Gaming Horrorthon

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 04-09-2016 2:08pm #1

I'm wondering if anyone is planning to play spooky games throughout October? Would like to hear about what people are getting / playing and maybe learn about some new ones to get myself.

It's a good bit early I know. Just wanted to post before completely forgetting and suddenly it's October lol. This thread can fall back and I can bump it closer to the time, that's grand

. I suppose if someone wasn't thinking about and is now interested it's time to get stuff.

Sorry in advance if this type of thing is more suitable elsewhere or could be part of another thread and needs to moved.

Sieghardt · 04-09-2016 4:21pm

I've often considered trying to do something like the "31 days of horror" people do with films bt with games.

cant really do it quite the same due to the time investment required for games but I'll be playing The Evil Within and Until Dawn again and maybe get some Deadly Premonition in

oh and I might pick up Corpse Party on PC too

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 04-09-2016 4:34pm

Sieghardt wrote: »

I've often considered trying to do something like the "31 days of horror" people do with films bt with games.

cant really do it quite the same due to the time investment required for games but I'll be playing The Evil Within and Until Dawn again and maybe get some Deadly Premonition in

oh and I might pick up Corpse Party on PC too

It's quite hard, I think 4/6 games was the most I got in, just to get tasters of.
I'd love to go to Deadly Premonition, I heard PC is best and no way to play it that way, PS3 console version I think I was told to avoid it. I found Evil Within hard to play because I suck at duel analog but I'd love to watch someone else play.
Until Dawn from what I got to play was so much fun especially with a group.
I think I'll put Corpse Party on my PSP instead of my vita and just give in lol.
I'm going to go back to Siren Blood Curse and get the archive items. I really wanted to play Clocktower 2 after seeing the Retronauts stream but it's not on the PSN store like I thought and had bought a really cheap Japanese version. I might get lucky with an English version.
I'd love to go back to loads of games like Gregory Horror Show.
I've also never actually finished a Resi game as much as I love horror games so this might be the time around, I'm so bad at minding bullets and stuff.

CiDeRmAn · 04-09-2016 5:31pm

So, no Leprechaun then?

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 04-09-2016 5:37pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

So, no Leprechaun then?

Three spoopy for me I'm going to play Clocktower 3 and knock all the cans instead jkjk :pac:
Leprechaun could be classed as scary for sure lol.

The_Valeyard · 04-09-2016 10:09pm

I might give The Secret World online game another go around Halloween.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 04-09-2016 10:49pm

The_Valeyard wrote: »

I might give The Secret World online game another go around Halloween.

I don't know anything about it, it's an MMO from what I see online? Must have had fun to go back to it again

Sephiroth_dude · 04-09-2016 10:53pm

The only spooky game I have in my collection that I can think of is corpse party for the vita so may play that,also thinking of picking up Yomawari: Night Alone when it releases in October.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 04-09-2016 11:06pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

The only spooky game I have in my collection that I can think of is corpse party for the vita so may play that,also thinking of picking up Yomawari: Night Alone when it releases in October.

Same here with Corpse Party it seems short enough too 12.5 hours with main and extras on HLTB.
What's Yomawari about? I haven't heard of it

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 04-09-2016 11:26pm

If anyone is looking for ideas or help, here's what horror games I've finished:

Forbidden Siren 1, 2 and Blood Curse.
Fatal Frame 1 and 2
Rule of Rose
Silent Hill 4
Haunting Ground

Games in limbo, that gave up or got stuck

Clocktower 3
Fatal Frame 3
Resident Evil 1 and 4
Gregory Horror Show
Obscure
Trapt
Lone Survivor

I've seen Silent Hill 2 played through so many times I actually don't see the point of playing but I do love it.

Games I already have and either haven't played much of or not at all

Resident Evil 1, 2, 3, HD, Outbreak, Code Veronica 2, Zero
Silent Hill 1, 2, 3
Corpse Party
The Ring: Terrors Realm
Overblood
Dino Crisis 1, 2
Kuon
Deception IV: Blood Ties
Calling
Ju-On
Theresia (found a good listing last night and bought it)

Games I'd like to buy

Corpse Party (physical copy)

SeantheMan · 04-09-2016 11:53pm

Condemned - Criminal Origins is a good scary game.

Personally I've never been scared by the Resi or Dino crisis games...especially as I've gotten older.

Kiith · 05-09-2016 3:48am

I occasionally go back and play Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

20 minutes later, I've usually uninstalled the game after getting terrified and cursing the developers

Retr0gamer · 05-09-2016 8:38am

Soma is a great game by the Amnesia developers. It has some really scary moments but it's also a fantastic piece of sci-fi which we rarely see in videogames.

JD1763 · 05-09-2016 8:46am

Might load up the special levels for Alien Isolation and finally play Vampire The Masquerdate.

kunst nugget · 05-09-2016 9:45am

I've promised my 12 year old daughter that I'll play Slender: The Arrival on Halloween night because she wants to hear me squeal like a little girl from fright while she's up in bed. I've played a couple of minutes of it already and I think she may be disappointed…

kunst nugget · 05-09-2016 9:56am

Playing Silent Hill: Homecoming which I don't think is as bad as the reviews would suggest. A bit annoying in places, in particular the stupid fúcking sliding puzzle that I'm stuck on at the moment.

Over October, I'll probably get around to finishing Resident Evil 1 and start playing 0. I have a copy of Condemned 2 laying around so I'll probably give that a blast as well.

Zillah · 05-09-2016 10:04am

JD1763 wrote: »

Vampire The Masquerdate.

There's one area that's super creepy - otherwise, not a horror at all. Great game though, make sure you get the community patch.

Retr0gamer · 05-09-2016 11:42am

I wish Japan was still pumping out horror games, the latest influx of Western indie games seem to think that jump scares are the height of horror. The culmination of which seems to be Layers of Fear which is one of the worst game I've ever played and not scary at all. The Japanese just knew how to do either super cheesy or genuine dread well.

Stuff like Until Dawn is kind of awful as well. All that is are jump scares, although I think it succeeds despite itself. That awful writing and over reliance on bad jump scares... it definitely nails the B horror movie vibe although I get the feeling it was a fluke.

Skerries · 05-09-2016 11:47am

I really wish you could sort out a Steam collection by genre rather than trawl through it manually

Retr0gamer · 05-09-2016 12:05pm

I might give Project scissors a go. Forgot I bought it and it's from the Clocktower guy.

Sieghardt · 05-09-2016 1:41pm

yomawari will be out on steam in october I think?

that might be an interesting one, I'm much more into games like that and corpse party than the jumpscare fests

Kylo Ren · 05-09-2016 3:45pm

I've only played Resident Evil 5 so I picked up the Origins Collection on PS4. I'm going to give 1 a whirl in October.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 05-09-2016 4:21pm

Wow I thought this would die out fast but there seems to be good replies, thanks everyone!

I was fully convinced I could buy a digital copy of Clocktower on PSN, madness, I bought a cheap Japanese copy to have a physical copy. So silly of me!

There's 2 games I'm like to try but I don't think they'll ever come to the west now, Night of the Sacrifice and Night Watch for Vita (I stopped looking at it, I was getting sad I heard nothing, maybe it's changed)

Sieghardt wrote: »

yomawari will be out on steam in october I think?

that might be an interesting one, I'm much more into games like that and corpse party than the jumpscare fests

I'll definitely look into it and hopefully get some kinda PC for Christmas maybe, treat myself lol.
I'm not into jump scares, funny in a group setting maybe. I prefer the hiding like in Clocktower and some parts of Siren. It reminds me of playing as kids and you get chased up the stairs lol.
I found watching Arino playing Night if the Sickle Weasel very scary and it's only VN. Was you or Xenji likes VN? I think it's actually Xenji but could be wrong.

kunst nugget · 05-09-2016 4:25pm

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

I'm not into jump scares, funny in a group setting maybe. I prefer the hiding like in Clocktower and some parts of Siren. It reminds me of playing as kids and you get chased up the stairs lol.

Alien Isolation is the game for you then. Lots and lots of hiding in that, hoping that the Alien doesn't twig where you're at. Very tense stuff.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 05-09-2016 4:29pm

kunst nugget wrote: »

Playing Silent Hill: Homecoming which I don't think is as bad as the reviews would suggest. A bit annoying in places, in particular the stupid fúcking sliding puzzle that I'm stuck on at the moment.

Over October, I'll probably get around to finishing Resident Evil 1 and start playing 0. I have a copy of Condemned 2 laying around so I'll probably give that a blast as well.

Glad it's not just me that didn't finish Resi 1, just got 0 lately, the guys in CeX got into an argument about how long you spend on a train and then my friends got into it lol I was just in the middle laughing.
Dinorex on here also not a fan of sliding puzzles and I think it was the first Project Zero had them really often so he stopped playing. Glad you're enjoying Homecoming though, that's all that matters sure

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kunst nugget wrote: »

Alien Isolation is the game for you then. Lots and lots of hiding in that, hoping that the Alien doesn't twig where you're at. Very tense stuff.

I've played it with Dinorex, I can't do duel analog very well so it's just funny to see me try to play. It's great fun, haven't finished it, I only played it at friend's houses.

lawlolawl · 05-09-2016 4:41pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I wish Japan was still pumping out horror games, the latest influx of Western indie games seem to think that jump scares are the height of horror. The culmination of which seems to be Layers of Fear which is one of the worst game I've ever played and not scary at all. The Japanese just knew how to do either super cheesy or genuine dread well.

Stuff like Until Dawn is kind of awful as well. All that is are jump scares, although I think it succeeds despite itself. That awful writing and over reliance on bad jump scares... it definitely nails the B horror movie vibe although I get the feeling it was a fluke.

I really liked Until Dawn but I 100% agree about Layers of Fear. I had it for ages but I waited until it was finished to play it.

Within 15 minutes I was just walking from jumpscare to jumpscare, completely stone faced except for the odd few that got some unintentional bouts of laughter from me on account of how cheesy they were. Didn't bother finishing it.

If that was the finished product of the whole Early Access thing then I would hate to play the work in progress. The final version was like some 15 year olds Unity game with slightly better visuals.

Links234 · 05-09-2016 4:48pm

I did this last year, I picked up Stasis as my Halloween game, which is pretty damn cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3eKjhTL1Zs

It's an isometric point & click adventure game with a sci-fi/horror theme, big inspiration from Alien, Event Horizon and the like. I loved it, it was creepy as all hell and really atmospheric, story is a bit generic and some of the puzzles were obtuse, but damned if it wasn't a truly memorable experience.

This year I'm not sure, I think I'll have to get back into The Evil Within as I've never finished it. I also picked up SOMA in the Steam sale, but only played about an hour of it, because Overwatch has been kinda dominating my gaming time. I also picked up DreadOut a little while back, dunno what possessed me, because I kinda doubt I'll be able to play much of it at all, but I really love Asian horror movies so that just managed to pique my interest enough that I kinda had to grab it. I'd say I'll definitely be picking up Yomawari as well, that's one game I was seriously hoping would get a PC release, so I'm pretty happy about that.

Edit: Oops, wrong youtube video linked! If anyone's wondering what I had posted by mistake, lets just say I've some very niche tastes in music.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 05-09-2016 5:01pm

I just did a little dance, Yomawari is Night Watch, I only just saw that googling it to reply to the post above. I can't believe it's coming to the west! I'm so happy!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 05-09-2016 5:08pm

Links234 wrote: »

I also picked up DreadOut a little while back, dunno what possessed me, because I kinda doubt I'll be able to play much of it at all, but I really love Asian horror movies so that just managed to pique my interest enough that I kinda had to grab it. I'd say I'll definitely be picking up

I actually backed it but never played it yet, I heard it was a bit glitchy or something?. Glad you did this last year before too and want to go it again this year.

Edit: Oops, wrong youtube video linked! If anyone's wondering what I had posted by mistake, lets just say I've some very niche tastes in music.

I think most missed it, I did anyway lol no worries!

Links234 · 05-09-2016 5:14pm

Oh! And I also may just pick up Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines again if it's cheap enough, and see how much better it is with mods. Sunk so many hours into that when it first came out, and I adored the hell out of it, even if it was a notoriously buggy mess.

Hey, remember the Ocean House Hotel mission? Yeah, you do.

Links234 · 05-09-2016 5:24pm

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

I think most missed it, I did anyway lol no worries!

This was it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WDghVCi1X8

I have a severe love of Japanese metal. That solo, oooh!

me_irl · 05-09-2016 5:31pm

If you want a few ideas, you can check out the Sh!tstorm of Scariness playlist(s) by Matt and Pat (back when they were still funny).

https://youtu.be/WWwX-QhWQy4?list=PL57hJfweW_2vdTqDavHVGZtszglPpS8hD

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 05-09-2016 5:34pm

Links234 wrote: »

This was it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WDghVCi1X8

I have a severe love of Japanese metal. That solo, oooh!

Your icon isn't helping but whenever I heard that type of singing I think of Maximum the Hormone (loved that song Bikini Sports Ponchin, the only one I other than Zetsubou Billy).
Off topic but ╮(╯▽╰)╭

Retr0gamer · 05-09-2016 6:09pm

lawlolawl wrote: »

I really liked Until Dawn but I 100% agree about Layers of Fear. I had it for ages but I waited until it was finished to play it.

Oh I enjoyed Until Dawn but can't help but shake the feeling that it was a fluke. I mean if it was a film it would be a god awful film but the interactive elements make it more than a sum of its parts and it has a campy bad horror movie vibe which is great... Although I think it's not what the developers intended.

Skerries · 06-09-2016 5:29pm

this looks decent but I might wait till it is cheaper
It's basically Lemmings but you control Zombies instead and some of the humans can fight back

http://store.steampowered.com/app/416680/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyxs5NZNQfs

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 06-09-2016 8:34pm

Skerries wrote: »

this looks decent but I might wait till it is cheaper
It's basically Lemmings but you control Zombies instead and some of the humans can fight back

http://store.steampowered.com/app/416680/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyxs5NZNQfs

I think it's something I'd play sometime, I wonder if Previously Recorded play something like that. Maybe it's just the idea of mash up old game with zombies, they did play an Oregon
Trail type zombie game.

Links234 · 06-09-2016 8:44pm

Yeah, Zombie Night Terror is one I've had my eye on for a while, think I mentioned it on my indie games thread in the PC forum a while back. Which, if we're talking about indie games, then something that's not quite horror, but brings a seriously interesting and unique world and mythos with it, is Sunless Sea. Must get back into that game, it's quite atmospheric and unsettling. It's eerie in a way that I've rarely seen in gaming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIk2PqPU3o

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 09-09-2016 5:50pm

Hopefully it's not just me that played Siren but I found this old post through my Facebook

Camera crew visits the abandoned town that inspired Japanese survival horror game “Siren”

Even if you're not a fan I think it's wonderfully eerie

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/09/09/camera-crew-visits-the-abandoned-town-that-inspired-japanese-survival-horror-game-siren%E3%80%90video%E3%80%91/

super_furry · 10-09-2016 10:20am

They might be old but there's a couple of PC classics that I always thought were right up there with the best horror games to come out anywhere.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfQ-Xqt-d0A

And Clive Barker's Undying, which gets extra-points for being set in Ireland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XESNI4V8UOA

dunworth1 · 11-09-2016 11:37am

Wow this is a great idea I've never actually thought of doing it.

Think I'll start play soma and alien isolation and then maybe the dead space games.

This of course will be in addition to watching the usual horror films Friday the 13th, Halloween etc..

pasta-solo · 11-09-2016 12:19pm

I played Year Walk recently and would recommend that. Its a puzzle game ostensibly, only about 90 minutes long, and has a really creepy atmosphere/aesthetic based on Swedish folklore.

I played on Wii U but its also available on Steam and mobile devices. Best played with the companion app, which is what the Gamepad on Wii U is used for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVz_MhMsAvs

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 11-09-2016 12:38pm

dunworth1 wrote: »

Wow this is a great idea I've never actually thought of doing it.

Think I'll start play soma and alien isolation and then maybe the dead space games.

This of course will be in addition to watching the usual horror films Friday the 13th, Halloween etc..

Not my own idea of course, someone else had done it and I joined in and used to post about it on my blog. Unfortunately it wasn't any way interactive so I didn't do it last year and for this year is start a thread here and share their idea.

I played a bit of Soma in a friend's place and we actually finished it in a night. I missed some bits but it was enjoyable, I didn't find it very scary, more kinda thriller but that's just imo. I'd like to play Alien Isolation again.

Speaking of movies, talking about the Shinning (jkjk) last night was getting in the mood! Lol. Monster Madness starts again, it's the last one this year.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 11-09-2016 12:42pm

pasta-solo wrote: »

I played Year Walk recently and would recommend that. Its a puzzle game ostensibly, only about 90 minutes long, and has a really creepy atmosphere/aesthetic based on Swedish folklore.

I played on Wii U but its also available on Steam and mobile devices. Best played with the companion app, which is what the Gamepad on Wii U is used for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVz_MhMsAvs

I'll definitely give that a try when I get a Wii U, I need one to play Fatal Frame V anyway. Tried to play it bit I found the main theme a bit overwhelming. I think I could only play it in bits not like the other Fatal Frames.

um7y1h83ge06nx · 11-09-2016 9:16pm

Good excuse for me to play Soma and Alien Isolation. Although for sheer edge of the seat stuff I've started playing Dark Souls for the first time a few days ago!