The Scary Choice Awards (alias, Award)

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:20 pm

Well...Halloween. Curiously, we comemorate this day in Brazil too, all thanks to globalization. Y'know, brazillians could do a "nationalized" version of Halloween, with Sah-cees and Headless Moo-lahs (pronunciation), but NOOOOOOO... "Frankensteins and british witches are more profitable!" Goddamn am- aaaaanyway, this is a scary day, there are scary games out there and we can't make polls anymore (again) so...

Witch of those is the scariest game/game series ever?!!

Resident Evil:
"...here I am, in this shadowy place, lost in
my own tougZOMBIEDOOOOG!!!"

Siren:
zombified little girl-"Mommy...daddy...can I come in?..."

Clock Tower:
giant-scissors-holding maniac chasing girl-"Twinkle twinkle little star, if you slow down you'll wil dieKYENH-HEH-HEH-HEH-HEH-HEH!!!"

Silent Hill: (this'll be heavy, folks)
demon/entity/whatever-"Me? Kill you? Nah, don't worry, that won't happen so soon! Now, watch as I turn those crying little children into a magnificent human Ceasar Salad!"

Other (Fatal Frame, Eternal Darkness, Splatterhouse, etc.).

Feliz Dia das Bruxas!

Post by **Delphine** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 8:20 pm

Silent Hill is the scariest game I've ever played. Radio static still makes me wary. I couldn't get to sleep a few nights in a row after playing SH4.

aso · Post by **aso** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 8:40 pm

Sadly, I still need to buy SH4. I liked the demo, although I find it disappointing that Cynthia is taken out so damned quickly. I really do hate that ghost with the hat and coat, though. He scares me.

From what I've played of the series, SH remains the very best.

Resident Evil isn't very scary at all. From what I've played of the games, the first RE is actually rather creepy. The crappy graphics actually make the zombies a bit nastier than those in later games.

Siren... I've only played a demo. Can't say much, but the entire ambience is unnerving.

I actually find Dino Crisis to be creepier than RE. Sure, dinosaurs aren't as horrifying as zombies, but the whole setup they had in the game worked a lot better. Has any RE game ever introduced the concept of zombies chasing you through doors and down hallways? Especially to the level that DC does it? <3.

Clock Tower is good. The original (for the SFC) remains a classic... one of the best 2D adventure games ever made. Clock Tower 2 ramped up the fear quite a bit with the killer constantly out on the loose, with plenty of horrible things happening to the characters... far more than the first. Ghost Head sucked. CT3 was all right... it suffered from RE syndrome a bit, though. And they just had to throw in freaking BOSS battles, didn't they?

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 9:45 pm

aso wrote:Resident Evil isn't very scary at all.

I agree, although I've only played RE2 and Code: Veronica.

Terribly bad voice acting will snap you right out of any type of atmosphere the game is trying to create.

Post by **Delphine** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 9:56 pm

The first RE wasn't meant to be scary, it was meant to be a parody. That's what I've heard. I hope it's true. I mean, come on. "I hope that is not CHRIS'S blood." "You, the, master of unlocking." Funniest fucking shit I've ever heard.

aso · Post by **aso** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:18 pm

I've actually heard that the director only adopted the whole 'lol spoof of b-movies' thing after getting so many complaints about the voice acting.

Oh, I nearly forgot a few...

Extermination is RE with better controls and a neat storyline, but it's not scary at all.

Fatal Frame the one was pretty good. The ghosts are actually pretty damned creepy, and the environments are dark and foreboding. The use of a camera is sort of neat, too, as it locks you into a first-person view and therefore limits your direction in attacking, so you have to learn to shift in and out of camera mode for particularly pesky ghosts.

Haven't played FF2... any opinions on that?

There's also Alone in the Dark (the first), but that's a classic with no ifs, ands, or buts.

chriscaffee · Post by **chriscaffee** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:32 pm

Does D2 count? Because it's the only survival horror I've played. It wasn't at all scary but it the RPG style leveling system combined with the first-person shooter battles were pretty fun. I also liked the hunting bit. To me the game actually felt like an action RPG, like how PSO should have been, if it had a story.

There was one thing that pissed me off about this game. The snowmobile has no reverse. I got it stuck merely by smashing headfirst into an orthogonal wall. I had to wrestle with the joypad for a solid three minutes to get the thing moving again.

aso · Post by **aso** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:33 pm

I've played the first D, but not D2. I do intend to buy it at some point, though, as it's yet another one of Kenji Eno's batshit insane wank fantasy games.

WhoopA · Post by **WhoopA** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:18 am

Silent. Fucking. Hill.

And I still need to play 3 AND 4...

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:31 am

Silent Hill.
Aborted Lucifer fetus, anybody?

Dache · Post by **Dache** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:48 am

Silent Hill.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 8:34 pm

Silent Hill definately has the deepest, best-crafted, and most involving story of any survival horror game. I love the series and I've never even PLAYED the fucking games. I just like reading the plot summaries other people post about the game. Those are enough to send fucking shivers down my spine. I'm convinced that if I actually tried to play one of the games I would die of fucking terror.

Too bad they're not movies or novels or something . . .

Post by **Delphine** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:38 pm

There's talk of a Silent Hill movie, but I'm sure it's going to be like all other movies based on videogames -- complete ass.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 9:42 pm

With stories that well-developed, they should really just adapt the plot word for word - save for adding a bit more character interaction and easier plot exposition.

But screenwriters are too stupid to do something like that.

aso · Post by **aso** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 10:15 pm

I believe I've heard Konami is actually supposed to be involved with the movie - which means no W.S. Anderson jobs. Hopefully.

Also, a big part of Silent Hill is the music. Look up the mp3s or buy one of the CDs... they add a big part to the experience over all.

Post by **Delphine** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:02 pm

Yeah, what aso said. I have all the SH sountracks.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:29 am

Eternal Darkness. It made me afraid of the dark. Seriously, the "girl in the bathtub" scene made me scream like a girl to the extent my mum actually came into my room to see whether I was OK. At 3am, with a head full of Stella and potent grass, stumbling around near pitch black church corridors with the chilling screams of tortured souls echoing around my mate's Dolby Surround setup...complete trouser-filling terror at its finest.