Best Horror Games of last gen (ps2/xbox/gamecube)?

So, I've noticed a huge lack of horror games this gen, and have been going back to last gen systems to get my horror fix. There seem to be a lot for these systems, but that means not all of them were quite as good as others. I was wondering what people would put as their must have horror games of last gen. I'm partial to the Silent Hill series, with my favorite being the 3rd one. Other than that I've found Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth to have its fair share of tense moments.

Fatal Frame.

Specifically Fatal Frame 2.

I'd say "Resident Evil 4" takes the crown for the Gamecube and PS2. It's one of my favorite series, but I have to give credit where credit is due: The "Silent Hill" series also had a strong showing on the PS2 as well and I'd like to get into that series as well from start to finish.

The Fatal Frame games were great, especially FF2.

Haunting Ground and Rule of Rose were good too.

Nice, seems like the Fatal Frame series may be the way to go. I forgot I played RE4. It was a really good game, but seemed to lack any horror so I just consider it a third person shooter/action adventure game(and then RE5 just came in and basically ruined it for me).

RE4, Resident evil remake, and RE0 are the best I can think of. RE4 gamecube version is a really big improvement on PS2 version, so get that if you can.

Fatal Frame 2: Director's Cut is an amazing game! Check it out if you haven't.

Resident Evil 4 is absolutely incredible as well.

Fatal Frame 2: Director's Cut is an amazing game! Check it out if you haven't.

Resident Evil 4 is absolutely incredible as well.

Samslayer

Can an Xbox 360 not connected to Live play original Xbox games? If so, I WILL buy the fatal frame games for it. Always heard how good they were, never got a chance to play them.

Anyways, REmake was the ebst horror game I played last gen. Although, I'm not gonna lie, despite being cartoony, I thoguht Luigi's Mansion was legitmatley creepy in a few parts.

Can an Xbox 360 not connected to Live play original Xbox games?turtlethetaffer

RE4, Resident evil remake, and RE0 are the best I can think of. RE4 gamecube version is a really big improvement on PS2 version, so get that if you can.

magnax1

What? The PS2 version of RE4 came out after the GC version. Despite having worse graphics, the extra content in the PS2 version makes it worthwhile IMO. But the Wii Edition is the definitive version for sure.

The absolute best horror game ever made is "Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem" for the Nintendo GameCube. That game WILL make you think you're hallucinating. Hands-down my favorite. I can tell you from real-life experience that the subtle nature of the hallucinations is entirely realistic and it'll have you doing double-takes, and wondering if it's you or the game that's going crazy. It's a work of lunatic art that plays fantastically from all aspects and angles. I can't recommend it enough.

Don't ask me how I know what hallucinating is like. Just take my word for it.

:P

If you have an O.G. xbox, look into "Call of C'Thulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth", which doesn't handle madness and hallucinations as well as "Eternal Darkness", but it does have an excellent ambiance and threads together several of Lovecraft's stories into one very playable adventure. It's not as finely tuned as ED, but it's awesome in it's own ways.

(DUH. I just noticed that you mentioned this ^^^ ["Call of C'Thulhu"] in your original post. Did I mention I have a problem with reality at times?)

For PS2, I'm inclined to agree with folks who list the "Fatal Frame" series (as well as the opinion that the second game is the best of the three). "Siren" is what I like to call an advanced-skills game, where if you're anything less than hardcore about your survival horror games, it might make you cry from frustration...

... that's kinda where I wound up by trying it... It's very difficult, and you need to be SUPER-thorough in your playing to get anywhere. Excellent production and presentation, but it's a difficult game (which they somewhat smoothed out in the sequel on PS3 - But that's not Legacy Platform so forget I said anything about it). If you're going to play "Siren", be patient with yourself AND the game.

:)

Enjoy!

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RE4, Resident evil remake, and RE0 are the best I can think of. RE4 gamecube version is a really big improvement on PS2 version, so get that if you can.

M3tr4nk0

What? The PS2 version of RE4 came out after the GC version. Despite having worse graphics, the extra content in the PS2 version makes it worthwhile IMO. But the Wii Edition is the definitive version for sure.

I know the GC version came first, but having played quite a bit both, the PS2 version feels a bit gimped. Graphically, there's a ton of stuff missing, and not small stuff. Like they take out 1/3 of the trees in some areas, take out tons of the great lighting. I usually wouldn't care, but it takes away some of the atmosphere, and atmosphere is what the game lives on. On top of that they take out a large number of enemies too in some areas and then just make the few enemies they have harder, which just isn't as fun. Also, as weird as it seems considering the GC only has 1.4 gb disks, it also has way better sound.

I haven't played the Wii version, but it does sound like the best of both worlds.

Call of Cthulhu

Siren

Silent Hill 2/3 (I actually prefer 3)

Clock Tower 3

Still Life

Those are some great horror games from last gen, BTW, how's Rule Of Rose? It's fricking rare.

I would say Project Zero/Fatel Frame 1, it pretty much freaked me out.

Call of Cthulhu

Siren

Silent Hill 2/3 (I actually prefer 3)

Clock Tower 3

Still Life

Those are some great horror games from last gen, BTW, how's Rule Of Rose? It's fricking rare.

KillerJuan77

I haven't finished it yet but it's pretty good.

Gameplay can get repetitive, but it's worth playing for the story.

nice, I didn't even think of some of these games (i.e. Siren, Eternal Darkness). I'll be sure to start getting into some of these games once I get through at least a few of what I have now (AC: brotherhood, Bioshock 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Deus Ex, Doom 3, Getaway 2, Enslaved Odyssey to the West, COD MW2), so yeah. But I'll be putting some of those off if I can get some good deals on a few of these horror games (last horror game I played was Dead Space, so it's been a while).

BTW, how's Rule Of Rose? It's fricking rare.KillerJuan77

Is it? I got it cheap a few years ago brand new.

It has a great setting, soundtrack and disturbing and bizarre story, but the gameplay is utterly awful. Half your attacks don't even register and you get mobbed by certain enemies to the point of not being able to escape out of their stagger/knockdown attacks. Considering in some areas you HAVE to go through a huge group of said enemies, if you decide to fight you'll probably die due to hits not hitting, and if you decide to run you'll probably get stuck in a knockdown loop. So basically it's luck whether you survive or not.

If you like horror, it's worth playing. It's kinda like a more "beautiful" version of Silent Hill 2, if that makes sense. I enjoyed everything else about the game aside from the mind-numbingly frustrating gameplay. It's disappointing how mere better hit detection would have elevated it from being a forgotten disappointment to a uniquely beautiful psychological horror story.

Well before I start my list, Im just going to put a little disclaimer here. There is no RE4 because it is IMO an action game first and a horror game second.

-Fatal Frame Series

-Silent Hill 2

-The Suffering

-Call of Cthulu

-Doom 3

-Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

-Penumbra (ya its a PC game but it's still last gen)

Resident Evil (GC)

Eternal Darkness (GC)

Definately the original Resident Evil remake on GC!

Hands down, Resident Evil 4. It didn't get any better than that for me.

I'm sort of wondering why so many people are saying RE4. There is absolutely nothing in it that made it a horror game. It was really just a good action adventure game set in a horror world without anything scary in it. Sure, I quite liked it, but nothing about it said horror to me. Though, I will probably go back to some of the other RE games mentioned.

I'm sort of wondering why so many people are saying RE4. There is absolutely nothing in it that made it a horror game. It was really just a good action adventure game set in a horror world without anything scary in it. Sure, I quite liked it, but nothing about it said horror to me. Though, I will probably go back to some of the other RE games mentioned.

blueboxdoctor

I agree. RE4 is a fantastic game, but not scary at all. More intense in the vein of zombie movies. REmake was a top notch horror title though.

I'm sort of wondering why so many people are saying RE4. There is absolutely nothing in it that made it a horror game. It was really just a good action adventure game set in a horror world without anything scary in it. Sure, I quite liked it, but nothing about it said horror to me. Though, I will probably go back to some of the other RE games mentioned.

blueboxdoctor

Truthfully I haven't had a video game scare me anyway (unless you count the makes you jump type of scared) so it's not like RE4 is a real exception.

I couldn't stand RE4, I'm with some of the rest of you on that. Terrible entry in an otherwise fine series of games. RE5 stinks on ice, too.

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I'm sort of wondering why so many people are saying RE4. There is absolutely nothing in it that made it a horror game. It was really just a good action adventure game set in a horror world without anything scary in it. Sure, I quite liked it, but nothing about it said horror to me. Though, I will probably go back to some of the other RE games mentioned.

magnax1

Truthfully I haven't had a video game scare me anyway (unless you count the makes you jump type of scared) so it's not like RE4 is a real exception.

Maybe scare isn't the right word. Games like SH3, Dead Space, and Call of Cthulu were all able to insill a certain amount of fear because of the moments that made you feel like there was no way to go on. This often happened by making your character vulnerable, especially when you have no ammo or you know your character can die easily. So rather than being scared it's more about the tense moments that really get you involved in the characters fight for survival. Of course this is coupled with proper atmosphere, art design, sound effects, music, etc... (SH basically has, or rather had that down perfectly).

Silent Hill 2.

Some of my favorites are:

Silent Hill Series

Fatal frame

GCN Resident Evil games

Clock Tower 3

Rule of Rose

Haunting Ground

Is "Haunting Ground" that game where you have the dog? And so many people have said "Rule of Rose"... I KNEW I shoulda bought that game when I had the chance.

DANG!

:cry:

But, that's back when I used to let reviews sway me a bit more than I do now. Hopefully it'll turn up at my local mom&pop resale shop. I have a goldmine local to me, and they have a refinisher machine so all the stuff they have is in fantastic shape...

*fingers crossed*

:)

They have a copy of "Martian Gothic" (PSOne) that I've been eyeing... It was a "budget title" back in the final days of the PSOne and I recall it got horrid reviews. Still, might be good for a laugh.

Rule of Rose could have been perfect. Great atmosphere, story, characters, aesthetics... But the combat didn't just make it unenjoyable, it was almost downright unplayable. I beat it, but I honestly can't recommend it to anyone who isn't either a masochist for terrible gameplay or is researching how not to make a game fun.

They have a copy of "Martian Gothic" (PSOne) that I've been eyeing... It was a "budget title" back in the final days of the PSOne and I recall it got horrid reviews. Still, might be good for a laugh.

MonkeySpot

I've been playing it, it's creepy BUT there are 4 gigantic issues:

1.- The combat is horrendous and since the enemies can't die it's a big issue

2.- It started being a point and click game so there's the ultra frustrating stuff involving large ammounts of items (Even notes take inventory space so if you accidentally pick up a notebook, recorder or something before trying to acquire ammo or a new gun then you're ******* so you need to backtrack, store the useless crap and return)

3.- The voice acting is atrocious, it's even worse than Resident Evil

4.- Save points with enemies (As I mentioned before they can't die, they get stunned and that's it), 'nuff said.

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They have a copy of "Martian Gothic" (PSOne) that I've been eyeing... It was a "budget title" back in the final days of the PSOne and I recall it got horrid reviews. Still, might be good for a laugh.

KillerJuan77

I've been playing it, it's creepy BUT there are 4 gigantic issues:

1.- The combat is horrendous and since the enemies can't die it's a big issue

2.- It started being a point and click game so there's the ultra frustrating stuff involving large ammounts of items (Even notes take inventory space so if you accidentally pick up a notebook, recorder or something before trying to acquire ammo or a new gun then you're ******* so you need to backtrack, store the useless crap and return)

3.- The voice acting is atrocious, it's even worse than Resident Evil

4.- Save points with enemies (As I mentioned before they can't die, they get stunned and that's it), 'nuff said.

Ooo-FAH. Perhaps I'll pass, then! Thanks for the run-down.

:)

RE4 and Fatal Frame. They scared the **** out of me