Creepiest levels/settings/all around scary moments in video games.
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There's a part in FEAR 3 that comes to mind involving a bunch of TVs. It's hard to explain so either play the game or YouTube it.
I can't believe no one has mentioned it yet, but Amnesia... the whole bloody thing.
And if I had to pick one from my childhood I would DEFINATELY say Lavender Town. Hell, that place still gives me heebee jeebees, damn.
And if I had to pick one from my childhood I would DEFINATELY say Lavender Town. Hell, that place still gives me heebee jeebees, damn.
When I was younger, the levels involving Zombies in Thief 1 really bothered me. It's something about a classically scary monster and their resilience to every weapon you've used so far aside from your ever-so-scarce and giga-noisy Fire Arrows.
Then, the scariness was amped up in Thief 2 with the Hammer Haunts. Everything creepy about the zombies except the Haunts made very little noise aside from the light noise of clinking chains coming from all sides. You knew they were around, but you just didn't know where.
Thief III did it best with the whole Shalebridge Cradle level. It was relevant to the plot too! It was basically one long horror level in a game that didn't focus on horror. Those Asylum Inmates and the pure-black keepers were a bit eerie.
Unlike many other games, the main character in Thief isn't a great fighter. Your best defense is the darkness and running away; both of which are suspenseful in the "will I get caught" sort of way. Before you encounter anything scary, you're engrossed in the game. When you encounter something terrifying, it's much scarier if only because the suspenseful running/hiding becomes truly scary when you actually do get caught.
Then, the scariness was amped up in Thief 2 with the Hammer Haunts. Everything creepy about the zombies except the Haunts made very little noise aside from the light noise of clinking chains coming from all sides. You knew they were around, but you just didn't know where.
Thief III did it best with the whole Shalebridge Cradle level. It was relevant to the plot too! It was basically one long horror level in a game that didn't focus on horror. Those Asylum Inmates and the pure-black keepers were a bit eerie.
Unlike many other games, the main character in Thief isn't a great fighter. Your best defense is the darkness and running away; both of which are suspenseful in the "will I get caught" sort of way. Before you encounter anything scary, you're engrossed in the game. When you encounter something terrifying, it's much scarier if only because the suspenseful running/hiding becomes truly scary when you actually do get caught.
The sound design also made that scene terrifying. It had that annoying noise thing in the background that felt really uncomfortable. The worst, I think, was that corridor covered in blood. I can't remember if that was before or after the first encounter.Vuliev said:
Even scarier was that the first Flood you see are the infection forms. Not too bad. Then the normal forms show up. *shudder*
All in all, excellent level, one of my favorite levels ever.
The mannequin room in Silent Hill 3 = At first the room didn't seem too out of the ordinary, just what appeared to be a storage room filled with boxes and mannequin parts, with only one with a head standing between the rooms two shelves. Then you go around the second shelf and see at the end some ammo. you go towards it and suddenly there's a scream and a thud. (at this point, I had to pause the game and take a minute to stop myself screaming)You then go back around the bookcase and the the mannequin is standing there, decapitated with its head split in two at its base, and blood around the neck and split head.
Not a pleasant moment.
Not a pleasant moment.
It's SILENT HILL FREAKOUT TIME!
Silent Hill 1: Lisa's final conversation with Harry. Shivers. Everything about that scene is so great. Even the voice acting isn't totally terrible!Silent Hill 2: That fucking labyrinth. I'm the kind of Silent Hill player who checks his map all the time. Not having one is enough to freak me out, but then they throw in unkillable Pyramid Head lurking around! Gah! The whole prison level is unforgettable, but the labyrinth is the best/worst part of it.
Silent Hill 3: You enter a room with a giant mirror. Blood starts coming out of the walls in the reflection, but not in the room. Creepy. You turn around to leave. The door is locked. You look back into the mirror. The blood drains out of the reflection... and comes out the sink in the actual room. The door is still locked. Your own reflection in the mirror gets covered in blood, and then stops moving. It just stares at you. Then you start getting bloody.
Silent Hill 4: Those two-headed baby doll monsters might have been creepy if they hadn't been censored. So I'm gonna go with that giant Eileen head that comes out of nowhere in a random room in the hospital. Underwhelming after the other three, I know... still made me scream loud enough to wake my brother up the night I saw it for the first time. He still thinks I'm insane.
Silent Hill 1: Lisa's final conversation with Harry. Shivers. Everything about that scene is so great. Even the voice acting isn't totally terrible!Silent Hill 2: That fucking labyrinth. I'm the kind of Silent Hill player who checks his map all the time. Not having one is enough to freak me out, but then they throw in unkillable Pyramid Head lurking around! Gah! The whole prison level is unforgettable, but the labyrinth is the best/worst part of it.
Silent Hill 3: You enter a room with a giant mirror. Blood starts coming out of the walls in the reflection, but not in the room. Creepy. You turn around to leave. The door is locked. You look back into the mirror. The blood drains out of the reflection... and comes out the sink in the actual room. The door is still locked. Your own reflection in the mirror gets covered in blood, and then stops moving. It just stares at you. Then you start getting bloody.
Silent Hill 4: Those two-headed baby doll monsters might have been creepy if they hadn't been censored. So I'm gonna go with that giant Eileen head that comes out of nowhere in a random room in the hospital. Underwhelming after the other three, I know... still made me scream loud enough to wake my brother up the night I saw it for the first time. He still thinks I'm insane.
SWAT 4 - Fairfax Residence. Just the combination of the suspects bedroom and the shitty tunnel he'd built into his dungeon was pretty creepy.
Also when I was a kid, the first time you see Gray Fox in MGS. The cutscene where he kicks the shit out of like 5 of the enemy soldiers and you're just like, fuck am I going in there. The whole atmosphere is pretty creepy. Good job he turns out to be a fucking badboy.
Also anytime you encounter SA-X in Metroid Fusion can be pretty scary.
Also when I was a kid, the first time you see Gray Fox in MGS. The cutscene where he kicks the shit out of like 5 of the enemy soldiers and you're just like, fuck am I going in there. The whole atmosphere is pretty creepy. Good job he turns out to be a fucking badboy.
Also anytime you encounter SA-X in Metroid Fusion can be pretty scary.
Probably just me, but I thought the second part of the library was scarier. The part where you're having to run away from a crapton of librarians. The bad part is I barely had any ammo because of fighting all the librarians in the bit before. So I had to run away, pissing my pants doing so. Metro 2033 was such a good game.redisforever said:
You dirty ninja. I first played that level at midnight with the lights off with headphones on. It's the scariest thing I've ever seen/played bar none, even when you replay it knowing what's coming it's still scary.drummond13 said:
See, I'm just near the end of the Dead City. I'm already terrified. I've heard of the Library, and why does it seem that anything called the Library in any FPS will be scary?ToastiestZombie said:
Oh, yeah the Library is scarier. Well, once you've gotten seperated from your two companions. At last in Dead City you had light, this one most of it's in the dark.redisforever said:
Ah, the Shalebridge Cradle. Not only did the place burn down full of people, it was also an insane asylum. And an orphanage. At the same time.Zeckt said:
Terrifying level, though it was the collecting of the letters that freaked me out as you found out what happened to the inmates, kids and staff.