History VideoGame / NightmareHouse

-->'''PA''': [[AC: Thank you for participating in this fire drill. If it was a real fire, you'd be dead by now.]]
* HauntedHouse: Setting of the first game.

** The aforementioned scene involving the [[spoiler:[[RedShirt SWAT]]]] gesturing for you to flip a switch and open the door is visually similar to ''VideoGame/{{Cryostasis}}'' where a man apparently trapped in an elevator shaft [[CatScare bangs on the glass of the control booth]] and points to the controls just below him.

* StringyHairedGhostGirl: Emily. [[spoiler:[[DarkIsNotEvil Not exactly the typical kind, though.]]]]
* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: In Chapter 7, even though you know [[spoiler:Romero]] is probably hiding in that bathroom you have no choice but to leave the room, at which point [[spoiler: he locks you out and you're forced to destroy the core while he sends hallucinations after you]]. This is even more frustrating since you just got the shotgun, [[spoiler:[[GameplayAndStorySegregation the weapon that had been used to "open" locked doors by the squad leader until that point]]]].
** It gives funnier if you noclip through the door to find [[spoiler: Romero is silently doing a physically impossible dance of the sort straight out of a bad G-Mod short]].

* ArtifactTitle: Subverted. Only the beginning of the second game takes place in the titular house. The rest takes place entirely in Never Lose Hope Hospital.

''Nightmare House'' is a free two-part horror modification of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''. It can be found [[http://nh2.wecreatestuff.com/ here]] (''Nightmare House 2'' includes [[UpdatedRerelease a revamped version of Nightmare House 1)]]. It is not to be confused with the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' mod of the same name.

* AnAxeToGrind: The first weapon the player gets in either game is an axe.

** Romero drops this line, [[Machinima/FreemansMind "Hey, hey, hey. Don't touch that; it's mine! Everything here is mine!"]]

** If you noclip to the rooms that Romero talks to via TV over, he'll actually chastise you for cheating and tell you to go back to the actual level.
* EliteMooks:

* ZombieApocalypse: Happened in the second game. The zombies in the first game are likely just [[spoiler:hallucations induced by Emily.]]

* DemonicPossession: Emily does this to [[spoiler:the player]], while [[spoiler:Romero]] does this to [[spoiler:[[MoralEventHorizon the SWAT, helicopter pilot and quite possibly the entire hospital]]]]. He may also have [[spoiler:created Emily]] in the first place.

* MurderousMannequin: Subverted in ''Nightmare House 2'', which has you spending one level with a lot of mannequins - which multiply and come closer when you do not look at them, but do not attack. [[spoiler:You then encounter a SWAT officer knocking on a window from another room and uses gestures to show you where to go. When you get to the place where he was, there is just a mannequin...]]

** Also, the mannequins mentioned above. They don't attack you, they don't even make any movements. And yet they managed to become one of the creepiest elements of the game by having a nasty habit of [[spoiler:appearing right behind you to spook you as you turn, and replacing a friendly NPC who were gesturing you the way to go just moment ago.]]

** It gives funnier if you noclip through the door to find [[spoiler: Romero is silently doing a physically impossible dance of the sort straight out of a bad G-Mod short]]

* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: In Chapter 7, even though you know [[spoiler:Romero]] is probably hiding in that bathroom you have no choice but to leave the room, at which point [[spoiler: he locks you out and you're forced to destroy the core while he sends hallucination after you]]. This is even more frustrating since you just got the shotgun, [[spoiler:[[GameplayAndStorySegregation the weapon that had been used to "open" locked doors by the squad leader until that point]]]].

** FauxAffablyEvil: At the final fight however [[spoiler:Romero reveals himself to be basically outright evil as he brags about being able to control free will, couldn't care less about the the destruction caused by The Core and brags about murdering a SWAT team, all while gleefully talking about your inevitable death.]]

** "We would like to take a minute of your time to notify you... [[spoiler:There is something behind you.]]."

''Nightmare House'' is a free two-part horror modification of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''. It can be found [[http://nh2.wecreatestuff.com/ here]] (''Nightmare House 2'' includes [[UpdatedRerelease a revamped version of Nightmare House 1)]]. It is not to be confused with the SuperMarioWorld mod of the same name.

You had to have ''Half-Life 2: Episode 2'' installed in order to run it, but the latest, updated release turned the MOD standalone, while also updating a few things.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekX08mqSh9c A special guest star appears]] in one of the Easter Eggs. It's [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/YumeNikki Uboa]]]].

* TenSecondFlashlight: Your light in both games lasts as long as the ones in the ''Half-Life'' games they're based off of. In the case of ''2'', it's just as generous as the one in ''Half-Life 2 Episode 2'', but since you spend MUCH more time in total darkness in the mod, its relatively short battery life becomes painfully noticeable.

* MurderousMannequin: Subverted in ''NightmareHouse 2'', which has you spending one level with a lot of mannequins - which multiply and come closer when you do not look at them, but do not attack. [[spoiler:You then encounter a SWAT officer knocking on a window from another room and uses gestures to show you where to go. When you get to the place where he was, there is just a mannequin...]]

''Nightmare House'' is a free two-part horror modification of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''. It can be found [[http://nh2.wecreatestuff.com/ here]] (''Nightmare House 2'' includes [[UpdatedRerelease a revamped version of Nightmare House 1)]].

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: If you noclip to the rooms that Romero talks to via TV over, he'll actually chastise you for cheating and tell you to go back to the actual level.

* EasterEgg: WordOfGod says there are 17, including a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UvbLcN7KwQ music video]]!

** "We would like to notify you. [[spoiler:SOMETHING IS BEHIND YOU]]."

** The hallway full of shadow people is a reference to a similar sequence in [[{{Metro2033}} Metro 2033]].
** Similarly, the mannequin sequence refers to the ones in ''VideoGame/{{Condemned}}''.
** The music video easter egg is a parody of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jWK2C9ZjyQ this video]] by [[WeeblAndBob Weebl]].

'''Warning''': You ''must'' have ''Half-Life 2: Episode 2'' installed in order to run it.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekX08mqSh9c A special guest star appears]] in one of the Easter Eggs. It's [[spoiler:[[YumeNikki Uboa]]]].

** The bloody hospital hallways scenes are a dead match to similar scenes in ''[[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R.]]''... although they sometimes end differently than expected.

** FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: At the final fight however Romero reveals himself to be basically outright evil as he brags about being able to control free will, couldn't care less about the the destruction caused by The Core and brags about murdering a SWAT team, all while gleefully talking about your inevitable death.]]

** FauxAffablyEvil:[[spoiler: At the final fight however Romero reveals himself to be basically outright evil as he brags about being able to control free will, couldn't care less about the the destruction caused by The Core and brags about murdering a SWAT team, all while gleefully talking about your inevitable death.]]

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