Afraid of Monsters/Cry of Fear

[Kurshok]

Has anyone else played these two Half-Life mods? They're pretty cool, from what I've seen of Let's Plays on YouTube. I think I like Afraid of Monsters more, though. I just love those old-graphics-looks if Goldsource. 

[Anderson]

Cry of Fear is lo-fi in a bad way. Too many jump scares.

[stgatilov]

I played Cry of Fear, and it is great horror... in its own sense.
It is scary in a very different way than e.g. Amnesia. And it is very tiresome to play... I could not play for long time without break, especially when I started.
Jump scares are plenty, and probably the worst one is almost at the beginning

As for Afraid of Monsters, I only watched someone playing it, and it looked very similar to old-style survival horrors in a bad way: you have no idea where to go and have no resources to survive, which becomes annoying after 10-20 deaths.

[Anderson]

I think that I can only like lo-fi games that some say "are so bad they're good" like Depths of Fear :: Knossos. The same can be said about Nightmare House 1 and 2, Home, Lone Survivor etc. I personally don't think they're bad though. But I suppose that's what lo-fi means in a good way.

Cry of Fear feels cheap and edgy just for the sake of it.

Edited March 19, 2022 by Anderson

[Xolvix]

I remember playing Cry of Fear back in the day. I was impressed by the visual improvements they made to the GoldSrc engine but the actual game, while I did finish it, didn't leave a lasting impression.

My favourite Half-Life horror mod is the classic They Hunger trilogy. I think I liked it because it was a bit more linear so easier to follow, a more loose approach to the horror (since you had lots more weapons to play with than Cry of Fear so be was less desperate for the player), and it just didn't take itself as seriously and had this charm to it that was really neat.

[Kurshok]

14 hours ago, Xolvix said:

I remember playing Cry of Fear back in the day. I was impressed by the visual improvements they made to the GoldSrc engine but the actual game, while I did finish it, didn't leave a lasting impression.

My favourite Half-Life horror mod is the classic They Hunger trilogy. I think I liked it because it was a bit more linear so easier to follow, a more loose approach to the horror (since you had lots more weapons to play with than Cry of Fear so be was less desperate for the player), and it just didn't take itself as seriously and had this charm to it that was really neat.

I also love the They Hunger trilogy!