Has a game ever scared you to the point that you couldn't play?

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

Resident Evil: REmake for the GC.

I can't stand being underwater and aquatic creatures terrify me. When Neptune struck I actually dropped the controller and proceeded to curl up into a ball. My brother had to pick it up and finish. I was fourteen, I think?

 

[Bravo 21]

None so far, but I got Amnesia: The Dark Descent in the Humble Bundle, so I'm hoping to be scared. If I can only hold of the gamestravaganza until after finals are done next thursday.

 

[TehRandom1]

I'm a total wimp when it comes to these things.

Ravenholm was bad enough to make me skip the level... Mini-heart attacks for each damn headcrab

 

[Pharsalus]

Absolutely. It was Diablo, mom gave it to me as a surprise gift after getting back from summer camp. by about level 4 i was getting so freaked out at opening doors and getting swarmed by imps i just couldn't take it. Some time later I came back beat single player, played a little multi, getting the best gear with the duplication trick, and I lived happily ever after.

 

[Zakarath]

Like many others, Amnesia's the one I've been unable to get through. I've never put down any other games from fear, but placed I've felt it include:
The original Descent(1994). I was pretty young when I first played it, and the silent green robots that creep up behind you and start slashing you scared the crap out of me occasionally.
Halo: Combat Evolved. The level with the flood reveal did a pretty good job of getting the creeping horror feel going.
For some reason, though, Ravenholm never really got to me, which may be attributed to playing it at 5am after being up all night and being sort of at the point where I didn't really care about anything.

Metroid Fusion was actually the worst for me. As a young lad, seeing SA-X for the first time was pants-crappingly scary. I soldiered on, kind of tense. Then, out of nowhere, THE FUCKING THING POPS UP AND STARTS CHASING YOU. You've been told the whole game that it is too powerful to fight, and when you run, that horrible music is playing, all the while I'm trying to find any place at all to hide.

Oh man, I'd forgotten that bit. Yeah, That part was pretty nerve-wracking.

 

[Dr Bodom]

I would have to say when in Metro 2033, after helping a few survivors who are backed up against a wall survive a few waves of scary beast-things, you are told you need to go TOWARD where the monsters are coming from, leaving the safety of the LMG and soldiers. NUP

 

[Whoracle]

Oh, I've forgotten one "game".

Korsakovia, a mod for Half Life 2, made by thechineseroom, of Dear Esther fame.
Managed to get about 30 minutes into that game. Give it a go, folks.

 

[AnnaIME]

I would have to say vampire masquerade bloodlines when you go into the haunted hotel. Had to stop at one point then just play it with the sound off.

Oh, yes.

I got the game and a surround sound system for my computer that Christmas. My son was sleeping away for the first time, so I was free to play as much as I wanted, free to stay up and play all night.

I didn't.

 

[Ix Rebound]

probably that bit in half life 2 episode one where you are in the hospital (i think its the hospital) and you suddenly fall through the floor into a flood car park (or something) and the can hear the rattling of a poison head crab just above the water

Poison head crab scare the shit out of me! just the way the move and make that noise when the jump at you makes my heart leap to my throat. i don't think there is any other video game enemy that scares me as much as those fucking head crabs do.

 

[Daget Sparrow]

Amnesia, damn my cowardly soul.

 

[Zetatrain]

When you have to fight Chernabog in KH1. I was truely scared of that boss. Though, I was 8 at the time. Also the section in Ocarina of Time where it's ten years later (or something) and the castle place thingo is infested with zombies. But again, I was 8.

Ah yes the fuckin redeads from Oot, those things terrified me as a child and if it weren't for the sun song that could freeze them I probably would have never beaten that game before high school.

 

[Beautiful End]

Snipeth-Minecraft stuff

Good sir, I, too, suffer the same problem.

I bought Minecraft because I played it at my friend's house and it was fun. We spent the first night running away from zombies and creepers. So I got my own for the same reasons you described. And then I ran into those stupid spiders. pitch black, HUGE spiders with red eyes. Can't even stand to look at them from afar. I could probably take them out with my wolves and bow and arrow, but I'm just scared of them! Same with Creepers popping out of nowhere, exploding in your face. Or just random enemies coming from a dark corner at you while you're mining innocently somewhere. But yeah, mostly spiders.

So know what I did? I set it on Peaceful. I've been lucky enough to find string on dungeons and to have some leftovers from when I was playing on Normal. So I figured I was fine. Oh, how silly I was.
As it turns out, squids look a lot like spiders: large, black, multi-legged creatures. They don't attack you...but they do like to show up for no reason in caves with waterfalls. So imagine my surprise/horror when I was mining and I saw three of them bundled together, half swimming, while I was mining. I swear I thought they were spiders at first so I didn't even bother looking back. I ran away.
So yeah, those I can't get rid of. Oh, and slimes. Freakin' things look like HUGE Creepers. Scared the hell out of me.

Other games that have scared me are:

RE4: I watched my brother played RE2 a long time ago and I somehow managed to play through RE:Code Veronica X. But RE4 just scared me enough to stop playing it after a point. I still need to finish it but I can't bring myself to do it. It's not terrifying, I know. So why can't I play it?

Dead Space 2: Put the disc on, game started, I started running across the hall, things came out of nowhere and killed me, I returned the game.

Bioshock: Actually, the game was a lot of fun! But the stress of knowing something's gonna pop in and scare me any second now was just too much for me.

Silent Hill/Fatal Frame: Looked at the cover, nodded, proceeded to run away.

I'm a wuss when it comes to scary stuff, I must say.

It's not really possible to be scared by a video game if you look at it logically. Pixels and bit sounds can't hurt you.

Are you serious?
I agree with the latter half of your post, but the first half is ****.

I know people that think like this. They generally have a problem with games/movies/books, because they aren't even trying to immerse into the story. They aren't experiencing adventures. No, they are just sitting in front of a screen/book.

I love video games, trust me. Have spent most of my life playing any I can get my hands on. But why be scared of pixels? Same reason horror as a movie genre doesn't scare me. I love watching them out of morbid curiosity, lol. But they aren't scary.

Exactly, that's just you. You know how many people were literally traumatized with the first Exorcist movie? Yeah, it's not real and it's just a movie. But it still happens to scare the shit out of people. So it's the same with videogames.

The fact that you're a brave soul/robot/dead inside doesn't mean a game/movie/whatever isn't scary. It's as if I said reading is better than videogames because you don't have to buy DLC or pay 60 bucks for a book or save at some point or whatever. It's just a personal opinion.

 

[ABLb0y]

Silent Hill: Downpour. The Mine Train part.

I mean, true, I'd high-five anyone who made that into an actual roller-coaster, but it scared the living crap outta me.

 

[Ninjat_126]

Amnesia. Flooded cellar. Soon as I got there I just abandoned the game...

Aside from that, I've stuck with everything no matter how scary. And really, the only reason I didn't get back to Amnesia was because my computer died...

Oh yes, Minecraft too. Although I didn't quit quit, just switched to peaceful mode.

 

[lunavixen]

I've never had this issue, but my brother has, in Silent Hill 4. there was a staircase and both of our "something bad is going to happen" alarms, my brother got to the top of the staircase (refused to go down), and then chickened out

 

[KarlMonster]

I can't say that I specifically ever stopped playing, but a number of games scared me. The Penumbra series, Amnesia, Half-Life 2...

And even Wolfenstein 3-D.

See, the controls are so clumsy that its tough to even make it to the boss fights. How are you even supposed to hurt something that big, when it has much better weapons than you do? And you know that you're just going to get caught on some corner when you're trying to run away!

Now, if any of you are interested in an old scary title that I bet you missed?

Go look up "They Hunger". Its a mod for the original Half-Life. As such, it is going to look dated. But it does manage to get genuinely creepy, although the game(s) does seem to drag on in places. With some tweaks to the atmosphere, it could have been a lot better. There are three episodes, and is an improvement over the last. I should caution that there are some "puzzles" that have to be "solved" for you to proceed, and some of them are unintuitive, or even unreasonable. What I found to be really interesting is that "They Hunger" featured some new-to-me set pieces which were later used in Half-Life 2 and Doom 3.

And if you thought the STALKER games were scary, there are STALKER game mods that are downright mean, with new monsters, bloodsuckers that are even harder to kill, and spots that teleport you to areas where you are surrounded by zombies..

 

[Mr_Spanky]

Had a really bad night with Doom 3 once. A word of advice from me to all of you - never EVER play scary games drunk. Doom 3 + me + half a bottle of jack = arggggghhhhh. I was so smashed I thought I was IN the game so I would actually die if I died in game. Rather oddly its the only time in my life Ive ever experienced mortal terror . . . playing Doom 3 . . . . havent played it since

 

[Redflash]

Bioshock always does it for me. That *TACTICAL SPOILER* doctor who appears behind you in the medical centre, the shrieking nurses, the Big Daddies of the next level and trying to save little sisters whilst crawling through pipes listening to dribbling psychos and sophisticated sociopaths talking about what they'll do to you. Once the splicers start pretending to be dead, you go through the statues and the teleporter-guy appears behind you as you get a Power To The People upgrade. I couldn't play past that point always lost it as I went through that level.

 

[Dedtoo]

I more or less listened to the warnings in-game. "Don't go to Ravenholm." And I didn't. For days. Though I eventually got back to it, cause I simply had to finish the game.