I don’t want any of this mascot shit, what happened to actually scary horror games?

>mascot shit
wat

>>712954860
fnaf and the like

>>712955089
oh. i assume that was for 5 years olds for the shit designs so i didn't even pay attention to it

>SIlent Hill
>actually scary

>>712954481 (OP)
Amnesia the bunker came out recentlyish and it's fantastic

>>712954481 (OP)
PARGON PARGON MANTORBOK PARGON SANTAK PARGON ULYAOTH PARGON

>>712954481 (OP)
>fatal frame
go on
>maiden of black water
cmon now

>>712954481 (OP)
Unironically I think desensitisation plays a part. Games now that would have made my shit my pants when I was younger don’t even make me flinch anymore. It sucks. Saying that, Darkwood was a good spook and Still Wakes the Deep was good cosmic horror but not inherently scary.

>>712954481 (OP)
Different things scare different people. Tell me what games you think has good atmosphere/themes/scares and I'll try to recommend something.

>>712956736
Eternal Darkness, Amnesia, SOMA, Dishonored, Thief, Manhunt, Mansion of Hidden Souls, Dracula Unleashed

>Eternal Darkness
Wasn't that spooky but it's a solid game. Cool, history-spanning concept too.

>Silent Hill 2
Hard carried by aesthetics and story but at least those are good. Not much of a game, all said and done.

>Fatal Frame Maiden of Black Water
Love this series to death and the raw mechanics of this one are nice, but it flows like a worse version of 3 and we don't talk about the story.

>Amnesia the Dark Descent
Pretty good, even if it inspired a generation of shitty hide-and-seek clones.

You might like recent games like Signalis, Crow Country and Tormented Souls OP. Steam Next Fest had a few cool demos like Phase Zero, Tormented Souls II and SSR Wives.

>>712956527
>maiden of black water
>shows enemies moments before death
actually spooky

>>712957479
Try Condemned: Criminal Origins and maybe Clive Barker's Undying.

>>712957730
Crow Country looks like shit, even worse than Alisa which felt like a survival horror parody, what's good about it?

>>712957916
Maiden of Black Water gets a lot right in terms of atmosphere and the suicide forest inspiration makes it a very depressing game in the first half. Problem is it drives off a cliff with some bafflingly stupid, franchise damaging twists in the back half.

eternal darkness sucks ass and SH2 is a meme
amnesia is responsible for all walking sims and it's pozzed in hindsight
Fatal Frame 1, 2, and 3 are great

>>712957957
It plays well and it does a good job of emphasizing environmental awareness, whether it's traps, logs, item pickups, puzzles, you name it. Game expects you to really take a look around. The art direction is what it is, I'll admit. I don't love it but I got over it.

how bad of a idea is to start fatal frame with whatever its the first one released on steam?

>>712958373
Not great. With Fatal Frame, you want to play the first two, then branch out from there. Really, you play the ones on PS2 first, then fall back to the Steam ones if you want more. If you HAVE to though, Mask is a better horror experience while Maiden is a better overall game. Both are very flawed but workable.

>>712954481 (OP)
I got filtered by SH2 because I couldn't find the fucking flashlight for an hour in the apartments and then just never went back to it. Didn't really care for SH3. I'll go back and finish them one day. Amnesia I found boring and the contstant screen manipulation gave me a headache. I still have Alisa and Onimusha to play at some point. I'd like to try out Fatal Frame too.

>>712958628
guess it will be a long time till i play them since i'm trying to clean my steam account since i always forget i'm playing games on emulators

>>712958772
you get the fucking flashlight in a big room with a flashlight shining, what a retard

>>712958817
Yeah, it's comedic that the worst entries to start with are the ones that are the most accessible. But honestly, it's not THAT bad. You're talking to someone whose first Fatal Frame was Spirit Camera on 3DS and I'm still here.

>>712958373
Emulate Fatal Frame 2 and go from there.
I'd argue that the good ones are 2 and 3. The others are pretty meh.

>>712959019
I like 1 the most, though it's certainly the least polished. The difficulty curve on it is bonkers in a way the rest of the series kinda chickened out on.

>>712959186
Agreed, it's worth playing but prepare for some jank

>>712959316
>>712959186
i'll try to convince myself to start this year
everytime i see anything of that franchise i always want to play it but i'm always playing something else starting FF rebirth now so fuck the next month

>>712958954
Whenever I went in there the camera angle would just show James at the entrance. Even walking around I couldn't find anything so I figured there was nothing in there. Eventually I looked it up and in the video I watched the guy entered and was immediately greeted with an angle showing the flashlight on the mannequin. I had to be right up next to it to get that angle.

>>712954481 (OP)
>spend years making high quality horror game only to be enjoyed by niche audience
vs
>spend few weeks throwing together a bunch of store bought assets into unity engine and have streamers play them in front of impressionable children

>>712959741
The first one. Easiest question I've been asked all day.

>>712954481 (OP)
>Amnesia
>REAL horror
Amnesia is what happened to REAL horror, retard. Turned the entire genre into shitty copycat first person walking simulators with diminishing amounts of gameplay