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Erick G
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Posted: 12th Oct 2005 16:16
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AvP was bad yeah, remember emptying a whole clip on a falling pipe.

I remember the crying woman in Doom3, only for her to go all horror on your ass when you approached.
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Van B
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Posted: 12th Oct 2005 16:18
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I'm kinda desensitised quite a bit - I mean Aliens is my fave movie ever, it's so tense and deadly, who could survive that situation except for Ripley!. I reckon Alien is more of a horror movie, in Aliens there's tension but everyones too busy saving their skin to be scared.

I like the use of sound, I mean it's so obvious - like the old horror movie techniques that seem to have been forgotten, like not actually showing the monster till nearer the end, stuff like that. In FC:Insticts they used the sound of people chasing you through metal staircases, like you'll be running around an old rusty battleship with all these voices and running footsteps chasing you - but not really, you never see anyone. Still makes for a tense part of the game, you do feel claustraphobic and you do really want off that damn ship. I know what you mean about the womans voice in Doom3, definately one of the creepiest bits, like 'they took my baby' WTF!. I'd love to have seen more of that, that was a very Silent Hill moment, I'd prefer that creepy horror to any number of spawning drones. There's scary stuff in all our heads, and really it is difficult to really scare someone with a monster - give them something intangible, something they can't quite identify and it'll scare a lot more, minds are designed to run wild.


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Raven
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Posted: 12th Oct 2005 17:06
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damn straight

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Doom 3 sucked in my opinion. Well the gameplay sucked anyway... the end boss was so easy!! The game atmosphere was alright but i got bored after a while with just doing the same things over and over.

What im waiting for is F.E.A.R (Stalker too actually). FEAR looks totally amazing, any of you played the demo? So good...
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wow...i used to play games at work on the ps2,all alone in the middle of the night locked in with minimum lighting,silent hill 1,2and 3,the res evils,am i the only one that doesnt get scared at games,i enjoy them but dont freak out at them.
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Deep Thought 42
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Posted: 12th Oct 2005 22:31
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I played the first Resident Evil when I was 7. I was freaked out just by the beginning scene.
Quote: "I remember the crying woman in Doom3, only for her to go all horror on your ass when you approached. "

I remember that. Should've blown her away in the first place.

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Quote: "There's scary stuff in all our heads, and really it is difficult to really scare someone with a monster - give them something intangible, something they can't quite identify and it'll scare a lot more, minds are designed to run wild."

Ohhh so true. It's the fear of the thing, not the thing itself. Honestly, what's so scarey about a bunch of statistics which make a zombie lurch towards you slowly? Much more scarey is your mind going bananas on you. There was some flash game or another which really creeped me out, the key was the psylogical element. You hear the ball bouncing, the kid laughing, but there's nothing there but a shadow


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Quote: " I played the first Resident Evil when I was 7. I was freaked out just by the beginning scene."


Haha that reminds me of my buddy who was playing the first Resident Evil over at another buddy's house when it first cmae out. When the dogs crashed through the window he broke the chair he was sitting on :-P

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I think what made the first Res Evil game so scary was that it started it all, before that there's no game where all of a sudden, skinless vicious zombie dogs smash through a window and try to savage you. It's full of great visuals and effects, and nobody trusts crows after playing that game, or bees, or spooky mansions in the woods, or windows without curtains, or dogs without skin.

The first Silent Hill was much more direct, it felt more like it was designed to play like an interactive movie - maybe like one of those 80's survival movies where the population get's owned by some virus or whatever - that's how it felt. I mean, I'd let my son play any of the Res Evil games, even RE4 - but I don't think I'd like him playing the Silent Hill games, they're just a bit too creepy I think. The puzzles though, in Silent Hill were awesome, some of them actually made me use my head, in RE games there's really no mental challenge at all besides avoiding and killing the undead - and saving ammo.

I think the best zombie game ever has to be RE4, and it does'nt even have zombies in it!


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The Resident Evil games can be scary - especially the first time that nasty monster is met in 3...

If only they would do more for the PC...

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Code Veronica was the best for making people jump in my experience - when it first came out I was on holiday and all the (mostly male, with girlfriends following reluctantly) teens on the camp packed into my challet to watch me play it - shout instructions etc. The girls actually physically jumped - the first time I've ever seen that happen - even more so than with films... that game had so much atmosphere

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Resident Evil 4 is very definately my favourite of the series.
I'm also still a fan of Silent Hill over the other 3.
(although 3 on the PC looked great and was quite atmosphereic rather than 2 which was trying to tell a story too much)

Quote: "What im waiting for is F.E.A.R (Stalker too actually). FEAR looks totally amazing, any of you played the demo? So good..."


I can't stand FEAR, truely can't. It's just plain boring and generic. What's more the effects absolutely suck, like when you first see the ghost girl; and it looks like any other characters.

She should looke like one of those television screens from the architects room in the matrix. Slightly fuzzy you can't tell if she's there or noe, and doing that VSync flicker line thing.

Something that are a glance would make your mind feel it was playing tricks on you. The enemies also sucked so badly. I mean find they were intelligent enough to use the terrain to make barriers... what did they do after that? Jumped over the bloody things and come straight for you.

The one guy in the entire demo that if he did get close you'd be skuppered was the one guy would could happily hide behind a wall and chuck grenades at.

imo FEAR, is bloody far from scarey, and quite frankly a disappointment on the hype.. more so than Half-Life 2 was.

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Posted: 14th Oct 2005 01:39
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Raven what are you on about? FEAR hasn't been released yet (October 18th in the U.S.)

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The demo has been released. It's fairly long, and if it's anything to go by... blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand.

Although it's cool they gor RoosterTeeth to do a special machinima that'll be released with it.

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