henke on 29/7/2015 at 09:14
Yeah, the top horror games list is a clearly a list of the best games with horror themes rather than a scariest games list, hence inclusions like Alan Wake and Left 4 Dead 2. Good games yeah, but they didn't really scare anyone, did they? And Stalker:COP? I never finished that one, maybe it gets scary right at the end or something? Anyway, it's an alright list. There's a few on there I hadn't heard of previously.
My top 5 horror games*:
5. Outlast
4. Alien: Isolation
3. Deadly Premonition
2. Silent Hill 2
1. Amnesia
*all platforms. Must be genuinely scary, so no TLOU or RE4. And they can't be scary primarily because they trigger my anachrophobia, or else Minecraft might make it onto the list)
Thirith on 29/7/2015 at 09:17
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anachrophobia
I assume that's a typo, but whether it is or not it's one of my favourite new words, describing a fear of anachronisms. :D
Talking of scary games, now that I've got Dolphin up and running, I'll want to check out
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories at some point. I liked what I played on the Wii, but I think I'll prefer KBAM over Wiimote + Nunchuk.
henke on 29/7/2015 at 09:26
Uh... yeah, no that's totally what I meant. You know, like in Minecraft when you have stone age tools but you can still make computers? Scary! :eek:
MorbusG on 29/7/2015 at 12:05
Dead Space 2 is on that list, but not the first one? Huh, I couldn't even listen to someone else play DS1, let alone play it myself due to being so terrified. Yet I ran through DS2 without much fear. The sound design in DS1 is prime horror in my opinion.
henke on 29/7/2015 at 12:30
Dead Space didn't do anything for me, horrorwise. DS2 had the eye surgery sequence tho, which is one of the most uncomfortable things I've played through. Ick. :sweat:
Yakoob on 29/7/2015 at 21:00
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More like horror and horror themed games. Seems like the writer ran out of games and started just throwing things on there. They could at least give the job to someone who's familiar with the genre. I can think of at least a few games missing from the list (like Clock Tower and Sanitarium, for example) that would have been more suitable than Blood or VTMB. If Blood is a horror game, then so is Doom and most shooters with monsters.
Anyway, here's the full list for the lazy:
I gotta agree, as much as I love VTMB to death, I'd hardly pin it as a horror game. But I did like they included some unusual choices like the Twine game on there.
Starker on 30/7/2015 at 09:11
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Phantasmagoria deserved a mention also
There are a number of old adventure games that deserved a mention, IMO: the Dark Fall series, The Dark Eye, Harvester, etc.
But at least they mentioned stuff like Realms of the Haunting, Anchorhead, Dark Seed, and Shadow of the Comet, even if they didn't put them on the list for some reason. Anchorhead in particular is one of the best genuinely Lovecraftian games ever made, as far as I'm concerned.
Starker on 30/7/2015 at 12:01
Very campy horror, sure.
Renault on 30/7/2015 at 17:21
I think they got more right on the horror list than wrong, so I'm OK with it for the most part. They could have put a few others on there like Penumbra or Fatal Frame 2 or Slender, but it all comes down to opinion anyway.
I think my top 5 would look something like this:
5. Alien Isolation
4. Dark Corners of the Earth
3. Silent Hll 2
2. SS2
1. Condemned 1
Honorable Mention to Slender, because although it's not much of a game, I have a hard time even playing it because it's so unnerving.
Edit: Found this interesting list from PC Gamer that splits it's top 100 horror games into categories (Adventure, Survival, Action, etc.)
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http://www.pcgamer.com/best-pc-horror-games/#page-1)
Starker on 30/7/2015 at 23:22
Quote Posted by Brethren
Fatal Frame 2
Didn't come out on PC. :( Consoles have some pretty good stuff when it comes to horror.
That makes much more sense. The RPS article just throws things together. Yes, if you squint really hard, you can squeeze them together under the horror umbrella, but it's a bit like having a horror movie list that consists of stuff like The Shining, Beetlejuice, Jacob's Ladder, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Ghostbusters, Predator, Sixth Sense, Thing, Nightmare at Elm Street and Scary Movie.
