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What was the formative horror game of your childhood? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Catastrophic235@midwest.social to c/gaming

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For me it was Dead Space 2 when I was 12-ish. For reference, at this point the most gruesome/gorey/violent media I was exposed to was the Halo 3 Flood levels and the original 2 Alien movies.

I had way too much fun playing it to be traumatized by it at the time, although when i was old enough to understand the horror of the whole "your memories and experience becoming food for a god-like being that has absolutely zero respect for your existance", that did inform my perspective of other media such as Evangelion or Childhood's end when I watched them for the 1st time.

What was your equivalent to this? I've heard the Resident Evil games are quite common for this but I want to hear your perspective.

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[–] loboaureo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uff, hard to say, a lot of the ones comented before applied to me.

As old pc gamer still missing one of the most influent scariest games. Alone in the dark... when you have to deal with the monsters added to frustration of bad controls...

Also dark seed, with all those HR Gigger stuff...

[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

This is the one that immediately popped into my mind. "Alone in the Dark" is the game that made me realize I don't ever want to play another horror game again! :-D

[–] LoamImprovement 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly I think that game has possibly one of the best 'first rooms' in horror game history, like even with the low poly graphics, that thing jumping through the window, giving you the impression that shit is happening and you need to move, and then doubles down with the zombie out of the floor, and that if you know what's coming, you can prevent both. It's a shame the final section is filled with janky-ass platforming.