Posted June 08, 2015
ScotchMonkey: Tense and creepy. Great part of the game but not scary. Scary to me is the imminent urge to just shut the game off and walk away. Playing Silent hill as a wee monkey in short bursts was an example of this.
I just got more jaded and cynical so things got less and less scary. I'm rethinking my cynical approach however so games just might make me scared again. Heres hoping :D
The Silent Hill games are still on my backlog, and I'll definitely check them out one day. One of the scariest and most unnerving levels of any game on gog atm is, I think, The Cradle from Thief 3. Unfortunately by now that level has been hyped to death so I don't think it still has the same impact. However walking in there the first time having never heard of the level and not knowing what to expect was one hell of an experience. It's the first time I decided not to fully explore a level because the suspense was killing me :P I just got more jaded and cynical so things got less and less scary. I'm rethinking my cynical approach however so games just might make me scared again. Heres hoping :D
There's one series still out there that I hope will provide the ultimate, like you put it, "urge to shut the game off and walk away" experience. The Fatal Frame series.