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Post by chronotigger65 on Sept 16, 2014 19:10:13 GMT -5
Don't really post stuff from magazines but Game Informer latest issue came out and has a cover story about the latest survival horror games coming up. (There two covers one for Aliens Isolation and one for The Evil Within.) I also includes their top 25 horror games picks. Thought to post them here for us to bitch and argue about it.
25.Blood
24.Splatterhouse (The original one)
23.Shadows of the Damned
22.I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
21.DayZ
20.Slender
19.Dead Rising
18.Sanitarium
17.Alan Wake
16.F.E.A.R.
15.The Suffering
14.Clock Tower
13.The Walking Dead
12.System Shock 2
11.Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
10.Condemned: Criminal Origins
9.Manhunt (!?)
8.Left 4 Dead
7.The Last of Us
6.Resident Evil 4
5.Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly
4.Amnesia: The Dark Descent
3.Dead Space
2.Silent Hill 2
1.Resident Evil (The PS1)
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Post by Weasel on Sept 16, 2014 19:56:26 GMT -5
I expected a lot of my favorites to be missing, but they managed to remember both System Shock 2 and Blood, so I have no complaints.
(Edit) and Condemned.
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Post by kaoru on Sept 16, 2014 20:00:02 GMT -5
They do include Slender though, which is all kinds of "ugh, really bitch?".
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Post by Weasel on Sept 16, 2014 20:04:05 GMT -5
I take my previous post back: Waxworks is missing.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Sept 16, 2014 20:43:40 GMT -5
I got my issue, I'll have to see the reasoning behind Resident Evil taking top spot, because really? That's hilarious. 2 and 3 were better games, and there are a ton of scarier games. Actually, I should read the list anyway, because it's weird that they have I Have No Mouth....
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Post by alphex on Sept 16, 2014 20:50:38 GMT -5
"Horror" is such a broad theme there's bound to be stuff missing, but props for paying Clock Tower respect. As far as I'm concerned, that was the first survival horror game (and a damn good one!). But I guess Resident Evil kickstarted the whole genre in the West, so I understand it being #1.
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Post by ZenithianHero on Sept 16, 2014 20:55:59 GMT -5
Huh, I expected Resident Evil but the remake not the original.
Silent Hill 2 is my fav horror game.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2014 20:59:22 GMT -5
Looks like they made a mistake. They have Alan Wake included on the list along with something else called "The Suffering". I thought that was just another name for what happens when you play Alan Wake? I also wouldn't classify Dead Rising as a horror game. Just because you have zombies in something, that doesn't make it horror. The entire Dead Rising series is actually a comedy more than anything else.
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Sept 17, 2014 1:43:05 GMT -5
The Suffering was two games released in the mid 2000s by Midway. They were third-person shooters and, while not exceptional as games, I have fond memories of the first because it alternated between in-your-face horror and more tense, psychological moments while not resorting to an excess of jump scares, and had some good creature designs by Stan Winston Studios. Its spot in that list is fine.
And nobody remembers the original Alone in the Dark (but given the state that IP is, after the announcement of Illumination, I can't blame them).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2014 1:51:18 GMT -5
Oh I've heard of the Suffering, I just really don't like Alan Wake. You're absolutely right about the original Alone in the Dark, though. Everyone loves to say that Resident Evil started the survival horror genre, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
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Post by Snarboo on Sept 17, 2014 2:02:59 GMT -5
Resident Evil wasn't even the first game to borrow from Alone in the Dark. That honor goes to Ecstatica, as far as I can tell.  Edit: Ecstatica even features an invincible enemy that appears from time to time to slow you down like Nemesis in RE3! |
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Post by kal on Sept 17, 2014 4:32:14 GMT -5
Slender's justification better be pretty damn impressive because it really shouldn't be on the list of top 25 horror games. That's the only one I have a fundamental problem with (because Slender is neither a good game nor scary). As always Sanitarium shows up on a list it really has no place on, the game stops being a horror game about 1/5th of the way in. Not paying lip service to Alone in the Dark is an interesting choice.
Definitely fair to put Manhunt on the list though, honestly one of the more horror'y games around - considering something like Texas Chainsaw Massacre is consider horror but everyone involved in that are just humans. Doesn't have to be supernatural. No real surprising picks in there really which is probably a shame (stuff like Hellnight or other esoteric Japanese titles, along with Ecstatica mentioned by Snarboo).
It's easy to trash TOP LISTS but this ones really not that bad, if you asked me for some of my favourite horror games (or themed?) I'd probably rattle off at least half of it, shame Nocturne isn't on it though.
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Post by alphex on Sept 17, 2014 7:06:31 GMT -5
The AITD games are barely playable by today's standards, though. I first played them in the early 2000s/late 90s, and even then, the design was clumsy as hell. They were pioneers, true enough, but RE started the survival horror craze.
Ecstatica is extremly atmospheric. So much, in fact, that I never managed to complete it as a kid. Not sure I'd call its gameplay great, though. Part 2 has very funny combat, but suffers from randomized enemy placement and the lack of an inventory. Too bad Urban Decay (was that what it was gonna be called?) never came to be, a third chapter with a more modern design approach could have been downright awesome.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Sept 17, 2014 7:29:56 GMT -5
Well, quick skim reveals that Slender is on there because someone found it scary, which I can maybe understand. Sort of like Resident Evil 1. If you're 12. Alone in the Dark gets an honorable mention. And Clock Tower is the PS1 game.
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Post by Exhuminator on Sept 17, 2014 8:12:09 GMT -5
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