he's okay

[Anonymous No.9010331]

Recently picked up undying, but im not feeling it.

[Anonymous No.9010440]

>>9010331
I liked the atmosphere but the gameplay didn't do much for me. The level design and random loading screens made it feel like it was easy to get lost too.

[Anonymous No.9010472]

>>9009818
>you mean those soulless walking simulators trying their best to be like P.T and Amnesia?
there's a lot of stuff like that, there's also tons of other stuff, some of it decent.

[Anonymous No.9010501]

>>8998490
cry of fear tho i find it a bit edgy for my taste baka

[Anonymous No.9010876]

>>9010472
no. there hasnt been a decent new game in over a decade. stop lying

[Anonymous No.9011270]

>>9010876
How are we defining 'decent'?
Like, 6/10 or over?

Fatal Frame V, while not up to the standards of the originals on the PS2, was at the very least 'decent'.

The Resident Evil 2 remake and Resident Evil 7 were certainly 'decent'. I'd go as far as to say the RE2 remake was great, even.

[Anonymous No.9011327]

>>9000008
I kinda like the Japanese ghosts and their view of horror. Does it give me juon and ringu vibes, of course it does, but I think ghosts were the flavor of the month then. If it were people wearing bedsheets with eyeholes cut out moaning booo then it wouldn't be as interesting or unnerving.

[Anonymous No.9011416]

>>9011327
>Does it give me juon and ringu vibes, of course it does
I didn't really get that from Fatal Frame. I think it takes far more heavily from classic horror films like Jigoku, Kuroneko or Onibaba in its depiction of ghosts and in its atmosphere- or else from Akira Kiyoshi's movies. Sadako and Kayako are mostly just malevolent, whereas the ghosts in Fatal Frame are (with a few exceptions) all victims themselves in some way.

[Anonymous No.9011604]

>>9011416
I'll try to check those out, I guess my comparison was based only one the visuals of the ghosts with my only viewing those films mentioned. I stopped playing 2 to focus on one first as I'm really getting drawn into the story. I've got spirit camera on 3ds so I'm planning on playing them all, except 3 as I don't own it.

[Anonymous No.9011661]

>>9011270
>Coomer Frame V
you mean the worst game in the series (not counting the 3DS abomination) that piece of shit was a huge let down, and fucking Temco had to ruin it with their tranime and coomer faggotry (a consequence of modern DOA influence)
also if it wasn't for that whole controversy surrounding the censorship of pointless extra outfits no one cares about it wouldn't attract any attention at all, redditor and discord trannies jumped on the wagon to defend and shill it just to smite ''Le evil censorship of the corporations'' they never played a FF game before and they didn't even knew those outfits are for NG+ and when they found out they dropped the game lmao
>Resident Evil 2 remake
maybe, it's still inferior to the classic original RE2
>Resident Evil 7
a shitty Outlast ripoff walking simulator tried to capitalize on P.T (another walking simulator) popularity and the empty gap the cancellation of Silent Hills left, it's an insult to the series and introduced plenty of youtube and twitch zoomer audience to RE

[Anonymous No.9011668]

>>8998490
Yeah, no, I’ma have to say FUCK Reddit Hill 2, an absolute overrated piece of diarrhea doo doo that sucks distended donkey balls up the ying yang, sorry not sorry.

[Anonymous No.9011675]

>>9011668
i agree Reddit Hill 2 suck!

[Anonymous No.9011686]

>>9011675
Sucks distended donkey balls up the ying yang, what a cowabunga piece of shit

[Anonymous No.9011742]

>>9011686
Absolutely agree, Reddit Hill 2 is fucking trash. I don’t know what was happening in Konami around that time but they had a major reputation for making shit tier sequels that focused more on bullshit “narrative” and cack handed attempts at cinematic style story telling rather than game play, for example Reddit Gear Solid 2, Suireddit 2, Redditvania: Symphony of the Upvote all suffer from this problem.

[Anonymous No.9011819]

>>9011661
>you mean the worst game in the series
That's what I said, yes.
'Worst' doesn't equate to 'bad game'.
FFV still retains the fun of the core gameplay and has some cool narrative ideas and ghost concepts. Is that really all negated for you because the characters' breasts oscillate a bit more that they did in the PS2 games?

Can you try to speak normally, by the way? You're not impressing anyone by trying to use as much trendy 4chan vernacular as possible, it just makes you sound incoherent and deranged more than anything else. Nobody gives a shit about these 'Reddit and Discord trannies' which I imagine you vividly describe as coming to get you to your therapist once a week- tell him from me he ought to up your prescription.

>maybe, it's still inferior to the classic original RE2
Agreed. But it's still a more than 'decent' game.

>>9011661
it's an insult to the series
Ah yes, such a blow to the series standing on such recent greats as Resident Evil 6 and Operation Raccoon City, as it was at the time.
Resident Evil 7 is a horror game. That alone made it the first step in the right direction since... Code Veronica?

[Anonymous No.9011854]

>>8998490
REmaster is the only actually scary game

[Anonymous No.9011868]

>>9011819
Fuck me imagine simping for Reddit Frame V this hard. Seriously bro touch grass.

[Anonymous No.9011874]

>>9011868
>…Reddit!
>…simping!
>…touch grass!
>…buzzword!
>…AI generated combination of the above
Downloaded your identity off of memes again, did you?

[Anonymous No.9012048]

>>8998716
Good game.

[Anonymous No.9012141]

>>9011819
RE6 is literally better than 7 in every single aspect
>Resident Evil 7 is a horror game
walking simulators are the worst type of horror games, i'll take an action shooter game like 4 or 6 over it anytime
>the first step in the right direction since... Code Veronica?
Code Shitonica was a step in the wrong direction, it's so bad even Capcom knows that hence why they skipped giving it a remake treatment and went directly to 4

[Anonymous No.9013773]

>>9009818
They have the dark and eerie look to them which is pretty evocative. There's even remakes of 2, 3, and 4 of Resident Evil which I have not tried yet.

[Anonymous No.9013930]

>>9012141
there's two elements of classic re games, tank controls and fixed overhead camera angles which sadly will never come back, and a puzzlebox level design of interconnected paths littered with resource sponges. Bringing back that half of the formula was a major step in the right direction in spite of the games issues.

[Anonymous No.9014761]

>>9000019
The twilight sun atmosphere on the beginning of the school is kinoringo