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| 16 OCT 2002 at 12:14am |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Looks like no ones given "" as an answer yet - It was kind of a spooky little game.
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| 16 OCT 2002 at 6:31am |
JenniferMillerSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | Shivers or Amber get my vote - although I recommend picking up The Blackstone Chronicles or Morpheus for a good scare.
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| 9 APR 2004 at 8:04pm |
Goddess of All Things MagicalSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Both phantasmagoria games
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| 9 APR 2004 at 9:08pm |
DJ SouzaJourneyman
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Status : Online | To me, the scariest game was Silent Hill 1. I also had some trouble sleeping after Resident Evil 2 and Alone in the Dark 1.
I played Phantasmagoria 1, but I never felt really scared. I was only somewhat annoyed by the gorier scenes, but not because they were scary. Not at all. They were just YUCKY!
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| 9 APR 2004 at 9:12pm |
BastichPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | I can't say any game was actually scary to me, but I have to agree that SH2 and RotH were good games on the action-adventure front.
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| 9 APR 2004 at 10:06pm |
DJ SouzaJourneyman
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Status : Online | Remember this?
Top 10 scariest games:
http://www.justadventure.com/articles/Horror/Horror_Top_10.shtm
Be VERY carefull! There are SPOILERS in some of the drescriptions of the games. So, if you hadn't played some of the games, DON'T read the whole article.
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| 9 APR 2004 at 10:20pm |
DREAMWEBSorcerer Apprentice
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Joined: 31 MAY 2003
Status : Online | Phantasmagoria 1 and 2
Dark Fall
Alone in the DARK (the first one) the sound of the doors was really screepy, and the overall atmosphere.
then there aren't many real terrorific adventures
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| 10 APR 2004 at 8:55am |
AnneGuild Master
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Status : Online | Blackstone Chronicles.Started but dare not go on.
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| 10 APR 2004 at 11:07am |
InieJourneyman
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Joined: 27 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Hound of Shadow!! Although this game is easily 10-15 years old and a text adventure, it's still the game that scared me the most. You instantly get caught in the suspense of the really good story. It also is very easy to identify with the main character and since he's seriously being haunted, you can imagine how you feel playing the game... It's a super game!!
I can still remember playing it at night and getting so caught up in the story that the only way out of it all seemed to be finishing the game. (Un)fortunately it's quite a difficult one. Needless to say, I didn't get much sleep back then .
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| 10 APR 2004 at 2:08pm |
DREAMWEBSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 226
Joined: 31 MAY 2003
Status : Online | They said that SCRATCHES will be the scariest adventure game ever
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| 10 APR 2004 at 2:21pm |
Igor ArtemovSpace Cadet
Posts : 185
Joined: 1 APR 2003
Status : Online | Blackstone Chronicles - exellent gamne with great atmosphere;
Shadow of the Comet - great adventure based on Lovecrafts works;
Waxworks - made by Horrosoft. What's more?
Sanitarium - very good horror game, but sometimes it looks somewhat...childich?
Killing Time
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| 10 APR 2004 at 4:04pm |
BunnyFuFuSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 270
Joined: 11 FEB 2003
Status : Online | I definitely found the whole atmosphere and story of Sanitarium the scariest
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| 10 APR 2004 at 6:20pm |
dombrewerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Hmm... don't know about the scariest, but quite a few games have freaked me out over the years...
Blackstone Chronicles had its moments.
The scenes with the deformed kids in Sanitarium were pretty unsettling, but all in all it was too cool to be really frightening.
Realms of the Haunting was pretty creepy, but I didn't finish it either, which was annoying.
Like DJ - I didn't find Phantasmagoria frightening at all (apart from the frightening acting going on). The end was just nausea inducing, not particularly chilling.
Have to agree with Cerberus - the Thief games have chapters that are terrifying... I can hear the hiss of electric lamps, the thump of distant pistons and the screams and scuttles of giant spiders even now... brrrr!
I think my ultimate would be GK2 - I find werewolves pretty unsettling anyway, so poking about in caves in the woods didn't do much for my nerves.
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| 10 APR 2004 at 10:32pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By DREAMWEB (10 APR 2004 2:08pm)
They said that SCRATCHES will be the scariest adventure game ever
can't wait to see that!
i can't really say there's a scary adventure that i have played, although there are some that are unsettling (eg blackstone chronicles)... the only game (action adventure) that i've played and could consider scary is silent hill 3, followed by sh1... sh2 didn't quite make it in the scary department for me, but its atmosphere was great nevertheless
i haven't played the scary txt advs yet (lurking horror, hound of shadow), but i don't think they can do what sh3's visuals did!
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 10 APR 2004 at 10:37pm |
| Deleted User | Dark Fall
And while the game itself wasn't as good overall, I found the atmosphere, tension and general "scare" factor to be MUCH better in Shivers 2 than in the original.
I guess some people found silly-looking imps jumping out at them despite the obvious warning sounds to be "scary."
It's just a shame that so much of the actual gameplay of Shivers 2 fell apart into doing the same thing over and over and over and over...
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| 11 APR 2004 at 12:34am |
| Deleted User | Amerzone was so scary. I was awake for years after that, wondering when that soldier would wake up and come chasing after me.
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| 11 APR 2004 at 4:26am |
jalexSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By JonasKyratzes (13 OCT 2002 1:14pm)
Cerberus: I find it creepy.
Are you talking about Elvira II? If so I would say that a good choice and probably mine too.
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| 11 APR 2004 at 5:01am |
Bob_the_BuilderJourneyman
Posts : 956
Joined: 25 APR 2003
Status : Online | Shivers 1/2, Dark Fall, System Shock 2, Thief, Alien Vs. Predator, Alone in the Dark 1
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| 11 APR 2004 at 12:43pm |
GarageGothicSpace Cadet
Posts : 152
Joined: 7 OCT 2003
Status : Online | I've just finished Black Mirror (believe it or not, it has taken this long for it to be released in Denmark, actually its a review copy I'm playing) and didn't find it scary at all. But that *may* have something to do with the voice acting Or just the cliché locations and plot - I actually found myself laughing at the design of the final room in the game. Oh yeah, and did anyone notice that the flashback scene, where you realize who the murderer is, was just like the one in GK2 - including the color of the hairs?
As for the scariest games ever, let's see:
Harvester
Dreamweb
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Darkseed and Shadow of the Comet were pretty good too, but just a bit too predictable to be really disturbing.
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| 11 APR 2004 at 4:45pm |
murraydemonicskullIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 3
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Status : Online | zork nemesis
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| 11 APR 2004 at 6:24pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
Posts : 5696
Joined: 23 OCT 2002
Location: AR, Buenos Aires
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By DREAMWEB (10 APR 2004 2:08pm)
They said that SCRATCHES will be the scariest adventure game ever
Uh-oh here comes the pressure again
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| 11 APR 2004 at 11:34pm |
SusanGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By BacardiJim (10 APR 2004 10:37pm)
I guess some people found silly-looking imps jumping out at them despite the obvious warning sounds to be "scary."
For me, that wasn't the case at all. It was those instances where I would enter a location or turn around just in time to see a shadow disappear. I thought I was alone in that museum (with the exception of the Ixupi), so what was out there?
Other games have had similar elements, yes, including Shivers 2. But that game was my first experience with anything like that, so that's why it's the scariest for me.
Everyone else who found it scary is on their own.
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| 11 APR 2004 at 11:37pm |
| Deleted User | LOL! Fair enough.
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| 12 APR 2004 at 1:59am |
kittySorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 269
Joined: 27 SEP 2003
Status : Online | I also vote for Darkfall. And Amber was also pretty scary. Some other games have made me jump, but haven't scared me consistenly throughout the game like Darkfall did.
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