Video game horror

[Bad Bear]

I must have tried every franchise going, from Resident Evil, Silent Hill, FEAR, Condemned, Manhunt, etc etc.

But only one has ever left me going to bed with a wary eye on the shadows, an ear for the unexpected creak, and it contains no gore whatsoever. The series I'm talking about is Project Zero, aka Fatal Frame. It's basically you - a girl in a haunted house - with only a camera obscura to protect you from the kind of apparitions one would see in Japanese horrors such as Ring and The Grudge. I can't say I have ever, since I was in my early teens, found most horror films genuinely scary, but the Project Zero/Fatal Frame games genuinely get under my skin. Play late at night on your own in a darkened room... If you dare! Better sleep with the lights on if you do...

[JRLauer]

One of the games I played that made me think about things in the dark was Doom3. The game itself was mostly dark, and it had a multitude of creatures that could make a lot of things go bump in the night.

[catnoel]

Try Dead Space. It is something else. I am a Resident Evil and Silent Hill fan and that dang video game creeped me out.

[Ubasti]

I played Fatal Frame a couple times. It is a bit unnerving. It's a great game though.

[CorbinKale]

Amber is the only game that I can call truly scary. It is an older game, and some of the puzzles are maddening, but this is the one to check if you want scary.

http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,7

[Brian - Metro]

You gotta try the "Condemned" series. - Very scary.

[Mr Nobody]

The best horror's about atmosphere. Gore is not horror, IMO. Just because something makes me want to chuck doesn't mean I'm scared. Can't say any video game has scared me, tbh. At least, not for a very long time...so long that in fact I can't remember anything that ever did, though I must have jumped a time or ten at something or other.

[Anton177]

I watched someone play all of Dead Space on YouTube since I didn't have a PS3 and it I found it quite interesting. True, in parts, it is scary as hell... I would not play that game.

As a kid for me it was a few games. I never played Resident Evil but the first game with intro of the zombie dogs and being in that mansion always scared me. There was a game called Heart Of Darkness, too, and I replayed that one about a year ago. It's not scary now, but there are so many death scenes for that kid that when I was a child with a vivid imagination I always used to trip on that stuff.

[poisonbat]

Fatal Frame Crimson Butterfly, the scariest game EVER in my book. I love the Silent Hill series up until 4. 4 let me down big big, and 5 (Homecoming) bah! Resident Evil Nemesis, loved it loved it. The Suffering (the first one) Truly scary and interesting plot line. Dead Space was a very good game, but the ending kinda pissed me off. :glare: Jericho (Clive Barker's) is really good. So is the first one, but I can't think of the title to that one right off hand.

I must admit something here, I have not played any of these. :down: I only watch my son play games, I suck at playing myself. :laugh:

Although not a horror game, Bioshock is and will always be my all time favorite game.:love::bat:

[natalia101]

ive just finished the condemned2, the part in the doll factory is particularly creepy.

[delores 74]

Fatal Frame scared me as well. Ghosts in general do that to me anyway. Another scary/unnerving one is Siren. I haven't finished it or played it in awhile, but if you aren't tense and breathing hard while you are playing it, something is wrong.

[BlackThorn]

I was just having fun with Left 4 Dead. The video card in this laptop has unfortunately become cooked at one point, so when I try to play it, it starts studdering when there's twenty or more zombies on the screen running at me at once, and drops down to 1/2 a frame per sec.

I plan on using my super Dell 4 year college kid warrenty soon though, and making sure they fix or replace the problem to make sure I'll be ready for the Game of the Year edition of Left 4 Dead this summer, when it comes out. =0)

I liked the Evil Dead - Hail to the King Playstation One game. That one was kinda creepy, especially when there was too much attacking you to deal with at once. Or like when you get to the basement, and the music starts playing on the record machine... it is extremely creepy. I actually just ripped the ISO image of both discs of that game for my Xbox harddrive yesterday. =0) The PCSXBox v20 emulator plays it flawlessly, and I really like how the story picks up as if it were the fourth movie in the series. (Evil Dead 4, would have come out after Army of Darkness [aka evil dead 3-ish]). You even get to face Evil Ash in it, as well as endless deadite rednecks and some deadite cub-scouts. Even voiced by Bruce Campbell. =oD

The beginning of Aliens vs Predator 2, was pretty creepy too... you were a marine, looking around in dark corridors underground in a base that seemed to be abandoned, but was really infested with aliens. There was no fighting the whole first five minutes or so, and when you finally do get the command to "get the hell out of there!!!", you realize there's nearly 20 aliens running after you in an outdoor hallway, and you're totally sweatin it on the edge of your seat at that point. The music gets all freaky right before they spring them on you too.

[SKfan2006]

the only game in my library that scared me was the Haunted Mansion game. it just had the atmosphere where anything can pop out at any time.
in my old library the jack in the box from Donkey Kong 64 creeped me out.