Survival horror / horror-based games

I usually only play the games that have some sort or horror or fantasy theme to them...although I'm not a huge gamer, only every now and them...but I love arcade games, especially pinball. I love the Elvira one as well, and there's a Tales of the Crypt one which is pretty fun. My favorite one though was the Nightmare on Elm Street pinball machine. I only played it a couple times in my hometown, and haven't seen it since...man was that cool though!

I have racked up more time in horror survival gaming than writing I'm ashamed to say - I am on with Silent Hill 4 at present and that came hot on the heels of Haunting Grounds.
I have had just about all the Resident Evil games, survivor 2 was limp! I have a battered copy of Alone in the Dark that I treasure.
On the sickometre I think Silent Hill 3 was wayyyy up there, when that lady ingested Heathers unborn dead God foetus - yacky poo poo!
Love it!
If I didn't write horror books and had an affinity for programming I really think I would have gone into game writing/production.
On saying that though I have played all Final Fantasy games - aside from the GameCube edition they made, fakers.
Oh yeah, Tekken, and Mortal Kombat that seems to cover scraping and blood thirst needs...erm. That's it really - oh yeah, that odd game Obscure that was too blody hard - I pinned that to my shed and now use it to confuse cats. why cats you say, because they find the shiny disc interesting in the same way I found that game really and truely hacked me off! :!:

might and magic did a tour of duty in my home too - I like the chess like gameplay and crazy monsters in there...

Mortal Kombat rocks it!
Blood AND batterings!
GET OVER HERE!!!

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FATALITY>>>POW!
Didn't quite get the whole Shujinko thing in deception though - dunno if you played it but they RPG'd Mortal Kombat on that one and I think Shaolin Monks is the same but haven't had chance for that yet - gettting pissed off and stuck with Silent Hill 4...

Also sad to say looks like Soul Calibre 3 has been heavily RPG'd to...
I loooove Cervantes - hes one meam and moody fu*ck* :arrow: r...and Voldo, simply because he's a freak!

Survival games are awesome.
My favourite series is Silent Hill, notably number 2. I play games primarily because I like being embarked on stories, and Silent Hill is all about story, despite how messed up they always are.
Not only that, but Silent Hill presents its stories through symbolism. That's a hard feat for a game to do, to be able to present its plot indirectly. Very much like anything David Lynch does.

And even if it weren't for that, the imagery and atmosphere of these games is beautiful. Gameplay elements were also quite innovative at the time, such as radio static alerting you to the presence of enemies, or having to rely on everything but sight to get around.

I can understand why not everyone would like these games, especially with the shoddy control schemes, but despite that, AND the fact that today, the formula is old and has been done much better by more recent games, Silent Hill will always have a place in my heart. It's a badass series, and very frightening, disturbing and mature. If the ESRB knew anything this woulda been banned everywhere. When you comprehend the plots, it's like-oh god, NO.
Very impressive, and I've yet to play anything that's as cruel and inhuman as Silent Hill as far as stories go.

I could rave about Silent Hill forever, but eh.

I also love the Clock Tower series, notably number two. It's just...weird. And fun. Quite the ambiance, but I admit, after completing it nearly 20 times I still don't understand the plot.

Oh and Rule of Rose is awesome, too. The gameplay gets repetitive, but the story, once again, is like...*Curls up in a corner and trembles.*

I also love role playing games too, mostly JRPG's or SRPG's. Final Fantasy is what I started with, however I quickly got tired of all the clichés and archetypal characters that define these games. Not FF itself; those are still awesome, although I admit I like the older ones way better...but those which aspire to be carbon copies of big name games...
Why am I always playing with a spiky haired prepubescent teen destined to save the world?
Why does he wear goggles that serve no purpose during the entirety of the game? How come there's always a girl with cat ears who thinks she can cook?
The higher the hair, to closer to God much?

I guess it's the formula and it works, but upon my game shop and pawn shop treks, I've managed to find some rather rare and delightful gems, such as Shadow Hearts or the Shin Megami games, which are RPG's but with a horror theme.

I love the stories in games and this is why I play when I'm too lazy to read something, but you gotta begin expanding your expectations when a lot of it is reheated material. :/
It's funny because I don't think that way when it comes to movies, probbaly because watching a movie doesn't demand as much time or concentration as a video game.

Of course stories may not by why everyone plays games so...*Looks at post.* Wow I never shut up do I haha.

I played a bit of it at a friend's place. For what little I've seen, it's pretty much all that.
It's got both cheap scare tactics a la Resident Evil and that feeling from games like Silent Hill where you actually DON'T want to proceed because it's just too scary lol.
Also the enemies look great, and a new gameplay thing here, to destroy an enemy, you literally have to disembowel it and sever off all its limbs, otherwise it just won't stop coming after you haha.
That and some other cool stuff like floating around in this huge room or mounting this turret thing to kill this gigantic monster outside the space station.

I forgot about this thread - I did get around to playing Dead Space since my last post and it is *awesome*. The only trick is, if you play it on the PC, turn off the V-Sync setting in graphics. It is almost impossible to aim with that turned on.

I haven't heard about the new Splatterhouse game yet, but perhaps I shall google!

"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream," anyone?

Dude, I can't wait to watch my roommate play Bioshock III. I'm a game-watcher. I can watch people play shit for HOURS and I get really scared and get totally into the storylines.

Silent Hill 2 is definitely the greatest survival-horror game ever made second only to System Shock 2. The only game to ever actually scare me.

I gotta say that as the spiritual successor to System Shock 2, Bioshock was not a good game. I don't even think it was very good mechanically.

I became interested in The Witcher when it was a book in Poland before it got translated into any other language but I do not understand Polish. I wanted to play the game too. The whole universe sounds really awesome. Definitely dark fantasy with an edge, is that right?

Doh!!! I had a mental lapse there. Dead Space totally became my favorite game of all time. The animated film, Downfall, and webisodes are excellent. There are books coming out or they have come out expanding on the universe. There's also an Xbox Live game coming out that if you beat it will unlock otherwise inaccessible rooms and such in Dead Space 2.

I had the whole time line down elsewhere. It was already pretty epic after the first game, movie and webisodes but that was nothing.

I was looking at the new multi-dimensional Spider-Man and Castlevania games. The graphics whore in me wants Castlevania. Most likely I'll end up waiting for the new Call of Duty if the single player campaign turns out good. I was in the beta for multi and wasn't impressed. I really didn't like playing as the Taliban killing US soldiers and compared to Battlefield 2 it felt like it could have been released 5 years ago.

Yup, and those horrible, evil women torturing me with physical therapy every day gave me 100% mobility back. There's only a small chunk of meat missing which is only noticeable if I point it out.

The doctor and those women were amazing.

It is a great game. I wish they'd get back to that because I think the series went downhill. I'd settle for a high definition remaster on the current consoles.