What would it take for horror games to actually scare you?
I feel like the Horror genre needs some innovation.
>>342190961
I can't play pure horror games since they simply try to be scary but often aren't.
But I love horror elements in games that aren't simply horror games (STALKER, Witcher, Elder Scrolls, Alan Wake, Teleglitch, Bio/systemshock, Neo Scavanger, Metro, sunless Sea, VTMB).
They are legitimately surprising and terrifying.
>Suspension of attacking a snork or bloodsucker
fucking shivering (in a good way)
>>342190961
Indie Japanese horror games terrify me but budget titles usually don't, it's kind of like, the better the graphics are the harder of a time I have being afraid of it, you know? Uncanny valley in a way.
>>342192612
What Indie Japanese horror titles would you recommend?
>>342190961
Subtle horror gets to me the most. Stuff like a doll covered in dried blood or scratches on the wall that infer someone might be nearby.
Hinting at the danger rather than just presenting it through jump scares seems more effective.
>>342190961
Someone brought up in a past spook thread the idea of a horror game where things seem unfinished and broken, playing on the fear of the unknown. Sounded cool.
>>342194617
That chart is pretty cool. It has a desolation and unsafe feeling to it.
I really don't like being startled by games (note, startled, not scared) and because of the universal presence of jump scares whenever I play horror games I get into a frame of mind where I suspend absolutely no disbelief so there's no connection between me and the game.
The result is that while absolutely nothing in the game can faze me, I'm also not having fun with the game so it isn't really worth it.
>>342194617
>do not follow the little girl
>pray while shootingBut it's pretty spooky that those are probably relevant.
The scariest one is 'symbols compromised'
being hunted, that turns on the fight or flight response
>>342190961
for most people, just jump scares will do the trick
myself, I cannot play horror games of any sort. I tried playing Ao Oni once and literally passed out when blue fuckhead came out of nowhere and killed me.
>>342190961
Something that can simulate the feeling of impending doom
https://youtu.be/ClPZINVp0y8
>>342197543
"Do not be taken alive" is pretty spooky too.
>>342198287
>https://youtu.be/ClPZINVp0y8
Fuck that shit
It'd have to exploit specific phobias of mine. Want to scare me? Make this game...
>put the player deep underwater as a researcher in the near future (to allow for certain technological liberties)
>start in a submarine/deep sea vessel that gets attacked by 'something' nobody manages to get a good look at
>entire crew dies except you, and vessel sinks into a deep chasm so dark you can't see anything
>you manage to get a suit on before your vessel completely floods, and you exit with a high power flashlight and a harpoon gun/some other limited underwater weapon as your only tools
>you have an hour to find your way up through the dark chasm to a nearby underwater research facility
>when you reach the research facility it's been heavily damaged but shows signs of some functionality
>research facility is a mostly glass structure with a series of connecting tube-like hallways
>much of the research facility has been damaged and flooded, rendered unusable
>you have no idea what attacked and there's no immediate sign of it
>power is on limited supply
>you must work your way through the facility while reserving your remaining power for the utmost necessities so that you can find a way to reroute the power and send out a distress call
>progressively more and more power sources fail, sending you deeper into darkness and blacking out more of the facility
>more and more damaged sections give, letting in more water
>steadily you begin to encounter bizarre horrors of the deep that are injurable, but not killable
>they become progressively more common and more disturbing in appearance and behavior
>constantly forced to feel more and more helpless, more and more alone, and more and more pressure as a fear of something much worse approaches and the dark swallows more and more of the only sanctuary you have left
The only game that has ever deeply scared me is Yume Nikki coincidentally my favorite video game.
>>342194291
>>342194617
>do not be taken alive
What is THE SCARIEST game I can play RIGHT NOW?
it's 1:24 AM and I have a VR headset if there's any game that would be scarier with it.
>>342194617
I really want a well done SCP game like Containment Breach that uses these symbols.
>>342199129
subnautica kind of has elements of this, but not the ever-increasing sense of helplessness.
Cheap jump scare games are pretty bad. Horror with actual skill and gameplay mechanics / stealth is pretty good. Amnesia is fucking great. Outlast not so much.
are there any good horror games for the current generation of consoles?
>>342199783
Yeah I've wanted to get my hands on Subnautica, but it looks like it has a slightly cartoonish appearance and it's really bright. I haven't seen much of it though, so maybe it gets creepier.
>>342190961
The thing about fear is that the only good scares use mystery and dark themes, which desensitize. Everything else is just adrenaline response via jumpscares which is both unpleasant and not entertaining.
>>342190961
i never finished any resident evil, not the gamecube re-make, nor 2 nor 3
I only finished 4 because that one isn't scary(it's awful)
I feel like I'll get a heart attack every time I try playing them, yet I love them and I feel so bad that I can't play them because i shit my panta
>>342192207
Legit I actually almost flipped the fuck out when I was doing the dark brother hood quest in oblivion and finding the rogue assassin's mother
>>342200000
There's also games that are very unsettling or disturbing, rather than outright scary. Things that just don't feel right, or make you feel uncomfortable when you feel like you should be.
I like to think it's possible to make a good horror game where you never actually SEE anything truly scary, but only constantly feel it and never feel safe or comfortable.
>>342199394
Its not even horror, it's just deeply disturbing.
It's like the Blair witch project of horror games, it started a whole new genre to take place that it still reigns supreme in
I'm 0 on the outside but 6 on the inside.
I still haven't beat PT.
>tfw horror games stress me out so much I have to stop playing them
They're too spooky to be fun.
>>342190961
I am a massive baby 5. It's fun to get scared but I probably get too scared at video games. It would be entertaining to upload someone genuinely fearful to youtube. Though this is of course at night alone which I think makes a difference r-right.
>>342192207
>But I love horror elements in games that aren't simply horror games (STALKER, Witcher, Elder Scrolls, Alan Wake, Teleglitch, Bio/systemshock, Neo Scavanger, Metro, sunless Sea, VTMB).
>They are legitimately surprising and terrifying.
I've heard people say this before but every time I play one of these 'scary non-horror' games and deliberately go straight for the scariest parts in the game, it's never actually scary at all. I remember there was one place in either Fallout 3 or NV which was touted as being one of the scariest places in a video game and I actually bought the game, let myself get immersed and played through, trying to make that one part as scary as possible, but when I got to it, I was actually embarrassed that I had spent so much time trying to build it up. It was one of my most anti-climactic and disappointing experiences in a video game. Maybe you have to be a Fallout fan to get scared by it, but that's not the impression I got from all the praise it got.
>STALKER
I actually do enjoy the STALKER games, but I've never understood them being considered as scary. They have damp, uncomfortable atmospheres, but there's no real scary moments (unless they're all in Clear Sky, which I didn't finish). Same deal for Metro. Not a scary game at all.
>Elder Scrolls
No.
>Alan Wake
Has some spooky moments, mainly tension though. I enjoyed it. Still wouldn't say it's legitimately terrifying. Certainly not scarier than some games which are deliberately built with the intention of scaring the player.
>>342200000
Nice quints
>>342200305
You've provided a great service posting that gif and I thank you.
>>342190961
>downloaded RE7 demo
>will never play it
2spooky
>>342200326
They work largely because you don't expect it, though. If you go in knowing there's a scary part in a non-horror game and are actually LOOKING for it then it loses a huge part of why it was so effective.
Fable 2's winter cabin is only scary because you just do NOT expect that shit in the slightest. If you know it's going to happen, or know to expect... SOMETHING, then of course it fucking fails. It's all about the completely unexpected, without being a jump scare... like the shark in Ocarina of Time.
>>342199129
SOMA, kind of
>>342192207
This, the scariest games I've played (besides visual novels) aren't even horror games.
>>342198287
>>342198736
There was a story about something like this on Fark or somewhere a long time ago, does anyone remember what I'm talking about
Some guy is driving along the highway at night and all of a sudden he sees abandoned cars and people playing dead then when he stops he sees things moving in the bushes and floors it
>>342190961
Horror games rarely scare me anymore, they just engross me with their atmosphere.
>>342190961
I like horror games but I'm sick and tired of jumpscares because it's a shitty way to add horror into a game.
>>342200326
those moments were spooky because you went in expecting easy adventures and got slapped in the face with unnerving shit, caught off guard n shit.
If you go in thinking "oh boy here's the spooky place" then it's not gonna be the same as stumbling into spooky and realizing you're in too deep and the only way out is to keep going forward
>>342190961
Solid 2. Though if I'm not having fun it goes to 1, and if I love the game enough to bolster my suspension of disbelief, then 3.
>>342200491
Any actual underwater horror, though? Or is it just the setting? I know nothing of this game, but wiki says the threat is like... machinery?
>>342190961
For starters it's not suppose to be a horror game, but have horror elements instead. When I was a kid I was petrified of HL1 and the first time I played HL2 at friends house during the night after we played Ravenhom/Nova Prospekt we were afraid to go outside when it was dark. I haven't first two thief games until recently and they felt genuinely creepy because it was unexpected. And yet I found Amnesia the most predictable and boring piece of shit there is. Well I did get scared of SCP:CB a couple times, but it's because it's full of jumpscares although to be fair there are times when it's creepy too.
White Day is my most favorite horror game of all time
>>342200835
Man you totally have to play SOMA. It fits at least 75% of what you just described.
>>342200326
Alot of it comes from not knowing/expecting them. (I guys you are refering to the "haunted" factory in F3) was so good because it is a completely unexpected change of tone.
STALKER thrives on feeling dense and damp att all times but when initiating combat or visiting a haunted place it accumalates into becoming scary (for me atleast).
Elder Scrolls had some moments, though I suppose nostalgia adds alot to it.
>Certainly not scarier than some games which are deliberately built with the intention of scaring the player.
I think thats the issue for me. Knowing it is trying to scare me makes it boring same reasons horror movies for the most part suck for me 'cept they add something unique like cabin in the woods or tucker and dale.
>>342190961
Permanent 6 here. help.
>>342190961Slender: The Arrivalis the scariest game I have ever played. Perfect atmosphere and the fucker is pretty terrifying when he gets close. It makes me wish theSlendermythos was still alive.
>>342200835
>but wiki says the threat is like... machinery?
Well, kinda! I mean, sort of. It's kind of hard to describe. There are machines and various organisms which have been, uh, partially assimilated, I guess would be how to describe it.
It's a psychological horror that's more psychological than horror, but the horror's still there.
>>342194617
Which would be scarier, something you can't make eye contact with or you die, or something you have to keep eye contact with or you die?
>>342200961
>>342201051
It has my attention for sure.
What about Pathologic, is it good?
No game has been able to make me feel fear as the prision in Silent Hill 2. Jumping through all these holes, not knowing where the fuck you were walking to. The fucking horse riding sounds at the executioners room. It has a special place in my heart along with blightown in DS.
>>342200835
Most of the game takes place in an underwater research facility, but there's a few sections that take place right outside of it
>>342201062
Have to look at, no question. Just close your eyes for the other one.
>>342201167
forgot pic
>>342200000
checked
>>342201130
Plays below-par, but a very interesting experience that I recommend. Try reading some interpretations about the game, and if the thematic stuff interests you, go for it.
>>342201129
SOMA has you explore a submarine place and all that shit. The spooky shit revolves around the robots, who believe they are human, and are the people living on the ship. Humans aren't very nice, especially ones that are crazy and not human, which is where the antagonizing forces come in. The people on the ship are actually dead, as the game takes place after an apocalyptic event occurs.
It's a pretty good game, the guys who made Amnesia and Penumbra made it.
>>342194617
>alternate reality entered
>>342201221
Yeah, have to agree here. That, and having to look at something creepy or terrifying alone is fucked up. If you know you're safe by not looking? That takes a lot out of the fear.
>>342199769
A game that has a message system where you can write these symbols on the walls for other players to see would be great. Like you're trapped in some kind of sprawling labyrinth full of horrible shit and your only interactions with other players are seeing warning symbols they've left(and maybe the occasional, brief Dark Souls style team up).
>>342201221
Closing your eyes doesn't make it go away though.
having it breathing down your neck, claws tracing at your artery waiting for you to take a peek because some morbid curiosity forces you to
Then there's also the issue where it has no presence and you wonder if it's gone or not.
>>342201350
also Adachi is the killer
Pretty much any horror game has a good chance to scare, but some times it's an utter crap shoot.
I have to walk away from fucking Project Zomboid for a few hours sometimes because the tension genuinely gets to me and I'm scared (even though it's not really a horror game), and most horror games will be the same. Randomly though, actually good, scary horror games like the first Dead Space game will come up and not even get my heart rate up. Was a just a particularly macabre third person shooter. So I guess actually creepy, psychological stuffs scares me a lot, but gore doesn't? I don't enjoy being scared much, so I've never really experimented much.
>>342199129
This though. Anything about the deep ocean or sea monsters will immediately fuck me up. I couldn't even get passed the 1-star missions in MH3U because I couldn't force myself in the water long enough with the Lagiacrus to get the monster guts. I can't even watch youtube videos of Subnautica without cringing away from the screen.
>>342201465
I'll be honest. If these ARE meant to be spoilers? That won't impact my experience in the slightest. It's all about being isolated underwater that's going to make me want to play it.
>>342201412
Just swing wildly at it with your fists while blindfolded. If it can only attack you when you look at it, kick it's ass without doing so..
We need a slav team, like the developers from stalker and metro, to make a SCP game.
>>342201543
they're spoilers but they're all from within like the first 45 minutes of the game
>>342201371
Why was this deleted?
Is there something in the image?
>>342190961
I love that the max is Pathological. What a beautiful game.
>>342201543
>>342201350 isn't huge spoilers, just a synopsis of the game's plot.
>>342199769
>>342201385
I'd write for such a game and help design levels.
>>342190961
Was hopeful when I first saw Five Nights at Freddie's because when I first started seeing the rabbit in Youtube thumbnails I actually got nervous about seeing that in the sidebar for a while.
Then when I worked up the courage to actually look at it and it was cheap jumpscares and higher-res Sega CD-style bullshit, but somehow even stupider. This kills the horror.Real talk though, combine Sesame Street with some shit like Yellow Temperance from Jojo's, then have it slowly peek out from around a corner or have visible eye whites in the darkness and I'm like 5 or 6 on that fear scale. Pic related, I didn't rename it by the way.
>>342201678
>Is there something in the image?It's him.
>>342199862
Alien Isolation
>>342201276
I know that fear. I was terrified of scarier games when I was young and got obsessed with the silent hill series. Playing through 2 broke that fear and now nothing gives that same disgusting unease I got playing through 2 when it first came out.
Is there an english translation of Yaku Yuujou Dangi?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjZ2DkG11TM
>>342201678Maybe.
The picture was sideways. I assume that Anon got embarrassed and deleted it.
>>342194617
>Do not look away
>Do not make eye contact
How fucked are you?
>>342190961
The scariest moments in games is when it has shit graphics, rendering fog and creepy noises coming from unseen npcs out to get you.
>>342201678
>>342202980
>>342203773
I managed to snag it before he deleted it. Not editing it tho
Here ya go buds.
>>342204173
>opened this pic
>nightstand light flickered
NOPE
>>342204095
just stare at its junk until it gets uncomfortable and leaves
Literally only first person walking sims can scare me at this point.
Dunno why.
>>342204167
"IS ALL YO' FAULT!"
Any game that has that immersive, yet moody "music" that drives your insanity high
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OkmMqkeJ6U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__93D_cJTlY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtl_RtaJnxk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpExfM_pVjMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY92NAdGaR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF3Z_qOcEQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6EpmID8GSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FmWSy1tdV0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYX-7juLBUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ozg017Yag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZTKWqF7Nug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cm8J07ehsI
I'd like to see a horror game where you can technically murder all the horrors, but it's hard to the point of seeming unfeasible.
And then I'd like to see the speed run where a dude efficiently destroys the game, killing everything on the way without any effort.
>>342201130
If you can learn to understand the odd translation and... Difficult gameplay... Then yes. The doctor's story is the one you should try. It plays heavily on the inability of science to explain certain phenomena. It works well on me, as I have a fear of intangible threats, like diseases or harmful contagions. Which is kinda what the whole game is about.
Shit gets real when the plague hits. Houses are filled with dead and dying people, food and drugs are ACTUALLY SCARCE, looters take over abandoned houses, plague victims see you're a doctor and shuffle toward you with their arms outstretched, it really is a beautiful game. Just give it some suspension of disbelief, take your time, and try not to treat it like a game.
But again, the translation is awful and a newer remastered version with updated grafix and a decent translation will be coming soon.
>tfw between 0 and 1
will VR cure me or should I give up
>>342204173
What the fuck is that thing
>>342204173
>MFW my parents jump scare me with a scream
>>342204173
>doesnt get it
>>342204529
nice music friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WShknpNpHbY
>>342190961
no music
no jump scares
>>342204810
Your parents sound fucking great.
https://youtu.be/JncybmK-in0
Spooky tunes from 'NamIt ain't it ain't me
>>342204529
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF3Z_qOcEQM
DANNY WON!
>>342194617
>do not follow the little girl
>pray while shooting
>yfw there are 4chan images that download screamers onto your computer
>>342204872
The anon who originally posted that image said something about making a game that focused on you being a child in a large house having to navigate it to get a drink of water or something. There would be no jump scares or music or anything. Just you and your fear of the unknown, such as what's behind a closed door or what's at the end of a hallway.
I think the image was meant to convey that fear. That and he was a dumb phoneposter.
>>342194617
>Symbols have been compromised sign next to symbols have been compromised sign
>>342194617
Early Silent hill games did this really well. Something was CLEARLY not right. I like more psychological horror and subtle things far more than gore horror and jump scares which is all that passes for horror games these days.
Unfortunately psychological horror is very difficult do to right.
>>342200436
What's worse is the fags who complain about jump scares of ANY kind. The game could have 1 jump scare and they get angry and call it cheap.
A horror game that is pure "atmosphere" and free from jump scares is not scary at all, since there is no build-up to a climax. The tension melts away after the first 15 minutes.
>>342192207
Same I like spooky stuff for narrative but actual horror and even jump scares completely destroy my existence.
Probably due to being a chicken shit compounded with high stress/anxiety
>>342190961
Some stupid combination between 6 and 1.
I have REALLY jumpy reaction even in rl. Whenever a jump scare happens i'm likely to impulsively do something stupid like throw the mouse at the screen the mouse at the screen. Despite this I can never get absorbed into them because I know it's "just a game" and could care less if my character dies, I can just retry.
I have a really hard time enjoying horror because of this.
I can't play horror games at all. I don't even handle unpleasant elements in non-horror games very well. I bought Silent Hill 2 and abandoned it in around 30 minutes and something as tame as Fallout 3 made me very uncomfortable to play. Hearing centaurs around made me break out into cold sweat even when I could kill them in one bullet.
>>342190961
PT scared me too bad and I had to watch some faggot on twitch yelling over the game in order to see what happens.
Slow, tense horror built based on body horror. There wouldn't be a death and retry condition, but failures would result in the slow but permanent decay, mutation, or perversion of your character.
>>342201037
The Slender mythos ending with some chunnis stabbing a girl over 9000 times was better than it deserved.
>>342206697
PT made me realized how much of a pussy I really am.
>>342194617
Man, SCP can be so fucking cool sometimes
Some of the articles are legitimately terrifying
But so many of them are either mary sue bullshit or just an object that does something weird when you use it or whatever
SCP-231 is pretty good
>>342206809
You know the stabbed girl somehow survived?
Crazy ass shit.
>>342194291
LSD
>>342206868
God tier SCP right here
Thank you based 1981
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1981
>>342200326
You're probably referring to the Dunwich building in Fallout 3. I played through the game at least 4 times before stumbling across a Reddit post talking about how terrifying it was. I had no idea; it felt like every other place place in the game. Apparently a couple doors slam shut and there are whispers. I just plain didn't know it was supposed to be scary.
>>342206868
Another god tier SCP
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2521
>>342194617
>symbols compromised
FUCK
>>342206616
You are a weak little bitch. I bet you love getting porked in the butt you sissy little girly homo man.
>>342194617
An SCP or SCP-like game with its own original beings that you had to deal with could be neat.
>>342194617
>walking through spooky sewers
>see "get out fast"
>shit bricks, turn to run
>something catches your eye
>"symbols compromised"
>>342194291
I recommend Ib and any of the Yume Nikki clones, as well as Yume Nikki itself.
>>342190961
Level 5 here.
I really enjoy horror games because I can immerse myself well, but at the same time I can't play them because I can immerse myself well.
I'll never finish Amnesia.
>>342206809
>>342206987
That happened not too far from me
>>342207063
Lets not forget the best of all
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-50-ae-j
>>342207137
So is the heart there, because it loves things describing it? Did it take that prisoner to dimension X to fuck him?
>>342204573
It's out already. Couple of months actually.
>>342190961
To start off I'll just say that the one thing that really needs to change is the setting of the game. Most horror games just can't seem to leave the western locations like cities, space, and the occasional european village setting.
I kinda want to see something that is different. One reason I (used to) love the Fatal Frame series is because of the setting. Same goes with Siren series too. Just that eerie japanese setting is perfect and refreshing. Dreadout gets a mention too. The game takes place in Phillipines and we get to see locations and the supernatural shit that we have not seen before.
I honestly want to see a horror game that takes place in a fantasy setting.
>>342207647
It loves any information about itself, so it steals it
If it happens to be a person talking or writing about it, it takes th
My problem with horror games is it's very difficult for me to actually put up with them long enough to be terrified. Like, if I'm watching a horror movie, it all moves at its own pace. Fear comes from watching the hero and knowing that they're walking into a trap and being powerless to save them.
But if I'm playing a videogame that's trying to scare me, then I can always just say, "Fuck it, I'm done." The same mechanics that are meant to induce fear and dread--clunky movement/aiming, inventory management, overpowered enemies--just make me frustrated as hell. I spend most of my time in horror games in a state sort of like a tense rage, where I know the game is going to pull some stupid bullshit on me and it's going to be a pain in the ass all the way through and if I die, fuck it I'm not going to bother reloading my save and running all the way back here.
So yeah, I guess they scare me, but the fear manifests itself as anger. I got banned from a haunted house once because an actor jumped out to scare me, and my immediate instinct was to start beating the shit out of him.
>>342207063
>impalement, genital mutilation, and [REDACTED]
What do you think the redacted trauma is /v/?
Also why do they have it as [REDACTED] there and then actual physical black-line redactions elsewhere. Fuckin inconsistent scientist fucks.
>>342207897
What you did there. I see it.
>>342207635
Not even the best joke SCP
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-649-2568-j
>>342207934
Fuck that shit, its just as bad as the candle jack meme, why do y
The Metro series was pretty good at the occasional scare, if only because it incorporated a lot of the little things that get me.
>Having to stare down the librarians, knowing that they'll go fuck mad if I stop looking at them. Especially wehn I can hear them making noises as I start to hustle away, or there's more than two.
>The spiders in the second, infinite respawn, light is limited, dark area with that skittering noise.
>That fucking room off the railcar tunnel.
Fuck that room man.
>>342207931
I think [REDACTED] is information censored by the writer, and Black lines are information censored by editors later.In universe I mean.
>>342207063
Continuing to post great SCPs
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1733
>>342190961
Needs to be really authentic. Like how it must be NES cartridge gotten off from a shady garage sale. My suspension for disbelief works like a veil.
Daily reminder that SCP-666-j is best SCP.
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-666-j
>>342208031
Yeah that makes sense. Reagan being cut up is a good one and the excerpts and transcripts are fun.
It's not especially 'scary' just disturbing.
>>342208048
>>342207063
Where do they get the staggering amount of class D personnel needed for this shit?
The marines?
>>342207931
SCP buff here.
[REDACTED] refers to information being withheld due to the in-universe reader not being classified enough to read it.
Black boxes usually refer to more personal information, such as dates, birthdates, numbers, locations, and such being withheld. Sometimes this rule is stretched.
[DATA EXPUNGED] means the data was too important or traumatic to be released to the general workforce of the SCP Foundation, and is currently only known by the highest in the organization. Unlike [REDACTED], which refers to simply censored information, [DATA EXPUNGED] means the data in question has literally been expunged or deleted from most of their databases.
>>342190961
Occultism generally spooks me, since it sparks the whole 'fear of the unknown' aspect in me as well as the overall maliciousness occult shit tends to be in most stories.
>>342190961
2Z1NkGYYmj1G
>>342207063
Huh. The SCP # is the year he started his presidency isn't it. Just figured that out after years
>>342208257
The lore says that most D class are prisoners convicted of horrible crimes, but the Foundation can take ordinary civilians if they need more class Ds for whatever reason
>>342194617
XCOM style SCP game FUCKING WHEN???
>>342208031
I know too much about the crap. The black lines just are supposed to censor names, places and other proper nouns. Redacted is censored. Expunged means the removed as if it had never existed.
>>342207063
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1983
>>342208257
D-Class personnel are either death row inmates or SCP employees who did really fucked up shit; people who wouldn't be missed. They are all incinerated at the end of the month.
They could easily capture civilians as D-Classes, but the Foundation regards this as immoral and wouldn't do such a thing unless there was a huge reason.
>>342208580
>>342208435
I don't think theres that many fucked up people of that lvl in the world though.
>>342208682
The Foundation does some really fucked up shit on a daily basis, it's only natural that some of their staff would get too into it and do something unnecessarily unethical
>>342208774
it's not about doing what's right
it's about doing what's needed.
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-835
SCP are at their best when they don't just REDACT everything.
>>342208682
Thing is, they take Death Row inmates from all around the world, not just first world countries like America. The Foundation is huge in both influence and membership, despite not being affiliated with any government.
>>342206868
>SCP-231
I don't get this one, is it some satan lady that makes other go crazy? Why can't they kill her?
>>342208580
>>342208774
What's the dumb SCP which is essentially a Lovecraftian monster that will wake up if some fucked up sex ritual isn't completed on a child every week or whatever? That's gotta kill any morality the foundation has.
>>342208893
If that's the one I think it is, it's one of the first ones on that site. Uh, she's going to give birth to something that will end the world and if they kill her the pregnancy will jump to someone else.
>>342209013
So their just repeatedly delaying the pregnancy somehow?Reminds me of the duplicating cake one
>>342208924
SCP-231. The article basically says that unless Procedure 110-Montauk isn't inflicted on the girl everyday, something implied to be similar to the Apocalypse occurs. It is specifically stated that the immense trauma is what keeps this event at bay, so they can't just kill her. There is something inside the girl, some kind of baby that is apparently worse than anything Lovecraft could have come up with.
It's a very good SCP.
>>342208363
Hello Mr. SCP Buff,
Will the SCP community ever be good again? Will Clef and co. ever fall in a hole and die?
t. anon
>>342208924
SCP-231
>>342208893Read it again
She is one of seven girls who were impregnated with something really fucking evil
Each of the previous girls gave birth, and what came out was stronger and stronger every time, the last one requiring a nuke to kill
They're trying to keep her from giving birth, and they have some procedure, the details of which are not stated but it's implied to be some sort of horrible rape and beating though the author said that it wasn't that, it was worse
They have to keep erasing her memory so she doesn't ever get used to the procedure, it's crucial that she's awake and knows exactly what is happening
>>342209197
>named doctors
SCP would be better off if every mention of one of those faggots was just expunged from the entire directory
Fuck Clef, fuck Bright, fuck Rights, fuck them all
>>342209197
>Will the SCP community ever be good again?
What's wrong with it now? I haven't read many of the newer ones.
System Shock 2 has been the only horror game that has succeeded at truly scaring me, rather than the jumpscare bullshit of modern horror, which is written by hacks.
>tfw an SCP makes you sad
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-348
>>342190961
Oh hey, I created that face for pathological when I made the Who Was Phone comic years ago in a shitty imitation of Lego Robot comics. I made something that endured, nice.
>>342208924
That one, and the retarded one about the Mary Stu vampire or whatever, basically set the tone for over the top bullshit that they had really had to reign in to save the site. At least now their seem to be more stories about The Scary Door than the REDACTED that needs 9 popes performing Operation Spoiler Tags on a nuclear bomb to prevent REDACTED every 6 hours.
>>342190961
just make a pewdiepie edit already
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-990
>that one scene in Matilda multiplied by a million
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-871
>>342209332
General circlejerking faggotry among the members that have been there a while, along with all of the series 3 being irredeemable shit. A lot of really good SCPs get brushed over while hot garbage like 682 and 579 get hailed as the best the site has to offer. 579 is literally fucking nothing, the whole thing is one big DATA EXPUNGED and I swear to fucking god it was written as a joke and just to see how far they could push the rules. There are still really good entries to be found in series 2 and 3, it's fun, almost like trying to find nuggets of gold in landfill.
>>342209913
Series 3 is pretty shit, but take a look at the best it has to offer
I give you "The Town That Got Fucked by Bears"
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2875
>>342209913
682 is pretty good. It's not straight horror, but lets be honest, half the SCPs in Series 1 aren't horror and are still great.
Series 1 is godtier, Series 2 has a lot of good ones, and I never read much of Series 3.
>>342209913
I hate 682. What a giant circlejerk.
>>342210140
682 was definitely better before the article became a million entries long. Now I just want that thing to fucking die.
>>342210151
The only reason it's still around is probably muh nostalgia and also as a marker for how overpowered and bullshit your SCP is allowed to be
You can't be more retardedly OP than 682
>>342210140
682 is nothing but a placeholder so no one else can make a super scary monster that kills everything and can't die. That's all it should be. The attention it gets is dumb.
>>342210209
I like the experimentation shit. That's what it's all about, really; experimentation and unknown shit.
My favorite SCP is the videotape of the basketball game. I forget it's number but that one is pretty chill.
>>342210019
While
>semi harmless shanigan at first, world ending disaster if left alone
Are entertaining but their kinda played out.
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-871 is pretty much the same thing, I'm sure theres more examples that I hav'nt read yet either.
>the air filter that does absolutely fucking nothing but every warning system the foundation has identifies it as the most dangerous object known to man
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2472
>>342194617
I like implied or subtle horror too.
I also like the idea of "dread" in horror.
For example, instead of "oh shit, if the monster catches me, I'm dead!!!" fight or flight response, I prefer the "oh crap, I might have to fight that thing." feeling of dread.
>>342210420
>experimentation on 682
>do literally anything to 682 other than keeping it in a bath of acid
>it fails and 682 kills everyone
>Kondraki or Clef or Bright or whatever snowflake of the month gets called in to save the day
>>342210430
it's this one
>>342208048
The bad joke tomato is my favorite SCP.
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-504
>>342190961
First time I played Silent Hill 3 I fluctuated between 4 and 5, although I was only 15 at the time.
I'm at a pretty consistent 3 on repeat playthroughs.
>>342210420
>That time when they introduced it to 999
>Actual seems like 682 is mellowing out and enjoying himself
>Nope it was all a ruse and he gleefully murders everyone :^)
>>342210557
plot twistDad owes money to this man on her bed
>>342210430
>pretty chill
>watching people drift into insanity as they know that they are hopelessly trapped in a stadium with no chance of escape
>you want to keep watching the tape to see what happens next but you cant because doing so would force them to endure whatever horror lies ahead
>PRETTY CHILL
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1048
Best one.
The biggeat scare I ever got out of a video game was from fucking mine craft.
>start new game
>chop down tree
>somehow a cow got ontop of it and fell through the hole in the centre of the tree
>that fucking sound when I hit it
I didn't see it coming and tossed my mouse away
>>342210953
Minecraft used to be sort of uncanny and eerie, especially in the early days
Definitely one of the better unintentional horror games at times
Shit game now, but, you know
>>342210953
I remeber I was playing minecraft and was a good 100 blocks if not more underground.
No server or anything, a private map, and pretty far off from my starting down shaft.
For whatever reason I found a random sheep in the caverns.I took the time to dig it back up to the surface, poor cave sheep
Can you see the scary jesus face?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el2IISVhaGE
>>342200620
I was driving a shortcut from Twentynine Palms, CA to Albuquerque, NM. Twentynine Palms is located in the desolate high desert east of LA. The shortcut was all two lane road through total nothingness, except for passing through Amboy, CA. Amboy is a nearly abandoned town nearly as far below sea level as Death Valley, with a dormant volcano and lava field on one side and a salt flat on the other. It was also, at the time, a hotspot for satanic group activity.
So I was driving by myself in the afternoon. I stopped in Amboy and snapped a picture of the city sign, just to prove I was there to friends who dared me to take that route to the I-40. I got back in my car and proceeded to drive up into the mountain range between Amboy and the I-40.
Once I reach the top I am driving north through a canyon with high grass on both sides of the road. Up ahead I see some stuff in the middle of the road. As I approach I slow down to see a red Pontiac Fiero stopped sideways across both lanes, a suitcase open with clothes scattered everywhere and two bodies laying face down in the road, a man and a woman.
I stop a hundred feet or so away and the hair on the back of my neck is standing up. Being a Marine, I reach under the seat and pull out a 9mm pistol and chamber a round. Something seemed very wrong, it looked too perfect as if it were staged. An ambush? Was I being paranoid? Something was just wrong. Getting out of the car seemed unthinkable, it was the horror movie move. 1/2
>>342211279
As I scanned the road I saw a line I could drive. Pass the guy in the road on his left, swerve to the right side of the woman, behind the Fiero and I'd be on the other side. I dropped it into first gear, punched it and drove the line I planned.
I passed the back of the Fiero without hitting it or either of the bodies in the road. I continued forward a couple hundred feet and slowed down so I could breathe and let my heart slow down. As I looked up into the rearview mirror I saw that the two bodies had gotten up to their knees and twenty or so people emerged from the tall grass on either side of the road by the car and bodies. At that moment my right foot smashed the gas pedal to the floor and did not let up until I had to slowdown for the I-40 east onramp.
I will never know what would have happened to me had I gotten out of the car to check on the bodies or stopped my car closer to them. Somehow I do not think it would have been good. Sometimes real life can be scarier than a movie. 2/2
>>342211279
>tfw live in Albuquerque
Don't fuck with me like this
>>342194617
Now I want a horror game with a note system like Dark Souls but with those symbols
>>342197543
what does compromised mean? sorey im not good with English
>>342190961
I'm 0 on that scale. I don't get scared from movies either.
It's not that I don't get scared in real like (except jump scare type things which never scare me), I'm scared of being underground, the ocean, black holes, waking up blind, etc but in games and shit my brain is too logical. I can't take it seriously.
>>342211649
In this context, it basically means "our symbols have been figured out".
>>342211649
In that case, it means "don't trust the symbols". "Symbols compromised" would mean "something fucked up is happening and the symbols are fucked now"
Like, "The mission's been compromised", that would mean the mission has failed.
>>342211649
Something's fucked with the symbols and you shouldn't trust them anymore.
>>342211792
>>342211839
>>342211878
I was happier not knowing this
>>342194617
relevant
>you are a government agent tasked with the study and containment of paranormal phenomena
>you are assigned cases to investigate.
>details include location, witness testimonies, photographs of objects or bodies found at the scene, etc. They don't directly give you the cause of the case but give you indirect hints as to what happened
>gameplay consists of the player running around trying to piece together what happened for each case.
>you find and photograph evidence, interrogate witnesses, and discover clues as to what is behind the events all while trying not to get killed.
Basically x files/scp but as a video game.
I think it would be cool to have a the player eventually find ways to contain the creatures they encounter
they could then view them in a gallery of sorts
which could also lead to a chapter where some or all of them break out and you have to escape the facility where they are kept. just like that one cabin in the woods scene.
>>342211878
>>342211839
>>342211792
What if that's the only symbol they fucked with though?
I think there has to be some sense that you're being followed all the time. To deliver a sense of constant paranoia and threat.
>>342212037
Then the SCP is a master ruseman and therefore, instantly classed as Keter.
For me, horror games either have shit gameplay or rely on stupid bullshit like jump scares (nearly every fucking horror game is guilty of the latter).
However for the handful of games that are ACTUALLY scary, I find that I cannot enjoy them simply because I don't find fear to be an enjoyable emotion to experience. It's... Depressing? Or at least this is how I find horror games that don't relly on jump scares. They paint completely fucked up worlds and situations pretty much beyond redemption. I dunno, I don't play games to get bummed out.
I guess I just don't like the genre.
>>342211106
I remember when I first tried Minecraft blind, it used to be so dark and just hearing the noises or sudden cave sound scared the shit out of me
>>342211397
How is it out there? Been there before. Seemed pretty cool.
>>342211106
The original Myst had a weird way of doing that.
There is something strange and unsettling about seeing this in a kids game
I'm definitely a 0 on this scale
>>342212037
That's exactly what's terrifying about it. You have no way of knowing if you're on your own.
I'm a 1, but I got my free Gear VR and got really startled by a jump scare because it was IN YOUR FACE. Gives me hope for the genre.
If you die in the game you die in real life.
>>342212509
Russian roulette?
>>342212509
Dokapon Kingdom?
>See this thread
>Get spooked
>Have to go to the bathroom
>Staying over at my parent's house so turning on a pocast or a video would be a bad idea
wakemeup.jpg
At least I turned on the main light earlier when I got something to eat.
>>342212316
Kinda shitty but it could be worse
Surprising amount of crime for such a small city
Breaking Bad is pretty accurate
>>342212642That something is eating you now
From the insideDon't look at the moon
>>342212642
Ever considered there's something standing behind you, completely docile until the moment you stand up and turn around?
Better stay in that chair anon, it's for your own safety.
>>342212712
>Ramen is eating me from the inside
anon I'm sorry you kind of failed there
if anything that made me less scared
>>342212658
That's what I hear. Kind of a shame. There's a lot of beautiful scenery.
>>342212793
no because my mom is a horrible decorator and has a fairly large mirror directly in front of this desk
>>342212810
But don't Ramen noodles kind of look like a bunch of tiny worms? Wriggling as they go down your throat?
>>342212954
No, not really.
Not to mention that I used to eat ramen by just bashing the fuck out of it and only then cooking out
Started playing silent hill 3 just recently. Never played one before but watched a playthrough of 2 cause I thought I would be too scared to play from jumpscares like outlast but instead it doesn't do that lame stuff. How good is the 4th game?
>>342212954
I don't that that's going to scare anyone including that guy.
The only way a horror game could scare me was if an actual monster was coming out of the game for me, horror games just don't scare me I don't even flinch at jump scares anymore because of how obvious and overused they've become.
>>342212882
Jesus Christ, that's even worse.
I'd avoid looking at that mirror at all costs.
>>342213074
at this point I think he's trying to make me feel better
which kind of worked
>>342200326
>it doesn't scare me so it isn't scary
Hardcore, dude. People like you are likely responsible for jump scares being so prevalent. Silent Hill 2 doesn't scare me, but I understand it's scary, and I love the atmosphere.
watching this thread to read it in the morning
Too much of a pussy to read it right now
>>342213109
Nice try anon you can't fool me
Not too many games ever scared me before. Only one that truly terrified me was dead space 2. I had just gotten a 7.1 virtual surround sound headset(sony one). I remember it was right after school so the sun was still out. It was near the end where you meet that scary son of a bitch. I could hear it all over right in my ass. I was sweating even though it was cold at the time and my arms were shaking hard. Felt out of breath and a little light headed after it all ended. I've never experienced anything like it before and I long for that thrill again.
Only game that sorta gave me a thrill was outlast.... Until you realize you can run through everything. I find playing scary games with friends is how to do it. A nice surround sound system is definitely a must. One person begins to play and as soon as they scream, the controller gets passed to the next person. Pausing like a pus results in you still playing even if you screamed.
>>342213209
me too, actually
pretty curious about some of the shit I saw earlier up thread but there is no way in hell I'm reading that shit at 4 AM
>>342208026
I didn't stick around to figure out what was up with that room, shit was spooky
>>342192207
I love me some NEO Scavenger, actually used one of the monsters to tell a scary story to kids I was counseling at a camp last summer.
>Go to youtube to listen to some shit to get my mind off of spooks
>First thing in subscription is a rip of "Nightmare"
this isn't very grand
>>342213213
No seriously, the first thing I would do is take it down.
>father gifts be a creepy picture and hangs it over my bed
>there's a "shattered" head looking at you with 1 eye with a kind of "Mona Lisa"-effect following you everywhere and a small distorted face with an impish smile
I try not to look at it.
UWWAAAAAAAA
>>342213456
We've got a handful of pictures that could look "creepy" but they're all in the dining room which is pretty out of the way.
The only shit I have in here is myold Pokemonposter and a woodenVulpixI got when I was like, 8
>>342213043
People will argue if it's good or not. I thought it was the last good one, and worth a shot
>>342213525
S-SQUATTO?!
HINDU SQUATTO?
>>342201167
blightown in DS?
>>342213043
4 is kind of repetitive and pretty dull for the most part, but it's not always bad.
The Room itself is the best aspect of the game, kind of what all those first person walking simulators were trying to accomplish years later.
It has a pretty unique atmosphere, anyway. 1st game is scary as fuck in a way that doesn't leave you even when you stop playing. 2nd game is full-on depressing. 3rd game is similar to the first, but with more gore and in-your-face type of scares than deep horror and mindfucks. 4th is relatively light on direct horror, but it's really creepy and unpleasant in a good way mostly.
>>342213583
Thanks anon.
>tfw make it to the mannequin place.
>go to that room with the bullets and the one mannequin with the head. Inspect it and then hit it a few times cause why not.
>go to leave room amd hear a scream and go back to see the head on the floor and blood at the neck.
Does this happen if you don't hit it? Shit freaked me out
>>342194617
>do not follow the little girl
>pray while shooting
>alternate reality entered
Damn, SCP stuff is great, such a perfect combination of wit and horror.
>>342190961
>tfw I'm a 4-5
>tfw too pussy to play horror games
I played the first amnesia, got scared at the cockroach things and quit
>>342190961
I doubt I could get through the laziest, jumpscariest, low budget horror game without being constantly at a 5. I never ever buy horror games because I'd probably play about 5 minutes and then quit out of discomfort. I wish they were fun but I'm always just super spooked! :(!!
>>342210597
Item: One mature SCP-504 tomato
Subject: CD player playing "Harmful If Swallowed" (2003, Dane Cook)
Result: At [REDACTED], tomato clocked 167 mph. CD player destroyed.
>>342212642
>Apparently the shit I was listening to woke one of my parents up
>They came over to tell me to lower it
>Actually piss myself a little in fear
well, that's enough for this night
>>342194617
Damn, that whole pic could work as a video game idea
So, aside from FEAR, is there a tacticool game where I can fuckor get fucked byspooky/occult/alien/old gods/and-or other horrifying shit up?
>>342209369
;; fuck
I wish my dad was alive
And that i hadnt moved out of state from my mom
>>342213525
I tried really hard to find it, but I watched a lets play where the dude replaced the chase music with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r3_CtMZx0Y
Now whenever I see it brought up the music just plays in my head.
>>342211279
>Twentynine Palms
That's all it took to spook the fuck out of me.
>>342190961
I am thinking about streaming blind playthrough of silent hill 3. I got scared 1 minute into the game.
>>342215229
My dad died when I was 2 months old so at least I don't care about him at all.
My sister was 5 when it happened though, she was in therapy for a little while
>>342208859
>the version with the expunged data in it reveal the lieutenant was a woman and the SCP made sexual advances
I'm scared of my boner now.
>>342209369
Subject: 7-year-old female, afflicted with cough
Brief Background: Lives with mother and grandmother, father deceased (traffic accident)
Notes: Message appeared, I love you.
>>342205053
>there's still no vietnam survival horror game with this
>stranded soldier alone in the jungle
>taking psychadelics
>monsoon in the middle of the night
>can't see shit
>wandering soul starts playing and its effects are amplified since you're high
How do I play Silent Hill 2
>>342215707
You put the CD in the console
>tfw constant 5
>can't stomach any horror games
>could kinda play SOMA but mostly for the subject matter and still had to switch to a no commentary playthrough to watch the last quarter
I still want to give myself another chance. What else can I play that's mildly unsettling and not a pants-shitting scarefest?
>>342215819
I don't have a ps2 anymore
can I emulate it easily or is it one of those games that runs like shit
>>342215905
>What else can I play that's mildly unsettling and not a pants-shitting scarefest?
FEAR. You'll be so happy playing such a nice shooter that you'll forget the scares.watch the ladder
>>342215905
SCP: Containment Breach
>>342199129
Well if this was /tg/ I know of a cthulhu story that would fit that story to a near T. However I recommend you get a couple of your friends to play with you.
>>342206868
>SCP-231
That one was actually legit scary and fucked up desu
>>342204173
I don't see it. Where's the spook?
>>342215905
Yume Nikki. Most of it is just really interesting or unsettling. There are one or two things that if you accidentally stumble upon you'll fucking shit yourself to death though. But for the most part I just found the game hyper comfy. Don't read guides unless you're really really stuck. Even then don't read them.
>>342192612
Kojima said it best when he said that when a production is big budget and you know about the creators behind it, it's less scary. You just think to yourself that a big team of 100 people and millions of dollars went into the project and the game was designed to sell, and when you look at it that way, it just seems so fake. That's why an obscure Japanese indie game can be scary, because you don't know anything about the creator. Maybe the creator is a crazy murderer, or Satan himself. Of course that's unlikely, but you can always imagine.
>>342210818
Nobody watched since they were forced to form a human wall between the kids and the ritualists.
>>342190961
Being welcomed to the family, son
>>342215667
You haven't happened to read the book Going After Cacciato, have you?
>>342192207
Sunless Sea's combination of understated horror and dark humour is amazing.
>>342194617
>shoot while praying
>symbols compromised
I got chills reading that alone, imagine seeing that in a breach situation
>>342216467
No I haven't but it looks like something that may interest me from doing a quick search
Alien Isolation had me sp00k3d
But that's because of the amazing attention to detail. It wore off but it's the most scared I'd been in a game for a long time.
After seeing a webm in one of the threads on here, I decided to look up Spooky's House of Jumpscares. I thought "Alright, it's just a bunch of cartoon ghosts", but I must say that it can get my heart pumping.
But if anything would get my heart pumping, it would be a game that would play on my fear of deep water. That would be scarier than any jumpscare.
>>342216579
I actually think you would like it so much I was a little scared that you left the thread and weren't going to see my recommendation.
It starts out like a standard war novel, but gets REALLY fucking weird about a third through.It's probably my favorite book of all time, so I shill it at every chance.
>>342201062
Both in the same room.
>>342194617
>safe place to rest
>don't give up
10 meters later
>symbols have been compromised
>>342216798
I need to get reading especially war novels about the vietnam war. I'm ordering some shit off amazon right now and I'll probably end up getting a copy. Thanks anon
>>342190961
>What would it take for horror games to actually scare you?
When I'm attacked when I don't have what I need to deal with the enemy.
It's less fear and more "get the fuck out now" reaction.
I'd say i'm a perma 2 by OP pic scale.
>>342215998
>such a pansyass that have to stare at a wall during all of the Alma scenes
>genuinely scared whenthe real one breaks out and she runs at you on all fours
I've played it enough times to know when all the scares happen but it still unnerves me. It's just jumpscaring but something about it doesn't sit well with me.
>>342190961
the first F E A R boy that little girl gave me like 100 heart attacks..
>>342217014
I cannot recommend it highly enough, it involves the tunnels too, which you might be interested judging by the pics you posted.
>>342217072
Did you catch this jumpscare? I don't remember it at all.
>>342190961
I couldn't even finish amnesia because I shat myself every 5 minutes and had to make a short break.
It takes literally a simple 8 bit horror game to scare the hell out of me.
I don't think about the game after I closed it tho, unlike horror movies.
>Mfw I couldn't sleep a single minute for 2 days after I watched paranormal activity
>>342192207
Horrors games by itself are shit,they are mostly walking simulators.
If you have actual game and add horror elements to it it is going to be great
>>342217118
I'm getting it for sure. It's even better how you mention it starts off as a regular book then turns weird. I like when stories do that even though it is sort of spoiled for me but I will definately give it a read.
Terraria was fucking scary the first go around
>Corruption in general (Especially post WOF)
>yfw when you are digging and you hear this
>CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA CHUGGA
>>342190961
2 when with other people or watching others play, 4 when playing alone
>What would it take for horror games to actually scare you?
Scary atmosphere, if done well I'm even unnerved while playing non-horror games. For example the first couple of times I played on the night forest maps in X-Com EU had me terrified to the point that I alt tabbed to settle down
>>342217238
It's a great read anon, it's actually the book that got me into reading more about the Vietnam War in general.
The author of the book is a Vietnam vet, and has written another one about the war, called The Things They carried, which I also highly recommend. He describes it as a somewhat fictionalized memoir of his time there, and it's also a fantastic read.
>>342217321
>you feel vibrations from deep below
>>342217419
I was reading Tim O'Brien's wikipedia page and I saw your post. Any more recommendations of Vietnam books especially ones that cross over to horror? Not neccesarily horror like zombies but you get what I mean.
>>342205571
>I have been hit (showing approximate size of hole)
>>342217484
Going after Cacciato is the only one I know of, but it's more surreal/fantasy than horror in my opinion.
The Things they carried is more of a regular war novel that's based off his experianced and people during his time in Nam. Still fantastically written though.
>>342216564
Gave me an idea for an interesting horror setup.
>employed by The Foundation to do clerical work
>go in for your night shift, like usual
>despite the normal cars being parked outside, the building is oddly quiet
>looking around, you feel like you're completely alone
>after walking around a bit, you finally find some information at the sanitation zone near the SCP storage facility
>on the ground is a clearance card from one of the researchers; the researcher is nowhere to be seen
>on the wall is a long series of symbols
>remembering that you filed a document detailing each squad's symbol system, you go back to your office to grab it
>with the papers in hand, you attempt to translate what's on the wall
>the first symbol: "breach"
>oh fuck
>every subsequent symbol is a particular team's indication for "symbols have been compromised"
>fuck fuck fuck
>except the last one
>"alternate reality entered"
>that one wasn't there before you left to get the paper
I think it'd make a fun survival horror game. Armed with only your symbol decryption paper at first, you have to make your way through the SCP storage facility to find a way back to your reality. Even without jumpscares/actual monsters, you could really fuck with people using the symbols.
>>342217713
having the thing you trust most in a horror game turn out to not be true is the ultimate way to scare someone, you don't need monsters to scare
I can't remember the name of the game, but I remember watching some trailer or gameplay where a monster comes bolting down a hallway towards, can't quite get at you, then exits through a hole in the floor down the other end of the hallway. You then have to go down that hole and you can hear it growling and things. I thought that was pretty fucking scary.
>>342217159
>>342217072
>literally lights out and having something jump in your face
Fuck that shit.
>>342190961
>fear scale numbered 0-6
>factors that change score numbered 1-7
Im too autistic for this shit.
>>342205571
>They Haven't Got a Chance
>They May Have a Chance
>We haven't got a chance
>>342206528
Uh... most well paced horror games might only have 1 or 2 cheap jump scares and they're usually far into the game.
>>342205571
I don't know why, but this image made me laugh harder than I have in a long time.
>>342194617
Scp is a fucking gold mine. Is there any fiction from scp that isnt the wiki and that shitty game?
>fps police game
>starts off as a normal police officer's routine days
>tutorial is a police academy teaching basic controls like negotiating obstacles, shooting, driving and operating procedure
>get calls to settle domestic disputes, pull over people for speeding and stop a robbery in progress that ends up turning into a shootout
>sound design and gameplay is given a lot of attention
>shooting your handgun and driving your patrol car feel real and have weight to them
>full body awareness in your vehicle with things like the radio, windshield wiper, sirens and lights able to be manipulated at any time
>game takes place mostly in a small town, a long stretching highway and several truck stops at night
>slowly the game turns into horror with reports of serial killings and you need to respond to calls
>have to go into abandoned barns, dark parts of the desert to find clues and evidence and piece them together and try to find the killer
>>342218184
Arma 3 humanity life as a cop player.
>you finally realize half the town is dealing coke and the mafia only let's you live because you don't interfere
being a kid again and playing re2 for the first time
>>342218008
>playing condemned
>that jump scare
you know the one
>that Necro jumping into the lift in Dead Space
>>342192207
STALKER SOC, when you go down into the underground lairs and there's nobody there scares the hell out of the me.
>>342218152
There's more than one shitty SCP game (and a couple of good ones)
>>342218696
>nobody
>that scream in X-16
What's the game for one of the older consoles that had the players thinking it was deleting the saves, turning the volume down and similar? I'd really like more games to do some fourth wall interaction.
by the way, I have a creepy story from my childhood which I just remembered after thinking about that console game.
>cousin gives me a bunch of CDs filled with pirated old MS-DOS games
>play Wolfenstein 3D for the first time, Jazz Jackrabbit,...
>one day, decide to start up a game called Castles (or something similar)
>isometric or top-down game about building a castle
>go across the whole keyboard but can't figure out the controls
>decide to quit
>game doesn't want to exit
>spam ctrl-alt-delete
>still nothing
>slam the monitor (it was the go-to fix back then)
>nothing happens
>press the restart button
>game still on, music still playing
>start to get creeped by it since I was a kid, my parents weren't home and I was into all sorts of horror stories at that point
>hold the shut down button for what seems like minutes; computer still on
>finally take the cable out of the socket
>put it back after a while
>turn the computer back on
>music starts playing
At least that's how I remember it. As far as I know, the music stopped after I restarted the computer and I was able to play some Age of Empires 2 after that.
>>342209215
>it's implied to be some sort of horrible rape and beating though the author said that it wasn't that
I literally have no idea what else it could be, especially since it involves a bunch of sex offenders. Guess I lack imagination.
>>342201364
Nah, especially if the creature is always trying to be in your vision. You have to open your eyes to see at some point right?
Not know where it is when you open your eyes is the spooky part
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw_HKzo9Ync
>>342207063
>>342207137
scp-[even number]-j is the best clearly
It's somewhat difficult for me to take scp containment breach seriously when it has like nintendo 64 graphics with two frame animations and an unstable fifteen fps regardless of your specs, it looks more like comedy than anything else really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV0I-iA5lJU
>>342194617
>walk around sewer
>Get Out Fast symbol
>run like crazy
>hear splashing behind you
>you stop in an instant
>notice the Do Not Look Away symbol
>you turn around, looking straight at it and never breaking your gaze
>you notice something from the corner of your eye
>Symbols Have Been Compromised
>>342219803
The game was made in literally a day or two and graphical updates weren't high on the list of things to do when it's as dark as satans asshole everywhere
>>342190961
Honestly, its kind of hard to really say what makes for a good horror game. I kind of think a form of helplessness is needed to make a game really scary. However, a game where you're helpless needs A. A good reason for it. And B. Not have you be entirely helpless.
I say B simply because if you're always helpless, it leaves no room to ramp things up. Some of the most tense and terrifying moments in games are ones where you are faced with something you can't handle normally.
Good sound design is definitely a must. As is the ability to foreshadow things. Of all games, Bioshock did this incredibly well at the start of the game. Showing shadows, having voices shout and look for you somewhere out of sight, and then following through with ambushes and crap. Keeping the player always on edge helps so much with making something scary.
>>342220082
SCP: Containment Breach != SCP-087-B
>>342202101
Ore ga ore ga honta yatsuda anata gugaa da
Do you do you do you ( Do you understand?) Senpaisorry that smrpg jjba mashup's been stuck in my head for a few months
>>342219629
spooky
>>342219175
Eternal Darkness for the gamecube?
>>342220297
Yes, this is it. I've never played it but I've seen a lot of gameplay on Youtube and the sanity effects really are something special in a positive way.
>>342220426
Yeah I'll agree there. It was really ahead of its time for fucking with players in and out of the game in novel ways.
>>342220049
>on the move for days
>finally come to a room that seems secure
>Safe Place To Rest and Room Clear symbols on the walls
>finally you can stop moving for a while
>put your backpack down and rest your head on it like a pillow
>notice symbols hastily scrawled on the ceiling
>Symbols Have Been Compromised
>You Are Being Watched
>>342219175
Have you ever had the feeling you were being watched since then?
>>342190961
Horror media is a fucking joke, in any medium.
At least in videogames you can just take the neat aesthetic and slap a decent videogame on top. Action horror, if you will.
>>342208048
This one is the best.
>>342194617
>walk into a room
>every single symbol is up on the wall with a huge Symbols have been compromised
>>342219218
>>342209215
It's pretty much rape, before the edit the article used to hint even more closely that it was brutal rape.
There's not much else it could really be
>>342201037
People gave slender shit, but even the first one that got a ton of attention is insanely good horror wise due to its sound design
>>342190961
I'm a 6 on light horror games (vampire the masquerade bloodlines, undertale)
I can't play horror games at all
>playing project zomboid
>set it for maximum easy
>no npcs, extremely few zombies
>just want to get used to playing the game
>it gets dark, so I send my dude to go up to bed to get some sleep in his fortified hosuse
>THREE EXTREMELY LOUD KNOCKS ON THE FRONT DOOR
>altf4
>>342220572
Sometimes, but I wouldn't say it's because of the computer problem. I've been /x/ since I learned to read, my family has had "paranormal" experiences before,...
The music playing even after I've pressed the reset button did make my heart beat a lot faster, though.
>>342220834
>no npcs, extremely few zombies
you mean vanilla lmao
can't believe they still don't even have female versions of the clothing models they've been working on for like a year and refuse to release
They gather round the natal bed, the foolish and the wise. they fear the child yet to be born, whose voice shall rend the skies.
The faithful watch the forest for the coming of the King. their lanterns bright, they wait at night for the new world he shall bring.
The dragon waits in shadows, his breath will scorch the land. the hero in the castle draws his sword and makes his stand.
The princess in the tower is hidden far away. but nothing under heaven can keep The Groom at bay.
Luke 23:34.
They gather round with leering smiles, the soulless and the dead. though her soul unwinds, the cruelest minds will keep her in her bed.
The potter told his 'prentice to prepare him seven jars. six he made with grace and skill, the last his hands did mar.
The cretin moon no more is howling, gone its mourning black. in their dreams its face is prowling, come to take them back.
The King is in his courting clothes, the brides are in their beds. the unborn princes wait in sleep to raise their eager heads.
The hens were in the henhouse and seven eggs did lay, till the fox crept in by dark of night and stole the eggs away.
Six were broken by their bindings six no more shall sing. comes the seventh full unwinding and all the bells will ring.
When the first had given birth, then all the birds did sing. her screaming cries did shake the skies, as she called out for her King.
By doctor's blade the second bade a life into the world. untimely hewn neath a silent moon, the King's red flag unfurled.
His bride the third remained unheard, her cries for help ignored. she stopped her life with a surgeon's knife, and gave it to Our Lord.
The fourth prepares a dagger and places it at her heart. the perfect cure cannot make pure what the King has set apart.
The fifth one's crown was bearing down upon the fox's set. the den was sundered with mighty thunder, an apocalypse beget.
>>342210557
>Dad there's someone in my bed
HOLY FUCK
>>342221223
On the sixth's day, the walls gave way, and the oceans turned to ash. her birth gave work, as the earth shook, underneath the King's fell lash
The seventh bride will break the tides the moon no more will shine. there comes a day not far away she'll birth the death of time.
The doctor never tells his god which one he really seeks. instead he hides himself away, and quietly, he weeps.
Their god's own voice, he makes the choice, declaring with their word. "in fear and pain let her remain, lest she be like the third."
>>342206868
>just an object that does something weird when you use it or whatever
>implying those can't be good
Mary sue bullshit is unforgivable, but I like strange objects almost as much as I like the legitimate horror. There was one about a chinese teapot or something that helped you come to terms with lost loved ones. Surprisingly touching.
Seem to remember one other one about a man trapped in a book that kept writing itself that was also pretty neat.
Then there was SCP-1958. Horror elements but the thing itself wasn't actually dangerous or scary. Just impractical.
>>342190961
PT was the only game that ever scared me, and it was the scariest piece of media I've ever encountered, including movies and tv shows. I'll never forgive konami for shutting down silent hills, fucking idiots.
>>342221223
>>342221273
Go back to >>>/x/ with your roleplay bullshit.
>>342221223
>>342221273
This is the text that's hidden in the 231 page, right?
Sexual themes in horror stuff usually does the trick. Look up Bobby Yeah, that has a lot of really weird sexual stuff. I would like to see other aspects of the human condition reworked into something horrifying.HABIT is the best aspect of the Slenderman Mythos
>>342211139
>I took the time to dig it back up to the surface, poor cave sheep
:3c
>>342208859
I like how they handled redactions with 2317. The thing itself wasn't special, but I really liked how they handled the telling.
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2317
Seconding 835; actually outspooked my imagination.
>>342199129pressure
or barotrauma maybe, it's more of a ss13-lite: under the sea edition
>>342194617
This is inspired by "hobo symbols," which are actually implemented correctly into New Vegas.
>all this SCP talk
Maybe you fags can help me.
I remember a friend oncce told me there was an SCP that was some sort of "darkness" that had to be kept illuminated by high powered floodlights 24/7, otherwise that darkness could consume the universe or something.
Sounds neat, but I haven't been able to find it.
>>342215913
There is a windows port.
I've never found monsters scary since they simply don't exist
Crazy demented people on the other scare the shit out of me which is probably why I like games like Outlast and Condemned the most in the genre
Would like a game where you're stalked by cannibalistic hobos
>>342205737donut be scared anon:^)
>>342221938
Sounds like 1983 but light wasn't the defense, so I'm probably wrong. Still a good one though.
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1983
>>342210557
>removing the ambiguity of which one is the actual kid and which one is the monster
Shit rendition of the story
>>342221370
It's not roleplay, it's from the SCP itself
>>342221409
Yup, there might be more to it though since iirc on occasion a new line is added
>>342211106
It certainly had a comfy isolationist feel to it, but could definitely feel a bit unsettling at times
>>342219662
FUCK
ANON
WHY
>>342221938
There's 017 but I'm not sure if it has world destroying powers.
It's expanded upon a bit by a The Serpent's Hand entry on it, but I don't remember what it said
>>342222015
>I've never found monsters scary since they simply don't exist
That's a dumb explanation. Any threatening creature you don't personally know about would be a monster to you.
Hell, the definition's shifted over time to mean any animal that's big, threatening, or scary, whether it's real or not.
Say you don't believe in boogeymen or something. Those aren't confirmed to exist. Monsters are fairly common, pic related.
>>342222043
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH FUCK YOU YOU ALMOST GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK
The atmosphere, and expectations of the unknown
e.g. STALKER games with well done russian mods
You enter with the expectation of spooky shit, have the excellent atmosphere intact, and the lack of knowledge of what the modder(s) changed in that particular section of the game
>>342222370
No, that's called a fucking eel you autist.
Is it bad that I start to cry when scared? Not, like, actually cry. But tears start to form in my eyes. I'm definitely not crying.
It's strange, does this happen to other people?
Horror games are too scary for me to play. That's why I like watching Markiplier play them.
>>342222043
Isn't there some kind of urban legend about this? I know it's just the fag who came up with JoJo, but I heard some shit about it.
>>342222540
"Monster" is a general term and can describe pretty much anything.
Another definition of the word covers any creature that has a severe congenital deformity or mutation, like this thing.
Keep up with the times, anon.
>>342198775
>>342222635
This.
>>342190961
Dead space was scary to me :(
>>342222570
Some guy said that some leet haxor managed to inject an exe onto the image (see 3mb size even though the image is relatively small) which acts as a keylogger or a lostboy.exe type thing.
>>342201062
Who is scarier? That real-life enderman thing that kills if you look at it, or the weeper angels from Doctor Who that kill you the instant you look away?
The one you can't look at is worse because you don't know where it is.
>>342222145
>http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1983
jesus thats scary
>>342222222
>>342222548
No, but my eyes tear up when I jawn and it's quite embarassing, to be honest.
I-is there a level past keter?
>>342194617
this
jumpscares just turn me into a laughing mess
>>342222740
That's what it was. Thanks, anon.
>>342222786
That's completely normal anon.
>>342222814
Occasionally, but it's rare and not recommended among writers unless they have an interesting idea, like 2317.
Only one I remember off the top of my head is Apollyon. There are others among the SCP-001 contenders if I recall.
>>342190961
The recent hannibal tv series was the best horror type thing i've seen in a long time. Thriller/Psychological is way more entertaining in the long run.
>>342222222
>>342222740
It's all made up, right? There are no screamers in images, either, right?
>>342222839
Oh, is it really? I thought it was just me and it was too embarassing for me to ask anyone about it.
>>342222814
>>342222896
http://www.scp-wiki.net/system:page-tags/tag/thaumiel
>>342215667
1916 - Der Unbekannte Krieg is probably the closest thing you'll get to that I guess.
>>342222768
welcome to /v/
you will find no dubs here
>time to finally play that horror game I bought on sale last year
>walk through dimly lit corridor
>something moves in the shadows
>NOPE
>well, time to play something else
Anyone else a giant pussy here?
I'm too easily startled to play horror games. Jump scares feel like they could literally give me a heart attack. I had to stop playing Spooky's House of Jump Scares because they fucking cut-outs scared the living shit out of me.
>>342211649
Someome or something has figured out the symbols, therefore any other symbols you see from now on should not be trusted.
Basically means you're fucked.
>>342218554
That's the only scary part on the whole game
>>342223015
Saw some quads earlier.
>>342210597Two-second pause before activity. Tomato clocked at [REDACTED]. Sound barrier broken. Subject killed.
thank you anon
I've never seen this one before
>>342223287
only 0s and only at the trips or above level
>>342223319
Still haven't fixed that bug since last time they banned dubs, eh?
Did anyone check out Night Time Visitor? I really liked the idea behind horror MarcoPolo with phonecalls and the reactions to theDoodlebob stalkerare much more hillarious to the phonecall scares themselves, it really wasn't expected.
>>342223602
than the phonecall scares* Damn it.
>>342210597
This is why I love safe SCPs. Goddamn my sides.
>>342190961
I'm at 6
I can't play any horror game
If I'm with friends I'll have to make them play it for me
fuck
>>342212607
kek
>>342199129
Watch Leviathan 1989 if you didn't already
>>342223781
Goddammit, Jimmy you told me you never browsed 4chan. I'm still not playing Outlast 2 for you you fucking faggot. 1 was enough and it wasn't even that scary.
>>342194617
>Someone Else Is Here
>Team Member Vanished Here
>Alternate Reality Entered
>You Are Being Watched
>>342210597
>"Whoever snuck SCP-504 into the cafeteria kitchen is getting terminated. Those tomato slices are like fucking shuriken."
>>342210597
>funniest joke in the world kills it
Perfect ending.
>>342219629
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV0I-iA5lJU
>>342219662
Thanks for getting me killed, fuck face.
>mfw the hotel chase scene in Call of Cthulhu made me uninstall the game
>>342216915
HAHAHA FUCK YOU
>>342219662
>tfw read on it's file that whoever had encountered, seen or heard this SCP, they would be chased infinitely to the ends of time no matter if you where high up in a helicopter or deep in the ground
>still believe to this day that it's out finding me
The scariest game I've ever played was SH2 and possibly 3. It's also one of the best games I've ever played, it combines everything so well, plus the difficulty setting being well made.
>tons of weapons, but limited ammo and they're hard to use, it's better to just run away
>creepy atmosphere, but no gorefest
>FANTASTIC soundtrack
>signature design = everything being rusty, FOG
>actual story and no retarded bullshit like SOMA, Cry of Fear, etc.
>fantastic characters
>fantastic cutscenes which act as a reward for going through a hard/scary part
>MC not being a pussy but at the same time is not fearless, as if realising he's "crazy", but staying calm, also great for self-inserting for more spooks
>camera angles
>movement, not hard to understand but tricky, hard to master
CAN I PLEASE GET, AT LEAST ONE MORE GAME LIKE THIS
I've seriously played almost every single fucking horror game that was ever talked about here or on other forums.
>>342194617
How much are you supposed to trust the "symbols have been compromised" symbol?
>>342224252
>.gif
Nope. No. I refuse.
>>342224927
pussy just turn your sound down
>>342192207
I feel this. Half-Life 2's Ravenholm fucked me up.
>play system shock 2
>hear an audio log of a guy slowly turning into a hybrid
>>342190961
I'm somewhere between a three and a two. I play the games by myself, at night, alone, but i'm usually not really scared by most of the stuff. There's usually enough to get me a little tense before they blow their load and jump out with a spooky ghost that's kinda laughable.
There is only one horror game that I've not finished because I was scared, and it's scratches.
The horrible gameplay combined with the possibility of a jumpscare just makes it really hard to play for me, plus I'm really fucking bad at point and click games.
>>342223506
I'd hardly call it a bug. We were lucky enough to keep any gets at all.
>>342207709
Not the HD one with the updated translation. they're going to actually remake the whole game.
http://www.pathologic-game.com/
>>342190961
Only horror games that actually scared me were the 4 Silent Hill games and Code Veronica so yes, I also think they need inovation.
>>342222740
Is it true, anon?
>>342222740
>>342222829
>>342222973
>>342227945
It is true. It's a screamer that sleeps and activates randomly after some weeks/months, also seems to fuck up your computer. Can be easily removed by deleting cache.
And no, it doesn't work anymore, it's what made 4chan remove the feature of embedding files on images. But yeah, it was real.
And no, it's not an .exe, that's bullshit, but I'm not sure what it is either, just some cache virus
>>342211839
Some symbols you can probably still trust regardless though, like not following the little girl or being taken alive.
>>342215206
Clive Barker's Jericho or Undying
>>342205571
>They may have a chance
>play Amnesia: The Dark Descent for the first time in years
>having a good run
>get to Agrippa
>dead ends everywhere, have no idea where to go
>drop game
>>342228139
I thought it was embedded cheese pizza in those mods are alseep, post sinks! threads that ended up getting embedded files removed
>>342228816
They never managed to remove embedded files at once and even to this day there are probably still ways to circumvent the block.
>>342228517
But what if following the little girl is your only way out?
In a normal situation if you were going through a pre-explired area and you came upon a little girl with no don't follow the little girl markings, it'd obviously be safe to follow her.
Not being taken alive could fuck you over as well, because the SCP may not necessarily be hostile, it could just be that when it catches you it brings you outside of the place because he wants to be left alone from normies like a struggle scpepe
There really should be an opposing symbol for almost every symbol though to remove any potential misunderstandings
>>342228814
it's good for half the playtrough first time, but once you realise how shittily the game is made all "scariness" is sucked out
I love me some victorian era games though
>>342229056
Write them mirrored
>>342190961
I'm pretty much a 3 when playing games. It doesn't take much. Some scary sounds, some strange visuals, some suspense, and I'm scared.
>>342209215
>>342220773
wasn't there added documents that basically said the scarlet king runs on fear, so the idea is to hype the montauk procedure up to eleven, but in reality it's harmless?
>>342229061
I played the demo and thought it was pretty good, but then when I got the full game it was just incredibly disappointing. Maybe I didn't give it enough time, but honestlythe graphics really killed my immersion. I mean, not that they're technically unimpressive, but something about the lighting just didn't feel immersive/realistic enough
>>342194617
>enter corridor with teammate
>unsafe place
>hostile being
>you are being watched
>someone else is here
>stay together
>symbols have been compromised
>it is not human
>you are being watched
>Do not make eye contact
>get out fast
>>342217159
It's the Perseus Mandate expansion, not the original game.
>>342229163
Yeah, like THAT wouldn't get confusing.
Also
>don't follow the little girl
>follow the little girl
>symbols have been compromised
Why did SCP skip code 055? Never understood that. SCP-055 when?
>>342200326
>deliberately looks for scary parts in non scary games
>complains when he isn't scared
>>342230546
that is only in your head canon anon, mauntauk is only as horrible or not horrible as you want it to be
>>342230703
I would say the graphics are least of the games problems, are yo usure you just didn't have your drivers fucked or something? I think the lighting is okay.
>>342228139
Fuck me, if this actually happened to me I think I would smash my laptop into a million pieces out of wild animal fear
>>342206868
The Red Sea Object is my fucking favourite
The slowly unraveling mystery of it is so great
>>342194617
>You and your team are sent to explore spooky maze
>get separated by shit
>spooky creatures are there
>get into room
>"Do not be taken alive" symbol
>dead agent friends all around it, suicide
>you get your gun out to do the same
>in the corner of your eye, you see another symbol made with blood
>"symbols have been compromised"
Ok now that's scary
You're scared of a broken clock?
A little bit yeah. Because if that clock's broken, and it's the only one in the room, then what's that ticking?
>>342194617
>Spacial/distance distortion
>Rooms move
>Stay in the darkness
>Do not fall asleep here>Do not be taken alive
>>342232570
IT'S A PIPE BOMB
>>342232498
I could see this being a fun a game to play with friends a risk versus reward scenario where you have to evaluate the trustworthiness of the symbols by clues around the environment.
>>342232425
Goddamn that's my favorite by quite a margin as well. Hell you could make an entire game JUST about that one. I wish I had to skills to do so, honestly.
Is there a zombie game where you're trapped in one location and you have to defend that location. Like, you have to make traps and use weapons to fight off the zombie horde but you only have limited resources so you have to plan wisely and there are several entrances/exits to the house zombies can get through like windows, doors, weak walls etc.
I feel like trying to defend while a horde is coming after you with only your wits to defend you could make for some really awesome gameplay. There has got to be a game out there that takes advantage of this.
>>342233290
try playing cod World at War nazi zombies mode.
>>342233290
cod games have that
>>342190961
For horror to work it needs to be subtle, if you advertise your horror game as horror game, it already removes from the experience.
It's also the reason why horror segments in games that aren't horror work so well.
And even then, it only works as long as it doesn't turn viral memery fuckfest, like Amnesia did, unless you were able to avoid all that.
So, for it to work, the horror needs to be a surprise that builds up troughout the entire game, but not be the main focus.
Also jumpscares are not horror, you can use them SPARINGLY to distract players from what's really scary going on, because it takes people off balance, the jumpscare in alien wasn't the alien, it was the cat.
>>342194617
Holy shit this is pretty good.
I now desperately want a FEAR-like SCP game where you play a field agent, first day on the job, and it's all about surviving brutal world-bending terrors with no handholding.
Like, you actually have to study the survival manuals given and know the symbols to survive, maybe have some team mates that suffer fates worse than death as in the end you're the only original team member still alive. That suffering shit.
>>342190961
sharks
fuck 'em
>>342212342
>implying anyone played this
I am 5. I want to play horror games like Outlast because the story and setup seems interesting but I fucking can't man. Jumpscares are the worst things on earth to me
>walk into room
>see this
>wat do
>>342232425
What number?
>>342234630
093
A horror game is most efficient for me when it gives me a fighting chance that is rigged against my favor. Its something that I noticed out of liking tank controls. People do not like tank controls and that's fine, but there was a reason they existed and its something that can be conveyed perfectly in appropriate control execution.
Having complete and utter control of a situation does not a horror game make. You will not be scared if you have HUD elements to tell you you're okay, for example. I always wondered why Silent Hill never had a health bar that was immediate to the player (you have to pause it) or give you a radio that tells you when enemies were near.
And its simply the fact is, you can fight but you will most likely lose.
Throw in risk factors to dying and the stake gets higher. There is a psychological need to survive. There is something to be gained. Hope being dashed away from you because you chose to fight can be an absolute morale breaker and knowing it can make a game much more effective.
What I'm trying to say is, its all about the control scheme and the execution of risk vs. reward being heavily rigged against the player in a VERY OBVIOUS way so that the player is completely always afraid of dying.
>>342233834
>deep sea/open ocean exploration game
>start in nice relaxing areas with coral, seaweed, visible terrain
>goal is hidden far, far away in the open
>as you approach, you become increasingly aware that something massive is following you, but you don't see much of it as it swims off into the fog
>once you reach your goal area, you find nothing
>you see the creature's murky silhouette approach you
>It's a friendly, cute blue whale, and she gives you a kiss.
>roll credits
>>342190961
atmosphere, the feeling of being chased by something that is unknown,also jump scares are fucking retarded
>>342224228This message will repeat until none are left to read it
>>342224228
Thoughts on the new Local 58 short? I don't think it really fits with the theme of L58, but I love what it does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdyknT4uchM
>>342235683
I love how you see a brief second of the alien. It's all warped, and lanky and shit.
>>342235680
Why are whales so great? They're so big and most of them seem friendly
>>342235683
If you just buy the fact that Local 58 is just for Kris' horror escapades then it fits perfectly.
>>342231640
i'm glad then.
>>342235683
Wish he hadn't tied to use the Local 58 name or iconography. Should've come up with a new name for a horror anthology, and retrofit the first two local 58 into it.
>>342232498
>>342232935
>asymmetrical multiplayer
>one controls SCPs
>a team of humans are spread out
>they can only communicate when nearby
>have to leave notes for eachother
>the SCP player can leave notes as well
>>342233290
Resi4 has a short segment like this. it's neat.
>>342234357
Proceed to the future I chose.
>>342235832
This, Local 58 can transition fine into "mundane turned against you" while not obligatorily having to use the backdrop of a TV Station, that gives more freedom for scary scenarios.
If you really need an explanation, my headcanon is that this is a tape recording. Someone had taped The Midnight Movie in Local 58 and taped it over with his dashcam recording.
>>342220049
BAD END
>>342235683
Woah, what is this Local 58 channel? I've never heard of it before but these videos are pretty entertaining.
>>342233290
The Zombie Survival gamemode in GMod used to be sort of this.
>>342237120
Same guy behind Candle Cove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YeeVhz_iXw
>>342201013
one is painting its dick>?
>>342194617
>Symbols Compromised
TRUST NOBODY NOT EVEN YOURSELF
quickly what are some similar video to the local 58 channel, basically some spooky spooks.
>>342192207
This. A situation is far scarier when you come in having no idea it was even going to try and scare you.
This is one reason why the more fucked up moments from childhood games stick with us, because we were totally unprepared for them.
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2930
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