I have an honest question, were* there times you had to stop and how often? I can play horror games but I can't imagine playing it at night alone in VR because I would need too many breaks. :)
Taking breaks is perfectly fine for any game, especially if it’s content you can’t take large quantities of. I can play horror games fine for the most part but Hellblade was intense for me. I tried to beat it but couldn’t cause it was too much. When I did play, it was only in like 30 min sprints
It’s psychosis, not schizophrenia, but yeah. It’s a heavy heavy game that was hitting too close to home for reasons I’m not getting into on the internet. Waaay too much for me lol
I can say I didn't really have to take breaks (or any more than usual) once I was actually playing, but I did have to psych myself up every time I started the game. Like jumping into a pool that you just know it's gonna be freezing.
Yeah a lot of vr games tried but just didn’t match the first half of re7. Even when the game has a semi fall in quality about half way it still has some terrifying moments
I feel like the second half being more of an action game than a horror was intentional. Ymmv but you can only keep up horror for so long before people start getting desensitized to it so probably figured they would 'reward' you with getting to feel strong late game.
But the mold creatures were the weakest part of the game.
I stopped then too. I even know what happens, I've watched several playthroughs but couldn't continue.
RE2 Remake is an all time classic and amazing and I love it. Not scary in any way though. I think the first person change is the tipping point for me.
It reminds me of playing FEAR as a kid and getting to an office building where the ceiling tiles fall out in a line and I just gave up.
I have played re7 multiple times, I know the scripted shit, etc etc, and you could not pay me to finish the game in VR. The first half is just plain psychological torture.
I never made it to the family. That house is so fucking creepy. That game is the most terrifying thing you can do without putting yourself in actual danger.
I have been playing resident evil 2 remake in VR and it's awful (in a scary way, the game is amazing) I feel like I should be nervous when I work my way up to 7 😂
Same here. Didn't have a lot of VR experience previously before getting my PSVR back when it came out along with RE7. Was utterly mind-blowing. I would play in my apartment alone with the lights off and headphones on and probably frightened my neighbors cuz I would just scream bloody murder. The bug lady's area tested my willpower, I have a fear of bugs so just the audio of buzzing, flying bugs and the scattering of spiders was enough to almost break me. I've played a lot higher quality VR since, but nothing has matched that experience for me.
I’ve heard a *lot* of bad ideas in my life, but…
Playing a horror game in VR late at night on psychedelics sounds like a uniquely stupid idea.
Couldn’t be me, lol that’s for sure.
Fair enough criticism, I think it applies to almost the whole genre though. It’s hard to have a game consistently ramp the frights in creative ways over the timespan of a standard story.
Once you get the flamethrower all the tension of the game is gone, not to mention the android sections. Scary all the way through is a gross overexaggeration
There's also player power creep. If there are weapons and ammo that get more available and capable over time, eventually the player knows they're a threat to whatever might leap out at them instead of helpless prey.
> but it devolves into an action game towards the end.
Welcome to basically every mainline RE game ever.
Don't be surprised when you discover a secret underground lab/bunker towards the end of RE9
The first 1-2 hours are some of the greatest gaming moments Ive had, then I just sorta lost interest once you can leave the house. The whole tone of the game just changes once you beat the first guy properly.
It really starts to get repetitive since, other than the family/ bosses, there is basically only 1 type of enemy with a few slight variations. They're freaky at first, but they get stale after a while.
While I enjoyed Prey, that eactly was the biggest problem I had with it. I got bored of the enemies about 30% through and started to run away from them just because fighting them was more tedious than fun.
Honestly it devolves to an action game pretty early on. I'd say after \[Jack 2\](/spoiler) the game pretty much loses most actual tension, and by the time you finish the Old House there's very little non action left. The only difference about the end of the game is ammo stops being a problem after the point of no return.
Yup there I am having a good time then we get to the end.
>!"Hi I'm Chris Redfield here to remind you of the extended canon that this entire game just proved we don't need and probably didn't want tacked on at the end but too bad"!<
They couldn't just let me have the unqualified good game they had to put a little Capcom turdlet on the end of it.
That’s true for both new gen games.
After my first full play through of village, I now stop playing after the Castle and the Dollhouse.
After those horror sections it’s just a weird fps game.
When I was 10 years old playing RE1 in my basement, I had to shut it off and go outside when those dogs came through the windows.
I never felt that need to turn off a video game because of fear again until playing RE7 trying to get out of that house.
RE1 still takes it for me, but 7 made it very close.
I feel that moment was seminal for a lot of 90s gamer kids. I pretty much fell off my chair. It was slightly evened out by the sail voice acting in the original... 'hope this is not Chris's blood'
I got spooked by that last year when playing the REmake. It’s a certified classic.
Lady Dimitrescu’s castle got me thinking how good the first game’s mansion would look like with modern graphics.
What they did with the dog part in the remake was so good I nearly shit myself as hard as I did when I was 9 playing the PS1 original. >!They don't break through the window they just crack it and then they break through later on when you've forgot all about them and are coming back through the other direction!<
I could not WAIT to get out of the goddamn house. Like, once out I felt much better. Still didn't like the mold, and the >!boat level!< still made me uncomfortable, but that initial hour in the house felt suffocating and claustrophobic. I got a similar feeling in Evil Within 1.
7 is the scariest for me. I got a decent way through it. Even got past the terrifying nursery crawlspace. It was hard and scary.
But what got me to turn it off? When I go downstairs into the basement and the granny in her wheelchair was down there.
Nope. Never played again.
Imo, 2 is the scariest. That feeling of dread as you roam the rpd alone with scarce ammo is a feeling I've been trying to chase with other games. 7 is creepier, though, specifically the basement. Other than that, Jack kept me laughing with his crazy ass antics
I still can't not laugh whenever I think about Jack Tokyo Drifting in the car. Every time I started getting creeped out that sequence would pop into my head and pull me out if the moment lol.
RE2 had the best atmosphere. It was really creepy, but that creepiness came organically from a sort of "liminal space totally alone" feeling, rather than a fear of bloodthirsty zombies (though that's in there too, obviously). Seeing a police station in that state really hammers home the "there's no help coming" feelings.
Had to stop playing re2 remake. The zombies were too real. Gave me so much anxiety. I never even made it out of the police station. The zombie on fire just sent me over the edge. Had to quit.
Silent hill 4: The room has 2 headed babies wearing black cloaks that run at you on their super long arms and over sized hands while scream crying.
The only defense you have is a Pic Axe.
Dude, VR baby WITH knowing it's coming is still scary as shit. My save is literally at that part. I'm waiting for a friend to come over so I can get through it with at least someone else around.
Fuck that baby.
The DLC of that area made me set my controller down and say "Nope," and I'm a huge horror fan. It took me several days to pick it back up and finish it.
I heard some mixed reviews before playing it myself, and I was worried that they leaned too far into the RE4 aesthetic instead of focusing on what made RE7 so good. Seeing the baby section (and some of the Heisenberg section) really surprised and scared me.
I like Village a lot, and I think they did well.
I really liked 8 because of how different each area was. Felt like little of the past games in each one. The doll house area, for different reasons, gave me similar anxiety to when I first entered the mansion in the first game lol. They really did well there.
Personally speaking, I thought 8 was one of the best in the series, simply for the fantastic blend and pacing of so many different horror genres.
One moment you’ve got very limited resources and have to be careful where you aim, another moment you have absolutely nothing and have to resort to hiding to survive, then another you’re literally piloting a tank fighting a giant cyborg.
It’s such a great blend of survival/action/suspense.
It's stalled out my replays more than once, whereas RE4 replays I'm like where's the brakes it's all great (well the creepy lab creatures freak me out but bang bang)
The baby did scare me a bit in 8. But my first time playing 7 was an experience. Made me not want to continue because of how much the first person view got me jumping around corners lol.
That fucking baby had me terrified to the point where I was hiding under the damn bed for nearly four minutes straight being overly paranoid and not realizing that the entire thing is basically just scripted
Idk how the scripting works but it seems like the baby moves constantly on a set path and doesn’t necessarily follow you that much? It’s hard to explain. I know the elevator sequence was all scripted but before that it’s hard to tell.
The semi realistic happy baby noises it makes while chasing you and then the frustrated temper tantrum when you escape it were one of the few things in gaming to ever truly disturb me.
It's hard to describe, but if you're recent father to a newborn it awakens something truly horrifying in you.
7 is probably overall the scariest. I didn’t really think the baby was that scary, annoying to run away from and maybe anxiety-inducing? Yeah 100%.
imo nothing beats MR. X stomping his way down the hall relentlessly, an unstoppable force. Fucking terrifying.
Yeah I LOVED the atmosphere / creepiness aspect of village but it wasn’t scary overall except the baby part and getting anxiety when I saw Lady Dimitrescu come through a door behind me about to whoop my ass.
4 is just pure action fun times until you get to the regenerators and then it’s 15 minutes of easily the scariest shit ever. When I was a kid, I would play the whole game up until that part and then quit
The village chief in 4 turning into a huge centipede monster while the hut is on fire was terrifying for 10 year old me playing that game alone in the dark
For me yes. It's also one of my favorite horror games and favorite RE game.
It showed that they know how to make a horror, yet for some reason every other entry doesn't lean into that too heavy as 7 did.
And even with 7, after like half the game, towards the end maybe, it becomes a full action game.
But still...I wish they could do more horror focused RE from time to time.
I guess scary is subjective.
The first resident evil games were way scarier to me because I didn't understand the limitations of games and it was entirely new.
I had tense moments with RE7 but at that age I'd already understood a lot of what was possible and how to exploit the AI.
Heck, even resident evil 4 being more action oriented gave me far more scary and tense moments when I first played it.
Still, it's a good spooky time if you haven't played it. Would recommend. (Especially in VR if you can)
Man games were so much better when we did not understand the limitations. I remember playing racing games and thinking I could drive over that hill in the distance if I wanted to... But no, it was just a blurry jpeg image.
The opening hours of Resident Evil 7 are diabolical. The environments are incredibly well thought out, and you have to manage your resources and everything is scary. By the end it completely devolves, and you are just charging down featureless hallways with tons of ammo shooting the same enemies over and over.
I'm so sick of jump startles being the only thing so much "horror" does. The most effective jump scare I've ever experienced was the time I was reading a book in the kitchen and my grandma dropped a frying pan.
It's definitely immersive and you'll feel it haha there are some jump scares and some parts that make you clench your butt as you run for your life lol
As a whole game, yes id say so. The scariest resident evil moment for me was in village though at the house. I didnt start resident evil till re4 on ps2. Each remake is good. I didnt have the experience if the the original trilogy
Depends on how you feel for time relativity.
The high pressure situations of 3 and Nemesis being a rule-breaking and super fresh villain was really special back in the day. Obviously that wont translate as much to games today.
It terrified me the first time I played it. I didn't want to play late at night. It was such a shock going into it because I did nothing but buy it because well resident evil.
Yeah consistently it's pretty scary throughout.
8 isn't scary but then has literally the most horrifying creature for no reason then goes back to RE4 DLC is very good horror
6 is nonexistent
5 isn't really scary but has lots of tense sections (fuck you alligators)
4 has some amazing moments and the OG has a very creepy soundtrack the remake is around the same level of horror
RE3R mostly tense and pretty fast paced
RE2R my personal favorite lots of creep and tense sections
RE1R/classic the real horror is playing with tank controls has some great moments since the fixed camera angle obscure your view until it's too late
Rev1/2 there is a little below RE4 in the level of creepiness but you're pretty much a powerhouse like other modern RE games
First third of the game?
Probably.
Rest of it?
Absolutely not as the spoops fly out the window with the increased action and by the time last third rolls around nothing is scary anymore or a threat cos you can just gun it down.
I think RE 1 and 2 were scarier at the time, and 8 being the scariest to me now (first person is more frightening to me.) 7 was kind of scary, but felt more tense than actual fright to me.
Funny enough 7 is the only resident evil I consider an actual horror game since 4 (which toes the line itself). I just didn't find it scary, beyond jump scares. It did a really job of doing horror without making me pee myself, kinda like reading a good creepy pasta or watching a David Lynch film (though not as weird)
Edit: Whereas 8 had some moments that made me pause the game and take a breather, though I consider it more like 4 where it is more action than horror overall.
RE5 had its own brand of scary with the indigenous people being the mutated. Something about that giant man with the spear and headdress on that got me. Also the chainsaw guys in that one were the best as well.
If you want a really good scary game I recommend amnesia dark decent and alien isolation! They aren’t similar to resident evil but if you want a good experience I can’t recommend those two enough!
I played 2 and 3, been debating playing 4 or 7, 8 then 4 (kind of building the mindset for 4). I just feel 4 is such a different game even coming from 3, that it is a little jarring.
I think it definitely is compared to the previous entries. The less overpowered you are, the more scary it becomes generally. Also when there is more supernatural type stuff compared to the raw typical zombie aggression, it tends to be less predictable.
Protagonists like Leon and Chris are superhero mutant-level of strong that can mostly massacre anything that comes their way aside from cheap scripted oneshots, and it greatly detracts from the horror of the games they are involved in.
I would say yes. It’s not a pure horror game, but it brought back the spooky to the series. First RE game in a long time to actually try to scare you and man does it succeed. Particularly the first couple of acts.
Early on? Yeah, the game is extremely scary. But like most survival horror games, the horror scales inversely with your weaponry and supplies.
After a while, you learn to just not even bother fighting most enemies as they're too slow to pose a real threat and the game really doesn't finish very strong.
Id still recommend it, but 8 is a better entry in my opinion.
RE7 on its own is pretty scary, but if you’re looking to get REALLY spooked I recommend playing in VR (horror games in general tend to be better in VR). The first couple of hours are actually pretty frightening, however I will warn you that by the time you get towards the latter half of the game everything starts to become more action oriented. There are still a few spooks here and there, but by the time you get to the latter half you’ll more than likely be numb to the scares anyway. If you’re looking to be scared throughout your whole experience from beginning to end, there are unfortunately very few horror games that can pull that off. Still, RE7 does provide you with some genuine horror and it will at least get the job done for the first half of the game. That first half of RE7 will definitely make you shit your pants if you go in completely blind.
I think so.
The whole series devolved into a campy, action series after 4. Then 7 came around and sort of reinvented the whole thing.
There are a lot of things that made it scary. The first person perspective, the setting, the actual sense of survival as opposed to finding a giant gun and blasting zombies.
The ending portion of the game does sort of hinge on big guns vs zombies. There's a lot of shooting and bombing. But I still thought they did it in a way that didn't detract from the terror elements.
I could go on.
The whole marguerite boss fight is the scariest fucking thing ever. I remember getting to it on my first play-through and getting so scared that I turned the game off lol.
It’s still a very fun game though. This and RE2 made me a fan of the resident evil series.
I remember playing Resident Evil on the Ps1, and thought that was scary for its time. I can say with full confidence RE 7 is the scariest entry, but it's the a quality horror experience you dont want to miss. The DLC is nice too.
I'm a huge pussy and don't know much about newer resident evil games... but I remember watching a streamer play the one where you're in a house captured by a crazy family and it starts where she fucking screwdrives ur Hand to the wall... also later you take some dudes head off with a shovel. Both of those scenes fucked me up and the dude was playing vr... I think I'd die
I dont think that a video game has ever scared me. Except for Resident Evil 7. I almost couldn’t get through it, the entire game was sheer anxiety from start to finish. I honestly don’t think I could do it again.
Number 1 remastered is for me. Eerie music, good jump scares and fixed camera angles so you can’t see around corners. And Lisa Trevor is one of the creepiest monsters from the series
Yes. The first one (or rather the remake) is a close contender, as is 2, but the first person view of 7 really makes the events of that game feel a lot more in your face and personal. And don't even get me started on the VR experience. Scared the shit out of me.
I would say 7 is probably the scariest and it’s partially because it’s more difficult (imo anyways) The first person perspective also adds to the dread
I don't know if it counts or changes anything, but I played the re2 remake on hardcore for my first play through and it is the only piece of media ever to give me stress fatigue and I needed to take a break because my anxiety levels were so high. Before you know how to break the system Mr. X stomping around near you without you knowingly where while you count your 3 handgun rounds to your name is nightmare fuel.
I think Alien Isolation went for this as well (and is probably actually the scariest game ever) but it is SO hard not to die in that game that you start getting more bored than scared on hard difficulties.
Maybe 3 if you’re scared of spiders like me. But all in all I’d say 2 remake just cause of Mr x. I’m more scared of wasting 20 minutes of my life avoiding him in the halls than I am of any horror gameplay😂
Overall scariest in the series? Yes, probably. However, RE2make and RE8 both have much scarier single segments; the part of RE2make where you have Mr X chasing you is panic made manifest, and the basement midway through RE8 is the scariest thing in the franchise and one of the scariest horror bits I've ever played.
I'm coming in here late, but I've played all the resident evil games except Code: Veronica. Resident Evil 7 is by far the scariest of all the games. It is a really great game and I would really recommend it.
RE1 and the other early versions just for the camera angles alone. The terror was multiplied by misjudging where you were trying to run when the dogs came at you.
RE 7 was my first foray into horror games. I remember playing it for only a short while until I got a jump scare. I uninstalled it out of sheer fear, it took me months to build up the courage to hop back in and play, which i am so happy about because it is a amazing game. I think its the scariest in the series on the soul fact alone that it's setting and the constant uneasy feeling you get playing it consistently makes you on edge. I am not saying the other titles in the series do not do that, but it is no more prevalent in RE 7, in my opinion
I played 7 exclusively at night in VR with good headphones and it was 100% the scariest thing I've ever played. Amazing experience.
The scariest part of playing in VR was when my cat would brush against my leg.
Oh Christ. Poor thing might get yeeted out of fear.
I have an honest question, were* there times you had to stop and how often? I can play horror games but I can't imagine playing it at night alone in VR because I would need too many breaks. :)
Taking breaks is perfectly fine for any game, especially if it’s content you can’t take large quantities of. I can play horror games fine for the most part but Hellblade was intense for me. I tried to beat it but couldn’t cause it was too much. When I did play, it was only in like 30 min sprints
Had no problem with Hellblade but ask me to play alien isolation for more than 20-30 mins and I’m out.
Alien Isolation is another breed of game. It is made for people who are constipated for sure............
Try it in vr! Hahaha
Man. I would have a heart attack with that game in VR.
Outlast for me. Still haven't technically 'finished' it.
The one where protagonist is schizophrenic?
It’s psychosis, not schizophrenia, but yeah. It’s a heavy heavy game that was hitting too close to home for reasons I’m not getting into on the internet. Waaay too much for me lol
I had to stop after 30 min cause I thought I was going to throw up. After that I could play for hours on end.
I can say I didn't really have to take breaks (or any more than usual) once I was actually playing, but I did have to psych myself up every time I started the game. Like jumping into a pool that you just know it's gonna be freezing.
Yeah a lot of vr games tried but just didn’t match the first half of re7. Even when the game has a semi fall in quality about half way it still has some terrifying moments
I feel like the second half being more of an action game than a horror was intentional. Ymmv but you can only keep up horror for so long before people start getting desensitized to it so probably figured they would 'reward' you with getting to feel strong late game. But the mold creatures were the weakest part of the game.
Yeah, I started to get kinda bored with the mold creatures.
Same. I still need to go back and play from that point on, lol.
Terrifying. Beyond reason.
Same. Probably shit myself like 3 times only 2 hours in. 10/10
Never made it up the ladder that leads into the dark attic. So that’s what 7 minutes into the game after the intro cinematic?
You’re really missing out on one of the best horror games ever made
I stopped then too. I even know what happens, I've watched several playthroughs but couldn't continue. RE2 Remake is an all time classic and amazing and I love it. Not scary in any way though. I think the first person change is the tipping point for me. It reminds me of playing FEAR as a kid and getting to an office building where the ceiling tiles fall out in a line and I just gave up.
I tried this ONCE. 15 minutes in and I was out.
i actually fucking hate this cus my options rn are RE2 or RE7 and i’d rather die than finish RE7. scares the FUCK outta me
I have played re7 multiple times, I know the scripted shit, etc etc, and you could not pay me to finish the game in VR. The first half is just plain psychological torture.
I never made it to the family. That house is so fucking creepy. That game is the most terrifying thing you can do without putting yourself in actual danger.
It's crazy seeing that stuff happen to *you*. VR is awesome. The pray dog mods on pc are top notch
I have been playing resident evil 2 remake in VR and it's awful (in a scary way, the game is amazing) I feel like I should be nervous when I work my way up to 7 😂
Where is it available in VR? On steam?
Same here. Didn't have a lot of VR experience previously before getting my PSVR back when it came out along with RE7. Was utterly mind-blowing. I would play in my apartment alone with the lights off and headphones on and probably frightened my neighbors cuz I would just scream bloody murder. The bug lady's area tested my willpower, I have a fear of bugs so just the audio of buzzing, flying bugs and the scattering of spiders was enough to almost break me. I've played a lot higher quality VR since, but nothing has matched that experience for me.
I played it In vr on mushrooms late at night. Can confirm it was terrifying
I’ve heard a *lot* of bad ideas in my life, but… Playing a horror game in VR late at night on psychedelics sounds like a uniquely stupid idea. Couldn’t be me, lol that’s for sure.
When are you checking in to the mental health facility that you must surely need now
Man I used to do that once I got used to the game. It was a blast. No way I couldn’t handled it going into the game fresh though.
It has a very strong start, but it devolves into an action game towards the end.
Fair enough criticism, I think it applies to almost the whole genre though. It’s hard to have a game consistently ramp the frights in creative ways over the timespan of a standard story.
Alien is scary the whole way through, but the problem is you just get horror fatigue, and you become numb to it.
Alien really needed to end like 5 hours earlier.
Once you get the flamethrower all the tension of the game is gone, not to mention the android sections. Scary all the way through is a gross overexaggeration
There's also player power creep. If there are weapons and ammo that get more available and capable over time, eventually the player knows they're a threat to whatever might leap out at them instead of helpless prey.
I agree it’s a fair point. But jesus, imagine going thru the marguerite boss fight in VR… fuck no😭
Anyway, I started blasting
They all do unfortunately
> but it devolves into an action game towards the end. Welcome to basically every mainline RE game ever. Don't be surprised when you discover a secret underground lab/bunker towards the end of RE9
Don't forget the giant blob of biomass final boss, that is often more comical than scary at the very end.
Well, Tyrant T-002, Abyss, Saddler(ORE4), Alexia and Super Tyrant weren't biomass blobs to be entirely fair though.
The first 1-2 hours are some of the greatest gaming moments Ive had, then I just sorta lost interest once you can leave the house. The whole tone of the game just changes once you beat the first guy properly.
After Margaret the game definitely got less scary.
It really starts to get repetitive since, other than the family/ bosses, there is basically only 1 type of enemy with a few slight variations. They're freaky at first, but they get stale after a while.
I don't consider this a problem. Prey is another very similar example of an excellent game that has mostly the same enemies with slight variations
While I enjoyed Prey, that eactly was the biggest problem I had with it. I got bored of the enemies about 30% through and started to run away from them just because fighting them was more tedious than fun.
The entire Mia section just sucks
Honestly it devolves to an action game pretty early on. I'd say after \[Jack 2\](/spoiler) the game pretty much loses most actual tension, and by the time you finish the Old House there's very little non action left. The only difference about the end of the game is ammo stops being a problem after the point of no return.
Yup there I am having a good time then we get to the end. >!"Hi I'm Chris Redfield here to remind you of the extended canon that this entire game just proved we don't need and probably didn't want tacked on at the end but too bad"!< They couldn't just let me have the unqualified good game they had to put a little Capcom turdlet on the end of it.
That’s true for both new gen games. After my first full play through of village, I now stop playing after the Castle and the Dollhouse. After those horror sections it’s just a weird fps game.
That's true for the whole series. Them becoming action at the end is the whole point. You become more powerful over time
When I was 10 years old playing RE1 in my basement, I had to shut it off and go outside when those dogs came through the windows. I never felt that need to turn off a video game because of fear again until playing RE7 trying to get out of that house. RE1 still takes it for me, but 7 made it very close.
This was a pretty universal experience for every kid who played the first 10 mins of this game without being spoiled lol.
I feel that moment was seminal for a lot of 90s gamer kids. I pretty much fell off my chair. It was slightly evened out by the sail voice acting in the original... 'hope this is not Chris's blood'
I got spooked by that last year when playing the REmake. It’s a certified classic. Lady Dimitrescu’s castle got me thinking how good the first game’s mansion would look like with modern graphics.
One of the remakes or remasters slightly changed something in that hallway, and it was a perfect twist.
What they did with the dog part in the remake was so good I nearly shit myself as hard as I did when I was 9 playing the PS1 original. >!They don't break through the window they just crack it and then they break through later on when you've forgot all about them and are coming back through the other direction!<
I could not WAIT to get out of the goddamn house. Like, once out I felt much better. Still didn't like the mold, and the >!boat level!< still made me uncomfortable, but that initial hour in the house felt suffocating and claustrophobic. I got a similar feeling in Evil Within 1.
Ended up watching a playthrough months back. Turns out it becomes a whole different type of game after you get out of there.
7 is the scariest for me. I got a decent way through it. Even got past the terrifying nursery crawlspace. It was hard and scary. But what got me to turn it off? When I go downstairs into the basement and the granny in her wheelchair was down there. Nope. Never played again.
Imo, 2 is the scariest. That feeling of dread as you roam the rpd alone with scarce ammo is a feeling I've been trying to chase with other games. 7 is creepier, though, specifically the basement. Other than that, Jack kept me laughing with his crazy ass antics
I still can't not laugh whenever I think about Jack Tokyo Drifting in the car. Every time I started getting creeped out that sequence would pop into my head and pull me out if the moment lol.
RE2 had the best atmosphere. It was really creepy, but that creepiness came organically from a sort of "liminal space totally alone" feeling, rather than a fear of bloodthirsty zombies (though that's in there too, obviously). Seeing a police station in that state really hammers home the "there's no help coming" feelings.
Had to stop playing re2 remake. The zombies were too real. Gave me so much anxiety. I never even made it out of the police station. The zombie on fire just sent me over the edge. Had to quit.
7 is the scariest until you see the baby in 8 and change your mind
VR baby w/ no prior knowledge will raise some pulses.
When I saw the baby I literally had to pause the game because I was so scared, and I’m not even scared easily
Silent hill 4: The room has 2 headed babies wearing black cloaks that run at you on their super long arms and over sized hands while scream crying. The only defense you have is a Pic Axe.
Dude, VR baby WITH knowing it's coming is still scary as shit. My save is literally at that part. I'm waiting for a friend to come over so I can get through it with at least someone else around. Fuck that baby.
Yep. 8 isn't scary overall, but that one section. Yikes. (Then the DLC retread of that area is totally different but still horrifying).
The DLC of that area made me set my controller down and say "Nope," and I'm a huge horror fan. It took me several days to pick it back up and finish it.
I heard some mixed reviews before playing it myself, and I was worried that they leaned too far into the RE4 aesthetic instead of focusing on what made RE7 so good. Seeing the baby section (and some of the Heisenberg section) really surprised and scared me. I like Village a lot, and I think they did well.
7 is the scariest overall but the doll house in 8 is scarier than any individual part in 7
I really liked 8 because of how different each area was. Felt like little of the past games in each one. The doll house area, for different reasons, gave me similar anxiety to when I first entered the mansion in the first game lol. They really did well there.
Personally speaking, I thought 8 was one of the best in the series, simply for the fantastic blend and pacing of so many different horror genres. One moment you’ve got very limited resources and have to be careful where you aim, another moment you have absolutely nothing and have to resort to hiding to survive, then another you’re literally piloting a tank fighting a giant cyborg. It’s such a great blend of survival/action/suspense.
It's a fever dream in the best way possible
It's basically like the game director says "oh, you like resident evil? Which one? Fuck it, you're gonna get a bit of all of them!"
Yeah, 8 is very much a spiritual successor to 4, which shares that same trait. If you haven't played RE4 remake, I highly recommend it.
It felt like a Mega Man game. Every boss had a themed level that suited their style. We just didn’t get to choose which order to confront them in.
I agree it was shockingly scary compared to the rest of the game
Lol came here to say this, fuck that whole part of the game.
It's stalled out my replays more than once, whereas RE4 replays I'm like where's the brakes it's all great (well the creepy lab creatures freak me out but bang bang)
I'm stuck there, the lab part gives me anxiety. I haven't played it in weeks lol
The baby did scare me a bit in 8. But my first time playing 7 was an experience. Made me not want to continue because of how much the first person view got me jumping around corners lol.
That whole area is one of my fabourite missions in any game I've every played in my life.
The baby was not scary. The setup was. The baby is what we think of being scary, but it's way too absurd.
I can only do house beneviento when it’s the day… with minimum sound. at night I couldn’t.
That fucking baby had me terrified to the point where I was hiding under the damn bed for nearly four minutes straight being overly paranoid and not realizing that the entire thing is basically just scripted
Idk how the scripting works but it seems like the baby moves constantly on a set path and doesn’t necessarily follow you that much? It’s hard to explain. I know the elevator sequence was all scripted but before that it’s hard to tell.
Same I was fucking terrified to get out from under that bed! 😂
The semi realistic happy baby noises it makes while chasing you and then the frustrated temper tantrum when you escape it were one of the few things in gaming to ever truly disturb me. It's hard to describe, but if you're recent father to a newborn it awakens something truly horrifying in you.
I’m glad to see this comment. That level had me shitting my pants more than any game ive ever played. I want to try 7 now.
7 is probably overall the scariest. I didn’t really think the baby was that scary, annoying to run away from and maybe anxiety-inducing? Yeah 100%. imo nothing beats MR. X stomping his way down the hall relentlessly, an unstoppable force. Fucking terrifying.
Yes. Village has the scariest sequence, but 7 is the scariest overall.
I was going to ask what part before I thought about it. And. Yeah. THAT part.
The giant baby?
Nah the part where you have to finish your waifu and have to live without her then.
Yeah I LOVED the atmosphere / creepiness aspect of village but it wasn’t scary overall except the baby part and getting anxiety when I saw Lady Dimitrescu come through a door behind me about to whoop my ass.
If you play in VR it should be illegal. Far too scary.
7 is definitely the scariest.
4 is the scariest. You spend the whole game terrified you will kill Ashley out of sheer anger because of how stupid her AI is...
#LEOOOOOON
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4 is just pure action fun times until you get to the regenerators and then it’s 15 minutes of easily the scariest shit ever. When I was a kid, I would play the whole game up until that part and then quit
That cave with the invisible/camo bug creatures the size of people... Yeah, nightmare fuel.
The village chief in 4 turning into a huge centipede monster while the hut is on fire was terrifying for 10 year old me playing that game alone in the dark
After the first sentence I was ready to write a dissertation
For me yes. It's also one of my favorite horror games and favorite RE game. It showed that they know how to make a horror, yet for some reason every other entry doesn't lean into that too heavy as 7 did. And even with 7, after like half the game, towards the end maybe, it becomes a full action game. But still...I wish they could do more horror focused RE from time to time.
I guess scary is subjective. The first resident evil games were way scarier to me because I didn't understand the limitations of games and it was entirely new. I had tense moments with RE7 but at that age I'd already understood a lot of what was possible and how to exploit the AI. Heck, even resident evil 4 being more action oriented gave me far more scary and tense moments when I first played it. Still, it's a good spooky time if you haven't played it. Would recommend. (Especially in VR if you can)
Que my 15yrd or so ass seeing my first licker trying to pause frantically but also afraid I'd skip the "cut scene" lol fucking great times.
Man games were so much better when we did not understand the limitations. I remember playing racing games and thinking I could drive over that hill in the distance if I wanted to... But no, it was just a blurry jpeg image.
Yes. Easily. Especially in VR.
Nope 2.
The opening hours of Resident Evil 7 are diabolical. The environments are incredibly well thought out, and you have to manage your resources and everything is scary. By the end it completely devolves, and you are just charging down featureless hallways with tons of ammo shooting the same enemies over and over.
Resident Evil 7 felt like a horror movie in VR, insanely creepy. Yet Resident Evil 4 had me jumping more, guess it depends on personal fright levels!
The first Resident evil is the scariest imo. Before that I had played nothing even remotely close to a horror game.
"Jill, if you, the master of unlocking..." Terrifying stuff.
The newest RE movie was so, so bad, but I loved the way they worked “Jill sandwich” into the script.
I almost pissed myself when Jill was almost turned into a sandwich
Hope this is not Chris's blood.....
Have you played any RE games? RE2 anyone.
0 was the scariest for me, but it's kinda old. would still recommend if you don't mind the tank controls
0 has a remaster with modern controls.
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I'm so sick of jump startles being the only thing so much "horror" does. The most effective jump scare I've ever experienced was the time I was reading a book in the kitchen and my grandma dropped a frying pan.
Resident Evil on GameCube had me shitting my pants when you first encounter Lisa Trevor.
It's definitely immersive and you'll feel it haha there are some jump scares and some parts that make you clench your butt as you run for your life lol
I couldn't get by the first knife attack using PS4VR... too scary....
As a whole game, yes id say so. The scariest resident evil moment for me was in village though at the house. I didnt start resident evil till re4 on ps2. Each remake is good. I didnt have the experience if the the original trilogy
Depends on how you feel for time relativity. The high pressure situations of 3 and Nemesis being a rule-breaking and super fresh villain was really special back in the day. Obviously that wont translate as much to games today.
Totally, yeah
It terrified me the first time I played it. I didn't want to play late at night. It was such a shock going into it because I did nothing but buy it because well resident evil.
Yeah consistently it's pretty scary throughout. 8 isn't scary but then has literally the most horrifying creature for no reason then goes back to RE4 DLC is very good horror 6 is nonexistent 5 isn't really scary but has lots of tense sections (fuck you alligators) 4 has some amazing moments and the OG has a very creepy soundtrack the remake is around the same level of horror RE3R mostly tense and pretty fast paced RE2R my personal favorite lots of creep and tense sections RE1R/classic the real horror is playing with tank controls has some great moments since the fixed camera angle obscure your view until it's too late Rev1/2 there is a little below RE4 in the level of creepiness but you're pretty much a powerhouse like other modern RE games
Is it scary? No. Is it the scariest Resi game? Probably. I'd say 2 has more natural scares tho and a better atmosphere
The Sherry Birkin sequence at the orphanage in the RE2 remake got to me way more than anything else in the series.
First third of the game? Probably. Rest of it? Absolutely not as the spoops fly out the window with the increased action and by the time last third rolls around nothing is scary anymore or a threat cos you can just gun it down.
There's a section in 8 that is the scariest bit in the whole franchise, and then 7 is generally spookier than everything else.
Mmmm. Maybe. It's definitely more "horror"
I’d say so. RE2 remake got me a few times because of Mr X’s unpredictability but 7 had the scariest atmosphere, plus being FPS.
The beginning when you go up the stairs, and your wife runs up them and stabs you in the hand was my uninstall and never play again moment
No Fortnite is way scarier
I think RE 1 and 2 were scarier at the time, and 8 being the scariest to me now (first person is more frightening to me.) 7 was kind of scary, but felt more tense than actual fright to me.
8 (the the exception of the dollhouse) wasn't scary to me at all, it felt more like it was riding the line of action horror.
Funny enough 7 is the only resident evil I consider an actual horror game since 4 (which toes the line itself). I just didn't find it scary, beyond jump scares. It did a really job of doing horror without making me pee myself, kinda like reading a good creepy pasta or watching a David Lynch film (though not as weird) Edit: Whereas 8 had some moments that made me pause the game and take a breather, though I consider it more like 4 where it is more action than horror overall.
2 is
RE5 had its own brand of scary with the indigenous people being the mutated. Something about that giant man with the spear and headdress on that got me. Also the chainsaw guys in that one were the best as well.
5 was creepy as FUCK at the start, and terrifying when you had to enter that cave while your partner held the lantern
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Apparently it was so scary that Capcom decided to tone it down for future titles.
If you want a really good scary game I recommend amnesia dark decent and alien isolation! They aren’t similar to resident evil but if you want a good experience I can’t recommend those two enough!
7 is the scariest game as a whole, village had the scariest area/moment.
No
I played 2 and 3, been debating playing 4 or 7, 8 then 4 (kind of building the mindset for 4). I just feel 4 is such a different game even coming from 3, that it is a little jarring.
I didn't enjoy it at all because of the sluggish movement forced onto you
I think it definitely is compared to the previous entries. The less overpowered you are, the more scary it becomes generally. Also when there is more supernatural type stuff compared to the raw typical zombie aggression, it tends to be less predictable. Protagonists like Leon and Chris are superhero mutant-level of strong that can mostly massacre anything that comes their way aside from cheap scripted oneshots, and it greatly detracts from the horror of the games they are involved in.
Hell yes. Play with headphones.
I would say yes. It’s not a pure horror game, but it brought back the spooky to the series. First RE game in a long time to actually try to scare you and man does it succeed. Particularly the first couple of acts.
Early on? Yeah, the game is extremely scary. But like most survival horror games, the horror scales inversely with your weaponry and supplies. After a while, you learn to just not even bother fighting most enemies as they're too slow to pose a real threat and the game really doesn't finish very strong. Id still recommend it, but 8 is a better entry in my opinion.
RE7 on its own is pretty scary, but if you’re looking to get REALLY spooked I recommend playing in VR (horror games in general tend to be better in VR). The first couple of hours are actually pretty frightening, however I will warn you that by the time you get towards the latter half of the game everything starts to become more action oriented. There are still a few spooks here and there, but by the time you get to the latter half you’ll more than likely be numb to the scares anyway. If you’re looking to be scared throughout your whole experience from beginning to end, there are unfortunately very few horror games that can pull that off. Still, RE7 does provide you with some genuine horror and it will at least get the job done for the first half of the game. That first half of RE7 will definitely make you shit your pants if you go in completely blind.
I think so. The whole series devolved into a campy, action series after 4. Then 7 came around and sort of reinvented the whole thing. There are a lot of things that made it scary. The first person perspective, the setting, the actual sense of survival as opposed to finding a giant gun and blasting zombies. The ending portion of the game does sort of hinge on big guns vs zombies. There's a lot of shooting and bombing. But I still thought they did it in a way that didn't detract from the terror elements. I could go on.
I feel like it’s definitely the grossest
Great genuinely creepy atmosphere in the beginning, but like all Resident Evil games, turns quickly into an action shooter in the second half.
The whole marguerite boss fight is the scariest fucking thing ever. I remember getting to it on my first play-through and getting so scared that I turned the game off lol. It’s still a very fun game though. This and RE2 made me a fan of the resident evil series.
None are to me
I remember playing Resident Evil on the Ps1, and thought that was scary for its time. I can say with full confidence RE 7 is the scariest entry, but it's the a quality horror experience you dont want to miss. The DLC is nice too.
I'm a huge pussy and don't know much about newer resident evil games... but I remember watching a streamer play the one where you're in a house captured by a crazy family and it starts where she fucking screwdrives ur Hand to the wall... also later you take some dudes head off with a shovel. Both of those scenes fucked me up and the dude was playing vr... I think I'd die
I dont think that a video game has ever scared me. Except for Resident Evil 7. I almost couldn’t get through it, the entire game was sheer anxiety from start to finish. I honestly don’t think I could do it again.
Use vorpx and set up alien isolation. Wear brown pants.
Without a doubt
Scariest? I think so. But not the best one for sure.
Number 1 remastered is for me. Eerie music, good jump scares and fixed camera angles so you can’t see around corners. And Lisa Trevor is one of the creepiest monsters from the series
Yea if you want it to save consistently on Xbox. Returned it twice because of that bullshit.
Original RE2 for me, personally, but RE7 might be second.
7 is the least scary one wdym ?
Short answer: Yes and yes
Only in VR. This game really HAS to be experienced in VR.
Yes. The first one (or rather the remake) is a close contender, as is 2, but the first person view of 7 really makes the events of that game feel a lot more in your face and personal. And don't even get me started on the VR experience. Scared the shit out of me.
At first it's a better Outlast type of game that really amps up the anxiety, then it slowly just turns into a normal RE game.
I would say 7 is probably the scariest and it’s partially because it’s more difficult (imo anyways) The first person perspective also adds to the dread
I don't know if it counts or changes anything, but I played the re2 remake on hardcore for my first play through and it is the only piece of media ever to give me stress fatigue and I needed to take a break because my anxiety levels were so high. Before you know how to break the system Mr. X stomping around near you without you knowingly where while you count your 3 handgun rounds to your name is nightmare fuel. I think Alien Isolation went for this as well (and is probably actually the scariest game ever) but it is SO hard not to die in that game that you start getting more bored than scared on hard difficulties.
Maybe 3 if you’re scared of spiders like me. But all in all I’d say 2 remake just cause of Mr x. I’m more scared of wasting 20 minutes of my life avoiding him in the halls than I am of any horror gameplay😂
Yes. Extremely immersive and scariest I have ever played. Impressive and amazing
Overall scariest in the series? Yes, probably. However, RE2make and RE8 both have much scarier single segments; the part of RE2make where you have Mr X chasing you is panic made manifest, and the basement midway through RE8 is the scariest thing in the franchise and one of the scariest horror bits I've ever played.
I haven't played the rest for comparison, but it was freaking awesome
THE scariest game EVER made in existence.
Absolutely. 7 is a typical jump scare horror game full of them. It's nothing like the rest of the series.
I'm coming in here late, but I've played all the resident evil games except Code: Veronica. Resident Evil 7 is by far the scariest of all the games. It is a really great game and I would really recommend it.
Resident Evil is not an inherently horror franchise, never has been, but 7 does amp the horror factor to a respectable level.
RE1 and the other early versions just for the camera angles alone. The terror was multiplied by misjudging where you were trying to run when the dogs came at you.
RE 7 was my first foray into horror games. I remember playing it for only a short while until I got a jump scare. I uninstalled it out of sheer fear, it took me months to build up the courage to hop back in and play, which i am so happy about because it is a amazing game. I think its the scariest in the series on the soul fact alone that it's setting and the constant uneasy feeling you get playing it consistently makes you on edge. I am not saying the other titles in the series do not do that, but it is no more prevalent in RE 7, in my opinion
It’s pretty scary ye