Is Silent Hill 2 one of the greatest horror games ever made? It is, without question. Once you finish the game and the punch of the story lands, this game will mess up your head a bit. Honestly, playing through RE VIII in VR might just be the scariest experience any gamer can really have right now, so scoop that shit up and play it Halloween night to really screw yourself up.
#Outlast 2 tv tropes series#
The Baker family was the best “antagonist” this series has had yet, and that single experience made for a harrowing game. RE 7 started this year off with a bang.Īlso, shifting the camera angle from third-person to FPS did not seem like something that would work in an RE game and felt like a blatant PT rip (which I completely encourage and hope more developers do), yet somehow, it worked and it worked freakishly well, ESPECIALLY in VR. Taking all the elements that made the originals so good (limited ammo, claustrophobic space, perfect pacing and a perfect meld of genuine fear with some fun jump scares) and adding some new tweaks to the formula as well. Resident Evil VII was just what fans clamored for after the bizarre action-hybrid that was Resident Evil 6 (not necessarily a bad game at all, just not a Resident Evil game) and with part 7 we got just what we wanted from this series: They somehow brought the truest horror elements back into the series that was once the greatest survival horror series of all time and the very game responsible for making scary games so popular (but was by no means the first, look up SWEET HOME to see who RE’s grandpa is). Why does every horror game gotta have a weird little girl in it now? Love this game but WTF to that trope. I stopped playing this game for weeks at a time, that is how scary and relentless this game was for me the first time I played it.įrankly, this is a phenomenal horror game too few people even know exist. THAT is how dark these games are.Īnd now, like a cherry on an Anthrax sundae, all the above-mentioned games come packaged together to be bought as one at a really good price, so don’t miss out on that! Three terrifying experiences for the price of less than ONE!Īnd while running and hiding may be the most common thing in horror games now, Dark Corners of the Earth came out on the very FIRST Xbox, so think about how long ago THEY set the trend in motion, yet get no credit for it (for you TRUE horror geeks out there, the Clock Tower series did the ‘hide and seek’ thing first, but experiencing it in first person cranked the tension tenfold).
Not remotely kidding (as that isn’t something to joke about). I know a renowned game journalist who played part 2 (you can find this review online, but I won’t link to it because it is also kind of a traumatizing read) and in the middle of playing part 2, he had a kind of nervous breakdown because the game brought to light his repressed memories of being molested as a child.
They screw with your head in such a way where the games themselves can actually cause traumatic memories to be cued in one’s own mind.
Between Outlast 1, the Whistleblower DLC which is some truly disturbing stuff, and now the killer sequel, Outlast 2, these games are, dare I say it, kind of traumatizing. I have spoken of Outlast on here before when writing about the best horror games and with good reason. Spoiler alert: He wants to use those to chop off your pecker.