A game that you didn't think that would strike fear in you, but did.

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TheScottishFella

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So this thread came around after a lengthy multiplayer match on BBC2 (Battlefield Game, Not the channel :)) and I was playing Rush, on a map I can't quite remember. Let me give you the scenario, we were the defenders of some M-Coms (?) and we were being hammered by sniper and machine gunners, a couple of us went to try and flank them as I ran from cover to cover, 2 men were gunned down in the process, and the other 2 decided that they would run distraction while I went and tried to flank them as best as I could. So I continued on, alone it became disturbingly quiet except for the sounds of ambient combat and the ocasional mortar shelling then I was crushed with the realisation that I was alone. As I was approachhing the nest I noticed some movement I stayed still completely dead as they moved around me and one of them approached me. I thought I was dead for sure so I had my gun at the ready but just then a sniper on my team shot one of his mates and they went running for cover and tried to push forward (now you maybe wondering why my squad mates didn't spawn on me well we tried that OH so many times but the enemy figured it out and protected themselves and their flanks so we thought that they might not notice one of us missing.) So I went to flank and gunned them down the team moved forward to secure the building as it was a great vantage point (almost game breaking) we met up and split while some us stayed to defend and the rest went to try and occupy the enemy. Me and my buddy moved into the town my friend looked out a window and BAM was hit by a tank shell, ripping the house apart and killing him, I was far away enough to just survive so I ran. Then there was the crushing realisation as I was alone again running out of ammo I fell back to the building where I noticed my comrades had been killed by mortar srikes and sniper fire then the message came up on our screen that they had planted the bomb we all ran to try and defuse the bomb I had to run like hell as the rest of my team had already spawned so I ran. Then I got ambused used up the rest of my ammo turned a corner and *BLAM* a pistol bullet between the eyes. This was scary because of the atmosphere it creates it is usually best to play with friends as you have more of an attachment to them and I doubt you can have an experience like this with random people but it came close at a couple of points to be fair. However what I think this game has over say COD *shiver* is that it has atmosphere, the gun sounds, the shellshock etc it is all in the audio.

So have you had a similar experience where you were genuinly scared where you thought you wouldn't?
 

DaemonicShadow

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Bloody Morrowind. Specifically Dwemer tombs. Especially after Oblivion's dungeons were all 'Oh. A zombie. Spell. No zombie.', I expected the same from Morrowind if not worse. How wrong I was...
 

Lord Beautiful

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I expected tension from Demon's Souls, but not pants-shitting terror. When they call something "Dragon God," they're not bullshitting.
 

Emily Cano

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Pathologic, pretty much throughout the entire game. Fantastic, even though it was terifiying. I didn't think it would be as scary as it was becasue of the crude graphics and rather aged look, but it did its job.
 

xdom125x

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I was scared when I got a first person point of view of my character dying in Call of Duty 4. Didn't go into Call of Duty expecting emotional impact.
 

SalamanderJoe

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Battlefield 1943. I got shot down by tank in my fighter plane, jumping out before the final hit. I spend the next three minutes swimming in zig-zags to avoid two enemy snipers on the shoreline trying to see how'd kill me. It would have been easier to die and spawn on the ship but where's the tension in that?
 

SoulSalmon

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Minecraft...

Some of my friends like to open cans of drink if they know I'm playing >.>
SSSSSS


To clarify though, I am not usually scared by 'horror' films and games, theres just somehting about that second and a half of "SHIT! I have a bunch of diamond on m- BOOM!"
I guess thats more shock then fear but meh, Minecraft scares me more then Silent Hill, Saw, Fatal Frame and Doom do >.>
 

AngelSword

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Doom II, surprisingly. I was going through one of the levels, when after grabbing a key, the lights go out and I hear the sound of a Baron of Hell moving in front of me. Freaking out, I ran out of the hallway into the area of light where I find a whole slew of demons & spectres. I kill a few of them when I hear heavy weapon dudes behind me. I turn around, instinctively firing at the flickering light where they were, when the discharge of my shotgun illuminated, briefly, the form of the Baron standing directly in front of me. I yelped, killed it, then had to pause to compose myself.
 

the protaginist

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Well, for 8-bit adventure games, Yahtzee's Chzo Mythos games can be terrifying at times.

Also i remember Boyd from Psychonauts TERRIFYING me when i played it at 11. I played it again a few months back (15 then, 16 now) and loved it.
 

GamemasterAnthony

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I actually had a moment of terror in the second season of Sam & Max..."Chariot of the Dogs", to be precise. There was a moment in the game where it looked like Momma Bosco was showing interest in Max and then the time machine said "catastrophic temporal paradox" and my first thought was...

OH DEAR CRAP...NOT A BOSCO/MAX LOVE CHILD!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!

Turned out it wasn't that...but dear GOD I was afraid the Bosco/Max love child fanfics were going to come out of the woodworks for that.
 

CatComixzStudios

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Metroid Prime 1 and 2. I don't know why, but it always feels like there's something waiting for me, even when I know the coast is clear...
 

WaywardHaymaker

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Minecraft is horrifying, even though I rarely ever find any monsters when I'm exploring. But today I started a new world, and I built myself a 6x6 log cabin to start, but couldn't raise the roof before sundown. I also forgot to make the anti-spider lip. I spent the entire night clutching my hastily constructed wooden sword in a corner of my unfinished home waiting for the spider that never came, luckily.

Corkydog said:
Arkham Asylum. Was not expecting Scarecrow at all...
Scarecrow made that game AWESOME, though, aren't you glad he showed up?
 

DustyDrB

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Mass Effect. The first time I encountered husks, I almost turned the game off and sold it back. I do not handle horror well at all on any level. Zombies disturb the everliving shit out of me. I'm glad I was able to stomach that.

But that side-mission planet where you go through a door and then are locked in a dark cavern with 50 husks nearly gave me cardiac arrest
 

Corkydog

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WaywardHaymaker said:
Minecraft is horrifying, even though I rarely ever find any monsters when I'm exploring. But today I started a new world, and I built myself a 6x6 log cabin to start, but couldn't raise the roof before sundown. I also forgot to make the anti-spider lip. I spent the entire night clutching my hastily constructed wooden sword in a corner of my unfinished home waiting for the spider that never came, luckily.

Corkydog said:
Arkham Asylum. Was not expecting Scarecrow at all...
Scarecrow made that game AWESOME, though, aren't you glad he showed up?
Oh, yeah, don't get me wrong, that whole section was brilliant, easily the best part of that game. But it did catch me off guard.
 

minka1995

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Minecraft, caves just scare me now I never know whats in there or how much time im going to be lost and after I read the Herobrine creepypasta before I found out it was fake, I couldn't even play the damn game at that point
 

sgt. soap mctavish

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fear 2. Gamespot said it wasn't as scary the first one so i thought it'd be like the first dead space. ( a medium amount of jump scares) F#%$'N LIARS!