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TitianGerm · 29-04-2021 07:58AM

Jordan 199 wrote: »

What's the scariest horror survival game one could play?

You could run through house listings in Dublin. Pretty scary to see the price of property up there

Markitron · 29-04-2021 08:05AM

Jordan 199 wrote: »

What's the scariest horror survival game one could play?

This answer will vary wildly from person to person, Alien Isolation and Amnesia Dark Descent would likely be popular choices though.

TitianGerm wrote: »

You could run through house listings in Dublin. Pretty scary to see the price of property up there

He wants to be scared, not scared to actual death.

Retr0gamer · 29-04-2021 08:08AM

Jordan 199 wrote: »

What's the scariest horror survival game one could play?

System shock 2 or silent hill.

Soma is worth playing as well for something more modern.

Jordan 199 · 29-04-2021 08:11AM

Markitron wrote: »

Amnesia Dark Descent

The thing about those Amnesia games is that I don't remember playing them.

Zero-Cool · 29-04-2021 08:14AM

Resident Evil 7 VR. Scariest experience I've ever had from any medium. If the Baker family don't getcha, the motion sickness surely will.

TitianGerm · 29-04-2021 08:15AM

If you have access to an older console you could try Fatal Frame (think it was called Project Zero in Europe). That used to freak me out when I played it on Xbox.

The Raging Bile Duct · 29-04-2021 08:23AM

Jordan 199 wrote: »

What's the scariest horror survival game one could play?

RE7, RE2 Remake, Alien Isolation, Evil Within 2.

Retr0gamer · 29-04-2021 09:06AM

I'd recommend Soma over everything else when it comes to scares. It's genuinely scary but also has a cracker of a hard sci-fi plot.

RE2 Remake is the better game but it's pretty campy like all the resi games.

The Raging Bile Duct · 29-04-2021 10:27AM

Soma has one of the most depressing endings to a game ever. Up there with the film version of the Mist for me.

Zero-Cool · 29-04-2021 10:31AM

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

Soma has one of the most depressing endings to a game ever. Up there with the film version of the Mist for me.

I'm a sucker for depressing games' Only played about 10 minutes of this before and never went back but don't know why. Need to give it another go.

Retr0gamer · 29-04-2021 10:41AM

Zero-Cool wrote: »

I'm a sucker for depressing games' Only played about 10 minutes of this before and never went back but don't know why. Need to give it another go.

You really should. It's incredible. You probably didn't even get into the game proper.

I think the ending is even better than the Mist. Just so utterly bleak. Really hit home.

JimBurnley · 29-04-2021 10:45AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You really should. It's incredible. You probably didn't even get into the game proper.

I think the ending is even better than the Mist. Just so utterly bleak. Really hit home.

I have Soma in my library, guessing it was on ps plus at some point? Might give it a bash over the long wkend

BlitzKrieg · 29-04-2021 10:52AM

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Resident Evil 7 VR. Scariest experience I've ever had from any medium. If the Baker family don't getcha, the motion sickness surely will.

It has nothing on alien isolation in vr

Xenji · 29-04-2021 11:21AM

Jordan 199 wrote: »

What's the scariest horror survival game one could play?

Darkwood or Phasmophobia.

Ikenie no Yoru but it would be very hard to track down.

Zero-Cool · 29-04-2021 11:25AM

This looks class, Beat Cop, but it's 15 quid on psn and hasn't been on sale since 2019. Would give it a go of bit cheaper. Anyone play it? Sounds kinda like This is The Police. Something about the mundane tasks of writing parking tickets seems relaxing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It5YAZ5G6Mg

Jordan 199 · 29-04-2021 11:56AM

Xenji wrote: »

Darkwood or Phasmophobia.

Ikenie no Yoru but it would be very hard to track down.

Darkwood looks interesting as it's top down. Don't think I ever played a top down video game.

Markitron · 29-04-2021 01:47PM

I didn't find SOMA to be at all interesting mechanically, but the story and setting are fantastic. I think the patch they added to make it essentially a walking simulator might actually make it a better game, I might give it another try on that setting.

BlitzKrieg · 29-04-2021 02:14PM

Markitron wrote: »

I didn't find SOMA to be at all interesting mechanically, but the story and setting are fantastic. I think the patch they added to make it essentially a walking simulator might actually make it a better game, I might give it another try on that setting.

Yeah I've had a few friends I recommended it to after that patch dropped. Because I did find it was at points a very frustrating experience from a gameplay perspective

I also replayed it with that patch because honestly some parts you genuinely feel you must have missed something as you were too focused on avoiding the nightmare fuel let loose.

Markitron · 29-04-2021 02:17PM

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

Yeah I've had a few friends I recommended it to after that patch dropped. Because I did find it was at points a very frustrating experience from a gameplay perspective

I also replayed it with that patch because honestly some parts you genuinely feel you must have missed something as you were too focused on avoiding the nightmare fuel let loose.

So you found it better the second time around yea? Did they just remove the enemies completely?

The Raging Bile Duct · 29-04-2021 02:23PM

All you had to do was run like Jiminy from the enemies in the original game. It wasn't really that difficult.

Zero-Cool · 29-04-2021 02:23PM

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

Yeah I've had a few friends I recommended it to after that patch dropped. Because I did find it was at points a very frustrating experience from a gameplay perspective

I also replayed it with that patch because honestly some parts you genuinely feel you must have missed something as you were too focused on avoiding the nightmare fuel let loose.

Hhhmm on one hand, I'd like to experience the game as intended but I do find it annoying when I'm trying to explore a place but avoiding an enemy at the same time.

Retr0gamer · 29-04-2021 02:44PM

There's maybe 6 enemies in the entire game. The only one I found frustrating was that worm thing right at the end but that was over pretty quickly.

The Raging Bile Duct · 29-04-2021 02:53PM

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Hhhmm on one hand, I'd like to experience the game as intended but I do find it annoying when I'm trying to explore a place but avoiding an enemy at the same time.

I can't say I found it very annoying from what I remember. You'll have a couple of instances of having to run away from an enemy. The game is hardly crawling with them.

Zero-Cool · 29-04-2021 04:30PM

Speaking of not dealing with enemies, i see Amnesia added an adventure mode today.

https://twitter.com/frictionalgames/status/1387783141981622272?s=19

Retr0gamer · 29-04-2021 04:43PM

Ign reviewer mode

Markitron · 29-04-2021 06:57PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Ign reviewer mode

I remember the bloke reviewing Alien Isolation complained that it was too hard, then later mentioned in the review that he selected hard difficulty. Gave it a lower score than Colonial Marines.

Top professionalism there.

Retr0gamer · 29-04-2021 07:02PM

They're not all bad in ign. Some good people there and a few great journalists got their start there. But they wouldn't go to them ever for reviews now.

Markitron · 29-04-2021 07:16PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

They're not all bad in ign. Some good people there and a few great journalists got their start there. But they wouldn't go to them ever for reviews now.

Maybe in the late 90's/early 2000's. Tbf for all I know it could the best site on the planet these days, I haven't visited in about 7 years.

Zero-Cool · 29-04-2021 07:22PM

I've watched a couple of ign reviews on YouTube lately and they've all been by Luke Reilly who was actually quite good. All seem to be fair points. Good have just gotten flukey but I'd definitely give one of his reviews a go if i was looking for one.

The Phantom Pain · 29-04-2021 07:40PM

Sadly, IGN has buckled to the rabid mob in their comments section so they're not as honest in their reviews as they used to be.
I still go to them first for rapid fire reviews but if I want to dig deeper then SkillUp, ACG, Mr Matty and Black Hokage are my guys.
I don't think people understand how difficult and thankless it is to be a games journalist.

I've watched that Alien Isolation review a few times now and I don't see anywhere where he mentions playing the game on Hard?
He just says that you shouldn't because the game is difficult. I've heard that even on Easy the game is hard as well. It's by Ryan Mccaffrey who is a good reviewer. He makes me laugh a couple of times with how frustrated he sounds especially when he said that the blatant way the story resets itself towards the end was laughable.

His main issue is that it's too long and has too much padding in the third act to the point that it ruined the fear and just became a slog, but of course those predisposed to liking the game are only ever going to come up with excuses as to why he didn't like it to make themselves feel better and, "you just didn't like it because you suck at the game!" is the oldest trick in the book. The comment section under the review is disgusting.

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