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One of the scariest games imo was Friday the 13th on the NES. Jason would jump outta nowhere and pretty much anal fist you with no lube.

Yeah the first game when it was like WTF are these guys and AAAAHHHH why won't they die, and then AAAHHHH why do more and more of these guys keep showing up, and then finally RUN RUN RUN AAHHH. By halo 3 they were a know enemies and had lost much of their scaryness. But when i first played halo 1 i couldn't play it by myself i was to scared so i made my brother play those levels with me.

All of these (that I played) I would have to agree with. For me the one that stands out is from RE2: Mr X. Basicly he is a Tyrant in a trenchcoat that would just not die. Knock him down and as you leave the room, you would get a cut scene of him getting back up. First time I did that I realized that I wasted a butt load of ammo on him.

Anywho... The one thing that made me yell out loud is this section of the station in RE2. Long hall that wraps around a meeting/confrence room of some sort and makes you walk the entire perimeter of the room just to get into it. I go into the room and Mr. X shows up. Hits me a couple of times and knocks my health down next to nothing. He goes down. Now due to my low health, my character is holding her arm across her chest and limping. Start making my long walk back into the hall and just as I see the door in site...

BAM

Mr. Frickken X busts THROUGH the frickken wall!!!! HOLY BAT CRAP!!!!

Gotta say that was well setup. Long, unessassary hall was kinda a give away that something was going to happen there. But, at the time, I was more conserned about what layed beyond the door.

One of the many reasons I love video games and why RE stands out as one of my all time favorites.

Personally, I was more freaked out by William Burkin, especially the scene where his gigantic friggin claw comes through the roof on top of you (Even when I could see it coming from a mile away, considering I had almost no health and nothing to heal myself with the first time through the game). Plus, in his first form, something about him is just disturbing.

Now that I've played the crap out of Fallout 3, I find that the Yao Guai don't scare me whatsoever. It's basically a cross between a gorilla and a jackal, missing some hair. They just kind of...growl. And Deathclaws are about a hair away from being a generic demon. Not exactly worthy of soiled pants. I might even say that I would be more freaked out by a Brahmin, if they were a bit more...violent. I mean, come on, a skinless, two-headed cow? Just imagine THAT thing leaping after you.

However, I do have to say that if I ever encountered a Centaur in real life, I would crap myself right then and there. Now THAT's freaky. Though something about encountering them while listening to the sounds of "The owls are the hootiest, the stars are the shootiest, etc." kind of kills their whole scare factor. But they still look like a Helldorado model come to life.

I really liked the split-in-half-lengthways-and-bandaged-back-together dog-things in Silent Hill 3. They were cool.

A friend recently admitted that his first Licker encounter in ResiEvil2 caused him to soil himself.

Yeah. Condemned 2 Bear is super scary. I thought it would be a joke or something, like a "cartoon" bear or something that wasn't scary at all, but it was freaky. And hard. Another scary enemy could be the Berserkers in Gears of War, or maybe those demon-things that pop out of overhead furnace vents in Doom 3.

I reckon that old lady in sims 2

the spiderthings that are upside down human heads with spindly legs, "the thing" in general, end of mgs 2 "why dont you just turn off the console" speech .... erm.... oh! resi outbreak - the leechman was a bit creepy fills you with a kind of oh gak he's in the next room run run run wont die feeling er.... bioshock when the room steams up you turn arroud and theres a craaazy surgeon splicer, fear right at the start you go down a ladder and see the girl, that gak me up lol... and the people protending to be manakins in the 1st condemed, that had me scared of that mall lol

and last but not least every silent hill game ever

Anything in the suffering game

Crysalids in X-com UFO Defense. They are fast, heavily armored and only in range they bite you. Which turns you into a bloated zombie which then impregnated with a crysalid larva which develops at a vastly accelerated pace and then pulls a chestburster. I've seen those things take out and entire squad in one turn.

most of the stuff in jericho

Blinky the red ghost in Pacman and the Mutant in Defender.

I second the Bioshock.

And the Plaster Splicers..?

(Splicer Statues, made out of people covered in plaster, still alive. You go down to a waterlogged basement, and there's a troupe of sinister Ballet Dancers-Statues... and you turn away and... They run at you.)

Oh, and SANDER COHEN.

My ears ring with "Fly away, little moth..." every time I think of Scary.



~sA

I can't believe more people aren't mentioning Dead Space! I only watched a friend play it and was royally freaked the ***k out.
Walking through space and hearing what sounds like stomping only to turn down a hallway and see a figure bashing its head against a wall and when you approach he gets his final hit and his head explodes.
Or in the or the crazy B**** who you see cutting into a persons stomach and when you get close she turns around, looks you dead in the eye, and slits her throat with the same cleaver.
Or going down that one elevator and only hearing a blood curdling scream from below you.
Or the first time (and every time after) the tentacle gets you....

and by the way Typeline, bears, even in day-to-day life, are scary as gak.

Pyramid Head for me, just because of everything that accompanied him, the music, the static radio etc, quite disturbing. Along with the excellent story, so aye he stands out.

Second for me would be Dr Birken from Resi 2, for similar reasons, plus he always showed up at the worst possible moment.

What about spore. Evolution scares the hell out of some people

What about in tes 4 oblivion when youre still in the dungeon with the emporer and you see all these rats running away. Then you turn the corner and a headless zombie attacks you and youre only weapon is a dagger

The creepiest part of Dead Space for me was when you find a dark room lit by a flickering light and candles strewn across the floor. The room is full of probably a dozen dead people who have their heads bound in cloth and self inflicted gunshot wounds to their faces. All the while you hear a ladies voice singing, in a sort of dreary I'm about to die/ I'm dying sort of way, "Twinkle Twinkle little star" While you hear things clattering in the vents....

HANDS DOWN,

DEAD SPACE!

When you first start off and there that switch that you have to flip to open the door and then...

You turn around to wave the other people through and the guy standing under neath a vent..

GETS ANALY RAPED BY A SLASHER ZOMBIE!!!!!

And then after the security dudes shoot it it jumps into the ceiling and then...

HE IS RIGHT BEHIND YOU AND YOU HAVE TO RUN AWAY! And you make it to the elevator and close it on him and it starts to go down and then...

HE FRICKEN FORCES IT OPEN AND PULLS YOU OUT!!!

And then it slices of his arms and your safe.

Played it at my brothers house after he said that even he (HE'S A big guy, not easily scared) was scared. Honestly i wore depends for liek the next week.


Fricken scary man.

Or, In RE4 when you have to fight Salvadores RIGHT HAND.

You have all thesetanks scatered around and are Like "WTF?" and then you read them and fiogure out that their liquid nitro. You realize, Now I'm gonna freeze some one.

Then when you have the button presses to keep from getting hurt.

AND THEN

He finally reveals himself, and even though you freeze him and shoot him dozens of times with grenades and guns he doesn't die and you get killed.

Restarting it you buy the rocket launcher from the merchant to kill him.

You freeze him and shoot the rocket, but are so scaredyou miss by half an inch and have to do it all over again. You finally kill him.

I don't care who you are that's scary.

Okay. I just finished Dead Space. I gotta say, it was rather freaky. Loved the story, granted I watched the animated shorts that were online and the movie. So, the story line was compelling for me. Granted, I saw what was coming a mile away most of the time, but the build up was great. Matter a fact, I liked it so much I'm going through it again.

There was one spot that freaked me out. I was quite w/ no music, just a little background noise. I was looking around for supplies and then I saw something behind me. I turned around and there was a Necromorph and the music screeched and I just about wet myself. I was so mad that it scared me, I just wailed away with my punch. Took forever, but the POC went down.

The other thing that was unnerving was the "experiment" that could regen. You start shooting it and take off the legs and hit the head as normal. Then is starts to shake and resprouting limbs. My only thought was, "Oh. My. Freaking. Lord." What the hell do I do now?

Gotta say, I really like this game. Just enough to hold me over till RE5.

IMHO, this game is well worth a buy and sit down. Very little to complain about this game.

/ out of 5

Play it!

When your playing DEAD SPACE and you have to go back to your ship to start it up and thirees the crawlers thatare hard to kill cause you can't get their arm easy cause of how their placed.

Try playing fatal frame. In those other games you have weapons. In fatal frame you have ghosts jumping out of the walls to kill you and your only defense is to run or use a fricking magic camera!!!!!!!!

After playing the 1 time in almost complete darkness I only could continue the game in daylight and with my brothers watching me play. The little girls coming out of the floor while I was watching an ingame movie were too much for me I ditched the game at that point.

M.

Golden Eyed Scout wrote:Or, In RE4 when you have to fight Salvadores RIGHT HAND.

You have all thesetanks scatered around and are Like "WTF?" and then you read them and fiogure out that their liquid nitro. You realize, Now I'm gonna freeze some one.

Then when you have the button presses to keep from getting hurt.

AND THEN

He finally reveals himself, and even though you freeze him and shoot him dozens of times with grenades and guns he doesn't die and you get killed.

Restarting it you buy the rocket launcher from the merchant to kill him.

You freeze him and shoot the rocket, but are so scaredyou miss by half an inch and have to do it all over again. You finally kill him.

I don't care who you are that's scary.

I didn't need the rocket launcher to kill him. Big shotgun, yes. Magnum, yes. Rocket Launcher, no...

I use the rocket cause it kills him in one shot, no muss no fuss. besides I save the magnum ammo for when i fight saddler.

Miguelsan wrote:Try playing fatal frame. In those other games you have weapons. In fatal frame you have ghosts jumping out of the walls to kill you and your only defense is to run or use a fricking magic camera!!!!!!!!

After playing the 1 time in almost complete darkness I only could continue the game in daylight and with my brothers watching me play. The little girls coming out of the floor while I was watching an ingame movie were too much for me I ditched the game at that point.

M.

Between the camera and the points system, it turned into an FPS pretty quickly for me which canceled out any attempt at horror.

Miguelsan wrote:Try playing fatal frame.

Sorry. The only picture taking game that scared me is Pokemon Snap. Now that is a truly terrifying game. *shutter*

bong bongo

anyone play Zelda ocarina of time (silly question). bong bongo i think his name was. i was young at the time, he was about 40 ft tall and he was virtually invisible, you fought him on a drum and you had to use an item to see him and by the time you could get it out all you saw was a gigantic hand swinging at you throwing you int a pool of acid. hence the regenerators in resi 4 happened to be quite a traumatic experience for me.

I didn't find headcrab zombies that bad, easy to kill and make funny noises with chickens on their faces. still a big half life fan though.

i still have Pokemon snap and certain parts still haunt me...