Games that truly frightened you.
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I haven't really played a game that scared me, but I haven't played a lot of horror games. Played through Condemned after a friend told me it was the scariest game he had ever played. Most of it was startling, but not that scary.
One bit about that game made me jump a teeny bit. Where I punched a mannequin and I heard someone whispering, "You're dead." And a bit later someone whispered, "Hey." Or something. I dunno, that just got to me.
LoZ:OoT's ReDeads fucking scared me as a kid, though.
One bit about that game made me jump a teeny bit. Where I punched a mannequin and I heard someone whispering, "You're dead." And a bit later someone whispered, "Hey." Or something. I dunno, that just got to me.
LoZ:OoT's ReDeads fucking scared me as a kid, though.
Man, I've got the trilogy lying on my PC. I've only completed the first game, and Amnesia: The Dark Descent is coming this fall. I can't play penumbra at night if the lights aren't on. I'm serious.Brisingr said:Penumbra.. seriously scary. If you haven't played it already you need to, this is some scary stuff. One hell of a game
I feel you brother, I feel you.Fusionxl said:
Another game I haven't seen mentioned is an indie-developed adventure game called Scratches. That's some freaky shit aswell.
Porbably because I was ten at the time, but I found Doom 3 for the PC shit pants scary and the Xbox version equally as scary without Godmode on.
i honestly have to say Condemned 1 was the only game that ever really had me frightened and only during the end sequence when the serial killer is chasing you around the house.
i consider horror or survival horror to be probably my favourite genre for games but for some reason i can just never really get the level of immersion needed to be really frightened of a game for some reason.
i consider horror or survival horror to be probably my favourite genre for games but for some reason i can just never really get the level of immersion needed to be really frightened of a game for some reason.
I'm on early on in my first play-through of Dead Space and it actually scares me less than the trigeons from Far Cry, when those buggers jump at you, the horror...
The Exmortis flash game when i was around 12 or 13, after playing I actually was so scared that I started to hallucinate seeing this figure on my adjacent tv screen.
Most recently, S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat.
As many have already pointed out in this thread, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games have great immersion. This makes the game a lot more terrifying since you really feel like you are the one that in in danger. Things that wouldn't be scary in other games can be horrible in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. For example, I entered an old dilapidated building, looking for some loot. I expected to find some mutants inside, but there was nothing. But then in one of the secluded rooms, I saw some documents on the table. Because they were apparently an important item, I was able to pick them up.
Then I heard foot steps.
The building wasn't empty. Now in most games hearing some footsteps after picking up an item wouldn't freak me out. If I was playing Halo I would waltz out of the room unhindered. Instead, I was paralyzed with fear. I didn't know what the hell was out there. I figured it was probably some mutant like a bloodsucker, or worse. So I huddled in the corner and pulled out my shotgun, waiting for whatever was outside to come to me. But I just continued to hear the footsteps as the unknown entity paced back and forth, waiting for me to come out of my hiding place. I desperately looked for another way out of the room. I saw a window that I was barely able to squeeze through, falling about 25 feet and taking away half of my health bar.
It was at this time I received a radio transmission stating "You shouldn't have come here stalker, Now you're worm food.". It was then that I discovered that the creature I was so terribly afraid of was actually just a squad of mercenaries. That part of the game probably wasn't even intended to be scary, but I was so immersed that I immediately assumed the worst. I won't even go into the parts of the game I've encountered so far that are supposed to scare you. Don't want to spoil those parts.
As many have already pointed out in this thread, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R games have great immersion. This makes the game a lot more terrifying since you really feel like you are the one that in in danger. Things that wouldn't be scary in other games can be horrible in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. For example, I entered an old dilapidated building, looking for some loot. I expected to find some mutants inside, but there was nothing. But then in one of the secluded rooms, I saw some documents on the table. Because they were apparently an important item, I was able to pick them up.
Then I heard foot steps.
The building wasn't empty. Now in most games hearing some footsteps after picking up an item wouldn't freak me out. If I was playing Halo I would waltz out of the room unhindered. Instead, I was paralyzed with fear. I didn't know what the hell was out there. I figured it was probably some mutant like a bloodsucker, or worse. So I huddled in the corner and pulled out my shotgun, waiting for whatever was outside to come to me. But I just continued to hear the footsteps as the unknown entity paced back and forth, waiting for me to come out of my hiding place. I desperately looked for another way out of the room. I saw a window that I was barely able to squeeze through, falling about 25 feet and taking away half of my health bar.
It was at this time I received a radio transmission stating "You shouldn't have come here stalker, Now you're worm food.". It was then that I discovered that the creature I was so terribly afraid of was actually just a squad of mercenaries. That part of the game probably wasn't even intended to be scary, but I was so immersed that I immediately assumed the worst. I won't even go into the parts of the game I've encountered so far that are supposed to scare you. Don't want to spoil those parts.
The game that truly frightened me would have to be Condemned. It just drew me into the character and the plot and by the time I was half way through I really had to suck up the self esteem to even walk around one room towards another. Really is worth playing only at night and alone with the volume turned UP!
The underground portions of Stalker: SoC (as mentioned many times before). No matter what you are fighting, any gunfight with bandits or battle with mutants is horrifically intensified about 50 times whenever you are underground.
And the Mansion of Madness levels in TimeSplitters: Future Perfect. I'm usually not squicked by zombie games or horror games, but that level was creepy and unnerving even for me.
And the Mansion of Madness levels in TimeSplitters: Future Perfect. I'm usually not squicked by zombie games or horror games, but that level was creepy and unnerving even for me.
Those damn zombified butchered cows near the end of the first half didn't help, either.
