Most Terrifying Moment in Gaming?
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The damn dogs jumping through the windows in the beginning of RE1, back then they didn't really have any games that would make me jump like that....Also the haunted hotel from Vampire Bloodlines as mentioned above...that damn thing made me jump out of my skin
In Silent Hill 3, I crossed a bridge and got eaten.
I don't want to know what they did to the actress who played Heather to make her scream like that.
I don't want to know what they did to the actress who played Heather to make her scream like that.
Several experiences have had me quit playing a game because of creep factor.
I couldn't play Silent Hill 3 longer than fifteen minutes because my nerves were stretched so tight I could practically play Smoke on the Water with them. Seriously. What the hell WERE those things?
F.E.A.R. 2's School Building scene creeped me out something fierce. It was so much like my old elementery school that I just couldn't stand it. When I first arrived I pictured those kids running around, laughing, playing. Then I looked up at the radiation cloud. I shook so bad I needed a blanket and coffee for a few minutes.
Perhaps my worst moments are when I'm playing a multiplayer objective game, and I'm extremely close to obtaining it.
Nerves are on FIRE during those in particular.
(Also, if anyone remembers the name of a game who's protagonist goes to prison for killing his family, and then it gets overrun by creatures of past experiments, it'd be much appreciated).
I couldn't play Silent Hill 3 longer than fifteen minutes because my nerves were stretched so tight I could practically play Smoke on the Water with them. Seriously. What the hell WERE those things?
F.E.A.R. 2's School Building scene creeped me out something fierce. It was so much like my old elementery school that I just couldn't stand it. When I first arrived I pictured those kids running around, laughing, playing. Then I looked up at the radiation cloud. I shook so bad I needed a blanket and coffee for a few minutes.
Perhaps my worst moments are when I'm playing a multiplayer objective game, and I'm extremely close to obtaining it.
Nerves are on FIRE during those in particular.
(Also, if anyone remembers the name of a game who's protagonist goes to prison for killing his family, and then it gets overrun by creatures of past experiments, it'd be much appreciated).
I can't decide, so I'll just list the brick-shittingest moments I can think of:
- The dog that jumps through the window in Resident Evil, first time I was ever scared by a game, and that's worth being on the list.
- Penumbra Overture, walking through a dark, empty hall and suddenly hearing a dog growling. Turn around and he's looking straight at me. I freaked out and ran. Close call.
- Entering Ravenholm for the first time. Incredible Atmosphere.
- I couldn't even finish Condememed 2, it was just too fucking scary. Mannequin sequence in particular scared me.
- Finally, The Harmless Companion Cube for Garrys Mod. Seriously, load a normal map with small hallways, spawn one, go to the other side of the map and play like you normally would.
IT WILL FIND YOU.
- The dog that jumps through the window in Resident Evil, first time I was ever scared by a game, and that's worth being on the list.
- Penumbra Overture, walking through a dark, empty hall and suddenly hearing a dog growling. Turn around and he's looking straight at me. I freaked out and ran. Close call.
- Entering Ravenholm for the first time. Incredible Atmosphere.
- I couldn't even finish Condememed 2, it was just too fucking scary. Mannequin sequence in particular scared me.
- Finally, The Harmless Companion Cube for Garrys Mod. Seriously, load a normal map with small hallways, spawn one, go to the other side of the map and play like you normally would.
IT WILL FIND YOU.
I agree... one door opened, and I had one hallucination that spawned a Glowing one. It wasn't scary.Thisbedutch said:
The game you mentioned (I call it Fatal Frame 3) had another moment where you see the ghost girl, about thirty feet away, and take a picture. FLASH. GAAAAAAAAH! SHE TELEPORTED TO A FOOT AWAY FROM -
They are the manifestations of the main character's fear. I guess you're in sync with the main character.Fingerlicking said:
The other game is called "The Suffering", by the way.
Nice doctor who reference!silver wolf009 said:
OT: yes, dead space is really creepy, because it makes you JUMP!
otherwise, I haven't been in the dunwich building yet.
That, and the running sequence in Silent Hill 1, where you run from an alleyway to the elementary school in complete darkness. One of the many times that game scared the hell out of me...Savory said:
system shock 2.
christ that game is F***ed up.
one I was walking around and HOLY shit the door opens and four hybrids armed with shotguns rush in and im like FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
and then i kick their ass with a wrench, it was still scary as fuck.
another is "ghouls forest".
"ok this is freaky as all hel-"
"SCKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
"AGH!"
"If I wasnt so healthy, my heart would have exploded.
nearly did
christ that game is F***ed up.
one I was walking around and HOLY shit the door opens and four hybrids armed with shotguns rush in and im like FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
and then i kick their ass with a wrench, it was still scary as fuck.
another is "ghouls forest".
"ok this is freaky as all hel-"
"SCKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
"AGH!"
"If I wasnt so healthy, my heart would have exploded.
nearly did
Can we give an honorary nomination to the first time one finds the Rat Man's Den in Portal? Maybe not scary as such, but there was a kind of underlying wrongness about the whole thing.
As creepy as that was, I think running down the corridor to the elevator was scarier, all the way down I was just thinking 'crapcrapcrapcrap!' and then the whole Maria thing... that really got my heart pumping.Hellion25 said:
Just after I entered Rapture in Bioshock.
It wasn't terribly scary, but I was playing it at night without any other noise, and the game's so atmospheric I shat my pants after the first splicer gutted some poor innocent man and leapt off, spider-man style.
I did not want to leave the bathosphere after that.
It wasn't terribly scary, but I was playing it at night without any other noise, and the game's so atmospheric I shat my pants after the first splicer gutted some poor innocent man and leapt off, spider-man style.
I did not want to leave the bathosphere after that.
Wow I did not think anybody would actually do that. So, did you find out what it does? I made my friend take a look at it without knowing what it does. He spent about three mins hitting them with a crowbar and saying "Marcus what the bloody hell are these things supposed to do anyway?" And then he got right up close, turned his back and got stabbed. After another two mins of asking what the chuffing hell was going on he figured out what was going on and freaked the hell outSnipErlite said:
Whenever you're alone in a big place it looks normal but you're all alone the audio is creepy and you can hear strange sounds all around. Naturally you become more alert so you can defend against whatever is about to happen and it just makes you more paranoid. That to me is far more terrifying then when a game is trying to be it's more the wait that scares you then the climax the build up, the suspense is terrifying. So anytime like this in almost any game scary or not is terrifying to me.
If you play on the map hugeflatconstruct, there's a room with a mirror where you can SEE them coming for you, it's quite unnerving.Mr Companion said:Wow I did not think anybody would actually do that. So, did you find out what it does? I made my friend take a look at it without knowing what it does. He spent about three mins hitting them with a crowbar and saying "Marcus what the bloody hell are these things supposed to do anyway?" And then he got right up close, turned his back and got stabbed. After another two mins of asking what the chuffing hell was going on he figured out what was going on and freaked the hell outSnipErlite said:
For me the fallout 3 building mentioned in the OP is the scariest place I've been, probably because I wasn't expecting it. 5 floors down and the dark claustrophobic atmosphere is absolutely suffocating. I've never been so relived to get back to the wasteland.