/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9658913]

is Silent Hill the scariest retro game?

[Anonymous No.9658920]

*spawns in a closet behind you
heh nothing personal, kid

[Anonymous No.9658930]

>>9658913
Yes. It's also the best SH and the only one with a good horror buildup. That alley at the start is still the most amazing horror moment in vidya with perfect calibration

[Anonymous No.9658934]

>>9658913
It's not even the scariest game Toyama made.

[Anonymous No.9658936]

RE2 might still be the most traumatizing for a kid though with the backgrounds that looked real

[Anonymous No.9658940]

>>9658930
Scared the shit out of me. The entire game is like an amalgamtion of X-Files and Don't Look Now.

[Anonymous No.9658941]

>>9658934
>siren autists
These games are fucking retarded outside of some nice face animations

[Anonymous No.9658942]

>>9658936
i watched my brother play that for a while. after he stopped playing the game has simply sat there in my collection for a decade and a half. maybe i will play it finally. but during the day, with copious liquor

[Anonymous No.9658959]

manhunt isnt spooky, but its dark and perverse. the way youre put in the role of a heartless killer amongst gangs of heartless killers is like no other game Ive played. its almost a serial killer simulator but not. lots of tense moments and in a sense it has a horror feel to it.

[Anonymous No.9658970]

>>9658913
imo it’s Fatal Frame 1

[Anonymous No.9658971]

>>9658930
>muh currrrazy camera angle
yawn

[Anonymous No.9658989]

Buttefly room silent hill 2 - that music is scary still 22 years later.

[Anonymous No.9659012]

>>9658971
Your viewpoint is absolutely an important part of horror in any visual genre. That’s why this type of fixed camera moments tend to be much scarier

[Anonymous No.9659021]

It's scary but the scariest is probably Fatal Frame 1 or 3

[Anonymous No.9659054]

>>9658913
I didnt find it scary, maybe its because im not a pussy ass nigga

[Anonymous No.9659064]

>>9658936
I was traumatized when i finished re2 on the 64 for the first time it was like shellshock. I was 8 to 10 at the time. I went to shower and said to myself "shit im never gonna play that again motherfucka" but I still play it to this day

[Anonymous No.9659097]

>>9659054
and the reason you're not a pussy ass nigga:
a video game didn't scare you

[Anonymous No.9659138]

>>9659054
You sound boring
And like you’re afraid of being afraid

[Anonymous No.9659141]

Its scary how anyone thinks its any good. Honestly one of the worst AAA games Ive ever played in my life

[Anonymous No.9659145]

>>9659054
It's been scientifically proven that only brainlets don't find good horror scary so everytime someone flexes like that it sounds funny to me

[Anonymous No.9659150]

>>9658913
>is Silent Hill the scariest retro game?
It's the scariest game I've ever played. Of the PSX titles:
SH > RE > RE3 >RE2

[Anonymous No.9659171]

>>9659064
> I was 8 to 10
>I said shit motherfucka
i hadn't even cussed by that age yet

[Anonymous No.9659176]

>>9659150
*I should note I was ranking those games in spookyness and not gameplay enjoyment

[Anonymous No.9659609]

>>9658913
Yes and that's why I love it more than Resident Evil.

>>9659141
I'm pretty sure you were born in the 2000's because this game rocks.

[Anonymous No.9659635]

>>9658913
clock tower is the king imo psx. Playing clock tower for the playstation especially as a kid is peak horror kino. Followed by fatal frame title your pick for ps2. Personally fatal frame 2 scared the shit out of me with ghost appearing behind stairs when it didn't the last time I went through this area because I died.

Res evil was on the first pc games I played for windows 98 or millennium and silent hill psx title, even as a 13-16 they felt too corny for the horror to be 100% there. I'm 32 now for reference.

[Anonymous No.9659718]

>>9659171
In brazil we start cursing around the age 2 at most, around age 12 we start dealing drugs, its no joke

[Anonymous No.9659756]

>>9659097
>>9659138
>>9659145
Its not possible for me to be afraid of demons because I believe in god almighty amem. Resident evil games with "real monsters" used to scare me. Dont get me wrong, I am not saying silent hill is bad, I played through 1 and 2 and would say theyre a 9 and an 8 respectively.

[Anonymous No.9659768]

>>9658934
It's scary how boring that game is.

[Anonymous No.9659968]

>>9659756
I'm not afraid of demons because, like all normal people, I know they aren't real.

[Anonymous No.9659983]

>>9658913
Dark Seed

[Anonymous No.9660049]

>>9659756
>Silent Hill
>demons
Please tell me no one actually believes this, right? The entire intrigue of SH's monsters is that they don't fall into your typical camp of monsters like aliens, mutants, or demons and are something entirely diffrrent.

[Anonymous No.9660101]

>>9659141
It's not bad, but I would've liked it better without the alternate universe bullshit. Was more realistic and creepy being in an empty town but the alternative stuff just killed my immersion.

[Anonymous No.9660210]

>>9660101
>but I would've liked it better without the alternate universe bullshit.
You're mad about something that isn't there? There is no "alternate universe/dimension", Silent Hill is a physical location that is physically being altered by the power of the town.

[Anonymous No.9660385]

>>9660049
>He hasn’t beaten Silent Hill 1

>>9659756
I could see this is we were talking about them corrupting your soul but these fuckers will just shank you, anon

[Anonymous No.9660397]

>>9660210
I obviously meant the parts where the world changes you dumbfuck.

[Anonymous No.9660482]

>>9658920
>Retro
That this is 'retro' is still hard to accept.

[Anonymous No.9660493]

No game will be able to top my first playthrough of SH.

>make it to final boss
>didn't know about multiple endings
>clearly going towards bad end
>I'm trapped in a dark room with a eerie glowing angel thing walking toward me
>Figure if I kill it I get the bad end, so try to search for things around the room
>nothing, guess I gotta fight it
>the SECOND I shoot it, my tv starts making a highpitched error-like noise
>all music/sound effects are gone
>every time I shoot it, the pitch of the loud noise goes higher and higher
>it's actually hurting to hear it
>beat the boss
>noise stops
>end cutscene plays
>discover that is NOT what's supposed to happen
>mfw during all of that

Scared the shit out me. Holy hell SH1 is good.

[Anonymous No.9660498]

>>9660493
This is a glitch that happens with certain playback devices; pop the disc into a PS3 and you get the exact same thing every time.

SUPER fucky that's where it happens though, because yeah it's spook city

[Anonymous No.9660526]

>>9659983
This one just makes me horny.

[Anonymous No.9660983]

>>9658913
Its not remotely scary. The cartoony joke tier graphics kill it, silent hill 2 and 3 are some of the scariest pieces of media ever made though. Silent Hill 1 mightve been scary if they didnt try to do full 3d and instead settled for prerendered backgrounds with 3d models but clearly they bit too much, I cant imagine taking this game seriously as an adult because it just looks cartoony and stupid as fuck. The very few visuals that have true power are all inanimate objects/ background elements that unnerve you (mostly elements of the otherworld like seemingly endless pits that the metal grating walkways are pinned upon) but they arent some pants shitting terror inducing spooks and just some uncomfortable art that makes you uneasy. RE3 is a far scarier game from the same generation simply because of nemesis. Better jumpscares by far and more oppressive/ tense. SH1 might be a more interesting art piece but its not fucking scary unless youre 8 years old (or otherwise stupid/ inexperienced enough to not pick up on just how predictable the game is and how it establishes way too much clear rules to properly scare the player afterwards). Its literally a prime game mechanic to hear the presence of enemies through the radio before they show up so by extension you should never ever let the game scare you whenever it tries to (falsely) pull the mat from under your feet with some new scary audio that you dont recognize. You 100% know if you should be scared or not, and the enemies are never actually threatening or scary when confronting them. The only dangerous enemy in the game is the (true) final boss and by that point youll just stand in place and tank his shit with heals while firing at it

[Anonymous No.9661021]

>>9660385
Based retard bro not understanding the story.

[Anonymous No.9661029]

>Imaginary enemies
>Horror

[Anonymous No.9661070]

>>9661029
Based retard bro not understanding the story

[Anonymous No.9661797]

>>9660493
The first time I beat it, I had the online walkthrough since I was stuck on the piano puzzle without the walkthrough. The walkthrough even showed me how to get the best ending, as well as the alien ending.

[Anonymous No.9662619]

>>9658913
I know fear is hugely subjective and all but RE got under my skin way more

[Anonymous No.9662648]

>>9661070
>boo hoo the main character is insecure and traumatized :(
hit the gym faggot

[Anonymous No.9663050]

>>9660983
Didn’t read find your enter key

[Anonymous No.9663068]

>>9662648
Based retard bro not understanding the story

[Anonymous No.9663164]

>>9661021
If you think that SH is "it's all in your head" and everything that is happening can be explained with conscience and perception - you actually never even played the games. SH lore and mechanics are deeply interwoven with occult.

[Anonymous No.9663259]

>>9660482
Go on zoomie fortnite board and try to talk about it.

[Anonymous No.9663452]

>>9660983
I read it and agree but yes, do find your enter key anon.

[Anonymous No.9664215]

>>9663164
No, I don't think that at all. Everything that exists in the fogworld and otherworld are all real, created from the power of the town. I think that people both underestimate and overestimate the cult's impacts in ways. You have the typical SH2 only idiots who see the cult as "boring" but at the same time I think people don't really think about how personal of a narrative SH1 is. SH1 would probably be the least psychological of the original trilogy as the state of the world around the protagonist isn't based on their psyche, but it's stillna deeply personal story of Harry and especially Alessa. The most occultish figure of the series, the Incubus, only appears as such due to Alessa interpreting it as such, the God being shaped based on how the person birthing it interprets it as. It drives me crazy when people seriously see nothing but "spooky cult summons demons" when the most interesting aspect of SH is that it avoids that tropey shit entirely.