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Survival Horror Video Games
« on: August 30, 2010, 12:23:21 AM »
Over the past year and a half or so, I have become quite addicted to this genre for whatever reason. As a result, I am looking for games to pick up and play. I don't necessarily care if they are very good or not (I'm also a fan of playing not so great games), as long as they are relatively cheap (I'm in the mood for cheap games). Pretty much any platform works, though I prefer consoles to PC. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

Games I Own/Have Played
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 5
Condemned
Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (this one sucked because it took me forever to find, and is the nature of these things, every game store I've visited since finding it has had it)
Dead Space

Games I'm Thinking About/Looking for Yes or No
Alone in the Dark (for Wii, it's like $5, so I figure even if it is abominable, it will probably be worth it)
Silent Hill (Not sure which ones, just definitely looking at the older ones)
F.E.A.R. (Don't know much about this series)
Another one or two I can't remember at the moment...

Anyway, my basic "goal" for prices (which I think I can make since I can go way back as far as age) is less than $10 for "bad" titles, less than $15 for "meh" titles, and less than $20 for "good" titles (i.e. basically the price points being 4.99, 9.99, 14.99, and 19.99)...

Any suggestions?

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Re: Survival Horror Video Games
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2010, 12:42:50 AM »
Amnesia: Dark Descent

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Re: Survival Horror Video Games
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2010, 03:04:15 AM »
Have you tried Clock Tower for the SNES?

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Re: Survival Horror Video Games
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2010, 09:48:52 AM »
Games I'm Thinking About/Looking for Yes or No
Silent Hill (Not sure which ones, just definitely looking at the older ones)

According to Yahtzee, Silent Hill 2 is the best in the series, and you can get it for approx $15 on Amazon Marketplace (including shipping).

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Re: Survival Horror Video Games
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2010, 01:02:26 PM »
dwarf fortress if you play it right

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Re: Survival Horror Video Games
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2010, 01:08:16 PM »
No, DF simply makes your life become a survival-horror scenario, as you try and continue your life after playing.  You fall into a state of madness, always knowing that you'll have to tell the brewers to keep making more beer before the entire fort dies of thirst, or that you have to make more traps before the goblin siege.

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Re: Survival Horror Video Games
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2010, 01:57:48 PM »
Games I'm Thinking About/Looking for Yes or No
Silent Hill (Not sure which ones, just definitely looking at the older ones)

According to Yahtzee, Silent Hill 2 is the best in the series, and you can get it for approx $15 on Amazon Marketplace (including shipping).
Seconded. Silent Hill 2 is a great game. Silent Hill 3 is also good, but the second installment will always be a classic in my eyes.

Also: The Penumbra games (Overture, Black Plague and Requiem) Somewhat puzzle-centric but the game mechanics are interesting and the creepiness factor is high.
« Last Edit: August 30, 2010, 02:08:51 PM by Dom »

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Re: Survival Horror Video Games
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2010, 03:43:33 PM »
Princess Maker if you play it right

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Re: Survival Horror Video Games
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2010, 05:17:01 PM »
Once again, that just makes your life a survival horror as you run from the FBI trying to arrest you for pedophilia.

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Re: Survival Horror Video Games
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2010, 07:00:34 PM »
The Sims if you play it right

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Re: Survival Horror Video Games
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2010, 07:06:24 PM »
The Sims if you play it right

My brother killed one of my Sims families by having some of his Sims invite them over and then building his hedge maze closed. They died in puddles of their own filth.

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Re: Survival Horror Video Games
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2010, 07:58:49 PM »
Ross, I love all your suggestions  ;D

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Re: Survival Horror Video Games
« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2010, 08:06:56 PM »
The Sims if you play it right

My brother killed one of my Sims families by having some of his Sims invite them over and then building his hedge maze closed. They died in puddles of their own filth.

That's nothing.  My friend Jon upon receiving his first copy of the Livin' Large expansion set proceeded to create a Black Widow.  He would work hours on getting his character married and then within 30 minutes of the marriage would proceed to poison the husband.  By the end of his exploits he had managed to create two small gardens and a fence around the house comprised entirely of matching headstones.
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Re: Survival Horror Video Games
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2010, 09:32:06 PM »
Oregon Trail no matter how you play it

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Re: Survival Horror Video Games
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2010, 09:32:27 PM »
Oregon Trail is the original survival horror game