Scariest horror section of a non-horror game.

[Z(ombie)fan]

I have no idea what they were thinking in this scene.
The really creepy stuff starts happening around :50. Enjoy.
2:30 is just trippy.

god DAMNIT, symbolism!! can't we have our zeldas at least a LITTLE SANE!?

 

[Vladimir Francois Tchaikovski]

Apart from all the balls-to-the-walls mindfuckery in fallout 3, im going to say the first flood level on Halo: Combat Evolved.

 

[THEfog101]

Yeah i forgot about Dunwich Building, that place is still pure weird and that pillar in the middle didn't even have a purpose until the 4th DLC came out. Kudu's on surviving that though for i now declare that 'A Fawkes Moment' lol being able to be attacked by a plethora of enemies and still being able to yell like a mad man and kick ass.

 

[Colonel Joson]

Ocean House from Vampire the Masquerade, scared the shit out of me, for the first few goes I needed my brother to do it for me. But I'm pleaed to say I did it all by myself a few days ago ^^ and went on to finish the game.

 

[No-Superman10]

Tell me, does this sound ring any bells?
"Eh-eh-eh Huuuuh"
I thought so...

Spoiler: Just in case

Resi 4 Regenerators

 

[SovietX]

1st: Ravenholm in Half Life 2
2nd: The asylum mission in CoD: WaW
3rd: First encounter with the flood in Halo Combat Evolved

 

[Cowabungaa]

I have no idea what they were thinking in this scene.
The really creepy stuff starts happening around :50. Enjoy.
2:30 is just trippy.

That cutscene was amazing, and indeed creepy as hell. It makes perfect sense though, all the corruption symbolism.

Ocean House from Vampire the Masquerade, scared the shit out of me, for the first few goes I needed my brother to do it for me. But I'm pleaed to say I did it all by myself a few days ago ^^ and went on to finish the game.

I tried doing that level while I was home alone and in the dark. I only managed by continuously talking to myself that it's 'just a stupid game' and stuff like that. But I did it! I'm so awesome.

Vault 106 - Fallout 3, Mind Fuck to the max considering the games Shoot'em up nature.

I say The Dunwich Building was worse. It's full of feral ghouls (zombies). I was lightly armed, cavorting through with a mask that caused ghouls to see me as a fellow ghoul. I stumbled into a radioactive patch.

It turns out that putting on the radiation suit removes the ghoul mask. About 10 ghouls simultaneously turned towards me, hissed, and attacked. I barely survived with liberal applications of Stimpacks to myself and .44 calibre to the ghouls.

I went into the Dunwich Building without the ghoul mask butvery well armed (that special shotgun vs ghouls = shotfun!) and it still scared the living daylights out of me.

It's funny how specialised horror games like Dead Space don't scare me one bit, but those little pieces in non-horror games totally do.

Oh and of course Ravenholm as well, though not as much as the others. It really started when the fast zombies appeared for the first time and I didn't yet know how to spot them (shaking draining pipes).

 

[moretimethansense]

Every Thief game always had one if not more horror levels, though it was never really a horror series. Most recently there's The Shalebridge Cradle from Thief: Deadly Shadows a few years back, which was probably one of the best horror levels I've ever played in a game. Brilliant.

Just listening to the 'soundtrack' gives me the creeps.

Exactly what I was gonna say,
that and the Abysmal Gale bit, creepy as all get out and it triggered my claustrophobia, no game has ever pulled that one off before not even penumbra.

 

[nohorsetown]

Well, nothing really *scares* me, but I can find things disturbing, which should be close enough. First thing that comes to mind is the whole Riovanes Castle section of Final Fantasy Tactics (they probably renamed some things in the remake; I dunno, I played the original).

Uh, not that it should matter with a game this old, but ***SPOILERS***:

There's Wiegraf going all Zodiac-monster and slaughtering everyone (including his son), then the really hard boss fight, Barinten's speech where he implies that he raped/molested Rafa, and then you get the Marquis (who you thought was dead) and his creepy hench-women/demons who can OHKO anyone. And your sister's disappeared. That shit was heavy.

 

[Rainforce]

I have no idea what they were thinking in this scene.
The really creepy stuff starts happening around :50. Enjoy.
2:30 is just trippy.

whats wrong with that :O?
*looks at own avatar*
nope, everythings fine.

on topic: Ravenholm. although funny with the saw and blade thingies.

 

[repeating integers]

Six words. Six words that are a prelude to the most terrifyingly huge swarm of fighters you will ever see in your life.

"This is... the Garden... of Kadesh."

This music helps too. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY1fVrI2NFQ] *shudder*

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

We don't go to Ravenholm. For a reason.

As soon as she said that I was all like "And of course I'm going to have to brave that area single-handedly, ah well."

 

[JaysonM]

Darkshire and karazhan in WoW was pretty cool, wasn't exactly scary but non the less damn cool.

 

[Fishbro]

Well, I guess Ravenholm would be the big'un here. All that build-up of people saying that you don't go to Ravenholm and finally the scrambled voice of Eli... "DO NOT GO THROUGH RAVENHOLM".
5 mins later...
"Gordon try and go through Ravenholm!"

Great plan, Alyx, next time there is a horrifying, apocalyptic town let's say that you go...

 

[Zhukov]

I am mystified by all the people saying Ravenholm was scary.

Don't get me wrong, it was good. But scary? Come on.

 

[Demodeus]

Every Thief game always had one if not more horror levels, though it was never really a horror series. Most recently there's The Shalebridge Cradle from Thief: Deadly Shadows a few years back, which was probably one of the best horror levels I've ever played in a game. Brilliant.

Just listening to the 'soundtrack' gives me the creeps.

THIS

and the Abyssmal Gale was fucking scary up to the point where you discovered that holy water kills the zombies. I almost crapped my pants when the zombie guard that I just assassinated stood up and started eating my legs..

 

[JaysonM]

I am mystified by all the people saying Ravenholm was scary.

Don't get me wrong, it was good. But scary? Come on.

meh, personal opinion. I'm a bit the same with you that I don't find zombies scary, but I get scared the shit out of by ghosts (Amnesia: the dark descent scares the shit out of me...). I know quite a few people who were scared out of there pants from Ravenholm.

 

[Spygon]

The dunwich building and vault 106 from fallout 3 was scared by them but was rather disturbed by them places.

Also weirdly enough the lavander tower in pokemon red and blue the music and the constant fights that took ages because i was not really set up to fight ghosts. Just made my time in there a pain and was dreading every fight.

 

[York_Beckett]

I have to go with the previously mentioned scene from Twilight Princess. Seriously, that was just messed up, along with the nightmare scenes from Max Payne 1 and 2.
Also, the monk-guys from Knights of the Temple were kind of creepy the first time you saw them.

Still, I never understood why people find Ravenholm so scary. Maybe I didn't play it with the right moodset; Maybe I should have played it with all the lights off and hidden under the bathroom lockers, or with that "good friend" of mine grabbing my shoulder every two minutes, just asking for a punch in the face. I don't know why, I just never found it scary. Sure, it was a bit intense at times, but never really frightening.