Which is scariest? DooM3 or Fear 1

well some of my favorite games of all time were scary horror games. I LOVED Resident evil 4, resident evil 5 was a little run and gun though, I tried to play dead space but stopped a about 3/4 through when I reinstalled vista and lost all my data

I played the Fear 2 demo and I thought it was pretty scary but I would like to play the first fear before i play that one. I have also seen dooM 3 which also looks pretty cool.

In your opinion which one is scarier and pls explain why

 

Doom 3 the first 3/4 of the game is terrifyingly scary like I have seen in no other game.... even if you do cheat and get a gun mounted flashlight like I did... it is an intense experience to say the least, me and a friend played it together and literally fought over who didn't have to play! lol

 

ok good cause looks like I'm going to have to get doom 3 cause bestbuy doesn't have the first fear but it has doom 3

 

Yea you should be able to get Doom 3 for like 20 bucks or less now

 

Dead space is better in terms of making you jump in fright.

 

might buy it on steam

is the resurrection of evil pack worth buying? it only cost me 10 bucks more instead of 20 bucks later if i buy it with doom 3?

 

I don't know lol... like I said the first 3/4 were horrifying... I didn't finish it lol, and I certainly haven't played the expansion yet!!! Maybe I'll play it again now that there is the Coop Mod for full single player

 

you should hit me up with your steam account we could play co-op lol

Ill just buy the first part for now and If i like it ill get the expansion

 

Personally, I found FEAR (not FEAR 2) to be scarier. Doom 3 just seemed a little to been-here-done-that to be truly scary. FEAR is a little different. Playing that at night in the dark with the sound up was definitely scary.

Plus, I enjoyed the gameplay in FEAR more than in Doom 3

 

The original condemned (criminal origins) is one of the scariest games out there. It's also made by Monolith, the same guys behind FEAR.

 

hmmm maybe I'll buy both of them

btw will both doom 3 and fear 1 play on windows 7 RC?

 

Hmmm that is a good question... but I have had no problem running any game including the older Titan Quest on RC 7 so I would assume so

 

FEAR 1 ran fine for me on the Beta so I would assume it's still good on RC1

 

ok well looks like I'm going to go with doom 3 (fear is so hard to find, I can't find it on steam, at walmart, bestbuy, and my gamestop only has the newest pc games)

 

i don't think FEAR was scary at all.

what ruined it was the "unknown source" thing that would show up on the screen when something scary was about to happen, thus, ruining the scare.

 

Fear 1, wasn't scary at all . Doom3 on the other hand was so scary it stressed me out sometimes.

 

lol thats how dead space was for me haha, I had to stop playing it every so often it was giving me a headache because of the stressfulness of it

 

For scariness, Doom 3 wins hands down. If you weren't playing with surround sound or a good set of stereo headphones, then you weren't playing it. The sound in the game made ALL the difference. It kept you on the edge, at least the frist 2/3, then it turned into a ridiculous fragfest.

FEAR was scary only at the beginning, but overall the gameplay and storyline were much better. I thought it was well done. I never finished Fear 2, became way too much generic shooter for me.

 

Dead Space is scariest

 

I say FEAR. Doom 3 was fun, but it's just a blatant in-your-face horror fest, and you kind of know what to expect around every blind corner. Also, the sheer darkness of the levels really killed the experience for me. What good is touting the best graphics engine (at the time) when you couldn't see anything?

As far as FEAR goes, I feel it's more psychological, more suspenseful, and while it doesn't rely on disfigured zombies and other horrors to scare you (like Doom offers), it does offer one creepy little girl running around eviscerating people in one shot.

 

Dead space hands down....

 

Lol that's like 10 people now who have commented Dead Space... that wasn't even the question at all! lol

 

FEAR I played and finished. Good fun.

Doom 3 scared the **** out of me early on the game and have never finished it.

Dead Space? Meh. Walk in the park compared to the other two.

 

True that... Dead space wasn't as scary I think because of it being 3rd person

 

i misclicked and hit FEAR.

Doom is definitely the scarier of the two.

 

i only played FEAR 2 it was semi scary

 

Fear was jump out your seat scary at times, doom 3 was more after im doing playing and i walk somewhere im afraid a monster will jump out at me and ill have to blast them.

 

I voted Doom 3...but it was more of a startling scary while I think F.E.A.R. was more of a suspenseful scary...

Sound, which I think is a huge element of horror, was 'scarier' on Doom 3, in my opinion, which is why it got my vote...sound made the 'surprise' moments scary...after a while though, it was the same trick over and over like Friday the 13th...

F.E.A.R. just had a flatout freaky story and a lot of the 'scariness' for me actually occurred after the game...more pyschological and less blunt...more like the The Exorcist *shudder*

And I know it's not directly to the question, but it never gets mentioned as a 'scary' game...Ravenholm in Half-Life 2 'scared' me worse than both of the offered choices...

And the only part of Resident Evil 4 that really 'scared' me was that Aliens-like thing down in the sewers...it was much less scary the second or third time through with the unlimited ammo rocket launcher...I'll take that back...those damn shuffling, snuffling things with the hot spots scared me, too...

 

holy crap

I just played through about 20 minutes and I g=killed about 3 of those things

My heart is beating so fast hahah

Im playing with these high quality headphones in a dark room, I actually feel like I am the person in the game

But the thing is, dead space only made me feel like this at its intense moments, this game....ahhh the sounds really add to the game have the time Im jumpin at the creeks and stuff of the machinary

Time to drink some coke and take a break lol

 

Lol. Scariest game ever made is obviously the Fatal Frame series......I swear that stuff is scary cuz the first one was actually based on a true story. Watch some trailers on youtube haha.

 

Well youtube pretty much ruined it for me...

Typed in 'Fatal Frame' and up comes 'Scariest Room Ever!!!! (Fatal Frame)' and it's a clip of the game with the girl in a room full of dolls and a webcam on some dude screaming '?' into the mic...

I laughed my way through the whole thing...it may have been genuinely scary without the dude...same thing happened to me with Blair Witch Project...saw the SNL skit before I saw the movie and I couldn't stop laughing when I finally saw the movie...

 

LOL. Try playing that game by yourself :O It's like ghosts everywhere popping out. The point of the game is the take pictures of the ghosts in order to capture their soul or something. All u get is a flashlight and camera for weapons....nothing else

 

I played Doom 3 and fear so much that I could not continued to play (I switch to play RPG - Last Remenant and never come back to play Doom again). But I don't know why I can play Fear until the end.

 

Doom 3 and Dead Space both subscribe more to the Western flavour of horror; in other words, they employ scare tactics which run the gamut from having something appear suddenly, to having something appear suddenly, to... having something appear suddenly. Woot.

Fear on the other hand, well... alright, maybe not quite the other hand. Perhaps halfway up the arm, or possibly around the opposite shoulder. There's a little more atmosphere in it. Kinda leans more towards what I'd consider typical Asian horror fare. Tries to build a scarier atmosphere, with not quite as many instant shocks. The game equivalent would probably be something like... the early Silent Hills?

 

Dead Space > Doom 3 > Fear

 

Yeah I liked that game it only gets better after the 3/4, I'm sure you would've liked it if you finished it.

 

Doom 3's atmosphere is unequal.

 

Oh Trust me! I will.... well after I get the Juevos lol... I'm going to have to play through the entire game again ... hey did they ever release a Coop for single player? like a real one lol

 

Doom 3 scary? Seriously? Come on how many times can you be scared by "Que the lights, que the imp/zombie spam/angry duck routine" Rinse repeat till a lacklustre ending? Doom 3 scary!?!?!! What's scary is people actually think that was scary, let alone a good game. I felt like I had played the whole thing before in Doom 2. FEAR is scarier than that and a much better game. Dead Space is better than that. Also try Cryostasis and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl (under ground is pretty creepy).

 

dead space man
freaks me out. great story, visuals and audio.
i think in a horror flick great audio could ba as impt or even more impt than video

my 2 cents

 

The camera control took me out of the immersion of Dead Space.

For me, as I've said before (and I'll throw one more in the mix):

Doom 3 > System Shock 2 > FEAR > Dead Space

 

good summary, one reason i don't find western horror scary at all, stuff popping up every once a while to me is a surprise, not scary-scary. however, the suspense that build up from asian horror can sometimes hit the wrong note and it does not affects you.

 

Almost forgot Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of The Earth another great creepy game. If the residents of Innsmouth don't creep you out I don't know what will.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EkhBpBpft4

 

Doom 3 was a blunt in your face, scary game. Never actually finished it, which is a shame... FEAr as mentioned previously, was more of a "atmopshere" creepy. Better story, better gameplay, but not as scary as Doom 3 IMO.

Now Dead Space scared the sh#t out of me. Might of been due to the big arse screen and good surround sound, but jeez, had to put it down every 30 mins and have a smoko to calm my nerves lol. One of the biggest things with Dead Space though is you don't have a big arsed rocket launcher to punich the nasties, you have to use things like blow torches to chop off the baddies legs etc.

Scary stuff!!

 

Condemned: Criminal Origins would be the scariest game I've ever playerd.

F.E.A.R wasn't scary at all(well, at least 90% of it) and I haven't played Doom 3 for more than 5 minutes so I can't really compare.

 

Heh.

I find myself almost immune to "startles". My personal theory is that it's because my reflexes are kinda slow; by the time I realise what's going on and that there's a monster screaming into my face or something, the moment has passed, and all I get to do is go... "Oh."

Asian horror, however... mmmmmm...

 

resident evil ftw

 

I remember Doom3 had a part or two that made me jump. The ambient sounds were very, very creepy.
Either game make sure you have a headset with a surround sound it truly will immerse you.
Play at night when you are the only one in the house= FUN!

 

first off, "based on a true story" means "not true in the slightest sense"

second, this game was based off urban legends from Japan, not truth by any means.

 

I finished Doom 3 twice a while ago, and it just become like a grind. Its too predicatble and the monsters just dont become scary anymore. At least FEAR mixes things up not only with the monsters and settings, but the actual mood of the game through the japanese horror, people arent as familier with it in the west and so i think FEAR is more effective in scaring people.