Out of Pod Experience

I always enjoy a good horror game, but I've run into a problem recently. I've played the more mainstream ones, Dead space, FEAR, and such, as well as Amnesia, Penumbra, and things like that.

My problem is that the games scare the absolute **** out of me, up until I either a: get killed once or twice or b: avoid/kill my first 2 or 3 enemies. Then I cease seeing the enemies as frightening and just as a gameplay mechanic.

For example, I was making progress in amnesia painfully slowly. SPOILERS AHEAD (sort of) I eventually made it to the storage (up until now any encounters, whether they were purely cinematic like in the wine cellar, or like in the guest room and could actually kill me, had reduced me to a whimpering wreck.). Then, I opened the door where that one servant grunt or whatever is waiting, panicked as usual and hid in a nearby room. Then after changing my pants I got back to the game and decided to get past it, and while running I realized I could troll it with the table in the middle. I spent the next 2 or 3 minutes lowering my sanity and trolling the enemy, and from that point on I couldn't really be scared of enemies.

The problem is that this is really taking the fun out of horror game for me. After that, in the prison I basically sprinted through the entire thing trying to find the correct door to use the poison on. I'm about to enter the morgue, and I'm hoping that'll make the game a bit more frightening again, but the issue still remains that horror games lose the ability to scare me somewhat quickly.

So my question is, does anyone know a horror game that will terrify me all the way through, from beginning to end?

Also, post your experience with horror games here. I'm curious if anyone else is into them, and if there are any good ones I've missed out on.

Silent Hill 2?

I never felt scared playing so-called horror shooters like the fabled FEAR or Doom. My guess is that being afraid simply does not fit at all with the image of the elite soldier that basically kills everything in sight.

I had better luck with "sneaky" games, the scariest episode I had in a game so far was the infamous Shalebridge Cradle from Thief 2: Deadly Shadows followed by the Oceanside Hotel in Vampire: Bloodlines.... all without blowing up a gazillion of zombies or w/e.
Or perhaps it was exactly the lack of constantly having to blow up something that allowed me to concentrate on the atmosphere.

You want to play a scary game, play Catherine... what the hell is wrong with japanese people?

horrors games aren't even scary. random things jumping out at you isn't scary its shocking.

While that is true that shocking a fear is different. Fear can come from worrying about or where you will be shocked.

Bommel McMurdoc + Comedy Club = CNN Breaking News.

*chuckles* actually that means about the same thing.

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Anyway, drug use? Or how about lighting candles in the dark and screaming into a mirror for five minutes before play? Married? Have a mother in-law, place a framed picture of her next to the screen? I don't know, none of it works for me...

Well it would certainly prove my hypothesis of console gamers being weak

Remember when video game players were the ones who were weak.

No that everyone plays games you would think that would make everyone equal.

**** no, we'll redraw the lines.