Poll: The scariest game?

[NordicNinja]

I recall, as a child, having to play Nightmare Creatures with the lights on.

My next benchmark was Clock Tower.

I do recall a marathon once, with some friends from high school, where we were playing Resident Evil 2. We were in the basement, totally engrossed, when Mr. X burst through the wall. We all jumped and chuckled at each other. The player defeated him, and left the room. Went down the hallway.

BAM! He punches through the wall again.

We jumped out of our freakin' -skins- that time. Then laughed at ourselves for ten minutes, in hysterics.

Anyway, System Shock 2 and Thief's Cradle level are by far the scariest things I've played. Eternal Darkness was more of a thriller for me, even though it's one of my favorite games.

 

[Aux117]

I'd have to say Resident Evil, but F.E.A.R. did make me jump sometimes.

 

[leugim789]

ex mortis, its a flash game but i will scare the ba jesus out of u lol

 

[DamienHell]

None of the above, the penumbra series are the scariest games I've played.

 

[Mullahgrrl]

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is the scariest game I've played.

I still havent dared myself through it.

So fucking scary, There is w,a and d but there is no s, NO S!

 

[Silver]

I can't believe I forgot the hotel sequence in Bloodlines, if it weren't for the fact I was playing as a Malkavian that place would have scared the shit out of me. It's almost on par with Penumbra, seriously.

 

[hellthins]

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is the scariest game I've played.

I still havent dared myself through it.

So fucking scary, There is w,a and d but there is no s, NO S!

You're doing yourself a disservice. Lovecraft has provided so much to the horror genre, and Call of Cthulhu: DCotE continues on that crazy man's tradition of making you feel absolutely powerless in the face of indominable horror.

Admittedly "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is his one story where humanity gets something of a win, it's still marked by very grim implications and can hardly be considered a real victory. Good fun, really. Plus it has perhaps the best handle on chase scenes, making them all really good.

 

[Vigormortis]

I had to pick Dead Space, only because not a single one of those others scared me, even in the slightest. In fact, most of them made me laugh with how ridiculously over-the-top and unbelievable their so called "scares" were. Dead Space, though similar to Doom 3, did leave me with some creepy thoughts afterward, only because I thought that some of the things brought up in the game (and the fact that the world was presented so realistically) could be paralleled to real world situations. Game still wasn't scary though. The only games that genuinely "spooked" me were the original Half-Life the first time I played it and Eternal Darkness. The psychotic effects and mental breakdown scenes in Eternal Darkness messed with my head. Still though, they weren't that scary either. I just don't really scare that easily. I guess that's why horror games, and even films and other media, have never really appealed to me.

 

[excessum ado]

Seriously bro you got a shit ass list. Do some research before your make a post like this.
And putting Doom 3 in there and not some classic horror game like fatal frame or the original silent hill? What the hell dude.

My vote would probably be manhunt. Possibly the most atmospheric game I have ever played.

 

[MomoTheCow]

Never played Condemned, Resident Evil, Dead Space, Doom3 etc. The hotel in Troika's Vampire the Masquerade was bottled brilliance the first time around, but loses its spell after the 1st play through.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, on the other hand, pumped more straight no chaser adrenaline shots into my veins than anything I've ever experienced.

I agree with some other posters. It's the utter immersiveness of the world and atmosphere (Tim Burton would dig the plant life in the Zone), which is as realistic as any game I've played but just left of... natural. It lives, breathes and moans in the dark.
Coming straight off S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is ruining Fallout 3 for me, which feels utterly bland in comparison (even if it's immensely larger and with more interesting things to do). Wandering the Fallout 3 wastes I find myself looking longingly back at that Russian revelation.

In a weird way, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s world has the workmanship of the original Fallout that I'm missing in Bethesda's release.

 

[Podunk]

If we're talking FPS with the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and the F.E.A.R. and whatnot, then I know exactly what game I'd pick to be scariest, due to how immersive it was and the blood-pumping excitement the first time through...

"We don't go to Ravenholm anymore..."

 

[MomoTheCow]

"We don't go to Ravenholm anymore..."

Oh, that too...

 

[Jamash]

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is the scariest game I've played.

I still havent dared myself through it.

So fucking scary, There is w,a and d but there is no s, NO S!

I know what you mean.

It the only game I've stopped playing because it was too scary.

 

[Cheesebob]

I Find Fallout 3 scary...

 

[DethFan666]

Seriously bro you got a shit ass list. Do some research before your make a post like this.
And putting Doom 3 in there and not some classic horror game like fatal frame or the original silent hill? What the hell dude.

My vote would probably be manhunt. Possibly the most atmospheric game I have ever played.

I'm glad you like it.

 

[CoziestPigeon]

I thought it was frightening when I ran out of ammo in all my guns fighting a monster that would constantly regenerate its limbs and, much to my despair, can actually move faster without its legs.
It builds suspense when you can hear their raspy breathing somewhere down the hallway. You ready your shotgun only to discover that you're seriously depleted from fighting the previous regenerator. Besides those dogs with tentacles coming out of their faces, they're the only things that scared me in that game.

Lern2better aim and you won't have that problem

 

[PirateKing]

Lern2better write.
Aim doesn't really help when those things grow back their heads and limbs.

 

[DethFan666]

Lern2better write.
Aim doesn't really help when those things grow back their heads and limbs.

What kind of pirate are you? lol jk

 

[chickenlord]

I believe the scariest game i've played so far would have to be...lego Indiana Jones...Its just down right horrifying!

 

[Social Pariah]

None of those are particularly frightening... FEAR was relatively tense, especially due to the nerve freying backing music.

I can't believe I forgot the hotel sequence in Bloodlines, if it weren't for the fact I was playing as a Malkavian that place would have scared the shit out of me. It's almost on par with Penumbra, seriously.

Bloodlines for me wasn't so much scary as awesome, Malkavians are the greatest race ever devised by man.