L4D2

[tgr]

That's funny. I've never played dead space, but I've played l4d 1 and 2, neither of them really scare me (maybe the occasional scare because I stumble into somone I didn't expect), but FEAR creeped me the fuck out. It seriously got under my skin, and I have to applaud monolith for that.

Another game you might want to look at if you like being scared, is Amnesia: The Dark Descent. http://store.steampowered.com/app/57300/

[Malakili]

That's funny. I've never played dead space, but I've played l4d 1 and 2, neither of them really scare me (maybe the occasional scare because I stumble into somone I didn't expect), but FEAR creeped me the fuck out. It seriously got under my skin, and I have to applaud monolith for that.

Another game you might want to look at if you like being scared, is Amnesia: The Dark Descent. http://store.steampowered.com/app/57300/

Yeah, I think there is a difference between startle and scare.  FEAR got into your head a little so you were literally sneaking around a little afraid of what might be around the next corner.   L4D seems more in the "BOO! AHA GOT YA" category, which isn't really "scare" to me.

[Wasted]

I'm on edge the whole time I play l4d, I don't know how anyone can be relaxed. Screaming hordes of sprinting zombies coming out of everywhere then some huge abomination bursts out and charges.  No place is safe, they just keep on coming and your ammo dwindles away, great stuff.

I've been meaning to check out that Amnesia game but I've already got a big back catalogue of games to get through and minecraft/civ 5 own my soul at the moment.

[Samwise]

Another game you might want to look at if you like being scared, is Amnesia: The Dark Descent. http://store.steampowered.com/app/57300/

I think I'm too old to play games like that now.  My heart's liable to give out.

Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners was a good game in the same vein.  I still remember the "attack of the fishmen" scene where you're barricading doors behind you and can hear them smashing through one after another as you try to find a way out of the building.  

[tgr]

Same goes with Doom3, that too is a BOO SCARED YOU kind of scary, which works for a while, but then you just get used to it and stop being startled.

I've really no idea what it was monolith did, but I wish more companies knew how to replicate how to get so thoroughly under your skin. Doom3 could've been a seriously scary game if it had been done right.

Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners was a good game in the same vein.  I still remember the "attack of the fishmen" scene where you're barricading doors behind you and can hear them smashing through one after another as you try to find a way out of the building.   

Sounds like a proper nightmare situation to be in to get your blood pumping.

What happened if they caught you? An intimate chat with mr himself?

[Samwise]

Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners was a good game in the same vein.  I still remember the "attack of the fishmen" scene where you're barricading doors behind you and can hear them smashing through one after another as you try to find a way out of the building.   

Sounds like a proper nightmare situation to be in to get your blood pumping.

What happened if they caught you? An intimate chat with mr himself?

I think they just beat you to death and you reloaded from quicksave.  The sequence was pretty unforgiving, so this actually happened a lot until you figured out the optimal path to safety that would let you stay just ahead of your pursuers.  On the plus side, you never got that sense of "oh, it's all scripted so the monsters will wait to smash through until I'm moving on to the next room," but on the minus side, the reloading and retrying was a little immersion-breaking.

[bhodi]

It was still terrifying. It was scripted so they break through JUST as you shut the door and barricade it against them, then have to run over and sloowwwllly slide this bookcase/dresser thing out of the way, while you hear splintering wood behind you...

Probably the best sequence in any game I've played. It was that good.

[Samwise]

It was still terrifying. It was scripted so they break through JUST as you shut the door and barricade it against them, then have to run over and sloowwwllly slide this bookcase/dresser thing out of the way, while you hear splintering wood behind you...

The scripting wasn't triggered off you shutting the door, though, it was all timed.  It was set up so that you had just enough time to do everything you needed to do to get away, but if you were even a little slow, they came through anyway and you were fucked.  On my repeated attempts to get it right I could get a sense of how well I was doing by how close behind me the fishmen were, since their speed remained constant regardless.

[Azazel]

Fucking Hell. I went and tried to buy a 4-pack for my other 3 accounts and a friend but Steam has closed the loophole that let Australians buy the non-gutted version.

Anyone out there in the US oir UK want to drop a $20 for a 4-pack to gift to the accounts while the big sale is on? I can reimburse immediately.

[Jobu]

I went and bought this in the L4D Bundle during the recent Halloween sale.

Why is the AI in single player so fucking dumb? I want to play through the single player campaign just once, so I can take it slow and enjoy the ambiance and get used to the levels. But the AI just makes me want to strangle them. It's like I'm playing ICO except I have to drag around some rednecks with guns behind me instead of a girl. Ugh.

[Nightblade]

I went and bought this in the L4D Bundle during the recent Halloween sale.

Why is the AI in single player so fucking dumb? I want to play through the single player campaign just once, so I can take it slow and enjoy the ambiance and get used to the levels. But the AI just makes me want to strangle them. It's like I'm playing ICO except I have to drag around some rednecks with guns behind me instead of a girl. Ugh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqyNS7ZdY1A

Sadly, they already patched the ai.