Why do all good games have to be SCARY???

I feel like I am missing out because I cannot play any game with any horror element in it. Some of them have the best storyline, etc..

Games include but not limited to:

- Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas
- Dead Space, Dead Space 2
- Metro 2033
- Resident Evil 5
- Bio Shock, Bio Shock 2, Bio Shock Infinite
- Stalker series
- Fear series
- Silent Hill
- Alan Wake
- Left for Dead
- Dead Rising
- Half - Life Series
- Etc...

Also why do you guys like scary game, what make them so fun, why would you want to scare yourself?

 

I guess its the rush u get from the scares... though only a few of those are scary.

 

not all good games are scary my friend... I believe only about 10% (even less) of existing games got a horror taste. That's why you can count them.

I love games with a touch of horror because I like the kind of athmosphere they produce and the suspense on each movement... I also like good horror movies.

I like fantasy, scifi, medieval games too. I don't like ALL scary games also... eg. the Resident Evil series... those are good games, but I don't know really why I don't want to play them.

From Fallout (all of them) I love the post-apocalyptic theme most than the scary touch.

 

i myself dont paticualry find those games scary...but as above poster said ...the rush

my little brother (15) is a big wuss but he more scared of playing games where your a lone character..so he cant play fallout or bioshock but can play resident evil and left for dead for example..i say just give one a shot and just remind yourself ....its only a game

 

I wouldn't exactly say Resident Evil 5 is scary. Even the developer calls it a "survival" game now, which even then isn't completely accurate since you get a balls ton of ammo by the end of the game.

The same goes for Bioshock. The beginning may be creepy, but once you get your hands on a plasmid, it's more like you roaming the halls of rapture and electrocuting anyone that looks at you funny

Left 4 Dead is not intended to be a horror game. Play it with 3 other friends and you'll see that it's much more action orientated. I don't think Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas are meant to scare you.

As for the rest of the games, I find that the point of scary games is the adrenaline rush. Why did I play Amnesia:The Dark Descent even when I traditionally prefer lots of action and shooting in my games? It's that feeling of daring yourself to go into a dark room to face whatever might be there with your heart pounding and your palms sweaty. A good horror game will never outright show you the "monster" in the game (I'm looking at you Resident Evil). Instead, what a good horror game will create is a great atmosphere and make you scare yourself. Just try playing a good horror game like Silent Hill and instead of just standing there wondering what could be hidden in the shadows, just jump straight into the game and you'll see what I mean.

 

Only series that you mentioned that scares me [ie: can only play during daylight ] is Dead Space.

 

I find out non of em are scary , I love to splash those zombies , monster , alien into pieces before they kill me in game.

This is most scary game I guess...

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I don't think Fallout 3/NV are all scary - Just the Deathclaws and Feral Ghouls.
I do stay away from games whose primary purpose is to scare unless someone's playing with me like RE5.

 

i dont like really scary games, but ive played half of those games you listed because they are not very scary at all.

 

Play Amnesia The dark descent and every other game is a cake walk. Me and my friends played it for the same reason we go to scary movies the thrill.
But Not all good games are scary, I just think the survival game type is really strong, you really get connected to your character when one wrong move means his/her's very gruesome death.

 

Not sure if you'd classify it as one of the "best," but Mass Effect 1/2 isn't really scary. Bioshock did give me chills at some moments, but I think in that case, it really is part of what makes the game unique: the environment it creates is just fantastic.

 

I can attest to the fact that Mass Effect 1 is not scary at all. In fact, it's exciting and I really enjoyed playing it

Mr. Mysterious

 

I think dead space is the only game which has actually creeped me out..!
I loved playing it in the dark and having to pause/take of my headphones to look behind my shoulder..

 

Agreed on mass effect not being scary. No real horror at all. A bit of suspense, but what game is good without suspense? (not scary suspense but intense.)

 

Wow, I seriously WISH all those games were scary!

 

Only game that ever really scared me was Doom 3.

FEAR freaked me out a couple times, but not real scary. Same thing with Half-Life 2, Ravenholm made me freak out for a second a couple times but then it was no big deal.

I didn't get far enough into Dead Space to know if it was scary or not because the controls drove me nuts.

 

I would say those games got "horror themes". That's different from being "scary". I would change scary for SUSPENSE.

Bioshock 1 did scary me sometimes on the first levels, then you get used to it... but is an obscure game that is enjoyable with a good pair of headphones and "alone in the dark"... xD

 

Scariest of that list is Fallout New Vegas. Specifically the mind-twisting stories behind each of the vaults in that game. Those are scarier than any pop-out wahaha monster from cheesy "horror" games.

 

I haven't really played Fallout:NV. But Fallout 3 is supposed to be quite similar, and I really didn't feel that it was scary. I guess modern society has numbed us down with all these horror movies, etc. that we don't feel things are scary when they should be. I'll admit I jumped a bit if I was playing late at night w/headphones in and a feral ghoul or something leapt out on my back, but nothing major.

 

Shame Amnesia is not on that list. If you play it properly and go slow and absorb the ambiance that game makes the rest of those on the list look as scary as Dora the Explorer.

HT said Doom 3 scared him, reminds me of Doom 64 that game probably "shocked" me more than any other. I am not sure it counts as a scare but your low on life low on ammo trying to get through a stage and then suddenly some invisible demon pops up infront of you and your really freaked out.

So guess it depends on your definition of scare, like if you sneak up behind somebody and go BOO! and they jump and scream like a little girl. I call that a "shock" not a scare.

Scare to me would be your stuck in a hostage situation in a building and the terrorist shoot somebody to make an example not to mess around and then suddenly they start to notice your in the room. That feeling of fear you get knowing you may be about to die is quite different than just being startled.

 

The stuff that scared me in Doom 3 was the paranormal stuff, ghosts, atmosphere, not so much the monster closets. That said FEAR1 was damn creepy. I used to play it with headphones and with the lights off. S**t was intense.

Stalker and Bioshock have excellent ambiance and atmosphere, but not really scary.

 

For me, and from the list, I'd say the only one consistently scary almost to the end is Dead Space, like pointed by the others.

The majority of the others (like Bioshock or Fallout) just have some initial really scary moments, then its all the impression but no more scary.

Just my 0.02 USD

 

Atually, I'd like to make a point here - STALKER: SoC has quite a few jump scares in the underground labs (X-18 mainly, X-16 less so).

Also, you people have obviously never played Amnesia. Especially the DLC. Dat sewer chase man... dat sewer chase.

 

Because of the thrill element on the game, the gruesome, blood, and the story. I like bloody game...a lot of blood.

 

I HATE horror movies and dont generally like scary games, though i often find myself playing through them... Im playing through Dead Space 2 as were speaking, Great game! But i wouldent play it without a friend on my side. Then there is cases like Fallout and Bioshock where the atmosphere is great but i dont find it that scary. Also if you try to make fun of the scary games it takes alot of the pressure out of it. But i love the feeling you get when you complete a scary game its like "YES I DID IT!!1!11!!" But just FYI F3AR isent that scary... its more of a thriller than a horror game

 

how is fallout scary? I cant remember any zombie in it or anything like that. Just some gangsters and animals.

 

Yep, I also think it is a thriller/suspense game than scary at all.

 

Fallout 3? The great majority hides on the metro stations.

 

Indeed, i was a little scared when walking in the suburb houses but just a little...

 

So you guys are afraid of metro stations?

 

If they have tons of radiated ghouls and other creatures in them. Then yes, yes indeed.

 

No one mentioned Fear?

I have yet to beat that game and I've had it for more than a year.

EDIT:
Never mind. Missed "Fear series" in the OP. Still, Fear freaks me out like none other.

 

Destroyed metro stations that are obscure and with the chance of ghoul arrousment? Sure, although it was the first couple of hours, then I got the heavy weapons and enjoyed the super-realistic bullet-body-dismemberment cutsenes

 

Haha indeed that was a blast! and also to just mess around with traps and such

 

I'm a complete wimp when it comes to scary stuff, so Ravenholm in Half-Life 2 scared the bejeesus out of me. I had to quit playing several times during the level because I couldn't handle it and I was breaking into a cold sweat every few minutes.

I can't even imagine what I'd be like if I had to play a true horror game like Penumbra or Amnesia.

 

FEAR was mentioned 5 times. Did you read the thread?

 

Nope fallout 3 is nothing compared to what I was talking about. You have to find those 'easter egg' stories through small bits of information via audiotape scattered in those New Vegas vaults to truly take in the scope of sheer creepiness.

Basically quite a few vaults in NV are so-called "social experiments". E.g. in one vault, they are ordered to sacrifice one dweller each year, and if they refuse the vault will kill them all; in fact if they refuse they will all be freed. By the time the dwellers decide to refuse only 5 of them are left - yet some serious shiz goes down and they end up murdering each other.

Another vault segregates all dwellers into red and blue, and attempts to cause paranoia between the two groups without having them kill each other.

 

I thought also Fallout 3 had some tapes and info on each Vault and the wickedness each had to go on... or do you think it is something far more deeper?

 

Fallout 3 vaults are a bit more tame in terms of their backgrounds, except maybe a couple which were overrun etc, but none of them were horrendous social experiments.

I do recall Tranquility Lane in Fallout 3 though, that's possibly the creepiest part in that whole game.

 

Ohh yeah i remember Tranquility lane too :S I have completed Fallout 3 around 5 times and every time i reach Tranquility lane it just freaks me out. Although there is a secret to avoiding that little girls doings... But it was still creepy as heck first time

 

Tranquillity lane in F3 is what you consider scary, really now! You should all be ashamed. Go and purchase either of the Penumbra games or Amnesia: The Dark Descent, play it/them and report back!

 

Vault 22's experiment backstory was probably the creepiest to me.

Spoiler

Mutagen spores were pumped into the vault through its ventilation system, turning most of the residents into Spore Carriers, and creating giant mantises and causing the whole vault to be overgrown with hostile plants.

There are lots of flowers and plants growing outside and it looks really nice, but there's a warning over the Vault 22 sign saying "the plants kill!"

 

Worse is the scary feeling that you get after slaying one side in these ruins and then finding evidence that actually they were the good guys...

 

That kinda reminds me of Metro 2033

 

I am so not touching that game with a 100 foot pole

 

Its just another emotion the game conveys. Good games (SP) generally generate a wide range emotions - fear/horror is one of them. But apart from say the FEAR series, and doom, none of those games really rely on horror alone - e.g. HL2, which is kinda scary in Ravenholm, but apart from that, only at specific locations.

Off topic, how did you guys like fear 3 in terms of horror? More, less than fear 1/2? A good move/bad move??

 

Nice to be scared but also nice to have a change of pace - movies are a medium that do this well, threat levels vary

 

I just realize that those off those game are scary if you in a public place anytime but dark and have music you like turn on and all sound from those game turn off.

If people say dead-space is the scariest, then I don't think I will be afraid of those game using the above method.

I finish dead-space and that the first scary game I finish, I felt so empowered!

 

The only game that truly scared me was the original FEAR, and that was only the first few times I played it.

 

Yeah, a few of the vaults in FO3 had light social experimentation (blue, subliminal messaging, Jerry). By light I mean they weren't really horrific to come across as the vault dweller wandering through and they also weren't intended to be as brutal as those in FO1 (the Necropolis purposely left open to radiation) or New Vegas. From reading the holotapes, it seems that most of the experiments went wrong instead of being designed to fail.

Yes, Tranquility Lane was quietly terrifying.