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I can't bring myself to power through the Farmhouse in Condemned. I can do just fine until the basement goes dark and then I just stop out of fear and I don't know why since I've played plenty of other horror games with dark cellars and other shit.

>>240335 (OP) 
>psx silent hill 1
 I got to the school then noped the fuck out.

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Recently played some obscure ass game on the PS1 called Hellnight. The game pits you on a constant fetch quest where you're running from some asshole monster that appears whenever he feels like it.
For the remainder of the game you're on the lookout for his footsteps amidst the droning ambiance and the otherwise pitch silence in that dark ass primitive labyrinth. Add to that the low draw distance and the fact you never truly know where the fuck he is and the game somehow becomes pretty spooky.
I'm too old to be scared from a stupid fucking horror game, but if I were younger perhaps I'd be too queasy to play it. The horror wears off though once you reach the spaceship at the bottom of the map and you realize Kamiya has more bullets on his coat than you'll ever need.

>>240335 (OP) 
>games you're too afraid to play/continue
>FNAF
>Ao Oni
Come on now. These choices are on par with a little kid watching Youtube in the 2010s. How old are you, 20?
>>240356
How old were you? I've always thought Silent Hill were action adventure games with a cool horror backdrop, but nothing particularly stressul, those moaning pieces of shit in the school notwithstanding. Reminds me how I went nuclear on those faggots on my second run seeing how I had +150 handgun bullets my first way through.

>>240335 (OP) 
Thief the dark project and penumbra
I  completely quit thief some time after the first level after  looking up that I had to go through a painting I forget exactly but something spooked me really badly  it was bad that I was already uneasy from the sound and enviroment
penumbra I'm lost for words really with the game made me feel like I was breaking into a prison except I'm completely helpless other than try to out run whatever was chasing me
it was probably the first time I quit after a few minutes into a game and it wasn't because of  it being shit

>>240335 (OP) 
Yes but not in the sense you mean, there's some game I quit simply because the fact that 100%ing them is insanely long or bothersome it fills me with some existential dread.

no, I have the opposite problem
the scarier the game, the more I HAVE to beat it, otherwise I won't get any sleep

>>240335 (OP) 
Despite its bad story, Lost in Vivo is a game that I have trouble returning to because of how scary it is. After the first section, which was accessible in the demo, the game ramps up its claustrophobia to a suffocating degree.

>>240393
>Silent Hill were action adventure games with a cool horror backdrop
Silent Hill 3's atmosphere and sound design is genuinely fucking horrifying and stressful.
I love it but it makes my skin crawl.

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>>240335 (OP) 
>Have you ever been too afraid to play/continue playing a game?
When i was a kid i used to watch my older brother as he played stuff like Resident Evil 2 or Silent Hill on the PS1, but i didn't have the courage to do it myself.
I tried though, i once loaded his Silent Hill save and found myself in the School, i walker around a bit but i don't have the courage to even open a door, afraid of what might have been in there.
With RE2 i was too tense when any zombie got close to me, and couldn't play that either.
As a kid Resident Evil 2 and Silent Hill traumatized me, that Silent Hill intro's mandolin used to send a chill down my spine.

Growing up though, the roles have reversed, my older brother can't play horror vidya anymore, while i love the genre.
Once he was playing Siren Blood Curse and asked me the play all the little girl's sections for him because he was too scared to do it himself.
Now he pretends to like survival horror, but hates any game that doesn't give him the US army's heavy artillery to blast all the monsters with, because if the game makes him feel any vulnerable, or asks him to do anything other than shooting everything that moves, like hiding or running away, he shits bricks, even if he will never admit that.

>>240356
>The school
Ho buddy

>Got around to Silent hill a few months after release.
>First session
>Radio in the kitchen playing on some mainstream channel
>Playing alone at home
>In the school courtyard, radio going wild
>Ass pouring shit and sweat
>Enter school again
>Surrounded by Mumblers
>Neighbor bro had let himself in without me noticing now violently grabs me from behind and screams like a nigger
>Heart almost explodes
>Have Pavlovian fear response to Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way for months

That was a wild summer.
>Pay for gas, triggered
>Going grocery shopping, niggered
Couldn't have the radio on in the evenings even if the station was just talking shows, just in case.

>>244978
Oh and I have to this day not booted up the first Silent Hill again.
I did play through the rest when they came tho.

>>244978
Reminds me of me dad detailing what he did to one of his female friends one time:
>Watching Carrie
>Seen it enough times to know the timing when the hand pops out at the end
>She hasn't seen it
>Gets to the finale
>The hand pops out
>My dad's hand lands on her leg
>She shrinks down and curls up into the fetal position on the floor area of the car
>She stays that way the entire drive home

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>>240393
>Come on now. These choices are on par with a little kid watching Youtube in the 2010s.
>>240393
>How old were you? I've always thought Silent Hill were action adventure games with a cool horror backdrop, but nothing particularly stressul, those moaning pieces of shit in the school notwithstanding.
I agree with you on FNAF being fucking gay and shit for children, but Silent Hill, especially when it first came out was genuinely creepy.
I don't think there was anything like that before SH came out.
I think the atmosphere of SH1 and SH3 was the best

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>>240393
>>244982
C'mon, give it a try.
It's fun.
Turn off the lights, put on some nice headphones and get spooked.
https://anxhelo007.itch.io/five-nights-at-freddys-plus

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>>244983
>C'mon, give it a try.

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>>244986

silent hill 4 in high school too fucking tense

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>>244987
FNAF is for autistic children and furries.

I used to watch my dad play RE2 and RE3 and I'd have to leave the room because I was so fucking scared of stupid fucking zombies
I wouldn't even look at the CD case because it was so scary to me

>>244990
dude that too, I remember when I was like 5 and I think it was like a christmas party and my cousins were in my uncle's room playing re2 and they told me "here play it" and I was too fucking scared.

>>244989
So it's perfect for you

>>244990
i remember forcing my dad to shut off the ps1 because the zombie eating a corpse cutscene from RE1 scared me more than few things have ever scared me in my life

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>>244990
Even if it doesn't scare me anymore, i can see why RE2 did it when i was a kid.
The zombies' moaning were unsettling, the music was eerie, and the pre-rendered backgrounds gave that "it's all fucked" hopeless feeling.
By the way, i think zombies were scarier when they did that deep moaning than those screeches they make them do nowadays (probably because of The Walking Dead).
>>244993
>i remember forcing my dad to shut off the ps1 because the zombie eating a corpse cutscene from RE1 scared me more than few things have ever scared me in my life
Man, one of the creepiest parts of RE2 to me where when the zombies burst into Kendo's gun shop and eat him, and before reach the police station there's that group of zombies eating a corpse and you can hear the sound of it the camera shows you what's happening.
I don't get scared as easily as when i was a kid, but i understand why some are still creeped out by that stuff.

>>244994
*before you reach to police station
*before the camera shows you
I am tired