Caltrops - System Shlock 2 - Re: Fatal Frame isn't scary.

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by FABIO 02/17/2003, 12:30am PST

Heavy w/ Puppy wrote:

I heard this game was the scariest shit on earth from my sister, and I'll admit that it has a few nice touches, but after you figure out their scare formula (about 5 minutes in, for me), there's no scares left, besides the terror of a really unwieldy weapon and a bunch of *really* hard to find items that necessitate waaayyyy too much walking around and looking for shit, to my taste, followed by a lot of shifting cms at a time to try to get the damn swirlies to appear.

It had enough cutscenes and just plain creepy shit pop up every once in awhile to make me jump. That was the problem with SS2, it didn't have any creepy moments like the locker room in Silent Hill, it relied solely on you walking around dark, steamy corridors and running into the same hybrids over and over and over. Fatal Frame didn't even fall short there, the ghosts are fucking creepy and fighting them isn't the usual routine affair of standing still and shooting like resident evil or even Silent Hill; the ghosts fade in and out, teleport, and each one has a decent chance of killing you. And maybe I just haven't played enough yet, but so far it's been throwing a new type of ghost at me every 20 minutes so I'm not getting bored with the same enemies all the time. Shit though, the ghosts' voices are the creepiest thing ever. And the crawling baby, the GODDAMN CRAWLING BABY GHOST! FUCK! I HATE GODDAMN BABIES!

Anyways, as I mentioned in another forum, all you Ivy League fratboys might be able to afford to buy consoles and console games, but are there any good scary games for us poverty-stricken students that only own PCs?

uhhhhh..........no, nothing that mischief hasn't mentioned