Horror games are definitely more effective. I once was up almost all night at a friends house with three other guys, and we were playing a game called Condemned 2 for the XBox360. There were moments when all four of us jumped up in the air and one of us even shrieked at one point!
American Werewolf in London is one of my favorite horror movies, along with Halloween (Not the Zombie remake) and Halloween 2.The new Friday the 13th is pretty decent too. I would love someone to use some of the ideas in some of those movies and put them into video games. (Especially with AWiL). They oughtah take the repercussions of killing from that movie and add them to a game. Having your victims coming back from the grave while gradualy decaying would be creepy as hell. And like in Halloween, music can play a part in creeping you out also. I`d say movie's would be abit scarier seeing that you have no control in what is taking place on the screen.
I can say that Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem was the only game that minorly messed with my head. F.E.A.R didn't even make me shake, sadly. And I just play the Resident Evil series for the awesome gameplay.
The only 2 movies thatn scared me were Hannibal and The Ring, and I was pretty young when I watched them.
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Old horror movies are classics, while newer ones are...meh.
Seconded, for the most part. I can't think of a good Horror movie that's come out in over a decade.
1408 is great and I found "Films to Keep You Awake: The Baby's Room" (aka Películas para no dormir: La habitación del niño) to be very scary.
1408 actually is pretty good, and fairly faithful to the short story. There is also 28 Days Later and arguably Saw (just the original for me).
In regards to horror games, I've never played a single scary video game. Never. Some have great atmosphere (Dead Space, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame), but they're simply not scary.
Yeah, every time a new Saw comes out i just wish they had stopped with the first one, wich I think is very good. And I cant really think of any scary game either, I mean sure there are games that get me with the "cheap-monster-jumps-out-scare" but not more than that.
Horror games are definately scarier than horror movies. For example, in Silent Hill 1 on the PlayStation there were times when I was literally running for my life, low on health and ammunition with my heart pounding. Just watching a horror movie doesn't create the same tension as you are just watching characters on screen. In a horror game you actually are that character.
I can't see how a horror game can be scary when you can pretty much save at any time, have extra lives etc.
Same here. All the "scares" in horror games, to me, are just annoying. All those things that are supposed to scare you just make me think "crap, I have to deal with this again?" I'm thinking specifically of zombies in Resident Evil games, but it works the same in other games, too. I didn't like Eternal Darkness as much as I thought I would, and I think it's because the game attempts to immerse you in its world and mess with your head or something, but I just thought all the sanity effects were annoying, and I wanted them to stop. I'm not freaked out by anything in video games; it's just a game. Movies definitely win this one, when they're good. I liked The Ring and 1408, those movies were able to involve me enough to get freaked out a little. Horror movies are rarely scary to me, either though-- there's just a lot of blood and tits.
I've never played the first three Silent Hill games, but I did play The Room and that didn't scare me at all. I have heard a lot of people say that RE and Eternal Darkness are scary, though. Fatal Frame isn't really scary, either, there's just a lot of pop-out scares.
Trust me, The Room isn't scary and frankly it's a disgrace to the series. I highly reccomend checking out the first 3 games though, namely 2 and 3. If you can get past the dated graphics in 1, it's pretty good too.
I've never played the first three Silent Hill games, but I did play The Room and that didn't scare me at all. I have heard a lot of people say that RE and Eternal Darkness are scary, though. Fatal Frame isn't really scary, either, there's just a lot of pop-out scares.
I second that please check out the rest fo the series as Silent Hill 4 is not the best represenation of the series. Slient Hill 2 is one of the best games you'll ever play period. Not only that I find if more immersive than any movie could be.
Horror games are easily scarier than horror movies. Horror games give you a simulated horror experience, and can sometimes fool the mind into believing that it is actually happening, whereas a horror movie just shows someone else experiencing fear and/or pain. First person shooters will give you an ideal horror experience (if it is a horror fps). Personally I prefer horror games over horror movies.
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