Moments in gaming that spooked you out!?
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Yea, about that, back when I first played L4D1, I was with a group of friends and heard crying off in the distance. One of them was like, has he seen the witch? I'm like.. what? They're like, go around that corner there. So I walked into this dark room (past the broken subway before you go upstairs to fight the tank in the first level) and I can't see much but something crying. Then it shrieks, I shrieked, and it starts clawing at my face!!!Nooners said:
Doom 3 and Bioshock had a million of these, if we're talking in-your-face-screaming spooked instead of thrilling suspense spooked (of course, Bioshock had loads of seriously f-ed up suspense parts too). I think the part that got me worst of all in Bioshock was the scene where splicers playing dead are first introduced.
I walk into a long narrow engine room filled with machinery. As soon as I walk in, the door behind me locks. Walking about one third into the room, the lights go out, rendering me blind, and maniacal cackling and laughter of multiple people starts bouncing from the walls all around me. I try to just stay still with my napalm thrower ready, looking around for anything visible. After about ten seconds, the lights go back on, and I continue further into the room. Another third down and this scene repeats. Again, the lights turn on with nothing to be found anywhere in the room, not behind the engines or the pillars. As I walk closer to the door the lights turn off one final time and once again I wait braced for anything that might be in my face the next second... After a few seconds the lights go back on again - and on the floor between me and the door lie numerous dead bodies that weren't there when the lights were last on. This really creeped me out and I was initially hesitant to go on to see what was waiting behind the door, but then started running towards it anyway... And as soon as I reach the bodies they jump up screaming at me and start attacking. I swear, I've never lost my shit as bad as I did that time. I really ran for my life. Of course, after a moment the splicers were all lying burning on the floor, and this time I made extra sure they stayed dead.
This didn't happen until about half way through the game. By this time I thought I already had the game figured out, had taken just-in-case-shots at previous bodies I'd found, never finding a dead body that really wasn't dead. I assumed they were all going to be that way, but boy, was I wrong
Also, I had to quit playing Tomb Raider back when I was 10, because going into new rooms always creeped me out too much. I was always certain there'd be something jumping out to attack me the instant I walked in. There never was, but it was still scary as heck.
EDIT: Mirror's Edge has still got to be the scariest game I've ever played. Playing it in the dark with my headphones on, completely immersed in the game, and then looking 200 meters down from the top of the roof I'm just about to jump off... It shriveled up my balls every time. Some of those levels were just sick. So many times I had to stop just because I was going "no no no no no, I am NOT going to do that!!!" And having 4 years of personal experience in parkour didn't help at all in decresing the immersion
I walk into a long narrow engine room filled with machinery. As soon as I walk in, the door behind me locks. Walking about one third into the room, the lights go out, rendering me blind, and maniacal cackling and laughter of multiple people starts bouncing from the walls all around me. I try to just stay still with my napalm thrower ready, looking around for anything visible. After about ten seconds, the lights go back on, and I continue further into the room. Another third down and this scene repeats. Again, the lights turn on with nothing to be found anywhere in the room, not behind the engines or the pillars. As I walk closer to the door the lights turn off one final time and once again I wait braced for anything that might be in my face the next second... After a few seconds the lights go back on again - and on the floor between me and the door lie numerous dead bodies that weren't there when the lights were last on. This really creeped me out and I was initially hesitant to go on to see what was waiting behind the door, but then started running towards it anyway... And as soon as I reach the bodies they jump up screaming at me and start attacking. I swear, I've never lost my shit as bad as I did that time. I really ran for my life. Of course, after a moment the splicers were all lying burning on the floor, and this time I made extra sure they stayed dead.
This didn't happen until about half way through the game. By this time I thought I already had the game figured out, had taken just-in-case-shots at previous bodies I'd found, never finding a dead body that really wasn't dead. I assumed they were all going to be that way, but boy, was I wrong
Also, I had to quit playing Tomb Raider back when I was 10, because going into new rooms always creeped me out too much. I was always certain there'd be something jumping out to attack me the instant I walked in. There never was, but it was still scary as heck.
EDIT: Mirror's Edge has still got to be the scariest game I've ever played. Playing it in the dark with my headphones on, completely immersed in the game, and then looking 200 meters down from the top of the roof I'm just about to jump off... It shriveled up my balls every time. Some of those levels were just sick. So many times I had to stop just because I was going "no no no no no, I am NOT going to do that!!!" And having 4 years of personal experience in parkour didn't help at all in decresing the immersion
When walking into a quiet area of a empty town and then hearing this sound:
That ALWAYS creeped me out.
And when you're walking peacefully through the Capital Wasteland, then zooming in on something that moves in the distance with your sniper rifle only to see THREE DEATHCLAWS running towards you, seeing that in a sniper scope is fucking scary, especially at level 9.
And the first time ever encountering a Witch in L4D1.
And the tank, oh my god!
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And when you're walking peacefully through the Capital Wasteland, then zooming in on something that moves in the distance with your sniper rifle only to see THREE DEATHCLAWS running towards you, seeing that in a sniper scope is fucking scary, especially at level 9.
And the first time ever encountering a Witch in L4D1.
And the tank, oh my god!
L4D has never truly been a problem for me because I always play it online and with people that talks. It is truly gratifying to hear someone shriek because there's a witch behind him or rant because he was two feet away from the helicopter when the smoker got him.
I don't really play that many horror games so I only have a couple. In Resident Evil 4 at the very beginning with the town. I felt that it was insurmountable and it kind of creeped me out. Also in the game when I was low on ammo and had to knife people in the ground. It made me feel bad...not spooked out just...bad.
And in Bioshock. The beginning with the splicer while you're in the Bathysphere. That creeped me out. As did the Dr. Steinman part. I mean I loved it. But it spooked me out. Especially when you see him before you fight him when he's complaining. Also when you get the shotgun. In the spotlight...it was brilliant. I mean you pick it up lights go down. Single spotlight on where you are then BAM! splicers jumping into your face. And lastly Sander Cohen. Just...everything about him. He gave me a major case of the heebie-jeebies. Seriously...whenever I heard him speak and realized what he had with his statues I got the chills. To put it in clear terms: It was scawwy.
And in Bioshock. The beginning with the splicer while you're in the Bathysphere. That creeped me out. As did the Dr. Steinman part. I mean I loved it. But it spooked me out. Especially when you see him before you fight him when he's complaining. Also when you get the shotgun. In the spotlight...it was brilliant. I mean you pick it up lights go down. Single spotlight on where you are then BAM! splicers jumping into your face. And lastly Sander Cohen. Just...everything about him. He gave me a major case of the heebie-jeebies. Seriously...whenever I heard him speak and realized what he had with his statues I got the chills. To put it in clear terms: It was scawwy.
beginning of doom 3 scared me
ladder moment
beginning of deadspace freaked me out hardcore
THE FUCKING BEAR SCENE FROM CONDEMNED 2!
ladder moment
beginning of deadspace freaked me out hardcore
THE FUCKING BEAR SCENE FROM CONDEMNED 2!
I believe you're talking about Eternal Darkness (sorry if someone already responded to you)Iceburg116 said:
O.T. the first time I encountered a chainsaw guy from Resident Evil 4 that guy came out no where
Fable II; the demon door outside of Bloodstone.
What looks like a winter wonderland and homely little cavern, changes in the blink of an eye with the most pants-browning sound effect I've ever heard. Gibbots and gallows everywhere, the cabin is trashed, and the shining light is now a black and grey luminescence flickering through the trees as you move.
Also, Bioshock 1; entered a frozen medical examination room, frosty haze covers the screen. Thankfully nothing is there. Explore a little, retrieve some items from a desk. The haze returns... well, there's nothing different. Maybe it just happens every once in a while, which would make it hard to fight in here I guess. I'll just turn around away from this desk now-
ZOMG SPLICER!
We stare at each other for about ten seconds, seriously he didn't move to attack me, until I managed to fumble to my pistol and blow his face off.
What looks like a winter wonderland and homely little cavern, changes in the blink of an eye with the most pants-browning sound effect I've ever heard. Gibbots and gallows everywhere, the cabin is trashed, and the shining light is now a black and grey luminescence flickering through the trees as you move.
Also, Bioshock 1; entered a frozen medical examination room, frosty haze covers the screen. Thankfully nothing is there. Explore a little, retrieve some items from a desk. The haze returns... well, there's nothing different. Maybe it just happens every once in a while, which would make it hard to fight in here I guess. I'll just turn around away from this desk now-
ZOMG SPLICER!
We stare at each other for about ten seconds, seriously he didn't move to attack me, until I managed to fumble to my pistol and blow his face off.
For me, Resident Evil 4 had some tense moments for me. Not scary necessarily but tense and a bit panicky, probably more so with me often fumbling with my controller during my first playthrough.
I remember that being in Resident Evil: Director's Cut.feldie said:
I remember my cousin getting that for his birthday, and it scaring the shit out of everyone at the party but me, him, and his uncle.
Also, the controller was broken, so when that moment happened he couldn't kill the dog.
He and I laffed, but everyone else kind of walked out.
In FEAR 2, I was trying to find the place I needed to go for like 10 minutes, was pretty bored and expected nothing to happen, then I just went to look at some text or whatever in some wall, when I turned around Alma was there, she just stood there quietly, I pissed my pants and thought something is gonna happen now, but she just disappeared...
.....well, play fatal frame, ive had too many scary moments on there to recall any of them properly
The Shalebridge Cradle from Thief 3 was one of the creepiest things ever.
Also Condemned. At one point I emptied my entire magazine into an illusion that just came out of nowhere.
Also Condemned. At one point I emptied my entire magazine into an illusion that just came out of nowhere.
not even the regenerators =O first time i came across them i used all the tmp ammo because i was that scarred and died as soon as i left the room