Good survival horror games?

**Bridge** · 11-28-2012, 11:47 PM

(11-28-2012, 11:10 PM)Alex Ros Wrote: I do not know any good survival horror games. Honestly. Simply because with Amnesia and Penumbra it was the first time in my whole life, when I was scared to shit. I mean really scared how it supposed to be. So seems like Amnesia and Penumbra are simply the first truly horror games I met in my life.

There was a level of the game, when I was scared to shit. That's the Cradle level of the Thief: Deadly Shadows. I was so fucking scared so I nearly could not move forward. But... that is just a one single level of the game. And game itself, Thief: Deadly Shadows, is not horror game at all.

Personally I was quite unnerved (though perhaps not scared) in The Abysmal Gale (which is one of the coolest ship names in existence) as well. Do yourself a favor though and play Thief: The Dark Project. Seriously, while I do think that The Shalebridge Cradle is one of the most successfully scary levels in videogame history, it comes up a bit short compared to Return to the Cathedral. That level REALLY messes with your nerves. I was so fucking stressed out playing it on Expert I had to use the level skip cheat to pass*.

* For a very good reason too. Believe me, I'm not one to just skip levels because I don't feel like doing them or in this case too scared. The real reason is that on the Expert difficulty setting there are some hidden objectives that get revealed towards the end of the mission. They are TOTAL BS because they are basically undoable if you don't plan ahead, and it would have taken a good 30 minutes to do them. 30 minutes of sneaking through very densely manned areas with very few shadows, past unkillable enemies - THREE TIMES? Yeah, no thanks. Next time I play through it you bet I am going to finish them preemptively (which is what everybody does - I was just unlucky enough to not hear about this essential strategy). I mean, it's not impossible, but after 2 whole hours of constant tension and having my nerves gradually wracked it's just not something any sane person's mind can handle. I love Thief.