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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."

My Most recent "Horror" Game's-

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. :(

Anyway thats my 1 cent.

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

Laughing Man wrote:Go play Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Never sleep again.

I keep hearing about this game, especially with "and then I pooped my pants." Makes me want it even more!

Ya, clock tower was pretty hardcore if I recall correctly.

Gwar! wrote:

Laughing Man wrote:Go play Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Never sleep again.

I keep hearing about this game, especially with "and then I pooped my pants." Makes me want it even more!

Indeed, I am definately going to have to check it out.

Keep the stories coming guys!

Gwar! wrote:

Laughing Man wrote:Go play Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Never sleep again.

I keep hearing about this game, especially with "and then I pooped my pants." Makes me want it even more!

Here ya go Gwar!:

Looks awesome.

Gwar! wrote:Looks awesome.

+1, might have to go bargain bin diving to get it.

You can get the demo here:
http://www.amnesiagame.com/#demo

They also made Penumbra, which I DO have. Excellent game also.

Gwar! wrote:You can get the demo here:
http://www.amnesiagame.com/#demo

They also made Penumbra, which I DO have. Excellent game also.

Is the Demo the very beginning or towards the middle?

No idea. D:

D:

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.")

Couple i found a bit freaky...

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.

garret wrote:I couldnt make it through dead space. traded it in for viva pinata. dont regret it AT ALL

Viva Pinata?




PRAISE BE TO SATAN

Dead space was scary? "Ahh! Its the flood-err, a bunch of necromorphs!". Shoot the hell out of them and continue on.

chowderhead13 wrote:

garret wrote:I couldnt make it through dead space. traded it in for viva pinata. dont regret it AT ALL

Viva Pinata?




PRAISE BE TO SATAN

YES, ALL HAIL OUR DARK FATHER SANTA-er I mean SATAN!!!!

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.

Marushi wrote:Couple i found a bit freaky...

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.

Resident evil 1 made me jump a fair bit, but saying that, im only 20, so that was some time ago lol.

Hehehe mudcrab

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 >.>

Headcrabs.

Just... Headcrabs.

That's all I have to say.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Headcrabs.

Just... Headcrabs.

That's all I have to say.

I never really played any horror games
...
but
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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!