Horror games

If you're looking for a good scare, Silent Hill 3 will deliver. I know I've never been more frightened by any other game. The graphics, the sound effects, the story, the monsters, the atmosphere, it all comes together to create a truly terrifying experience. And some of the puzzles are incredibly difficult.

I believe the primary difference between Silent Hill and all other survival horror games is that the the others try to frighten you with what you can see. Silent Hill games, on the other hand, frighten you with what you can't see, and what often isn't there at all. When your mind precieves danger, but has no idea what is out there, it automatically assumes the worst; quite often, something you personally are deeply afraid of, in order to fully heighten your stress response. For me, this produces a much more profound instinctual "gut" fear than I have experienced in any other game.

I've been playing Fatal Frame recently, and I am not impressed. It is simply not scary! The atmosphere isn't scary, the sounds aren't scary, and the ghost certainly are not scary. Far from it, many of them resemble B-move rejects.

Silent Hill 2 is awesome but isn't quite as frightening as Silent Hill 3. Silent Hill 1 isn't particularly scary, but since the story ties into SH3s, you should play it anyway.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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If nothing else, Fatal Frame had one thing going for it that Silent Hill and Resident Evil don't: a near-constant sense of danger and tension.

Silent Hill has a constant sense of impending danger and tension, especially SH2 and SH3. Well, for me at least. Picture it: It's pitch black, your flashlight only lights up a small cone about five feet long, there are horrible noises (say, a slurper or pendulum) very close to you, and when you approach them, the bone-chilling background sounds start playing, boring into your brain like cold ice picks.

And even when there are no monsters around, you still can't see what's out there. My fight or flight response was active the whole time I was playing that game.

Fatal Frame, however, did nothing but give me a slight sense of annoying anticipation as I waited for something to randomly jump out at me, ala resident evil. But that isn't true, instinctual, gut fear.

Oh well, we aren't all afraid of the same things.

For those of you who haven't played a Silent Hill game, check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkYtf...ent%20Hill%203

That is the kind of insanity that awaits you. Be sure to turn the sound up loud.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

It's different when it's actually happening to you in-game. Especially when the door locks and you can't get out.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

One thing that needs to be discussed is Silent Hill's awesome sound effects.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...8D19637C00E9D1

Download this and listen to it. No other game has sound effects quite like those. I find the one with the constant pumping sound to be particularly disturbing.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?