Bloodborne. The atmosphere is great, creepy locals, freaky monster designs, nightmarish sounds. Dying is easy and the price of dying is steep so knowing around ever new corner could be your untimely death puts a big sense of dread into the exploration. Combat is fluid, sublime, and fun.
What are some good suggestions for games with a spooky atmosphere?
When I was yonger I was disrubed by Shadow Tower and King's Field series.
-Silent Hill series (specificly I, II, III, and IV: The Room)
-Hellnight (Dark Messiah)
-Fatal Frame series
-Siren series
-Galerians (not the sequal)
-Illbleed
Other games; Echo Night series, Clock Tower series, Dark Seed series, Alone in the Dark series, D series, Carrier, Deep Fear, Extermination and Enemy Zero.
Does anyone know the name of that 1 mini game that you eat the inside of a person and slowly gets more fucked up as you progress to the point where it's flashing colors?
Definitely Doom 3 and the Resurrection of Evil expansion disc. Kinda bloody but it can mess with your mind too with just the creepy sound effects too. You also get ports of Ultimate Doom, Doom 2 and Master Levels on the same disc as RoE.
Playing through Doom 3 right now, best way to spend October.
Some games that are good at inspiring that creeped-out feeling:
Skeleton+ (Atari 2600)
Dungeons of Daggorath (Tandy CoCo)
Air Fortress (NES) - mainly because of the escape sequences at upper levels
Drakkhen (SNES)
The original Swordquest game for the Atari 2600 (Earthworld) also had a cryptic creepiness to it -- if you suddenly triggered a clue, it could make you jump out of your chair.
I've heard D on the 3DO (and other systems) is pretty creepy, but I haven't played it yet myself.
Actually, I can't believe I didn't think to mention it before but probably the most unsettling game of my life was Shadowgate on Macintosh. Play it alone at night, with the lights out and the volume up. Really spooky game.
I remember having a nightmare about Bubble Bobble as a kid. Not necessarily about the game but I vividly remember being stalked by a creature that was fuzzy (not like furry but fuzzy like you couldn't focus on him) and his spine was coming up and out of his back and he had very very bright eyes with large black pupils (think the St. Sebastian statue in the original Carrie, a movie I saw far far too young and it made a lasting impression on me). He made a low tone and puffed breath in your ears and smelled like hot summer day sweat. He would come while I played Bubble Bobble in the basement. I kept playing the game, knowing he was there, creeping closer, but I couldn't walk away from the game because I was doing too good. I don't remember how the nightmare ended, but it certainly happened more than once over a period of probably 4 or 5 months. Bubble Bobble freaked me out for a long time because of those nightmares.
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What are some good suggestions for games with a spooky atmosphere?
What console?
What are some good suggestions for games with a spooky atmosphere?
What console?
Any but I was thinking PS2/GCN generation on up
Also: Thief: The Dark Project, Thief 2: The Metal Age, System Shock and System Shock 2.
And mother brains area in metroid, cause the slowdown always kills me
Haunted house on 2600 still creeps me out, not sure why. Bezerk too
And mother brains area in metroid, cause the slowdown always kills me
Berzerk is my all time favorite game for 2600. Never found it creepy.
Haunted house on 2600 still creeps me out, not sure why. Bezerk too
And mother brains area in metroid, cause the slowdown always kills me
Berzerk is my all time favorite game for 2600. Never found it creepy.
A giant bouncing face comming after you, that's immune to lasers and can pass through electric walls isn't creepy?
I mean creepys as in, puts me on edge. It's still an intense game, and the first game to kill anyone.
What are some good suggestions for games with a spooky atmosphere?
When I was yonger I was disrubed by Shadow Tower and King's Field series.
-Silent Hill series (specificly I, II, III, and IV: The Room)
-Hellnight (Dark Messiah)
-Fatal Frame series
-Siren series
-Galerians (not the sequal)
-Illbleed
Other games; Echo Night series, Clock Tower series, Dark Seed series, Alone in the Dark series, D series, Carrier, Deep Fear, Extermination and Enemy Zero.
The first game to really scare me was probably the original Doom.
Metroid and Super Metroid.
"Metroid" is the creepier of the two because of the black background and no map screen. You're lost in a dangerous alien world.
Playing through Doom 3 right now, best way to spend October.
Skeleton+ (Atari 2600)
Dungeons of Daggorath (Tandy CoCo)
Air Fortress (NES) - mainly because of the escape sequences at upper levels
Drakkhen (SNES)
The original Swordquest game for the Atari 2600 (Earthworld) also had a cryptic creepiness to it -- if you suddenly triggered a clue, it could make you jump out of your chair.
I've heard D on the 3DO (and other systems) is pretty creepy, but I haven't played it yet myself.
Friday the 13th on the NES will literally scare you if you turn the volume up really loud...
Man I played today he got me every fucking time I was screaming at the TV at one point.