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| exonerator:
It's no modern 3D horror title along the lines of Silent Hill or Resident Evil, but one that comes to mind for me is Splatterhouse. This game must be mentioned in any "horror games" list. It's incredible, and for the time, it was pushing what could be acceptable in a video game. It was gory before the ESRB, and it was a genuinely fun arcade beat-em-up. |
| burningdoom:
--- Quote from: exonerator on September 28, 2014, 12:19:01 pm --- It's no modern 3D horror title along the lines of Silent Hill or Resident Evil, but one that comes to mind for me is Splatterhouse. This game must be mentioned in any "horror games" list. It's incredible, and for the time, it was pushing what could be acceptable in a video game. It was gory before the ESRB, and it was a genuinely fun arcade beat-em-up. --- End quote --- In my opinion, that game is all style over substance. I owned it on my TG-16. It does show a bit of gore and horror imagery for the time. But the game-play is about as simple as an action-platformer can be. You can't even really call it an action-platformer. You have a very basic attack. You walk to the right. And you hit bad guys along the way before they hit you. In the most basic sense. It got repetitive fast, and was more of a conversation piece than anything. |
| argyle:
BTW, is anyone else getting The Evil Within in a couple of weeks? I watched the TGS trailer for that today and I gotta say it looks extremely good! |
| krelyan:
Eternal Darkness is fantastic! I remember immediately starting the game again as soon as I finished it. Other than that, I'd vote for the first hour or so in the village in RE4. I'm not sure if I've ever found a game creepy all the way through. It seems once you get used to the mechanics the scare tactics go out the window which is a shame. |
| evilnick:
--- Quote from: krelyan on October 06, 2014, 10:26:09 am ---Eternal Darkness is fantastic! I remember immediately starting the game again as soon as I finished it. Other than that, I'd vote for the first hour or so in the village in RE4. I'm not sure if I've ever found a game creepy all the way through. It seems once you get used to the mechanics the scare tactics go out the window which is a shame. --- End quote --- Eternal Darkness remains my all-time favorite game, and what it lacked in jump-scares, it more than made up for it with one of the best horror atmospheres in gaming. It's rare for me to finish a game these days and just replay it again, but I did it with Eternal Darkness--three times, until I had the complete ending after playing through aligned with all three of the fighting Ancients. It's one of the only games I would re-purchase in an HD remake format if released, simply to support it again. I wish Nintendo would just hand the franchise to Retro and tell them to bring it back. |
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