Gaming moments that make you panic.

[TheAmokz]

Enemies in Amnesia. I almost always scream when i see one.

 

[archvile93]

The worst I remember was when I was playing pokemon gold (not the remake, this was awhile ago), and I encountered raikou almost immediately after releasing him. My best was only lv 22 so I really thought I was screwed. Keep in mind this was my first experience with wanderers, so I didn't think he'd run, I didn't even know he wandered, I figured he was just a really rare random encounter.

 

[Wyane380]

When Dojima is heading to the killer's room in the hospital, and the quick talking you have to do in Persona 4 was totally nerve-racking.

 

[lovestomooch]

Half Life 2 when you have to run from the strider down that tunnel, aaaaeerrggh

 

[rhyno435]

When I used to run out of air in the underwater levels on the older Sonic games.

YES!! The music was terrifying, I felt like I was really going to die. Granted, I was 10, but still.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

I don't panic that easily...

However, I remember one specific event in my first PlayStation game (which was also the first game I ever owned in general) that made me quite jumpy. The game, lo and behold, was none other than...

Spyro 2: Getaway To Glimmer.

It remember it so clear: the homeworld: Summer Forest; the level: Hurricos.
There's a certain orb-assignment you need to do for an electroll: place all the energy spheres back in their place to power an electricity tower. However, there were Monsters - Gear Grinders - that would constantly steal away the spheres.

Every time they would come, a loud alarm would go of and you would hear the creepy laugh of the Gear Grinders. Both that alarm an that laugh creeped me out for a long time.

I recently played it again, for nostalgia's sake, and I still can't believe that something so silly managed to startle me.

I'm pretty sure that game was called Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage.

And I'm pretty sure you don't live in Europe.

Down here, Ratchet & Clank got numerals instead of titles like "Going Commando" or "Up Your Arsenal".
Down here, we have Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer's Call instead of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.
Down here, we have Dragon Quest: Journey of the Cursed King, instead of Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King.
And down here, we have Spyro 2: Getaway To Glimmer instead of Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage.

 

[gardyna]

sadly the first time I paniced was when playing the original Jak and Daxter: the precursor legacy in the underwater area there's a power orb sitting at the end of one of the routes you can take and after the "get" animation you see that you unknowingly stepped on a button and now dark eco is rising up to kill you (you have to climb up a tower to escape) so I paniced (and still do slightly whenever I play that game)

but the one that was most memorable were the fights in Project zero 2 (Fatal Frame 2 for the "special" little Americans) you get just so nervous whenever you see that bloody glow and know there's a ghost nearby

 

[IronStorm9]

I don't panic that easily...

However, I remember one specific event in my first PlayStation game (which was also the first game I ever owned in general) that made me quite jumpy. The game, lo and behold, was none other than...

Spyro 2: Getaway To Glimmer.

It remember it so clear: the homeworld: Summer Forest; the level: Hurricos.
There's a certain orb-assignment you need to do for an electroll: place all the energy spheres back in their place to power an electricity tower. However, there were Monsters - Gear Grinders - that would constantly steal away the spheres.

Every time they would come, a loud alarm would go of and you would hear the creepy laugh of the Gear Grinders. Both that alarm an that laugh creeped me out for a long time.

I recently played it again, for nostalgia's sake, and I still can't believe that something so silly managed to startle me.

I'm pretty sure that game was called Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage.

And I'm pretty sure you don't live in Europe.

Down here, Ratchet & Clank got numerals instead of titles like "Going Commando" or "Up Your Arsenal".
Down here, we have Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer's Call instead of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.
Down here, we have Dragon Quest: Journey of the Cursed King, instead of Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King.
And down here, we have Spyro 2: Getaway To Glimmer instead of Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage.

Ah, I didn't know that. Spyro 2 and Crash Bandicoot Warped were my first Playstation games as well. So much nostalgia!

 

[Krantos]

Survival mode in AvP.

"Ohshitohshitohshitohshit...." - literal transcript from playing once.

 

[Octorok]

TSSSSSSSSSSSS

OH CRAP OH CHRIST GOD NO MY DIAMONDS-*boom*

Just in case this counts as "low content" this poster summed up my feelings on the matter. That, or the chase scene in Call of Cthulhu

 

[Jacco]

The final leg of the Warthog run on the Maw on Legendary in Halo.

Everything is exploding and the giant bubble flood can flip you over if you hit them. If you die, you get to start the whole thing over again...

 

[Wayneguard]

In resident evil when you're in a small room or hallway and a zombie busts through a door. ohshitohshitohshitohshitohshit runrunrunrun

 

[Vault101]

Banjo kazooie

the fucking shark in treasure trove cove

clankers cavern

any water level really

 

[Conn1496]

Gravemind from Halo used to make me shit bricks. Now I just get pissed off at him. Something i'll never get over is this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7FzDO_eFjw

EDIT:
Oh, and this made me want to scream recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4XNo15KmFw
Skip 40 seconds in.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Generally when I'm playing Minecraft, and all of a sudden I hear a monster, or I turn around to see a creeper coming to give me a big kiss. Just trying to make it home after sundown really puts me on edge.

 

[Look-a-Hill]

In resident evil when you're in a small room or hallway and a zombie busts through a door. ohshitohshitohshitohshitohshit runrunrunrun

Or a window:

I've never been as scared as when I first saw this. The first two games (only two I've played) are unplayable for me. I can't get 5 minutes into them - even now - without becoming a nervous wreck.

 

[scully745]

Creepers from Minecraft, the Ubermorph from Dead Space 2 and Diablo from Diablo II. I can have a fully set out plan beforehand, but as soon as they show up it all descends into running around in circles occasionally swinging a weapon in its direction and trying not to die

 

[onewheeled]

That part in Half-Life 2: Episode Two where you're being chased by the Antlion Guard in the caves. The feeling of being chased in games scares the living hell out of me, especially when it's something you can't kill.

The same thing happens when your health is really low in Borderlands and you're trying to escape an area with ten enemies following you, or in Team Fortress 2 when you're on fire and being followed by an enemy, in your desperate rush to get to a health pack.

 

[Toasty Virus]

I don't panic that easily...

However, I remember one specific event in my first PlayStation game (which was also the first game I ever owned in general) that made me quite jumpy. The game, lo and behold, was none other than...

Spyro 2: Getaway To Glimmer.

It remember it so clear: the homeworld: Summer Forest; the level: Hurricos.
There's a certain orb-assignment you need to do for an electroll: place all the energy spheres back in their place to power an electricity tower. However, there were Monsters - Gear Grinders - that would constantly steal away the spheres.

Every time they would come, a loud alarm would go of and you would hear the creepy laugh of the Gear Grinders. Both that alarm an that laugh creeped me out for a long time.

I recently played it again, for nostalgia's sake, and I still can't believe that something so silly managed to startle me.

Oh my god...the...the laughter...

HELP

 

[Corporal Yakob]

AAAAAAAGH NO!!! GE- GET AWAY FROM ME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHH!!!!

I was in Choir and creeping from pillar to pillar when I turned a corner and walked right into one of those......things.....

OH....MY....

I immediatley entered my inventory, left the computer for 10 minutes, came back and stared at the inventory for 20 mins before summoning my courage, exiting the inventory and crept away with my back to the thing, praying to every diety known to Mankind that it would not give chase.