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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?

I nearly went full on bawl watching the ending to DA:O. Chowderhead sad.

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.

Is this the one? http://images.uesp.net//1/19/Giant_Mudcrab_Size_Compare.jpg

Yak9UT wrote:Is this the one? http://images.uesp.net//1/19/Giant_Mudcrab_Size_Compare.jpg

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)

That game is so eerie...

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 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 playing Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl.

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.

Silent Hill 2.

Made me poop my pants so it did. D:

If it was the Giant Mudcrab, It's happened to me too. Like every time I go into that Cave.

Just sneaking around on my Orc Assassin "La la la la la WTF IS THAT A GIANT MUDCRAB?!"

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?

Doom 3 on the original X-Box, play that gak in the dark...

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*

Eh, you drive a lancer? :-) it better not have frangipani stickers!

Yak9UT wrote:Is this the one? http://images.uesp.net//1/19/Giant_Mudcrab_Size_Compare.jpg

That's the one. He came out of nowhere.....

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.

Go play Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Never sleep again.

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've Played FEAR and don't think it was scary at all. Ahhhh a little girl! Run away!

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!

You'd understand if you watched more Dead Wet Girl moves...

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.

halonachos wrote:

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?

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