2D Horror

[Sabre]

Other then Sweet Home and Haunted House (which I don't count as horror) I can only really think of splatter house.

Can you think of any 2D horror games?

[DoctorAllosaurus]

Uninvited is pretty damn creepy. I've yet to play past the first ghost so I don't know too much about it. Monster Party is debatable, It has a few what the hell moments, but its also kind of funny at the same time (for example, one of the bosses is a giant bouncing fried shrimp). The Immortal might count too, but once again its debatable if it truly is a horror game.

[fox1235]

I heard the Nightmare on Elm Street video game on the SNES(or NES, I forget) was pretty scary.

[Sabre]

forgot to mention clock tower.

Uninvited is pretty damn creepy. I've yet to play past the first ghost so I don't know too much about it. Monster Party is debatable, It has a few what the hell moments, but its also kind of funny at the same time (for example, one of the bosses is a giant bouncing fried shrimp). The Immortal might count too, but once again its debatable if it truly is a horror game.

What system are those on?

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

What about the first Castlevania and Ghouls N' Ghost games?

[DoctorAllosaurus]

forgot to mention clock tower.

What system are those on?

They are all on the NES. The Immortal has a gorier version on the Genesis/Megadrive, It was also on a few home computers so you have alot of choices for that one.

What about the first Castlevania and Ghouls N' Ghost games?

The only thing scary about the G'NG games is the difficulty. However, Demon's Crest on the SNES (a spin-off) has a great spooky atmosphere.

[Matrilwood]

Dead Frontier is a top down zombie shooter. Its a flash game.

[Sabre]

Dead Frontier is an action game, and 3D. Zombie shooter might count under that definition though.

[Milkyway64]

I can't think of any not already mentioned in this topic that aren't just personal cases, like some people's experience with the SA-X in Metroid Fusion and my personal experience with metroid 2 as a whole back in the day.

It's pretty hard to do horror in 2D, furthest I've seen it go is atmosphere.

[Matrilwood]

I was talking about the flash version. There is also a 2D version of Left4Dead, but it's really bad, the zombies go inside you and then you can't shoot them.

[ARWINGCOMMANDER 3987]

Don't get me started on Dark Land in the Super NES port of Super Mario Bros. 3. *shutters*

[Sabre]

I can't think of any not already mentioned in this topic that aren't just personal cases, like some people's experience with the SA-X in Metroid Fusion and my personal experience with metroid 2 as a whole back in the day.

It's pretty hard to do horror in 2D, furthest I've seen it go is atmosphere.

It is doable, but debatable. Evertion managed it. (forgot that one as well) All horror is subjective. Theme and tone is what matters most in this case. Zombies! (ate my naibours) has horror elements, but is purely tongue in cheek. Zombie shooter is serious, but has a tone similar to contra for example.

So, while "I thought the turtles in mario 3 were scary" wouldn't count, and Ghouls and Ghosts is debatable, and Splatterhouse goes all out, so counts in this case.

I've yet to be scared by a 2D game (eversion was more suprising) I can't think of any reason it's not possable.

[Milkyway64]

I did forget about Eversion. That was the most wonderfully creepy 8 bit game I've ever played.

The HD remake sold on Steam sorta makes it better, and sort of also removes a lot of what made it so good in the first place. For one, some of the music (ESPECIALLY world 8) was improved, and it also added backgrounds which while are better than a solid color background, sort of removed some of the subtlety and surprise surrounding when things got bad. It starts with cheery hills and then in world 2 they turn all "mechanical" like they're made from those blocks in SMB3 that's necessary to kneel on for one of the whistles. Then world three, the last "light" world looks a lot more grim than it should. In the original, the low blue and wilting plants was just sort of "Okay... This is odd." rather than the blatant advertising the decaying hills in the background does in the HD remake. From then on it paces itself well, although some don't like the faces and hands coming out of the hills for it's "Halloween Town-ish" feel. Personally, I find the most consistent way I can get a chill is playing HD world 8 alone in the dark with headphones. I've only done it like 5 times, but it spooked me every single one.

/rant

[Sabre]

I didn't realise the steam version was improved. Also put a spoiler tag on that, or at least a warning. :)

[Milkyway64]

Done!

[Dublinthefox]

I heard the Nightmare on Elm Street video game on the SNES(or NES, I forget) was pretty scary.

And there was also Friday the 13th for the NES, and Halloween and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the Atari 2600.

[Matrilwood]

Elm Street is for the NES.

I find it interesting that all these horror games were on the Nintendo.

Phantasmagoria was pretty scary, it was also one of the first games to have a sex-scene in it. (Which didn't go down to well in 1995)

[Vy'drach]

Could say Alien 3 and Aliens vs. Predator, both for the SNES. Alien 3 has you traversing the levels of that prison facility, rescuing humans and fighting aliens, but the aliens can spit acid, climb the ceiling, and facehuggers/chestbursters are fast, and facehuggers latch on dealing damage over time. Not exactly a super scary game, but hearing aliens hiss off-screen, getting rushed by facehuggers, or having aliens suddenly drop in front of you could make it a little intense.

As for Aliens vs. Predator, some of the scares for this comes from the difficulty, but aliens do pop-up out of no where (including some bosses), and bosses are incredibly inconsistent. Could be moving like a slug one time, then it super leaps across the screen in an all-out death lunge (which is why I hated watching a video of a guy beat it on the hardest difficulty in 1 life, because the bosses didn't do anything. Queen alien stayed across his screen most of the time, where as in my game, she will get across the screen in the blink of an eye and proceed to hit me with a combo that is unbreakable until I die, on normal).

[Sabre]

Phantasmagoria ... was also one of the first games to have a sex-scene in it. (Which didn't go down to well in 1995)

No. Not even close. Sex has been in games since their invention pretty much. Due to the limitation of graphics they were about as sexy as a penis sprayed on a wall. It wasn't until tomb raider that graphics had advanced enough to make something consider by most to be 'sexy'. Although your milage may vary personally, on a public level that was when it kicked off. It's why Lara Croft is often refered to as "The first lady of gaming."

Could say Alien 3 and Aliens vs. Predator, both for the SNES. Alien 3 has you traversing the levels of that prison facility, rescuing humans and fighting aliens, but the aliens can spit acid, climb the ceiling, and facehuggers/chestbursters are fast, and facehuggers latch on dealing damage over time. Not exactly a super scary game, but hearing aliens hiss off-screen, getting rushed by facehuggers, or having aliens suddenly drop in front of you could make it a little intense.

As for Aliens vs. Predator, some of the scares for this comes from the difficulty, but aliens do pop-up out of no where (including some bosses), and bosses are incredibly inconsistent. Could be moving like a slug one time, then it super leaps across the screen in an all-out death lunge (which is why I hated watching a video of a guy beat it on the hardest difficulty in 1 life, because the bosses didn't do anything. Queen alien stayed across his screen most of the time, where as in my game, she will get across the screen in the blink of an eye and proceed to hit me with a combo that is unbreakable until I die, on normal).

I remember AvP on PC and Arcade. I also remember aliens on the megadrive.

[Vy'drach]

I remember AvP on PC and Arcade. I also remember aliens on the megadrive.

It's a different AvP beat-em-up than the arcade version. Here's a video of the boss battles, and having watched it, I swear the AI and overall game mechanics are inconsistent from cartridge to cartridge. I play it, and the AI is twice as aggressive, and my game's hit detection isn't as bad as in this video. Also, this guy in the video does a really good job of flopping around like an idiot with the Predator.

And here's an Alien 3 review, and he does a good job summing it up. At first, Aliens 3 is rather slow though, Aliens are weak and slow, but it does get extreme quickly.

Careful though, he gives away the ending of the game, and also the movie (same ending, obviously), so if you haven't seen Alien 3 or so, don't watch.

[Matrilwood]

No. Not even close. Sex has been in games since their invention pretty much.

That didn't stop it from getting banned in several countries, also it was made by the people who invented graphic adventure games, so you'd kind of expect them to do it right... That said

Screen shot from the first graphic adventure game.

Note the high definition note.

[Sabre]

Found a RPG maker game called Resident Evil 1.5. Not based on any resident evil game though.

That said, it turns out there is a bunch of resident evil RPG maker games out there.

RE Reborn I played before. Is good though the version I played was unfinished.

http://www.compmike19.com/id501.htm