Games that make you sick!

[ManicMatt]

Thief 3:

I spent the whole level creeping around s-l-o-w-l-y before realising there is NO ONE HERE!

[Bartimaeus]

F.E.A.R scares the living daylights out of me.
Nothing like bloodstained little girls walking around you in the dark to get the blood pumping.
When I play it I get this thin layer of cold sweat all over and I get really on edge,
ie. Freaking out when my brother slams the door.

It gets you so sucked into the game that when you do get scared, you get properly scared.

~Billy

[AlbinoPanther]

But there's been no games to evoke something so amazingly strong like a good book or comic or movie have managed so far.

Play SYBERIA

[esper]

I was thinking about this, and I feel that there are some really good games out there that elicit responses from me like no books or movie can. A video game actually gets you involved in the storyline, so if you are playing a game you like, as a character you like, with NPC's that you like, you eventually will get a kind of "connection" with it.

I mentioned already Lunar: The Silver Star and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue. Legend of Dragoon had some similar aspects. There's one point where you meet a little robot that gives its life for you... That made me cry heartily.

Also, I played Doom 3, all the Silent Hills, Sanatorium, etc... with no problem. But I just got done playing Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. I wet myself about 38 times, and there were 17 specific instances in which I felt I was close. At one point in time, when I was in my hotel room and had to escape by running through adjoining rooms, then out across the rooftops, all the while experiencing vertigo... When I thought I was home free and bullets started tearing through the walls, I actually screamed... in terror!

[ManicMatt]

Esper: PLEASE tell me how to pronounce cthlul or whatever!

LJUBI: Nice to know someone else played the syberia games! Have you played Still Life?

[esper]

kuh-THOO-loo. Some say kuh-THOOL or, as they pronounced it in the first Max Payne, chuh-TOO-lah.

www.callofcthulhu.com

Cthulhu is one of the Great Old Ones, demon gods that came here from distant stars before man walked the earth. Among his numbers are Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, Father Dagon and Mother Hydra, Shub-Nigguroth, Yog-Sothoth, and a host of others.

The particular enemies you fight in Call of Cthulhu, Dark Corners of the Earth, are the Deep Ones, a cult of the followers of Dagon and Hydra. Cthulhu is only present in the game as stone idols, which, if you stay around them too long, make your character go insane and kill himself.

People have been saying that video games don't have the same effect on you as books or movies... CoC:DCotE is based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, and the first half of the game is almost like playing through "Shadow Over Innsmouth," one of his most popular stories (although not one I cared for particularly, the game made me want to read it again).

[AlbinoPanther]

LJUBI: Nice to know someone else played the syberia games! Have you played Still Life?

But offcourse  We played Still Life a few weeks ago but we never finished cause of that stupid robot controling puzzle.We play adventures cause they don't have that awful action elements but appart of that Still Life was great(we should finish it do you ave save games after that robot puzzle?).

SYBERIA:
That is trully a work of art.It was so fantasy like but in real world it was so full of emotions it was and is one of the GREATEST gaming moments in history of adventure genre.Oscar, Hans and Kate who is your favorite  we chouse them all 8).
STORY OF A CENTURY

P.S. We hope that Lost paradise will continue Benoit Sokal's storytelling. 

[ManicMatt]

Lost Paradise? Does that have the first metal goth band going on adventures singing about doom and gloom? Oh wait, that's paradise lost! (PS - I like being silly on purpose)

Ha ha yeah that robot puzzle pissed me off! I'm guessing you are stuck on the moving it past the dangers section? I'm afraid I had it on the x-box, not the PC. There is a logical way of doing it, getting into the right spaces and moving at the exact right time. But it DID take me ages and I nearly gave up. It's only my sheer persistance that got me through I guess.

[Helm]

I've played syberia and it's very bad.

[ManicMatt]

It's not that bad! It's kinda quaint.

I could probably guess as to why you didn't like it.. but tell me anyway!

[Helm]

Because it was badly paced, unevenly written, had silly puzzles, provided no motivation for the player, and bland graphics, sterile graphics devoid of any art direction that would hopefully make the game world interesting to traverse?

[AlbinoPanther]

I've played syberia and it's very bad.

You can't say it's bad but you can say that you didn't like it.

[Helm]

I can say that it's bad and that's my personal opinion. I don't attribute any objective weight to value judgements I make.

[AlbinoPanther]

Fine but we are sorry to hear that somebody don't like SYBERIA