I feel like I’ve played a good amount of horror titles, and I find I don’t really get scared much anymore.

What are some titles that scared you the most? I would love to hear your recommendations!

  • Chloyster [she/her]M
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    112 months ago

    At the time, PT was the scariest thing I’d ever played. Was super obsessed with that demo.

    Will never get over silent hills cancelation

    • @[email protected]
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      72 months ago

      PT stands on its own in the horror video game genre IMO. Too many games fail to convey one of the elements of horror well, typically overusing shock and disgust as it’s hard to achieve psychological terror when your art medium has the potential for funny things to happen (like physics objects in amnesia deciding to fling themselves all over the room when you let go because they bounced wrong). Really interrupts the flow of the scared juice. The other half of horror games give you enough tools to completely defuse the horror after an initial few encounters (death stranding) or straight up don’t try to scare you situationally, just acting as combat action games with horror themes (later resident evils).

      PT remakes for PC are in a good place finally, “P.T. emulation” being a bit closer than unreal PT to the source material as a project. How konami could possibly drop a project with star power like kojima+del toro is beyond me, especially considering reception to the demo was GREAT and it was slated to release while streamers playing horror games was still in vogue. Unbelievable fumbled bag lying there

    • @[email protected]OP
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      32 months ago

      PT is great. I wish it was still easily accessible.

      That whole situation is such a shame. There was so much potential there!