October Horrorthon!

Retr0gamer

Right, October has Halloween in it so thought maybe we could do a horrorthon. Pick any horror game and play it during October and post you feelings about it. If you can try and get through as many horror games as possible (I'll be surprised if I make it through 1). My game is Forbidden Siren which I started recently.

o1s1n

I decided to give Resident Evil 5 another try and started it again a few nights ago. Really enjoying it this time.

Although, not retro in the slightest.

Hmmm.

Well, I still haven't played Silent Hill 2. Better get cracking at that so

Retr0gamer

Well it doesn't have to be retro really, it's just a bit of fun.

o1s1n wrote: »

Well, I still haven't played Silent Hill 2. Better get cracking at that so

:O That and System Shock 2 NEED to be played by everyone!

pdbhp

o1s1n wrote: »

I decided to give Resident Evil 5 another try and started it again a few nights ago. Really enjoying it this time.

Although, not retro in the slightest.

Hmmm.

Well, I still haven't played Silent Hill 2. Better get cracking at that so

Played that game through in one drunken evening on co-op and it sucked so hard I nearly cried.:(
The whole trying to walk through treacle mechanic irked me to no end.

Mmmh wonder if Castlevania would be considered horror?

Professey Chin

It isnt retro,that scary or even good but I gotta actually try playing condemned 2 again.
Damn game gives me the willies.I spend ages beating every single enemy just to make sure theyre dead

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

:O That and System Shock 2 NEED to be played by everyone!

I played a few hours of System Shock 2 years back. I think I stopped as I found it frustratingly hard. From what I remember It was like old Resident Evil weapon hoarding, but a million times worse.

When I was playing that my PC was hooked up to a surround sound system with loads of satellite speakers around a box room. Scary is too tame a word! Really really creepy stuff.

Funkfield

o1s1n wrote: »

Well, I still haven't played Silent Hill 2. Better get cracking at that so

BEST.

GAME.

EVER.

:cool:

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

I played a few hours of System Shock 2 years back. I think I stopped as I found it frustratingly hard. From what I remember It was like old Resident Evil weapon hoarding, but a million times worse.

When I was playing that my PC was hooked up to a surround sound system with loads of satellite speakers around a box room. Scary is too tame a word! Really really creepy stuff.

The thing about System Shock 2 is that you can't use all the weapons inthe game, you've got to let some of them go. also if you find maintaining the weapons too tough (they break stupidly easily) you can install a mod that improves it. Well worth playing and finishing though, one of the best games I've ever played.

Atavan-Halen

I'll try work my way through Silent Hill 1 and the Resi remake on the cube.

Myrddin

Project Zero has interested me in the past, is it rated at all?

johnny_ultimate

EnterNow wrote: »

Project Zero has interested me in the past, is it rated at all?

Yeah, it's meant to be one of the creepier games around. I have the original for the Xbox, but have only given it a few gos. The atmosphere seems great, but like (whisper it) Silent Hill the survival horror mechanics start to annoy me!

justbrian

EnterNow wrote: »

Project Zero has interested me in the past, is it rated at all?

It's good but the second one improved it I think. Also the first one is more rare on pal. I don't think it ever got an official Irish pal release.

I am currently playing obscure 1 and 2, not the best survival horror games, but ok.

SirLemonhead

Clive Barker's Undying is one of my favourites. Call of Cthulhu - Dark corners of the earth is pretty good too, if a little frustrating at times and fairly buggy.

Retr0gamer

justbrian wrote: »

It's good but the second one improved it I think. Also the first one is more rare on pal. I don't think it ever got an official Irish pal release.

I've heard that as well but instead of the second one being an improvement the second one is up there with Silent Hill 2 as one of the best games ever made.

Myrddin

justbrian wrote: »

I don't think it ever got an official Irish pal release.

I bought here it years ago new & retail so it must have. Does that mean it's worth millions? :pac:

Retr0gamer

Yeah I bought mine as a PAL game in Ireland as well and there was plenty of copies?

Only game I know of that got a limited European release was Rule of Rose which didnt get released in UK, Ireland and a few other countries, should have picked up a copy when I seen it in one of the irish shops second hand. Going for a bit on ebay now.

Atavan-Halen

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Only game I know of that got a limited European release was Rule of Rose which didnt get released in UK, Ireland and a few other countries, should have picked up a copy when I seen it in one of the irish shops second hand. Going for a bit on ebay now.

Wasn't it banned/taken off the shelves in most of Europe because of the violence and sexuality towards children in it? Must try pick up a copy before it gets too expensive. Although there's quite a few Belgian and Italian copies for sale on ebay at the moment.

Lab_Mouse

Strangely enough i just started playing F.E.A.R on the pc again.Has a few moments in it where you jump .A good FPS too.

o1s1n

I was trying to pick up a PAL Rule of Rose about a month ago on ebay. It's a very hard game to find for a good price.

Cheapest place that has them is Italy. But the auctions say '100 % in italiano'. I thought all the PAL region discs would have multiple languages but I'm not sure now.

/edit - I think the Italian just means the box/manual.

CiDeRmAn

Looked on ebay for it, PAL copy looking at 80 blips to take it home, before postage!
Feck, it'd want to be super good for that money lads and lassies!

I see it on ebay.fr for less, asking about postage now, might buy it.

Atavan-Halen

o1s1n wrote: »

I was trying to pick up a PAL Rule of Rose about a month ago on ebay. It's a very hard game to find for a good price.

Cheapest place that has them is Italy. But the auctions say '100 % in italiano'. I thought all the PAL region discs would have multiple languages but I'm not sure now.

/edit - I think the Italian just means the box/manual.

You could take a chance on it and if it is in Italian sell it on for what you payed for it. That or buy an Italian dictionary

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Looked on ebay for it, PAL copy looking at 80 blips to take it home, before postage!
Feck, it'd want to be super good for that money lads and lassies!

I see it on ebay.fr for less, asking about postage now, might buy it.

Yeah I seen that listing. €80? No thanks. I could buy much more with that.

Just be careful with foreign auctions! I nearly bought just a gameboy game manual thinking it was the actual game

o1s1n

Here's the cheap Italian one.

http://global.ebay.com/RULE_of_ROSE_pal_ps_2_100_in_italiano/260670954224/item

The bottom of the auction says it's in English though.

'presenti anche dialoghi testo in inglese,francese,spagnolo e tedesco!!'

It's not meant to be that good of a game. From what I've heard the story is really interesting, but it's held back by some mediocre gameplay.

Atavan-Halen

o1s1n wrote: »

'presenti anche dialoghi testo in inglese,francese,spagnolo e tedesco!!'

It's not meant to be that good of a game. From what I've heard the story is really interesting, but it's held back by some mediocre gameplay.

Ah, questa è una grande notizia!

Anyone played it before? Is it worth about €40?

Retr0gamer

I'm pretty sure the italian copy would be in English but then again the company that brought it to europe was Italian so might have had a special italian version.

As for the game itself I hear it'sa bit weird. Basically if they got rid of the combat and made it an adventure game it would have been a very good game. As it stands the story is supposedly excellent while the gameplay is terrible.

Perhaps I could try a Jack Burton on a Buy it Now or nearest offer.

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Perhaps I could try a Jack Burton on a Buy it Now or nearest offer.

Is that term now coined? I claim that one, there can be no dispute there

justbrian

A underrated gem of a horror game for october is sweet home on the nes. Strictly speaking a rpg with horror elements it can still be called a horror game. Also it's from Capcom and in some ways is a prototype Resident Evil.

landsleaving

Think I'll have a blast of House of the Dead 2 and play through a resi game again. Maybe Code Veronica, my Dreamcast is sadly neglected these days. Although I may just pick up Silent Hill 2, I hated the first one so I never gave it a chance. Seems I'm missing out.

Oh and Project Zero is the scariest anything (film, game, book) ever. The feeling of being so vulnerable with just a camera is terrifying. Games tend to get to me more though as horror goes, since you can actually die, as opposed to the heroes in other media.

I picked up extermination and Ghost Hunter for ps2 recently, if I get a chance I'll play a little of them too.

Also, great idea Retr0

o1s1n

You...hated Silent Hill? Did you play it when it came out? Or was it a few years later? I bought it the day it was released going on reviews. One of the greatest gaming experiences I've had. Scared the **** out of me.

landsleaving

Think it had been out a few months, I borrowed it from someone who really loved it too, maybe it was just overhyped by the time I got to it. Or maybe I was really really scared and just repressed the horror into the darkest recesses of my psyche?

Ok... Instead of Resi I'll try either Silent Hill 1 or 2 this month. I feel like an outcast for not liking it

SirLemonhead

o1s1n wrote: »

You...hated Silent Hill? Did you play it when it came out? Or was it a few years later? I bought it the day it was released going on reviews. One of the greatest gaming experiences I've had. Scared the **** out of me.

Yep exactly. Second one was fantastic too.

CiDeRmAn

Thanks a bunch lads, after all the talk I went and bought Rule of Rose, from eBay.fr for only 25! With a mere 3.50 postage, happy days! Of course if its sh1te somebody's gonna die!

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Thanks a bunch lads, after all the talk I went and bought Rule of Rose, from eBay.fr for only 25! With a mere 3.50 postage, happy days! Of course if its sh1te somebody's gonna die!

How the **** did you get it for 25 euro you jammy swine?

Eh... the gameplay really does suck. Hard. But maybe you'll enjoy the story.

Scariest moment in a game ever doesn't even come from a horror game for me. Operation Flashpoint, Mission 3. Your sqaud is dead, your lost in the woods and have to trek about 10-20 km to get to the extraction point. The forest is crawling with enemy troops. There's tanks patrolling outside the woods and a Lynx Attack helicopter hunting you down over head. Running from copse to copse with no cover whatso ever was nerve wracking considering you have one save for the entire mission and you can die in one shot.

CiDeRmAn

Well, if it's that tyoe of scary moment, then we are onto the likes of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon rising for me too, with a FPS sensibility I used up most of the ammo, the Chinese are breathing down my neck and I'm holed up in a farmhouse as well, death was inevitable but I made those feckers pay!

I found Eternal Darkness brilliantly scary, but Silent Hill 2 was the one, the one that really shook me, when Pyramid Head arrives and all hell breaks loose, literally!

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Well, if it's that tyoe of scary moment, then we are onto the likes of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon rising for me too, with a FPS sensibility I used up most of the ammo, the Chinese are breathing down my neck and I'm holed up in a farmhouse as well, death was inevitable but I made those feckers pay!

God don't mention that PoS. I knew that they had gotten that game all wrong when they demoed it with exploding red barrels.

o1s1n

Well if we're doing that, my scariest combat moment was when my team were pinned down by a guy with a m429 machine gun on top of a watch tower. There was a look of absolute glee while he mowed everyone down. Absolutely no way passed him. Thing was spewing shots everywhere.

I crawled through I don't know how many gorse bushes until I came up on his flank. Silly bugger had left his right side completely exposed, hadn't a clue I was there.

He was at a pretty far range. I could see his upper torso and head sticking up out of the tower. My heart was pounding like you wouldn't believe. Shaking with the adrenaline.

I lined him up in my sight. Was using a Famas at the time which has an amazing rate of fire but not the longest range.

My shots connected and he let out a squeal.

That was my first kill at an airsoft skirmish back in 06 at Predator in Norther Ireland. It was one of those 'this is the coolest thing in the world, ever..b.but I'm close to pissing myself in terror!' instances. :pac:

Retr0gamer

RL doesn't count :P Everything is boring with out combo multipliers and extra lives.

o1s1n

Anyone have a copy of Silent Hill 2 I could have a lend of?

I do have a copy somewhere but haven't been able to find it in a very long time. I just know that as soon as I buy it again it'll turn up!

Retr0gamer

I have my promo copy but you might be better off getting the platinum edition which has marias extra scenario.

o1s1n

Annoyingly enough, it's the platinum version that has gone missing on me too!

I didn't know that about there being an extra scenario, cheers.

justbrian

Isn't the extra one an xbox exclusive? Or maybe I am wrong.

Myrddin

I think I'll have a blast of Deadly Premonition. I'd love to start Project Zero but everything is buried because of the work going on, so I'll hit the 360.

Retr0gamer

It was an xbox exclusive but was included in the platinum re-release and subsequent re-releases.

I'm dropping everything when Deadly Premonition comes out.

Warren3

I have a copy of Parasite Eve on its way to me so will play that!

Retr0gamer

Forbidden Siren is very nearly brilliant but for some horrendously bad design decisions that make having a faq a must.

LoGiE

Horror?;)

Retr0gamer

Oh god I've played that on the C64 and totally forgot about it. I think I hated it as well because it was too hard for me!

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

Anyone have a copy of Silent Hill 2 I could have a lend of?

I do have a copy somewhere but haven't been able to find it in a very long time. I just know that as soon as I buy it again it'll turn up!

I saw it in Santry Gamestop today for around a fiver.
It's a keeper!

I have the first four of the series, 1 on the PS1 and 3 in a trilogy pack on the PS2, never played the first one, might fire it up and prepare for some pants soiling!

Retr0gamer

1 is nowhere near as good as 2 but it's still the second best in the series and great. There's a nasty piano puzzle that you will get stuck on that involves solving a riddle. I solved it but still managed to get it wrong because it was mirrored. Just gamefaqs it!

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I saw it in Santry Gamestop today for around a fiver.
It's a keeper!

If anyone is about that area and sees it, grab it for me please! I'll happily reimburse you for it.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

1 is nowhere near as good as 2 but it's still the second best in the series and great. There's a nasty piano puzzle that you will get stuck on that involves solving a riddle. I solved it but still managed to get it wrong because it was mirrored. Just gamefaqs it!

That ****ing piano puzzle!

I couldn't get passed that until I picked up a ps1 magazine at the time which happened to have a Silent Hill guide.

CiDeRmAn

I remember Cauldron alright but I preferred Cauldron2, very different, you played a bouncing pumpkin head, i think the witch of the first one was the bad guy.
Very nice animation in it as well.

johnny_ultimate

I recently borrowed a copy of Silent Hill 2 from a friend who has moved away to a foreign land called Hol Land (I don't know it either). Perhaps I shall give it another go - never got further than halfway through.