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I never played any of these games but the first one looked pretty scary from the videos i've seen of it. I might have to download it, it is fall after all and i

I never played any of these games but the first one looked pretty scary from the videos i've seen of it. I might have to download it, it is fall after all and i'm in a mood to be scared.

frakt0x90 6y ago
I played through the first and part of the second. First one is quite scary and has an engaging story!
- bpizzi 6y ago
  Somewhere almost at the end there's a 'level' where the player need to walk across the ocean floor under a rough 'weather', be sure to check that part out, it's a highly immersive experience. There's some effort to port it to VR, I can't even begin to fathom the kind of feelings that could emerge from such an immersion (pun intended, the game sets stage on the ocean floor).
  - ehnto 6y ago
    The sound design in SOMA was incredible. They sold that scene so well I felt exhausted after it.
  - Polylactic_acid 6y ago
    Horror games in VR are way too much for me. I can't handle games like HL:A and the walking dead one. Its just too stressful. A shitty horror game on PC becomes terrifying in VR.
jjoonathan 6y ago
SOMA was my favorite. Amnesia launched the genre and is more famous, but SOMA not only scratched my hard(ish) sci-fi itch, it elevated its own horror by doing so. Sci-fi horror usually focuses on relatively silly premises like "what if the monster gets out" or "what if we open a portal to hell." SOMA really rises above those tropes. It's legitimately unsettling to have a game confront you with troublesome implications of future technology that you had been subconsciously avoiding.
- Slartie 6y ago
  I strongly second this opinion. After playing SOMA (and being seriously frightened by it - you need to play it in the dark at night, with headphones, full immersion style) I was an instant fan of the studio and tried Amnesia. But the entire historic-fantasy-style theme turns me off pretty hard. I'm having a hard time continuing to play it, though I want to give it another chance sometime. But SOMA? Really, really great game. I'm considering repurchasing it on PS4 and replaying it in my home cinema setup for even more immersion. Though knowing the story beforehand probably takes quite a bit out of the experience.
  - jjoonathan 6y ago
    Yes, try to experience SOMA without spoilers. "Figuring it out" is part of the experience. If you're 5 minutes in and worry that you've figured it out and aren't impressed, don't worry, you haven't seen anything yet.
  - ehnto 6y ago
    I found the themes in A Machine for Pigs to be more believable and thus scary than A Dark Descent, but neither hold a candle to SOMA thematically and most people regard A Machine for Pigs to be less good than it's predecessor.
    - account42 6y ago
      > most people regard A Machine for Pigs to be less good than it's predecessor I think that's mostly a problem of expectations. TDD focuses on being a horror game while A Machine for Pigs is much closer to a horror-themed walking simulator. If you expect Amnesia II out of A Machine for Pigs then I can see how you would be disappointed but that doesn't make the game worse it just means using the Amnesia name might have been a bad choice since the games are in different subgenres and thus target somewhat different audiences.
- gtsteve 6y ago
  It's got some brilliant writing and voice acting as well. It's also not too long a game, I played about an hour a night and completed it in a week. It's not a giant time sink like some games try to be. I'm definitely interested to hear about similar games - I was never able to find anything that quite compared. Amnesia looked quite dated and unpolished by comparison after playing SOMA and I couldn't quite get into it.

I never played any of these games but the first one looked pretty scary from the videos i've seen of it. I might have to download it, it is fall after all and i'm in a mood to be scared.

frakt0x90 6y ago

I played through the first and part of the second. First one is quite scary and has an engaging story!

bpizzi 6y ago
Somewhere almost at the end there's a 'level' where the player need to walk across the ocean floor under a rough 'weather', be sure to check that part out, it's a highly immersive experience. There's some effort to port it to VR, I can't even begin to fathom the kind of feelings that could emerge from such an immersion (pun intended, the game sets stage on the ocean floor).
- ehnto 6y ago
  The sound design in SOMA was incredible. They sold that scene so well I felt exhausted after it.
- Polylactic_acid 6y ago
  Horror games in VR are way too much for me. I can't handle games like HL:A and the walking dead one. Its just too stressful. A shitty horror game on PC becomes terrifying in VR.

jjoonathan 6y ago

SOMA was my favorite. Amnesia launched the genre and is more famous, but SOMA not only scratched my hard(ish) sci-fi itch, it elevated its own horror by doing so. Sci-fi horror usually focuses on relatively silly premises like "what if the monster gets out" or "what if we open a portal to hell." SOMA really rises above those tropes. It's legitimately unsettling to have a game confront you with troublesome implications of future technology that you had been subconsciously avoiding.

Slartie 6y ago
I strongly second this opinion. After playing SOMA (and being seriously frightened by it - you need to play it in the dark at night, with headphones, full immersion style) I was an instant fan of the studio and tried Amnesia. But the entire historic-fantasy-style theme turns me off pretty hard. I'm having a hard time continuing to play it, though I want to give it another chance sometime. But SOMA? Really, really great game. I'm considering repurchasing it on PS4 and replaying it in my home cinema setup for even more immersion. Though knowing the story beforehand probably takes quite a bit out of the experience.
- jjoonathan 6y ago
  Yes, try to experience SOMA without spoilers. "Figuring it out" is part of the experience. If you're 5 minutes in and worry that you've figured it out and aren't impressed, don't worry, you haven't seen anything yet.
- ehnto 6y ago
  I found the themes in A Machine for Pigs to be more believable and thus scary than A Dark Descent, but neither hold a candle to SOMA thematically and most people regard A Machine for Pigs to be less good than it's predecessor.
  - account42 6y ago
    > most people regard A Machine for Pigs to be less good than it's predecessor I think that's mostly a problem of expectations. TDD focuses on being a horror game while A Machine for Pigs is much closer to a horror-themed walking simulator. If you expect Amnesia II out of A Machine for Pigs then I can see how you would be disappointed but that doesn't make the game worse it just means using the Amnesia name might have been a bad choice since the games are in different subgenres and thus target somewhat different audiences.
gtsteve 6y ago
It's got some brilliant writing and voice acting as well. It's also not too long a game, I played about an hour a night and completed it in a week. It's not a giant time sink like some games try to be. I'm definitely interested to hear about similar games - I was never able to find anything that quite compared. Amnesia looked quite dated and unpolished by comparison after playing SOMA and I couldn't quite get into it.