Player2 has a look at this indie horror title from New Zealand
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Absolutely not. There are plenty of scary situations in the real-world that could be replicated in the form of a video game.
Nope. One of the scariest games I've played was fighting bums in dark buildings with condemned criminal origins. The supernatural ruined it, especially in bloodshot. Just give me a creepy detective story with dirty bums.
totally! That is actually one of the first games that came to mind for me as well when I read the title of this article. While there SOME supernatural elements of Condemned, the scariest moments are the people coming at you with baseball bats and other melee weapons, they just look like they HATE you. That game still has the best melee combat mechanics I've seen in any game.
I agree. I saw a little movement across the room and I was like "fuck that, I don't want to go down there." That rarely happens to me, I'm a huge horror fan.
Not at all, personally though I do think it helps. As humans we have a kind of instinctual fear of the unknown, when watching horror films or playing horror games, all sense of fear is lost when you find out that it's just some guy being a bit of bell end for giggles.
Like I say though, that's just for me, I don't find humans particularly scary (irritating maybe) I see humans every day, when I play horror games I want to see some faceless monstrosity pulled from the very depths of satans rectum, not the bloke from down the street who happens to keep human bodyparts in his freezer and whom you can quite easily finish off with a cricket bat.
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Chalgyr's Game Room writes:
Halloween may still be months away, but if the recent buzz about P.T.'s removal from the PS4 store tells us anything, gamers like their scare-fests. Well, Phantasmal should help to address that particular itch as it provides plenty of tension as you navigate procedurally generated levNow that the game is on Early Access, gamers can see what the fuss is all about. There are undoubtedly some subtle changes from when Phantasmal began as a Kickstarter that we talked about last year (it has more of an asylum than haunted house feel to it), but the development team has stayed focused on the goal of horror and survival. With a first person perspective that is perfect for this kind of game (I always found the camera moments in Fatal Frame far scarier and more immersive than the rest of those games or any of the chills Silent Hill or Resident Evil managed to serve up) as it puts you firmly in the boots of a person just looking to surviveels.
This looks really creepy. Hopefully it gets through early access with out too many problems.