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The Value of Uncertainty in Horror Games

DreamDawn writes: My TV was hissing. It was a small set, 15 inches across, set on a short table in one corner of my ten-tatami-mat room in Kyoto. It was 1998, the middle of the night, and though my hosts were two floors below me, I worried that the sound would reach through the thin walls and wake them. It was a familiar hiss--it is the sound of an detuned radio, the sound of white noise, static. This particular static was coming from a radio clipped to the belt of a man standing in a dark hallway, a large pipe in his hand, his small flashlight casting a narrow oval of light around him. It was also a harsh sound, one that made me uneasy. I wondered if my host family could hear it. More importantly, I wondered where the mangled nurses that it was trying to warn me about were lurking beyond the beam of the flashlight. This is one of my clearest memories of my first experience with Silent Hill.

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icecoldfire4123d ago

To be honest, i find the silent hill series a bit overrated. i only like silent hill 2 and 3 and thats about it. now for resident evil, it is creepy and the best game is 4 for its chilling atmosphere and gameplay and that moment when u enter a safehouse with a typewriter in it, i could finally take a breather.
cannot wait for 2013 horror games such as amnesia sequel, slenderman sequel, outlast and more.

HarryMasonHerpderp4123d ago (Edited 4123d ago )

Silent Hill 1,2 and 3 are all amazing games and fully deserve the praise they get.
Things started going downhill after Silent Hill 4 and after that it just lost its identity being passed around by different western developers that just didn't get what it was about.

As for Resident Evil the 4th game had its creepy moments but it was nowhere near the horror and tension of previous games. I think the Resident Evil remake on the GameCube is much better. Still a great game though.

The horror genre has been pushed aside this gen for action games due to greedy publishers wanted to make a quick buck.

There are exceptions such as Siren Blood Curse, Slender, Amnesia and a few others but it's a far cry from last gen where there was so many great horror games to play.
Sucks since it's my favourite genre, I'm hoping it makes a comeback next gen with games like "Zwei" by Shinji Mikami http://ic.pics.livejournal.... and hopefully Silent Hill goes back to Japanese developers.

icecoldfire4119d ago

like i said silent hill 2 and 3 are the ones i loved about the series( sorry if i typed like).

Resident evil 4 IS the most tense and best atmospheric resident evil game out there right now. i played the PC version with a few mods of tweaking the graphics and lighting to make the atmosphere more terrifying .

i do agree that they have been changed into action-oriented games( RE5,RE6 DS2 etc).

BlackTar1874123d ago

Yea Res4 was the least tense and least scary of all the ones before it on all systems. I think 4 was a great game but it could vae a differnt name and still be a great game.

rawshack4123d ago

they dont make horror games like they use to thats for sure

Kinger89384123d ago

Just finished Amnesia, best horror game ive ever played

Looking forward to machine for pigs! Also gunna try there old series penumbra :3

goldwyncq4123d ago

Amnesia was great except for the ending, which was quite underwhelming after everything you've been through.

Kinger89384123d ago

Yea ill agree on that mate :( dtill great though! :3

BladerunnerZX4122d ago

Silent Hill 1 , 2 and 3 are all excellent horror games. Silent Hill 3 is my favorite.

Dead Space 1@2 are this gens Silent Hill successors , both are very good horror games. To bad Dead Space 3 has went co-op although im sure it will still be a good game.

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One Year Later, What Was The Point Of The Dead Space Remake

The remake teased an expanded universe, but now a sequel has no chance of delivering on it.

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isarai3d ago

Honestly i believe it was mainly as retaliation for the original devs breaking off and making colisto protocol. They've done this a few times, ignoring fan demands for the return of a belived ip until someone does it for them, then they retaliate by only then announcing an entry. Colisto protocol was announced and EA announced the remake shortly after, Session finally hit consoles and skate 4 was announced, shortly after Undisputed was shown off, talks started happening about a new fight night.

ZeekQuattro2d ago

I agree. Reminds me of when Inafune announced Mighty No.9 and the initial reaction of the game industry was that of celebration and suddenly Capcom said ohh shit we need to announce Mega Man 11. 😆 Still waiting for MM12 & the next X title.

isarai2d ago

Exactly, it's BS that pettiness has more power than demand for some reason.

Cacabunga2d ago

i liked the remake as much as the original.. it has so many improvements, the most noticeable to me was the seemless transition between levels which should be a must and a standard nowadays.
I cannot wait for the sequel's remake too.

Tacoboto2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

That's a very farfetched conspiracy.

Callisto Protocol was announced in February 2021 and Dead Space in July. They didn't just decide in March 2021 to "retaliate" by remaking from scratch Dead Space in under a two year timespan.

If anything, Callisto is the result of a has-been Creative Director whose only inspiration is his previous work, and EA took inspiration long before Callisto was known about from the insane success of the RE Remakes and endless calls at the time for the RE4 Remake.

0hMyGandhi1d 17h ago

So, how do you like working at EA?

shadowhaxor1d 16h ago (Edited 1d 16h ago )

And yet,fans of Dead Space, myself included, have been asking EA to bring back Dead Space for a better part of a decade. To which EA refused, stating that it was done with the series. Specifically after Dead Space 3 failed to meet EA's sale goals (sound familiar?) But magically, after they caught wind of The Callisto Protocol, with Glen at the helm, Dead Space remake was greenlit.

For those not counting, The Callisto Protocol call was announced in 2019, while Dead Space remake was announced in 2021. Long before TCP was announced?

badboyz091d 22h ago

100% that's the way EA operates

Extermin8or3_1d 9h ago

You know how long it will have taken to make this game, this is some rediciulous logic.

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Tacoboto3d ago

It was a solid game and we'll have to move on and accept it for what it is. Just because we're not getting a sequel (original or remake) doesn't mean there's no point anymore in what is a great, tense, well-paced single player experience. No one's taking Dead Space Remake away.

I just hope that the game isn't so technically stitched together on PC that driver updates render the game unplayable like what happened with me and my RTX 4070 last year, requiring a driver downgrade just months after the game came out. If you're a console player then you've got no worries.

TheProfessional2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Yeah but it was a pointless remake since the original still looks pretty good. They should've done a sequel, something original or Dante's Inferno 2.

Way too many remakes now. Even resident evil 4 had already been remastered twice before the most recent one. No originality. Why not just hire the original team to make a new game instead?

Harkins17211d 16h ago

For the hopes to get a new generation of people into the game. OG still looks good but it stopped selling long ago. So I get why they do remakes.

Knightofelemia2d ago

Most likely for EA to cash in on the remake craze that followed Capcom when they started remaking RE games. I am glad EA did it I enjoy the game. DS is one of my favorite franchises love the sci fi horror shit. What I don't like is EA not remaking DS2. So DS1 remake did not do well with the numbers so what. DS2 has a solid fanbase and is probably the best entry in the franchise depending on the fan. DS2 remake would have been a day one for me but I got a reminder on why I hate EA. Scrap the DS2 remake for a shitty Iron Man game.

chicken_in_the_corn2d ago

It's because the gaming community want remakes and remasters over new games.

mandf2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Thank you for recognizing that. One group always complains over remasters or remakes.gamers want them and they sell. To the once’s that complain your console has no games to do again. If you did ,they would remake them.

Crows902d ago

Or maybe we can tell most of these devs can't deliver good new IP for some reason.

isarai2d ago

When it's hard to find a modern game that isn't broken, incomplete and monetized to hell, remakes are a sure bet for having a complete experience as older games weren't plagued with those issues

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Fonsecap2d ago

I think that is for the best of the franchise o be left alone then to be turned into a game as a service or something like that, EA has the awful habit of trying to monetize everything.

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The Best Silent Hill Characters Ranked

A breakdown of the best Silent Hill Characters that inspired and frightened gamers.

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Why Silent Hill Will Never Be the Same

Estelle Mejia says: Silent Hill, for those who don’t know, is a psychological horror survival series that has declined somewhat. Fans point to the fact that the original team who helmed Silent Hill 1-4, named Team Silent, has been split, either working on different games for Konami or leaving the company altogether. This has left the series without a consistent team to helm the series for about 20 years, give or take.

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