Horror Games

Well, it's not *that* bad. The game is divided in chapters, so a game over just means you have to restart that chapter.

It was free on Amazon Prime a couple years back, if you have been redeeming games for a long time.

To clarify, each chapter gives you 3-4 characters to choose from. If a character dies during a chapter, they are dead for good and therefore won't be available in later chapters. But most of the times, they will be replaced by a new character anyway. I think there can be situations where, if you only have one survivor in a chapter, you get fewer available characters in the next one, which can be annoying (I got through a lot of characters, so in the final chapter I only had a choice of two). Still, you'll never be stuck with no characters at any point.

There is also the main character whom you absolutely have to keep alive, dying as him forces you to restart the chapter. But the game does explicitly tell you that, so it's merely a matter of keeping him for last (since if everybody dies, you have to restart the chapter anyway).

They also added an optional mode that removes permadeath, though I'd suggest avoiding it, since most of the tension comes from the fact that you are constantly risking death from random traps. And yeah, some of the random traps are indeed bullshit with no signposting whatsoever. But it was still a pretty fun and tense game imo.

Humble currently has a horror games bundle, running for another 13 hours.

www.humblebundle.com/games/scary-games-to-play-in-dark

Anything good? I only know Visage, which looks a bit too pants-shitting for me.

You know what else? Just because I'm in a rambling mood. But Outlast STILL looks pretty bloody decent considering how old it is now. Was quite surprised.

Following my impossible run through the original Dead Space a while back I thought I'd do the same with Dead Space 2, we have two options. Zealot and hardcore, technically Zealot has the lowest item drops and hardest enemies, hardcore has zealot item drop rates and survivalist difficulty enemy encounters but will only allow you to save three times in the entire game with no checkpointing at all. That kind of intimidates me a bit, I'm pretty sure there's at least one quicktime event that can kill you, or maybe I'm remembering things wrong.

So zealot it is then... But I'm finding the game incredibly easy. Kinesis impaling enemies is completely overpowered and I have to regularly stop off at a shop to clear inventory space because the game is throwing so much ammo, health and stasis at me. Maybe hardcore mode is the way to go after all, with hours of progress on the line it might feel a bit more scary at least.

It looks like Dead Space 2 just didn't get a difficulty level worthy of being designated as hard, with impossible on the original you were just about hitting that tipping point where the game is starting to give you less back than you are putting in so you had to figure out ways of conserving ammunition and there were even a few fights where it was more economical to just spam stasis and avoid enemies. That's always been my problem with Resident Evil 4 and it's far reaching influence on horror games, once enemies start dropping ammunition there's no incentive to consider alternative strategies beyond exterminating absolutely everything that moves.

So Horror Tales: The Wine is down to a couple of quid on PSN. Worth grabbing at that price from what I hear.

Song of Horror down to half price as well. tempted but I'll wait a week and see how I feel as it's still 16 quid.

Maid of Sker is also cheap, don't know much about that.

Tormented Souls is also half price. quadfather Am I right in saying you've played that?

I think I actually played the demo back when it came out and got mauled to death by the first monster!

It's on the list anyway so I'll have a think.

See you were asking about old mansions as settings. Maid of Sker looks like that as well. No combat though.

So many horror games.

I'm laughing as well because all I've managed to do so far is make it through Madison. I have tried Inflicted and got up to the first ghost encounter and put the fucking thing off as my nerves couldn't cope. I think I've got a bit carried away with my horror purchases. I'll never have the balls to get through them all. I really should start drinking again to numb the fear.

Did I? I'm too lazy to even scroll up and read my own posts. It does look quite good though.

Yeah I think I'll grab Song of Horror before it goes off sale. I'll never get around to playing it but that's not the point is it.

I got Maid of Sker too. What intrigued me about that is this challenge mode they added with guns. Thought it looked good for a laugh.

That said, TLOU has totally got me in it's grip just now so both of those games will be getting done first. I hardly ever replay stuff but Part I is wowing me all over again.

Hmmm. Taking quick dips into Infliction and it's a bit of a let down. Think I'm around 2/3 of the way through and sadly it's just too janky to be actually scary. The character models are terrible, to the point of taking you right out the game. It's a shame as overall the atmosphere is decent and it does the whole PT thing quite well. However, when you're not actually scared of the ghosts, then it kind of makes the whole thing redundant.

I'll play through to the end but in my current rankings of recently played horror, it's well below Home Sweet Home and Madison, even though those games weren't perfect.

Tried the Amnesia Bunker demo for half an hour or so.

Compared to Rebirth, which looked more like a walking simulator for the most part (at least up to the point where I dropped it anyway), this seems very much a survival horror. In fact, much more than even the original game or Penumbra. Your only light source takes forever to charge up, will attract the monster, and lasts only a few scant seconds. You can keep a generator fueled up to turn on the lights, but its fuel drains very quickly, and I guess turning on the lights in multiple sections of the map will just drain it faster. And don't think you can play like Penumbra and keep the lights off at all times: good luck seeing anything in the dark. You have a gun, but I don't know how useful it really is. Anyway, I got killed farly quickly.

It was quite intense... perhaps a bit too much. Don't think I'm up to it.

I should probably give the demo a try as well, as I'm not really sure if I want to get it right now. Perhaps later.

Is The Bunker that FMV game? I found it dreadfully dreary. It's no Pandora Directive