Scariest Gaming Moments

[Arcane Azmadi]

For me, it was right near the end of Silent Hill 2, when I found the room with 9 save points arranged in a square. See, I'd accidentally read a spoiler in advance, so I KNEW what lay beyond the doors next to the save grid.

Spoiler

Twin Pyramid Head boss battle.

And the very THOUGHT of it petrified me. I was so terrified that I had to put my controller down and lie down until my hands stopped shaking and I managed to summon up enough nerve to continue. It took me over 5 minutes.

Yes, I know it was an overreaction, but I was playing late at night in the dark and had been doing so for several hours. At that stage I was so immersed in the game that it had pretty much occupied my entire mind, so the thought that losing the upcoming battle wouldn't cost me any more than a simple game over just didn't occur to me. I was TERRIFIED.

Failing that, there was the time I was walking through the sewer in the original Silent Hill. You get used to the oppresive static of the radio building mood slowly before you encounter an enemy, but the sewer contains enemies hanging from the roof that don't trigger your radio. So I was walking in blissful ignorance down a narrow path, feeling at least relatively secure, when a long, claw-tipped arm reached down from the blackness above me and tried to rip my head off. I was so startled that I SCREAMED out loud.

 

[silver wolf009]

I was listening to an audio diary in BioShock and a little into it I decided it would be better if I was watching the entrance instead of staring at the wall and a Splicer was standing right behind me!

Didn't even attack me until I looked at him, which leads me to believe it was scripted but I've only played that game once so I'm not sure.

I actually had a funny experience with that. I discovered that by going back after putting on the big daddy suit, no enemies attack you. I used this to get that tape, and that splicer scared me because i thought that none of them would come near me. Jumped up a solid foot.

 

[Caligulove]

Wow, this thread was posted already like 5 days before.

THE FUCKING BEAR IN CONDEMED 2.

FUCK... Goddamn I hated and LOVED that part. haha

 

[Lepre-Khan]

That part where you have to use Helios's head in God of War 3 to get through a cavern of scorpions.

Any match I've had in any online FPS where I have a to-close-for-comfort encounter with an enemy player or enemy players.

That part in Mass Effect 2 where you take control of Joker and have to go around the normandy setting stuff up to get rid of the Collectors and shit.

Any of the fade sections, especially the one in the mages tower in Dragon Age Origins.

Any instance in an MMO when I've bitten off more than I can chew and try to get away from the horde of enemies I've managed to have want to kick my ass.

The Flood sections in Halo 1 and 2.

Doom 3. Period.

The Ravenholm Level in Half-Life 2.

Half-Life 1. Period.

Bits and pieces of Quake 4.

Bioshock 1. Period.

Whenever an enemy, especially a Krogan, goes past you'r chest high wall and begins shooting you at boint blank in Mass Effect 1 and 2.

Whenever a previously unknown and large force of enemy units comes out of nowhere and commits a surprise attack in the veccinity of my main base in any RTS I've played.

The Parts of Call of Duty 2 where you have to clear out bunkers yourself.

Amped 3. Just Amped 3.

Gun. Just Gun.

The Parts of Republic Commando where you have to deal with an unfair amount of baddies.

The First Mission as an SAS soldier in Modern Warfare 1, the part of Modern Warfare where you have to rescue a downed helicopter pilot before the timer to the nuke goes off, The Gilly Suit mish in Modern Warfare 1.

The Brazilian Level in Modern Warfare 2.

Viva Pinata. I know.

The number one scariest video-game moment I've had however, is when I played...the burger king games. My god, the burger king games.