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Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.

Man. Lovecraft's style of writing always weirded me out in a way pop-up monsters and empty gore never could.
In game form?
Well actually it's less frightening in game form. But still, pretty scary in the beginning.
 

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Condemned: Criminal origins, freakin' mannequins.
Yup, having never played any of the SH series, this is it for me. Got me many a time. Great suspense and use of the environment.
 

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merc hunter said:
When I was 8-10 legend of zelda scared the crap out of me with those zombie things genuinly scary for a little kid
This ^, back when Ocarina of Time had just been released, i stayed up all night playing it, but once i got to the part when you became adult link and walked out into the zombie filled courtyard, i turned the game of and didnt continue until it wasn't dark outside.
 

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Fronken said:
merc hunter said:
When I was 8-10 legend of zelda scared the crap out of me with those zombie things genuinly scary for a little kid
This ^, back when Ocarina of Time had just been released, i stayed up all night playing it, but once i got to the part when you became adult link and walked out into the zombie filled courtyard, i turned the game of and didnt continue until it wasn't dark outside.
Yeah, no joke. I played the song that paralyzed them EVERY time i saw them because I was so scared :D

Also, the Resident Evil Remake for the Gamecube scared the shit out of me >_>
 

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I agree, Condemned was terrifying. I also found Aliens vs Predator 2 to be pant-wetting as well.

The marine sections in AVP2 were genuinely disturbing, flickering lights and random falling pipes had me wasting precious ammo on walls and ceilings, not to mention seeing predators everywhere only to have them disappear along with the bloodied remains of one of my comrades. Then you have the sections with aliens coming out of everything but the kitchen sink and you runnign backwards frantically hoping that the rounds in the pulse rifle are going to last so you dont have to switch to the pistol.
 

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The spider-bots really scared me the first time I played through Deus Ex. The clicking... the clicking!
 

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A lot of condemned 1 here but what about condemned 2?
It's not as good later in the game, but the early levels are fantastic. creeping around in that hotel with junkies all around. I found a pistol and felt safe, begun to check rooms, went into a bathroom nothing there, turn around, BAD ASS JUNKIE right in my face. I droped the controler it was that good.

Note: Haven't played condemned 1 yet, har it's better.
 

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Silent Hill series
Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem
Alone in the Dark's earlier titles
Condemned: Criminal Origins
 

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The Stabilo Boss said:
Fronken said:
merc hunter said:
When I was 8-10 legend of zelda scared the crap out of me with those zombie things genuinly scary for a little kid
This ^, back when Ocarina of Time had just been released, i stayed up all night playing it, but once i got to the part when you became adult link and walked out into the zombie filled courtyard, i turned the game of and didnt continue until it wasn't dark outside.
Yeah, no joke. I played the song that paralyzed them EVERY time i saw them because I was so scared :D

Also, the Resident Evil Remake for the Gamecube scared the shit out of me >_>
hmm, dont think i knew that song trick back then, i just ran as hell and hoped for the best xD
 

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Call of Cthulhu way to sick for my tastes. Really creeped my out to the point I said fuck it, uninstall.

Undying really had creepy moments.

And the number 1 goes to : Blood 2 - when the liches jump on your face for the first time...
 

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I scare really easily. Half Life 1 still scares the shit out of me.
 

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The Penumbra series, especially Black Plague

You simply can't stop your chasers, no matter how many stuff you throw at them. I recall, I was exploring an abandoned room when I suddenly saw the light of a flashlight coming through the door behind me. Scary.

Also, Silent Hill: The room

Especially the awake - haunting part. Who would have thought you were sleeping next to a corpse all this time?
 

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Kermi said:
Our version did that too - do you just get to a road past a gate where everything is black? Worked fine after a reboot, but if that fails try and backtrack to get to the little cabin high up to the right of the road, you have to do something in there before you can continue and I think that's where the glitch is.
It's happening right at the cabin higher above the right side of the road. I've tried backtracking, reloading, restarting the level, and I've even tried deleting my HDD's cache. nothing seems to be working.
Damn. don't really know what else to suggest. You're only about fifteen minutes from the end of the game, too. :/
 

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LOL! Scariest game for me was Friday the 13th for the NES. I was a kid back then, playing a game, then Jason would come running from one side of the screen suddenly, and that would get me all fucked up. Or when you're trying to save one of the kids, and your walking around in the cabin. . .and Jason would pop up and try to kill you! Or when you're in that cave, and Jasons moms head would fly around and try to kill you! WTF man!
 

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For on-the-spot scary, I'd go with Penumbra - good atmosphere and no weapons, though effective as that is, I really think that's too much of a cheap trick. The scariest is when the game really starts to mess with your mind.

Though I've never played Condemned, the only game that I think trumps even Call of Cthulhu is Pathologic. It's an open-world game where you're thrust into a sprawling, beautiful but very haunting and rather bizarre Russian city, with a brooding atmosphere.

After a few days, the disease strikes - the air tinges a sickly yellow, the afflicted roam the streets, infecting you if you get too close. Not only do you have to worry about them... you also have to scavenge for food and medical supplies to keep yourself alive. Eat the wrong sausage and you get infected. Then you enter a house, whose occupants you talked to just an hour ago, finding the walls covered in blood, the occupants writhing on the ground in agony - a fetid cloud of disease floating in the room, which then lunges at you...

It's the only game I know (with the possible exception of Call of Cthulhu) that manages to create a world with an atmosphere so vividly horrid, it plunges dread into your soul - even moreso as the premise is believable, one of those things that could happen to anyone (something which, unlike horror films, games often eschew in favour of space-stations and magical monsters).
 

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Bulletinmybrain said:
Okay how about this, We ban SH2 seeing as how it will automatically be on the top of lists.

Also what about condemned Alison? No love for the bums?

There is a subtle difference between scary, and thrilling. Condemned is a Psychological Thriller, while it does present the notion of horror, there is no supernatural aspect to it. What is true horror? The fear of the Unknown, We know what bums are, they are the Human element of our fears but they can be easily taken down with any blunt object. While in Silent Hill, even if you down your enemies with a stick or a gun, unless you deliver that final kick, they can get up. Fatal Frame delivers some aspect of true horror to it by sometimes taking away your only weapon and ghosts can still hurt or kill you, even if you do have the camera, it sends a ghost who cant be killed til the end of the game after you, you can't damage her (Why is it always us women who seem to have the must worldly attatched feelings of hatred and angst?) but she can kill you with a touch, and even if you have the revival item, its still game over. Resident Evil....cmon, what do we really know about genetic mutations? Honestly, if I were to put a first person game on my horror listings, it'd be F.E.A.R. and Doom (1 - 3) before I consider Condemned, sure part two introduced the supernatural aspect and thus it became a Psychological Horror game, but you said Condemned, not Condemned II.

Honestly, I LOVED condemned 1 and 2, but they are more Thrilling than Horrifying.