Games that Actually Scared You
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Every game with horror setting, fixed cameras and poor control over character.
Silent Hill III comes to mind. Game was creepy, yeah, but there were moments with this accursed radio static and no visible enemy. I almost panicked in moments like these.
Silent Hill III comes to mind. Game was creepy, yeah, but there were moments with this accursed radio static and no visible enemy. I almost panicked in moments like these.
Something that used to scare me was a particular part of Crash Bandicoot. I'm serious. When I was way younger, I remember this level on Crash Bandicoot called 'Slippery Climb' or something like that. Every time Crash would land on a spike, the screen immediately cut to a small animation of him yelling "Ow!" and spinning around and falling over. I don't know why but everytime it just cut to that it'd freak me out. I think it's because it just happened to suddenly when you were to fall down onto the spikes.
These days though, I'd have to say Amnesia. Dead Space not so much.
These days though, I'd have to say Amnesia. Dead Space not so much.
When I was a lot younger? The scariest game would probably have been Silent Hill 2. I was 14 when it came out, and it was the first horror game I had ever played. It was pretty scary.
Lately however? The scariest thing I have personally finished was Metro 2033. Not all of it - but some sections of it were pretty nerve-racking.
Lately however? The scariest thing I have personally finished was Metro 2033. Not all of it - but some sections of it were pretty nerve-racking.
Amnesia. Still haven't finished that game, just because i'm too scared to boot it up again. All i could get up to was
The part where you fall down the elevater and land in the dungeon. I'm just up the stairs.
Being lost in a dark cave with hardly any light while the creepers move in is an utterly terrifying experience in Minecraft. Other than that, basically the Silent Hill series and RE2 (mainly because I played it when I was really young).
Other than adding to the Amnesia: The Dark Descent count, I'd say the original Clock Tower on the PlayStation 1. Another one would be anything from the Fatal Frame series.
Dead Space 1 (and 2 to an extent)- Not hugely scary as such, but I jumped a lot, mainly because I'd see a Necro laying on the floor and inch over thinking "I KNOW you're going to get up in a minute". Then I'd get to a certain distance and think "wow, maybe this one doesn..SURPRISE M.FER!!
Amnesia & Condemned 1 had good, creepy atmospheres as did a few of the Silent Hill games.
Amnesia & Condemned 1 had good, creepy atmospheres as did a few of the Silent Hill games.
Very few games have ever really ever scared me, not even amnesia or silent hill. Although quite bizarrely nemesis from resident evil 3 scared the hell out of me, although that was probably because he was a giant monster who wouldn't f**king die, kept chasing you thoughout the game and had a rocket laucher... more of a direct threat then a horror thing.
Ecco The Dolphin, Ecco 2, and Ecco Defender of the Future. Easily the most atmospheric games on any Sega machine. On the subject of water related games, Everblue 2, the spiritual predecessor to the Endless Ocean titles could make you feel tense at times.
Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask gave me a few nightmares, especially because of pretty much anything involving the final night. Everything about the last day, from npc quotes to the sound design, invokes an apocolyptic fear of "oh @!#$ we're all gonna die!"
As a kid, Chrono Trigger has that effect when the future refuses to change. That scream will haunt you forever.
One word: Eversion.
Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask gave me a few nightmares, especially because of pretty much anything involving the final night. Everything about the last day, from npc quotes to the sound design, invokes an apocolyptic fear of "oh @!#$ we're all gonna die!"
As a kid, Chrono Trigger has that effect when the future refuses to change. That scream will haunt you forever.
One word: Eversion.
There's only one sequence of three words that ever scared me, and it still makes all the blood drain from my face, and my hand go limp on the mouse, while i watch helplessly: Nuclear launch detected...
The only game i've not been able to finish due to it scaring the shit out of me is Amnesia: The Dark Descent, i got about 40 minutes in, and that is, couldnt continue, but it still intrigues me, so i've read up on the game more than i've actually played it
I think the first time I played Left 4 Dead and a Hunter came screaming out of the darkness after my kidneys I jumped a bit.
Actually scared? Like most others, Amnesia, and when I was much younger, the village scene of RE4 did it for me.
Actually scared? Like most others, Amnesia, and when I was much younger, the village scene of RE4 did it for me.
