Games that truly frightened you.
- Thread starter Brandon237
- Start date
Recommended Videos
grhm..... when i first time played Half-life 2 i almost got heart seizure after i walked to certain tongue and then looked up... i was at my friends house and he fell down from laughter....
but truly scary games... hmm...when i first time played diablo 2 (i was young) i didnt dare to touch it after first half hour....
but truly scary games... hmm...when i first time played diablo 2 (i was young) i didnt dare to touch it after first half hour....
I was a very over-sensitive kid who frightened easily. A lot of games scared me, and it probably didn't help that I'd be playing them alone at school after almost everybody was gone (my mom was a teacher, so I was stuck there until she was ready to go home - sometimes not until long after it got dark.)
The two I remember most are Pathways into Darkness and Loom (the part where the sky opens and lighting strikes - I was afraid Bobbin would be some kind of horrible nasty corpse. He wasn't, but my mind conjured up the image anyway and I couldn't shake it.) Myst and Riven both scared me a little too, though I'm not sure why.
Nowadays I'm much harder to scare, but a few things still do it. Silent Hill 4, Undying, and a flash game called ExMortis have all given me some memorable frights.
The two I remember most are Pathways into Darkness and Loom (the part where the sky opens and lighting strikes - I was afraid Bobbin would be some kind of horrible nasty corpse. He wasn't, but my mind conjured up the image anyway and I couldn't shake it.) Myst and Riven both scared me a little too, though I'm not sure why.
Nowadays I'm much harder to scare, but a few things still do it. Silent Hill 4, Undying, and a flash game called ExMortis have all given me some memorable frights.
A flash game, interesting.... that must have been one hell'uva good flash designer to make a scary flash game, I must look this up.Zyxx said:
Been playing since the end of the Atari and Commodore era and the beginning of the original Nintendo Entertainment System, still waiting on a frightening experience from games. One of the earliest games I remember with horror elements was Forbidden Forest. Giant spiders, skeletons, a rain of enormous frogs, banshees, even the showdown with the demogorgon who mostly let you fire wildly into the darkness until you were helpless.
Survival-horror games just don't offer anything to frighten me, I just get angry when playing them, probably due to the overabundance of the aggressive scare tactic. The Silent Hill series has been a shining example of this, as I consider the emergency axe and an already defeated enemy to be the recipe for catharsis. Resident Evil was more of an, "oh, not again" annoyance with the enemies. Clock Tower had me feeling vindicated when I finally got to shut up the monsters with a spot of violence. Haven't played Eternal Darkness, but watching it I just kind of yawned at their best attempts.
I guess it all has to do with the fact that I'm well adapted to artificial realities, I know they aren't real and there's nothing to fear. In real life however, I tend to be frightened just being outdoors after most people have gone to bed; there's something about the lack of people activities that unnerves me. The fact that people are responsible for the ideas in games intended to scare people is also a very effective contributor to my paranoia. Doesn't help much having studied statistics on sexual assault either, being a woman.
Survival-horror games just don't offer anything to frighten me, I just get angry when playing them, probably due to the overabundance of the aggressive scare tactic. The Silent Hill series has been a shining example of this, as I consider the emergency axe and an already defeated enemy to be the recipe for catharsis. Resident Evil was more of an, "oh, not again" annoyance with the enemies. Clock Tower had me feeling vindicated when I finally got to shut up the monsters with a spot of violence. Haven't played Eternal Darkness, but watching it I just kind of yawned at their best attempts.
I guess it all has to do with the fact that I'm well adapted to artificial realities, I know they aren't real and there's nothing to fear. In real life however, I tend to be frightened just being outdoors after most people have gone to bed; there's something about the lack of people activities that unnerves me. The fact that people are responsible for the ideas in games intended to scare people is also a very effective contributor to my paranoia. Doesn't help much having studied statistics on sexual assault either, being a woman.
i dont remember the name but it was set in a burning house and you had no weapons and you had to escape but there was electric fence around, in the burning house very blood filled empty eyed zombies would spawn randomly next to you whenever you turn around and then to rip of your flesh *note: there was no weapons... only hands) and you had to punch it and hope it dident get your arm and rip it of and eat it and let you die on the floor
Oh, yeah, the ExMortis series. Interesting and well-done artistically. The gameplay tends to show inexperience in design, but that is to be expected in most Flash games (I also recall reading something about the original game in the series being his first ever attempt). Overall, I applaude the creator's reliance on more of suspense and atmosphere than the aggressive scare.brandon237 said:
I did, actually. Although it could have been a sequel if there's one.Jark212 said:Heretic, try playing that when your 6 years old...
It's not that scary... the combat was pretty badass for the time though.
The "Island of the Dead" mod for the 2001 AvP2 game.
It has a couple screamers, apart from that it's a complete horror masterpiece.
It has a couple screamers, apart from that it's a complete horror masterpiece.
Thief is the only game series to have ever freaked me out. Naturally, the Cradle has creeped me out my fair share of times, but also in Thief 2 the freaking Mechanist robots made me want to pee my pants. Something about them just freak me out.
Those games were so fun. Sadly my computer doesn't run the first 2 anymore =/
Those games were so fun. Sadly my computer doesn't run the first 2 anymore =/
wait you get scared by movies but not by games??Samcanuck said:
im complete opposite, i laugh at most movies and i haven't been "scared" since i was like 8 when i watched the first jeepers creepers at 1 a.m. on a windy ass night...now that got me pretty good, thanks alot rocking chair outside my window...
otherwise, games are the only thing that actually scare me, dead space got me pretty good the other day, hell most haunted houses and stuff dont usually get me, unless you have *strobe light+chainsaw guy+running pretty damn fast at you* that got me pretty good one year
About 1:30 in.
About 4:25 in.
This scared the shit out of me when I was 12.
But then again, so did Tomb Raider II.
I remember playing the Mansion of Madness level on Timesplitters, then turning the music volume to zero and listening to all the scary background noises that weren't part of the level soundtrack. (Yes, I am that sad.)tellmeimaninja said:
I don't usually get scared by games. Startled, disturbed, and a feeling of "oh crap this isn't good," but not scared...unless you're talking about when I fought redeads in Ocarina of Time for the first time.
Original Silent Hill went I was like, 10. Got as far as the possessed school, then the creepiest most horrible music started playing and I stopped.
That's the only time a game ever scared me though.
That's the only time a game ever scared me though.
Doom scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. We'd play with the lights off, with like 5 of my friends all crammed around the computer screen even though only one of us could play. There was a lot of screaming. Mind you, I was like nine, but damn those pixel blocks were terrifying. It had a great atmosphere.
More recently? Silent Hill 2. Christ.
More recently? Silent Hill 2. Christ.
The Splatter House Series (What? I was little, and it was midnight!)
System Shock 2
D(and one other 3DO game)
Snake's dream from Metal Gear Solid 3 (Not really scary, just very creepy)
RE 1&2
Eternal Darkness
Majora's Mask
Call of Cthulu
System Shock 2
D(and one other 3DO game)
Snake's dream from Metal Gear Solid 3 (Not really scary, just very creepy)
RE 1&2
Eternal Darkness
Majora's Mask
Call of Cthulu