Scariest Horror Game you watched or played

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I don't think there are a whole lot of good mainstream horror games being put out these days, although there has been a handful of decent indie ones from time to time. Why has Horror went like this? It's mainly due to the fact that Action will sell loads more units, because Horror alone doesn't rake in the cash anymore. But by combining the two...now we get somewhere. You may not necessarily like that, but it's just how developers are in this generation.

I bought AMY last year on Xbox Live. It is a game I've rarely played since, because it's just too clunky. Then I played Operation Raccoon City throughout the Summer and it just sucked. I did play Silent Hill: Downpour on and off, but couldn't quite get absorbed into it like I did years ago with the PS2 Silent Hill games. And Resident Evil 6 is just painstakingly difficult and the experience of playing it doesn't feel very rewarding, being honest. I am however looking forward to buying the port of Revelations this month, as that is the midquel to RE4-RE5 that was on the 3DS before it got announced it would be ported to the PS3 and Xbox 360 in May.

I watched another video about a PC game made in the 90's on YT called Waxworks. That was pretty scary, especially the game over/death screens. And gory, even by today's standards! For example in one stage if you get killed by zombies it shows your mutilated body on the with your trachea and intestines ripped out! Apparently they don't just want your braaaaaiiiins.

For me silent hill was the best example of this.

Not only would you feel totally isolated in a really messed up world, but fighting or 'special powers' were out of the question often, you would have to run away from a lot of things that just looked like it had be passed down from satans rear, and when you did have interactions with 'normal people' they still had some messed up thinking which bordered on the psychopathic.

Yep, silent hill is the scariest horror game out there, number 2 was the best for me.

I haven't played too many horror themed video games but the Splatterhouse trilogy gave me nightmares for a while when I was first introduced to them at age 11. Now, I love playing the hell out of them! Go figure.

I remember watching a friend play one of the early Resident Evil games. Probably 1 or 2. I always remember that gave me the heebee-jeebees. Stuff jumping out at the player, and some of the weird looking monsters.

As for games I've played that have given me a fright, Resident Evil 4 has a few scary moments. Regenerators really give me the creeps. Also, I remember the guy who comes out of the oven on fire, that made me jump.(I've grown rather fond of him in a twisted sorta way, lol) The village chief gave me a fright as well. When you take him on and see his plagas form, I always want that fight to be over with as quickly as possible.

I recently bought Silent Hill 2, and gave that a bit of a play last night. Even just playing an hour and a half, made me see, not only why it's a good game, but, how it messes with your head. Everywhere is dark, and of course there's the fog. Not to mention Jame's desire to go poking his hand into foreign holes. I've seen way too many things, where people die for doing that.(or at least lose a hand) The monsters are pretty creepy too. I think I saw one just made out of hands and legs.

I feel an honorable mention of sorts should go to Final Fantasy 7. It was probably because I first played it at a young age, and I'd play it late at night, but I always felt like Sephiroth was somehow going to transcend the game and come and get me, lol. (His music didn't help matters)

On the whole I think I'm a bit of a wuss. I tend to avoid overtly scary games normally. My logic being, I'm already pretty disturbed as it is. Probably don't need help with that. Nor the lack of sleep, lol.

Three words:
Silent Hill 4

My niece played Amnesia and really liked it.
She convinced me to try the demo. So, sitting in the livingroom with 3 other people, broad daylight, and I was jumping or dodging things from time to time. My daughters and niece were highly amused at how that game demo scared me witless.
And that sums up my experience with horror type games.

Dead Space 2. Cause those little head-tentacle chokey guys come at you and crush and rip your throat off, just to walk around with your body. Whoops.

I'm probably going to sound really pathetic here. I've played Amnesia and Slender and have been mildly frightened, but nothing too bad.

Then I got Resident Evil Revelations... I can't play that game at night. Hell! I own Resident Evil 5 and even that isn't as bad.

Obscure entry time!

Other than the titles that everyone keeps mentioning, I think that one of the scariest games I've come across is Dangan Ronpa, It's in Japanese, but despite a few gameplay gimmicks, is a visual novel at its core, so there are translations readily available online that don't completely spoil the experience. (Most notably the Let's Play on Something Awful and several upcoming projects at this point.)

The plot revolves around fifteen high-school students entering a college for the very talented. All of them, barring the player character, who won a lottery to get in, have nearly superhuman ability at something. (This goes well beyond the range of academics and athletics; among them are a super-gambler and a super-gangster.) The students are all knocked unconscious after they enter the school and awaken to find all of the windows sealed with metal plates and all of the doors blocked shut. A robotic teddy bear with a cartoonish voice appears, claiming to be the headmaster, and explains the school rules.

To escape the school, a student has to kill another person. If there is a murder, then a trial is to be held immediately to vote on who had committed it. If the murderer is correctly identified, then they are executed, and things return to their state before the murder; but if an innocent person is found guilty, everyone except the murderer is executed, and the murderer is allowed to leave.

By the very premise of the game, a lot of named major characters have horrifying deaths. Unusually, the scariest parts are concentrated at the beginning of the game, and the second half of the plot is somewhat less gruesome.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/V ... anganRonpa

I'm not a huge fan of the horror genre, so I haven't played the big names people are mentioning like Silent Hill. Those are probably worse.

When I first started playing MineCraft, stumbling on zombies, and skeletons in caves definitely scared me. Since I was often lost, I knew if I died, I probably could not find my way back to get my things. It produced a sense of danger I had not experienced in other games. And the creepers, I still freak when I round a corner and run into one.

It was the closest I've come to feeling the feeling one would feel in a movie like The Last Man on Earth, or I Am Legend.

I'm a huge horror fan, from video games, movies and books to whatever else. I've played almost all the games mentioned in here. I'm not easily scared by any game by now.

Scary games I would recommend:

-Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (Gamecube)
-Evil Dead: Hail to the King (PS1)
-the Silent Hill games (various)
-any Resident Evil before 4, especially REmake. RE4, 5 and 6 are fun, but not really scary. (various)
-Condemned: Criminal Origins, the sequel is worth playing as well (Xbox 360)
-Fatal Frame (various)
-Dead Space 1 & 2, the third game was not scary at all unfortunately, but still fun to play. (various)
-Amnesia (PC)
-The Thing (various)
-F.E.A.R.

I'll try to think up some more later.

Some mildly scary games for starters that I would recommend:
-Bioshock, I suppose some might find it scary. (various)
-Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 (Xbox 360)
-Alan Wake (Xbox 360)
-Resident Evil 4 (various)
-F.E.A.R. 2&3 (various)