Have you ever stopped playing a game because it was too scary?

>>714387618 (OP)
Yes, and then I turned 15

>>714387618 (OP)
sure when i was young like >>714388246 said. now im still shitting my pants like a little bitch but i force myself through and always feel better for it. games like subnautica are great for this.

That jumpscare at the start of Singularity gave me ptsd

>>714387618 (OP)
playing doom 3 at launch at like 12 fps was legit stressful and scary as hell, couldn't handle it.

>start playing Dead Space
>scared by every little thing
>not enjoying it
>second session
>friend is watching me play and laughing at me getting spooked by all the jumpscares
>open a door into a big room with flickering lights
>say "I know I'm gonna get scared in there, I don't want to be scared"
>quit and uninstall the game on the spot
>friend laughs at me
>boot up Blazblue instead
I don't understand why people play those games or watch scary movies

>>714387618 (OP)
RE7 was too scary. The ambient noise is so good, and the early levels are so claustrophobic, i didnt know whether a noise was just dripping or the mold monster coming towards me. Mainly it's because of first person mode.

>>714389741
wow what a pussy lol. literally just started playing it too and sure, it can get scary, but it isn't that bad as far as horror games go. it's a great balance because out of combat is scary as fuck but the second combat starts it's impossible to be scared anymore because everything gets so loud and the monsters announce themselves from 50ft away before slowly shambling over to you.. and you're so much more powerful than them that it feels kind of like playing DOOM.

>>714390005
I fully admit to being a pussy about that yes. The worst part is, as you said, I know Dead Space is considered more action than horror so I won't even touch something that is scarier. I just can't relate to people who enjoy these experiences

>>714387618 (OP)
No but there are VR games I refuse to play because they're too scary. Like Vertigo has underwater monster scenes and I'm just not dealing with that shit in VR, I'll have a heart attack

>>714390629
fair enough i laid on kinda thick. still, try something like subnautica - it's scary but it isn't trying to be so you won't get things like jumpscares or screaming human voices and it might ease you into challenging your comfort zone. the adrenaline rush/fear in a safe environment is exactly what people are getting out of games like that.

>>714389741
For me there's a nice sense of progression with a lot of these games. Like in the horror RE games you usually start as someone without much in the way of supplies, and in the new ones you're a normal person without any kind of training. It's rough at first for the character but they push through and by the end they've put away traded those pistols out for grenade launchers and shotguns and instead of zombies they're blasting a skyscraper sized monster in the face with a rocket. Makes you feel like you went through the grinder and emerged a chad

>>714388246
Wait, so you stopped a few minutes before your birthday?

>>714390629
>>714390937
Grounded (and probably the upcoming Grounded 2) are also good halfway points for scary stuff if you're into survival games. again, they're not deliberately trying to be scary so most of the time it's pretty chill, but getting ambushed by an elephant sized spider in the dark is still going to make most people pucker up.

>>714390829
VR makes everything scarier lol. i have no issues with horror games but ive jolted out of my seat for some of the most half-assed 480p trashbin VR horror games ever, man. i remember some slender man game with no animations making me shit my pants back in the day.

>>714387618 (OP)
yes
>be a young 6 year old
>see game called alien vs predator 2
>this shit will be cool
>mfw first marine mission where there's just flayed bodies everywhere and have to go into the fucking hive to save the dead bitch
>mfw all the people cocooned up with half of them popping open with chestbursters

it took me a month to muster the courage to keep playing and then later when you get sent into the super fuck you hive in pitch black I had to take breaks cause that shit scared me.

RE Village in VR2. I got through the intro, noticed you have infinite health which is nice, saved and never looked back

I want to play fun games not bad ones

>>714387618 (OP)
back when halo 1 came out for the xbox, i was staying at my uncle's apartment which was basically a rickety old rundown wooden haunted house in the middle of the ghetto. he would just disappear for days at a time and distinctly remember late nights having fucking anxiety attacks trying to clear the first flood level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9arFP9LVU0

Dead Space 1 was th scariest shit ever when it was released. Can you imagine being a kid in 2011 and seeing this? No one ever saw anything like that before on their monitors

Alien Isolation.

>>714391960
dead space 2 chicken sections were also scary as fuck whenever they'd peak their heads out to fuck with you

>>714391560
Oh, yea fucking AvP2 marine campaign, that shit was too scary for me.

>>714389741
I love old horror games and movies because they're often horny as fuck so I get aroused and not scared

>>714389741
It's the thrill of overcoming that fear that does it for me...

>>714387618 (OP)
One of these days I'll get around to beating visage but it really scares the shit out of me

>>714391560
>All that shit and no mention of the facehuggers and the pods they come out from

Still makes me break out into a cold sweat. The skittling sound they make in AVP1 still makes me act like a bitch.

>Be 6 year old me
>Play Half-life for the first time
>Expect some CoD shit or some normal looking zombies
>Piss and shit my pants when the actual zombies show up
>Stop playing it, then try again a few year later
>Same shit during the same time with Halo and the Flood
>Same shit when i tried to play CS1.6 and didn't knew how to put bots in the game or connect to a server, so i spent an entire match creeped out by the fact that there is no one around.
>Same with Coraline for the NDS
My little me really was a scared cat.
Now i don't give a shit, and i don't quit even if shit is actually scary.

>>714392220
I called them cows.

I couldn't play through Ravenholm without cheats when I was a kid. I played through the whole game again a few years ago without much issue. Dead Space still fucks me up though. I fucking hate jump scares.

>>714389741
Anon, you'd make a perfect woman. I don't mean in a tranny way.

>>714387618 (OP)
No but I stopped using headphones in the silent hill 2 prison. Amazing audio production in this game.

>>714387618 (OP)
I'm good with jumpscare and stuff but whenever it's a chase scene or I knew I'm being followed I started shaking, I hate that feeling

>>714392503
>old horror games and movies

Which ones are you talking about?

The AvP2 marine campaign, for 2 years I only got as far as rebooting the station in Mission 2, knowing that the moment I pull that level all hell will break loose

Didnt help I was 14 at the time and my first impression of Aliens was the first movie that I watched at midnight when I was 12 and couldnt sleep for 3 days afterwards

>>714394401
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbWVy01yeRg

>>714387618 (OP)
>receive Outlast from a friend some time in 2016
>install and load up
>new game
>leave the jeep and make my way towards the asylum
>climb up the scaffolding to the second floor
>jump through the window frame
>thisisntsobad.jpg
>start walking around the room
>hear screams
>nope.png
>alt+f4 and uninstall
>playtime 11 mins, last played september 22 2016
I don't regret my decision, horror games with no combat are for masochists only, fuck that

The first encounter with the flood in Halo spooked me pretty hard. I was like 10 years old

>>714391560
>6 year old
>AvP
>M a r i n e C a m p a i g n

Bruh that shit scared me when I was 13, I don't even know how you managed playing.

>>714387618 (OP)
When I was like 12 I did. I play horror games for the story and the mystery these days, they don't scare me at all.

>>714394401
Those sequences where you have to go through a series of obstacles while being actively pursued by some unkillable assailant are super stressful, but you feel like a million bucks when you get through them. Developers are leaving money on the table not making a Friday the 13th/Halloween/Texas Chainsaw Massacre game with this formula.

>The Keeper and spider chick from Evil Within
>Mr X, particularly during the Ada segment in RE2 remake
>The Regenerator thing from Dead Space

>>714395889
I had to think about it my age woulda been fucking 9-10 since I was born in 92 and the game came out in 2001 and I got it at frys. so yeah the 6 is way fucking off.

Last time I got too scared by a game was Amnesia TDD
I was also about 13 years old

>>714387618 (OP)
I was already well-versed in Resident Evil by the time I got around to the first Silent Hill way back when, but bailed once I got to the nightmare world version of the elementary school. Between the oppressive hellish atmosphere and the brilliant music and sound design, it was just too much for my wee mind to handle.

I don’t think I actually finished the first Silent Hill until well after 2 and 3, when I bought it digital on PS3.

>>714387618 (OP)
Only when I was a child, like 10 or 11; Resident Evil and Nightmare Creatures.

>>714390829
>>714391509
Oddly enough it's the exact opposite for me. Whenever I'm in VR it's like my brain is constantly reminding me that it's not real life, so I can never get fully immersed the same way I'd get immersed in a 2D game.

>>714396190
>Mr X, particularly during the Ada segment in RE2 remake
That was stressful but I hated him lurking around the RPD even more. I'd just gotten comfy with finding my way around and then he jumps in and starts stalking you. It was even worse on my first playthrough where I left a bunch of lickers in the 1F west hallway alive so I also couldn't run away when he started barrelling down the corridor at me.
Great addition. I'd be so bold as to say he's one of the best bosses we've gotten in recent years.

>>714389741
just play scary games when there's daylight
but on mute
when you feel comfortable, turn on the sounds but the let the music turned off
when you can, turn on the music
and then, at night
and then, in the dark at night

it worked for me

>>714391960
nah, if you were already used to resident evil
the scariest game was ku-on and/or fatal frame

>>714395245
>>714394401

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhk7uXf64aU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wY1FnQ9ygg

>>714387618 (OP)
What H-game is this?

>>714387618 (OP)
>women
absolutely horrifying

>>714387618 (OP)
What game is this?

>>714397578
five night freddy

>>714397578
Chuxie. Chinese horror shovelware that's probably a bitminer in disguise
these types of games are infesting Steam slowly but surely
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2969160/CHUXIE/

>>714394401
Thats what made Alien Isolation so scary. The atmosphere in the beginning is nice and calm yet there is a foreboding feeling of impending danger. Then once you go into Medical and the xenomorph starts stalking you it ramps up the predator vs prey feeling

fearless fag here, Recommend me some games that scared you the most. make me cry in terror and fear i double dare you.

>>714389741
Survival horror is my favorite genre. I play it because it's tense and scary at times. I love being low on resources, fearing to open the next door and finding a save room with its own BGM. No other game has that feel, to pause and listen to the serene music before you psych yourself up and open the door to hell again. You should try RE4 remake. It's just right amount of tense without being overwhelming to you like Dead Space. Best action horror imo.

>>714394401
>>714397925
>gives it to you

>>714397847
>Chinese horror shovelware
Damn a shame really. The OP's screenshot looks nice. Thanks anon.

>>714397941
Condemned: Criminal Origins had me on the edge of my seat every single session.
The way it escalates the ambience and scares as the game progress is chef's kiss

>>714387618 (OP)
I stopped playing halo because it was too scary

>>714387618 (OP)
how do i stop being such a scaredy-cat bros?

>>714398393
Exposure

>>714389741
I had the same experience playing PT while high (dude weed) with a friend
I was terrified and he was laughing hysterically

>>714397941
i feel like a broken record but i'll shill subnautica (original, not below zero) one more time. it isn't a horror game but deep dark open water is a common enough phobia that it should effect most people. hearing vid/sound related echoing off somewhere in the dark where you can't see it is top tier spooky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shQ0b9WV4UM

no but in the aame breath i dont play any game that could be slightly construed as scary. even that one part of outer wilds was enough for me to nope looking at it again.

>>714389741
Just transition at that point you sissy.

>>714398483
I wanna play this game so bad because I love the ocean, but survival crafting stuff bores me to death

>>714398393
Remind yourself that it's a videogame and that it can't hurt you.
Get close to the monster and die to it a couple times in a row.
You'll be disillusioned in no time.
Or, y'know, enjoy being scared, I know I can't do it anymore and I wish I could.

Honestly i wish i could get scared by games. I see people play them and flip out and whatnot, and it seems like a fun reaction. But i seem to be incapable of getting in the mood or suspending disbelief. It's probably due to me having grown up in post collapse soviet union and the mafia murder party 90s. Have seen several dead people irl who were murdered during that time while i was about 7-10.

>>714398393
depends on the game. i got over dead space by just sprinting full tilt into every new room until combat initiated. in-combat dead space is a straight up action game and isn't very scary at all, and if you're sprinting through all of the dark quiet parts designed to creep you out, you don't ever get a chance to really soak in it. basically just pretend you're playing doom and you're running around looking for the next combat arena.

>>714398507
I legit had to turn on babby mode in that DLC
it's not even just the horror aspect but the owls are way fucking faster on "scary" mode that the jumpscares got extremely obnoxious during the final handful of runs

Amnesia: The Bunker is incredibly hard for me because I find myself just crouch walking everywhere to avoid the Beast. I keep dropping it and picking it back up.

>>714391202
Thanks for the recs anon, I'm not sure I can do spiders but I'll get Subnautica

>>714395526
Aww, wee babu

>>714398393
become desensitized from all the horrors this world has to offer.
i play horror because i like the aesthetic.

>>714395526
Horror games with no combat are inherently easier because it's either
>Die instantly so it's just a stealth game, i.e. Alien Isolation pre-flamethrower
or
>Plenty of opportunities to escape so getting caught and hit is okay, i.e Outlast Trials

>>714398154
No problem, I recognise picrel, where one of the sheets starts moving, because my feed was clogged with every streamer on the planet shitting themselves at it.
Honestly it could be alright but the trailers plus the other screencaps suggest there's a lot of meme content and other unserious stuff. But it's dirt cheap at the moment so if you wanted to try it and refund it it's probably a good time to do it.

>>714397925
Alien: Isolation is better with the mod that removes his tether on you. Otherwise he stays "artificially" glued to your ass and it feels gamey. But I agree. A: I is a great game with emergent atmosphere instead of scripted moments which is always the best kind of game.

>>714398562
Different anon recommending it. Give it a try, you'll know if you like it or not in the furst 20 minutes. Enough time to refund in case you dont.

Also how have open world ocean survival games not been explored more?

>>714389741
I came across this random dude's playthrough a couple years ago and the man jumps at everything and I do mean EVERYTHING.

https://youtu.be/a16xHhgt970?t=1455

>>714397925
I never finished RE2 and Alien so yeah I'm just a little bitch

>>714398941
I don't even think I'd bother with it today, even after having played Silent Hill and RE recently. It's the same story with Amnesia, not really a fan of that style.
>>714398986
I get that, I just hate feeling powerless I guess. Games where I can at least carry around a pistol make me feel better, even if it only gives an illusion of safety.

Is Outlast 2 good? It's for 2€ currently but I value my time more than my wallet.

>>714398986
Are there any horror games with proper stealth gameplay, like Styx or Thief?

I guess theres always Thief fan missions I haven't played.

>>714389741
Getting onto the elevator at the start of dead space was probably the last time I was truly scared in a video game. I somehow managed to beat it though.

>>714387618 (OP)
women frighten me
imagine having to talk to these ladies
maybe even try to ask them out on a date
terrifying

>>714399240
I remember playing RE2 as a kid and I wasn't really phased
fast forward to last year playing RE2R and I had a couple of nightmares where I was getting chased by Mr. X
on the one hand that just speaks to the quality of the horror but on the other I don't think a grown ass man should be having vidya nightmares

>>714399528
Not really. In order to ramp up the horror every stealth horror game has mandatory chase scenes.

>>714398562
>>714399219
seconding this. it's definitely a survival crafter but the environment makes a big difference. you aren't punching trees for example because there are no trees. a lot of survival games can feel like running down a checklist to achieve new tech, and while that isn't strictly untrue of subnautica, i found that the fear of going deeper or being exposed from more angles acted like a bigger roadblock to progression than any enemies or resource stockpile requirements.

>>714395526
literally me

>>714399227
Holy shit I was expecting something over the top streamer shit.

And it is, but it seems genuine. And absolutely hilarious.

>>714399909
He just seems way too fucking awkward to be faking it, and most of reactions tend to be bodily rather than just screaming to scream. I feel like if I made my mom play Dead Space, this is EXACTLY how she'd act. Completely out of her element and not comfortable at all.

>>714397941
Minecraft ironman

>>714399708
I was really impressed with how they implemented Mr. X in 2R. He just kinda appeared at scripted intervals in the original but finding out that he was a persistent threat after you put out the helicopter fire was simultaneously very fun and terrifying.
Suddenly I had to think about going the long way to objectives and I constantly needed to retrace my steps once I'd shook him off.
I was hearing his footsteps in my head for days after I'd finished both campaigns.

>>714389741
For me Dead Space wasn't scary, but I did feel kinda spooked out while playing at 2 AM by myself in the dark all alone.
I only felt like this for the first game, the second game completely throws that horror vibe out the window.

>>714399219
>>714399754
I guess I should've said "I want to like this game" rather than "play this game", since I've actually tried playing it on more than one occasion, but I always end up dropping it after the first hour or so. Maybe I just need to give it a bit more time.
>Also how have open world ocean survival games not been explored more?
There are a few. Sunless Sea for example I thought was pretty interesting.

>>714398658
adding to this that the first ~3-4 chapters are the scariest part of dead space. the farther you get, the more enemies they trhow at you, and more frequently, to keep up with your power scaling. the onslaught of enemies and the extreme and explosive ways you take them down really turns the remaining 3/4 of the game into way more of an action game. on top of that, the areas you explore are naturally more well lit and sterile as you progress. you go from creeping through a dark morgue in a medical wing and getting ambushed only occasionally to fighting swarms in a well lit hydroponics bay filled with greenery.

>>714387618 (OP)
>You now remember playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein as a kid
Why the fuck did they decide to add those levels man?

>>714394692
I've been playing through Project Zero Undub and I watched Night of The Demons (1988) recently. It has pantyshots.

>>714398935
Look at all you guys getting along. So cute

>>714400194
I was too, the game felt so engaging that I was surprised I only spent like 10 hours my first playthrough. It felt way longer.
I did reload some saves just to fuck with his AI and that was a little cathartic, but that prison sequence was still absolutely terrifying just from a gameplay perspective. The sound design also really sells it. I was conditioned to hear those metal footsteps and just fuck right off.

>>714387618 (OP)
After realizing everyone in the house was already asleep with no lights on and I'm still playing re in a dark room alone.

>>714392503
Fear and arousal activate the same sort of fight-or-flight response in human brain anyway.

>>714387618 (OP)
This game scared the shit out of me as a kid, but it was so awesome. Felt like a real adventure.

i was such a pussy as a kid. i remember playing this first person star wars game on n64 i think and getting fucking terrified of a wampa in this cave system that i stumbled onto.

>>714401320
Hell yeah this game made being chased by a trex terrifying. Which you'd think would be easy but somehow I can't think of other examples.

>>714401527
also i couldn't play half life. my uncle was so happy when he got it for me, and the first level with the headcrabs totally blew me the fuck out. his face when he asked me how far i was a week later:

Chasing enemies like Jack Baker or Mr. X can be kino, but if I die even once I just get annoyed and see them less as a source of spookiness and tension and more as an arbitrary obstacle impeding my progress. First time I played RE7, I stayed in a corner of the den for like 20 minutes gathering the courage to explore. After the garage fight, when the house opens up a bit more, I got more confident. Jack came after me when I was about to play the tape in the billiard room, and I just magdumped him until he despawned.
The basement made me shit myself though.

>>714401752
I never played dino crisis but I bet that was scary to play young,

the only other game that scares me as much as king kong did, is Amnesia the Bunker, that shit is great

>>714401878
Wow pussy, I remember just thinking Half Life was cool as a kid
I think the first game that scared me as a kid was like either RE4 or Doom 3, but just a bit
It wasn't until Amnesia that a game proper spooked me

>>714398121
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1zqh9Su2b8

>>714389741
Dead Space stops being spooky once you realize how predictable the jumpscares are. Those vents with spinning fans you see every now and then? A necromorph is probably going to pop out of it. A "dead" necromorph laying in the hallway? It's probably going to jump up and attack you. Necromorphs rarely come at you from unexpected places. A game that handles jumpscares better that comes to mind would be RE2 where you've got shit like that part where the licker comes crashing through the one way mirror in the interrogation room, the zombies popping out of the morgue cabinets in the mirror, and the part where while you're backtracking through the west outer halls if you get too close to the windows zombie hands reach through the barricades to grab at you. They feel more memorable and natural whereas in Dead Space they often just feel like some form of asset that has been copied and pasted if that makes sense.

>>714398579
You can't enjoy being scared anymore?

This one little area in Lost in Time where daffy will run at you and steal your golden carrots which you need to progress.
All you needed to do was kick him once and you get your carrots back but I was SO SCARED of that area. Just him being there somewhere and jumping out made me go cold with fear.

When the first Left 4 Dead came out I was afraid to leave the safehouse and had to resort to shooting zombies through the door

>>714402016
>dino crisis but I bet that was scary to play young,
Can confirm. The most common dinos are raptors as well, which is like if RE1 started you against Hunters instead of basic zombies. All the dinos are fucking tanky too.

>>714402080
the remake really improves the predictability problem. it's obviously still not perfect but the AI director or w/e really likes to just fuck with you sometimes. like by making one of those vents blow a fuse and start grinding and sparking right as you enter the room -- but not spawning anything! just to keep you on edge. i also got a weird ambush that i dont remember from the original: a slasher spawned already laying down right outside of the door of a small closet i was checking. literally ~1.5-3 seconds in and out of the room and the fucker got me with the jumpscare because he wasn't there when i passed by a second ago so i had mentally 'cleared' the catwalk.

>>714387618 (OP)
I had to stop playing Condemned for a bit after Bart's Department Store.

>>714400603
Yes, a lot of old horror movies were like that. It's a trope for characters to get killed while kissing or having sex in old movies. Friday the 13th is one example of this.

>>714402080
I agree and I think they really pulled those tricks back a notch in DS2.

The only horror game i CANT stand is the ones where events are randomised... shit like Phasmophobia and Demonologist i CANNOT stand.
And this is coming from someone who played and beat almost all REs, all Silent Hills, Fatal frames , all dead spaces, and other typical horror games which barely scare me.

>>714389741
I always found dead space monsters very scary in isolation. It wasn't actually that bad ingame and it actually kind of got predictable because they play that one horror cue sting a LOT

>>714402650
Oh and also The Ring game for the Wii... that game is jumpscare fiesta and it's genuinely terrifying. I had to fearquit that shit asap lol
Id dare anyone to play The Ring blind..

>>714402650
"Welcome to the family son"

>>714387618 (OP)
As a kid I played the first Alone in the Dark with my older brother, so games like Resident Evil or Silent Hill never scared me, untill I played the first Fatal Frame. I had to put the controller down one night because I was too scared

>>714395526
>>714399896
I share a board with weak mind who get scared at every bump and scream, these people would be the types to freeze up and get you killed in a war.

Had to stop playing this shit back when I was like 4 years old. The evil Gahan's "YOU'RE IN TROUBLE NOW", curses from the monsters, and the rocking horse in the attic gave me genuine nightmares

>>714391960
>Can you imagine being a kid in 2011 and seeing this?
I was 18, I was smoking weed, playing music with my and and having sex. I enjoyed DS

>>714402017
i missed that whole generation of games because my pc sucked. i do remember RE1 scaring me though; that first scene with the pale bald zombie that does the over the shoulder stare. totally noped out several times.

I remember this being my first ever horror game, being a kid and going from bing bing wahoo to whatever this is, I just thought the cover was some cool guy with a gun and some weird aliens.
Boy was I wrong.

>>714397941
Can't answer if I don't know your phobias. You gotta have some.

>>714400584
Man, biggest disappointment of TNO was that it wasn't spooky.

>>714397941
Little heads up though the gameplay unfortunately really sucks

>>714387618 (OP)
I'm sure it's mild by comparison now but when fatal frame came out it scared the shit out of me and I quit after maybe half an hour and still haven't gone back to it.

When i was a kid it was Stalker 1 mission where you enter a facility to get into the military base (more like a outpost) my younger brother would play that part since for some reason he was more scared of humans than monsters so we would seat swap when humans/monsters appeared

>>714405095
>Playing at night with the window ajar letting the cold air in

Goosebumps. Fuck this ost. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MjK2XtJhXM&list=RD-MjK2XtJhXM&start_radio=1

>>714387618 (OP)
Yeah, Chrono Trigger(ed my future/post-apocalypse phobia).

>>714387618 (OP)
I dont get scared but I get frustrated into inaction. Like in resident evil remake the big fucking punch through walls nigga was chasing me everywhere and I didnt know where to go and I ran out of flashbangs and healing.

I liked amnesia when it first came out because i listened to them and instead of gaming it and rushing through to find every tripwire I slowly went along. But its still not scary. Its spooky.

Jumpscares I guess still work but thats not really scary, just surprise.

>>714392220
It simultaneously makes them oddly cute yet also deeply unnerving.

>>714398393
Exposure is what mostly did it for me.

>>714398393
>>714398459
>>714406995
Yep what these anons said is true. If you're a pussy, just KEEP playing horror games and you''ll just overcome most of these scares/fears.
Except games that are designed to jumpscare the shit out of you, thats much harder to get over.
But at least you'll go from screaming like a bitch, to get physically startled and hop from your seat, to "just" getting a mini heart attack.
I hate jumpscares cause it's just CHEAP horror, not atmospheric. Silent hill games are great cause they barely ever rely on jumpscares

>>714399227
watching this guy is enraging. he's complaining about ammo and hasn't looted or even attempted to loot a single object in the game yet. almost 30 minutes deep. the tutorials are two lines of text with less than five words per line and he still won't read them.

For my horror bros
>>714388246
>>714396095
>>714396601
But especially this guy
>>714396602

You can capture that sense of horror again by having a few alcoholic beverages (1-2 light beers), not enough to really get drunk, but slightly buzzed almost unnoticeable. This makes you lower your inhibition on reality while gaming just enough to where if you are playing alone in a dark room with headphones on, you start getting sucked into the game and feeling the horror/dread.

I emphasize on 1-2 drinks

in re2 on the 64 the licker that runs across the window in the police station in a jump scare made me turn the game off in fear the first time I played it. i later threw up in the middle of the night in bed while thinking about it. i was like 8 or 9

>>714408994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zj50DmBFp0

>>714389838

>>714389741
>Dead Space
The game used to scare me until I realized it's relying heavily on sound to jump scare you by ear rapping you, just deactivate the sound and the game is not scary.

>>714402330
I hope they remake Dino crisis in RE Engine, would be amazing

>>714387618 (OP)
As a kid when Metroid Prime came out I was playing it before my older brother but I couldn't get past the beginning room on Frigate Orpheon. The outside when you landed was cool, and then you walk into the first room past the airlock and you're smacked with a destroyed room on fire and walls broken with the body of a monster three times the size of the space pirate corpses surround it in the rubble. The atmosphere got to me right then, so my brother had to play the game. But it was still fun watching of course

>>714391560
>be me 11 years old idk anymore desu
>visiting aunt and her husband's new apartment >aunt's husband has a PC where i could play his installed games
>AvP2 was among the several games on the PC including Halo CE, GTA SA and COD1
>one day he comes in to the room right before i start to play any game
>he says ''hey anon i have a game that is so good for you''
>clicks AvP2, game turns on, that intro starts playing, he turned the volume way up
>he turned off all the lights in the room and locked the door
>intro still playing, loud af screams from the xenos and marines dying
>my eyes glued to the screen in disbelief
>select the alien campaign
>mfw the facehugger and chestburster part
i am pretty sure it scarred me for life but hey it was fun

>>714396602
Have you tried standing up? I can never be immersed in VR when I'm sitting on my ass and my character is standing. But stand up and suddenly you're there

>be 90's kid
>playing Chasm
>"the boss is coming! Hide! Starts counting down
>huh? The game is telling me to GTFO?
>start to pancake
>find some dead end corner, crouch there
>big fuck off bastard 12ft tall demon instantly finds me
>shit my pantaloons, game crashes to the desktop
I don't know if it was a legit crash or if I fumblefingered the ESC button but I never touched that game again

>>714399348
yeah its good

>>714405095
i never played those despite seeing them in the PS2 mags and being intrigued.
funny i was just downloading the isos for my PCXS2 emu yesterday

Not gonna lie, slippery naked guys in Uncharted kinda shook me. Had to take a break and come back to it.

Horror games scare me stiff.

>>714413310
its definitely coming at some point

>didn't play dead space for years because scary
>didn't play RE4 for years because scary
>both end up being my favorites
Now I can't bring myself to play System Shock 2 and FEAR despite knowing I'll enjoy it.

>>714387618 (OP)
The first time I saw the Regenerator approaching me in RE4, I started hyperventilating and I had to turn the GameCube off. 13 years old. I miss feeling things that strongly. What a thrill it all was.

>>714412567
>getting rid of the best part

>>714398658
>dude play the game in a way that invalidates the genre
What's the point then?

>>714388778
kek I still remember that shit.

>>714389741
>walking along some standard looking area near an elevator
>open door past it
>don't even walk through the threshold yet when a necromorph charges from the next hallway
>get a crazy snap aim and fire moment with the line gun that instantly kills it before I even actually register what the fuck just happened
If only such shots happened ever again. Any other time I get spooked I'm plain jumpy but that was as if I knew it was coming up already

>>714389741
I played a bit of RE8 with Maneskin - Beggin' playing in the background
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2MpGCL8-9o
It was great.

I tried playing Fear and Hunger when I got high (yes i know dude weed etc), but I stopped cause I felt unsetteled, I recall going on a leftish path, and seeing a witch cry and spiral around me and then a battle with a with esper who I had no I idea if I could even hurt, it was creepy so I stopped playing it. and refunded it

>>714414835
2 is great, 3 is underrated and the house hub is comfy. 4 I played on Wii so the controls for some segments was the real horror. 5 was alright but mostly forgettable aside from a couple ghosts. overall a solid series to dive into.

>>714395526
top kek
I'm a pussy so I won't judge. Outlast are one of the few games series I watch playthroughs of, instead of playing
Dig the story, enjoy the universe, like the style, but the run/hide gameplay and jumpscares makes me not want to touch it at all as a game.

>>714399348
>Is Outlast 2 good? It's for 2€ currently but I value my time more than my wallet.
better than 1

>>714395526
Tbqh I watched playthroughs every now and then and most horrorfags think the gameplay and level design in that game is dogshit.

>>714387618 (OP)
OH GOD AN ENTIRE OF SEXUALLY ATTRACTIVE, FIT, YOUNG WOMEN WITH THEIR AMAZING CLEAVAGE OUT, POSING SEXILY FOR ME HOW HORRIFYING OH GOOOOOOOOOOOODDDD
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOD PLEASE HELP ME ANYTHING BUT THAT AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>714387618 (OP)
Amnesia when I was a kid. I got past that fucking water monster chase, reached the baby fountain, and... Stopped playing. Replayed it recently - amazing game, one of my favorite experiences. Still fucking horrifying.

>>714393316
>plays half life
>expecting some cod zombies
>then played halo
what fucked up timeline do you live in, half life and cod waw for the earliest zombie mode are like 10 years apart

>>714403924
>The Suffering
Underrated

>>714420347
>Amnesia when I was a kid.

>>714387618 (OP)
The KISS Psycho Circus game did, when I was a kid

>>714420741
amnesia came out 15 years ago, man

>>714397009
Resident Evil was never scary, it's just stressful.

>>714420973
I played it on release that was in 2010 that makes me 18 at the time, still the most scary game I've played, RE2 is a strong contender though. AVP2 Marine Campaign was mentioned but I don't remember being very scared, probably because back then it was hyped as being the scariest FPS in existence, I had time to steel myself before playing. I do remember really enjoying the Alien missions though, crawling through the vents and ambushing unknowing victims was a lot of fun.

>>714421501
Spoken like someone who didn't play it back then, RE2 was peak horror on release and no other game came even close to the atmosphere when you ran out of ammo and zombies closed in on your ass. This was before we had stable internet by the way.

>>714421630
>Spoken like someone who didn't play it back then
But I did. It wasn't scary, it was stressful.

>>714421756
Good for you king

the original dead space was actually too scary for me. mind you i was like 13 at the time but i remember actually being too scared to open the next door for example

the graphics and getting an hd tv was too much for me

>>714421501
Anon, it terrified me as a kid, this fucker still creeps me out to this day

>>714403141
nothing stops you to go and get killed in a war my dude. there are plenty nowadays to choose from. go ahead.

>>714420430
>expecting some cod zombies
learn to read dipshit

>CTRL + F "Penumbra"
>No mentions

1st Playthrough I crapped my pants, second time (years later) got intrigued by the well-written story. What a gem of a game.

>>714421756
Fuck you and your semantics, you annoying cunt.

>>714387618 (OP)
convince me to get over my fear and finish it ;_;

>>714423238
yeah I misread, why you have to be mad tho
are you autistic or something?

these guys scare me to this day
mostly because of the sound they make
because the moment you hear it you know they are coming for (you) and will reach you soon

>>714423983
Bro you're on 4chan a site where ppl regularly tell each other to kill themselves over minor disagreements. You need to grow thicker skin. And yes we are all autistic

>>714387618 (OP)
No horror game has ever actually made me feel that way, I always keep going. The one game that made me freak out as a kid was the Madagascar one when the spiders show up in the jungle...
Don't laugh at me

>>714422831
Yeah he's creepy, for sure.

>>714423761
It's not semantics when the two feelings are demonstrably separate experiences, you retard.

>>714423790
>9 hours
Isn't that near the end already? At that point you have enough shit to kill Cthulhu

>>714409498
>the licker that runs across the window in the police station
Yeah that was horror kino for us 90s kids. Also the licker that breaks through the window n the interrogation room

>>714387618 (OP)
I can't play scary games, I don't know why. I'm good with every other possible form of horror but with a controller in my hand I just can't do it.

>>714388606
>subnautica
eh, once you get past the initial scares it's mostly horror-free. Below zero is completely scare-free.

>>714423572
Is it like Soma? Just walk forward? Or does it have actual combat? Soma would be an amazing game but sadly it's just a walking sim.

>>714407790
that's the best part about blind playthroughs though, they're the only kind I watch occasionally. There's this girl doing a blind playthrough of noita that's particularly funny.

>>714425315
The first game (Overture) has combat but they scrapped it in the sequel (Black Plague). BP is just running and hiding from the monsters.

>>714414050
>he turned off all the lights in the room and locked the door
kek my cousin did this to me for Forbidden Siren

Am I the only one who has save room themes playing in the house as background ambient?

>>714387618 (OP)
as my mental health worsens I've grown to find horror settings more comforting than scary.
especially horror games with a melancholic atmosphere like silent hill

>>714425315
it's ok for something to be a 3d point and click adventure game. it didn't cost 100 million dollars to make and wasn't advertised as an industry standard AAA.

>>714425654
I did this to myself with Dead Space 2. Pitch black, alone, only the game for hours on end. If someone tells me the game is not scary they just didn't play it right.

Yeah all the time.

>>714387618 (OP)
what game

>>714425929
No need to be defensive. I like Soma. But the lack of combat is the difference of one of my favorite games of all time and a memorable story.

I still never finished majoras mask

>>714391858
The first flood level scared the shit out of me as a kid and I’m pretty sure I had to come back months later to try again

Not scary, just annoying. The scream this bitch makes almost burst my eardrum the first time I heard it.

>>714426080
Dead Space 2 is unironically more scary/atmosphere heavy than the first game, i can't believe when tards treat it as some full on pure bred action title WITHOUT any horror of the OG when it far surpasses it.

>>714399528
>Thief
man some of those levels were creepy as fuck, I've only played the first one though

>>714426834
lmao same, some horror games just aim to burst your ears open

>>714405095
The floating head battle scared me so bad I stopped playing right then and there.

>>714414924

>>714398562
the survival-craft aspect of the first one is well-done, I think I only intentionally farmed resources twice the whole game. I liked how detailed the encyclopedia was as well. The horror is being a bit oversold imo, I would be terrified of being dropped in the ocean IRL but in-game it was alright.
>>714400368
I wish sunless sea wasn't as monotonous, I loved Fallen London way back when but I don't want to trudge through the game just to read the story. Sunless Skies was a bit better about this but I still didn't finish the game.

>>714402294
Funniest post in the whole tread.

>>714387618 (OP)
Outlast 1's jumpscare game is too good
I noped the fuck out at the first door after the first vent, legit panic attack
came back a week later to continue

>>714387618 (OP)
yes i am a huge coward basically every scary game i quit playing

>>714402294
That game was much better looking in my memories damn

>>714387618 (OP)
Yeah I stopped playing RE2 when I was a kid because I couldn't get used to the tank controls and died on the first screen. I redeemed myself as a teenager and now survival horror is one of my favorite genres.

>>714426080
The nursery and areas with the Stalkers are really scary

>>714387618 (OP)
Alien isolation, it was just scary and a mix of shitty AI

>Rented Resident Evil 2 when I was 7
>Get killed by zombies
>Screen goes black
>Ravenous munching sounds ensue
>>>NOPE the fuck out have my parents return it the next day instead of keeping it for the full three days or whatever the rental period was

>>714388606
Skubnautica isn't scary, the only aggressive enemies that do jack shit are the reapers and that's because they phase through the map and ambush you from behind. Everything else is a treasure trove waiting to be looted and the depths aren't even dark after a certain point because things like the Lost River and Lava Zone are very well lit. There should have been more threats than the Leviathans that were in there and some of the special areas of no importance should have had unique creatures instead of 50 million fucking Bonesharks.

>Play games like RE2 fine
>Find redead in grave
>think "lol ima stab the zombie"
>Screams, character frozen
>Don't know at the time you spam butons to unfreeze
>Frozen IRL until link dies
>Turn off game, sell it days later
>Nightmares about it for months

I got over it eventually but something about it triggered something in me. My mom used to say I was absolutely terrified of sloths at a zoo but I don't remember that.

>>714389741
original or remaster?

>>714405095
FF 1/2/3 still hold up as some of the greatest horror games ever.
The broken neck women in FF2, that whole part still freaks me out to go back and play through.

>>714387618 (OP)
Yes, Outlast and Darkwood.

Thief fan-missions can be bloody scary, thanks yo the game’s superb atmosphere.
I have an especially weak point for those which use weeping angels-like entities.

>>714387618 (OP)
no because I always end up turning the lights on

>>714425729
I have them on a playlist to fall asleep. RE7 might be the one that knocks me out the fastest

There were a couple parts during resident evil 7 where, while hiding from Marguerite as she's schizo-yelling about her babies, I realized I had to remind myself to breathe which was pretty wild.
>>714398986
Outlast Trials is so fun, if you (the reader) don't like Outlast because of the powerlessness you might like Trials for giving you items and gadgets you can use against the enemies.

>>714430094
>My mom used to say I was absolutely terrified of sloths
Fuckin kek

It's impossible to be scared in a game where you are heavily armed and can just decimate enemies.

>>714387618 (OP)
no but as a kid LoZTP skulltulas scared the fuck out of me. I like spiders irl but damn those things are creepy.

there needs to be a horror game that comes with a light sensor peripheral like boktai had on it's carts. You basically can't play the game/get locked out of mechanics if it detects too much light so you have to play in the dark. Maybe utilize the mics in modern controllers too so if you yell it alerts monsters to where you are.

>>714431089
>scared of Final Fantasy games

>>714432587
Alien Isolation did the thing with the mic but playing games in the dark is ass on your eyes

>>714413310
You should have bought Exoprimal. Now Capcom thinks we don't like dinosaurs.

>>714413310
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp7RBwWJNwc
>moooom I want a Dino Crisis remake
>we have Dino Crisis remake at home

>>714432031
Funny thing is I think Sloths are cool now, wonder if the slow stalking movements freaked out kid me