When you have more time to talk about games, than actually play them.
Scary games take the fun and mix it with the pulse pounding feelings of terror to give you an extra shot of stimulus. Watching horror movies or those with jump scares are not for everyone, but scary games can be more enticing. Watching victims in movies do dumb things can frustrate people, so having control of where characters go makes the games a better option for people that don’t like scary movies.
The Resident Evil franchise is one of the most well known set of scary games. I skipped the first games and then saw the movie. I was then willing to try Resident Evil 4 and was lucky it was one of the best. All the games revolve around the T-virus and the zombies it creates. The Umbrella corporation is the central evil in the game that uses the virus for their own gain and designs on world domination.
Alan Wake took a refreshing take on scary games with a horror novel style of story telling. It’s a great story with a flashlight mechanic that is used to weaken enemies before you can kill them. The dark is the real enemy in the game, so it hits that lizard part of your brain.
More recently, Phasmophobia has possessed the scary game genre. The game gives you the tools of a ghost hunter and sets you lose on a haunted location. You use those tools to figure out what type of ghost is in the location, while the ghost tries to hunt you. It can all be played in VR, making the scares all the more intense. You can play it coop in order to dial up the fun and dial down some of the fear.
Before I started to really dig into Stalker 2, I committed to finishing Metro Awakening VR. It nails the feeling and atmosphere of the Metro series with the added perspective of virtual reality. All the tension over bullet counting really hits harder in VR. That’s why it was disappointing to hear that it didn’t sell … Read moreMetro Awakening VR is That Good
I started Alan Wake’s story last session and have already finished. Making it to the Alan Wake ending was probably the quickest I’ve finished a game, ever. Like I mentioned last post, it was like a good book that I just could not put down. The story kept me interested to see what was next … Read moreMaking it to the Alan Wake Ending
Alan Wake always comes up in top games to play lists when I look for games to get during Steam sales. I was never really into the look of the game or the gameplay, but the Control AWE (Altered World Events) DLC is out and I wanted some context to Alan Wake’s story. That DLC … Read moreAlan Wake Gameplay is Still Fun
I finally had time this past weekend to play Phasmophobia coop with my son and his friend. It is, without a doubt, much more fun playing with other people. Plus, we were all playing in VR for extra immersion. I did not have a chance to try with random people, but coop with people you … Read moreGhost Hunting Coop in Phasmophobia
A couple weeks ago, I saw an article about a ghost hunter game in VR, just in time for Halloween. VR is plagued by a lot of people throwing together a game trying to cash in on whatever is popular at the time. I didn’t bother reading the article, assuming this was one of those, … Read moreChasing Ghosts in VR with Phasmophobia