I doubt the third is that much scarier than the first. Sure, it looks more realistic, but it needs a creepy storyline to make it really scary. The story is basically, "You are a guy in some sort of station on Mars. All hell breaks loose and creatures from hell attack. Suddenly you have training with military-grade weaponry and you don't have the brains to duct-tape your flashlight to your gun. Kill everything in your path." BORING!
I remember that one of my friends managed to get thrown off of some bridge and nothing was there. When he asked one of my other friends if he had any idea how that happened, the other friend said, "Everything in Doom 3 happens for a reason. Satan just popped up out of nowhere, pushed you off the bridge, then disappeared in less than a second."
Originally posted by KingDubya
I doubt the third is that much scarier than the first. Sure, it looks more realistic, but it needs a creepy storyline to make it really scary. The story is basically, "You are a guy in some sort of station on Mars. All hell breaks loose and creatures from hell attack. Suddenly you have training with military-grade weaponry and you don't have the brains to duct-tape your flashlight to your gun. Kill everything in your path." BORING!
story: try to warn earth that the demons are trying to get onto the reinforcers spaceshuttle to get to earth, then when you get that, try to contact an escape ship to get you off of mars.
Where would you get the duct-tape if you can explain? and which gun would he put it on? theres 9 different onces plus the soul cube.
you dont try to kill everything in your path, 50% of the time you dodge demons not try and kill them. and when you are walking you are always going slow because you do get scared, from the demons tryin to jump on you threw the cracks in the wall. you dont go running threw destroying everything. You wouldnt get past mars city if that was the point of the game.
Originally posted by BackFire
Man, the first Silent Hill was so damn atmospheric, few things are creepier in the gaming world then hearing the radio cracking, thus knowing a creature was near, but not knowing the exact location.Something else that made the game so effective was teh lighting. At the time it's lighting effects were bar none the most effective use of lighting ever in a game. In the school lvl it was pitch black, and the little light around your neck only let you see a few feet in front of you, you'd hear the radio crackling, you'd be walking around, then all of a sudden a little baby demon would be right in front of you. Scary stuff.
The game also really jsut messed with your mind, more so then any other horror game. It was twisted, macarbe, and disturbing. Few things are creepier in the gaming world then the shadow babies in the school bathrooms that would be seen for a couple of seconds then disapear.
I remember when the game first came out, I was playing it at like 2am in teh front room, the only one up, all the lights in the house were out. Bed time crept up, so I turned the game off and I sat there realizing how creeped out I was. I was afraid to move or get up off of the chair, freaked out that I'd be attacked by baby demons or see a shadow baby. It was at this moment that I realized that this game was unlike any other horror game out there, it was actually horrifying and stayed with you long after you turned it off.
Originally posted by crazy_shadow
Where would you get the duct-tape if you can explain? and which gun would he put it on? theres 9 different onces plus the soul cube.
The scariest thing about Silent Hill is the fact that you have absolutely no clue what's going on, you're not some trained marine and you have no protection.
It's more close to what it would be like if you actually ended up in that situation. The monsters are just horrifying. That's the only place I'd say no game can touch it.
Otherwise it will always go to Resi's.
The first Metal Gear (not technically, but first major) was fairly scary in the sense of the sinister element of it.
-AC