Have fun putting that into my '68 Ford Galaxie. Miss me with that.

Yes thats true. It is a fantastic game. But you know as well as I do that Smash Brothers tournaments have quite the reputation for smelly attendees. Like, even worse than anime conventions, and I like anime too.

This is absolutely ignorable “neck-beard who has never had sex and frequently attends Smash Brothers tournaments” advice.

Please, don’t do this. It doesn’t work like this.

This is a cold take, honestly. Review bombing is a term that attempts to discredit valid criticism. This is valid criticism.

This has happened before with introduction of new technology, and will continue to happen in the future. Animators in the 80s and 90s probably felt the same way when computers were becoming more common place in animation studios. But the artists learned to utilized the new tools they worked with, or they fell off and stuck to their old ways, unable to keep up with the artists that adapted to the new tools. And new animation tools and technology has led to some truly incredible works of animation, that would have been simply too difficult or far too expensive to animate entirely be hand.

There’s nothing wrong with old animation, by the way. I actually personally prefer it to the newer stuff thats just too clean and sterile IMO. And likely it will be that way with others. Some people will continue to like the stuff made “the old fashioned way,” and others will like the new direction. Growing pains aren’t called pains for no reason.

I played it for over 500 hours, and I have to say it was okay in the beginning, but over time it progressively got worse. Kinda like Overwatch, but not as good.

Why do you know this specific information?

Its so bad even Paladins has a higher player count. Thats massively embarrassing. And then the classic developers attacking people on social media is not helping them, like at all.

Average modern business public statement be like:

Defies logic? What logic? Everyone knows this game is DOA. Where is the logic to defy? Why are the media shilling for this game so hard? I mean, obviously they want to not risk losing access to Sony game review copies, but I mean, is that really worth tarnishing your reputation as a media outlet?

Rock and Stone!

I mean, it was for tax evasion. Its not like she was a pedophile or serial killer or something.

No worries, I figure maybe one of them might help you pick something. I enjoy all sorts of games, including horror, but my favorites with horror tend to be the very slow survival horror games. To me, the game is basically a giant puzzle box, having multiple smaller puzzles that need to be solved for the whole thing to unlock and reveal its secret.

Kuon, Rule of Rose, Haunting Ground, Silent Hill (in this order: 2,1,3,4 and nothing else exists), Resident Evil (only the original one), Dino Crisis, Onimusha, Parasite Eve, Clock Tower and the like are my favorites. I even liked Cold Fear and the PS2 X-Files game.

Dino Crisis was a dinosaur version of Resident Evil made by the same developers. They called it “Panic Horror,” because it was a much faster, action oriented version of Resident Evil, where the dinosaurs would actually follow you room to room if you didn’t desl with them, you could also use tranquilizers instead of bullets to temporarily knock them out but that meant you had to deal with them again when you came back. It was a great game, and they only made two of them. DC3 doesn’t exist.

Maybe you might have interest in Illbleed? Its a Sega Dreamcast game that is like a theme park with different lands based on horror movie tropes. Its a pretty whacky game, and is very experiemental. But it is certainly anything but scary. Maybe it may interest you?

Well, I don’t think they are necessarily scary either, but they obviously try to be “scary horror” as opposed to Rear Window or the X-Files, which while they can be scary to some, they have a pretty clear difference of tone to them.

I wasn’t sure how old of movies to pick, because while Nosferatu (1922) was certainly scary in its time, it is almost a laughably funny movie now, if one can sit through its rather slow presentation.

Honestly, Silent Hill 2 isn’t really scary. SH2 is like a suspense film such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window or The X-Files, not a horror film like The Exorcist or Poltergeist. It goes for a spooky horror atmosphere, but there is nothing in the game that is scary or makes you jump out of your seat in fear or anything. Similar vibe to the X-Files PS2 survival horror game, if that one was a little goofy. Its not like the first Silent Hill, which had jumpscares and an over-reliance on blood/gore/grotesque in order to create its horror. SH2 does have some of that, but compared to the first game it is toned down very significantly. And this is one of the reasons I say SH3 was such a massive step backwards. Like, from a technical standpoint SH3 is better than SH2, but from a narrative standpoint the game is worse than the first game in my opinion. Still better than 4 and later though.

Silent Hill 2 is SLOW. Which is one of its great strengths in creating tension. Similar to an Alfred Hitchcock film, it doesn’t try to jump scare you, but rather it wants to make you feel anxiety or nervous about what could happen next. Some people confuse this with fear, as they are similar.

I can kinda describe it like the original Nightmare on Elm Street (not the bad 2012 or whatever reboot), since that movie also wasn’t really that scary. It was hard to be scared of Freddy Kruger when he had such goofy one-liners constantly in the film.

Overall SH2 is a high recommendation from me, but it may not fit your exact criteria.

Ironically, every Resident Evil starting from RE2 is an action horror game, not a survival horror like the original game.

Other games that are macabre themed would be games like Castlevania, Ghosts n Goblins, etc. I liked Rusty, which was a Japan only PC9800 game which cloned the gameplay of Castlevania. Anyone that likes Castlevania owes it to themselves to play Rusty.

MedEvil I think is a 3d platformer, but I never played it so I can’t speak to its horror strength.

Luigi’s Mansion is obviously a goofy pick here.

Dead By Daylight (I can’t believe I am recommending this since it has such a toxic community) is a horror themed 4v1 multiplayer game that, once you play a few games, becomes not scary at all except for certain moments when you aren’t paying attention and you get jumpscared by another player walking onto your screen. It features a wide collection of characters from popular horror franchises, as well as characters from Dungeons and Dragons and Lara Croft for some reason. Just watch out for the toxuc community on this one. Most of my matches end before 20 minutes, and finding a match is usually pretty fast but I mainly play Killer and apparently less than 20% of the entire playerbase plays Killer.

There is also Pascal’s Wager, which is a soulslike but I haven’t played a whole lot of it, just 10 minutes. Seems to play similar to Bloodborne.

This community obviously has a bias for BG3. Its a great game, but your comment did not deserve to be downvoted.

Link also spoke and emoted with other characters in Skyward Sword. Rarely he also did this in Wind Waker and Twilight Princess.

“This car claims to be bulletproof, so to test it we are going to shoot it with this 40mm artillery canon at a distance of 10 feet.”

~ some YouTuber, probably

Yes, it was funny when the entire game would stop just to focus on killing the gold skin user. Didn’t matter what team they were on, they became the collective target of everyone in the match. Good times, indeed.