S/D: Horror games

I still haven't finished the Marine campaign on Aliens Versus Predator 2 because it fucks me up too much.

F.E.A.R: I plaayed the demo of this, but it absolutely flattened my system (Athlon XP 2400, 1Gb, GeForce FX5900)... I had to run it in 640x480! 640x480! With all the detail turned down! What's performance like for those of you who have bought it? I got the impression that the demo wasn't really performing as well as it should have done...

Also the Project Zero/Fatal Frame games.

(also obv. Resident Evil 4)

not too bad, tho I have a Radeon 9500 Pro. I had to dial down the settings on the "incosequential shit"(water refl, soft shadows, particulate matter, etc)

oh hell how did I forget that one! seconded.

I also meant to order a Whopper WITH Cheese, not WITHOUT, dammit.

(wandering around an abandoned and occasionally bloody warehouse/industrial complex with random hallicination/flashback/trip-out sequences, and a creepier Wednesday Addams following you)

and intense, hyperviolent firefights

(Half Life-style)

Has anyone played the demo of Beware yet? It's been out for a while, the game is still in development from what I can tell. It looks like the type of horror game I would enjoy, a driving based horror game.

(link to download page)
https://www.indiedb.com/games/beware/downloads/beware-demo

i like the idea of a horror driving game. cars are spooky

That is a cool idea. It's like a game version of that insane Russian dash cam movie "Road Movie."

I love the lighting, will give it a thorough test when I get home later.

I'd always thought about how to make a game from the Duel movie, but couldn't see how it would have any lasting appeal.

(but then I think that about zombie games and that genre seems to manage just fine)

I can see a Duel-type game as survival horror that necessitates getting from point a to point b. Like, the longer you stay in one place and scavenge and live or build and defend or whatever the more danger you are in, but escaping to a new location has its own challenges. Like evil trucks.

is there a video of it? I couldn't see one on the link

This was where I was introduced to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6CXGkUVluA

ok want want want ">Observer_" !!!

I can see a Duel-type game as survival horror that necessitates getting from point a to point b. Like, the longer you stay in one place and scavenge and live or build and defend or whatever the more danger you are in, but escaping to a new location has its own challenges. Like evil trucks.

This is why I don't design games I would never have thought of that.

when you wrote 'Duel', for a minute I thought you meant 'Joust'!

A thing that happened in the 13-year delay: Amnesia (also Alien:Isolation)

What I love about the Alien in "Isolation" is that (like the baddie in Resident Evil 2?) it can't really be fought or escaped, it's just this impervious force with a clever AI gumming up the works. Sometimes the rest of "Isolation" is so intense and stressful that you forget all about the Alien! And then it kills you.