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Games I Play on Halloween: A Spooktacular Round Table

The Pixlbit Staff shares some of their favorite games that go bump in the night.

Super Meat Boy

In case you haven't heard of it yet, Super Meat Boy is a game about a boy with no skin who runs bleeding through levels filled with saws, spikes, maggots, and all manner of horrible creatures trying to consume him.

Meat Boy is tasked with saving his girlfriend Bandage Girl from the clutches of the evil Dr. Fetus. The game mechanics are pretty standard for a platformer: you run, jump, walljump, and try to avoid hitting things. In this case you also have to account for the reduced friction that comes with constantly sliding around on your own blood. Meat Boy can't take a hit, and almost anything that isn't a flat surface can damage you, so you have to be extra careful at all times. The various worlds are based around design elements like discarded hospital supplies, factories run amok, and deserted city buildings, so there's no shortage of creepy imagery.

It's terrifyingly hard. There are grotesque bosses, floaty monsters that chase you around like ghosts, and horrifying... laser beams. Just play it.

- Kyle Charizanis

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#Halloween  #Spooky  #Survival horror  #Trick-or-treat  #Resident evil  #Silent hill 

Comments

Jason Ross Senior Editor

10/30/2011 at 08:41 PM

For the record, I'm gonna make my game a live PlayBit tomorrow night! Spooky scary!

Anonymous

10/30/2011 at 10:41 PM

Ya'll should post each of your names for your individual picks!

Jesse Miller Staff Writer

10/30/2011 at 10:43 PM

We actually did :) It's easy to miss, but you'll see the table of contents for the piece on the right hand side that has each of our names.

Nick DiMola Director

10/30/2011 at 10:44 PM

Just to make it easier, I went ahead and ended each segment with the author's name :)

Chessa DiMola Assistant Director

10/31/2011 at 11:12 AM

All these segments are making me even more impatient to get my night of spooky gaming going. Funny enough, I'll play through video games creepy enough to give someone nightmares, but I refuse to watch horror movies. Anyone else like that?

daRth_kiLL

10/31/2011 at 02:36 PM

im surprised nobody mentioned system shock 2

Jesse Miller Staff Writer

10/31/2011 at 02:50 PM

That's a good one. Lots of games that I wanted to give love to, including Undead Nightmare and Dead Rising, but there is always next year!

Michael117

10/31/2011 at 04:09 PM

I started getting into the Halloween spirit right at the beginning of October. I did another playthrough of the original Deadspace and loved it just like I did back when it came out.

Lol, after that I started a playthrough of Deadly Premonition, I laugh even mentioning it. It's the first time I've ever played some of the game, I bought it off Amazon a few weeks ago. Instead of being creeped out I was just laughing the whole time at the dialogue, cut scenes, and music. I was turning my head to the side, confused, trying to figure out just what the hell was going on lol. It's hard to play mechanically, and incredibly time consuming, but I'm kinda fascinated by it and it makes me laugh even thinking about what I've seen in the game so far. It's so f*cking weird.

Princess Toadstool

10/31/2011 at 09:41 PM

I really enjoyed Condemned. Kudos!

Julian Titus Senior Editor

10/31/2011 at 10:13 PM

Another game that I think is perfect for Halloween is Super Metroid. That game has always instilled in me such a sense of isolation and foreboding.

Jason Ross Senior Editor

11/01/2011 at 05:52 PM

Earthbound was another game we left off the list, but it fits pretty well, given the town of Threed.

Kathrine Theidy Staff Alumnus

11/02/2011 at 10:34 PM

This is why I should check my email...

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