Nightmare House 2

[Dr Bob]

A new mod for Half-Life 2: Episode 2 was released not long ago. It is called Nightmare House 2 (http://nh2.wecreatestuff.com/ ). I just finished playing this mod and in my opinion it is better as horror game than Penumbra Overture or Black Plague and this is why:
-More and better encounters
-More kinds of enemies
-More enemies in levels
-Much less loading screens
-More "WTF???" moments

I think Frictional Games did a great job in making a great horror game but I think they should try out this mod for inspiration sometime. I believe you can find some references in that mod related to Penumbra.

I would like to know what do you guys think about this mod?

A better horror game than Penumbra?

If you are scared by Nightmare House 2, then you will probably be scared by games like F.E.A.R. - action-oriented games with elements of horror.

In my opinion, Nightmare House 2 wasn't scary at all and the horror attempts were usually laughably copied from games like F.E.A.R.

If Frictional Games ever play this mod for inspiration, I will stop buying their games. Period.

About this:

-More and better encounters
-More kinds of enemies
-More enemies in levels
-Much less loading screens
-More "WTF???" moments

You don't really go into detail about the encounters bit, so I can't really comment on this. But if you mean encounters with that plastic-looking dead girl, then I really do disagree with you.

More kinds of enemies usually means less variation in the way they attack and behave. And this is true for Nightmare House 2.

More enemies in levels means more slow-moving zombies shuffling towards you as you casually blast them in the face. Horror.

There are less loading screens purely because of the different engine architectures.

I'm not even going to comment on the last point.