Pants Shitting Terror

[Trucken]

I remember playing a Alien vs Predator game a couple of years ago with some friends. I think it was some sort of co-op mode with everybody mainly running around as marines gunning down aliens. Anyway, I run up some stairs and come to a ledge with a 20-foot drop. I stop before I fall down and notice my radar. Appearantly there's 4 aliens 50 meters away from me, dead ahead. I smirk confidently, I got a buttload of ammo and it's an open range in front of me. They're dead long before they can reach me. I look ahead into the darkness while I keep an eye on the radar. The following is pretty much what I was thinking at the time.

"40 meters. Come on you fuckers. 30 meters. Show yourselves. 20 meters. Wait, shouldn't I be able to see them by now? 10 meters. What the fuck? Is the radar busted? 5 meters. Where the fuck are theOH MY GOD THEY'RE COMING FROM THE CEILING THE CEILING THE CEILINGJESUSCHRISTI'MGONNADIEDIEYOUFUCKINGTHINGSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

 

[ChaosStep]

Just realized I need a wall of text to accompany this image before I receive a warning.

As dry as Dark Corners was, this entire boat scene and the following scene where pure pant shitting magic.
Even though the PC port has a crippling bug, I would recommend it to anyone. Play in the dark with a good set of headphones.

 

[AetherWolf]

Nightmare House and its sequel probably scared me the most. It relies on jump scares, yes, but that's what most pants-shitting-terror is for me...

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Vampire: The Masquerade-Bloodlines. Oceanside Hotel. If you haven't played it...basically, think of The Shining, but with a poltergeist thrown in. Even for a game 8 years old, it scares the crap out of me.

 

[VeryOddGamer]

When I get picked up by a Barnacle in Half-Life. I now look at ceilings all the time.

 

[shadyh8er]

Two scenes from Heavy Rain:

1) The part in the "surgeon's" basement. I will never use drills again.

2) The whole junkyard level. Bad enough you have escape from getting squished in a trash compactor, but afterwards you have fight a real sociopath.

 

[shrekfan246]

As the OP predicted, mine was Amnesia. It was the first game I played that I truly considered to be of the "horror" genre, Dead Space being more like a really neat third person shooter with a nice atmosphere that would startle me now and again.

I was mildly tense for a while in the early sequences of Amnesia, but not particularly scared, as such (scared being that full-body fight-or-flight response with excess tension in the chest). What really did it for me was the first appearance of the invisible water monster.

On a side note though, on my second playthrough of Amnesia the water monster was VASTLY less scary than the first time. Once you fully comprehend something, its scare factor decreases.

You know what makes the invisible water monster even less scary outside of the context of the game? It's model is a ball. Just a ball. The splashing it makes is because of the physics of a ball bouncing along through the water.

OT: I don't know if I would ever describe something as having literally made me need a change of pants, but Amnesia: The Dark Descent certainly got its atmosphere down almost perfectly. Dead Space delivers on jump-scares with the whiny, high-pitched violins and jumpy brass sections whenever monsters jump out.

Demon's Souls. Now, I haven't played Dark Souls yet (I will once it comes to the PC), but Demon's Souls is a massive exercise in the futility of trying to fight back against an environment where everything wants to kill you. And most of the environments are crazy-dark, with enemies just waiting around corners to jump you when their mage friend baits you by standing at the end of a hallway.

 

[Slayer_2]

Fallout 3 with my realism mod and darker interiors... Even with night vision goggles, it makes me shit my pants.

 

[yaydod]

Well the scariest game for me was in thief Deadly Shadows in the cradle or orphanage, don't remember the name, but the lights, the sound, the monsters.... OH GOD THE HORROR.

 

[ElPatron]

The first F.E.A.R. game. Even the combat was tense and scary.

I finished it in an morning/afternoon. When I ended my t-shirt was soaked with cold sweat.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl isn't a horror game but the ambient is so perfect and the scares so subtle that it creates some of the best horror moments in videogames.

The white eyes floating around... Looking trough a scope at the distance and a shadow passes just in front of the lenses...

Containment Breach.

Screw that guy! SCP-173 can't be stopped by closed doors, I hate when I open a door and suddenly he's just looking at me from the other side.

For some reason if I am stealthing in a game and something spots me I hit the roof. It's very silly

I also get jump scares from the "!" moments in stealth games.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Some of the earlier moments that I felt scared were when I was a child ventureing into the age 10+ world of gaming.

In Jurassic Park for the SNES, the first person sections of the game scared the crap out of me that I quit playing the game, the early Onimusha cutscenes on the PS2 also instilled fear into me (until I found the lightning blade), and the marionettes in the early stages of Devil May Cry on PS2 also scared the hell out of me (until I just killed them off with blind gamer rage).

 

[BeerTent]

[Screenshot]

Beat me to it. So many moments of that game had me mortified, hiding in a corner just wanting it to stop at 2AM. Of course, I didn't hit escape. Because I needed to know more. Cthulhu was new to me at the time.

Well, if I can't pick that game, then despite the complete lack of scary in Doom 3, enabling your shadow through the console was damn creepy.

EDIT: Aaah, ************, Someone else reminded me of the car-crusher from Heavy Rain. I stayed miles away from the cardboard compactor at the Superstore because of that scene. What IF Jayden didn't get out in time?

 

[rob_simple]

This ************ right here. I hate being underwater in games in general, but I was terrified of this shit when I was little; especially on the mission where you'd to lure him out of the cave to get the star on his tail, and the way you'd occasionally turn round to find him right behind you.

 

[PinkiePyro]

ghostscape (its a free flash go play it ) mademe nearly piss myself near the end

 

[Terramax]

Dark Souls had the potential to make me terrified. After the grave yard with the skeletons, you go into that very dark cave. I'm not strong enough to get far, but I'm assuming it gets pretty scary down there.

I still think the 1st Silent Hill is unsettling, even to this day. Later installments just don't have that 'how far can the rabbit hole go' thing going that the original did.

 

[lacktheknack]

Fucking Penumbra with the infected >.>. I can't face them without yelling my head off.

http://www.deviantart.com/download/103316364/Penumbra__BP_Dr__Eminiss_by_Sakuma16.jpg
IS SOMEONE THERE?!

I DID say to not click the spoiler...

OT: What this guy said. When I gave the infected doctor a saw through the slot and he popped out of the nearby door, I actually peed a bit.

 

[Nouw]

Fucking Penumbra with the infected >.>. I can't face them without yelling my head off.

http://www.deviantart.com/download/103316364/Penumbra__BP_Dr__Eminiss_by_Sakuma16.jpg
IS SOMEONE THERE?!

I DID say to not click the spoiler...

OT: What this guy said. When I gave the infected doctor a saw through the slot and he popped out of the nearby door, I actually peed a bit.

Honestly the leadup is the worse bit. That and the first second you see 'em >.>.

 

[Necron_warrior]

Just realized I need a wall of text to accompany this image before I receive a warning.

As dry as Dark Corners was, this entire boat scene and the following scene where pure pant shitting magic.
Even though the PC port has a crippling bug, I would recommend it to anyone. Play in the dark with a good set of headphones.

Aaah yes.

Dark corners of the earth for me too, but with me it was when you're in the hotel, having a nice kip then, BAM.
I will say no more.

 

[Nexxis]

Minecraft when you're moving through a cave, you hear an enemy that you can't see, and suddenly they seem to drop down from nowhere. That startles me without fail. During the time I'm exploring a cave, I'm a nervous wreck.