Juan J. Sánchez":67ntewia said:
While I'm still in the subject of horror, I've just recently started playing Doom 3 and, despite all the hate it received, I think it's a solid horror shooter. I will say it has some nuisances, weapons don't work exactly as expected, some of the enemy AI is blatantly terrible, but what I really love about it is its mood. It's actually scary, and not only because of all the jump scares.
BFG Edition makes it more horror/action which improves the game massively. The need for ammo conservation is reduced massively and it becomes a game about shooting demons in the dark (with lower resolution textures due to console release...).
The last horror game I was playing was Alien Isolation, which I'd continue playing but it's no longer compatible with the latest Oculus runtime and I was playing it exclusively in VR, which I think is the best way to play a horror game.
Some horror games I just don't find scary at all. Doom 3, FEAR 1 and FEAR 2 and Dead Space come to mind right now.
I haven't actually completed Doom 3 or Dead Space because I got bored playing them, but FEAR 1 I completed pretty quickly as it was basically Half-Life but with a haunted-house carnival ride inserted during the combat lulls. FEAR 2 was just a shitty action game (with worse graphics than FEAR 1, due to console release).
I'd love to get back into Alien Isolation but it wouldn't be the same without VR. I remember the start of that game waking up in the pod, looking down and seeing that I have a pair of boobies, that was a chilling experience in itself because of how real it felt.