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Post by Von Wagner's Brownies on Jul 28, 2022 2:07:25 GMT -5
Almost all of Outlast.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 28, 2022 2:28:54 GMT -5
Oven Man Resident Evil 4. Even once you know damn well he is coming, it still gets to you. I kind of find Oven Man less scary and more hilarious, but one of my benchmarks for the remake is I want them to keep Oven Man but move him somewhere else so he's surprising again.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 28, 2022 2:30:38 GMT -5
Main problems with Nemi are that he's not stalking you long enough to really leave as much of an impact. Plus his shit with all the jumping around, and the tentacle that keeps tripping you up ends up becoming more annoying than scary. Compared the way Mr. X is always somewhere on the map which makes him feel more random, it's scarier than Nemi spider-zipping in and out of the map as you move about, since you just learn to expect him to spawn in again. There's definitely something quite unsettling knowing that Mr. X is the only thing besides the player constantly loaded into memory and wandering around the map.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jul 28, 2022 2:34:01 GMT -5
Oven Man Resident Evil 4. Even once you know damn well he is coming, it still gets to you. The bit in RE4 that scared the shit out of me was something that actually wasn’t there. It’s when you go down to the castle sewers area with the Novistadores (I think that’s what they’re called, the flying bug things). Right at the beginning there’s a branch in the path where you can see a crate at one end, you run down to break the crate and you can clearly hear something running along behind you. You turn around terrified to face whatever monstrosity it is and there’s absolutely nothing there. It’s only later you realise they can go semi-invisible and only break camouflage to attack you. First time I played it, it scared me shitless and I spent the next level of the game shaking like a shitting dog.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 28, 2022 2:45:14 GMT -5
Oven Man Resident Evil 4. Even once you know damn well he is coming, it still gets to you. The bit in RE4 that scared the shit out of me was something that actually wasn’t there. It’s when you go down to the castle sewers area with the Novistadores (I think that’s what they’re called, the flying bug things). Right at the beginning there’s a branch in the path where you can see a crate at one end, you run down to break the crate and you can clearly hear something running along behind you. You turn around terrified to face whatever monstrosity it is and there’s absolutely nothing there. It’s only later you realise they can go semi-invisible and only break camouflage to attack you. First time I played it, it scared me shitless and I spent the next level of the game shaking like a shitting dog. I kind of love that room just for how much it emphasizes the duality of Resident Evil 4. You've got this tense situation walking through the sewers surrounded by enemies that are invisible and seem to come from everywhere, really putting you on edge as you go through there even if you've played the game a million times... and then immediately after leaving you get giant swinging blades of doom like it's the 60s Batman show. The game just works so masterfully whiplashing between being genuinely tense and being the dumbest shit you've ever seen.
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Post by Hurbster on Jul 28, 2022 4:37:20 GMT -5
Hiding in the save room below the stairs (with the dark room) just listening to Mr X. stomping about, too afraid to leave. They really nailed the positional sound for those games.
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Post by Derk! on Jul 28, 2022 7:01:41 GMT -5
In the original RE2, when you're in the interrogation room, getting a key item and a licker bursts through the mirror, a teenage Derk was not prepared for that moment...
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Jul 28, 2022 9:50:03 GMT -5
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jul 28, 2022 10:05:27 GMT -5
I bought Silent Hill 2, played until I saw Pyramid Head just staring at me behind the cells in the apartments, then literally couldn't sleep that night.
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Post by dav on Jul 28, 2022 10:05:47 GMT -5
Not really a horror game, although it has many traits of one, the Ghostbusters for the PS2 had one spot that made me jump. When going through the hotel, I had the PKE metre up and was scanning for things in the kitchen, very quiet, not even music. When it suddenly went off unexpectedly at full blast and I jumped and started blasting away with the proton stream, basically recreating a scene from the movie as well.
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Post by Cyno on Jul 28, 2022 10:08:24 GMT -5
Not a survival horror game, but the gurgling growling noise in DOOM II when an Arch-Vile was nearby creeped me out as a kid.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jul 28, 2022 10:31:14 GMT -5
Not a survival horror game at all, but I found the Gentlemen in the Tales game series to be full of nope, especially once they started greeting you when they spotted you in the open world (as opposed to the battle area that overlaps the open world). The first time I was exploring a dungeon only to hear in the distance a creepy "Hello there!" coming from the distance I was like, "Not today, please!"
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Post by J is Justice on Jul 28, 2022 17:16:14 GMT -5
If we're talking non-horror games then I'm going with Vault 22 in New Vegas.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Jul 28, 2022 17:33:31 GMT -5
Silent Hill 1: The transition from the safe hospital to the alternate hospital. The way it toys with you, you keep expecting horrible monsters and there's nothing, and it gets confusing and a little annoying and you go everywhere you think you can go and then BAM there's a fourth floor all of a sudden.
Siren: Scariest game I ever played, but it's hard to isolate a single moment; the point is how helpless you feel the whole time. But I think the peak is being trapped in the house with the zombie family and realizing they're repeatedly re-enacting a grotesque parody of domestic harmony. And then having to sneak past the dad.
Rule of Rose: A weird one, but there's this one part where you have to go and find every other character and talk to them, so one by one they can say tell you how much they don't like you. Just brutal, the way it was done. Also, the initial burlap sack glimpse.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Jul 29, 2022 2:14:21 GMT -5
Hey don't look at me like that. I was scared to be in the room alone with this game on.
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Post by The Ichi on Jul 29, 2022 14:56:33 GMT -5
Just any enemy that pursues you. Mr. X, Nemesis, Bobby from Clock Tower. I've got a major being chased phobia.
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