best horror game ever?

[Poggiiz]

the question is this the best horror game ever or can maybe Outlast be better?

[Budd_21]

imo Amnesia The Dark descent is the best horror game. But be careful, it's the best only if you played it like the way it has to be played. Hide in the dark corner when grunt/brut coming, read notes, delve into the history and the background of the game, play in the dark with maximum sound.

Outlast is a good game, but i find it too bloody for a horror game. It's all about torture, slaughter. Only the begginning of the game is very scary, but after you understand the mecanic of the game : from A go to B while hidding and running everywhere like an idiot because psychos wants to eat you.

Amnesia is awesome mate, i love this game, it's a masterpiece.

[Poggiiz]

that answer was a masterpiece bro.

[☠Marie☠]

Amnesia is a more slow-paced horror game that induces fear via anticipation and suspense. In Amnesia I spent countless hours hiding in wardrobes yelling "OMG, I heard something!" it was terrifying.

Outlast moved along a lot faster. I beat the game on ps4 the first day I played it. It was still a very frightening experience for me though. IMO The things coming after your look a lot scarier in Outlast, and getting chased seemed to be slightly more intense in Outlast than in amnesia too.

Overall, I enjoyed the storyline more in Amnesia. It also took longer for me to complete, which I appreciated. In Outlast, if there wasnt a monster after me I wasn't really afraid. In Amnesia...I was always afraid.

[Xentaur]

it's truely the MOST SCARY game I have ever played, the first game that made me pee my pants was SIREN

[Romage]

Outlast or amnesia. Its a close call but I think I have to go with amnesia. Outlast is definitely terrifying and I love the use of the camera. the atmosphere is great and the visuals are very disturbing, but when compared to amnesia, I feel amnesia was more consistantly scary throughout the whole game and never dissapointed me, where in outlast, there were moments where the sense of fear was lost because of using the same formula to escape every enemy, and knowing that most of the scares are achieved through jump scares. amnesia has almost no jumpscares and uses pyschological scares to its advantage, using well placed sound effects and making the monsters alot more dangerous than in outlast. because of this, the sense of fear in amnesia is always present and never lightens up, plus getting chased in amnesia is far scarier in my opinion. BUT despite all this I dont think either of these games are the best horror games ever, pretty high up there though. I am not going to dispaly my opinion on that, to avoid controversy. and the story in amnesia is quite a bit better than outlast for sure

[Vampasa]

See amneisa is very scary with great sounds level,with the feeling of hope.



Outlast is the opposite u have NO hope whatso ever... u feel hopeless

[Haunted]

Amnesia's an excellent survival horror game, but survival is not a core element to horror. I will say that this is the best horror engine, however the focus on panic over mystery makes the Dark Descent fall a bit short compared to other titles. On the other hand, I've played some amazing custom stories that nail horror perfectly.

[Joker]

I think the best horror game ever is the first Silent Hill (ePSXE emulator). That game continued to give me the willies after beating it several times. Turn the lights off in an empty house with headphones and get creeped out. :D

[DisableBore]

Well, Silent Hill 2 scared the crap outta me, but ths one was more intense....

[Gimli]

Best horror/puzzle game out there! Thats just my opinion. Outlast is pretty good too.

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

in my opinion, this game is terrible.

its not "scary" at all, its full of terrible voice acting, and the entire game revolves around the exact opposite of gameplay. you just hide in dark corners and look away from enemies that cant be killed or even hurt. your character is aparently so incompotent that he cant even think to pick up a large object to strike the monster in the face with, and run away. or a bladed object to cut said enemy into pieces and run away.

the entire premise of this game is that you cannot defend yourself. they made the character out to be the mos useless main character ever made.

on top of that, the game looks like crap. the textures are terrible quality, the lighting is some of the worst ive ever seen, and the "immersion" factor is completely non existant when you notice that in all likelihood, you would never do any of the retarded stuff you have to do in this game, for any reason. not tomention the story is bland and boring, with characters being equally bland and boring(the few there actually are).

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

Originally posted by -L7- themaniacboy:

Holy crap, you sound like a real hater, or you were just too scared to continue the game so you made up a reason to not play it.

yes. lord forbid somebody actually not like this boring, uninteresting waste of data. gotta be a "hater" if they see that the plot is crap, the graphics are crap, the gameplay mechanics are non existant, and its about as scary as a mall haunted house with its stupid sounds playing over and over while generic surgery monsters ramble towards you and swing their arms around like short bus children.

[Dust]

Originally posted by tertadigm:

Originally posted by -L7- themaniacboy:

Holy crap, you sound like a real hater, or you were just too scared to continue the game so you made up a reason to not play it.

yes. lord forbid somebody actually not like this boring, uninteresting waste of data. gotta be a "hater" if they see that the plot is crap, the graphics are crap, the gameplay mechanics are non existant, and its about as scary as a mall haunted house with its stupid sounds playing over and over while generic surgery monsters ramble towards you and swing their arms around like short bus children.

Man, acting awfully objective there...


...Not really possible to be objective there, with the exception of texture quality, but I mean, subjectively that's all fine.

[Blue Candle]

Both are good games (I like amnesia better) but the problem with both and many more horror game of today is, you have no weapons. Im not saying to go full doom with a shotgun and rocketlaunchers but it will be nice to play a game where you have a pistol with limited ammo and a rusty pipe or something now a days.

My favorite horror game of all time has to be one of the Silent Hill games.

[I'm currently on vacation]

Outlast in my opinion sadly it falls a bit short