Elmofongo: Amazing that people here still wants capcom to release Resident evil 1, 2, and 3 despite the aged controls which i liked and apperant belief that it was never scary and games like silent hill and amnesia and slender is.
RE was never scary, it operated on a stress mechanic.
the Zombies function was to constantly press the notion of death into the users mind while having savagely restricted resources made the user think through every action, combined with having cramped environments and drastically altering camera angles from room to room (so that the player can never go on auto pilot and stop directly paying attention), and you get a player so tensed up that they generate their own fear despite the game not being at all scary.
I made the Dreamcast release of RE3 my bitch, god I loved that game .... RE2 was pretty awesome too from how may variations it had for multiple playthroughs, I'd still rather have a PC version of Code Veronica on GOG than either of RE2 or RE3.