Fear 2 at 5AM

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S3th13

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Can't sleep. Class at 12. Decided to download the Fear 2 Demo and give it a try.


Never again.


I got to the hallway and bells rang and children started laughing... scared the living shit out of me. I was just waiting to see a vision of that little girl...

Done for the night. If I couldn't sleep before, I sure as hell can't now.
 
wah not another one that gets scared so easy.. come on it wasnt that scary at all..
 
Same thing man, games creeps the hell out of me. Can't imagine playing in the dark... My school is closed today for snow. :D
 
criccio said:
Same thing man, games creeps the hell out of me. Can't imagine playing in the dark... My school is closed today for snow. :D
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Woot woot! I wish I was still in school sometimes so I could get excited over shit like that. Enjoy it dude.

I wasn't as scared playing this demo as I was the first. I don't know what it is. Maybe L4D desensitized me? lol
 
Yeah, FEAR scared the crap out of me, I get too attached to my character in game. Horror games are the worst they drag me in and my own imagination goes nuts, playing them late at night just isn't a smart move for me :)
 
criccio said:
Same thing man, games creeps the hell out of me. Can't imagine playing in the dark... My school is closed today for snow. :D
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Ha. Pretty much everything here is shut down due to a nice pattern of snow, then freezing rain, then more snow. Guess I should give the FEAR 2 demo a try... on all platforms just because. :D
 
Frostex said:
Yeah, FEAR scared the crap out of me, I get too attached to my character in game. Horror games are the worst they drag me in and my own imagination goes nuts, playing them late at night just isn't a smart move for me :)
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Can you imagine playing it on a 120'' screen in a room with surround sound ? :)

It's quite an experience...I guarantee it! I'm really anxiously waiting for the full game!
 
I liked the school section. I made sure to lower the in game brightness and turn off my lights in my room. Then I wore nice headphones of course. It was great!
 
Nothing increases the scare effect of any game like playing in the middle of the night, lights off, headphones on. It's great fun!
 
S3th13, I can relate 100% to your post :D

Mr.Wolf, can't play with the cans on, will never hear Alma creep up from behind me :p
 
The school was my favorite part of the whole entire demo... I hope they have more places like that in the full game =D I'm getting antsy for its release.
 
CrimsonKnight13 said:
The school was my favorite part of the whole entire demo... I hope they have more places like that in the full game =D I'm getting antsy for its release.
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I'm just happy to finally see more variety in locales. I definitely thought the school was very well done and creepy as all hell.
 
The school is creepy, almost evoking a claustrophobic atmosphere. I guess that's the point!

The "mech" combat afterward seems almost out of place, but it's like taking in a breath of fresh air after nearly suffocating in the dark.

And if you're not a little spooked by the demo, follow Mr. Wolf's advice. The only way to get the full effect is to have the lights off and be sucked into the world with surround sound/headphones.
 
I remember System Shock 2, in the early hours of the morning, in the dark, with surround sound... that was something else too. Damn those screeching monkeys and ghostly apparitions.

I did feel like this demo was a bit disjointed, but hopefully that's because it's a compilation of different bits of the game rather than a complete section (like they did with the first fear), and the full game will be more measured and tense.

Mortuus said:
wah not another one that gets scared so easy.. come on it wasnt that scary at all..
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It must be sad to be so desensitised that you miss out on the full enjoyment of these games.
 
[DFR]Random;1033656108 said:
The school is creepy, almost evoking a claustrophobic atmosphere. I guess that's the point!

The "mech" combat afterward seems almost out of place, but it's like taking in a breath of fresh air after nearly suffocating in the dark.

And if you're not a little spooked by the demo, follow Mr. Wolf's advice. The only way to get the full effect is to have the lights off and be sucked into the world with surround sound/headphones.
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Did that the first time I played it. Game still didn't phase me much. The ghosts got me a little on edge and made me fire the gun every time I saw them get close, but nothing that got me scared. Its the same stuff they used in the first game. I expected it to happen to is didn't effect me much. The part where Alma jumps up and grabs me made me sit back quickly though.

When you see the same scares over and over again across multiple games you tend to get used to them. Its not like horror movies where the same scare in multiple different movie franchises can still get you.
 
I thought it was a bit freaky... with the headphones on sitting 24 inches from a 37" LCD. lol
 
I like Fear 2.

Keep in mind that was only the demo, so there definitely will be more scare-factor content in store.

This is the only game (along with the first) to actually scare me.

I played the demo on Saturday night, and remembered I couldn't sleep afterwards.

Paranoia affected myself but did like how your mind tricks yourself of the unexpected.

OP, take sleeping pills to calm yourself and sleep. I did that on Sunday night. :D
 
I made the mistake of watching most of the walkthrough on YouTube. It was still scary though.
 
One critique I have is that the stupid rats have their furs poof into the air when you shoot them.

They are not pigeons damn it!!!

BTW - whats the default sprint key?
 
I have to confess that after the nightmare that happened with FEAR 1 to me, I haven't even dared to play the demo in the dark or during the night. It's a great game and I'm going to buy the full version of FEAR 2 when it's released, but I'm not going to play in the dark anymore.



FEAR 1 was amazing, but it also made me sleep restless at night. A simple trip to the bathroom became almost a nightmare to do, in my very own house! Normally I just walked in the dark to the bathroom, now I switched on every light before doing so, uneasily checking if someone was in one of the rooms.


It's ridiculous, of course. Yet on the other hand, I love games who can affect me so much like that.
 
+1 for being a complete pussy with games like FEAR and Silent Hill...
I can't play at night, in the dark....it messes with my head.

Hell, FEAR scared me during the day for crying out loud!!!
I'm a 39 year old baby...I admit it!
 
FEAR is a game you gotta play lights off noone home headphones on. The game will pull you in and scare the crap out of you. I'm trying to stay away from the demo want a completely virgin experience with it. :D
 
VolvoR said:
+1 for being a complete pussy with games like FEAR and Silent Hill...
I can't play at night, in the dark....it messes with my head.

Hell, FEAR scared me during the day for crying out loud!!!
I'm a 39 year old baby...I admit it!
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Silent Hill creeps the hell out of me. I love the kind of horror that plays with your mind and keeps you on edge as much as possible. Instead of just relaying on cheap jump-scares. While I liked the old RE games I think they relayed on cheap scares too much and it really started to desensitize me to them in games.
 
wow you guys, I slept absolutely fine playing the FEAR 2 demo. In fact I'm going to play through FEAR friday night starting at 12AM non stop till I beat the game. I never actually finished FEAR, but this demo got me hyped up. Yes I was startled a few times when ghosts appeared and attacking me. All it really did was heightened my senses and reflexes to shoot every damn moving thing. It was FUN to be scared. I enjoyed the feeling, not let it take over my mind.
 
I'm more into the disturbing and unhinging style of SS2, but FEAR isn't bad either. The demo had one or two good scary (as much as a game can be for me,) moments. That was only ~20 minutes or so, so hopefully the full game will be proportional. The first FEAR was pretty good in this way until about the last 1/4 or so, when I was just too used to it. (not to mention all the fancy weaponry I had by that time) I also don't lose sleep over games, but they do tend to catch me off guard occasionally and try to tip me out of my seat when done well.

My favorite is when I'm trying to back away from something, or outrun it, and I start leaning over in my chair thinking it's going to get me that much further away in the game :D
 
Wrench said:
FEAR is a game you gotta play lights off noone home headphones on. The game will pull you in and scare the crap out of you. I'm trying to stay away from the demo want a completely virgin experience with it. :D
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lol I'd last about 10 minutes (if im feeling particularly courageous) trying to do this
 
I think the most important scare factor in a game is the psychological one. System Shock 2 was the last game I played that really had that (parts of Stalker did well too) though I never got too far in the Silent Hill games due to the awkward control schemes. In that aspect, I felt that Fear 1 was a miss, but the demo of Fear 2 showed some promise. Though the entirety of Fear, there was only a couple spots in the game that were genuinely scary for me. In the Fear 2 demo with a relatively short amount of gameplay had me jumping quite a bit more than the original did. I'm looking forward to Fear 2 and hope it delivers on this level more than it's predessor did.

I've never had a problem sleeping after scary games/movies. I was always out like a light, and all it took was taking a second or to to tell myself "Hey, it was only a game/movie". The drawback is that if I have that mindset while I'm trying to play everything becomes trivial and I can just sit there with a smirk on my face as baddies of all flavors sneak up behind me or appear out of nowhere. I can simply shrug off the psychological effects of doors rattling by themselves and other phenomena. That's really not how the game should be played though, I *want* to be scared, so I'm really hoping that the full game shapes up as well as the demo has. I don't want to cheat myself of the experience, so its' complete darkness and headphones for me all the way.

Still no sleepless nights though!
 
J3RK said:
My favorite is when I'm trying to back away from something, or outrun it, and I start leaning over in my chair thinking it's going to get me that much further away in the game :D
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Watching people do this as their playing a game is pure comedy.
 
KollunZ said:
wow you guys, I slept absolutely fine playing the FEAR 2 demo. In fact I'm going to play through FEAR friday night starting at 12AM non stop till I beat the game. I never actually finished FEAR, but this demo got me hyped up. Yes I was startled a few times when ghosts appeared and attacking me. All it really did was heightened my senses and reflexes to shoot every damn moving thing. It was FUN to be scared. I enjoyed the feeling, not let it take over my mind.
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Staying in on a Friday night... poor guy :confused:
 
FrozenLiquidity said:
I think the most important scare factor in a game is the psychological one. System Shock 2 was the last game I played that really had that (parts of Stalker did well too) though I never got too far in the Silent Hill games due to the awkward control schemes. In that aspect, I felt that Fear 1 was a miss, but the demo of Fear 2 showed some promise. Though the entirety of Fear, there was only a couple spots in the game that were genuinely scary for me. In the Fear 2 demo with a relatively short amount of gameplay had me jumping quite a bit more than the original did. I'm looking forward to Fear 2 and hope it delivers on this level more than it's predessor did.

I've never had a problem sleeping after scary games/movies. I was always out like a light, and all it took was taking a second or to to tell myself "Hey, it was only a game/movie". The drawback is that if I have that mindset while I'm trying to play everything becomes trivial and I can just sit there with a smirk on my face as baddies of all flavors sneak up behind me or appear out of nowhere. I can simply shrug off the psychological effects of doors rattling by themselves and other phenomena. That's really not how the game should be played though, I *want* to be scared, so I'm really hoping that the full game shapes up as well as the demo has. I don't want to cheat myself of the experience, so its' complete darkness and headphones for me all the way.

Still no sleepless nights though!
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Last time I had trouble sleeping at night due to a scary movie/game/whatever was when I was maybe seven or eight and some TV station had a Friday the 13th marathon on. Stupid me decided to watch it. Yeah, I didn't sleep so well that night.
 
Never finished Silent Hill 2. Fuck that game. All misty and shit....creepy ass nurses. Remains the only game I have ever bought and not finished...yeah I wussed out. Big whoop.


and I won't finish it either. :mad:
 
Dark Prodigy said:
Never finished Silent Hill 2. Fuck that game. All misty and shit....creepy ass nurses. Remains the only game I have ever bought and not finished...yeah I wussed out. Big whoop.


and I won't finish it either. :mad:
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Pyramid Head was another creepy as hell thing in SH2.
 
First time i played Fear 2 demo was at night and during the school scene i was shooting in every freaking direction, shit was pretty scary.
 
The white flying thing part was my favorite scary part of the demo. I just keep shooting at them without knowing whether or not it was necessary :p Alma appearance at this part added a nice touch too

Alma jumping on the screen made me jump too, lol. I could never get use to her appearing right in our face.

Hopefully the full game will have many more scary parts
 
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