Games that scared the crap out of you.

[Blue Musician]

This is a 'scary' games thread and no one has mentioned Project Zero/Fatal Frame? For SHAME!

I still get freaked out playing Fatal Frame 2. The original has more jump-out scares but the second is the QUEEN of atmospheric games. (The king is still Silent Hill 2.)

I'd wish I could say Fatal Frame, but I only have a PC, so I cannot tell.
OT: Easily Silent Hill series and System Shock 2 for their atmosphere, probably the best I have seen yet.

 

[Blue Musician]

Thiefeadly Shadows the asylum part always freak me out its too scary,i stop playing once i get to that place

I totally forgot that scene, plus the prison level in Thief 1 a few years ago. Those zombies really piss me off.

 

[Gigaguy64]

Hmmmmm.
Not really sure.

Only BioShock and Dead Space made me Jump.

Iv never really been scared that badly before by a game.

That one bit in Dead Space where the woman slits her own throat was BEYOND disturbing.

That was more WTF!? to me.

Now, the first time i saw the Tall Necromorphs that split into a horde of smaller Necromorphs after being shot was really disturbing.
I instantly used up all my Plasma Cutter ammo in a while frenzy...and i still didn't hit them all.

 

[zHellas]

When I first played Bioshock(at like age 12 or 13...); Condemned: Criminal Origins; and Condemned 2.

 

[Lawyer105]

The Call of Cthulu computer game. I started playing around 11:00 PM with the lights off (figuring the middle of the night was most appropriate for Cthulu) and didn't make it past 2:00 AM. Still haven't managed to go back to it!

 

[Dr. Feelgood]

Me too, I'm kind of a sucker for those jump scares.

Ever played Doom 3? It's pretty much Jump Scare 3D Adventure.

I couldn't agree more, that game was full of cheap scares.
OT: Dead Space, I get startled easy, and the game was full of surprises.

 

[Toar]

Silent Hill 1 fuck my mind over with the opening gameplay. There's a skinned guy crucifyed on a barbed fence and then children come out at you with knives... and you have nothing to defend yourself with. 1999 was a hell of a year...

Silent Hill 2 is good, but SH 1 was better in my opinion only because I played it first. Sorry folks, Silent Hill 1 for me. And none of that remake/revival crap either.

 

[Daniel Armstrong]

prenumbra overture
god that game creeps me out

This ^

I had the balls to try and complete all the Penumbra Series in the same night, in the dark, in my isolated house... never again... never again.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

1. Going through Ravenholm my first time at age 14. Sitting in a room in a lake house I had never been to before, alone, at night.

Amen to that.

Same

 

[Scarecrow]

Bioshock is the only game I was ever scarded by. Dead space and condemed made the laugh.

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

Bioshock is the only game I was ever scarded by. Dead space and condemed made the laugh.

yeah all the levels were scary at some point.

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

Also, what is about penumbra that makes it so scary, ive been finding that almost the whole internet says it is one of the the scariest games they've played. I know it has something to do with a guy trying to find his father or something, but that's all i know.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

Im gonna pick up a copy of fatal frame soon, but there is no way in hell Im gonna play it without friends. From what I hear it's shit your pants scary.

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

Im gonna pick up a copy of fatal frame soon, but there is no way in hell Im gonna play it without friends. From what I hear it's shit your pants scary.

Plus you get to hear 2 or more guys scream like little kids while you play it, and that's always fun.

 

[Skullman 125]

Dead Space
Well this isn't so scary, I mean it's creepy but it's not sca............HOLY SHIT A FUCKING TENTICLE POPPED OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE, OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!

 

[Weofparadigm]

Majora's Mask. Horror games don't often scare me because I'm expecting monsters, blood, etc. but the plot of Major's Mask was so dark and twisted and the atmosphere so haunting it scared the shit out of me. It caught me completely off guard because it's a Zelda game which aren't really known for strong plot (argue that point if you must) or depth (Of course I don't mean gameplay-wise) but Majora dealt with very dark subject matter such as abandonment, isolation, corruption of the world and that terrifying moon that was always staring at you.

 

[Chancie]

Echo Night: Beyond is the one and only game that managed to get my heart pumping.

I'm dying to play this game. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it anywhere in my state. :/

OT: Probably Haunting Ground for me when I first played it. It was my first survival horror game and it scared the crap out of me. xD

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

Echo Night: Beyond is the one and only game that managed to get my heart pumping.

I'm dying to play this game. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it anywhere in my state. :/

OT: Probably Haunting Ground for me when I first played it. It was my first survival horror game and it scared the crap out of me. xD

You can try amazon.com or newegg if they have it there.

 

[Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon]

Dead space when you're backtracking you see things you thought were dead that you killed before then they come up. Scared the living shit into me.
That game was freaky I remember seeing this lady cuting this guy up who was alive with no skin while laughing after he died she laughed louder and cut her own throat with a saw. I realy shouldn't of been playing that game (being 13 at the time) hell I shouldn't play it now! (being 14)