Scariest Game You've Played. (Caution: SPOILERS!)

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Condemned: Criminal Origins chit chat

Is that where you hop over the railing and the guys jump out from your blind spot? That almost made me wet myself. I had to pause it and take calming breaths.

Naw, it's an easter egg, I think. There's one spot where you walk through a door, and there is another door across the room. I explore everything in the game (until this happened), so I was looking around the room and saw the ledge. I walked over to look over the edge to see what was there, then the guy jumped up right in my face.

 

[schubi]

F.E.A.R. - without a doubt.

Some levels really f- with your head. I double dog dare anyone to play it at night with headphones on.

 

[Dr Pussymagnet]

There were parts in Prey that scared the hell out of me.

 

[rowan-thats-me]

evryones saying about condemmed 1, but i found condemmed 2 scarier, like the part in the housing flats when those manakins jump behind you, and then as you carry on theres a stars that says dont come up, and i accually didnt for about 5 mins. but with C2 I'd say its more about paranoia than actual jumpy bits

 

[maffro]

Condemned, it is the only game where I have jumped out of my seat.... at my own in-game shadow.

Surely that's just plain embarassing? I was only playing the Criminal Origins demo, and my friend laughed at me.
True horror is all about the anticipation, and condemned had that in bucketfuls. I notice a lot of people seem to agree. Great sound, and I was shocked the first time I got in a brutal melee fight and realised I could completely believe that there's a crackhead who genuinely wanted me to die. Pretty Intense

Oddly enough, I always jump at gears of war. When you're stalking someone, and suddenly realise that they're stalking you, and you're JUST about thinking you're in the clear, when they pop out of NOWHERE with a chainsaw.

Exciting game, though.

 

[nikomas1]

F.E.A.R. - without a doubt.

Some levels really f- with your head. I double dog dare anyone to play it at night with headphones on.

Thanks for the idea, Now i can finaly regain my lost honor. When i get my new computer im going to do just that. It might take a while until i get it though.

 

[Zombie_King]

World of Warcraft. Maybe the scariest experience of my life.

I'm tanking for a Stormwind raid, and we're doing pretty well, until...

My screen goes black. I freak out for a second. Then I realize the lights are off. "SWEET JESUS NO!" Being pulled away from a raid like that can raise suspicions, and I almost got banned. Sidenote: If you tried to ban me, you sir, are a jackdonkey. I don't even know why the mod supported the guy's argument.

 

[wewontdie11]

The Resident Evil remake for the Cube. Was playing it with a couple friends the other day on one of the harder difficulties and those zombies don't half get the heart pounding when you're faced with a corridor of them armed with 3 bullets and your knife.

 

[huntedannoyed]

Condemend was scarry. But the scarriest game I ever played was Fatal Frame 2, I can't play that game at night!

 

[Rshady]

As has been mentioned about 8 times already, Condemned and the first half of Condemned 2, the suspense and sheer pant-wetting fear those games instill in me has yet to be matched by any other game I've played. Aside from the medical level in Bioshock.

 

[CartoonHead]

Stalker: Shadows of Chernobyl.
The bits where you're skulking around the underground...

I couldn't agree more.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

Oh. Also, We Don't Go to Ravenholm creeped me out a lot. At least until Father Grigori shows up. He made me feel warm and safe.

 

[Wolvaroo]

I have a few entries for different reasons:

Clock Tower. Was pretty young and it's especially terrifying being chased as opposed to most scares in games where it's "EEK. man I'm glad that's over"

Fatal Frame (any of them really. 4 is shaping up nicely it seems) The whole "no bullets" thing goes against everything I thought I knew about fighting the supernatural.

Eternal Darkness for previously posted reasons.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I wasn't expecting it to be a horror game so naturally I was a little freaked when I got into my first underground sequence. The superb lighting didn't help. Only game I can remember where I stopped playing because I didn't feel like being scared. When I got closer to the power plant it became "Okay, there's going to be more scary ass shit over there, I'm going to play CoH now." and I haven't touched it since. Might go back and finish it now that I've thought about it and with the prequel being out.

EDIT: Surprisingly F.E.A.R. did absolutely nothing for me. probably because I played it at a small LAN among friends and was prepared to be scared and also had to suppress it as to not be mocked. But in all honesty once I realized I just picked up a second pistol and that I was now holding this other pistol in my other hand any chance the supernatural had was now gone.

I was the only one there to finish it...

 

[Stalington]

Silent Hill 1, I played it when I was like...9 or 10? Didn't sleep for a week Haven't yet played Condemned 1 or 2, they're on my shelf. I'm kinda scared to play them because I've heard stories of how crazy scary they are

If you aren't going to play em, give them to me!

on a relevent note: American Mcgee's Alice, when I played it when it came out it scared the crap out of me. Also kudos to Bioshock (and Doom 3 to a lesser extent) for that jump out at you while playing at 2 in the morning feeling in my pants.

 

[Wolvaroo]

Special mention goes to the first crimson head to burst through the door in RE. I considered myself an RE veteran and had only seen slightly like that in RE2 (by the helipad I think). I used the door opening sequences to take sips of coffee and nearly spat it all over the place and dropped my controller.

 

[charlesgovan]

Altered Beast, Aquaman, Superman 64, 50cent bulletproof, bleach wii, and Croc......Horrible, Horrifying games!!!

 

[Gotham Soul]

Condemned, Silent Hill 2, Fatal Frame 2, and Siren.

I suppose The Cradle from the Thief games (Can't remember which one....was it the Dark Project?)

 

[haruvister]

Silent Hill 1 for me. The whining radio was a brilliant concept.

Doom 3 was scary, too, on account of how cruelly designed it was. Special mention should go to Doom 1, too - at the time the lighting and sound design was like nothing we'd ever seen.

Bioshock, meanwhile, had bags of atmosphere, and the Big Daddy battles were intense the first time through - but it was perhaps a tad too easy overall.

 

[corporate_gamer]

i dont really play horror games but i remember spending most of the time playing conflict:vietnam absolutely bricking it. sneaky VC come could come from behind anything. and with the boobytraps and complete lack of save points, i was jumpy to say the least