So today, I can honestly hang my head in shame as a gamer.
Why, you ask? I will tell you why. I have beaten RE5, laughing at how it is classified in "Horror". I played Bioshock, a game that is renowned for it's creepy atmosphere, without batting an eye. I can play any of the F.E.A.R. games in one setting. I walk through Half Life like nothing, and Dead Space bows before my commands. But today, I can honestly say that a game scared me and make me jump out of my seat, knocking it over in the process.
What caused this reaction? What could make this hardened Horror Vet scream like a little girl and almost wet his pants?
A Mudcrab
What with all the talk of Oblivion on these forums, it made me dig up my copy and form a Nord Warrior, based off of a Chosen of the Chaos Gods (Blade, Block, Heavy Armor, Destruction, Restoration, Illusion, Armorer, The Atronach). However, with the fact that I had already beaten most of the Guilds, I decided to just walk around, killing stuff and taking their loot. About halfway between the Imperial City and Skingrad, I come across a cave just south of the Golden Road. Entering it, I find myself fighting dozens of Imps, which hold no fear because I absorb their spells and easily dispatch them up close. Anyway, I get through the cave, and in the very last room, I turn to the right, start to turn to the left, my Starlight (first Light spell you get for starting with Illusion) fades and I look into the darkness, into a mudcrabs face. This thing was HUGE! I was staring at it face to face as a NORD! I scream bloody murder, do a reaction swing, and kill it in one hit.
And then everyone runs into the room wondering who died, all bursting out laughing when they hear I had been frightened by a MUDCRAB!
Now that I have said my peice, who else has had a similar experiance?
GAH! That'd be one hell of a shock if you just flicked on the light and saw that right in your face...
I think the last time I was really shocked was when I replayed through Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem again (an extremely creepy game if you've never played it). Despite playing the game through at least half a dozen times, I still jumped during the one jump-scare of the game. (In one bathroom, you can examine a bathtub and suddenly see your dead body in a pool of blood, followed by a scream)
I cant believe they said RE:5 was scary When i was a little kid ide watch my step dad play the original Resident Evil and that first zombie you find? the cutscene where the zombie turns his head towards you? that crap scared the right out of me...but i loved it
Dead Space did a GREAT job at being erie but i was never too scared to do something...
Game that genuinly scared me? Fatal Frame. i didnt get to play much of it a all but from what i played that game was creepy as hell
I was a total noob, just standing and randomly gazing into the horizon with my binoculars.
Suddenly, a huge mutated warthog jumps into view 5 feet away from me. Remember I had my binoculars on, so the thing looked
6 times bigger and all I could see was it's huge mutated fething face.
I literally fell out of my seat, and my mate who was sitting next to me screame like a little girl.
Yak9UT wrote:One of my most all time scariest games I've played would have to be Alien vs Predator on PC.
It was so scary when you were a marine fighting aliens in the dark with just a flash light and some crappy flares.
I had that experience playing AVP2 (a classic). The level of atmosphere is just creepy. Running around for 5 minutes without running into anything really makes the times when you do much more frightening.
I love it when something stupid scares the crap outta you. I cant remember the game off the top of my head, but I had a similar experience once. I thought everything was dead, turn a corner and POW the controller is flying and Im laughing like wtf?
Had a few of them. Getting to into a game can make one do that. *raises hand* That's me.
Most recently, been playing Borderlands ( ) and I don't like those midgets. First time I heard their laugh freaked me out and ran away and jumped into my Lancer and drove off. Still hate those things. Now just imagine my situation in the Midget Town. Creep-tastic.
The most creeped and freaked out? Silent Hill. The first game. *shutter*
brotherskeeper74 wrote:Had a few of them. Getting to into a game can make one do that. *raises hand* That's me.
Most recently, been playing Borderlands ( ) and I don't like those midgets. First time I heard their laugh freaked me out and ran away and jumped into my Lancer and drove off. Still hate those things. Now just imagine my situation in the Midget Town. Creep-tastic.
The most creeped and freaked out? Silent Hill. The first game. *shutter*
My friend had a similar experiance to mine with the midgets last night, made all the funnier by my recent close encounter.
He wanted me to Power Level him up to 50 so he could start doing the Secret Armory (he was 43 at the time), and I didn't feel like doing Crawmerax again, so I took him to Lockdown Palace.
Him: Hey, we should try to find some of the Loot Midgets while we are here.
Me: That's fine dude, I'm just here to help you out.
H: *starts walking to the first locker* Thanks, though I suspect we will only find one or two later o- SON OF A %#$#%!
Next thing I hear is a crash through the mic and his Brick just stands there letting the Truxican Wrestler pound on him
chowderhead13 wrote:
Also, I got scared as hell when my father played Doom. Doom. The first shooter ever, and I peed myself in fright. I was 6, but that was embarrassing.
Wolfenstein 3D came out when I was five or six... I remember just standing in the starting room too afraid to go out because I knew there were baddies just around the corner. I discovered the I+L+M cheat myself, just standing in the start room, entertaining myself by shooting walls, never straying out of my cell like a good prisoner.
I load up WOLF3D a few times, always doing the same thing... Until one day, as usual, I've cheated for all the weapons, and I'm just in there shooting all my guns off. It entertained me well enough. I ran out of bullets and started nonchalantly stabbing at the door, when it happened. The door opened, and the pixelated Nazi behind it started shooting at me. I yelled out and went absolutely bat-gak crazy, and stabbed him to death. My heart was racing. It's the only time I recall literally freaking out whilst playing a game, watching a movie or otherwise... but I sure killed that Nazi!
I didn't have any problems playing and completing the game thereafter.
Funny story, but the only game that I can remember actively scaring me was Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc, admittedly I was 9, but for a 3+ rated game, you wouldn't expect the invincible main enemies to be saying stuff like "stick bamboo in his fingernails" as part of the background noise for a level would you?
Gave me nightmares so it did!
It also mean that I didn't play on it for about 3 years...
When I played the original Silent Hill, I contracted insomnia for about two weeks. I was nine years old at the time, but I couldn't even sleep in my own bed. I would get maybe an hour or two of sleep a night out in the living room, usually while holding a makeshift weapon and bawling my eyes out.
The ultimate irony is that Silent Hill is now easily my favorite series of games (I am absolutely obsessed with picking apart the metaphors and poetic irony contained therein), and literally nothing has scared me since.
Its not that great of a story, but when I first played Resident Evil 4, I was up in the house with the chainsaw guy(at the beginning)
So, I barricaded the house, and I was loling and knocking the ladder down over and over. I heard the chainsaw rev up, and thought he would be coming up the stairs. I was halfway turned around and I got the' head sawed off' movie.
I turned off my gamecube wicked fast, and never played it again.
^: That was only one of MANY great "movies". I personally like the one of shooting the water until the big salamander thingy jumps out and eats ya. There were alot more. You can even look them up on youTube. Love the interwebs.
By the way, GREAT game. Best of the series next to RE2.
I agree, Silent Hill (Original and sequel) for sure. Musta been 14 or so with the first one.
I was so filled with dread in the first game that once I realized I had to actually go into the BASEMENT of the hospital, I turned the game off and just sat and stared at the Playstation. Took me a good 15 minutes to get my gak together.
I remember in the 2nd game the point where I realized that the other people I encountered in the town were absolute lunatics, not companions. It was eerie. Other games go with "I'm like the Joker, I ate my parents!" type lunatics. Silent Hill 2 really managed the "He was my quiet neighbor for 15 years until we found the corpses in his basement" kind of lunatics. They were just so disturbed.
battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Its not that great of a story, but when I first played Resident Evil 4, I was up in the house with the chainsaw guy(at the beginning)
So, I barricaded the house, and I was loling and knocking the ladder down over and over. I heard the chainsaw rev up, and thought he would be coming up the stairs. I was halfway turned around and I got the' head sawed off' movie.
I turned off my gamecube wicked fast, and never played it again.
I was 10. I hate my parents. My dad got Doom 3 for Christmas when I was 10. I got RE:4 when I was 10. My 10 year old self went to bed every night at 11 because a imp with a chainsaw was outside his door.
Also, those head things from NWN. Jesus, those creep the hell out of me.
I actually just heard about amnesia today at university.
Anywho, I was playing FEAR and having a good time with it, but I got real twitchy because of it.
I was in one of the parts crawling through the airducts when a shadow popped up and I unloaded an entire shotgun clip into it. I usually play standing up and it made me jump and make my warcry.
My brother: "What the F**k was that?"
Me: "Uh, a shadow why?"
My brother: "Seriously, seriously a shadow?"
Me: "It was a scary shadow..."
Don't worry though, he's my little brother so I got better stuff on him.
I screamed like a little girl while i was playing Turok evoultion because all of a sudden a Trysanours rex came and killed all my allies and then it dissappered and reappeared right in front of me. And i screamed because the thing was gaking scary has hell. Of course i did jump when the little girl in fear came out of the ceiling and her hand went on my face D:
Yak9UT wrote:I've Played FEAR and don't think it was scary at all. Ahhhh a little girl! Run away!
Wasn't so much scary as reflexes, as you know, shadows are always evil and need to be dealt with quickly. Especially when said shadows are close to you in an airduct.
Also, did you play the PS3 version with the extra level? That little girl is fething evil, like really evil.
Yak9UT wrote:I've Played FEAR and don't think it was scary at all. Ahhhh a little girl! Run away!
Wasn't so much scary as reflexes, as you know, shadows are always evil and need to be dealt with quickly. Especially when said shadows are close to you in an airduct.
Also, did you play the PS3 version with the extra level? That little girl is fething evil, like really evil.
No played on Xbox 360. Never thought thier was a extra level for PS3?
Try being in a light mech with a damaged leg, limping around a corner and seeing two madcats firing their missile racks at you. It never even occurred to me to punch out.
Something that made me jump almost every time was when I were playing Might&Magic 2. Old adventure game, where you step around in a fake 3d environment, basically one square at a time. The background could trick you into believing that you were actually staring in the distance with things like forest actually getting closer when you moved towards them but enemies were completely invisible untill you ran into them. One of those enemies was this creepy kind of headthing that would be staring right into your face.
Made me jump and land awkwardly on the beanbag every time.
Vault 92 in Fallout 3 had me jumping out of my skin the first time I went in there, since I was like "Oh hey, another Vault, wonder what's inHOLYGAK MIRELURKS EVERYWHERE OH MY GOD."
Metro 2033 (The Book was 10000000x better, the way i had portrayed the dark ones in my mind was much more freaky. seeing them in the game made me laugh and has ruined them for me.)
Dead Space
F.E.A.R
I too have played them with out the slightest twitch.
The only thing that has terrified me recently was the movie Paranormal Activity, I hated it and will never watch it again. :(
I am going to go with Silent hill 1 & 2, Eternal Darkness as well as Fatal frame. These games are the chart topers in my opinion. each had a way of scary the crap out of ya or messing with your mind. For Example, with the silent hill series they would love to get you relax by letting you use that damn broke radio to let you know when a monster was around, but later in the school *Shudder* they make dead children that don't hurt ya set it off! Then to top it off, they had some monsters in the hospital that didn't set it off at all. It was a horrible horrible mind game.
The first Clock Tower game freaked me out pretty bad. I like playing games with super surround sound on, and when you would mess up, or the little basterd would pop out from a locker or something, man that got me all the damn time. That and his limp would just stick in my head
I don't like to play demo's in the middle of horror games. Takes away from some of the atmosphere ("Oh, this part, don't have to worry about the game for a while now again.")
Vampire Bloodlines - Haunted Mansion quest. Rest of the game was about as scary as the Waltons, but that level freaked the hell outta me.
Theif..1 i think, Cathedral level.
Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth - It's Lovecraft done relatively well.
Though they all pale in comparison to System Shock 2.
Alan Wake was a good "Horror" Game. It was kinda like playing a Horror Movie. Wasn't extremely scary, but if it were a Movie, it would be like the ones on Syfy on the weekends. They aren't scary, but they are fun to watch.
Vampire Bloodlines - Haunted Mansion quest. Rest of the game was about as scary as the Waltons, but that level freaked the hell outta me.
Theif..1 i think, Cathedral level.
Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth - It's Lovecraft done relatively well.
Though they all pale in comparison to System Shock 2.
Marushi - I agree - System Shock 2 had me hesitating in the same way Wolf3D got me as a kid. Doom didn't get me because I was used to the format by then. It's weird - the fights were easy but the suspense was incredible. Nothing made me jump, but it was all extremely creepy. I've never played a game that got under my skin the same way.
The undead in the original Thief game were also very creepy, just because most of the time you couldn't afford to kill them (you had to expend an expensive holy water vial or be near a holy water source with a quickly expiring effect), and hence you couldn't afford to let them see you either. Sometimes you just had to sprint past them and get somewhere they couldn't climb up or 'get you'.
The most freaked I got was probably about 20 years ago playing Ultima 7. Late night, no lights other than the monitor, and sound up pretty high. I decided to grab a horse and wagon and explore outside of town--I had started the game earlier in the day. As I approach the swamp the first VO I heard in game comes out loudly, "Do you really know where you are going, Avatar?"
I had no idea the game was going to talk to me. Heck, it took me a moment to realize it was the game.
The original Thief and F.E.A.R. were fun kinds of creepy too, but few games make me really jump.
Not that I really try to play many that would. . .but still.
For general scary atmosphere I'm going to go with the original Silent Hill, playing late at night with the lights off First playthrough I missed a few things and when I came across those undead/ghost baby things I was thinking the townsfolk had been involved in some sort of dark sacrificial ceremonies. Have always been happy wandering about in the dark, but whilst playing that I kept finding I HAD to turn lights on if I went for a pee-break Still rate that game as one of the scariest things I've come across, beat pretty much every film/book I've checked out, and I was a big horror fan in my youth. Had a lot of atmosphere and I do tend to immerse myself in a game world if I can.
For 'jump' moments the one I remember most was actually Tomb Raider. When it first came out played it through with a friend - we'd just come across some 'raptors and we're like 'wow, dinosaurs, cool' when suddenly the T-rex appears and we both go ''. Sem to recall one game where a T-rex smashes it's head through a walkway window too - one of the Resi's maybe? And there were a few good moments in the first of those too. I still cant hear a crow caw without thinking of that balcony on the mansion
The original silent hill. I don't remember jumping but the level in the school where you go into the shadow world (or whatever it was) and the floors are replaced with bloody grating and you run into the creepy children. That level has stuck with me since.
Also in one of the other silent hills you're in a storage room with a mannequin between two racks. you walk up to it and look at it- hmm that's nice.. then as you go to leave the room you hear a scream and when you go back to look at it again it's been decapitated and there's blood on the neck stump.
I myself had had similar experiences with Oblivion.
Playing through the game at 3am while wandering through caves/ Alyied ruins with nothing but Oblivions sounds are really eerie imo. Its even worse when you trigger a trap and just hear your character scream in pain.
Iv jumped many times at stuff in Oblivion, eg during caves and just being randomly hit by mudcrabs i didnt see lol, and i bet there are many more times i shall jump once i play it again.
As for other scary games, I played Bioshock for about an hour or so from 1am - 2am, lets just say I havnt touched the game since >.>
I never really played any horror games
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I played brothers on arms hell's highway once(i know). you play with a character who imagines all kinds of stuff that are not actually there. Like dead people,... I mean dead people.
well, so I was playing this level in that old hospital(it looked more like a madmen-house), and the lightning was out and you could only see because of the light of the moon shining through the windows.
so I walk through this hall, and I see a whole in the wall, and notice I have to walk through that door further away into that room. so I think "hey lets shoot them trough that hole!"
so i crouch, making sure they can't see me through that hole in the wall, when I am against that wall, I stand up, looking for any enemies.
and then it happened. I suddenly saw this dead nazi zombie getting up like 2 seconds after me at the other side of the wall.
so me and that zombie the character imagines are staring into each others eyes.
and I was like "what the EFFF!"
and I shoot my entire mag into that room.
it was kinda scary to me, man. I mean, this zombie just pops up from nowhere right in front of my eyes!
I would honestly have to say the first time I played L4D. It was 12AM on the release and we had stayed up but connected through skype chatting waiting to play the game together. The first time we encountered a Tank I yelled for everyone to run so loud my sister banged on my door to stfu as it was 3AM and she had to work in 2 more hours!
VermGho5t wrote:I would honestly have to say the first time I played L4D. It was 12AM on the release and we had stayed up but connected through skype chatting waiting to play the game together. The first time we encountered a Tank I yelled for everyone to run so loud my sister banged on my door to stfu as it was 3AM and she had to work in 2 more hours!
Lol yeah, those tanks were scary, only so much so on Expert though. ESPECIALLY when your low on health.
You know, I hated how much they nerfed the Hunter in the second game...
I don't remember the games so much as the enemies.
I mean yeah creepy atmosphere and all is good but I find it's the monsters/mutants/pyschos that are memorable.
Pyramid Head was preety good as a horror bad guy and the whole 'it's really James' guilt and self-hate made manifest' thing really made it.
Bioshock was kinda wierd but I wouldn't have said scary. I jumped when I get hit just to the side of my vision and I never knew they were there (Spider splicers mostly)
my only scares have come from fallout 3,
namely the nuka-cola plant.
little sister: go on turn off the pipboy light, go on...
me:fine bu only for a second
light goes off
light goes on
nuka-luck standing right in front of me...
me:!!!!!!!!!!!!!FATMAN
only other time the games really creepy is when youre in that nice little town of good citizens and you walk into thier basement....
assultmarine wrote:my only scares have come from fallout 3,
namely the nuka-cola plant.
little sister: go on turn off the pipboy light, go on...
me:fine bu only for a second
light goes off
light goes on
nuka-luck standing right in front of me...
me:!!!!!!!!!!!!!FATMAN
only other time the games really creepy is when youre in that nice little town of good citizens and you walk into thier basement....
Ha ha Those folks don't have a problem if you look in thier basment so long as you like thier food.
Hmmm, if I have to sit and think about it then Resident Evil 2 Scenario B... I played Scenario A so much I thought I knew the game... Then came scenario B... Gah!
Silent Hill 2 scared the crap outta me... then I turned off the damn radio... that thing makes it ten times worse
My most terrifying moment is from Doom 2. I was around 10-12 at the time, and had finally decided to play without IDDQD + IDKFA (is it sad I still have the muscle memory for them?). It was late at night, I was in the basement, and no lights were on but my monitor. I was in a level with lots of winding corridors (was this a download? I can't remember) and was low on life and ammo.
All of a sudden, I heard it. That clanking, scratching, metallic sound that can only mean one thing: a Arachnotron was awakened and coming for me!
I braced myself for a tough fight, double checked what weapons still had ammo, and rounded the corner, fully prepared to either meet my demise or to overcome this foul creature in a moment of true valor!
And then....
Nothing.
The next hallway was empty!
But, the sound remained.
I kept moving forward, ready for it to pounce at any moment.
Rounding the next corner, I was sure this was where the mighty Spider Demon lay.
Again, nothing.
This continued for what seemed like a hour (probably only a few minutes in actuality). Every corner, every hallway, every room, every nook and cranny caused my heart to leap with that impending doom waiting for me.
It was stalking me. Mocking me with it's terrifying clawing sound. Letting me know it was nearby, but choosing not to reveal itself until it had me just where it wanted me.
Eventually, I snapped and turned off the game.
To this day, I don't know what that Demon had in store for me. Was it simply stuck in a neighboring set of corridors, unable to reach me? Did the sound files glitch and just cause it to be on non-ending repeat? Or, is that Demon still waiting for me, a decade later, ready to pounce... just around the next corner...
At least, they haven't invented that thing from Weird Science. I mean, I'm safe at the moment, here in the real world.
Grakmar wrote:My most terrifying moment is from Doom 2. I was around 10-12 at the time, and had finally decided to play without IDDQD + IDKFA (is it sad I still have the muscle memory for them?). It was late at night, I was in the basement, and no lights were on but my monitor. I was in a level with lots of winding corridors (was this a download? I can't remember) and was low on life and ammo.
All of a sudden, I heard it. That clanking, scratching, metallic sound that can only mean one thing: a Arachnotron was awakened and coming for me!
I braced myself for a tough fight, double checked what weapons still had ammo, and rounded the corner, fully prepared to either meet my demise or to overcome this foul creature in a moment of true valor!
And then....
Nothing.
The next hallway was empty!
But, the sound remained.
I kept moving forward, ready for it to pounce at any moment.
Rounding the next corner, I was sure this was where the mighty Spider Demon lay.
Again, nothing.
This continued for what seemed like a hour (probably only a few minutes in actuality). Every corner, every hallway, every room, every nook and cranny caused my heart to leap with that impending doom waiting for me.
It was stalking me. Mocking me with it's terrifying clawing sound. Letting me know it was nearby, but choosing not to reveal itself until it had me just where it wanted me.
Eventually, I snapped and turned off the game.
To this day, I don't know what that Demon had in store for me. Was it simply stuck in a neighboring set of corridors, unable to reach me? Did the sound files glitch and just cause it to be on non-ending repeat? Or, is that Demon still waiting for me, a decade later, ready to pounce... just around the next corner...
At least, they haven't invented that thing from Weird Science. I mean, I'm safe at the moment, here in the real world.
Right?
This:
The backgrounded noises some of the beasties in doom 1-2 made when awakened but off screen still give me the creeps. The pinkies growl, the arachnotrons... all of em..
My worst one...
I had been hearing pinkies the whole level, so I was already properly spooked. the situation: Walking one of those tight paths, 1 side = wall, other side = lava. I round a corner and a deafening hiss fills my ears and all I see is the big grinning face of a cacao demon slowly rising in front of me. I panicked and pulled the plug.
How about the Haunted Hotel from Vampire Bloodlines? No combat to speak of, just you going through a haunted house complete with whispered warnings, laughing children and poltergeist moments. You even get to see the killer charge at you with an axe before fading away again.
The hotel wasn't too creepy, especially when playing as a Malkavian, as you get used to things whispering at you randomly. The creepiest bit of that game for me was the Snuff Film part. It wasn't any one stand out scene, so much as it was the whole atmosphere of the storyline.
I honestly have yet to be scared of anything right now, but when I was about 10 I watched my bro play Silent hill 4, and boy did those two-headed baby monsters scare me. But I have been watching the Silent hill series since I was about 6, so maybe that's where my dark humor comes from
It's weird, I am not creeped out by gore or things others would be terrified of, but if I see a Buffalo's head on the wall I fall apart and cry.
That's the most horrified I've ever been playing a video game.
Do you mean disgusted? There wasn't much to be afraid of in that level.
A Black Ram wrote:I honestly have yet to be scared of anything right now, but when I was about 10 I watched my bro play Silent hill 4, and boy did those two-headed baby monsters scare me. But I have been watching the Silent hill series since I was about 6, so maybe that's where my dark humor comes from
It's weird, I am not creeped out by gore or things others would be terrified of, but if I see a Buffalo's head on the wall I fall apart and cry.
I never played that one. Did it have a haunted buffalo's head or something?
That's the most horrified I've ever been playing a video game.
Do you mean disgusted? There wasn't much to be afraid of in that level.
Disgusted by the game, horrified by the larger societal implications.
You're actually disgusted? It's really just showing how far terrorists will go in order to get what they want. After all, we've seen similar events happen in real life: Just look at 9/11. Including such an event for the sake of storytelling is fine, but including it for pure shock value (which I don't think MW2 did) is cheap and trivialises death.
To be honest, I was more disturbed by the dead horse that is Big Bad Commies being beaten again. The game felt like it was written by one of those paranoid Americans of the 50's. It's a trend that needs to stop.
That's a fair point, and maybe its just me being sensitive or whatever, but that scene haunted me. It is a good game, and I'm not saying it should be taken off the shelf, but it was seriously brutal.
Realistic stuff has always scared me more than monsters and aliens and the like.
Oh, I get where you're coming from. I was thinking "Holy gak, holy gak, what the hell is this?" as I played it, but at least Infinity Ward were decent enough to give us a warning.
To be honest, I was more disturbed by the dead horse that is Big Bad Commies being beaten again. The game felt like it was written by one of those paranoid Americans of the 50's. It's a trend that needs to stop.
Amen to that. the plot synopsis for half that game could have been "Surprise! Russians!" But I will stop there before I drag this off topic with my hatred of MW2's storyline.
I seem to recall some reviewer or someone from IW saying during testing they recorded the number of people who started gunning down civilians... came out at like 70-80% i think, and apparantly not many really considered the moral or ethical implications of what they were doing. They were aware they were playing a video game and had someone handed them an m240 in an airport, their first thought wouldn't be to stroll calmly gunning every Tom, Dick and Harry down.
I can't say I've ever been concerned with the obligatory 'moral choice' in games these days. It's added for replay value. You have good, bad, and neutral endings to see, so play our game through a few times and see them. I think the biggest fail of this was Heavy Rain, at least so I'm told, where your actions are intricately associated to how your game progresses, until the end, where its the same every time. (If anyone has the game, please by all means correct me if I'm wrong on that)
OT:
A few nights ago, playing Fallout3. Just cleared Greyditch of the Fire Ants. Kids asks me to go find the source, saying its in Marigold? Metro Station. At this point I'm only about level 5, not really built for full on dungeon crawling quite yet, but I'll give it a blast. The weird chewy noise that those ants make, in a near pitch black metro station... at like 4am, is properly creepy. There's a quest you can get in there, to take the contents of a safe to some feller in another town. Soon as you pick it up, some guy comes into the room probably to have a conversation about it. Now, being 4am, twitchy as hell from the ants, in the dark, and not expecting to see anyone. This guy pops out, dressed like a raider, with an assault rifle....
He got perforated.
Lots.
My heart didn't stop thumping for a good five minutes. Best, game, ever.
I'm terrified of Mudcrabs... but for a different reason.
"I saw a mudcrab the other day..."
"I saw a mudcrab the other day..."
"I saw a mudcrab the other day..."
I know I've been scared by a few games, but I can't think of them off the top of my head right now. I jumped at least once playing through Doom 3 in the dark... there are lots of dark corners with only a flashlight to guide you.
ChaosGalvatron wrote:I watched Event Horizon, then Pandorum then played Dead Space at about midnight. I had to go to bed after an hour or so, my hands were shaking
I did almost the exact thing the other day. Crazy. I didn't get scared because I kept on picking out Warhammer 40k type things from Event Horizon. "Pure Chaos!!!"
Though it didn't scare me, Half Life 2 stressed the hell out of me.
That's the most horrified I've ever been playing a video game.
That's funny, I was ecstatic with childish glee as I brutally murdered everyone in sight. I even shot my teammates a few times for 'kill-stealing'! My only problem with the scene is the forced walking pace; goddamn did I wish I could run full tilt, shooting people in the face and then knifing their families! Oh, and it pissed me off that there were no children in the level. Infinity Ward you pansies, if you're going to make a terrorist slaughter level go all the way!
MasterDRD wrote:
That's funny, I was ecstatic with childish glee as I brutally murdered everyone in sight. I even shot my teammates a few times for 'kill-stealing'! My only problem with the scene is the forced walking pace; goddamn did I wish I could run full tilt, shooting people in the face and then knifing their families! Oh, and it pissed me off that there were no children in the level. Infinity Ward you pansies, if you're going to make a terrorist slaughter level go all the way!
battle Brother Lucifer wrote:THERE WILL BEEEEEEEE NO SHAAAME, I also loved No Russian.
Its the only mission I really replayed more than once or twice AAAAAAALWAYS I WANNA BEEEEE WITH YOU, AND MAKE BELIEEEEEVE WITH YOU, AND LIVE IN HARMONY HARMONY OOOOOOOOOH LOOOOVE!!!!!!!!!!
Read through all these and all great...I'm a big 230 pound baby when it comes to scary games I remember playing Doom 3 entire time on edge (20 min) then I get to the part where you first get the shotgun I says "oh H*llz yeah!" as I gleefully run towards it as soon as I get it the floor drops and I'm in a room with like 4 zombies...I then poop pants and waste all ammo. I think my fear comes from watching late night USA...way too young.
Theres only been two times when a video game has honestly scared me enough to make me jump. The first was from Resident Evil; Theres a long L hallways towards the start of the game, just about when you reach the turn, the windows break and the dogs come rushing in. I damn near wet myself the first time I went through that, but at least now i can laugh about it.
The second time is from Dead Space. I'd just cleaned out a room with one of the upgrade benches and a bunch of other goodies. When i went to leave, i paused in the doorway for a sec, waiting for a monster to appear. Sure enough he did, and i blasted him into pieces. Confident that the area was secure, i leave the room and turn right, right into the face of another monster who was just chilling outside the door. I actually dropped the controller becasue i jumped so bad lol.
I did not quite get the point where I soiled myself, but there were scenes where I got a little jumpy. One scene where your in a public washroom and you move near a stall only to hear a loud scream followed my several loud thumps coming from the stall. Hearing Pyramid Head dragging around that huge machete could get had on the nerves too (since nothing in your arsenal could kill him).
I remember playing through Resident Evil 4 and not being frightened at all.
Then I walked into the dining room. It was an impressive looking place, and seemed to be just the sort of place where something important would happen. I saw portraits on the walls, and plaques underneath with cryptic messages of blood and death. A creepy music I hadn't heard before (The RE puzzle music) came on. After wandering through hordes of zombie villagers, I was struck by how peaceful everything seemed. I knew that somehow, there was something hiding there... Something I had missed. I wondered what sort of horrible monster would appear. Was it invisible? Would it attack me when I found whichever hidden door was in the room? Was it waiting for me to make a mistake? I very nearly broke down crying as time stretched on and on. I began shooting things randomly, yelling "WHERE IS IT? WHERE IS IT?" And then... I shot the wine glass, and a door opened.
I was dumbfounded. There hadn't been anything in the room. It was just a puzzle. I had nearly broken down, not over the guy with the chainsaw, not over the village leader who split in half, but over a puzzle. And I had no idea what it was until I solved it.
Most terrifying game for me was Alone in the dark 1, when I was 7. The monsters are almost invincible and look freaky as heck, the background sounds are EVIL and you get chased so many times.
And those bloody tentacles from the pool in Another World. That game was cool, but the starting point....ugh.
I was only about 14 (I'm 28 now) but in Resident Evil 2 I jumped out of my skin when that Licker comes flying through the one way mirror in the interview room. I'll always remember that. The first time I realised that a videogame could affect me in the same way as a film. More to the point Radroaches sometimes make me jump in fallout 3. Specially with a high sneak skill. They haven't me and i haven't seen them, I switch on my torch cos i think the areas safe and i'm pretty much sat on top of one. Scary stuff.
Hugos House of horrors when i was a kid. You know you have to face that dog, but the first time, it really freaked me out. looking back, it's pretty laughable
AvP made me jump a few times playing as the Marine.
Doom 3 made me jump, when I'd start playing like a boob and let my guard down and something would jump at me.
I've even jumped playing Counter-Strike online, but usually it's because it's down to me versus 1 other person and we're sneaking around trying to find each other and out of no-where through my 5.1 surround sound system with woofer comes the bang and death of the AWP BOOM! And I'm dead. >_<
Full creepy and jumping and scary (as in I don't want to go in there feeling) definitely the original Silent Hill game, omg...the babies...I hated the babies....in the school...I got to that part and pretty much turned the game off and I haven't played it since. That was like years ago, I can't even remember when it came out.
F.E.A.R. had some decent scare points in it, but nothing that made me jump....oh wait...no there was one...when you came down a ladder in the first game and right as you turn around BAM! There she is, right in your face. >_<
Bad thing is I play games on a 40" LCD HD TV... so everything is damn near life size on my monitor and I sit like 2-3 feet away, so everything is "in your face".
I think that's it, can't remember anything else at the moment.
I just scared my brothers Girlfriend something fierce.
I was able to convince her to play F.E.A.R. 2, and she got to her first Alma encounter quite well. I have played the game so many times it was like "Oh, hey, it's Alma".
Oh no. My Bro's Girlfriend litterally threw the controller, screamed "Who the feth is she!" and started crying
Slarg232 wrote:I just scared my brothers Girlfriend something fierce.
I was able to convince her to play F.E.A.R. 2, and she got to her first Alma encounter quite well. I have played the game so many times it was like "Oh, hey, it's Alma".
Oh no. My Bro's Girlfriend litterally threw the controller, screamed "Who the feth is she!" and started crying
To be honest, I'm not really one for horror games, they'd just tend to make me feel a bit meh, I decide why bother, then go play something I find fun. :S
resistance: fall of man
theres theses things that walk realy slowly and i missed on i walked around a courner and this thing comes from behind and like screams and noms on your face
i was like agggghhhhhh
bro was like WHHAAATTTT!!!
SOmething just nomed on my face
The first Condemned game, I sat down to play this game one evening, got into the first level, got freaked out running through the adandoned building and then in the second level in an office like building, there is a scene were you enter an office and it has a window out on the hallway with frosted glass, I turn the corner into the office to see an enemy pressed up against the frosted glass watching me. I turned off the game, put it back in it's case, put the game back in the plastic bag it came in, placed the game by the door, found a bible (even though I am not religious in any way) and placed it on top of the game and then closed the door so I could sleep that night. That game was too creepy for me, struck a chord on a bad level.
Robertm80 wrote:The first Condemned game, I sat down to play this game one evening, got into the first level, got freaked out running through the adandoned building and then in the second level in an office like building, there is a scene were you enter an office and it has a window out on the hallway with frosted glass, I turn the corner into the office to see an enemy pressed up against the frosted glass watching me. I turned off the game, put it back in it's case, put the game back in the plastic bag it came in, placed the game by the door, found a bible (even though I am not religious in any way) and placed it on top of the game and then closed the door so I could sleep that night. That game was too creepy for me, struck a chord on a bad level.
Why the feth did you put a bible on top of it if you are nonreligious?
Okay, this is totally ridiculous: I was playing Jak 3 at 4:00 AM, driving around randomly in the wasteland at night, not really sure of what I was doing (I was almost asleep ) and a marauder thing goes SLAM! right into the side of my vehicle, seemingly out of nowhere. I jumped and dropped my controller.
Slarg232 wrote:I just scared my brothers Girlfriend something fierce.
I was able to convince her to play F.E.A.R. 2, and she got to her first Alma encounter quite well. I have played the game so many times it was like "Oh, hey, it's Alma".
Oh no. My Bro's Girlfriend litterally threw the controller, screamed "Who the feth is she!" and started crying
Am I going to hell?
I never finished F.E.A.R for 1 simple reason… the bastard Orwellian cut scenes that forcibly stopped me from kicking ass
The first time I came up against the antagonist (not Alma the one dude who might be your brother?) just before he whacks you with a 2x4 on the roof I shot him before the cut scene yanked the controller from my hands.
Same with Alma when I first saw her (hallway fills with fire moment) emptied both smg (dual wielded) clips into her evil little chest before a cut scene threw me out a window...
Honestly if it weren’t for the cut scenes I would have dispatched both antagonists in the first five minutes.
Slarg232 wrote:I just scared my brothers Girlfriend something fierce.
I was able to convince her to play F.E.A.R. 2, and she got to her first Alma encounter quite well. I have played the game so many times it was like "Oh, hey, it's Alma".
Oh no. My Bro's Girlfriend litterally threw the controller, screamed "Who the feth is she!" and started crying
Am I going to hell?
Thats awesome. I am lol so hard. Must stop laughing..
Ma55ter_fett wrote:
Slarg232 wrote:I just scared my brothers Girlfriend something fierce.
I was able to convince her to play F.E.A.R. 2, and she got to her first Alma encounter quite well. I have played the game so many times it was like "Oh, hey, it's Alma".
Oh no. My Bro's Girlfriend litterally threw the controller, screamed "Who the feth is she!" and started crying
Am I going to hell?
I never finished F.E.A.R for 1 simple reason… the bastard Orwellian cut scenes that forcibly stopped me from kicking ass
The first time I came up against the antagonist (not Alma the one dude who might be your brother?) just before he whacks you with a 2x4 on the roof I shot him before the cut scene yanked the controller from my hands.
Same with Alma when I first saw her (hallway fills with fire moment) emptied both smg (dual wielded) clips into her evil little chest before a cut scene threw me out a window...
Honestly if it weren’t for the cut scenes I would have dispatched both antagonists in the first five minutes.
Ghoul Forest 3 for Doom 2.
Run over the Creeper (which looks like a little white dot floating on the floor) and this pops on your screen and plays the screamer sound effect It may not seem that scary, but when it's 11:30 at night, you're looking around for the flying skull and you run over this it is definitely a brown pants moment.
right out of me...but i loved it 
) and I don't like those midgets. First time I heard their laugh freaked me out and ran away and jumped into my Lancer and drove off. Still hate those things. Now just imagine my situation in the Midget Town. Creep-tastic.
First playthrough I missed a few things and when I came across those undead/ghost baby things I was thinking the townsfolk had been involved in some sort of dark sacrificial ceremonies. Have always been happy wandering about in the dark, but whilst playing that I kept finding I HAD to turn lights on if I went for a pee-break 
