F.E.A.R. is a scary game

krunchykrome

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I dont think i was this scared when I played Doom 3 in the dark as I am playing F.E.A.R in the dark. BTW, havent played Quake 4.
 

drinkmorejava

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doom wasn't scary, more like, oh sh*t there's there's thing shooting me in the back. I agree though FEAR is pretty freaking messed.
 

TraumaRN

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I had to move my bed because of F.E.A.R cuz my bed faced a mirror and if i woke up in the dark and looked down the end of my bed....heh.

That game definitely scared the piss outta me in a few points.
 

RallyMaster

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yeah, i freaked after 5 minutes. my gf got further than i did...she's got pluck alright.
 

BooGiMaN

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the guy behind you with the large butcher knife wants to know if you want to hold his severed hand so you wont be so scared
 

destrekor

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i gotta get playing again.. i have this thing where i just stop playing a game and never finish it. its not because of ti being good or bad either... HL2, FEAR, Quake4, Call of Duty 2 (at the last levels), etc etc... FEAR indeed is the scariest videogame I have ever played. Its insane and I love it. The pacing is what does it. I love the plain ol' shooting sections too.
 

potato28

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Ya it gets freaky alot... but theres one person that I know. He beat the game and slept the night facing a mirror soundlessly.
 

sygyzy

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DOOM 3 is much scarier. I uninstalled it after playing it for 10 minutes. I play F.E.A.R. everyday.
 

Eeezee

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Doom 3 wasn't very scary. My pulse got higher at a few parts. I was a bit scared when I thought I was about to face off against a hell knight. That went away when it turned out they were complete pussies. The rest of the game wasn't scary at all once I realized that they ruined my favorite monster, the hell knight :(

Quake 4 was just plain awesome. It's not meant to be scary. Quake 4 is what Doom 3 should have been. The singleplayer campaign was incredible. I hated Quake 3 and never played Quake 2.

I still have to play FEAR. I'm desperately looking for anything that will give me a good scare. Silent Hill movie sure as heck failed to do that.
 

Washoe

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Originally posted by: sygyzy
DOOM 3 is much scarier. I uninstalled it after playing it for 10 minutes. I play F.E.A.R. everyday.


I agree Doom3 is scarier.
 

TraumaRN

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Originally posted by: Eeezee


I still have to play FEAR. I'm desperately looking for anything that will give me a good scare.

Then buy F.E.A.R it may or may not scare you....it'll probably make you jump at least once or twice...or failing that get your heart pounding
 

altonb1

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Guess I have to get a new game....

There have been a few games that have scared the he|| out of me (well...startled, anyway) while I was playing it...and this sounds like a good one
 

TraumaRN

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Originally posted by: altonb1
Guess I have to get a new game....

There have been a few games that have scared the he|| out of me (well...startled, anyway) while I was playing it...and this sounds like a good one

As a hint tho, play with the volume up, lights off.
 

Crescent13

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Doom 3 sorta sucked. The first time I played fear, I did it with the volume really low, and then turned it up when i had to hear someone talking. It was freaky. Now I can play it through with 5.1 surround sound blaring, on my new NEC 20WMGX2. (It gets really freaky on this monitor though because when it's dark, it almost looks 3d because the black is pure black just like the room. It has a 1600:1 contrast ratio).
 

Smartazz

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I've played through F.E.A.R. 3 times already, I'm playing it on extreme now, when I got the volume loud that game is so scary, doom 3 was definatly more scary because I stopped playing it from being so scared, I played F.E.A.R. 6 hours straight at night without being too afraid to quit.
 

Azndude2190

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Yeah FEAR is pretty creepy,espicially when the girl pops up...

FEAR>Doom3

But Doom3 was pretty good.More of surprise than scary.
 

KeithTalent

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Originally posted by: DonVito
Condemned is much scarier than FEAR IMO.

Agreed, really creepy and realistic I thought.
 

SZLiao214

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Have you played condemned? That game had me moving a lot slower due to the melee combat oriented nature of the game. You should try it with the sound up!
 
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I remember when I hit the Use key to climb down a ladder in F.E.A.R... As the screen spins 180 degrees and I start to descend down the ladder, the girl walks by scaring the crap out of me! Then, 2 seconds later when I reach the bottom of the ladder, I look to my left and there's this dead dude standing 2 inches from my face! Pants crapped all over again!

Agreed, F.E.A.R is scarier than Doom 3 in a more mental-trauma kinda way.

BTW, anyone tried playing F.E.A.R with in-game music turned off and speakers blasting Ray Parker's Theme to Ghostbusters in repeat mode?
CONCLUSION: NOT scary. At all.