Favorite Scares in games

[zombiejoe]

Simple question:
What are some of your favorite moments in games that made you scared. It can be a jump scare, a psychological scare, or anything else.


I won't give one scare out, but if I have to point out a game that scared me a lot, it would be Amnesia (surprise surprise)

 

[endnuen]

None.. I fucking hate getting scared in games.

 

[Snork Maiden]

None.. I fucking hate getting scared in games.

Heh, so do I. Just can't cope.

Which means the biggest scares I've had are totally lame things like hitting Daedric shrines in Morrowind, or re-deads in Zelda.

Although, to 8 or 9 year old me, re-deads weren't lame.

 

[Gralian]

Eternal Darkness had a few freaky moments for me. I think one of them was when you're playing the woman (i forgot her name, but she's like the "main" character and acts as a hub for all the others iirc) and she walks into the bathroom, and she sees herself lying dead in a tub of blood. I wasn't that old when i played it and it freaked me the hell out.

Another one has to be in Silent Hill 2, when you see a body staring at a (i think it was bloodied?) TV screen, and you go to inspect the body only to find it's James himself.

 

[endnuen]

None.. I fucking hate getting scared in games.

Heh, so do I. Just can't cope.

Which means the biggest scares I've had are totally lame things like hitting Daedric shrines in Morrowind, or re-deads in Zelda.

Although, to 8 or 9 year old me, re-deads weren't lame.

I got fucking scared when a mudcrab sneaked up on me...
The scariest game I've ever managed to get trough would be AvP for the ps3. The human campaign that is.. I've tried F.E.A.R, and loved the combat, but not the scary parts.. I even found BioShock somewhat scary with the eerie atmosphere.. Tried Dead Space too, really wwish I could get the nerves to play that game, it seems so awesome!..
sadface

 

[Latinidiot]

'You promised me pretty!

Man, I loved that game (Bioshock). It's the closest thing to a horror game I've played.
Or when a Imperial guard snuck up on me, yelling: 'stop right there you criminal scum!'
I had almost no health, and realized that if I fought him, I'd lose, if I payed my fine, I'd lose all my (very valuable) stolen stuff, and my last save was very long ago.

 

[Mr. Eff_v1legacy]

Two moments in particular stand out for me...

Fatal Frame: in the hearth room (just off the rope hallway) I heard a koto playing. I climbed the stairs to see a shadow of a person behind a screen, playing a koto. As I climbed higher, they continued to play. When I reached the top, they struck one more sudden, loud note and disappeared. I was alone again.

Resident Evil 2: Getting the chess piece in the interrogation room in the police station. On the way out, a licker jumps through the one way mirror. That made my 11-year-old self jump. High.

 

[Calcium]

I'm not a fan of Horror games... But from recent memory; being lost in a cave in Oblivion, the torch going out only to relight it revealing three trolls charging at you isn't a fun experience. Must have ran all the way to Chorrol.

Those mummies from Orcarina of Time used to freak me out though. Not really the same as scared but I'm clutching at straws here.

Edit: There's alot of Elder Scrolls references it seems.

 

[GundamSentinel]

The Max Payne nightmare sequences were very unsettling, but very fitting for the game as well. Those are my favorites.

 

[galdon2004]

Ok, scariest moment in a video game for me... I had just gotten Doom for the computer. I used to play doom on the SNES a lot years prior to that.

Most of the first level was fine.. until.. I entered a room.. and there was One. Enemy. Missing. Nothing noticed me yet, as I looked around, but i couldn't see it anywhere. I'd been through the level dozens; nay hundreds of times there. were. three. enemies. in. this. room. Where was he?!

As it would turn out, there were minor variations between the computer and SNES ports of the game, and in this case, the number of enemies in the room in question were different. Though missing the enemy and getting shot even 7-8 times before finding him wouldn't actually have killed my character given that it was an enemy that used a pistol, somehow the slight difference was just enough to throw the familiar game directly into the uncanny zone; where that one little difference made everything feel wrong.

 

[Umwerfer]

Started with Ravenholm; scared the wits outta me. I hated it (too scary back then). Go addicted, bought the F.E.A.R-series. Got immune. Laughed my way through dead space. The afforementiond games are awesome; go play them Personally I'm going for Amnesia as soon as Ive got the time^^

 

[Leg End]

Resident Evil 4.
Regenerators.

The first time through the game, that breathing freaked the living fuck out of me when I knew they were around the corner but weren't attacking yet.

The Shotgun is your friend.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

The Licker crawling past the window in Resident Evil 2.

 

[Rylot]

The dark hallway in the school level in FEAR 2. That one fucked with me.

 

[Terminate421]

The ending to Dead Space

Go ahead and say its cliche that it gives one last scare but its THE WAY it does it.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

The oceanfront hotel in VtM:B is scary as hell. Played that game at least a dozen times so I know every square inch of that place by now, but the first time was, well, scary as hell

 

[lionsprey]

Just about everything in the Amnesia demo scared the shit out of me.

 

[Pseudopod]

The first tentacle grab in Dead Space scared me a lot. Amnesia wins by a long shot over anything else I've played, though I haven't played a lot of the classic horror games. The worst were the part with the water monster, the torture chambers, and in Storage where you first really encounter threats from those wandering creatures.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

This.

Oh god, this!

 

[LaMer]

The bear, Condemned.

I love it and hate it all the same.