Let's have a spooky survival horror thread.
>What survival horror game(s) are you playing right now?
>Your favourite survival horror game/franchise of all time?
>Any hidden gems you'd recommend?
>Your thoughts on the state of the genre today?
This thread is a good representation of the spot the genre is in: dead in the water
Not playing any right now, though I'd love to hear about some good ones coming to PC soon.
Best of all time is SH2 & SH3, RE2, The Suffering, Condemned, Haunting Ground, and Dead Space.
>>336002602
Does Harvester count?
Outlast 2 is coming I guess. Otherwise the genre is pretty dead.
There's Night Cry, which is the spiritual successor to Clock Tower.
Although most people say it so so quality.
I baught it , but haven't played it yet.
>>336003434
Night Cry was alright, I guess. I know I shouldn't be judging a game on its budget, but man, that budget...
I want a reverse survival horror game where I'm the monster hunting down stupid fucking teenagers for once.
Oh a>>336003795
Funny you should say that, although it multi-player.
Dead By Daylight.
I'm playing through SOMA. I'm at the part where Catherine(?) warns me about a blind faceless robot or some shit. Then I went down some stairs into the bedrock of the facility. Really spooked out. There's obvious buildup going on for the monster. Speaking of, are these robots designed bythe crazy asian that convinced everyone to kill themselves for muh continuity? Because when I am on the ocean floor and see black crablike tendrals spearing into the facility I think ALIENS. What is the deal with these robots anyways? Why are they so monstrous?
>>336002602
survival horror is dying because developers have not found a clever reason as to why players should survive.
"Because" is not a good enough answer.
>>336004810
What the hell are you talking about? Is this meant to be read with 7 layers of sarcasm? The reason players should survive is so they can beat them game and get scared along the way.
>Still no game where you can build your own haunted house/place from scratch with its own back story and event triggers
Ghost master 2 when?
>>336004323
You will find out everything if you finish the game, and focus on the story. My only downside in the game is that certain explanations for plot elements are occasionally either in optional dialogue or spoken so little about in standard dialogue that it's extremely easy to miss.
>>336004810
To be honest, gaming in its entirety is practically dead. After the stagnation of the AAA industry, and the rise and fall of indie gaming, the medium is now probably at its worst. I've stopped paying attention to most AAA/indie development (aside from very few studios that still have my attention) because I honestly don't feel like looking for a gold nugget in a pool of shit. It's not just survival-horror that's overdone and just forgotten completely by almost all AAA studios.
2012-2013 were good years for horrors but now it went fuck itself
>>336005036
>MFW the developers all abandoned the team and game making after Ghost Master 1
Been playing Dying Light and it's pretty terrifying at night.
>>336006356
Faggot.
>>336002602
Siren and Fatal Frame 3
Probably Silent Hill with Fatal Frame right behind
Everyone already knows the best ones so I'll talk about the ones with some flaws that are still worth it
Rule of Rose is great story-wise but the gameplay is absolute shit and the loading times are ass, you shouldwatch it
ILLBLEED and D2 are both really weird and worth a shot, ILLBLEED's gameplay is pretty bad though, D2's is all right but there's a lot of backtracking.
There are a lot of old FMV games that are neat if not that scary now. I'd recommend Sanitarium, Harvester and The 7th Guest. Phantasmagoria is okay but takes ages to get started.
As for freeware games or older games, I'd recommend the SNES Clock Tower, the first Alone in the Dark, Ib, and The Witch's House. Corpse Party is overrated as fuck, don't bother unless you're intro gore shit.
Genre is dead, hopefully it'll revive so I can add more games to my collection. I think the most recent one I justified adding was Siren: Blood Curse. Does anyone know if there's been good recent games? Was Night Cry worth buying?
>>336009279
*into gore shit
>>336009279
>fatal frame
Mah nigga.
The original Fatal Frame is still probably my fav survival horror game of all time. Siren and SH2 are up there as well.
I wish Tecmo would start developping Fatal Frame games for PC ;_;
Starting a thread about a genre that has about 20 games only half of which are good
>>336003376
it's just another locker simulator
>>336009727
Why is that a problem?
>>336009885
Because I want to talk about some horror games that aren't survival horror
>>336009995
Go ahead.
>>336009995
Like what? Horror themed point and click adventure games? ''Horror'' FPS games like Undying that stop being scary after 2 - 3 maps because devs put all spook factor into the beginning?
>>336003434
Those whacky hair physics though.
>>336004119
That looks like Damned but better looking.
>playing
RE1
>best
RE1 is the best survival horror, but the first Silent Hill is my favourite game overall.
>gems
Most good ones are well known already. I think Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare for PS1 was a pretty nice and underrated RE clone experience. The Note for PS1 has some hilarious voice acting, but the game itself is a weird first-person game about lighting candles and closing drapes.
>the genre today
Dead, buried, absolute horseshit. Just a bunch of shitty third person action games marketed as survival horror.
>>336010323
I just finished Stasis. It was pretty good but kind of unsatisfying.
does cry of fear and killing floor count as horror survival games?
>>336011626
Cry of Fear yes, Killing Floor no it's just FPS game with zombies you stupid fucking idiotic nigger.
>>336010323
If he wants to talk about horror-themed/unsettling point and clicks I actually have a few
https://youtu.be/F9MJdUbhXPs?t=29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKLCXbk9nbI
The Dark Eye is pretty straightforward but you'd better get a fucking walkthrough for Bad Day at the Midway because of the random Ted deaths and the weird way time works
>>336011726
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO-RqbiN4to
what about the mod
>>336011831
>wave based shooter
>horror
>>336011726
He's young, take it easy. He's bullied enough at school.
>>336002602
Dark Souls1/2
Resident evil 4,revelation 1/2
Forbidden Siren
Project Zomboid
dead island
>>336012031
>wave based shooter
>with gitty atmosphere
>not horror
>>336012125
what does this have to do with geting bullied at school?
>>336011831
FFS.
Any game where you take on the role of Rambo armed to the teeth with assault weapons is NOT a horror game.
I mean how can you feel fear if you're a trained soldier armed to the teeth.
People will point to Resident Evil but forget that in RE you were just a cop with a handgun in most cases. Leon was a rookie cop and Claire was just a civilian.
>>336012341
so you're part of the "pussy who can't fight back horror games" group? survival horror is surviving horror(s). some people are afraid of spiders, clowns, dolls and other things. back when i was 14 i couldn't go through HL2 Episode 2 because of the maggots freaking me out so i just didn't play the game at all. as long as it has some sort of horror in it whether it be in any shape or form and you have to survive it, that's a survival horror.
>>336012863
>some sort of horror and you have to survive it
Was Warrior Within a horror game, then?
>>336012341
But... FEAR
>>336002602
Here are my favorites:
>Silent Hill 1, 2, 3
>Resident Evil 4
>Dead Space 1, 2
>The Suffering
>Alien Isolation
I'm emulating Kuon right now, it's a lot better than I expected. Not very scary though but the graphics are beautiful and the silkworm concept is fascinating.
My fav franchise would be Fatal Frame/Project Zero. I even bought a Wii U for FF5. Too bad it was shit.
The one hidden gem I can't recommend enough is Hellnight (also called Dark Messiah) for the ps1. So atmospheric, so scary, I love everything about it.
My thoughts of the genre today is that it's dead. It's dead and gone and there's no reviving it. SH is dead, RE is shit, FF is shit, PC indie horrors have never been good... PS1-PS2 era was the golden era of survival horrors.
Anyone tried the Corpse Party games? Are they scary or just gore-bait?
>>336013662
Good taste bro.
I'll have to check out Hellnight.
I'm not as pessimistic about the genre as you though. I think we'll see a resurgence at some point.
Horror has always been a niche genre anyway. Whether we're talking about video games or movies.
>>336013680
Gore-bait with a lot of loud noises and spooky gore ghosts. Every death scene is punctuated by three minutes of UAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAH! AHHHHHHHH?!? *splort* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Best thing to come out of it was the one parody ending in Mogeko Castle
Silent Hill 2>Silent Hill 1>Silent Hill 3>>>Silent Hill 4>Silent Hill: SM>>>>>>>>The Rest
prove me wrong
>>336014136
Silent Hill 1 = Silent Hill 3 = Silent Hill 2 > Silent Hill 4 >>>> Silent Hill: but then she woke up and it was all a dream/the rest of that shit
There I objectively proved you wrong
>>336013972
My opinion:
Silent Hill 2 > Silent Hill 3 = Silent Hill > Others.
I actually still can't decide if I prefer SH2 or SH3.
>>336002602
I only recently truly started recently with Resident Evil Revelationson 3DS
will there ever be another game like p.t.?
>inb4 allison road
>>336003795
Friday the 13th will let you play as Jason, also the other game anon replied about.
Should I be ashamed that I find this game scary?
>>336015115
Game is pretty damn fun. The last episode released is a fucking nightmare if you take care of the first monster ASAP.
I wonder when part 2 is coming
>>336015379
Meant to say if you don't take care of the initial monster.
>>336002602
question: are there any survival horror games that feature vampires?
>>336015782
no one makes them cos they suck mate
>>336003376
Outlast 1 was so fucking dissapointing for me. I don't know why I expected anything else than linear corridors, dumb AI and scripted events.
For a survival horror that actually looks decent I'd say Routine, which I'm surprised it has not been mentioned yet. Development is slow as fuck but it looks great.
I think video games are the best medium for horror
>>336008647
rude
>>336015782
Vampires are extremely intelligent in a real human way. Usually horror games have brutes. Too hard to design I guess.
>>336016153
>no one makes them cos they suck mate
they definitely suck, but that's exactly how they make more of them
you didn't answer my question tho
>>336016380
In a sense you are right. Nothing gets my heart jackhammering harder than playing a horror game. But written horror still wins. Sorry. You actually get legit stories out of them. A videogame has never invaded my dreams. Meanwhile Stephen King has.
Reminder that pic related is the only decade old game series to be consistently good and improve on its own formula without upsetting the balance of what the previous games established.
>>336016206
>thread about good games
>mentions a game that does not and will not every exist
in other news, star citizen is the best survival horror game of all time
>>336015782
i dunno if you can classify this as a survival horror but Vampire: The Masquerade was a good game to sink you teach into although you have to look up how to set up end game cos alot of the skills bite
What's a good spooky game on PS1 and PSP?
I'm currently using my PSP again so suggestions would be great!
>>336016752
corps party
>>336012235
>Dark Souls
>Dead Island
kill yourself
>>336012237
If atmosphere makes a horror game then fucking Max Payne is one as well because of the nightmare levels.
>>336016560
>>336016560
I've never really cared about VR gaming but the idea of playing Fatal Frame in 3D makes my penis hard.
Dunno why everyone likes FF2 for some reason though. That was one of the weakest entries IMHO.
>>336016752
Silent Hill 1
Nosferatu curse of malachi
Nice game, but riddled with bugs
>>336012235
>dark souls 1/2
Dark Souls has some good spooky parts but it's not fucking survival horror, and Dark Souls II? Dark Souls II is the only souls game with zero scary parts, the only scary thing in DaS II is the texture tiling.
>>336017020
It was a big improvement over the first game in a lot of ways, but I hated how the ghost designs delved into pale human that walked slow and teleported.
Damned was a great spooky game to play with friends.
>>336017191
I honestly don't see how.
Sure the graphics were a bit more polished but everything else was worse.
Especially the story, the level design and the overall scariness of the game.
That said, it's still a great game but I like 1 and 3 a lot more.
>>336016206
I forgot this existed. Did Alien and SOMA assblast this game out of the water? What's taking them? I thought procedural generated games were easier to make.
>>336016752
Hellnight, aged like milk though
Also parasite eve
Do you see youself as a strong survivor type in zombie outbreaks? Or do you think you'll probably be one of the first to die?
Honest answers.
Why do so many survival horror games have you die instantly when a threat gets to you?
I don't mind not being able to kill an enemy or whatever but why can't you defend yourself to a t least stun a monster or something? It gets kind of old seeing hallway hide in a closet simulators.
Hopefully Siren gets another game when the devs finish Gravity Rush 2.
>>336017503
Die for sure and so would most ''muh zombie apocalypse would be so cool xD'' assholes let's face it fucking Chad The Bully makes them shit themselves but they think they would take on a living corpse/batshit human (depending on the setting) who can basically kill them with a scratch?
Lol anybody tried this?
Water Hazard
>>336017342
What about the level design made you feel it was a downgrade over the first?
>>336017503
If the situation was hopeless and there was no chance of society recovering I would honestly probably just kill myself rather than be brutally dismembered or eaten alive.
That being said if it was some kind of Zombie that doesn't need to brutally kill you by biting your jugular or some shit to turn you I might just try to survive, worst case I turn and I get to go fuck shit up.
>>336017342
>Liking 3
>>336017503
Depends, if it's TWD/Romero "I can powerwalk away and live" zombies then probably. If they have any ounce of intelligence or can move faster than a limp then I'm done for. If they're like crossed then I'll kill myself.
>>336014231
>>336014136
>Silent Hill 2 being better than or even equal to the other two games in the original trilogy.
no
playing through Haunting Ground right now. Just got to young Ricardo. I am digging how it just keeps raising the bar when you think it's going to end.
>>336017846
you can shoot a zombie with no legal repercussions, you cant kill the bullies unless hes a nigger or an abo though
>>336017503
Ninja mask seems like the best choice first of all if you're forced to use a gun or a bow then you fucked something up already and considering both zombies and bandits are always in packs I'm not seeing much use of unlimitted ammo if I'm gonna die soon anyway.
>>336017503
Depends on the type of zombies, it really does. If we are talking about the type that are slow (i.e Walkers) then I could see most of humanity surviving that easily, hopefully myself included. I would rush to my home town in my truck, pick up my family, then go out to my grandfather's farm and set up a fortress till it blew over or we had to sustain ourselves. I know enough about wilderness survival and I live in a place with a lot of flat land and not a lot of people so it wouldn't be too bad.
But if they can run? Fuck. That. If they are anything like zombies in L4D then I take my gun, drive home, put my family out of their misery and then do the same for myself.
>>336017503
I have no combat training other than >karate from when I was a middle schooler and no access to a well or firearms or any of that shit. I'd probably die. Also the zombie detector and mask seem to be the toppest tier in that image, followed by the water and the arrows. The dog is a fucking bro though.
>>336018181
I'm sure the nerd who didn't even punch the bully would kill a zombie because ''lack of rules unleashed my inner beast just like in anime xD'' .
>>336017871
The first had better pacing and a better mix of puzzles, combat, exploration and jump scares.
FF2 had a lot of backtracking and it was a lot more linear (i.e. you couldn't leave certain areas until you'd done x). FF1 gave you a lot more freedom.
Just my opinion of course.
>>336018157
OK hipster faggot.
>>336018083
I imagine a whole herd of zombies, shambling about while the dad from Malcom in the Middle is in his power walking gear, power walking as fast as he can away.
>>336018312
>>336017871
I should also mention that FF1 was genuinely scary and oppressive. I had to conserve film and healing items and every ghost battle was a tense experience.
In FF2 the battles were more of a tedious obstacle that I had to get through to progress the story. In fairness, perhaps I should have played on a higher difficulty setting.
>>336017503
Not sure which of those I would choose, too many good choices. If you could get a group together with each person choosing one of each would be great.
As for the question of if I would survive or die I'm not sure. I could see myself hesitating to go out into a crowd of zombies, but maybe being able to force myself if I really needed something or someone saved. Although I look over my shoulder a lot in places where I need to be cautious, like the cemetary nearby where there have been known kidnappings, I tend to get lost in my mind a little too long so I could see myself getting grabbed from behind. Also I would do terrible in a gun fight because I would spend too much time hiding behind cover.
I'm really hoping that Capcom won't fuck up the RE2 remake. Probably the last chance the genre has to get something really fantastic.
I've been playing Revelations a lot even though it's way more into action territory. The raid mode is pretty fun.
here's a list of survival horror games an anon gave me in another thread awhile back. might be some obscure stuff worth checking out for some of you:
Carrier for Dreamcast
Overblood for PS1
Clock Tower 3 and Haunting Ground
Rule of Rose
Obscure and Obscure the Aftermath
Onimusha
Galerians for PS1 and Galerians: Ash for PS2
Martian Gothic for PS1
Koudelka
Evil Dead for Dreamcast
Countdown Vampires for PS1
Deep Fear
D2
I was pretty big on zombies until every game spammed them and every fuckwit who never saw a zombie movie started this ''muh brains xD'' memery (newsflash fucktards only ROTD had zombies interested in brains and that was a comedy)
that said the concept of smart zombies is fucking scary and I wish it was utilized more
>>336018589
>I'm really hoping that Capcom won't fuck up the RE2 remake.
And do you find that these kind of delusions impact your day to day life?
>>336018806not yet
>>336018083
I haven't watched a Romero film in 2 decades. Are they supernatural like TWD? In TWD you can fucking remove their heads and the head won't die untill you fuck it's brain. You can chain a zombie in the bottom of a lake and it'll try to eat you from the bottom until some sort of brute trauma fucks its brain, I think they even somehow ward off most animals. Birds and fish definitely.
>>336005497
Been trying to discuss why tho. Are tasteless 12 year olds really generating enough revenue that developers forego making good games for the people that actually enjoy them? I feel that if they spent a little more making better games more actual fans would start buying again generating more revenue and the casuals will still buy and benefit indirectly from having to play decent games.
WHY DID EVERYTHING I LOVED AS A CHILD FORSAKE ME
>>336018589
I wouldn't call onimusha or koudelka horror. Both are great games though.
>>336017437
I'm pretty sure the game has less than 10 people working on it.
>>336018471
>FF
>Used to fear that a blind ghost or monk could pop up at any moment and ruin my day
>Shit like the floating women's head moved, despite being easy to fight, their erratic movement and being unsure where they could come from made me feel real unconformable if I had to fight them
>On the last part of the game had to fight a monk and black haired ghost in the same room
>FF2
>Most of the ghosts just walk slowly towards you
>Walk up to ghosts and did point blank zero shots left and right
>Only enemy I had trouble with were the twins and the chained guy until I learned to back up after snapping him
>Only game over I got was from running to the exit without trying to rescue Mayu
Does higher difficulties make the second game better or is it just "We have more health and do more damage!"? I hope the third is better.
>>336018491
I'm glad people here are rational. I'd try to survive if they were the slow ones too. As far as dealing with the humans that would suck. Most of us aren't combat trained, closest I have is playing rugby and paintball. Just try to remember to shoot blind to scare then just run, it's hard as fuck to hit a moving target.
The actual hardest thing is exhaustion. Try sprinting/crouching/carrying equipment/ trying to aim a firearm. Never done it but I could maybe do it for ten minutes and I currently work out.
>>336018253
>But if they can run? Fuck. That. If they are anything like zombies in L4D then I take my gun, drive home, put my family out of their misery and then do the same for myself.
That makes sense if they're smart savage sadists like Crossed. But if they're mindless running rage virus brutes like L4D or 28 Days then it'd be fucking stupid to kill your family. The zombies would have to pinpoint you fucks first and they don't have magic to stop them from deteriorating.
>>336002602
Does Nobihaza count? Currently playing the VX remake, going to play all of them.
This game also made me try the classics. Biohazard 0 was fantastic. I played it first though and regret it. 1 was shit compared to it.I then tried to reinstall Dying Light because I was hungry for more zombies. Uninstalled an hour later.
>>336002926
first post best post
>>336019712
>Biohazard 0 was fantastic. I played it first though and regret it. 1 was shit compared to it.
you're out of your mind.
>>336017176
Well, I kinda disagree.
You can turn DS into a horror game if you limit yourself to items and certain healing items
Been thinking of replaying Shadow Man. Shits got a great atmosphere.
>>336019853
It still isn't a fucking survival horror game. Just because a game has a scary part doesn't make it survival horror.
>>336019853
By that logic FTL is a horror game because scrap is scarce.
>>336011324
What about Alien Isolation? It was a breath of fresh air and AAA.
>>336017278
Agreed, except the ghost monster was kinda shit and certain maps had fuck awful level design, the deer monster and mary were scary as fuck though
>>336009648
Nintendo have the rights now
How was 5 anyway?
>>336020078
People compare it to MGSV, take of that what you will.
>>336002602
>playing
replaying F.E.A.R and its expansions
>Favorite
Fatal Frame. have the first 3 on ps2 that ill be replaying soon
>Hidden gems
not exactly hidden but that Spooky's House of Jumpscares was alright
>Thoughts
shame this genre is dying out and ignored most of the time. Alien Isolation and Layers of Fear are the only decent titles to emerge from the last couple years
>>336018628
>smart zombies
So Bioshock? Alan Wake? Project Zomboid lets you choose whether the zombies can use doors, run, and shit.
>>336018628
ROTD also had the first running zombies didn't? That movie is underrated as fuck.
>>336020315
Bioshock doesn't have zombies.
>>336020495
Why not? Because the player can't get infected? If a horror game made you immune to the crazy virus would you discredit it too?
>>336020589
They are disfigured humans you fucking imbecile not every humanoid enemy is a zombie.
>>336020946
then define smart zombie you dumb fuckhead. what a vague term.
>>336021026
Oh I don't know having the need to actually spread the fucking virus like any proper zombie but with the ability to use tools? Bioshock enemies have absolutely nothing to do with zombies retard.
Is it strange to find the old horror games of PS1 more gory and spooky than recent horror games?
It's just something about the old graphics that I like about. The gore is more colorful than the ones you find in modern games, where it's all dark red goo.
>>336019665
Maybe it would depend on how well the situation is being handled, the amount of normal to infected, and more importantly how many of the zombies are just of the 'normal' type. And as far as I know those zombies can't be fooled with masking yourself to sneak around them. They know if your healthy or not and they will actively go after you. Now if there wasn't too many and the majority were normal types then sure I would try. But if anything like a tank comes up then bang bang everyone is dead.
I'm playing The Last of Us right now on PS4 and I think it's pretty good. I got it like 2 years ago but never played it and got a little burned out on FO4. It's got some creepy parts, but it's just so well written compared to FO4. Actual real sounding conversations.
But it does feel like a Snake Eater/Fallout 3 combo at times.
Been playing alien: infestation. It was sold to me as a metroidvania and it reminds me of fusion. You have a team of marines and when one dies, it's gone forever. Not exactly pure "horor" but pretty fucking good.
Dunno why there's no horror gameso n the ds and 3ds though. It seems like they would work perfectly there.
>>336016739
You really don't need to specialize if you've played as many video games as the average person who's heard of Bloodlines. You will be swimming in so much money you can buy as much ammo as you want to compensate for low gun skill.
>>336021636
Nanashi no Geemu? Dementium?Corpse Party?
>>336021472
>The Last of Us
>Scary
Now I'm not a meme pouting little shit like half of /v/ and I really like the game even if the DLC is pandering trash, but what's exactly scay about TLoU? I remeber playing through it without giving a single fuck, jumping around the place and knifing bitches in the face to the point that clickers seemed like a joke, and this was on hardest difficulty. I mean, I don't even remember any jumpscares, only the place with a boatmaster guy seemed unsettling.
>>336021886
>Dementium
Meh
>Corpse party
Waiting for the 3ds version, I'm pretty hype
>nanashi no game
First time I hear of it. Funny that it's called nanashi :^)
>>336022046
Maybe I guess unsettling is a better word. Spores and fungus fucking gross me out so that's a big part of it. Not really scary, you are correct.
>>336009279
>ILLBLEED
Muh nigga!
>>336022937
>mfw that entire level
>>336009279
illbleed is hilarious
D2, though, oh god. boring as shit.
The first survival horror game was Shiryou Sensen: War of the Dead, which predates Capcom's Sweet Home AND Project Firestart by two years.
>>336022937
>you'll never hotglue Sexy Doll
