Song of Horror

[Lemon Zing]

I played Song of Horror for half an hour yesterday. It's very well made. The game is about various protagonists who go to a strange house, and you have to evade the threat, as opposed to using weapons.

It even has the retro style camera angles. Basically what Silent Hill and Resident Evil was like for a long time, before RE4 was released in 2005.

This is an indie game. Companies never do mainstream games like this anymore. Games now are always third person shooters, or in first person.

 

[Misery]

And this is why I stick to indies: Because they make things like this.

Granted, this SPECIFIC game isnt one I personally would play; that fixed camera thing would drive me to madness. But I mean in general.

I love horror games, but the last time I saw a AAA one that didnt look terrible/boring was... er... uh... okay I dont remember seeing one ever.

Great indie horror though? All the bloody time.

 

[Lemon Zing]

I agree with you Misery, one hundred and ten percent.

These companies don't make good horror games any more, because they focus too much on action gameplay, because they want that mainstream money, and there's sheep you will defend everything Capcom makes. Because there was a time when RE used to be atmospheric, but now they just copy other games and imitate scenes from movies, and put the RE title on it. Then the fanboys act like it's innovative. But it's just rehashing things we seen already.

I like how Wikipedia calls 2005 onwards the "Transformation" of survival horror, because RE4 was more or less the true beginning of horror games becoming less scary. But a lot of genres end up merging with others eventually.