Survival Horror Games

[Ayen]

Good god almighty, there are so many games in this genre I haven't even touched it's not funny.

Clocktower
Hellnight
Parasite Eve (Saving it for Women's Month 2016)
OverBlood
Echo Night
Alone in the Dark
Koudelka
D
Chaos Break
Martian Gothic: Unification
Galerians
Nightmare Creatures
Fear Effect
The Note
SilverLord
Countdown Vampires
Baroque
Vampire Hunter D (Wait, there's a game of this!?)
Doom II (Why is this on a Survival Horror list?)
Soul of the Samurai

And most of those are games for the PlayStation. Talk about Survival Horror here! Favorite games, least favorite games, and if there are any in the list above you would recommend/tell to stay away from.

I'm a pretty big fan of the Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and F.E.A.R. series. I also enjoyed Eternal Darkness and Amnesia. I didn't enjoy Dino Crisis that much. Felt too much like a RE clone.

I'll be playing some new survival horror games this Halloween. Namely Alien: Isolation, The Evil Within, Outland, and the first Dead Space.

Discuss.

[Randy]

I've always struggled with the more hardcore survival horrors out there. I like horror when it's combined with more adventure or action type gameplay. Resident Evil I love, despite it's fall from grace. Although I think the series that does horror the best in the modern industry is actually Dark Souls. Not survival horror but still, it gets something right that most fail at.

[Fynn]

I've only ever really played the original four Team Silent SH games.

AND I LOVE THEM SOOOOOO!!!!! 2 and 4 especially.

[Slothy]

I didn't enjoy Dino Crisis that much. Felt too much like a RE clone.

An RE clone with Dinosaurs. :colbert:

The second one was shit though.

[Ayen]

I didn't enjoy Dino Crisis that much. Felt too much like a RE clone.

An RE clone with Dinosaurs. :colbert:

The second one was trout though.

I believe what you meant to say was that the second was an improvement on the first and the series started to feel like it was getting its own identity.

Yeah, that's what you meant to say.

[Slothy]

The second one was even more of an RE clone, but tried to make the old style RE games and their controls into an action game. It was an abysmal failure on every level. The original at least tried new things without attempting an ill conceived genre switch.

[Psychotic]

I've been on a bit of a bender with them over the past two weeks, beat Amnesia, Silent Hill 2 and 3. Probably going to have a look at Outlast next.

[Ayen]

Would you consider Fatal Frame (Project Zero over in Europe and Japan) to be survival horror?

Well, that is the genre it's classified under, so... I don't see why not.

[Pumpkin]

I get too scared. I watched sharky play Alien: Isolation and I had to look away or distract myself quite often because I get spooked. I tried like 5 minutes of it and my heart was beating so fast that it hurt. I've seen a friend play one of the Silent Hill and one of the Clock Tower games, but I only saw a bit of them. It's a bit of a shame because Silent Hill seems to have a really good story but I'd need to watch someone else play during the day time and then have them not leave me alone for a while

[Skyblade]

Would you consider Fatal Frame (Project Zero over in Europe and Japan) to be survival horror? 'Cause that's a pretty darn good series. You basically fight ghosts (it's not as cheesy as it sounds) with a camera in FPS view. You have to wait until the ghosts get reaaal close and personal before you can take a shot and damage them. The stories themselves are almost always fascinating and generally based or inspired on some sort of old Japanese myth. Fatal Frame V is coming to the US soon enough on the WiiU (grr), anyone going to pick that up? The story is inspired by Aokigahara forest in Japan, the freaky "suicide" forest. O.o

Also, Ninty, please give us Fatal Frame IV for god's sake. ;___; Maybe an HD remaster, pls? Is there any hope of a PS3 HD remaster of the first four games?

You are aware that there is a Fatal Frame IV coming to the Wii U using the GamePad as your camera with gyro aiming, right? It was shown off at E3, just not at Nintendo's Digital Event.

I've tried Silent Hill, Clock Tower, and Fatal Frame recently, at the request of a friend. I liked Fatal Frame the best. But I have to say, I don't really get much "horror" out of this genre. They feel like fairly difficult action games where your greatest enemy is terrible controls (gyro controls on Fatal Frame will be awesome) and worse camera angles. They're decent games, and I love the puzzles and atmosphere, but they don't really scare me at all.

[Ayen]

I get too scared. I watched sharky play Alien: Isolation and I had to look away or distract myself quite often because I get spooked. I tried like 5 minutes of it and my heart was beating so fast that it hurt. I've seen a friend play one of the Silent Hill and one of the Clock Tower games, but I only saw a bit of them. It's a bit of a shame because Silent Hill seems to have a really good story but I'd need to watch someone else play during the day time and then have them not leave me alone for a while

It's even worse after playing a game of Silent Hill there's fog outside your house the next day.

Not even kidding.

[escobert]

DayZ > all. You actually have to survive! And the zombies aren't the horror part. Other players are :p

[Ayen]

DayZ > all. You actually have to survive! And the zombies aren't the horror part. Other players are :p

I noticed that trend in a lot of things. Walking Dead, The Last of Us, etc. People are the real trout you need to worry about, the zombies are just an afterthought. Well, I guess that isn't as apparent in the Last of Us as it is The Walking Dead, but still.

[Vyk]

Loved Alien: Isolation. Dead Space. Alan Wake. The Last of Us. Great gaming experiences. Resident Evil Revelations 2 was really good as well. Pretty great co-op horror with the typical Resident Evil flair. Not quite as combat intensive as 5 and 6, so it's a little closer to its roots

I didn't have many opportunities to enjoy the old school originators like the first few RE games and I think I've only played one Silent Hill game

[Levian]

I like that you mentioned Clock Tower first.

I usually say I love Clock Tower, but the truth is all four clock tower games has horrible unforgivable game controls, and might be better off as memories than a game to be played in 2015. I still love the games though. If I was a mother they'd be the babies I'd never stop breastfeeding.

Recently I haven't played much survival horror. I played Outlast a while back, I recently finish Among the Sleep and I've started the evil within.

A couple good games not mentioned:

Haunting Ground
Obscure

[Mr. Carnelian]

Does Slenderman count as survival horror?

We all used to play that a LOT during sixth form. In free periods - when we should have been studying or revising - we'd gather in the computer room, turn off all the lights, and gather round a computer screen whilst someone played Slenderman.

The experience was surprisingly good fun. I did a similar thing recently with a bunch of friends playing Five Nights at Freddy's, on a big telly. We took turns playing, whilst the others would shout out things like "CLOSE THE DOOR ON THE LEFT RIGHT NOW!" from the sofa.

Good times. :spin:

[McLovin']

Never really got into them. I really want to play a good one. I feel a good horror game should be cinematic in nature. So until someone makes a Virtual Reality horror game, I don't think anything will come close to impressing me. (Allison Road for VR is what im hyped for)

[escobert]

DayZ > all. You actually have to survive! And the zombies aren't the horror part. Other players are :p

I noticed that trend in a lot of things. Walking Dead, The Last of Us, etc. People are the real trout you need to worry about, the zombies are just an afterthought. Well, I guess that isn't as apparent in the Last of Us as it is The Walking Dead, but still.
This video is form the very early era of DayZ SA but, I think it captures the "horror" part so well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2N8kMbqsbI

But then you also have people who play as Heros and help others!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2fwOumX_TQ

[Crop]

Dino Crisis 1 was my favourite. Playing that when I was a kid, I used to have to pause the game out of fear when the T-Rex was chasing me and I had gotten myself stuck in a corner.

And to clarify: Both Dino Crisis 1 and 2 were excellent games for different reasons. I'm certainly a fan of the original more, but I'll still pick up 2 from time to time.

[Mirage]

i cannot into survival horror

at all.

I tried silent hills 2 but i had to stop because i couldn't play and survive with my eyes closed