227b05 No.605[Last 50 Posts]
HORROR THREAD
Amnesia/5nightsatfreddy shit or other jumpscare games not allowed.
What are you waiting for anons?
>tfw this was most likely cancelled because the italian fucker is working with the jap.
Hope project scisors is good.
227b05 No.608
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posting sh soundtrack, because I made a niche thread on an obscure board.
Also, is obscure any good? I like horror in university and teens, dunno why.
227b05 No.609
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SH3 > SH2
thinking of making a list of all dead horror game franchises.
Is Siren dead?
227b05 No.612
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This one is my favorite
aa667a No.614
Why is horror so dead in current AAA vidya? Goddamn. Horror game design is pretty straightforward.
>>609Could someone explain to me the plot/lore of Silent Hill?
I asked my buddy and he did a pretty good job of explaining it but I'd like to know more. I've played 3 and that's it.
227b05 No.615
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227b05 No.616
>>614I played 1,2,3 and the others I didn't finish it's been so long I played the first 3 I remember little, but stay with me, I will try to explain in order
227b05 No.617
>>614also if you point what you want to know more it whould help, since a friend alredy told some.
227b05 No.619
There is a religion in Silent Hill, they worship a god called Samael wich is a blibical demon, the religion is divided in 3 parts, one that wants to bring the god back, one that doesnt wich Vicent is part of, and the other I don't remember.
On the first game, alessa's mother part of that religion with some others, tried to bring their god back using Alessa, Alessa was a witch and choosen by their god, and so whould never trully die, and always ressurrect.
are you there?
227b05 No.620
>>619Alessa had a chance of heart mid-ritual and so split her soul on two,
not good or evil, just two, and so the god could never be born.
Harry found one of the souls, was a baby he named it cheryl. When she was a child they went into a trip. when they were in silent hill, alessa appared in front of the car making it crash.
Cheryl went missing, Harry went looking for her.
227b05 No.621
>>620Everything on hell side of Silent Hill was because of Alessa's mind and power.
Since she was burned on the ritual, she stayed in a hospital, the siren was because of ambulance, whellchairs because it's how she was transpoted around.
The monster was her fears, fear of adults, insects, dogs, etc.
Hell side sh is a manifestation of alessas mind.
aa667a No.623
>>619Yeah I'm here, reading intently.
227b05 No.626
>>621anyway, going back on story.
Harry found a women, alessa's mother, but he doesn't know it yet. And that women lies to him about the town and what is happening, she tells, their are trying to bring back their demon, and to avoid that he has to destroy the seals of metatron, that samael made to ressurrect himself.
but those seals was alessa doing to avoid samael returns.
Harry destroy all of it.
Cherryl and Alessa soul become one again. and with that Samael returns, he has a forced birth, and his body is alessas body.
And here is the thing I found most impressive about harry.
That god, alessa and cherryl are one now, his daughter is about to bring hell into the world. because the way hell silent hill looks like, its the paradise alessa's mother wants.
But that demon is his child, his dear daughter, but what does he do?
He kills it, he had no other option, he kills his own kid.
but god's chossen can't trully die, so a baby reborns at the moment, but it's not cherryl. Cheryl is dead, he killed, he had no other option and every reason in the world to hate that baby. but he takes the baby and raises as his own.
You can see how painfull it is for him in his notes on SH3
227b05 No.627
in their religion, humans lived forever, and for that had no notion of time and were unhappy as fuck. but then samael came and gave them death. and everything was well. that is what they believe may not be true
he used all his energy in something and then 'died', but could return to bring humans the paradise.
227b05 No.628
again, I don't play these games in almost a decade so don't remember much, going to silent hill 2.
227b05 No.629
Any question, ask it. I'm going to drink something and will be back soon.
aa667a No.631
>>626That's some dark fucking shit.
>>629What do you think Silent Hills will be about?
Anyways the lore you're telling me about is pretty damn interesting.
227b05 No.632
>>631>What do you think Silent Hills will be about?I think it will be more about a punished protag, couldn't see any cult stuff in the teaser.
and I don't trust Kojima with this, he will fuck up.
Hopefully I'm wrong with both.
You will know more about a punished protag, on my take sh2, and why I don't want it on Silent Hills on the end of it.
227b05 No.633
SH2 starts with James Sunderland reading a letter he received from his dead wife.
The letter calls him to silent hill, to the special place he and his waifu used to go, when sh hasn't turned to shit.
227b05 No.634
>>633He leaves his car behind, because the tunnel was blocked, so he goes on foot. He leaves the door to the car open, remember that.
walking to silent hill, he ends himself in a cemetery and finds a young lady, seeing grave, she is in silent hill looking for her mama. he leaves her behind and goes his way to the special place.
He finds a monster kills it, and goes his way to the special place. He has to enter an apartment because the way to there is blockade, and there he finds a monster.
A monster with a piramid shaped head, raping another monster, for real, he was raping the shit out it, he killed the other monster with rape. the raped monster was basically 4 legs, 2 down, two top, and a litte belly in the middle.
227b05 No.636
>>634He also finds a shitton of dead bodies that look like him.
He finds 3 other people in sh too. Laura, a little child who is a bitch and is looking for her ffriend that she made in a hospital. She walks in silent hill like there is no monster in there.
Eddie a fat bastard that looks crazy. he killed his neibourhood dog, because it barked at him.
and Maria, when he saw her he tought it was Mary, his wife, but it was not, and that maria looked like his wife and a stripper he met in vegas.
this sh has no hell version, just fog and darkness.
227b05 No.638
>>636once maria and james were running from the pyramid head, the monster that rapes, they ran into a elevator, the elevator door opens to james, but closes to maria, and so maria dies and james feels bad.
he then finds maria alive, but she dies by pyramid head again, but she appers alive next.
at sometime, james kills eddie, because he is a crazy fuck who thinks everyone is making fun of him and tried to kill james.
we learn more about the young lady we found at the cemitery.
Her father absuded her, and her mom did nothing about it. one day she burns her father alive, by setting the house on fire, but her mother and brother were there too, and both died, she lived in great pain after that, and the monster she encountered reminded her of that moment.
Those monster you could only encounter when you are next to her.
She then kills herself by staying at a burning place at silent hill. James says to her get out of there because it hot, but she say 'for me, it always like this'
227b05 No.640
>>638there are monster nurses in silent hill 2, they are hot as fuck as oppose from silent hill 1 nurse that came from alessa's manifestation.
aa667a No.641
>>638>>640I hear the sexual themes have to do with James' sexual promiscuity and associated guilt from that. What's the legitimacy of those claims?
Also what's your first language anon? Just curious 227b05 No.643
>>640going on.
Mary, james wife, died of cancer acording to him.
Laura
the little child was friend with James's wife Mary, and they are at hospital, where they see a video.
On the video. James is with mary, he takes a pillow, and kill her with it.
both are chocked laura curses james and runs away.
James then finds two pyramid heads, with maria, they kill maria. james falls on it kness and say that he realises that maria was made to punish him for his mistakes, he kills the monster and then find Mary.
He talks to her, she turns into a monster. try to kill him, he kill her, then holding her says, 'Im sorry, I killed you because I couldn't see you suffering, no it's not it, I couldn't stand taking care of you anymore, I hated it, I'm sorry.' then he goes with her body back at the car, and goes with the car inside a lake and dies.
>>641first language is
portuguese, I learned english by playing videogames, no school or dictionary.
I will explain everything on the next post after I drink something.
84967f No.645
I still consider Silent Hill THE horror game (not so much with the ones that came up as of late)
It was the second horror game i played, the first being RE2, and it was really scary, because unlike RE you can't just go guns blazing through the game instead you need to be careful on each encounter and make decisions based on your chances of surviving, and oftentimes ending with you fleeing in full panic with a couple of monsters chasing you.
The whole atmosphere of the game contributed to it being a psychological horror rather than just jump scares. I had a couple of scary moments in RE2 but on Silent HIll i was always on the edge of my seat hoping for the worst.
The only contradicting stuff about having played silent hill as one of my first horror games is that almost no other game could top it, and whenever i played another horror game i was sort of disappointed.
227b05 No.646
So James, had affairs, with strippers and so came maria, the perfect Mary in his mind. the monster with two legs symbolises what he sees in his wife. He is a fucking pervet.
All those people were in silent hill and seeing those monster as punishment for their wrong doins. except for Laura, who didn do nuffin wrong.
James couldn't take care of mary, and killed her, but went insane, and blocked that into his mind. The game show how out of his mind he is a lot of times, we may not notice, because 'well its just a game'. things he do: leave his car open. who the fuck does that? door right open to anyone get in.
Jumps into a black hole.
put his hand in a dirty toilet. etc.
the pyramid head is a represatation of James, thus why he rapes those monster and kills maria all the time.
Maria is all in James's mind, almost everything is, thus why the elevator's door don't open for her. She is not real.
The nurses and all sexual themes is because james is promiscuity and his guitly too.
Silent hill sents the bastard in a guilty in punishing trip, puting all his crimes in front of him, he does too with the cemitery girl and eddie.
The game is amazing on making it all subtle and etc.
And why I don't want that on Silent Hills. despite liking it on here:
it's beating a dead horse and lazy.
doing a punished protag, putting him against his crime, was done again in: Silent Hill Origins, Silent Hill Homecoming, SIlent Hill shatered memories and Silent Hill downpour.
basically every western sh.
>but kojima is japanese
yes, but he is not very subtle, for that to work, it requires to have a high amount of subtly. Also Guillerme del toro is on that too, and he is worse than kojima in being subtly.
I hope I'm wrong and the game turns out well. but I'm not hopefull
227b05 No.647
>>645Yeah, playing silent hill really raises the bar to playing horror games.
I still remember how the line 'oh, they look like monster too you?' took my breath.
Also feel free to correct me on anything I said wrong.
227b05 No.649
Does anyone played Obscure? how it is?
227b05 No.650
And for the anons who might want to play the Silent Hill games
227b05 No.651
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aa667a No.653
>>645>>643What would be your ideal horror videogame? How would it differ from the Silent Hill series? What would it take from SH?
>>646Holy shit I didn't know Silent Hill had so much nuance to it.
>doing a punished protag, putting him against his crime, was done again in: Silent Hill Origins, Silent Hill Homecoming, SIlent Hill shatered memories and Silent Hill downpour.basically every western sh.
Now I understand why everyone dislikes the modern ones so much.
84967f No.656
>>650Thanks that'll come in handy, i have been thinking of replaying 3 for sometime, since i just played it once. IDk if it has several endings hopefully i got a good ending. (i think you kill a giant monster)
227b05 No.661
>>653>What would be your ideal horror videogame? How would it differ from the Silent Hill series? What would it take from SH?I couldn't care less about gameplay or story, it has to do horror well, no matter what kind of gameplay.
One mistake people make often with horror, is thinking dark, unknow, and blood are things to scare by.
Your eyes always adjust to darkness, the unknow always became know, and blood : pfffffff
the one things humans are afraid of is: thinking.
You make a game where you can run and hide and facing a monster. the person will run and hide without a second tought, so no scary thing.
because of that what I whould take from silent hill, is the feel of: what I do now?
and silent hill do the unknow thing for fear? yes, but it always put something new when the unknow become know, so you never know what you will face.
Also whould take from silent hill the fact that the protag don't fight or shoot very well. it gives tension when you have to fight a monster.
how whould differ, I think I whould give more complexity on gameplay, like stalker does, with inventary could slow you down, the tons of options on how to handle a weapon.
But I never tought much more than that.
227b05 No.665
>>661>>653also put more 'action leads to consequence' things in the story. this anon>>656 reminded me of the several endings.
227b05 No.678
Also recomend the game Betrayer.
While will not leave you scared, the gameplay is masterfully done, with the old weapons, the realoding of them is to masturbate for.
and the game is full of spooky scary skeletons
cabe6e No.682
>>678I enjoyed Amnesia and Outlast, but both of those games stop being scary once you realize that sprinting everywhere like a madman is actually more efficient than sneaking.
227b05 No.690
>>682if you want sneak and horror, play thief 1 and 2. There is a guide for it, but I find it nowere now.
5901d8 No.691
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>>638I thought Angela stabbed her father, hence the whole bloody knife thing. I may be wrong, but wasn't there a newspaper article in the hospital that mentioned this? I also remember the devs saying she didn't kill herself during that encounter, her fate is unknown.
What also shocked me is that she is apparently around 17 years old, yet looks like 30.
They also confirmed that James left the body of his wife in the car and wanted to kill himself in Silent Hill,
which does happen in the In Water ending, but his psyche broke and induced some form of amnesia. His wife didn't actually die years ago, but very recently.
Guy Cihi, the VA for James, has said in multiple interviews that he doesn't see James as a murderer. What he did was bad, but he's still just human and he was pushed to his limit. He got so into the role that the studio ended up crying during a recording session. Watch the interview if you've played the game, he's an amazing person.
I haven't played a game that even remotely holds a candle to the story of SH2.
aa667a No.692
>>650Awesome, I'll use that.
>>661>>665This is pretty much in line with what I think of horror game design. The player always has to be on alert, they should never know what comes next, you can't use a scare twice or else it becomes expected and the player will know how to deal with it.
>>678That sounds pretty fucking interesting, I'll check it out.
>>690Yeah I only have the user-created missions picture for Thief, don't know where the guide pic would be.
227b05 No.693
>>691ow, thanks for the vid anon. I do have to play again sometime.
It is strange, I was sure angela put the house on fire, but thanks for correting everything I got wrong.
Is it true James VA is working in that clock tower spiritual remake?
5901d8 No.696
>>692I'm not sure myself, I ought to replay it as well. I think the fire thing was just symbolic, since her life is a living hell.
I haven't heard about that, but it'd surprise me. His only role he has ever done was James Sunderland.
cabe6e No.697
>>690>>692I know I've seen that guide somewhere, but I can't find it.
227b05 No.724
>>696found it, he is playing this guy, on the game Forgotten Memories.
227b05 No.730
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it's inspired by Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark.
The clock tower inspired must be another.
227b05 No.863
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This is the clock tower inspired game.
aa667a No.1027
>>730This looks pretty good. I'll keep an eye out for this game. Holy shit.
>>863This one's got a different style but I still like it.
I wonder which one will be more effective in horror design. My bets on the former, but the latter seems less combat-based and more evasion of the killer type gameplay. Decisions, decisions.
aa667a No.1859
Has anyone ITT played The Evil Within? It seemed like a mediocre release of a pseudo-action-horror game with nice graphics. I'd like to hear a /v/irgin's opinion on it though.
9997f6 No.1868
>>1859Haven't play it, personally. My girl got it for Christmas and it's collected dust with all the other PS4 gimmick horror games ever since. She's got paid review orc slayer 3000 and 5 hour fantasy escapism, too. It's like every major western concept is "let's combine this and this", a lot like Cowboys vs Aliens. Honestly, can anyone tell me how someone can live off of nothing but hype? No one in my house has even come close to beating, yet we kep buying shit for it.
Holy shit, the concept of this board is such a good idea, it's unreal.
aa667a No.1869
>>1868>Haven't play it, personally. My girl got it for Christmas and it's collected dust with all the other PS4 gimmick horror games ever since. She's got paid review orc slayer 3000 and 5 hour fantasy escapism, too. It's like every major western concept is "let's combine this and this", a lot like Cowboys vs Aliens. Honestly, can anyone tell me how someone can live off of nothing but hype? No one in my house has even come close to beating, yet we kep buying shit for it. I saw a video on /v/ a couple months back on a guy who does reviews for AAA games that have been coming out and he was going to do a review for The Evil Within but he ended up doing an entire video on the homogenization of gameplay mechanics. Specifically how many of new releases have all or most of the following traits
>3rd person over the shoulder camera>Same controls>crafting system>stealth mechanicsand a few other ones. He made a very good point on the fact that many AAA game releases of seperate genres have almost the same mechanics throughout.
>Holy shit, the concept of this board is such a good idea, it's unreal.Glad you like it, fresh from /v/ I presume? We have some good discussion here, I love it.
Gonna dump a cancelled horror vidya if anyone feels like discussing Redwood Falls.
aa667a No.1872
>>1869Just a bit more. I wish I could find that video I was referencing but I can't. Might have to look into my youtube history for it.
aa667a No.1873
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>>1872Oh hey check it out I found the video!
e0f532 No.1949
White Night looks pretty compelling. I'll be getting it within the next week or two, but it'd be great to hear about it from one of you if you've played it.
ed2db1 No.1951
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>>863>Clock Tower inspiredIt goes a bit beyond that when the CT creator is heading this project. Spiritual successor perhaps (which is what Haunting Ground was).
I was worried the PC port KS wasn't going to make it. It sat at $100k for a long time. I didn't donate but at least now (assuming it turns out well) I can buy it.
Though I hope they fix the MC's running animation. Usually I'm not bothered but oh dear.
Speaking of up-coming games. There's also
Until Dawn.
Quick summary: people go in cabin in the mountain. People ded. Staring Claire from
Heroes. PS4 exclusive. See video related.
>>1949The black/white one?
ed2db1 No.2024
Holy shit, the
Routine devs updated their blog. I'm glad it isn't dead but they should do slightly more regular posts, even if there's nothing much to say. Just evidence of being alive, if anything.
http://www.lunar-software.com/2015/03/march-status-update/
>In our last August Update, we talked about how we were slowly going through the game and replacing all placeholder work. Since then, we’ve managed to get through 5 sectors of the Game, adding Gameplay, Art and essential Story Elements. We may need to revisit certain bits and bobs as we get specific playtest information back, but for now its a great feeling seeing more and more of Routine being Completed!
>With less and less testing/prototyping needed for this stage in Development, we’ve really managed to speed up our Workflow and it feels like Progress is going better than ever. aa667a No.2040
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>>2024They don't have a community manager, it's like 3-4 dudes working on it and they'd rather spend time working on stuff than putting up updates unless they've made significant progress. I understand the work ethic because I'm the same way.
eaced9 No.2052
>>1949It's great, plays like those old fixed camera horror games like silent hill with a lot of examining and puzzle solving (you play as some typical noir detective)
ed2db1 No.2055
>>2040I completely understand the time issue but a blog that's a couple of sentences once a month is better than five months silence and people losing interest thinking it's dead.
8614cf No.2088
>>614Because too many fags shitting on the internet and calling their reps
No, really, some places have laws against violent games now and thanks to all the antigamer shills displeased by horror and gore you can't even count on the press to back you like in the old days
aa667a No.2089
>>2088Let's turn the tide back then.
>>2055I also understand that concern, but I get the feeling they're mostly asocial people who don't practice keeping up presence on the internet (which is why a community manager would be good for them but they don't have/want to spend money on that). It'd be nice, but I'm fine with letting them lay low until they have the game ready/almost finished.
d9d99d No.2119
Silent Hills
aa667a No.2224
Been playing REmake. Holy shit it's so great. This is what survival horror is supposed to feel like.
The zombies are hard to kill, the dogs are even more difficult to deal with, and the atmosphere is fucking amazing. The puzzles are fucking great, it's one of the first times I've actually had no clue what to do or where to go for a long time I've been playing vidya, It's satisfying as hell to make any progress in the game at all, and it's got the right balance of frustration/reward.
What do you guys think of RE1/REmake?
e0f532 No.2226
>>2224Loved it when I first got it, but I've had it for 13 years and it's lost its bite, unfortunately. I'm glad others are enjoying it.
I lost my Gamecube memory card and had to play on normal difficulty for my most recent playthrough. I stopped just before the mines because I had 10+ first aid sprays, 30+ shotgun shells, and 25+ grenades, and there just wasn't a reason to keep going.
489896 No.2231
Not horror but Legend of Grimrock 1/2 can be pretty fucking unnerving at times. With the way the movement and vision is in tiles and some enemies are silent until they attack you, having some shit like a spider or giant crab suddenly lunge into view from your side freaks me the fuck out.
be6e60 No.2327
>>2024Holy shit this is good news. This is one of the few games I'm keeping an eye out for and it's great to see they're not dead.
I hope they keep the whole in-game computer interaction the same whats shown in that video, there isn't enough games that do that
aa667a No.2331
>>2226I believe the new rerelease (I guess that makes it a rererelease) turns up the difficulty and ammo scarcity. Because I sure as fuck am counting every single bullet I have.
e0f532 No.2359
>>2331The trick is to run around enemies or kill them with the knife.
ed2db1 No.2390
Where would people like the horror to go next? What settings do you like and/or want to see?
Personally I think the creepy house/mansion/etc. is pretty much perfect for smaller settings but that's where they've always been. It's a bit of a 'this is a bit stale but I can't think of where else better to set it'.
Space settings are pretty good. Cold, mechanical and sterile and the mystery element of space horrors being absolutely anything.
Cave and underwater segments always get to me because I can't stand either of those in real life.
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>>2390I personally would like to see more space and deep sea horror games.
Cramped and claustrophobic corridors + the knowledge that rescue is either days away or not coming at all + the fear of the unknown that comes with space and deep sea make for a good combination I reckon.
1843c4 No.2415
>>2390I want voodoo, swanps, mayans. really creepy magic and rituals, not that Harry Potter crappy.
Also skywalkers and conspiracies e0f532 No.2418
>>2390I want a game set in the woods, with open exploration, but also with a clear goal and a strong sense of where you are in the woods. It would be a challenge.
aa667a No.2572
>>2390Urbex settings. Abandoned towns, drain exploring, rural exploration, the works. Being (mostly) alone is atmospheric as fuck.
8cec78 No.3476
>>678I'm 4 hours into this game and it's fucking awesome. Thanks mate
227b05 No.3488
>>3476Glad you liked it.
Now there is two persons playing the game, maybe someday it will deserve a thread I hope they were able to make profit>>1951>>1962I like slashers, and this until down whould be pretty good if had gameplay, and not movie camera, I mean if you want unconventional cameras to scare players, just look at silent hill.
>>1949It's on steam?
>>1869>>1872hate seeing cancelled games makes me depressive.
227b05 No.3489
Anyone has the pressure pasta?
I asked on /v/ for a long time, and forgot to ask here.
227b05 No.3506
ed2db1 No.3815
Also another good game to note is
Nanashi No Game (The Nameless Game). It was a Japan-only NDS game that got a fan translation. Easy to emulate.
>>2400>deep sea horror gamesProbably the one horror game I would simply not play because it's too scary a thought. I'm not good with dogs either but no horror game dog has ever scared me - the first Resident Evil ones are probably the closest.
>>2415We don't get a lot of voodoo magic in video games in general, do we? I think those were the origins of the zombie - certainly more creepy than a lot of the stuff we get today.
>>2418I suppose if there were a lot of landmarks like a big tower (for example), maybe the ability to climb trees to see around and drawing a map that the game places you on (like the one in LOZ: Phantom Hourglass - or maybe it was Spirit Tracks) it would hard but not frustrating.
>>2572Hopefully
Silent Hills will manage some of that. Sewers get a bit overused (or maybe that's stopped now) so they'd have to work to make something unique with it.
>>3488>I mean if you want unconventional cameras to scare players, just look at silent hill.Always reminded of that top-down-ish camera from the first one in the alley.
aa667a No.3926
>>3815A good representation of sewers would be nice, I was specifically talking drains though because that shit can also get real fucking claustrophobic when you're in there and the drain keeps getting smaller and smaller and you begin to lose your sense of time from being in there so long in the almost-complete darkness.
ed2db1 No.3961
>>3926Oh, you mean like small ones you need to crawl through. The limited movement and sight would definitely be creepy. Could always have a sewer section where there's both large pipes/tunnels to walk through and the small pipes to crawl through.
Plus I find sewers never really capture how disgusting they can be - it's usually dark and a bit dirty. Nobody wants to crawl through sewage so it would be an extra level of it generally be horrible if a dev decided to make it more realistic. (Though most of the sewer levels I can think of aren't from horror games, those wouldn't want to go down the realistic route, so maybe a disgusting sewer has been done and I don't know about it.)
5eba11 No.4184
Not a true horror game, but I recommend Shadow Man.
You spend 90% of the game on the equivalent of hell, and half of that time on a hellish industrial complex that reminds of the hell parts of Silent Hill, combined with how weak you are, and the screams the enemies do, can be pretty scary.
866de5 No.5650
>>4184One of my favorite games of all time, love everything about it. Did play the steam version? did they changed anything or it is just like the way it is suppose to be?
be6e60 No.6292
>>2572>>3926What kind of game would it be? Open world? Or like a series of different urban areas that you progress though?
I like the idea of several large maps all connected together in which you have to scavenge for parts to create tools to fend of monsters.
Or perhaps a setting where it's to dangerous to travel at night so progress only happens through the day. With only a limited amount of time to move on, scavenge supplies and find an area to set up a camp and make it defendable. Once night falls the monsters come out and if your base is discovered, you will have to defend it but if you stay undiscovered you can rest for the night.
aa667a No.7247
>>6292I like that idea. The focus of that would have to be with tight, open level design.
I'd say some large sandboxes connected with each other is a good idea. Your ideas on resource management is something you don't usually see in horror
Read: Action themed horror games these days so it would probably end up as a survival horror rather than an action game. Which I love.
Thing is, you have to come up with a unique setting and theme to this kind of thing otherwise it would just be bland, probably, zombie garbage.
9dfeb5 No.7303
10/23/97 The hive has been cleansed. The source of the corruption has been corked, laid in a body bag and dragged to the outskirts of existence…
http://youtu.be/uxgoLk2NCh4?t=2h17m11sPretty much the only game to depict the main character trying to recreate sandy hook 14-15 years before it happened, only for the main character to have a mental breakdown.
5eba11 No.7318
>>5650I didn't notice any change or censorship.
Hell, the PC version added some dialogue to the Avery Marx part.
866de5 No.7381
>>7318Nice, getting it now.
96284b No.7443
I am really looking forward Project Scissors, looks like it has a lot of potential.
I also get a hard on when horror games have great sound effects
abc2af No.10079
The Fatal Frame Wii U got confirmed for Europe (I think NA is getting it as well but nowhere is reporting on it yet). Still, glad there's some good horror news.
866de5 No.10086
>>10079Yes, it is coming for us.
That is a series that I've been wanting to play for a long time.
39f56c No.10089
>>2390I would like to see a Metroidvania purposed as a horror. As a teenager, Metroid Prime genuinely scared me at times without being a horror game per se - the Space Pirate base in Phendrana was fucking tense. Likewise Dark Souls scared me at times, but let me qualify "scared" - I was scared for my character, not for myself, in both cases. I think a good horror game is about immersing oneself into the character and getting swept along by threats to them, not by having a jumpscare that breaks the fourth wall, which is somewhat how the Amnesia/FFaF games work. Honestly, if I'm focusing on something and I don't notice you come in the room, I am going to get equally shocked by you loudly and unexpectedly asking me if you can use some of my milk in the fridge as I am by some animatronic puppet suddenly appearing in the game. There is so little plot to those style of games that I couldn't give a toss about the characters. I mean, Amnesia tries, but ultimately I can't emphasise with some mingebag wanker that woke up in bad Lovecraft fanfiction one morning. I think a good horror game is all about letting me care about the characters and feel immersed in the lore - which means no platitudes, no obvious cliches, good writing, and a reason to care about the character and feel he/she is vulnerable.
8cec78 No.10109
>>3488I forgot to tell you that while I loved Betrayer, the ending was dissapointing. Good game tho, an easy 8/10
be6e60 No.10282
>>7247>tight, open level designThat's pretty much what I was thinking.
Maps that are large in overall area, but will be mostly cramped interiors, alleys and tunnels with the occasional stretch of main road and open square.
Plenty of different houses to hide inside and loot from, the sewers could be a high risk/high reward area with few but dangerous creatures.
I'm a sucker for survival horror and inventory managing and looting. Yeah so far the only zombie setting I can think of at the moment that I enjoyed was Dead Space so I wouldn't mind if the game was in the same universe.
Otherwise, yes, it would have to have something somewhat original or a theme not commonly used.
aa667a No.10303
>>10282It'd be pretty great to see a game like this.
Ever thought about indie dev anon?
be6e60 No.10330
>>10303I've been thinking about it lately but I've got no experience in game deving at all really.
I have been considering a graphic design course and I've had the Unity page bookmarked to look at.
I might start writing ideas down in case I ever have a go at making something.
39125a No.10356
>>10330You can always start with something smaller like Game Maker or Construct, do some simple but cohesive graphics like Hotline Miami, and let the design carry it. Honestly, once you get the basics of using these environments down, it's not that hard to teach yourself new things.
bc31ed No.10363
Old man here
I'm waiting for Splatterhouse 4
Reboot sucked
9d735a No.10367
>>10363Bloodborne is basically Splatterhouse 4.
Seriously.
d0cc5d No.10368
>>10367You clearly never played Splatterhouse.
9d735a No.10371
>>10368I've played them all,
including the remake.
What now, son?
d0cc5d No.10378
>>10371Then you are fucking retarded to see any resemblance between the two titles, other than they are two video games.
be6e60 No.10381
>>10356I've actually had Game Maker installed for a while now and I grabbed Construct 2 from one of the share threads a while back. I just hadn't bothered reading tutorials yet.
Maybe this week I'll get into it.
750cdf No.10383
I hate horror games
I love survival horror games
Playing Dino Crisis 1 on my Vita, enjoying it
9d735a No.10395
>>10378Yeah, it's pretty retarded of you to not be able to see how the games are remarkably similar in both format and creature design.
866de5 No.10405
>>10395how about gameplay fucktard
>creature design.>geez two games that is making western classic horror creatures.And even so the monsters feel and look very diferent from each other as well the atmosfere of the game. since one is very dark old european feel.
The game plays nothing like splatterhouse and looks nothing like it as well.
You have wishfull thinking because they may be similar in a few smaller things.
aa667a No.10436
>>10330I'd recommend it. Start out small and work your way up. You can help be part of the horror vidya renaissance.
bc31ed No.10609
>>10395>>10405Sure is /v/ in here
I don't even want Splatterhouse with modern tech, the reboot done right, or anything like that. I'd be happy with something thoroughly retro, a 2.5 budget download title, an indie spiritual successor, even a really impressive romhack. I don't see any of those things happening, though.
725c3d No.15612
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http://nichegamer.com/2015/04/guillermo-del-toro-silent-hills-is-not-gonna-happen-and-that-breaks-my-greasy-heart/
>"It's not gonna happen and that breaks my greasy heart." -Guillermo del Toro on #SilentHills.
>Finally, it’s also worth mentioning that Konami announced they would be removing the playable teaser for Silent Hills from the Playstation 4 store, on April 29th.
725c3d No.15702
>>15612
Officially cancelled.
>Konami is committed to new Silent Hill titles, however the embryonic ‘Silent Hills’ project developed with Guillermo del Toro and featuring the likeness of Norman Reedus will not be continued.
>In terms of Kojima and Del Toro being involved, discussions on future Silent Hill projects are currently underway, and please stay tuned for further announcements.
f0a56a No.15710
>>15612
Why do good things always fail?
5b2248 No.15754
>>15710
>Hack director who has made 1 good story
>Producer/director who has only made 2 good movies in 25 years
It was a cloud dream, it could've been a failure very easily
725c3d No.15804
>>15710
Because Konami. They've been messing up badly lately, moreso than usual, and there's a variety of rumours that it's worse than it appears.
Either way, it's not the first SH game that's ended badly. Usually we end up with a shitty product as well. Too good to be true, really.
Del Toro has been unlucky with his game projects though. This is the second to get pulled out from under him.
0021e6 No.15805
>>15804
Wasn't Silent Hills going to use some of the assets, or concepts from the lovecraft game he was trying to make?
725c3d No.15808
>>15805
I haven't heard about that but del Toro got the rights when it failed, so I think he could do that.
I know he wanted to do a film adaptation of Lovecraft's Mountains of Madness, so I wouldn't be surprised if Insane was going to be Lovecraftian.
e85a0f No.15865
>>609
I love Silent Hill, but for the love of God, please, can we have a thread without "a>b>d>e>c"?
It's pointless and ends with nothing.
In every forum and thread I see it.
First, it remembered me of DMC threads.
C'mon, fellas, Silent Hill history and background it's so vast. Don't fall prey of one of the lowest form of discussion.
725c3d No.15866
>>15865
I'm not sure why you're worried about a two month old post when it didn't start anything.
725c3d No.17090
There's an indie P.T.-inspired game called Allison Road in the works. (Pretty heavily inspired but since P.T./SH is dead, they might as well make a P.T. 2.0.)
https://archive.is/NdJjZ
The only teaser/gameplay video is from last year but apparently there will be a new one in a couple of weeks.
Also earlier this month, the guys making NightCry said they were expecting to have 'some public announcements' at the end of the month. Hopefully something interesting.
a3aaa1 No.17091
>>17090
I remember hearing this game is gonna be OR enabled.
PT was the scariest game I've ever played in my life hands down, and I would NEVER play that shit with VR tech.
If the game you posted also has VR enabled and is as scary as PT, I would never play it with VR.
Also I don't scary easy, not by any means. Nothing scares me from other movies, games, etc. PT is the only thing that made me shit my pants while playing it. Such a tragedy about what happened to it. I'm shocked that such a good thing had to go to waste.
0021e6 No.17099
>>17090
Sounds pretty cool. I missed out on P.T., so there's even more reason to follow it. Thanks anon.
725c3d No.17194
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
So there's a first-person spooky spaceship game in the works by Camel 101 (I've never heard of them but it's not their first game. I think it's their first horror game though).
>Sleepers is a survival horror game set in the future, where the player controls a character who wakes up in a spaceship, with no memory of what happened. The spaceship is adrift in space, and most of the crew is dead or insane. The rest is changed…you’ll need to survive and find out what’s going on and what happened to the crew. Sometimes the hostiles can be taken out, but most of the times the best strategy is to run and hide.
>The game is played in first person view. While exploring, the player can pick up and interact with objects like doors, keypads, computer consoles, drawers, machinery, etc and use weapons (both melee and long range).
>The enemy units are powerful and numerous, which means that the player must be stealthy and evade combat when possible. There are weapons aboard the ship, but ammo is very limited.
>aiming for Q2 2016
>OR support
The camel logo is daft though.
>>17091
Yes, they said it's got OR support.
>>17099
Same. It's why I kind of want it to be P.T. 2.0. It'll be as close as I can get to playing it for a long time.
9b939c No.17268
>>3815
>Hopefully Silent Hills will manage some of that.
anon…
9dcb20 No.17314
>>641
>promiscuity
No, repression. He and Mary didn't have sex for years thanks to her illness.
617619 No.17331
I really hope and want to believe that Shadow of the Eternals will be good.
866de5 No.17344
>>17331
You are not alone. They said they have a surprise for us about Shadow of the Eternals.
Im hoping Nintendo decided to make it Eternal Darkness 2, they will be working for Nintendo and it will be announced at E3.
I know, Im a complet retard with real high expectations.
badf08 No.17427
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Has anyone ever played games off of Desura? Apparently it's like Steam Greenlight, but without the Steam part. They sell published/AAA titles as well as indie and free games, and they have a shitload of the latter you probably wouldn't find elsewhere, like this one: http://www.desura.com/games/space-blaster-lines
It's short and spoopy, no jump scares, but you might want to turn around when you're teleported back into the hallway
49cdba No.17471
>>605
>amnesia not allowed
are you fucking serios OP? the game is really scary and anxius just dont take the fandom as quality check
725c3d No.17487
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>>17471
Hasn't the fandom died down since Machine for Pigs? They still make fan-made levels for the original, don't they?
Frictional did announce the date for SOMA, 22nd of September. It's set in an underwear facility after a disaster of some kind. Robots and monsters. I'm guessing it's basically Amnesia again but they did say the MC doesn't have amnesia.
Another game popped up called Kholat by IMGN.PRO, based on the Dyatlov Pass Incident. I'm not sure if this is going to be a horror game or a walking/exploration game (ala Dear Ester) that's a bit creepy in places. It labels itself as horror and the trailer was setting the mood for that but I found this German LP and it's not spooky at all.
62fa97 No.17488
>>17487
Man, I didn't like Machine for Pigs or Dear Esther. Never bothered finishing the former, it was just so boring compared to The Dark Descent. Justine on the other hand wasn't bad.
c8302b No.17489
Is Outlast worth getting through? I'm kind of enjoying it, I'm in the basement turning on the generator, but I wait in the locker for like 4 minutes and the fucker is still right outside the room roaming around
The story seems kind of cool though.
Also, how likely is it that I'll get used to the controls for RE4? Anyone else really struggle with it at first?
7e00d9 No.17490
>>17488
I wonder might it be that MfP and Dear Esther were done by different people than Amnesia and justine.
I mean, i don't know! We will never find out!
>>17489
Dude, you just said you are enjoying it.
It's pretty fun, but it's better in small dosages, once you have to retry some points couple of times it gets boring real fast.
62fa97 No.17491
>>17490
>I mean, i don't know! We will never find out!
Don't be a smart ass, I already know both were done by The Chinese Room. I figured I implied it.
The only horror game I'm looking forward to now is Routine. Glad to see they're not dead and just replacing placeholder art.
725c3d No.17493
>>17488
I don't think anybody enjoyed Machine for Pigs. I'm pretty sure it was impossible to die, so basically no element of fear, and it seemed lazier in terms of glitches (the jumping pig thing was found on the day of release iirc). I don't actually think you get in the same area with a monster at all - maybe one where the pig men ignore you?
Frictional should have paid more attention to what the Chinese Room were doing. It's all well and good making a spooky Dear Esther but that gets old fast.
>>17489
>Also, how likely is it that I'll get used to the controls for RE4? Anyone else really struggle with it at first?
Which version?
c8302b No.17494
>>17493
>Which version?
Resident Evil 4 / Biohazard 4 on Steam