Creepiest Moments You've Had... in Non-Horror Games
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The haunted ghost ship in Okami was surprisingly creepy in an otherwise light-hearted game. My heart sunk the first time I went into "Celestial Brush" mode and noticed ghosts weren't affected like everybody else so far into the game. And then the ghost of the Spider Queen screwed up my screen. And then chests suddenly started fighting back. And then these freaky seaweed-ish monster hands attacked. And then...
I've found it hard not to be scared that something awful will happen in old games on late 90's systems (N64, PS1, that sort of thing) ever since I spent a night reading way too much creepy pasta.
Well, that whole thing was meant as a reference to Lovecraft. The name of the building is a hint.Terminate421 said:Fallout 3, this building
The Dunwich Building
Seriously. This place gives me the chills:
And the basement OH GOD THE BASEMENT
Anyway...
creepiest/funniest/one of the most poignant moments I can think of is Vault 11 in New Vegas.
Creepiest or most disturbing moment I had was in Mass Effect 2, during Zaeed's loyalty mission.
You progress through this facility which eventually catches fire, and it gives you the option of saving some civilians or trying to reach Zaeed's nemesis faster. If you don't save the civilians, as you go through the hallways you can hear them screaming through the walls as they are trapped in a room burning alive.
It messed with me as the recorded dialogue of them screaming was very real and haunted you throughout the mission.
You progress through this facility which eventually catches fire, and it gives you the option of saving some civilians or trying to reach Zaeed's nemesis faster. If you don't save the civilians, as you go through the hallways you can hear them screaming through the walls as they are trapped in a room burning alive.
It messed with me as the recorded dialogue of them screaming was very real and haunted you throughout the mission.
I was 11 when the N64 came out and that eel creeped me out, but felt like a PBS puppet after I experienced THIS.xPixelatedx said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLLVwGgzFSs
Skip to 12:37 for nightmare fuel if you're afraid of deep, dark water and what may lurk within...
Also, The Unfinished Swan was terrifying at times. Like Shadows of the Empire did, The Unfinished Swan did not sit well with my fear of rising, never-ending, deep, dark water.
Yeah, every mission is a flashback and therefore told from his perspective. The whole game takes place at night, and most of it in the rain, but we can't be sure that's how it really happened. The butcher's private cutting room also gave me the creeps.daveman247 said:Haha i was wondering when that was going to come up. Worked well on me because it was totally unexpected, and i was curious because i was SURE i had seen something in the corner of my eye in that corridor. I know the games about a killer clone, but stillPhuctifyno said:
To be honest that entire game is pretty creepy. Its scary what goes on in Mr 47's head :S
Definitely the crawler from Fable 3 is at the top there. But i got an all around creep vibe from all of KoTOR2 the whole way through. The Dark Side seems to be more than evil, its blacker than black magic evil. Made me queasy.
In Fallout 3 there was the part where you have to through the Museum of History to find all the Lincoln stuff, whilst the building is packed to the gills with feral ghouls. Now at this point I was about level 15, I was easily strong enough to make a Super Mutant fly to pieces by gobbing in their face, I had enough ordinance on hand to rival a third world nation and Feral Ghouls are among the weakest enemies in the game, and they caused me to curl up in the corner and cry for a just a little bit.
Phuctifyno said:The "extra" dark tone fit the hitman game i think. It would be cool if they could go for a similar tone another timedaveman247 said:
Y'know, I might actually have to disagree with you there. It did work very well in Contracts, but I think that's what they were going for in Absolution (not exact, but ballpark) and didn't pull off as well. I've always preferred the exotic or fancier Hitman levels, myself.daveman247 said:The "extra" dark tone fit the hitman game i think. It would be cool if they could go for a similar tone another time
The Vault in Fallout 3 with the hallucinogenic gas...
That feel when through a window the furniture is on the ceiling and when you go into the room it isn't with no creepy music or ceremony at all. Makes you feel like you are going mad.
Also has anyone ever had their companion just rush towards them out of the darkness when they have routed around another way.
That feel when through a window the furniture is on the ceiling and when you go into the room it isn't with no creepy music or ceremony at all. Makes you feel like you are going mad.
Also has anyone ever had their companion just rush towards them out of the darkness when they have routed around another way.
YOU ASS I've spent a long time trying to repress that damn thing and in one fell swoop you destroyed all of that. I hated this thing so much.Cursed Frogurt said:
OT: The laboratory in Mother 3. It starts out normally enough and then you see the bodies and then you see it.
Ah nostalgia. That and the gameover scene always gave me the jibblies as a kid.Tesral said:Has this really not been mentioned?
OH GOD WHAT IS THAT
Heh, I had forgotten that game existed.AshPox said:
Though the only eerie things I can recall are the clowns...
Well, nothing really jumps out in memory, though the masks scenes in Majora's mask were always pretty damn creepy. Faces freaking out like I just ordered link to kill himself in the most suffering way...thank god I could skip that stuff after seeing it the first time around.