Creepy Gaming Moments.

[Dragonforce525]

When you're fighting that pig thing at the end of Manhunt, you're in maze like hallway and all you can hear is the pig guy squealing with his chainsaw revving, the whole time I was thinking "OHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCK He's getting closer, he's right behind me I know he is!".

 

[Mr36]

NOOOOOOO it was Alma there on the top of the ladder, then when you get off the ladder, BAM, Fettel is walking towards you. I unleashed a whole clip at the bastard, who disappeared into nothingness. One of the most memorable moments in the game.

I remember when that happened. I turn around to climb down the ladder, and Alma is there. I instinctively press jump, which makes me let go of the ladder, and suddenly Fettel is there. I lit him up with the SMG and he vanished. I think I sat on that catwalk for a good 30 seconds after that just trying to settle down.

OT: Recently I haven't see too much. I just beat Dead Space 2, and the only parts that really got to me was the fights against those velociraptor-type guys. The sense of being watched and hunted was unnerving when I was used to destroying the necromorphs with hardly any effort.

EDIT
There was one particularly unsettling bit in Dead Space 2 that bugged me.

Spoiler

When you go back to the Ishimura, there's a decontamination chamber you must go through. I remember in the first game when you go through there, it locks you in a tiny room and a bunch of necromorphs jump out at you, so that's what I was expecting. Instead, you stand in the small room for about 30 seconds, holding your breath and waiting for them to come, but they never do... The room just decons and lets you pass. That was a good part for me.

 

[Light 086]

For me one of those moments came during my current New Vegas playthrough. I decided that I wanted to kill Yes Man (I was close to leveling up and was siding with Mister House). I attacked him with a shovel and not only did he not retaliate, he kept encouraging me to kill him saying things like "That's right, make me take my medicine!" and "Keep it up!" in that cheery voice of his. That was pretty creepy, and made even more so when he comes back in another body and asks if I want to murder him again.

That's awesome!!! I wanna try it!

For me it was online gears of war 2 when some guy was singing Bon Jovi's 'you give love a bad name'. He scarred the shit outta me, you should have heard him.

 

[AlternatePFG]

A creepy unsettling thing for me, is that in Amnesia, the Cistern area, it's relatively safe, 'cept for the fact that rarely the water monster might spawn, and it's not nearly as frighting or unexpected as the first time you encounter it. Anyways, you have to shut off these pipes in order to unflood part of the level, and there's this box in the middle of the room, that has water pouring in from above, and sobbing noises coming from it. Once you turn the last wheel, the noises stop.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

A creepy unsettling thing for me, is that in Amnesia, the Cistern area, it's relatively safe, 'cept for the fact that rarely the water monster might spawn, and it's not nearly as frighting or unexpected as the first time you encounter it. Anyways, you have to shut off these pipes in order to unflood part of the level, and there's this box in the middle of the room, that has water pouring in from above, and sobbing noises coming from it. Once you turn the last wheel, the noises stop.

Damn it, I was gonna post that!

Anyways, it's from the same game, Amnesia, and I was in the morgue getting the vaccine from a dead body with a syringe to be able to go into the next area. None of this was what I wanted to do while I was in there, but the minute I was able to leave, and happy about that, a monster was trying to get in the room that I was in. I was doing a lot of swearing and bolted out of that room, and the build up to that was great.

Too bad my heart didn't see it that way....

 

[RedRockRun]

FFX:

Tidus "teaching" Tifa to laugh. That was literally the most awkward scene I've ever seen (see what I did there?) in a video game. That was one of the only times I ever felt like skipping a cutscene.

A close runner-up would be MGS3 when Volgin grabs Big Boss' junk.

 

[WanderingFool]

The Dunwhich building in Fallout 3.

Dude, that shit scared the fuck out of me. Its even worse when you have zero sneak, and at level 5 having just start playing the game for the first time. Another game though, I went back there at level 18 with power armor and a minigun.

"Time to get some fucking payback", as in my mind i sss my guy kicking the door open and unloading on several ghouls.

 

[twistedmic]

The Dunwhich building in Fallout 3.

I only went into that building on one of my eight or so runs through the game. IT was too creepy for me to go back in.
And it might make me a wuss, but I could not finish Silent Hill 2. IT was just too creepy. I had just gotten past the hospital level when the creepiness became too much and I had to shut it off.

 

[Snotnarok]

Creepy? ...The end of Fear 2, that was FULL of it. I wont say a damn thing on it, you wanna know youtube it because ...hell I'm STILL like whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!

 

[Kopikatsu]

EDIT
There was one particularly unsettling bit in Dead Space 2 that bugged me.

Spoiler

When you go back to the Ishimura, there's a decontamination chamber you must go through. I remember in the first game when you go through there, it locks you in a tiny room and a bunch of necromorphs jump out at you, so that's what I was expecting. Instead, you stand in the small room for about 30 seconds, holding your breath and waiting for them to come, but they never do... The room just decons and lets you pass. That was a good part for me.

Yeah, it was the same for me.

Spoiler

Then the second time you go through, I saw a Pack banging on the glass where I just came from. I was like 'Why would one be there? I'm not going back that way.' So I turned around and saw an Enhanced Slasher in the direction I would be heading. 'Oh. They were trying to distract me. That's...stupid.' *Loud crash from behind* 'What was th-OHGODMYFACEITSEATINGMYFAAAAAACE'

 

[Caligulove]

The Orphanage in Thief: Deadly Shadows.

Definitely one of the best haunted house levels in a game, ever.

 

[Marcosn]

The creepers from this indie game called minecraft are terrifiying. Maybe you've heard of it? It's not very well known...

No. I can't say I've ever heard of that game.

Must only be the coolest of the cool cats who know about that very awesome yet inexplicably unappreciated game.

I know, you'd of thought that more people would know about, or at least a website dedicated to gaming news might post a few articles about it.

Oh god i thought you were being serious at first... it actually hurt a bit

I don't really play horror games but i remember when FEAR 2 came out my friend was playing it in his pitch black room and when the girl randomly popped onto his screen he screamed like a girl and unloaded all his ammo in her direction XD

 

[Drakmeire]

secret demon room in Psychonauts
la la la happy funny game ohhh whats in here *sees vault*
oh umm I guess it's just dark humor
hops in hole
OH DEAR SWEET JESUS!!!! WHY!?!?!?
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[InnerRebellion]

Playing Geist with my friends. I'm the only human at the moment... I turn around, and bam, the other three guys are suddenly ready to murder my ass. I was like, 10 at the time, and I jumped a little.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Silent hill 2. When pyramid has his way with that... thing.

And just pyramid head in general.

 

[Ghost_308]

My recent play through of S.T.A.L.K.E.R I was rushing through it to refresh my memory of it as I am plaining on this weekend making a lets play of it.So I was run killing things not really watching out for anything when I get to the red forest as soon as I enter I am chased by at lest two bloodsuckers that never really attack me they just circled me as I wasted ammo till I hear the worst sound in the zone "Click"

So I start running around trying franticly to find the way to fosters all the while I hear more and more noises after me till I finally find the "gate" I stop on the other side of it and all I hear is their heavy breathing no eyes nothing just breathing.

Most Creeped out feeling I had on the game in a long time.

 

[minisammy]

The very end of F.E.A.R 2. Not because it's scary, but more "I cannot unsee that now"

 

[daftalchemist]

This may sound lame, but it was in Fable 2. It was inside one of those demon doors. You're in this snowy area, and it's got jingling bells going, and there's a little lit up cottage with a fire going. It's got this whole Christmas feel, so lovely and warm. You run up to the cottage door, and just as you step inside the lights go out, the bells stop, and the inside turns into a run-down abandoned shack. I had to take a moment to get over my "wtf?!" daze before hesitantly exploring for treasure. I expected to run into some sort of undead or something, but nothing but a treasure chest upstairs. Then I got my ass out of there as fast as possible.

 

[Rune342]

I was only 10 at the time, so this may not hold up as well 9 years later, but my moment is from Halo. The first level where you find the Flood. This was before Halo became as well known as it is, so I knew nothing about the Flood. So I'm making my way through some kind of underground building, and all I'm finding are dead alien bodies. Finally I get to a door and something comes out of it. I must have fired almost a full clip before realizing it was a dead body.

 

[Kayhoff]

For me, it's a tie between in Halo:CE, when you come across the marine who is traumatized from the Flood, and then you find the helmet cam showing them, and some of the early cinematics in Starcraft showing the Zerg.