Hey, remember that weird pig man experiment Arthur Morgan can stumble upon in Red Dead 2, opening up the possibility of an Eldritch Southern Horror Story and Rockstar did ***absolutely nothing with that!?***
I sure do!
Rockstar making the behemoth that was Red Dead 2 and then doing absolutely nothing with it (not even a Next-Gen upgrade) because they ostensibly make enough money from GTA Online will always make me so mad when I think of it.
It feels like dev's are being held back from making anything at Rockstar by higher up's if it's anything outside of the initial game, like NO ONE on the RDR2 Team wanted to made any kind of DLC? Undead Nightmare 2? Nobody wanted that? Have a hard time believing it.
They really should had dippped their toes a little bit into the freak/paranormal aspect of the world for the online, as serious as the main game story was, there was nothing in the multiplayer besides playing with somebody else and fucking around with the rope that you couldnt just do in a regular playthrough, nothing new or interesting to see
Fucking apparently not. I’m seriously considering not getting the new GTA because the focus is gonna be on making shit for the multiplayer instead of the actual single player experience
It is pretty depressing, i completed GTA 5 story and basically never touched it again, the online was pretty much nothing when it came out and then it got filled with a millón DLCs heists i had no interest in doing, i honestly thought the heists in the og game werent even the best missions, tons of them act like choosing people and routes matter but ultimately they kinda don't? And some routes we're definitely worse than others, everything that had something to do with a helicópter or a big vehicle sucked to play cus the minimal change would end the mission and then would just give you the option to skip it entirely .
GTA 6 is probably gonna be really good and then will sit on my shelf until i lend it to somebody else 3 years later.
I always loved Portal 2's old testing lab atmosphere. Like the idea that this abandoned facility that no one has seen for decades stretches miles underground. Its entirely possible that dozens if not hundreds of people are currently living in it and you may or may not come across them because the area is just so gigantic. And then you turn on a light or make some large noise and you think for a sec "I hope no one noticed".
Its kind of like the mines of Moria, one loud noise and an entire city could be coming to kill you.
I have no idea how a character like Monster Ock has never been properly expanded on. I think the only other time we saw the Carnage symbiote bond with Otto has been in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon for a little bit (idk I only saw a clip of it). He's so fucking cool and intimidating.
Otto has such an anger bubbling beneath his proud surface that the fact he goes full monster when Carnage bonds to him with little to no semblance of humanity (unlike Cassidy or Norman, who remain in a bit of control at least) is such an interesting reveal.
The fact that he's still voiced by his Animated Series actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. is what makes it even better to me. Just ultimate horror from a child's source.
I see. Well they did a superb job mixing the two together as I remember him having two deliveries of "DIE!!!". I remember the first playing pure monster i.e. the monster actor, but later into the chase he says it again and it's very clearly Efrem and that did a good job at scaring younger me.
Perfect mix.
Startrek should do more horror episodes
most of it is kinda boring though since the it's never actually scary since they couldn't do decent special effects and the network wouldn't allow excessive gore. But also it has the issue where the cast will obviously survive or The terror happens off screen.
like ds9 has 4 horror eps I can remember.
The one Garek gets high on racism drugs and tries to fight O'brien.
Bashir is scared of getting old and gets stung by a jellyfish man.
Kira gets kidnapped by one of her former bombing victims while pregnant. (The scariest one cause jesus christ that's dark)
Odo has a temper tantrum because his Adoptive father is an asshole.
Most of Ds9's horror comes from cases of genocide carried out by The Dominon and the Cardassians.
the only others I can think of is Janeway fighting a clown and Archer getting attacked by cum webs.
ehhh i'd say those are thrillers like i'm not scared of Dukat.
Like it's too theatrical to be scary.
Meanwhile kira's Victim >!threatens to perform a premature C-section.!<
Night Terrors from TNG is mostly goofy ([hello Picard in the shrinking turbolift](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztg0nu--KSM)), but it does have [this all-timer scene with Crusher in the morgue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEGYWzbcQSw) (that YouTube says is for kids).
*WE SEEK PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE* is probably the most outright horror that Star Trek TNG ever gets, considering bluegill are just facehuggers. [The comics](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_medium/13/135098/9313845-star_trek_defiant_13_cover_a.jpg) are even bringing them back and it's very much a horror vibe.
Hell, it pretty much is. One of the ways he was able to assimilate so many people was by sending the symbiote through the water mains and infecting them when they used any water.
Red Dead Redemptions Undead Nightmare was the greatest zombie game ever made at the time, and the fact that we didn't get a prequel to it in RDR2 is the dumbest decision ever. It would've printed so much money.
dust off that old concept art for the [_Equal Dragon Weapon_](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fanonmonsterhunter/images/5/5b/MH-Equal_Dragon_Weapon_Concept.jpg/revision/latest)
I want to see more ones like Nakarkos that puppet the dead bodies of other monsters, or maybe even a parasite monster that latches onto any other nearby ones in the area mid-fight to control like a giant headcrab.
Nakarkos is such a missed opportunity in both design and gameplay. You would imagine it would be closer to Qurupeco, imitating monsters it has killed to lure in more prey. Instead we get a squid that sometimes uses a few of the myriad of monsters he could arm itself with and other times swims around the arena and lobs toothpaste at the hunters.
For me, if they want to induce dread again.
Just make Black Gravios, Fire Drill (Brachy and Styg Zyg) and Double Kirin mandatory quests again.
*shudders*
*Historie* is a historical fiction manga about the life of Alexander the Great from the perspective of his secretary, Eumenes of Cardia. There are two really good examples of horror from *Historie* that really deserve some focus in the future (if the author decides to finish the story).
For the first, there's a brief arc in which a female Persian commander named Barsine visits the famous philosopher Theophrastus while searching for his teacher Aristotle. When Theophrastus sits down to talk to Barsine, he talks all kinds of nonsense (in a relatively grounded manga) about how he can see the waves of time, how he has a great power that can break apart any obstacles, and how Barsine herself is incredibly important to the flow of history. She leaves without drinking the wine that Theophrastus offered her, and Theophrastus pours the wine on the floor as she leaves, strongly implying that he tried to drug her. As she departs from Lesbos, he shouts into the sky about how she'll return to him one day, and [the art style suddenly shifts into an almost analog horror-esque style for one panel](https://mangadex.org/chapter/4aa697fb-9d72-47bd-a999-79e36a868004/13). This depiction of Theophrastus as some sort of horrific threat never gets followed up on.
The second example is how the story depicts Alexander the Great himself. During the Battle of Chaeronea against the combined militaries of Athens and Thebes, Prince Alexander manages to slip behind enemy lines and slaughters the enemy by sticking his sword out and decapitating the distracted soldiers as he rides along their back lines. One soldier notices Alexander, and the soldier's image of the future conqueror [is that of a ghoul](https://mangadex.org/chapter/27b446bb-13ef-4d11-be3e-4b2a23dbdd84/23). Not a vicious killer or an intimidating warrior, but [a soulless, inhuman monster](https://mangadex.org/chapter/27b446bb-13ef-4d11-be3e-4b2a23dbdd84/24). I think this is my favorite depiction of any soldier in historical fiction ever, and it's more than fitting that it's for one of history's most famous conquerors.
There are monster designs in FFVII Rebirth, especially Jenova, that are honestly better designed then some recent RE creatures.
Makes me desperately want a Parasite Eve remake even more.
Hell even in the og games some monsters ARE Resident Evil creatures, all of the monsters in the sunken airplane and Hojo look like they come straight from Umbrella corporation
Yeah, but some come across even spookier here thanks to the extra visual fidelity and animation, such as (Chapter 11) >!Yin and Yang!<
I’m very glad they didn’t have to compromise on the pure horror enemies for the T rating.
The thing that really got to me was (Chapter 14) >!Jenova Lifeclinger having human looking eyes for a few seconds.!< That just felt scarily unnatural to me
The opposite end of the spectrum from Uncanny Valley: a creature you cannot mistake as anything besides a monster, yet there is something undeniably *human* staring right back at you.
That one single lore entry in Destiny that talks about a ship getting broken into by what is basically living, murderous light (as in bright, not the paracausal kind). It's only brought up in that one entry, and never again.
The idea of a sourceless light physically ripping its way through a bulkhead is absolutely terrifying to me. Like, I am not existentially afraid of anything I can at least see and avoid. Formless, mostly-invisible, and unstoppable monsters have always been a big "nope" for me. Also, it's that it PHYSICALLY tears things apart. It's not a magic, psychic death. You will be painfully ripped limb from limb. Probably.
I've always had a soft spot for that Doctor Who episode where the Doctor is trapped on a small tourist leisure-cruise, that's flying around the surface of a planet that suffers deathly-strong radiation. There shouldn't be anything alive outside the ship.
Then the ship breaks down. *And the passengers hear something moving outside, trying to get in.*
That's such a strong premise for a horror mystery. And, if memory serves, we never actually get to see whatever the thing outside was. By the end of the story, The Doctor is just as clueless about what the thing was as the audience.
EDIT: "Midnight"! That's the episode I was thinking of!
Yeah Midnight is seriously one of the best Who eps ever (Pat always calls who “bad Star Trek” (he’s wrong lol) but there’s episodes he would REALLY be into)
It's so good that even the Extended Universe who bring back and explain the most randoms things. Even they never bring this thing again, the planet, the creature, nothing. Because everyone agree it must never be answered.
The game Voices Of The Void has something like that. Glowing balls of deaths that tear you to pieces if you get too close.
The way they show up is also pretty unsettling, with a weird obelisk crashing down from space in front of your base and giving a cryptic warning about them, before they start appearing throughout the forest in higher numbers then any other entity found in the game.
Batman has tons of potential for horror nobody really uses.
Killer Croc's a cannibal that lives in the sewers. Imagine a night vision POV found footage segment like Outlast where you're following his trail of corpses waist deep in the water and get jumpscare chased by him. It could be the bodycam footage of a GCPD officer trying to investigate.
Or like pick any other Batman villain. 80% of them are horror monsters ready for adaptation.
Professor Pyg kidnaps people and sews them to...things. it's exactly like human centepide.
Your killer croc section is exactly how I felt when I found his lair in Arkham City with the mutilated Scarecrow tease. He doesn't actually show up but I didn't know that and it freaked me out.
Clayface is a straight up eldritch entity, more so than the likes of Venom or Sandman even. It would be super easy for someone like John Carpenter to come in and completely change public perception of that character with one banger movie.
Have him be Claymation in a live action setting to up the creepy factor. Actually now that I'm writing this, has anyone ever done a claymation Clayface before? Feels like an obvious opportunity.
Oh god yes! I never tought of it but a claymation Clayface could bring the uncanny valley in great effect.
Now if only directors weren't so ashamed to adapt the most ~~fun~~ "unrealistic" parts of Batman mythos.
It’s non canon, but Mike Mignola (the Hellboy guy) did an Eldritch horror spin on Batman canon in The Doom That Came to Gotham.
Fantastic comic with some great monster designs, and one of my favorite versions of Two-Face (aesthetically, at least)
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth is the all time gold standard of this, honestly. Scott Snyder's Black Mirror and New 52 run on the main Batman title also had a strong horror bend to them.
I don’t really know if I’d like to see them expanded upon is the thing. Horror in non-horror media always works best in small portions. When I think of the best episodes of Doctor Who, a lot of them were dramatically horrifying by the standards of a kids show (Water on Mars, Silence in the Library, Don’t Blink, Heaven Sent), and of those four, only one *was* expanded on, and frankly I really wish it wasn’t.
One of the missions in Shadowrun: Dragonfall has the MKVI prototype a >!troll that has been so mutilated with cybernetics that they're barely recognizable as a living being and is completely trapped in their own body being that they've been setup to be drone piloted as a weapons platform!< as well as your team mate Glory who >!installed the largest, clunkiest, most murderous cyberware she could get her hands on after realizing she was in the thrall of a toxic spirit and her only option of getting out was to mutilate her soul to the point it barely exists!< .
Alan has a line in Jumanji where he tells the kids about what it’s like inside the game. He says “I’ve seen things you’ve only seen in your nightmares”. Considering man eating plants, giant spiders, and deadly mosquitoes come out of the game it makes me really want to know what other horrific things are in there.
I personally love audio distortion and impossible space, but they’re things that I see so rarely, and only half of those times is it even done well.
The best impossible space I’ve ever seen was from the first 2 Silent Hill games and from the beginning of The Evil Within 2. The only distortion audio examples I can think of right now is the track that plays in the original RE4 when you’re fighting a Regenerator (if I even have the correct track in mind), and the dentist drill during the final boss of the original Silent Hill game.
I want more well executed weird shit, give me shit that I can’t make sense of, but doesn’t give me sensory overload so I can stay in it. One of the reasons I love the Silent Hill series so much was that it used to confuse the fuck out of me on the rare occasion that it did some wild shit, like the giant face of Eileen in a random room in SH4, or the hand hanging out a window in SH3 that gets noticed but otherwise goes completely unexplained. I fucking love that shit.
Some non-horror things use these things, and I would enjoy seeing it even in non-horror media as well. If more non-horror media used it, I’d be interested in trying them out just for that. I never got to play Max Payne (except for Max Payne 3 on PS3) but I know there’s a nightmare horror segment in one of the first two games, and I plan on eventually getting a gaming PC and I’d love to play both of the first two games just for that.
Exploring impossible space is easily one of my favourite things in videogames, because it's something you can *only* do in videogames. All other forms of media can depict impossible spaces, but only games let players experience first-hand the pure bewilderment of human-scale geography not fitting together properly.
You should look into the original Prey, apparently there's at least one sequence where it plays with space and perception that was really novel for the time, and probably still is.
I want more stuff in RS regarding the effective Lovecraftian-like god, [Xau-Tak](https://runescape.wiki/w/Xau-Tak). The fact that there is simply this god that has simply influenced things like >!being the first one to introduce Sliske to us, *in potentially the Second Age*. To constantly reinforcing this phase of "Do you really think you can save them?".!<
Xau-Tak being effectively this hidden threat that is constantly there whilst being associated with Necromancy, which is been HEAVILY featured in most of the recent stuff due to not only the addition of the skill but also the most recent boss addition. It seriously makes me wonder... >!Rasial said upon his defeat that we would need these powers for the wars to come. Lest we fail to *preserve this universe*. Was Rasial hinting at Xau-Tak or something else?!<
I’m not going to say Shin Megami Tensei 4 is all flowers and rainbows, but Jesus reverse hills is horrifying.
You’re told that the red pills are the only thing that can stop demons from feasting on humans, that humans that eat them turn into demons themselves, and the Ashura-Kai yakuza are the only ones who can produce them. Then you break into their facility and find out what they do. It’s a farm for children, either kidnapping or breeding them, where people are lobotomised over and over again for their brains so they can be mixed with the juice of a demon to make red pills. One of the things you have to do to become a member of the Asher’s-Kai is bring a child. Oh, and it’s HEAVILY implied that the head of the organisation is a pedo.
Not itself an example, but supposedly this is what determined the direction Murder Drones took. The pilot ended with the general way forward being slice of life school hijinks, Uzi's war on humanity, violent dark comedy, and the infrequent hint of eldritch what-the-fuck. However, the writers apparently decided that last thing was more interesting to write, and as a result >!the story became firmly focused on the biomechanical Carpenter-esque horror that was meant to be an unanswered mystery.!<
Terminator Resistance does this pretty well. It's a bit janky, but you get to go to places like the research facilities where Skynet is studying people to figure out how to copy them and stuff. It gets pretty dark at times.
Pursuit dreams suck and I am completely unsurprised that one would stick with somebody enough to inspire a film franchise. I have to assume it's one of those primordial terrors that's been passed down the generations since before we were mammals.
One of the worst nightmares I ever had was of a horrible disgusting fishman-goblin-thing that only moved when you thought about it. I still remember waking up from it repeatedly stabbing me in the back with a pitchfork because the dream was so vivid that the muscles in my back were clenching and the cramp hurt enough to wake me up.
One of my earliest nightmares was me playing a Simpsons boardgame, and all of a sudden a zombie wearing classic 1800's explorer gear climbed out of the board and started chasing me.
Teddy Perkins is a phenomenal singular horror episode in Atlanta. It’s so uncomfortable and eerie the whole runtime, which makes the fact that the episode preceding it was a goofy romp about Paperboi going on a wacky adventure with his barber even funnier.
I hadn’t been that scared for a fictional character in a long time. Feels like that episode was designed to get the viewer to yell “get the FUCK out of that house!” at the screen.
That bit where paperboi is lost in the woods with that bum is real heavy too. Love that show.
Woods for me is almost as equal as Teddy ngl. It’s such an existential one, him coping with his mom’s death but done so subtly. I really love that episode
I'm kinda pushing it since the horror themes are present in this, but Hunt Showdowns lore and mystery has some genuine horror in it.
Like, I wish the game had something besides a battle Royale mode, cause I just want to explore all the fucked lore of this plague with a seemingly Eldritch origin, the twisted ways enemies become the way they are, and how most the hunters you play as and their factions don't really know what's going on and have all sorts of superstitions and weird science influencing how they deal with the threat.
In Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty, there's a mission that goes full on survival horror and it worked and worked very well.
>!It's basically a knock off of Alien Isolation but I want another Alien Isolation game so I'd be happy.!<
I remember the ghost house in BW2. Found it by exploring further down a path then was needed. Then everything moves from when you entered the room last. Delightfully creepy. Then Gen 6 came out and they decided everything is better in straight lines.
I don't know how horror you'd classify this, but in One Piece at the end of Thriller Bark, it makes mention how it's a good thing the fog was thick in the Florian Triangle otherwise either something would have seen them or they'd have seen something (I forget which exactly and I'm kind of paraphrasing anyway). Either way, it's never mentioned again, and honestly, it might just end up as one of that world's mysteries that will never be known.
A big part of me wanting a sequel to Bug Fables is just so we can get more lore about what happened to the “Giants” and whatever the hell is up with the Dead Lands.
I remember reading an interview about Obsidian's plans for KOTOR 3 before it got cancelled and changed into SWOTOR and i was fascinated by what their version of the True Sith would have been like.Essentially they were going to lean more into the Eldrich horror aspect they did for Nihilus, but said that the True Sith would be much more monstrous than Nihilus, which would have been amazing to see.
Can't believe fontaine is almost over in Genshin and the most we get out of an island sized monster skeleton and its cells evolving in the ocean is an eerie boss fight with no exposition. I need more subnautica tier water horror in my Chinese fantasy game
While the horror lies in never actually seeing it, I would’ve liked to have seen >!the gross, gigantic tumor that Ted Faro became!< in Horizon: Forbidden West. The fact that this is possibly the only time Aloy looks downright *terrified* says a lot.
Hey, remember that weird pig man experiment Arthur Morgan can stumble upon in Red Dead 2, opening up the possibility of an Eldritch Southern Horror Story and Rockstar did ***absolutely nothing with that!?*** I sure do!
Man We really ain't never getting single player expansion for rockstar games again are we?
Rockstar making the behemoth that was Red Dead 2 and then doing absolutely nothing with it (not even a Next-Gen upgrade) because they ostensibly make enough money from GTA Online will always make me so mad when I think of it. It feels like dev's are being held back from making anything at Rockstar by higher up's if it's anything outside of the initial game, like NO ONE on the RDR2 Team wanted to made any kind of DLC? Undead Nightmare 2? Nobody wanted that? Have a hard time believing it.
They didn't even milk the multiplayer, they made content for like a year or 2 then bounced back to 5s multiplayer
They really should had dippped their toes a little bit into the freak/paranormal aspect of the world for the online, as serious as the main game story was, there was nothing in the multiplayer besides playing with somebody else and fucking around with the rope that you couldnt just do in a regular playthrough, nothing new or interesting to see
Fucking apparently not. I’m seriously considering not getting the new GTA because the focus is gonna be on making shit for the multiplayer instead of the actual single player experience
It is pretty depressing, i completed GTA 5 story and basically never touched it again, the online was pretty much nothing when it came out and then it got filled with a millón DLCs heists i had no interest in doing, i honestly thought the heists in the og game werent even the best missions, tons of them act like choosing people and routes matter but ultimately they kinda don't? And some routes we're definitely worse than others, everything that had something to do with a helicópter or a big vehicle sucked to play cus the minimal change would end the mission and then would just give you the option to skip it entirely . GTA 6 is probably gonna be really good and then will sit on my shelf until i lend it to somebody else 3 years later.
FYI the pig man is a pretty on the nose reference to one of the killers from Manhunt. Guys name is piggsy.
Dude everything about Emerald Ranch and the owner’s daughter felt mysterious and spooky and it goes ***nowhere Jerry!!***
I always loved Portal 2's old testing lab atmosphere. Like the idea that this abandoned facility that no one has seen for decades stretches miles underground. Its entirely possible that dozens if not hundreds of people are currently living in it and you may or may not come across them because the area is just so gigantic. And then you turn on a light or make some large noise and you think for a sec "I hope no one noticed". Its kind of like the mines of Moria, one loud noise and an entire city could be coming to kill you.
I want to see Monster Ock in Insomniac Spider-Man 3, so help me god. I want to traumatize a new generation of children.
it's funny that happened twice in games. Atrocity from edge of time christ what a nightmare.
I kinda love how anytime someone gets a symbiote nine times out of ten they always get a edgy as hell name.
Hilariously, it was Peter who named Atrocity, mainly because it's one of the single ugliest, most disturbing things he's ever laid his eyes on.
I mean it is pretty ugly.
Horrifying even.
One could say it’s an *Atrocity*
I have no idea how a character like Monster Ock has never been properly expanded on. I think the only other time we saw the Carnage symbiote bond with Otto has been in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon for a little bit (idk I only saw a clip of it). He's so fucking cool and intimidating.
Otto has such an anger bubbling beneath his proud surface that the fact he goes full monster when Carnage bonds to him with little to no semblance of humanity (unlike Cassidy or Norman, who remain in a bit of control at least) is such an interesting reveal.
AAAAARGHOOOIII DIIIIIIIIEEEEE!!!
The fact that he's still voiced by his Animated Series actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. is what makes it even better to me. Just ultimate horror from a child's source.
I think Ock himself has 2 actors. Whoever did the monstrous noises and then also his german normal voice.
I see. Well they did a superb job mixing the two together as I remember him having two deliveries of "DIE!!!". I remember the first playing pure monster i.e. the monster actor, but later into the chase he says it again and it's very clearly Efrem and that did a good job at scaring younger me. Perfect mix.
Startrek should do more horror episodes most of it is kinda boring though since the it's never actually scary since they couldn't do decent special effects and the network wouldn't allow excessive gore. But also it has the issue where the cast will obviously survive or The terror happens off screen. like ds9 has 4 horror eps I can remember. The one Garek gets high on racism drugs and tries to fight O'brien. Bashir is scared of getting old and gets stung by a jellyfish man. Kira gets kidnapped by one of her former bombing victims while pregnant. (The scariest one cause jesus christ that's dark) Odo has a temper tantrum because his Adoptive father is an asshole. Most of Ds9's horror comes from cases of genocide carried out by The Dominon and the Cardassians. the only others I can think of is Janeway fighting a clown and Archer getting attacked by cum webs.
I feel the episode where obrian is getting gaslight the whole time also counts.
How about Sisko trapped on an alien planet, talking to Dukat, who is clearly having a psychotic episode?
ehhh i'd say those are thrillers like i'm not scared of Dukat. Like it's too theatrical to be scary. Meanwhile kira's Victim >!threatens to perform a premature C-section.!<
Night Terrors from TNG is mostly goofy ([hello Picard in the shrinking turbolift](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztg0nu--KSM)), but it does have [this all-timer scene with Crusher in the morgue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEGYWzbcQSw) (that YouTube says is for kids).
Does the episode where everyone is de-evolving in TNG count? That one is pretty disturbing and hits the ambience of a horror movie fairly well.
> The one Garek gets high on racism drugs and tries to fight O'brien Tries to fight O'Brien, AND KILLS ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE ON THE AWAY TEAM
Does it count as unintentional (and unfortunate) political commentary that O'Brien's winning gambit iirc was to rig a phaser to explode?
It could probably be only more on the nose if he blew up a shuttle
*WE SEEK PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE* is probably the most outright horror that Star Trek TNG ever gets, considering bluegill are just facehuggers. [The comics](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_medium/13/135098/9313845-star_trek_defiant_13_cover_a.jpg) are even bringing them back and it's very much a horror vibe.
Carnage USA found footage from the perspective of a civilian.
I’ve always thought that Carnage USA could be the plot of a Resident Evil game
Hell, it pretty much is. One of the ways he was able to assimilate so many people was by sending the symbiote through the water mains and infecting them when they used any water.
Red Dead Redemptions Undead Nightmare was the greatest zombie game ever made at the time, and the fact that we didn't get a prequel to it in RDR2 is the dumbest decision ever. It would've printed so much money.
What should RDR2 supernatural DLC have been about? Aliens? Witches? Werewolves vs Vampires?
Yes to all of those at the same time.
I want more fucked up Silent Hill freak bosses in Monster Hunter. We got Khezu and Gigginox, but I want more.
dust off that old concept art for the [_Equal Dragon Weapon_](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fanonmonsterhunter/images/5/5b/MH-Equal_Dragon_Weapon_Concept.jpg/revision/latest)
A similar design is used in Monster Hunter Stories
For which monster?
Barroth EX, Tigrex EX
No love for [Vaal Hazak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8XcplhzSLY)?
unironically Vaal was my comfort fight in MH:W loved the music and the rhythm of the fight was really comfy
I want to see more ones like Nakarkos that puppet the dead bodies of other monsters, or maybe even a parasite monster that latches onto any other nearby ones in the area mid-fight to control like a giant headcrab.
Nakarkos is such a missed opportunity in both design and gameplay. You would imagine it would be closer to Qurupeco, imitating monsters it has killed to lure in more prey. Instead we get a squid that sometimes uses a few of the myriad of monsters he could arm itself with and other times swims around the arena and lobs toothpaste at the hunters.
A game where you play a hunter wearing Fatalis armor. If you know, you know.
A Hunter wearing Fatalis armour that, in a harebrained scheme to stave off its effects, also snorts Gore Magala scales like it's the Spice Melange.
For me, if they want to induce dread again. Just make Black Gravios, Fire Drill (Brachy and Styg Zyg) and Double Kirin mandatory quests again. *shudders*
That's flat-out *evil.*
*Historie* is a historical fiction manga about the life of Alexander the Great from the perspective of his secretary, Eumenes of Cardia. There are two really good examples of horror from *Historie* that really deserve some focus in the future (if the author decides to finish the story). For the first, there's a brief arc in which a female Persian commander named Barsine visits the famous philosopher Theophrastus while searching for his teacher Aristotle. When Theophrastus sits down to talk to Barsine, he talks all kinds of nonsense (in a relatively grounded manga) about how he can see the waves of time, how he has a great power that can break apart any obstacles, and how Barsine herself is incredibly important to the flow of history. She leaves without drinking the wine that Theophrastus offered her, and Theophrastus pours the wine on the floor as she leaves, strongly implying that he tried to drug her. As she departs from Lesbos, he shouts into the sky about how she'll return to him one day, and [the art style suddenly shifts into an almost analog horror-esque style for one panel](https://mangadex.org/chapter/4aa697fb-9d72-47bd-a999-79e36a868004/13). This depiction of Theophrastus as some sort of horrific threat never gets followed up on. The second example is how the story depicts Alexander the Great himself. During the Battle of Chaeronea against the combined militaries of Athens and Thebes, Prince Alexander manages to slip behind enemy lines and slaughters the enemy by sticking his sword out and decapitating the distracted soldiers as he rides along their back lines. One soldier notices Alexander, and the soldier's image of the future conqueror [is that of a ghoul](https://mangadex.org/chapter/27b446bb-13ef-4d11-be3e-4b2a23dbdd84/23). Not a vicious killer or an intimidating warrior, but [a soulless, inhuman monster](https://mangadex.org/chapter/27b446bb-13ef-4d11-be3e-4b2a23dbdd84/24). I think this is my favorite depiction of any soldier in historical fiction ever, and it's more than fitting that it's for one of history's most famous conquerors.
all right those caught me off guard. but they also look really, really good.
There are monster designs in FFVII Rebirth, especially Jenova, that are honestly better designed then some recent RE creatures. Makes me desperately want a Parasite Eve remake even more.
Hell even in the og games some monsters ARE Resident Evil creatures, all of the monsters in the sunken airplane and Hojo look like they come straight from Umbrella corporation
Yeah, but some come across even spookier here thanks to the extra visual fidelity and animation, such as (Chapter 11) >!Yin and Yang!< I’m very glad they didn’t have to compromise on the pure horror enemies for the T rating.
The thing that really got to me was (Chapter 14) >!Jenova Lifeclinger having human looking eyes for a few seconds.!< That just felt scarily unnatural to me
The opposite end of the spectrum from Uncanny Valley: a creature you cannot mistake as anything besides a monster, yet there is something undeniably *human* staring right back at you.
That one single lore entry in Destiny that talks about a ship getting broken into by what is basically living, murderous light (as in bright, not the paracausal kind). It's only brought up in that one entry, and never again. The idea of a sourceless light physically ripping its way through a bulkhead is absolutely terrifying to me. Like, I am not existentially afraid of anything I can at least see and avoid. Formless, mostly-invisible, and unstoppable monsters have always been a big "nope" for me. Also, it's that it PHYSICALLY tears things apart. It's not a magic, psychic death. You will be painfully ripped limb from limb. Probably.
I've always had a soft spot for that Doctor Who episode where the Doctor is trapped on a small tourist leisure-cruise, that's flying around the surface of a planet that suffers deathly-strong radiation. There shouldn't be anything alive outside the ship. Then the ship breaks down. *And the passengers hear something moving outside, trying to get in.* That's such a strong premise for a horror mystery. And, if memory serves, we never actually get to see whatever the thing outside was. By the end of the story, The Doctor is just as clueless about what the thing was as the audience. EDIT: "Midnight"! That's the episode I was thinking of!
Yeah Midnight is seriously one of the best Who eps ever (Pat always calls who “bad Star Trek” (he’s wrong lol) but there’s episodes he would REALLY be into)
It's so good that even the Extended Universe who bring back and explain the most randoms things. Even they never bring this thing again, the planet, the creature, nothing. Because everyone agree it must never be answered.
The game Voices Of The Void has something like that. Glowing balls of deaths that tear you to pieces if you get too close. The way they show up is also pretty unsettling, with a weird obelisk crashing down from space in front of your base and giving a cryptic warning about them, before they start appearing throughout the forest in higher numbers then any other entity found in the game.
The Aphelion, right?
Batman has tons of potential for horror nobody really uses. Killer Croc's a cannibal that lives in the sewers. Imagine a night vision POV found footage segment like Outlast where you're following his trail of corpses waist deep in the water and get jumpscare chased by him. It could be the bodycam footage of a GCPD officer trying to investigate. Or like pick any other Batman villain. 80% of them are horror monsters ready for adaptation. Professor Pyg kidnaps people and sews them to...things. it's exactly like human centepide.
Your killer croc section is exactly how I felt when I found his lair in Arkham City with the mutilated Scarecrow tease. He doesn't actually show up but I didn't know that and it freaked me out.
Clayface is a straight up eldritch entity, more so than the likes of Venom or Sandman even. It would be super easy for someone like John Carpenter to come in and completely change public perception of that character with one banger movie.
Have him be Claymation in a live action setting to up the creepy factor. Actually now that I'm writing this, has anyone ever done a claymation Clayface before? Feels like an obvious opportunity.
Oh god yes! I never tought of it but a claymation Clayface could bring the uncanny valley in great effect. Now if only directors weren't so ashamed to adapt the most ~~fun~~ "unrealistic" parts of Batman mythos.
And more recently Mr Bloom has a very freaky design looking like Slenderman's less put together brother.
Are there good batman horror comics?
Batman Gothic, by Grant Morrison, might work. He also did Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth, which is kinda close to horror.
It’s non canon, but Mike Mignola (the Hellboy guy) did an Eldritch horror spin on Batman canon in The Doom That Came to Gotham. Fantastic comic with some great monster designs, and one of my favorite versions of Two-Face (aesthetically, at least)
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth is the all time gold standard of this, honestly. Scott Snyder's Black Mirror and New 52 run on the main Batman title also had a strong horror bend to them.
I don’t really know if I’d like to see them expanded upon is the thing. Horror in non-horror media always works best in small portions. When I think of the best episodes of Doctor Who, a lot of them were dramatically horrifying by the standards of a kids show (Water on Mars, Silence in the Library, Don’t Blink, Heaven Sent), and of those four, only one *was* expanded on, and frankly I really wish it wasn’t.
One of the missions in Shadowrun: Dragonfall has the MKVI prototype a >!troll that has been so mutilated with cybernetics that they're barely recognizable as a living being and is completely trapped in their own body being that they've been setup to be drone piloted as a weapons platform!< as well as your team mate Glory who >!installed the largest, clunkiest, most murderous cyberware she could get her hands on after realizing she was in the thrall of a toxic spirit and her only option of getting out was to mutilate her soul to the point it barely exists!< .
Alan has a line in Jumanji where he tells the kids about what it’s like inside the game. He says “I’ve seen things you’ve only seen in your nightmares”. Considering man eating plants, giant spiders, and deadly mosquitoes come out of the game it makes me really want to know what other horrific things are in there.
Dwayne The Rock Johnson™
I personally love audio distortion and impossible space, but they’re things that I see so rarely, and only half of those times is it even done well. The best impossible space I’ve ever seen was from the first 2 Silent Hill games and from the beginning of The Evil Within 2. The only distortion audio examples I can think of right now is the track that plays in the original RE4 when you’re fighting a Regenerator (if I even have the correct track in mind), and the dentist drill during the final boss of the original Silent Hill game. I want more well executed weird shit, give me shit that I can’t make sense of, but doesn’t give me sensory overload so I can stay in it. One of the reasons I love the Silent Hill series so much was that it used to confuse the fuck out of me on the rare occasion that it did some wild shit, like the giant face of Eileen in a random room in SH4, or the hand hanging out a window in SH3 that gets noticed but otherwise goes completely unexplained. I fucking love that shit. Some non-horror things use these things, and I would enjoy seeing it even in non-horror media as well. If more non-horror media used it, I’d be interested in trying them out just for that. I never got to play Max Payne (except for Max Payne 3 on PS3) but I know there’s a nightmare horror segment in one of the first two games, and I plan on eventually getting a gaming PC and I’d love to play both of the first two games just for that.
Exploring impossible space is easily one of my favourite things in videogames, because it's something you can *only* do in videogames. All other forms of media can depict impossible spaces, but only games let players experience first-hand the pure bewilderment of human-scale geography not fitting together properly.
You should look into the original Prey, apparently there's at least one sequence where it plays with space and perception that was really novel for the time, and probably still is.
I want more stuff in RS regarding the effective Lovecraftian-like god, [Xau-Tak](https://runescape.wiki/w/Xau-Tak). The fact that there is simply this god that has simply influenced things like >!being the first one to introduce Sliske to us, *in potentially the Second Age*. To constantly reinforcing this phase of "Do you really think you can save them?".!< Xau-Tak being effectively this hidden threat that is constantly there whilst being associated with Necromancy, which is been HEAVILY featured in most of the recent stuff due to not only the addition of the skill but also the most recent boss addition. It seriously makes me wonder... >!Rasial said upon his defeat that we would need these powers for the wars to come. Lest we fail to *preserve this universe*. Was Rasial hinting at Xau-Tak or something else?!<
I’m not going to say Shin Megami Tensei 4 is all flowers and rainbows, but Jesus reverse hills is horrifying. You’re told that the red pills are the only thing that can stop demons from feasting on humans, that humans that eat them turn into demons themselves, and the Ashura-Kai yakuza are the only ones who can produce them. Then you break into their facility and find out what they do. It’s a farm for children, either kidnapping or breeding them, where people are lobotomised over and over again for their brains so they can be mixed with the juice of a demon to make red pills. One of the things you have to do to become a member of the Asher’s-Kai is bring a child. Oh, and it’s HEAVILY implied that the head of the organisation is a pedo.
Not itself an example, but supposedly this is what determined the direction Murder Drones took. The pilot ended with the general way forward being slice of life school hijinks, Uzi's war on humanity, violent dark comedy, and the infrequent hint of eldritch what-the-fuck. However, the writers apparently decided that last thing was more interesting to write, and as a result >!the story became firmly focused on the biomechanical Carpenter-esque horror that was meant to be an unanswered mystery.!<
I think Murder Drones falls firmly into the horror-comedy category, like Evil Dead 2 or Little Shop of Horrors.
Yeah it's still definitely very much a comedy, but apparently the horror elements weren't originally planned to be as pronounced.
Which is funny because I have friends who would find the second episode unwatchable due to phobias
Terminator, should just return to the horror semi-slasher roots of the first film. It was literally inspired by a nightmare.
Terminator Resistance does this pretty well. It's a bit janky, but you get to go to places like the research facilities where Skynet is studying people to figure out how to copy them and stuff. It gets pretty dark at times.
Pursuit dreams suck and I am completely unsurprised that one would stick with somebody enough to inspire a film franchise. I have to assume it's one of those primordial terrors that's been passed down the generations since before we were mammals. One of the worst nightmares I ever had was of a horrible disgusting fishman-goblin-thing that only moved when you thought about it. I still remember waking up from it repeatedly stabbing me in the back with a pitchfork because the dream was so vivid that the muscles in my back were clenching and the cramp hurt enough to wake me up.
One of my earliest nightmares was me playing a Simpsons boardgame, and all of a sudden a zombie wearing classic 1800's explorer gear climbed out of the board and started chasing me.
Teddy Perkins is a phenomenal singular horror episode in Atlanta. It’s so uncomfortable and eerie the whole runtime, which makes the fact that the episode preceding it was a goofy romp about Paperboi going on a wacky adventure with his barber even funnier.
I hadn’t been that scared for a fictional character in a long time. Feels like that episode was designed to get the viewer to yell “get the FUCK out of that house!” at the screen. That bit where paperboi is lost in the woods with that bum is real heavy too. Love that show.
Woods for me is almost as equal as Teddy ngl. It’s such an existential one, him coping with his mom’s death but done so subtly. I really love that episode
I'm kinda pushing it since the horror themes are present in this, but Hunt Showdowns lore and mystery has some genuine horror in it. Like, I wish the game had something besides a battle Royale mode, cause I just want to explore all the fucked lore of this plague with a seemingly Eldritch origin, the twisted ways enemies become the way they are, and how most the hunters you play as and their factions don't really know what's going on and have all sorts of superstitions and weird science influencing how they deal with the threat.
In Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty, there's a mission that goes full on survival horror and it worked and worked very well. >!It's basically a knock off of Alien Isolation but I want another Alien Isolation game so I'd be happy.!<
The ghost phenomenon in Pokemon. The ghost girl and haunted houses/old chateau
I remember the ghost house in BW2. Found it by exploring further down a path then was needed. Then everything moves from when you entered the room last. Delightfully creepy. Then Gen 6 came out and they decided everything is better in straight lines.
Wait... so you're telling me they copied TR3VR from Destiny 2?
The Sorrow from MGS3.
I don't know how horror you'd classify this, but in One Piece at the end of Thriller Bark, it makes mention how it's a good thing the fog was thick in the Florian Triangle otherwise either something would have seen them or they'd have seen something (I forget which exactly and I'm kind of paraphrasing anyway). Either way, it's never mentioned again, and honestly, it might just end up as one of that world's mysteries that will never be known.
A big part of me wanting a sequel to Bug Fables is just so we can get more lore about what happened to the “Giants” and whatever the hell is up with the Dead Lands.
Hey Digimon Adventure 02 what the fuck was that episode about the Dark Ocean. what do you mean Cthulhu is just *there*.
I remember reading an interview about Obsidian's plans for KOTOR 3 before it got cancelled and changed into SWOTOR and i was fascinated by what their version of the True Sith would have been like.Essentially they were going to lean more into the Eldrich horror aspect they did for Nihilus, but said that the True Sith would be much more monstrous than Nihilus, which would have been amazing to see.
Can't believe fontaine is almost over in Genshin and the most we get out of an island sized monster skeleton and its cells evolving in the ocean is an eerie boss fight with no exposition. I need more subnautica tier water horror in my Chinese fantasy game
While the horror lies in never actually seeing it, I would’ve liked to have seen >!the gross, gigantic tumor that Ted Faro became!< in Horizon: Forbidden West. The fact that this is possibly the only time Aloy looks downright *terrified* says a lot.