The first time playing any of the old Resident Evil's (0,1,2,3) there were some scary and tense moments. Many jump-moments were results of awkward tank controls, crappy aiming, limited inventory and fixed camera positions. All big limitations that make your hero feel like some handicapped loser.
Resi 4 was different. It is even more scary than most of the other Residents (nothing beats those spiky abominations), but I had no problem beating the crap out of it multiple times on pro-difficulty alone at night - because the new Leon Kennedy was a superhero! He had absolute control over the camera, much better controls over aiming, and a no-limits-inventory. Everything combined put me into some kind of don't-care/invisible mode. The scary moments just lasted a fraction of a second because I was blasting their heads off in that very time. Resi 4 with the old gameplay would be the scariest game, but ironically it is in fact the least scary because you have more control over everything.
The first Resident Evil for sure. For one reason it was the first of it's kind, and we didn't completly know what to expect. The element of suprise was what made me jump. Not knowing what was around the next corner or behind the next door, made the game suspenseful. After the first installment, I already knew what to expect from a Resident Evil title. So it wasn't as scary or suspenseful for me. Plus after the first installment, the title felt more like a shooter than a horror survival game.
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Only the original game ever really scared me. It was more being startled than scared. Those dogs that come busting through the windows at you got me good. Only the first time though. I sure had to catch my breath after that one. Nearly pooped myself.
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I love what they did in the REmake with that famous 'dog-moment'. You expect the dogs jumping through, but they wont, instead, they only damage the window while passing that L-shaped hallway. But you can ultimately meet them, if you want to, hehe.
I think RE 2 got pretty sinister moments in it. Particularly the Mr. X / Tyrant that bashes through walls, following you. Or these hands that pop through the barricaded broken windows across the briefing room.
ahhh the loading screen in RE2 where you open the way too detailed door like usual and the zombie comes bursting out at you and starts eating your face and your just helpless because its a loading screen and your too busy literally under your bed crying as leon get mad at you for not doing anything after the loading screen is over and replaced with gave over screen and you end up breaking your ps1 because you havent saved in 3 hours. scary crap, man.
Out of every time I've ever been to gamestop I've only seen one man eat a pair of pants.
RE1 (the Playstation version) is the only one I ever found scary, but then again I was 12 when I played it and it was the first survival horror game I had ever played (unless you count Shadowgate on the NES as survival horror LOL). There is one scene in RE2 that really made me jump though, and that's the scene where the Licker jumps through the two-way mirror.
To me it's scary in the sense I don't want the character to die... by those wolves in the cemetery (RE4) or by chainsaw in RE4 or the annoying guy in RE5 in the first village.
ahhh the loading screen in RE2 where you open the way too detailed door like usual and the zombie comes bursting out at you and starts eating your face and your just helpless because its a loading screen and your too busy literally under your bed crying as leon get mad at you for not doing anything after the loading screen is over and replaced with gave over screen and you end up breaking your ps1 because you havent saved in 3 hours. scary crap, man.
You're referring to that cottage next to the Police Station? One must pick up the valve there...if i remember correctly. BTW...Capcom is going to release a 15 Year Biohazard Anniversary Box in Japan, containing all PlayStation titles up until now.
The original Resident Evil was scary by mid-90's standards, but in hindsight I don't think any of the RE games are really that scary. And if they are, they're scary in a 80s/90s American horror film kind of way. Gore and camp over atmosphere and tone.
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