Best survival horror series ever?

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The developers thought churning out dozens of games called Call of Duty which were the same game with a new graphics pack would make more money in the long run.

No, seriously, I have no idea. They stopped making them, I loved survival horror, that's why I love Dino Crisis 1, you can't go through and shoot everything to death, you'll run out of bullets and be killed way before that happens, so you need to improvise. And there's no health bar, you have to look at your character to see how she's doing. It's a sad death to die, wandering around the sterile halls of a laboratory looking for a health pack and you slowly but surely, bleed to death. THAT was a good game.

But I don't think they make the genre now, people want shooters and other online games. Survival horror isn't really suitable for online playing.

I don't know if you could call it a franchise as there's only been one game so far, but Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is number 1 for me.

Also, F.E.A.R. is worth mentioning as well.

Isn't that the game which pretends to restart your console, turn your TV off, raises the sound the maximum or minimum, erase your saves and generally just screw with your head until you don't know whether it's the game doing it or insanity?

Yeah, that's the one. I almost had a panic attack when it started "erasing" my memory card. Never has a game scared me so much

This doesn't really count for some, but I nominate Aliens vs. Predator. Yeah, it's not really survival horror, especially the alien and predator campaigns, but I'm mentioning this because the marine campaign is one of the scariest games I've ever played. It has more of a panic kind of horror, where you're running around in dark, claustrophobic areas, constantly looking behind you to see if anything is following you. In most other horror based games, there's usually a room where you can catch a breather, but that's not the case here. There is never a moment where you feel safe.

Now as far as traditional survival horror games, the only series I've played was Resident Evil. I've been meaning to try the Silent Hill games, since I have a friend who is a huge Silent Hill fan.

Survival Horror with modern technology would either be really good or really bad.

With RE it was all in your head, REmake seemed slightly less scary, but maybe that was because I knew sommme of what to expect even though it was a remix.

But if it is done perfectly and they don't ignore circumstance and tension for the way creatures look it would be great.

Call of Cthulhu.
Dark Corners of the Earth is a really cool game. Infortunately, it has to be the first of a serie but the developping firm had to stop developpment of the sequels (Destiny's End and At the Mountains of Madness) when it closed.

Condemned and Dead Space when the second comes out