This game freaked me the hell out. It has little blood or violence, unlike Resident Evil, but is so dark, eerie and full of "WHOAH!!" moments that will make you piss yourself. It gave my younger brother nightmares for days. What really makes it scary is that it's based on something that really happened in 1986 in Japan. I reccomend it over any horror movie for a good scare.
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I agree. Forget comparing this to Resident Evil in scare factor, this is on par with, maybe even above Silent Hill. Great game
shareI can play Silent Hill 2 alone or at night, but fatal frame... Zombies just are not as scary as ghosts. You can put a wall between you and a zombie, but with a ghost there is no escape.
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Yeah this game really really got my blood pumping. The perfect way to experience it is in a pitch black room (i.e a basement or room at 2:00 am) This game even scares me and i've completed it many times. Great analogy Bantha. I never really thought about all that stuff. I just knew it scared the crap outta me.
shareI agree. The storyline is very good as well; it's not just put in to carry the game along or something. The ghosts are truly spooky, and I like the way that they have backstory, such as the children playing tag not actually knowing that they are dead.
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This is by far the scariest game i have ever played, i rented it a couple of years ago and had to return it right away cause i couldn't play by myself, then i reanted it later with a friend and beat it, right after i rushed out to buy it (not easy to find) and still to this day i play it and am terrified :) great sound effects (creaking floors)...i cant wait till the movie i hope they dont *beep* it up.
shareI rented this game awhile back from work (i work at BBV) and before I had a chance to play, I watched my brother-in-law play. He's the pure-evil teenager type and after about 5 minutes into it, he dropped the controller and refused to play it again because it scared him that bad. I think it was just after watching the ghost in Fireplace walk below him while he was on the balcony above it. I went to work the next day, returned the game and bought it. It was only $14.99 (plus 20% off) used and I am thankful that I grabbed it there. Fatal Frame is by far my favorite video game ever and I have to admit I am happy that they canned the movie. Do we need something like that ruining what made the game so awesome? We all know they'll cast from American bimbo for Miku and someone from the OC to play Mafuyu.
Even though its hard to find this game for under $30, I'd say pick it up. I will scare the holy hell out of ya.
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The movie wasn't canceled. The writer of the film just has too much "on the plate" right now. John Rogers is focusing all his attention on the the Transformers movie first. Another reason is they don't won't it to be a ripoff of the other Japanese based horror films that have come out lately.
As for who would play Miku, the character would not be played by a bimbo. Apparently the girl Courtney Webb has tried out for, but no other casting is known yet. Since Steven Speilberg liked the game(his son and him played it), he wants the atmosphere to stay Japanese, including the cast, apparently.
this game is defeintly the scariest game i have ever played. It doesn't rely on blood, violence and mutated creatures like resident evil and silent hill to scare its players.
Also the storyline is better and more in depth then the cheesy b grade stories that lingger in the resident evil series.
After finishing this game at night, home alone i crapped myself when i thought I saw one of the ghosts from the game in my backyard.
If u like a good scare than play this game
Wow, I haven't thought about this game in AGES! I think I played it for, like, two minutes and then I tossed the controller back to my friend. I remember we would always bust it out at parties and she would play, while we all cowered on the floor, scared *beep* Oh, man...good times!
I remember this part at a bridge where one of the ghosts - I think it's name was Broken Neck - would fly in from nowhere. Oh! The dolls! I HATED the dolls! And there were, like, these stone things with creepy messages on them. Those terrified me to NO end!
Fatal Frame is the scariest game I have ever played, but it's one of my favorites. I love the concept and I wish I wasn't so scared of it because I would love to buy it.
most japanese horror movies stay true to the original just americanize it a tad. i really liked the Ring(just the first one) where we americans go wrong is we have to keep making more and to the fatal frame story i for one think a sequal is enough as long as it is true to the game story. i found FF2 scarier then FF1. and this still is by far the scariest game ever. even silent hill and those characters freak me out. i even had to look away a few times when i saw the movie.
shareI could play Resident Evil at night all alone perhaps, but not Fatal Frame. No way. Uh-uhh.
shareFrom what I've seen from the trailers. This makes Doom 3 look like The Tweenies.
btw does anyone know where I can get this game? I've looked in the shops for it and I can't seem to see it anywhere.
which version are you looking for? I've heard the original ps2 version is almost impossible to find. but the xbox version is supposedly a little more common. you could try amazon.
shareI own the complete series on the ps2 and out of the three, 1 is by far the scariest. The atmosphere is so dark and creepy and when i first played this game, i crapped myself every time a ghost would appear and I rarely get scared in general. I seriously recommend this game to horror fans and anybody who gets scared by resident evil or silent hill then be prepared to crap ur pants. RE and SH look like sonic or mario games when compared to fatal frame.
shareWhat incident in 1986 in Japan are you referring to? The stuff I read said that the game developers made up the whole, "based on a true story thing" to sell the game. If you know something I don't, let me know.
shareit's been a very, very long time since I played this, but yeah it was scary as hell, so scary in fact that I was never able to beat it (although I did beat the second one)
I especially hated the hallway with the hanging ropes, I remember once I was just randomly walking through, exploring around and one of the ropes moved startling Miku
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I especially hated the hallway with the hanging ropes, I remember once I was just randomly walking through, exploring around and one of the ropes moved startling Miku
Last time I replayed the game I noticed there's a corpse of the one of the sacrifices up in the rafters of the rope hallway.
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