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5 Survival Horror Games That Are Actually Survival Horror

MMGN.com writes: Survival Horror - a genre that has undergone significant change almost to the point it is unrecognisable by veterans. The increasing focus on action and adventure has seen the traditional staples of the genre fall by the wayside, creating almost a sub-genre that could be known as action horror.

I wrote a lengthy piece on the transformation yesterday, but now I bring to you 5 Survival Horror games that are actually Survival Horror.

Lord_Sloth4292d ago (Edited 4292d ago )

Umm.....If these are Survival Horrors and actually considered scary than the Genre pull is more screwed up than I thought...

For example Dead Rising is a Beat 'Em Up and there's really nothing horrifying about DR2, Zomboid, or Lone Survivor. I haven't played Revelations or DayZ yet so can't say for them.

morganfell4292d ago

I couldn't agree more. I think some people actually never experienced survival horror as it used to be. It was more about running away or barely escaping alive than it was mowing down hordes of enemies.

The true games in the genre this generation have been few and far between. An action title with zombies is not survival horror. For me, the survival horror game that has stood out this generation is Siren Blood Curse.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

ATi_Elite4291d ago

DayZ and the SATLKER series are survival horror at it's best!

STALKER scares the crap out of you when you go under ground into the old laboratories and Nuclear sites and when the sun goes down you will crap your pants the first time a pseudo dog jumps at your flashlight. Scary stuff.

DayZ scares the crap outta you when another player sneaks up on you and starts shooting at you. The adrenalin rush hits you so hard that the game is really intense. The Zombies are more of an annoyance but the real fright fest comes from being HUNTED like a dog by other players who want to steal your bandages, backpack, ammo/guns, and beans!!

Both Games require you to heal yourself with bandages, eat, drink, rest etc.. you only have so much room in your backpack and things are not just always laying around in crates so the Survival aspect is pretty high cause i have bleed to death many times cause i ran out of bandages.

DayZ and any STALKER game is great survival horror.

specialguest4292d ago (Edited 4292d ago )

I've heard of DayZ before, but never looked into it until now. Currently watching the a youtube video of DayZ where 2 guys are discussing about how the game is like.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

I wish I had the money for a new PC right now just so I could play this game. Based on what they talked about, this sounds like one of most realistic survival horror game ever.

-You have to drink water to restore your water bar, eat food to restore your food bar, you also have a "blood" bar which is not easy to restore.
-In some cases, online human players are worse than zombies since they may kill you in desperation for survival.
-There's no health regeneration
-Ammo is limited
-If you die, there's no respawn.
-If you're injured from an attack, your character shakes and trembles in pain
-Real time day and night change according to the actual time-zone of the location of the server you're playing in

Skip to 13:09 of the video for what night time looks like. It's almost pitch black!

RXL4292d ago

im with you on that (about the new pc)..

lets move in together..pull our resources...sell your stuff and buy said PC? =)

we can play and sleep in shifts..

specialguest4292d ago

hahaha I got the day shift...(I'm a coward)

Treian4292d ago

RE: Revelations was not survival horror. Doing a 180 and turning action half way was a no no.

BitbyDeath4292d ago

Only real survival horror game i've played this gen was Siren

Pozzle4292d ago

Same here. Though I played Fatal Frame IV...but it doesn't really count since it wasn't released outside Japan. Which is a shame, because it was a genuinely good horror game.

Kyosuke_Sanada4292d ago (Edited 4292d ago )

Resident Evil Revelations and Dead Rising II over Amnesia and Siren: Blood Curse -sighs- what is this gen coming too?

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Steam Uproar as Capcom Slips In Restrictive DRM Software

From Xfire: "Steam users and the larger PC gaming community are lashing out at Capcom over a streak of sneaky DRM updates as the Japanese gaming giant continues to flirt with controversy"

LordoftheCritics83d ago

RIP

Capcom turning into Ubisoft.

Well success can have that effect.

just_looken83d ago

Yep this shows how bad a digital world is now well for the old titles new games disc or not the drm is there but you can get the old games on dvd then try to monkey the last pre drm update onto the game files.

I love GOG for this reason i saw that skyrim bs update so i know not to run that version as gog you can select what patch to download/install with capcom hopefully we get a list of the update numbers that add this horrific drm.

With denuvo as a alder lake pc user it still has issues with E cores and i remember when the servers were taken offline forcing hundreds of games to be paperweights.

https://www.pcgamer.com/a-g...

FinalFantasyFanatic83d ago

It's also really annoying how they can cut or change content later, like the Skull Girls controversy, a decade later after the game came out, they decide to censor it. The game is a decade old, if it's not broken, leave it, adding DRM back into older games is BS.

just_looken83d ago

@final

Good point even major sp games got the cut after the fact be it last of us with maps/art or gta 5 removing stuff in the world.

Cyberpunk ps4 day one disc copy the sept build still has stuff the other versions no longer have.

With the gta 6 controversy right now i think back to the days of saints row creating a character beating up cops with a dildo bat and now we have elon crying over gta 6 guns killing cops i bet you if they made saints row 2 hd they would half to cut half the games content or go to jail lol also sad.

Was watching avatar last airbender 13yr old ang kissing katar again can not have that in a kids show or game now.

PRIMORDUS83d ago (Edited 83d ago )

Do they want more of their games to be torrented? Seems like it, I don't mind 🤣 Just ripped them a new asshole on Twitter, as I do not care what I say or post on there LOL.

banger8883d ago

Let me guess, you have a vpn enabled. For your sake I hope it's not in any 5 Eyes territories.

PRIMORDUS83d ago

I have ExpressVPN but on Twitter I don't use it lol. For other things I use it :D

Barlos82d ago

Nice. I got a lifetime ban on Twitter back in 2020 for speaking my mind. Don't care tbh, I'm not really into social media. I don't even have a Facebook account.

PRIMORDUS82d ago

I'm still trying to get banned to lol I'll keep at it 🤣 I have FB but maybe log in once a month but yeah always speak your mind no matter how bad the words come out, do not hold back online or IRL. Fuck them shit bags lol.

got_dam83d ago

This is classic Capcom. They everything they go on a hot streak and win back some consumer good will they have to turn around and burn it to the ground and have to start the whole process again.

Chocoburger83d ago (Edited 83d ago )

Additional DRM just pushes people to pirate more. These ignorant executives just don't get it. Only the legitimate customer is affected by DRM. 😕

Darkegg82d ago

Drm punishes legit customers and encourage hackers. It’s the wrong way to go about it.

Darkegg82d ago

Drm punishes legit customers and encourages hackers. It’s the wrong approach.

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