View Full Version : Fatal Frame - fear factor
vincewy
12-23-2002, 02:53 AM
My buddy and I played this game last night, it's got to be the scariest game ever. I personally get bored with Resident Evil and Silent Hills which characters are repetitive and predictable, plus most are on gore and violence side.
We played only the first night, has anyone gone much further like night 3 and 4? Do ghosts get even scarier and harder to catch?
Six Switch
12-23-2002, 11:42 AM
We played only the first night, has anyone gone much further like night 3 and 4? Do ghosts get even scarier and harder to catch?
Yes they do.My friend has it for PS2,and i loved it.I might even buy it for Xbox.Sure,it is no Resident Evil 2 but it is good,alot better than Resident Evil Zero,or at least that is what I think. :D :roll: :/
Lexicon
12-23-2002, 06:10 PM
I have to agree. It's one of the scariest games I ever played. A lot of people cant get past the photo element of the game, but it always seemed to make things more tense to me, you can see the ghosts coming and youre waiting as they get closer and closer to get the best damage possible. All the things the game does to play with your mind start to get to you after awhile.
Good luck catching the Wandering Monk...
vincewy
12-24-2002, 07:31 PM
I'm just not going further, it gets too creepy, especially playing alone at night. BTW, how many nights are out there? and what's the ending(s) like? In Tecmo's FF forum they're talking about the ending leading you to the sequal. I wonder how FF2 might give you a heart attack.
Do you want us to spoil it for you? I think there are 5 nights total. Quite a few boss battles, but the final boss is rather easy. I unlocked Battle Mode, a secret outfit & can listen to the in-game music. Unfortunately, I lost my temper (trying to get Wandering Monk!) & wrecked the disc so I can't play through Story mode again! :-( I can only play the Intro again & the screen goes black when the characters switch. I think you have to beat Story Mode twice & you'll see a different ending from the first time.
TheTallMan
12-27-2002, 11:34 AM
Sir, nothing scares me. If I don't scare you, you're already dead, Sir.
geelw
12-28-2002, 04:23 AM
there aren't very many purely flat out scary games made for home systems- fatal frame is tops on my list! i love the stupidity of biased reviews saying the game is "slow" and "boring" and "not as good as resident evil"- it's like comparing crazy taxi and grand theft auto III.
actually, i'm surprised no developer has gone after the rights to possibly the scariest game i've ever played, system shock 2- i actually never finished it past a certain section where i was too spooked to take another step, and i was so far away from the keyboard and mouse that i was barely touching them... :o
vincewy
12-28-2002, 06:26 AM
Greg, how scary is System Shock 2? What other games would be on top of fear factor? I'm thinking Eternal Darkness for GC comes close.
Speaking of Fatal Frame, I remember a few years ago a Japanese movie showing a documentary, obviously an re-enactments of Fatal Frame, but with each occurance it shows the real footage of the place, which really freaks me out. IGN has article about this place
http://xbox.ign.com/articles/375/375267p1.html
Sometimes when you tak a pic of this place, a ghost would show up in the pic once it gets developed, but not visible when you take the pic.
lionforce
12-28-2002, 11:07 AM
hehe yeah, this past Thursday me and 3 other friends got together and watched The Return of The Living Dead Movies and this wacky, gory "Tokyo Shock" flick titled "Rikki Oh: The Story of Ricky, so after watching those movies and then playing FF, we were pretty much not scared by anything :snipersmile: but FF is an awesome game, definitley one for the collection oh and yeah my grandmother (who is Japanese) strongly believes in Photos that capture lost spirits and she rents many books on the subject, I have seen the photos in those books and they are freaky indeed @_@
geelw
12-29-2002, 05:51 AM
Greg, how scary is System Shock 2? What other games would be on top of fear factor? I'm thinking Eternal Darkness for GC comes close.
i'll let you borrow my ss2 if you want to try it- it's definitely an eye-opener...
as far as truly scary games, my current favorites are the following (in no particular order:
enemy zero (saturn)
silent hill (psx)
shadow tower (psx)
baroque (saturn- more weird than scary, but play it at night...)
clock tower: the explanatory note (psx)
clock tower (super famicom)
alone in the dark: the new nightmare (psx/dc- play as aline- she has no weapons!)
system shock (pc- the original is up there on the spookometer as well, even though it's dated)
half-life (pc/ps2)
there are a few more i can't think of, as it's 5:47am, and i'm about to drop... -_-
eternal darkness spooked me but good the first time through- i pretty much breezed through the game the next 3 times i played. i think it's one of those games that you have to play in short doses to get the full creep-out effect... X_x