Creepiest Moments You've Had... in Non-Horror Games

[Siege_TF]

Most of the Breath Of Fire games have a few scenes, as does the original Wild Arms (what a good son you are [crunch, crunch, schlorp]).

 

[ASan83]

In Dragon Age: Origins, the part in the Deep Roads right before you fight the Broodmother never fails to creep me the fuck out.

 

[mitchell271]

In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, there's perma-death. I'm doing my first playthrough on Ironman mode, where I can't load saves. If a guy dies, they're dead for good. Doesn't matter what their rank was, how good their gear was, one bad crit and they drop dead like that guy I [REDACTED]. Nearly piss my pants every time I see a pair of Chryssalids or when 4 different squads of Mutons appear out of nowhere and my sniper doesn't have a line of sight. Maj. Hawkeye, NOOOO!!!! *bawls*

Sorry about that.

There was another time in Fallout 3 when I entered a shop, talked to someone turned around and HOLY SHIT WHEN DID YOU GET HERE FAWKES was all that ran through my head. Stupid trigger finger made me drop a nuke on us too.

 

[Images]

I'm going with the haunted hotel in Vampire Bloodlines. For a game that's mainly about hanging round nightclubs and beating gangsters to death you suddenly have this Shining based spookathon with some creepy as shit sound mixing.

"beeeeee carefulllll..."

CAPTCHA:Slimy Goop

 

[VoidWanderer]

Any game that involves plants that attack you. I hate those damn things....

 

[Gypsyssilver]

Lucian Lachance yelling "NO" at me during the Dark Brotherhood quest line in Oblivion. I was so frightened that I jumped.
Scary dude to disappoint.

Definitely! Also, the part where you see him... for the last time. Yeesh, I didn't know where to look.

The creepiest part in Oblivion for me though, was another one in the Dark Brotherhood quest line - when you find the head of 'Mother' in that building and you realise what's been happening.

 

[darkcalling]

Just started the Dragonborn dlc in Skyrim and so far I'll agree with anyone that's mentioned that.

By far the creepiest thing that's happened in that game was a glitch though. Actually the only major glitch that's happened to me.

Spoilered for those rare few who haven't played the game yet.

Spoiler

During the Companions quest line one of your new friends, a veteran named Skjor is killed. Absolutely nothing you can do to save him. Later (like maybe a month, real time took me a long time to get around to finishing the game) I'm wandering around near Windhelm when something floats past my field of vision. I investigate. It's Skjor's contorted corpse frozen in the worst case of rigor mortis EVER just floating by with a slight but extremely creepy grin on his face. When I go back to Whiterun later to turn in whatever quest I'd been working on I stop by the companions lodge to see if I'd remembered to grab the stone of barenziah there (wiki said there was one and I hadn't found them all yet) and guess who's standing around in the back of the building? Skjor is now one very lively zombie in my game.

Also in Captain America: Super Soldier the Arnim Zola film reels where he explains what went into creating the various hydra forces you're fighting were really unsettling to me for some reason.

 

[nincrony]

Any of the boss sequences from Catherine xD
Also, probably finding the town of cannibals in Fallout 3. I can tell you I had never experienced anything like that in a video game before!

 

[animeprime]

At one point in Singularity you have to swim through some tunnels at the bottom of a soviet nuclear research lab. When you turn the corner of one you find a skeleton floating in the water with its arms stretched out like its going to get you. The game music, which had been very quiet up to that point, does a "psycho" violin draw. It nearly threw me out of my chair since up to this point the game had been bleak, but never done any scare jumps like that. It stuck with me because a few feet on you find a makeshift camp where a man hanged himself and a letter saying that his wife has tried to swim out and get some help...

 

[Rufio's Ghost]

Lucian Lachance yelling "NO" at me during the Dark Brotherhood quest line in Oblivion. I was so frightened that I jumped.
Scary dude to disappoint.

Definitely! Also, the part where you see him... for the last time. Yeesh, I didn't know where to look.

The creepiest part in Oblivion for me though, was another one in the Dark Brotherhood quest line - when you find the head of 'Mother' in that building and you realise what's been happening.

So scary, but so good.

Spoiler

I think what made the Dark Brotherhood so terrifying is that I knew something was wrong earlier in the quest line, but could do nothing to stop it. I could tell things were fucked when I got the first drop and the tone of the letter was completely different from past drops. I wish there was a "Hey Lucian, this isn't your handwriting" option.

And yeah- I took that head and tossed it into the lava of an Oblivion gate, I didn't want to look at that shit any longer than I had to.

Morrowind had a good amount of creepy moments as well. Every time a dreamer talked to me I felt my fight or flight response kick in. And voiced Dagoth Ur talking throughout Dagoth made me so uncomfortable I wanted to quit.

Then again, I am probably just a jumpy person. Most people I know were not nearly as scarred from these experiences.

 

[Fappy]

Lucian Lachance yelling "NO" at me during the Dark Brotherhood quest line in Oblivion. I was so frightened that I jumped.
Scary dude to disappoint.

Definitely! Also, the part where you see him... for the last time. Yeesh, I didn't know where to look.

The creepiest part in Oblivion for me though, was another one in the Dark Brotherhood quest line - when you find the head of 'Mother' in that building and you realise what's been happening.

So scary, but so good.

Spoiler

I think what made the Dark Brotherhood so terrifying is that I knew something was wrong earlier in the quest line, but could do nothing to stop it. I could tell things were fucked when I got the first drop and the tone of the letter was completely different from past drops. I wish there was a "Hey Lucian, this isn't your handwriting" option.

And yeah- I took that head and tossed it into the lava of an Oblivion gate, I didn't want to look at that shit any longer than I had to.

Morrowind had a good amount of creepy moments as well. Every time a dreamer talked to me I felt my fight or flight response kick in. And voiced Dagoth Ur talking throughout Dagoth made me so uncomfortable I wanted to quit.

Then again, I am probably just a jumpy person. Most people I know were not nearly as scarred from these experiences.

You seriously need to hear all of the dreams read out by Dagoth Ur in the Overhaul mod. The modders did a great job making the creepiness reflect what was actually written in your journal entries.

Also, look what I found XD


Also, Tribunal spoiler:

Spoiler

"Now you face the one true God!"

 

[Rufio's Ghost]

Lucian Lachance yelling "NO" at me during the Dark Brotherhood quest line in Oblivion. I was so frightened that I jumped.
Scary dude to disappoint.

Definitely! Also, the part where you see him... for the last time. Yeesh, I didn't know where to look.

The creepiest part in Oblivion for me though, was another one in the Dark Brotherhood quest line - when you find the head of 'Mother' in that building and you realise what's been happening.

So scary, but so good.

Spoiler

I think what made the Dark Brotherhood so terrifying is that I knew something was wrong earlier in the quest line, but could do nothing to stop it. I could tell things were fucked when I got the first drop and the tone of the letter was completely different from past drops. I wish there was a "Hey Lucian, this isn't your handwriting" option.

And yeah- I took that head and tossed it into the lava of an Oblivion gate, I didn't want to look at that shit any longer than I had to.

Morrowind had a good amount of creepy moments as well. Every time a dreamer talked to me I felt my fight or flight response kick in. And voiced Dagoth Ur talking throughout Dagoth made me so uncomfortable I wanted to quit.

Then again, I am probably just a jumpy person. Most people I know were not nearly as scarred from these experiences.

You seriously need to hear all of the dreams read out by Dagoth Ur in the Overhaul mod. The modders did a great job making the creepiness reflect what was actually written in your journal entries.

Also, look what I found XD


Also, Tribunal spoiler:

Spoiler

"Now you face the one true God!"

Shit dude, it's even scary out of context.