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What enemies scare/creep you out the most? I'll share mine...
Regenerators/Iron Maidens (Resident Evil 4)
These things not only look scary, but I nearly crapped myself when I realised that I couldn't hurt them. The first time I met one, I whipped out my shotgun and blasted away its arms, legs, and head. 'Right,' I though to myself', 'let's go.' I heard a shuffling behind me, and it's grown back all its limbs (and head) and it grabbed me and I only just managed to force it off. I ran out of them room... into another regenerator. This one started biting my neck, and killed me. Later on, after getting the thermal scope so I could kill their parasites that kept them alive, I met my first Iron Maiden, essentially a regenerator but covered in spikes. These guys scared my even more when I realised that I had to get behind them to shoot their back as well.
These two monsters are just creepy too. They have this ragged, wheezing breaths and they walk in a really odd way. Iron Maidens are worse because they're always twitching and shaking.

Dr. Salvador (Resident Evil 4)
So on my first trip into the evil village, I ran into a house when the villagers saw me, and a cutscene began. The villagers mill around outside for a bit, and then one of them points at something. I hear an ominous 'vroom vroom!' and I shoved stuff in front of the door and window. I ran upstairs and grabbed the shotgun there, and kicked the ladder out the window so the villagers wouldn't climb up. I didn't see the window behind me. A few minutes and a dozen dead villagers later, I hear a crash and a loud, frenzied scream. I turned around just in time to see an eight-foot tall villager wearing a potato sack on his head and wielding a chainsaw. A split second later, the chainsaw hit me and my head went rolling. Not a pleasant experience.
This guy is scary because of the intimidation factor. What do you do when you realise that your handgun and empty shotgun can't scratch him?

Any others?

Well, you already mentioned RE4, so what's left?

-There's always a good "aaah crap" feeling whenever I have to fight a Metal Gear.
-I can think of a lot of very "cool" bossfights, but not so many scary ones.
-getting back to RE4, the village chief was really gross.

Those screaming zombies in Zelda.

I found the mutant babies in Dead Space to be pretty scary... as were the basic necromorphs.

The worst though would be any of the above in a Vacuum. You can't hear them coming, they just pop up behind you and all you can hear is your own choking pained noises as they try to kill you.

Oh, and the nurses or dolls (4 legs, nothing else) in Silent Hill.

Ahtman wrote:Those screaming zombies in Zelda.

oh yeah, I remember freaking out when those would jump on you. Re-Deads I beleive.

exactly...

quite simple, anything in Doom 3

Another one!
Alma (F.E.A.R)
A little girl. How cute. A little girl who can reduce you to a bloody skeleton, utterly terrifying. It's the psychological side that makes Alma scary; if a million demons from hell jump you, you've got the good old BFG9000, but when a little girl kills an entire SpecOps squad, how do you deal with that?

Cheese Elemental wrote:Another one!
Alma (F.E.A.R)
A little girl. How cute. A little girl who can reduce you to a bloody skeleton, utterly terrifying. It's the psychological side that makes Alma scary; if a million demons from hell jump you, you've got the good old BFG9000, but when a little girl kills an entire SpecOps squad, how do you deal with that?

i disagree. while i felt like i know what the guys making f.e.a.r were trying to achive concerning the "mode" of the game, i think they utterly failed. it just wasnt scary ... at all. whatsoever. sorry.

the concept is good, but it just didnt work here.

Pyramid Head when he's raping a pair of Dolls in SH2.

System Shock 2. All of them. Most of them at least.

The ones that crash through windows, because that's the scariest thing developers can come up with apparently.

Also, Silent Hill 2's enemies stop being scary when you realize you can kill the majority of them using the board with a nail in it.

I think that the cultists in Resident Evil 4 were kind of creepy too. They act a bit like zombies and the chanting creeps me out.

Mimics, especially in Fate or Neverwinter Nights. If you're specially prepared to take one on, it's a hard fight but you can take it out, but the tension of being uber-ready for a really strong monster to pop up everytime you go to open up a treasure chest is just wearing after awhile.

There's a moment in Bioshock where you walk down a dead-end corridor and see some weird totem on a desk: there's a weird little noise, and you turn around and there's a splicer right behind you. I nearly had a heart attack. God damned Splicers!

Oh, and also: Poison Headcrab zombies from Half-Life 2.

System Shock 2

"Babies need fresh meat"

The zombies are left with enough humanity to warn you when they creep up behind you with a length of piping and plead for death while trying to kill you.

The only enemy that sucked in SS2 was Shodan's avatar at the end.
When I was younger I hated the zombies/psychic monkeys, because like most enemies you could always hear them a few corridors away, moaning and shrieking and so on. It was so comforting to hide up on a shelf someplace where you knew nothing would get to you, and you could play the mini cartridge games you'd find occasionally, a brief respite from the fact you're the only live, sane person on a huge alien-zombie-experiment infested ship controlled by an authoritan AI... controlled by yet another, completely sadistic AI... Which has allied with the largest sphincter-beast in the universe, which just happens to have begun eating/absorbing/growing over the already rather unfortunate spacecraft.

Doom 3 when anything jumps out of the dark at you.

Rather annoyingly I can't find doom 3 anywhere at the games stores here in Brisbane. :(

Try STEAM.

The DRM is annoying, but whatever.

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?&genre=Action&sort_by=Name&sort_order=ASC&page=5

The Atlantica level in Kingdom Hearts 2. Scared the crap out of me....

ROFL. Kingdom Hearts is the least scary game I could imagine. Hell, a Hello Kitty game would be more scary.

Then you obviously have never played the level where they're all SINGING!

'Nuff Said...

KILL IT WITH FIRE!

I remember being freaked out by the first-stage Dark Troopers in Dark Forces. The damned things were fast and hideously tough.

We also used to have a point-and-click game called The 7th Guest on my ancient Windows 95 PC that pretty much traumatised me as a child.

The Flood from Halo, they absorb bullets and are damn hard to kill. The just keep coming, anyone who dies around you joins them.

Left 4 Dead:
I downloaded the demo yesterday night. Scary thing ever. I'm walking through the house as the black guy. I shoot one then a few more run out. Then out of a hallway come like 50 of them I'm running backwards into another room trying to shoot all of them with 2 living partners (the old guy died really fast for some reason, I was still figuring out the controls maybe my fault) and 4 jump on my back. I shoot them and then another endless stream of zombies from another hallway. I was literally screaming while this was going on. My sister was in the room with me too (She is 17 and plays a lot more video games than I do) and she was screaming with me.

Dead Rising:
Anything in this game. I can barely play it. Why do I have to be so close to them? I scream whenever I have to try and go somewhere remotely close to a zombie.

I have an irrational belief in zombie outbreaks as well as a paranoia complex centered around zombies. So this is reasonably scarier to me than anyone else.

I developed a fear of zombie outbreaks after I watched Dawn of the Dead. Still love 'em though.
You want scary, try the bear in Condemned 2. Alone, in a house, with no weapons, and a rabid bear on your tail.

Cheese Elemental wrote:I developed a fear of zombie outbreaks after I watched Dawn of the Dead. Still love 'em though.
You want scary, try the bear in Condemned 2. Alone, in a house, with no weapons, and a rabid bear on your tail.

Bears aren't that scary in day to day life.

But zombies can happen at any given time at any given moment. The outbreak only spreads from there. I have an extra car so I bought one of those 90 day food supply barrel things and fitted it into the truck. A couple of gas cans lay infront of that in there. Three crowbars and a hunting rifle (Guns are too loud to be firing them willy neely to be honest). Other than that, it's what I have to run for a period of time before I can hold up somewhere. I have several locations picked out on the same route in case any of the them is over taken. The route leads to a large area of relative nothingness that lacks highways for large funneling of undead.

I have a group of 4 people excluding myself that I have set to come with me. Although they are mostly like "Sure dude we'll come if zombies attack! Lawl ur funny".

This plan works in case of societal collapse due to disease or otherwise as well. So it doesn't seem that crazy that I have this stuff all planned out. I suggest everyone make a plan. I also suggest you spend 300$ a year on your plan. With each year your rate of survival only gets better!