Any gamers here? My favorite computer games tend to be the scary ones. Here's a list of a few I like (I'm strictly a computer guy, but I've played a couple of console games on my brother's Playstation 2):

System Shock II

Fatal Frame

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. -- Shadows of Chernobyl

Silent Hill 2 & 3

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

F.E.A.R.

Sanitarium

DOOM
Aliens vs. Predator 1 & 2

Penumbra: Overture

Planescape: Torment

I know I'm forgetting a bunch, but what are your faves?

Resident Evil 4 as well as the rest of the series (particularly the graphically updated gamecube versions)

and Eternal Darkness is very good though I didnt get too tremendously far in.

The Suffering 1 and 2: Dude play this game on a stormy night alone in the dark with a really good surround sound it will make you pee your pants and of course, Doom for x-box. I still have not finished playing suffering 2 or doom I went back to playing The Sims2 much safer.

dead rising for x-box

and also bioshock--soon to be a movie

The entire DOOM series

Manhunt 1 and 2

The Splatter House series

Deus Ex

Halflife 1 and 2

Max Payne

Zombies ate my neighbors

Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the earth

Nightmare Creatures 2 (on the Dreamcast)

Quake

AVP 2

Duke Nukem 3d

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

Dead Raising really I thought that game was a little childish. Mine was Friday the 13th on n.e.s. yes, I still own one.

Bioshock was good, but nowhere near as scary as System Shock II. Ken Levine, originally with Looking Glass Studios (a now-defunct development house of legendary status in the industry), spearheaded both games.

The Suffering

F.E.A.R

PREY

Fear was the first game in a long time to give me chills, that little girl is creepy as hell.

I'm shocked this hasn't been mentioned yet.  I've only seen it played twice, and it's massively freaky...the Fatal Frame series.  Yeah, it's a photography survival horror game, but Pokemon Snap, this aint.

EDIT:  and I totally missed that youd mentioned it in the opening post, Pastor.  Right.  Carry on.

PC- Goliath the Soothsayer just a point and click but creepy alone in the dark

PS2 The Suffering

haven't played most of these games, but I did play friday the 13th on NES--you even get to fight his mother's floating head.

Dead rising is the reason I bought the damn x-box --great stress reliever killin' zombies with everything from bowling balls and katanas to chainsaws and sledgehammers--what's not to love--I never finished the story--I would just run around killin' zombies for an hour or two--did you ever go underground and get the truck and run over their asses?

who's your big daddy?

another blast from the past is Ghosts n Goblins.

 I used to love that game--me and my oldest girl would play that for hours "Martians need cheerleaders"

uh oh--the dreaded triple post

I have played every FATAL Frame (1,2,AND 3) And I will not play them in the dark alone! I think they are the best!

Nothing beats the riding lawnmower.

And its still just as tough a game all these years later.  Such good backgrounds and enemies.

FEAR THE TRIPLE POST!  FEAR IIIIIIIIIT!

So wait.  If I'm quoting from a triple post twice, does that make it a sextuple post?

Did all that stuff lol.  my kids and their friends fall out when I make up Stupid dialog  like standing behind the counter in the bookstore throwing books and saying things like "book'em danno!" Old Hawaii five-O style.

Dead Risinggggg. It's so beautiful.

Over the years: 1999-present

The Resident Evil series

The Silent Hill series

Nightmare Creatures

Parasite Eve

Fatal Frame

Alone In The Dark

The Thing

The Suffering

Devil May Cry

and my son just got the XBOX 360

The Darkness

Gears Of War

Condemned: Criminal Origins

Fear: First Encounter Assault Recon

all of these are great title

Yeah, I forgot Alone in the Dark. Good call. It was the first computer horror game (except for a couple of lame RPG's and text adventures). I never thought it was that scary, but it was Lovecraftian, so it was cool.

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Here's one I totally forgot that will make Zombie Master swoon: Stubbs the Zombie: Rebel Without a Pulse. Right up his alley: it's a spoof on the zombie invasion theme. Very amusing game. For everybody who's been posting in the Zombie forum: get this game. You'll love it. (Available for Windows, Mac, and Xbox.)

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EDIT: Lots of people like Clive Barker's Undying, too, although it's not one of my faves. Still, I can see why people like it. Good game.

and clock tower that was another old one I played--and for a real blast--remember Castlevania?

How could I forget Castlevania.  The Circle of the Moon one for GBA was really good.  The original was great too.

i liked castlevania: symphany of the night--is that right?--well anyway--I think that's the one that had the really great music

The Suffering, a great and very scary PC horror game, is now being given away for free. If you want to try it, go here, do the age verification and then download it. If for some reason you're not offered the download after the age verification, just do a search on the site.

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As far as I know, only the PC version is available for download, even though the game was released for other platforms as well.

My favorites would be

1  Resident Evil 2

2  Dead Rising

3  Silent Hill 1 ( it has my favorite music )

Oh, I almost forgot... Parasite Eve 1 and 2. Liked those too

Fallout 3 rocks!!!

Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap

Scary.

Does anyone remember an old DOS game, I think it was called "Last Half of Darkness" where you gotta find some key in a haunted house? Or is it just, like so many other things I thought were real...part of my slowly receding sanity..?

Well seeing the newest system I have is PS2 and xbox it's obvious i'm a retro gamer through and through. Friday the 13h and nightmare on elm street for nintendo were great. They had a really funny frankenstein game for the atari 2600 too. Another game I used to play was called Are you Afraid of the Dark for the PC, based off one of the favorite shows of my youth. But yeah Fatal Frame is pretty crazy, I love this thread, makes me think of my beloved Stay Alive.

Fallout 3 is technically sci-fi I guess, but it's like taking Oblivion and Dead Rising and mixing them together with crystal meth.  Mutants, ghouls, giant scorpions, killer robots, cults that worship the bomb, contract killers --all set in post nuclear war DC.  You can even eat corpses to survive.  All the food and water is poisoned but you still have to eat it to survive.  You can even wear a Jason hockey mask and bash skulls with a sledgehammer--gore galore--you even get showered with hunks of flesh and blood when you blow someone up and when you shoot someone point blank with a sawed-off shotgun . . . oh yes.

I forgot 2 I had to mention. I was reading some old gaming magazines and forgot that George Romero helped develop a video game, I think it was Land of Dead like the movie. Another not scary but funny in my opinion is a game called Stubbs the Zombie. You can turn people into Zombies and lead a little army and pull your hands off and send it through holes to turn people and you have to eat brains to stay alive. Absolutely hilarious, for the people with PS2's here I would suggest it.

Did anyone play "Alien Trilogy" on the PS1? It was kind of a weird amalgam of the three movies basically a first-person shooter. I remember being quite freaked out in some bits that employed the use of strobe lighting and sometimes all out darkness where u would only see the aliens in your pulse rifle muzzle flash. I really dug the sound effects for the guns - they exactly imitated the sounds of the pulse rifles, Vasquez's big gun, and the alien screeeeeeeches....if i remember correctly there were also sound bites from the movies, like Hudson's "they're all over the place!". Classic fun.

I'm not much of a gamer, but I've played Alien vs. Predator about a million times. First person shooter with three modes to play through, as the alien, as a human and as a Predator.  It's really old, illustrating how out of the loop I am.

I also liked Alice, but that's not really horror.

Hey Czar, I'm not much of a gamer either, I still believe Doom is the best first person shooter ever invented. I mostly got into games when I was younger, when you had to load 3.5 inch disks into the PC one after another to install a game and pixels were the size of my head. The frenetic pace of games these days just doesnt agree with me, and the amount of shit happening on the screen at any one time gives me fucking seizures.

And "out of the loop" is a pretty damn good place to be I reckon 

You think that's bad? I played them when they came on one--count 'em, one--5 1/4" floppy. :)

That said, I don't disagree with either you or Czar. DOOM may well be the best shooter ever made, and the original Aliens vs. Predator is still one of the scariest games ever, just as in the world of movies a case can be made for Psycho as best horror movie ever, even though tons of others have come out since then, and Halloween is still frightening people three decades after it was made.

Hey Pastor, lol yep I remember floppy disks also! While we're on the subject, did u guys ever have Commodore computers over there? Technically I guess thats the first games machine i ever used, a Commodore 16, circa early 80's. And it had a tape drive. Yes, a tape drive. The games came on what looked like audio cassettes. To get to the game u wanted you had to type on the screen, "load" and it would tell you to "press play on tape drive" and you literally had to fast forward if there was more than one game on the tape. Ah, memories!

Anyway...getting off topic, sorry!

Yeah, Commodore was huge here. It was the de facto standard for young gamers before the PC took over. I had a Sinclair ZX-80, though. You had to record to magnetic (i.e. cassette) tape with it, too, although programs weren't available to buy until later on. When I first got it, you had to program the games yourself in BASIC and then store them on the tape. It also had a membrane keyboard and a whopping 8K of RAM!

I sure was proud of that computer, though. It cost me fifty bucks brand new, which I still think was a steal almost 30 years later. I learned 100X more from that little machine than the kids today do with their taxpayer-funded $3000 Dells.

I had an Atari--the blip-blip-blip of Pong

Videogames killed my beloved pinball machines.

My youngest got me back into videogames with pokemon about 10 years ago. 

Now I kick her friend's little asses at videogames.

Oh god, I loves me some vintage pinball machines, too. But only the older ones. The newer ones that started coming out in the eighties with ten bazillion things going on at once and three levels of tracks and all that jazz turn me off big time.