Horror Games

[cingchris]

While I don't play a lot of horror games I have to agree with Cody and SERIOUSLY, in that it's good when the atmosphere of the game is horrific and not things in the gameplay itself, because the atmosphere is always present but at the same time is in the background and out of your control and can just make a game very ominous, and kind of give the game a mysterious feel. RE4, (the only one I played) Dead Space 1 & 2, and Metroid Fusion, really capture this kind of atmosphere.

Now I will elaborate on Fusion because that game probably isn't really considered a horror game to most people, while I agree that the genre of the game isn't horror, it has horror elements in it because it was supposed to be one of the more mysterious and darker Metroid games. When I start that game up the music and dark lighting can really make me paranoid sometimes because it makes me feel like something is about to happen, but I don't know what, also the fact that for a large proportion of the game you feel helpless because you don't really have a whole lot to defeat any real threat that comes your way.

Some examples of perfect moments of this is, I am always scared of when that X infected defense robot comes into play, no matter how many times I play the game, because an area that was once intact is now destroyed, most every window broken, holes in the walls and floor, and you can see the robot flying around in the background, also the music is gone and instead all you have is this low humming that gets louder as the robot passes by because it's coming from the robot.

Also the SA-X is another thing that's terrifying in that game because there is literally nothing you can do to harm the thing until the end of the game but you come across it so many times and sometime are forced to run away from it, instead of just letting it pass by, not to mention they gave it the perfect atmosphere because whenever it enters all the music goes out and all you here is it's loud, slowly paced footsteps, until it spots you, which then triggers this panicky sounding music that only comes on when you're spotted by the SA-X, which of course put's you in a panic, because you know there's nothing you can do but run or die.