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[ibot66]

warcraft 2. epic music.

[Outcast Orange]

No.

I'm sorry, but Warcraft doesn't fit this niche.
It was an RTS.
There was a very loose plot,
 which conveniently included lots of fighting,
 and very little thought.
The music may have been amazing,
 but that game had a very weak atmosphere.

I think there is more atmosphere in WoW,
 which is a sad example of how the desire of
 social interaction in people can be exploited.

It's like Farmville with more grinding,
 and you pay money.

I'm playing through System Shock 2,
 and it is amazing so far.

Thanks for the recommendation dudes!

[Wiles]

http://thepath-game.com/



The path is a short horror game that I haven't played yet, but will need to for my video games and/as literature class. Those who've played it that I've talked to have had more good than bad things to say about it.

[Outcast Orange]

I always wanted to get that game.
Maybe I will at some time.

[Cthulhu]

I heard the path was really pretentious and blunt with its "art" themes.

[Hawkfrost]

I'm playing through System Shock 2,
 and it is amazing so far.

You know, I've had this game for years and I have barely touched it.
The only way I am ever going to finish it is if I play it multiplayer co-op with someone.

I had one rather terrifying experience, and I haven't played since.

[Outcast Orange]

I heard the path was really pretentious and blunt with its "art" themes.

I've never played it, but as far as I can tell,
 it is mostly hardcore gamers that criticize it,
 the same way they would think that An Untitled Story is garbage.
Maybe because it isn't like Gears of War or something.
"What is the artsy bull-****?!"

Those were the sort of comments I got from people about Dear Esther,
 but that game charmed me out of my sanity.

[Shades]

I heard the path was really pretentious and blunt with its "art" themes.

I've never played it, but as far as I can tell,
 it is mostly hardcore gamers that criticize it,

Being that I play a lot of games I guess I'm a hardcore gamer, and I didn't like it much.

I bought it (always support indie stuffs) and playing it for a while. It's okay and some of the visuals are good but mostly its just dull. I was expecting more from it so all in all wasn't impressed, it's not that there is nothing to do, its more exploring than doing (if that makes sense.. isn't exploring doing anyway.. but you know what I mean) its just that I didn't feel the desire to explore as it was all a little bland.

I wouldn't have called it arty to be honest, but I guess the 'what is art' is a personal question.

I wouldn't mind playing Dear Esther though, heard lots of goodness about it.

[Keita]

Not sure this has been mentioned already or not but Eternal Darkness: Sanities Requiame.

It's a gamecude game but it's got the best exectuion of a story plot that I've seen yet.

Also another thing is that it lowers the volume or outright mutes it. Remember when everyone had CRT TV's? Well it has the green volume bar/mute cymbol so it's great to play it on one if you have it.

[Hawkfrost]

Not sure this has been mentioned already or not but Eternal Darkness: Sanities Requiame.

It's a gamecude game but it's got the best exectuion of a story plot that I've seen yet.

Also another thing is that it lowers the volume or outright mutes it. Remember when everyone had CRT TV's? Well it has the green volume bar/mute cymbol so it's great to play it on one if you have it.

You've got to be kidding me, I was just about to mention that.


It's not just a game that freaks you out, its a game that seems like it's specifically targeting YOU.
The more terrifying things your character sees, the more your Sanity drops. If it gets low enough, you start to hallucinate things. Things that can harm you. And some of the sanity effects are just nasty, like

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

the game pretending to delete all your data.

[KaelGotDwarves]

I'm going to have to mention X-Com since no one has yet.

When I was a kid, night missions simply terrified me. Hell, still terrifies me (oh god the chrysalids).

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: Think Civ series, but it's like I'm really stranded on an alien world that wants to eat us with philosophical fundamentalists of all different types! (Except UN faction)

[Idiom]

Korsakovia

By the makers or Dear Esther.

“The paramedics were unable to find his eyes. We think he may have eaten them.”
Korsakovia is an experimental mod about madness, reality and the end of the world. You play as Christopher, a psychiatric patient suffering from the rare condition Korsakoff's syndrome. Christopher believes the world has ended. His consultant neurologist, Dr Grayson, is beginning to believe he may just be right.

[Keita]

Not sure this has been mentioned already or not but Eternal Darkness: Sanities Requiame.

It's a gamecude game but it's got the best exectuion of a story plot that I've seen yet.

Also another thing is that it lowers the volume or outright mutes it. Remember when everyone had CRT TV's? Well it has the green volume bar/mute cymbol so it's great to play it on one if you have it.

You've got to be kidding me, I was just about to mention that.


It's not just a game that freaks you out, its a game that seems like it's specifically targeting YOU.
The more terrifying things your character sees, the more your Sanity drops. If it gets low enough, you start to hallucinate things. Things that can harm you. And some of the sanity effects are just nasty, like

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

the game pretending to delete all your data.

Oh man, it took me a week on hard to get to the Persia bit when that happened to me.

I was a broken soul.

The game is more to do with messing with your mind, especially when your sanity meters drained were you go through a door and appear in the boss area. Or when you do magic and suddenly become dismembered.

I find it more fun to play the game that way actually.

[Blacken]

If you liked Dear Esther, and even if you didn't (I didn't), Korsakovia is an awesome, bizarre, awesome, disturbing, awesome game. By the same guys.

http://www.thechineseroom.co.uk/korsakovia.htm

"We were unable to find his eyes. We think he may have eaten them."

[ToonyMan]

Clock Tower games are pretty much all suspense.