Most dreaded sounds in gaming.

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Thaius

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Anything in Fatal Frame. Seriously, anything. But especially the creepy sound that signifies the appearance of a ghost. That, and the "My eyes!" cry from the blinded ghosts. Just... yeah. That still haunts my dreams.
 

TheColdHeart

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The sound when you fire the gun and hear clicking as there is no ammo in the clip and there is something coming towards you with intent on seriously ruining your day.
 

Blueruler182

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Art3rius said:

It messes with my head..
That is the most terrifying thing I've ever heard.

And I'm surprised nobody's brought up twelve year olds screaming in one's mic. So far as actual game sound effects, I'm rather annoyed by an Elite's scream in the Halo games. That dying scream annoys me.
 

Yarpie

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The "pew" sound that the geth sniper rifles in the first Mass Effect, especially on Insane difficulty. It was almost a guaranteed kill too, so you were really hoping that one of your personal bulletsoakers (i.e teammates) happened to block the shoot.

Also the Metal Gear detection noise. I can't tell you how many times I've jumped at that sound.

Another classic is "Nuclear Launch Detected" from Starcraft when you are playing one on one against a terran. Usually this is followed by you shouting "Where is that fucking ghost!?"
 

Pearwood

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SHODAN's voice. Ugh.

Sae Kurosawa's laughter. ARGH!

Yarpie said:
Another classic is "Nuclear Launch Detected" from Starcraft when you are playing one on one against a terran. Usually this is followed by you shouting "Where is that fucking ghost!?"
Oh god, this.
 

chromewarriorXIII

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The yell of a Fleshpound from Killing Floor as it's about to charge at whoever decided to piss it off. Of course, because of my luck, I'm always the one who gets charged at, even when it wasn't my fault.

Skip to 1:16 for the sounds I'm talking about
 

Jasper Jeffs

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The noise when an enemy spots you on Aion, it's disgusting. Especially when you agro an elite and you know he's charging up his ranged attack in the distance, which usually shafts you pretty well. It's even worse who you chain agro and the noise keeps going off. Eugh, the Half-Life 2 rocket noise is nasty too, you hear it and you're like 'hmm wut?', then half a second later you shit bricks as it blows your face off.
 

Arkley

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After you've played through the game once or twice it loses its terror effect, but nothing I've heard in any game or movie induced quite as much desperate terror as the sudden roar of a chainsaw in the first playthrough of Resident Evil 4.
 

Woodsey

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Either those rooftop zombies in HL2, or the poisonous headcrabs. They remind me of spiders so much, they freak me the fuck out.
 

dthvirus

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Either the crit sound in TF2, or the good old metallic *tinkle* of a grenade by your feet.

Baron von Blitztank said:
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zohmbee

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The sound of Pyramid Heads' knife scraping across the floor in that area near the end of Silent Hill 2 (before you find Angela and kill the Large Daddy or whatever it is) because the area is just a large circle. If you run around too long or choose to switch direction, da-da-dah! Pyramid Head is right. Fucking. There.
 

_Janny_

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Hearing a *click* when you want to shoot.

Seriously now, probably Pyramid Head's blade scraping on the floor behind me. *gets chills* And on the same note, the radio suddenly blowing static.

Edit: Wow, ninja'd. At the same time I posted. o_O
 

vallorn

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CalCD said:
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS...

Apart from that,the hiss of a slowly moving rocket coming towards your face is a good one.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! whats that? [HEADING=1]BOOM!![/HEADING]

added hilarity if you just sniped the guy and have a perfect view of your death racing inexorably towards you...