Games that truly frightened you.
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I played the Half-Life 2 demo a while back, and got to play through Ravenholm. I was terrified the whole way through, especially since I started with hardly any ammo, so I was forced to use the crowbar and gravity gun most of the time. Then when the fast zombies came I was squealing like a little girl. xD
I don't know if its already been mentioned, but the first The Suffering game scared the crap out of me.
Given that I've just written a five-paragraph love letter to System Shock 2 in another thread, it seems kinda pointless to mention that game here, but I will.
Although having played through Fallout 3 recently (yes, I gave it another shot, and despite what I still think is a very badly done start, it gets a helluva lot better later on) I think that the walk through the Dunwich Building creeps me out in all kinds of ways.
I'd REALLY love to play Condemned or Silent Hill 2, but I've never been able to get hold of them. Very irritating.
Although having played through Fallout 3 recently (yes, I gave it another shot, and despite what I still think is a very badly done start, it gets a helluva lot better later on) I think that the walk through the Dunwich Building creeps me out in all kinds of ways.
I'd REALLY love to play Condemned or Silent Hill 2, but I've never been able to get hold of them. Very irritating.
A few times, actually.
Ravenholme in HL2, for one. There was just something about it that even flying sawblades couldn't cure. Also, for whatever reason, I was scared to death of the antlion stage. Something about it being both completely deadly and in broad daylight scared me.
Ah...hmm...Resident Evil 4, when you encounter your first regenerator. The whole thing there about un-freezing it and then hearing it breathe...then, when you finally shot its legs out and thought you were in the clear, just to have it...gives me chills, man.
Also, a few times in Bioshock 1. At the beginning when the guy tries to carve you out of the bathysphere, then when you encounter all those plaster people in the theater level. I kept expecting them to break out of the plaster and eat me.
And CoD: World at War's Nazi zombies, totally high on acid at 1 AM with surround sound. I huddled in the bathroom for eight hours until my friends started singing disney songs to calm me down. I'm never dropping acid again.
NEVER.
But I play Nazi zombies every once in a while when my friends are around.
EDIT: I also had to inch my way through the opening of dead space. My friend won't let me live it down.
Ravenholme in HL2, for one. There was just something about it that even flying sawblades couldn't cure. Also, for whatever reason, I was scared to death of the antlion stage. Something about it being both completely deadly and in broad daylight scared me.
Ah...hmm...Resident Evil 4, when you encounter your first regenerator. The whole thing there about un-freezing it and then hearing it breathe...then, when you finally shot its legs out and thought you were in the clear, just to have it...gives me chills, man.
Also, a few times in Bioshock 1. At the beginning when the guy tries to carve you out of the bathysphere, then when you encounter all those plaster people in the theater level. I kept expecting them to break out of the plaster and eat me.
And CoD: World at War's Nazi zombies, totally high on acid at 1 AM with surround sound. I huddled in the bathroom for eight hours until my friends started singing disney songs to calm me down. I'm never dropping acid again.
NEVER.
But I play Nazi zombies every once in a while when my friends are around.
EDIT: I also had to inch my way through the opening of dead space. My friend won't let me live it down.
One of the few games that have managed to put me on edge was Thief 3.
Only one part of it mind you, but dear god did I start sweating and my bowels started loosening.... I mean when you a thief you are meant to love the dark... but when other things lurk in there its worse... (that and there are only a few ways to take the things out)
Not even Dead Space creeped me out as much as that did
Only one part of it mind you, but dear god did I start sweating and my bowels started loosening.... I mean when you a thief you are meant to love the dark... but when other things lurk in there its worse... (that and there are only a few ways to take the things out)
Not even Dead Space creeped me out as much as that did
Pikman 2, when you have to go underground and then that frog thing kept raepin ur pikminz. That freaked me out mainly because I had like 20 pikmin left.
Bioshock. Bioshock 1, I mean. 2 didn't freak me out at all because I had a friggin drill for an arm.
Oh, and also Fear 2. I don't know, something about little girls trying to kill you freaks me out. I mean, they're supposed to be cute, but then they go and try to eat you. Freaky...
Oh, and also Fear 2. I don't know, something about little girls trying to kill you freaks me out. I mean, they're supposed to be cute, but then they go and try to eat you. Freaky...
A game called "Martian Gothic: Unification".
There's a let's play on Youtube by a guy called MikeMnemonic, I recommend looking it up.
Probably silly to be scared by that sortof game but for whatever reason the 15 and up label on the game didn't dissuade the clerk at the library the least from letting a 9 year old kid burrow it. >_>
There's a let's play on Youtube by a guy called MikeMnemonic, I recommend looking it up.
Probably silly to be scared by that sortof game but for whatever reason the 15 and up label on the game didn't dissuade the clerk at the library the least from letting a 9 year old kid burrow it. >_>
Run, Coward. Beware, I live.
RAAAAAAGGGGHHH!!!
Sinistar (The Game) isn't really scary, It's the game's Major Villain that is Scary.
RAAAAAAGGGGHHH!!!
Sinistar (The Game) isn't really scary, It's the game's Major Villain that is Scary.
Someone earlier said that games don't scare them, but movies can. I'm the exact opposite. Horror movies don't scare me one bit, but horror games can, on occasion.
Although scare isn't really the appropriate term. I don't have nightmares(ever....about anything), and I've been through a personally hellish experience, so maybe everything else just falls short.
I love to play horror games though. I recently went back and bought a PS2 with a bunch of horror games, just because I wanted to.
Although scare isn't really the appropriate term. I don't have nightmares(ever....about anything), and I've been through a personally hellish experience, so maybe everything else just falls short.
I love to play horror games though. I recently went back and bought a PS2 with a bunch of horror games, just because I wanted to.
Time to display my supreme wussiness. I'm an incredibly easily startled person, and am also at times disturbed by certain things (zombies really bother me).
- BioShock: Hearing people whisper, knowing they're gonna jump out of nowhere and scare the bejeezus out of me. I quit this game right after the first boss. The anxiety was overwhelming.
- Dead Rising: I know, I know. It took 10 minutes of convincing/teasing from my roommates at the time to get me to enter the mall in the beginning. I hated going through the zombie crowds.
- Ocarina of Time: The ReDead scared me as a kid.
- Dark Forces: I remember being scared of something as a kid. I think it was an unfinished Dark Trooper.
- Oblivion: Again, zombies.
Other than that, I avoid games with a strong horror element.
- BioShock: Hearing people whisper, knowing they're gonna jump out of nowhere and scare the bejeezus out of me. I quit this game right after the first boss. The anxiety was overwhelming.
- Dead Rising: I know, I know. It took 10 minutes of convincing/teasing from my roommates at the time to get me to enter the mall in the beginning. I hated going through the zombie crowds.
- Ocarina of Time: The ReDead scared me as a kid.
- Dark Forces: I remember being scared of something as a kid. I think it was an unfinished Dark Trooper.
- Oblivion: Again, zombies.
Other than that, I avoid games with a strong horror element.