FEAR: Is it Scary?

tomanders91 · 17 Feb 2007 at 14:28

For people who have completed FEAR, did you find it scary/creepy?

Jokester · 17 Feb 2007 at 14:30

The first couple of bits were a bit creepy, but then it just gets extremely repetitive.

Ending's quite cool though, one of the better FPS endings.

Jokester

Lonewolf · 17 Feb 2007 at 14:35

I have to agree with Jokester on this one. Strangely enough the expansion pack wasn't as creepy as the original IMO.

-Nick- · 17 Feb 2007 at 14:37

pretty creepy indeed, freaked me out a little bit seeing all the things for the first time.

Borden · 17 Feb 2007 at 14:40

I've had it for a year. I've played it about 5 times

I really like the combat bits but i get really creeped out by the bits in between. It's really 'psychological' as it shows shadows etc moving in front of you/messed up people etc. Lots of blood/flashing lights as well which adds to the scaryness.

I generally dont mind scary games. I loved quake 4 but games like fear where i dread playing it dont do it for me. I think if fear wasnt so scary then it would be one of my favourite games.

Oh and also, the sound has a lot to do with the scary atmosphere. I noramlly turn off the speakers when im going through a scary bit and its all fine then

HighlandeR · 17 Feb 2007 at 14:40

I played it for a few hours didnt really find it scarey at all, if anything I was just running around thru section after section and firing at the same identical soldier 50 million times....

thats when I just exited it and never ran it again

KNiVES · 17 Feb 2007 at 14:42

I haven't beaten the game yet, but the scare factor kinda went away after an hour or so.

TC1 · 17 Feb 2007 at 14:46

Not scary for me. Unless you play it with headphones. Yikes!!

sirlemonhead · 17 Feb 2007 at 15:08

Not in the slightest. Condemned was a different story though

Lolcb · 17 Feb 2007 at 15:15

- install
- 40 mins gameplay
- exit
- uninstall
- never touched the game again

Jack Bauer · 17 Feb 2007 at 15:58

funny game this one, personnaly I loved it the whole way thought. However I can understand how people got bored

Mobius 1 · 17 Feb 2007 at 16:07

i liked it all the way through and some bits were creepy to the point where i panic'ed on one point. lol. the combat is great, i love playing it on hard, the grunts are good enemies.

jellybeard999 · 17 Feb 2007 at 16:15

At the start it does get a touch repetitive, but when you get into it, and there are enough soldiers for them to actually use tactics against you it does get a lot more involving.

Start off on the hardest difficulty at the start.

KNiVES · 17 Feb 2007 at 16:20

I'm not a believer of the 'hardest difficulty suddenly makes a mediocre game better' mantra. I've heard so many people say the same for games like Gears of War 'do the insane mode do the insane mode' - sorry, but that doesn't polish a turd

Hamoodii · 17 Feb 2007 at 16:20

Jokester said:
The first couple of bits were a bit creepy, but then it just gets extremely repetitive.

Thats what i thought as well about F.E.A.R

sampo · 17 Feb 2007 at 18:37

Loved it, thought the combat squad gamplay setup was ace, only bother playing it on the hardest difficulty though.

I played it slow, with a big screen and a good sound setup (rather than charging through - not that that is really possible on the hardest setting), and it creeped me out in places.

My favourite FPS...

pegasus1 · 17 Feb 2007 at 18:41

Play alone with 5.1 sound on an XFi with all the gfx maxed on a large screen in a totally dark room.

Great atmosphere.
The stages in the Hospital made my hairs stand on end.

Very spooky.

Scania · 17 Feb 2007 at 22:58

I must be getting too old for computer games, I've never yet been scared by one.

Strangely, some films can really scare the whatsit out of me! :confused:

Allattar · 18 Feb 2007 at 08:36

Love this game,
I am one of those who find it is very creepy though. Has a lot to do with the music in it

Working my way through extraction point, or at least I would if it didnt crash on the L2 mission. Keeps locking up at the same point every time wierd.

pegasus1 · 18 Feb 2007 at 08:48

Allattar said:
Working my way through extraction point, or at least I would if it didnt crash on the L2 mission. Keeps locking up at the same point every time wierd.

There was an area on this game that i locked up. It was a rooftop place when you have the big black guy with you, he blows open the door after killing the bad guys.
If i tried to go through the door before the smoke cleared then the mgame locked, if i waited for the smoke to disapear then it was fine.