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02.09.04, 23:05:30
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Which survival-horror game is your all-time favorite? Or do you even enjoy the genre? For me, it used to be Clock Tower 3. I still like it, a lot. But recently I played through and beat the Resident Evil remake for Gamecube...and my God, I ****ing loved every second of it. xD The storyline, the characters, the mood and the feeling it gave you...it was such an enjoyable game. I'm looking into getting RE 0 now, to see how that one stacks up in comparision to the remake. I'm also thinking about playing through the Silent Hill series.

So what do you all think of the survival-horror genre? Scary, or just boring? =)




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Note: I really don't think that the edit was necessary Adam. I don't think anyone's offended, and I doubt there's a big problem with swearing, as the swear filter is none existant. At least I think so. I know that you received a message from someone who thought it was against the rules to swear in any instances, and that you acted upon it. But I don't want any complaining coming from this. (In other words, I'm watching your back, man.)

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Edit by Kosai: Well, the rules policy and so says no swearing, aswell as the fact i was getting yelled at by some person who is an ex-moderator. I'm sure editting one word wouldn't hurt? However not doing it would hurt me.. oh whatever. *edits it back in* (Everyone ignore mine and Kuja Sephiroth's edits.)

Soooorry. *rolls eyes* I figured we could cuss now, what with the swear filter being gone and all. Whatever.

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Default  02.10.04, 11:31:50
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Resident Evil would be the fanboy's choice.

I think Silent Hill deserves much more credit. Its a damned good series, although SH2 wasn't anything spectacular, and the controls (much like RE) are shonky.

Survival Horror games differ from series to series. Resident Evil is supposed to scare you with the whole post-apocalyptic eerie "I don't wanna go through that door incase there's a zombie dog that's about to tear off my face" atmosphere. Silent Hill however, has the plain messed up and freaky (where else do you see mangled babies that are still freakin screaming?), with enough paranoia to give someone a heart attack. (Although to the younger generation, its not particularly scary, although when I first played SH1, 'twas scary )

Anyway. Your opinion on Survival Horror games depends on what you've played, or what does or doesn't scare you. I personally think they rock. Although they aren't exactly "scary."
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Default  02.10.04, 11:48:23
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Silent Hill is my absolute favorite -- the combination of atmosphere, eerie music, and occult-related stories all tickle my fancy. The new one looks damn good..., anothe survival horror franchise that hooked me was Clocktower -- well not really the first two but the last one t'was awesome. And Eternal Darkness; what a game. Yeah I love the genre.
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Default  02.10.04, 13:06:55
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I haven't played too many Survival Horror games myself, but what I have played I've enjoyed.

Resident Evil 1, 2 and a tad bit of 3. Alone in the Dark 4, Parasite Eve 2 and The Thing.

Fairly decent genre, preferred The Thing the most meself, although the others were pretty good.
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Default  02.10.04, 17:05:38
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I seriously need to try out the Silent Hill series. =( Who knows, I just might end up liking them more than RE. xD But yeah, I've heard that they're pretty surreal and messed up. How good is the first one?
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Default  02.10.04, 17:59:55
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I've always been a Resident Evil fan, I think it is a great series no matter what anyone says. I've only played Silent Hill 2 and I've wanted to play the first and the third installment to that series, but I haven't gotten the chance yet. My favorite survival horror game is Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly, just an awesome game that is just beautiful, beautiful!!! I suggest everyone checks that game out, I even think it is better than the first game! Though the first has its quailties too, both are just as frightening and scary and I love that, bwahaha.
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Default  02.10.04, 18:41:02
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Always been a SH fan m'self, it's the only series that's actually scared me (And gave me so many nightmares I was sick from sleep dep xD). Res Evil made me jump, sure, but didn't inhernatly scare me (Though I do have a thing about zombies, granted.). Played all the PS Ressies, plus the GC remake of 1 and Code Veronica, and only really liked RE2. Alone in the Dark is kinda a scary series, I've never been that taken by the Clock Tower series, but I've never played 2 and didn't play a lot of 3. I didn't think 3 was remotely scary though, but meh.

Silent Hill is seriously the most messed-up series of games I know of (Including hentai tentacle rape button-bashers, or whatever the hell they're making in Japan these days.). God, that little ghost baby in the school in #1... *Shudders*

So yeah, I'd sure recommend the SH games. First is my fave, but that may be nostalgia rather than it actually being better...
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Default  02.10.04, 23:29:21
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Resident Evil Games never have scared me. They were difficult, and I enjoyed trying to find my way through the mansion/police station/whereever and stay alove, but they never scared me. Silent Hill, however, is another atory completly. Those games did scare me, in a way that was odd. I never lost sleep over playing the SH games, but they still did scare me.
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Default  02.12.04, 03:47:01
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SH has a completely different feel than RE does. I do admit, I remember when I was perhaps the fourth of fifth grade when RE2 came out maybe, I can't remember, well my neighbor had just gotten the game and he took his PS to the community center (a military base building for kids to hang out... O.o) and like they had this big screen tv and like watching him play for just a few moments with the surrond sound which made it worse, just sacred me, but of course I was younger then, lol.

SH just has this demented freaky to it that is just plain scary, I haven't lost any sleep to it, but with Fatal Frame and Fatal Frame 2: CB, I've lost sleep with that cause the whole prarnoia factor and it makes you feel like your not in the room alone when you are, lol.
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