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General Category => General Chaos => : Mckma August 30, 2010, 12:23:21 AM
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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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Amnesia: Dark Descent
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Have you tried Clock Tower for the SNES?
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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 (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation), Silent Hill 2 is the best in the series, and you can get it for approx $15 on Amazon Marketplace (including shipping) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00005ME6O/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1283176008&sr=8-1&condition=used).
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dwarf fortress if you play it right
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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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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 (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation), Silent Hill 2 is the best in the series, and you can get it for approx $15 on Amazon Marketplace (including shipping) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00005ME6O/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1283176008&sr=8-1&condition=used).
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.
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Princess Maker if you play it right
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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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The Sims if you play it right
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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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Ross, I love all your suggestions ;D
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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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Oregon Trail no matter how you play it
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Oregon Trail is the original survival horror game
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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.
God damn. Dude sounds like he's your evil twin Aaron, as dark as you are light.
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Oregon Trail is the original survival horror game
I always thought that Oregon Trail should have included a "Donner Party" option as an endgame.
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I think this is the only Shirley Temple movie I would care to see.
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Mckma - What horror survival games do you recommend for the Wii? I played Res Evil and stupidly traded it away after I beat it so I need to buy it again.
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Mckma - What horror survival games do you recommend for the Wii? I played Res Evil and stupidly traded it away after I beat it so I need to buy it again.
Personally, I've played RE4 on both Gamecube and Wii, and I much prefer the Gamecube. I found the Wii version a bit to "easy" with the point and shoot, but my friends really like it. If you are thinking about grabbing it again, the Gamecube version can be snagged for about $15 I think...
The only other real games I know of that loosely to more strictly fit this would be Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (which is a remake of the first game), which I have heard decent things about (I'll probably end up picking it up if I can grab it used for $10-15) and Alone in the Dark, which I have heard really bad things about (but I'll also probably pick this up at $5 used). Other than that, I know there are a few others which I will find more info on...
You also have "light gun" horror games such as a couple House of the Dead games, and Dead Space Extraction. I don't think these are really survival horror at all, but they are horror shooters...
Unfortunately because of its "family friendly" tag (which I don't know exactly where it came from), there aren't many options for Wii games...
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Unfortunately because of its "family friendly" tag (which I don't know exactly where it came from), there aren't many options for Wii games...
I've heard that porting games to the Wii OS is also a pain in the ass for companies. After the disaster with Madden 08 and 09 and NCAA Football 09, I think EA has stopped releasing football games completely on Wii because of control issues. The motion controls on NCAA Football made the game nearly unplayable.
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Unfortunately because of its "family friendly" tag (which I don't know exactly where it came from), there aren't many options for Wii games...
I've heard that porting games to the Wii OS is also a pain in the ass for companies. After the disaster with Madden 08 and 09 and NCAA Football 09, I think EA has stopped releasing football games completely on Wii because of control issues. The motion controls on NCAA Football made the game nearly unplayable.
That's the other thing that kind of bugs me. I get the impression that many companies feel they need to use motion controls for the game. Really you don't. I would be perfectly fine with hooking up a Gamecube controller or even picking up a couple classic controllers for good games. In many ways I prefer that to hideous waggle or even decent waggle controls at all. The "family friendly" comment was more referring to a recent interview about the newest console Castlevania game where they said that the Wii was essentially too much of a "family friendly" console to have such a dark game (which to me makes no sense)...
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yeah it's the games that are "family friendly", not the console. Also, Wii fitness is FF but it has an entire minigame where you slay hordes of enemy me's with a katana so WTF?
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I honestly think that Nintendo was focusing more on the "casual gamer" demographic rather than the "family friendly" lot when they were developing the Wii.
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It's really old (for video games) but have you played System Shock 2? It's still one of my favorites, and is installed on this machine right now.
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It's really old (for video games) but have you played System Shock 2? It's still one of my favorites, and is installed on this machine right now.
That shit is fucked up. "Babies must grow. Babies must feed."