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Anyone know any good games to play that has a gothic atmosphere? Obviously, the soundtracks to these games are very important to generate the correct 'feel'.

I know of a few...

Timesplitters 2 - Notre Damne level
Call Of Cthulhu- Dark Corners of The Earth
All Castlevania games
Timesplitters 3- Mansion of Madness levels
Vampire Night -PS2
Doom - all platforms
Medievil 1 and 2- PS2
Splatterhouse 1,2 and 3 Arcade and Genesis platform.
All Silent Hill games

Other stuff thats a bit more cutesy. Great, nonetheless.

Ghouls 'n' Ghosts - Graveyard level
Banjo Kazooie -N64- Mad monster Mansion level
Donkey Kong Country - Creepy Castle level

Anyone know of anymore? Love gothic video games. Love 'em.

If you haven't looked into the Fatal Frame series for the PS2 (not sure if it is offered on any other consoles) I would highly recommend it.

While I haven't played the third, the first two were very atmospheric.

The first one was the creepier of the two, but had too much combat; (falling a bit too far into the trap of the FPS genre) while the second had less combat but lacked something of the tension the first invoked. (they needed a few more incidents were monsters sprung out at you unexpectedly - as some of the encounters were a bit too predictable.)

I've been meaning to pick up the third, to see if they found a good balance between the two, but haven't had my PS2 hooked up for about a year.

Sanitarium
Scratches
Half-Life 2-Ravenholm Level
Half-Life-They Hunger mods

System Shock 2 and both games in The Suffering series certainly count as exellent bits of horror, but it might be a bit of a stretch to call them Gothic.

Resident Evil on the Gamecube.

Scary as Hell.

A bit outdated, but:
The 7th Guest
and
The 11th Hour

(and of course: Strahd's Possession and Stone Prophet But stay away from Iron and Blood. Trust me.)

Planescape: Torment. And quite a few parts of Baldur's Gate II. Oh, and the villains of Icewind Dale II would work. You know what, just play anything by Black Isle.

I have to second the 7th hour and the 11th guest, those were some remarkable games. Another creepy game was Faust by Dreamcatcher games.

Has no one mentioned the one...
the original...
the only...

Quake!!!

Phantasmagoria I & II
Gabriel Knight 2

They played like a cheep cinemax soft core at times and the acting was probly the most scarry thing in the game but the creepy gothic horror feel was there.

For those of us who can run it...

Oblivion!

Yeah...the story was terrible for the most part...the villains pretty useless ("I AM THE GREATEST NECROMANCER OF ALL TIME! EVERYONE FEARS ME! BOW DOWN BEFORE ME!" *claymore to the face* "HOW COULD I BE DEFEATED SO EASILY!?")

But once you actually enter Oblivion...it gets pretty insane.

I forgot another two I really liked

American McGee's Alice (that was a great atmoshpere!)

and

Clive Barker's Undying (a little combat heavy but awesome atmoshphere as well.

Desertrising wrote:I forgot another two I really liked

American McGee's Alice (that was a great atmoshpere!)

and

Clive Barker's Undying (a little combat heavy but awesome atmoshphere as well.

Quest for Glory 4, althoug old and gothic-lite.

I will second Fatal Frame: Crimson Butterfly. That game was so scary that I had to quit playing it for a while.

What about Thief: The Dark Project? The climax to that game was so scary! And how about the latest one...Theif: Deadly Shadows? The Shalebridge Cradle level has been hailed as one of the scariest levels ever. And I have to agree with them.

Yes, Shalebridge deffinately a creepy environment. I found myself well spooked throughout, which rarely occurs when I play games. (though, like I said, Fatal Frame did well - the resident evil games never scared me)

In fact, I'd recommend Deadly Shadows (and the other thief games) for anyone. These were some well thought out and interesting "fps" type games which had the added novelty of relying almost entirely on stealth and rarely requiring one to kill. (in fact, if done properly, you can get through almost the entire game without having to kill a single foe)

How about Blood Omen:Legacy of Kain for the original playstation?
In all honesty, that game probebly got me interested in the whole horror genre again.
It had some good stuff like Gypsies, an insane toymaker, prophecy and all while in a dark, brooding atmosphere. You played as the main character, Kain, and travelled the world of Nosgoth while unravelling clues about the state of the world, which ultimatley led you to either saving or destroying the world.
The follow up games where fun, but where nowere near the level of a gothic atmosphere as the first.