Top 5 Horror Games
I figured I'd follow up my horror movie list with one about games.
5) Resident Evil
While certainly not the first horror game, it was definitely the first with mass appeal. It's not really scary by today's standards, but back in the day, I was too scared to play this game at night.
4) F.E.A.R.
There are two ways to play this game. One way is to treat it like another first person shooter and just run at full speed, killing everything. It's not particularly scary that way as you tend to run past or jump over all the little flourishes. However, if you play it more like the developers intended and take things nice and slow, this game will scare the crap out of you.
3) Clive Barker's Undying
This is easily the scariest computer game I've played. Clive Barker has a truly twisted imagination, and he brings every ounce of it to bear on this game. You are always scared of what might be around the next corner.
2) The Fatal Frame series
Ok, so it's not a single game, but you have to lump these three together or else they'd dominate most of the top five. To get an idea of what this game is like, think of Resident Evil, only instead of zombies and monsters you have ghosts, and instead of pistols, shotguns, and grenade launchers, you have a camera. Yes, you read that right, you have to fight off ghosts with a goddamn camera! And these aren't your friendly types of ghosts like Slimer and Casper; oh no, these are the "raping you is the nicest thing I'm going to do tonight" ghasts from movies like 13 Ghosts.
1) The Silent Hill series
Like the previous entry, I had to list this as a series rather than a single game just so I could list something besides Silent Hill games. These games are scary for the exact opposite reasons as any Resident Evil games; the RE games are scary because of what is happening right there on your screen. The Silent Hill games are scary because of things you may just catch a single glimpse of, or maybe something you think you might have heard but can't be sure but holy Jesus was it horrifying. The unknown will always be scarier than the known.
5) Resident Evil
While certainly not the first horror game, it was definitely the first with mass appeal. It's not really scary by today's standards, but back in the day, I was too scared to play this game at night.
4) F.E.A.R.
There are two ways to play this game. One way is to treat it like another first person shooter and just run at full speed, killing everything. It's not particularly scary that way as you tend to run past or jump over all the little flourishes. However, if you play it more like the developers intended and take things nice and slow, this game will scare the crap out of you.
3) Clive Barker's Undying
This is easily the scariest computer game I've played. Clive Barker has a truly twisted imagination, and he brings every ounce of it to bear on this game. You are always scared of what might be around the next corner.
2) The Fatal Frame series
Ok, so it's not a single game, but you have to lump these three together or else they'd dominate most of the top five. To get an idea of what this game is like, think of Resident Evil, only instead of zombies and monsters you have ghosts, and instead of pistols, shotguns, and grenade launchers, you have a camera. Yes, you read that right, you have to fight off ghosts with a goddamn camera! And these aren't your friendly types of ghosts like Slimer and Casper; oh no, these are the "raping you is the nicest thing I'm going to do tonight" ghasts from movies like 13 Ghosts.
1) The Silent Hill series
Like the previous entry, I had to list this as a series rather than a single game just so I could list something besides Silent Hill games. These games are scary for the exact opposite reasons as any Resident Evil games; the RE games are scary because of what is happening right there on your screen. The Silent Hill games are scary because of things you may just catch a single glimpse of, or maybe something you think you might have heard but can't be sure but holy Jesus was it horrifying. The unknown will always be scarier than the known.
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