I said this in another threat but... When I was playing F.E.A.R. alone at home by myself with the lights off on a big screen T.V., my friend cut the power and sent in his little sister in a red dress, she looked just like the girl in F.E.A.R., I pissed myself till I cried, cost me $50 to get the photo back.
Scariest Moment In A Game
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Resident Evil 4-- when you get to the island military base area. You're walking through an empty kitchen, minding your own business---
Then a fucking zombie* pops out of the oven, on fire, screaming like a ************.
I peed a little at that moment-- so unexpected.
*I am aware that they were not really zombies.
Then a fucking zombie* pops out of the oven, on fire, screaming like a ************.
I peed a little at that moment-- so unexpected.
*I am aware that they were not really zombies.
I just remembered another one. There is an asylum level in Painkiller, and it full of quadruple amputees who flop around on the floor, and heave themselves at you when you approach. Those things creeped me right the hell out. It didn't help that I thought they were just dead bodies before they moved.
F.E.A.R. - Monolith did such a great job of having Alma scuttle past in the corner of your vision. And the scene in the demo where you get to the top of the ladder and Alma appears in front of you - I jumped and cursed out loud. A lot of the rest was hokey though.
One scene in Doom 3, where an imp bursts through a stairwell you're about the climb. Actually, once you install the Ducttape mod it's a decent game.
AvP2 when you're on a lift and you can hear the aliens around you. So many times when I was playing that game my wife would open the computer room door and I'd jump like crazy.
Condemned I just found annoying. The mannequin scene was prety cool, but mostly it was eyestrain and lack of ammo.
One scene in Doom 3, where an imp bursts through a stairwell you're about the climb. Actually, once you install the Ducttape mod it's a decent game.
AvP2 when you're on a lift and you can hear the aliens around you. So many times when I was playing that game my wife would open the computer room door and I'd jump like crazy.
Condemned I just found annoying. The mannequin scene was prety cool, but mostly it was eyestrain and lack of ammo.
I don't want to encourage blackmail, but I think that's the funniest thing I've ever read in a forum. Of course, it wouldn't have been so funny if you'd struck his little sister over the head with a chair, an equally possible reaction to being badly frightened.Seyon said:
I don't have much to contribute to this that hasn't already been mentioned, so I'll be really brief and say that the original Alone in the Dark, Clock Tower and Fatal Frame (only played Crimson Butterfly) were pretty damn creepy. Hearing the scissors get closer and closer to you in Clock Tower induced panic like no other game. Alone in the Dark was just overall creepy in a Lovecraftian way. It actually got Pavlovian at some parts, where the music would just randomly change and you figure that something's coming after you. Sometimes, it's just random and not actually indicative of anything, though. And Fatal Frame... well... do I really have to explain this?
Another game which I don't think has been mentioned yet is one of my all-time favourite Sierra adventures, The Colonel's Bequest. Especially when playing on my old monochrome PC when I was 10, there were times when I actually turned it off and had to stop playing it. It wasn't scary in the survival-horror sense, but rather psychologically. Highly inspired by And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, dead bodies of murdered characters start showing up, and it really keeps you on edge, not knowing who the killer is. Sometimes, you'll be in a room, sleuthing around, and you'll see the shadow of somebody walking outside the window, and it terrified me. One other part in particular that stands out is if you find the hidden basement in the mansion, and discover that shortly after you found their bodies, the killer took the corpses and dumped them down the laundry chute to hide them. You walk through the dark basement with a lantern and find a pile of all the dead bodies that you found throughout the game. Creepy shit.
Another game which I don't think has been mentioned yet is one of my all-time favourite Sierra adventures, The Colonel's Bequest. Especially when playing on my old monochrome PC when I was 10, there were times when I actually turned it off and had to stop playing it. It wasn't scary in the survival-horror sense, but rather psychologically. Highly inspired by And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, dead bodies of murdered characters start showing up, and it really keeps you on edge, not knowing who the killer is. Sometimes, you'll be in a room, sleuthing around, and you'll see the shadow of somebody walking outside the window, and it terrified me. One other part in particular that stands out is if you find the hidden basement in the mansion, and discover that shortly after you found their bodies, the killer took the corpses and dumped them down the laundry chute to hide them. You walk through the dark basement with a lantern and find a pile of all the dead bodies that you found throughout the game. Creepy shit.
I know a couple of people have said this, but to all of you who were scared by Bioshock, go out and get a copy of System Shock 2. That game still scares the crap out of me. Those bloody Psychic monkeys whan all you have is a spanner cos all your guns are broken/out of ammo...
Also, Alien Vs Predator on the Atari Jaguar... a long time ago now, but as i remember it, there was no music, just the deep rumble of the ships engines and you would hear them long before they found you...
Oh yeah, mad props to whoever mentioned watching their dad play Prince Of Persia cos i had to hide whenever i watched him play that as well!
Also, Alien Vs Predator on the Atari Jaguar... a long time ago now, but as i remember it, there was no music, just the deep rumble of the ships engines and you would hear them long before they found you...
Oh yeah, mad props to whoever mentioned watching their dad play Prince Of Persia cos i had to hide whenever i watched him play that as well!
Second on that. OoT had some really scary moments, But if there's one thing I'll never forget are the zombies. They were so original with the weird wooden masks on and the shrieks, nothing like the Resi Evil zombies or any other zombie, matter of fact. And that's what made them scary, they were nothing you had ever seen before.The Potato Lord said:Anyhoo...
The scariest moments in a game for me have been:
Legend of zelda: ocarina of time-The tomb you enter after some lightning destroys the royal family's headstone with the life-sucking zombies that froze you if you looked directly at them
Legend of Zeldacarina of time-The entire Forest temple, That place was disturbing the second you entered and everyone has to admit the first time one of the big hands grabbed you you aboout P'd yourself((or you acutally did)
Mine was...
...falling asleep while driving a Jeep in "Mercenaries".
Not only it was a huge shock being woken up by the sounds of a crash, but also it was a very arkward moment that haunted me a long time whenever i would drive somewhere.
And for a game that teaches you to predict any "shock moments" two miles ahead, the "Spider behind the Computer" Scene in Doom 3 was pretty scary.
...falling asleep while driving a Jeep in "Mercenaries".
Not only it was a huge shock being woken up by the sounds of a crash, but also it was a very arkward moment that haunted me a long time whenever i would drive somewhere.
And for a game that teaches you to predict any "shock moments" two miles ahead, the "Spider behind the Computer" Scene in Doom 3 was pretty scary.
Scariest moments for me:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - When your running around in the sarchopagus, killing Monolith Expert Stalkers, and that voice in the background trying to drive you insane, and the constant radiation, that ives a blurry corny filther on the screen. I wouldn't say it scared me, but it was very entertaining.
Doom - Second level in "Thy flesh consumed" the 4th episode. About all 7 spots in the level, were a door opens suddenly, and a Baron of Hell attcks you from 3 meters away. That howl it makes, is really creppy.
Commander Keen 4: Secret of the oracle - Laugh all you wan't but this the only thing that has ever scared me in a videogame, and i was 8. The waterlevel, were you have to swim through a well, to find one of the wise men. It looked very easy since i only had to deal ith sprites and small fishes. Then near the end i found Dopefish. Big green fish, with huge square shaped front teeth. I swam past it thinking it was harmless, upon were it swam after me, and swallowed me whole. THat freaked me out so much, i didn't play the game for the next 5 years.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - When your running around in the sarchopagus, killing Monolith Expert Stalkers, and that voice in the background trying to drive you insane, and the constant radiation, that ives a blurry corny filther on the screen. I wouldn't say it scared me, but it was very entertaining.
Doom - Second level in "Thy flesh consumed" the 4th episode. About all 7 spots in the level, were a door opens suddenly, and a Baron of Hell attcks you from 3 meters away. That howl it makes, is really creppy.
Commander Keen 4: Secret of the oracle - Laugh all you wan't but this the only thing that has ever scared me in a videogame, and i was 8. The waterlevel, were you have to swim through a well, to find one of the wise men. It looked very easy since i only had to deal ith sprites and small fishes. Then near the end i found Dopefish. Big green fish, with huge square shaped front teeth. I swam past it thinking it was harmless, upon were it swam after me, and swallowed me whole. THat freaked me out so much, i didn't play the game for the next 5 years.
A lot of people mention moments in Doom 3. But in that game, only one thing REALLY scared me: The Cherubs.
Those...THINGS. God damn them back to hell where they belong.
Children ARE scary. Children fused with huge-clawed disformed flies that jump-scuttle towards you (laughing and giggling all the way, god damn them!) until they suddenly lunge twenty fucking meters and knock off a fifth of your health are even scarier.
And they never travel alone. So the air is filled with the buzzing of oversized flies and the laughter of infants well before you see even one, let alone the ten others that are just far enough away so that you'll see them once the first one bites the dust.
Those...THINGS. God damn them back to hell where they belong.
Children ARE scary. Children fused with huge-clawed disformed flies that jump-scuttle towards you (laughing and giggling all the way, god damn them!) until they suddenly lunge twenty fucking meters and knock off a fifth of your health are even scarier.
And they never travel alone. So the air is filled with the buzzing of oversized flies and the laughter of infants well before you see even one, let alone the ten others that are just far enough away so that you'll see them once the first one bites the dust.
Resident Evil 2, where you first see a Licker walk across a window, scared the shit outa me. In fact those games were pretty scary as a whole, eccept for RE4, but it my have been because i was younger when i played them.
I'm going to vote the original AvP, playing as the marine. You'd be walking along and you'd hear the aliens screaming, but wouldn't see anything, then suddenly your motion tracker would start to beep....
Doom 3 was okay for the first level, after that the "scary" went away. Go into a room, lights go out, fight monsters, repeat.
FEAR had okay parts and suck parts, but the parts of the level that were gunfights were too seperate from the parts that were scary. It took something away when I was thinking, "Okay, now I'm at the part where I see monsters and hear voices. There won't be any bad guys here. Oh! Bad guys! Guess the horror is over for awhile."
Bioshock never really scared me, but I found some aspects interesting, like the woman crying over the baby carriage.
Thinking about it now, maybe I'm just older and more jaded, but I like to think that AvP really was that creepy.
- J
Doom 3 was okay for the first level, after that the "scary" went away. Go into a room, lights go out, fight monsters, repeat.
FEAR had okay parts and suck parts, but the parts of the level that were gunfights were too seperate from the parts that were scary. It took something away when I was thinking, "Okay, now I'm at the part where I see monsters and hear voices. There won't be any bad guys here. Oh! Bad guys! Guess the horror is over for awhile."
Bioshock never really scared me, but I found some aspects interesting, like the woman crying over the baby carriage.
Thinking about it now, maybe I'm just older and more jaded, but I like to think that AvP really was that creepy.
- J
The classic, dogs jumping through the window at the beginning of Resident Evil 1 truly shocked me at first play.
Back at the beginning of the playstation era.
Condemned, for the 360, and those damned mannequin's.
Great game, scary as sin.
Survival horror games are on of my top genres.
Back at the beginning of the playstation era.
Condemned, for the 360, and those damned mannequin's.
Great game, scary as sin.
Survival horror games are on of my top genres.
Probably the intro to Silent Hill 4. The game itself wasn't too terrifying but that opening was intense. Some of the noises that the victims made were pretty disturbing and the first one coming out of the wall just rocked. It was also sometimes a little shocking when Walter Sullivan came out of NOWHERE in the forest. Though the scariest part was undoubtedly his godly accuracy. How the hell could that bullet hit me if i was standing behind him. =_= If anything, he was feared just for that, and the way he swings the chainsaw around like the mad man he is.
Other freaky highlights would be wandering what the hell he was doing with that body at the beginning of the hospital world and wandering how the hell he made Cynthia bleed so much. Though sadly the Silent Hill series hasn't scared me as much as it probably should. Most of the monster designs were just to cool to fear. Pyramid Head, Gum Head, Wall Man, Door Man.. At least PH can usually make me jump with that first rape scene in SH2, i know it's there but just forget to expect it. >_<
Other freaky highlights would be wandering what the hell he was doing with that body at the beginning of the hospital world and wandering how the hell he made Cynthia bleed so much. Though sadly the Silent Hill series hasn't scared me as much as it probably should. Most of the monster designs were just to cool to fear. Pyramid Head, Gum Head, Wall Man, Door Man.. At least PH can usually make me jump with that first rape scene in SH2, i know it's there but just forget to expect it. >_<
That was the only level in that entire game that I actually felt a little thrill playing. Genuinely weirded me out how they moved so wrong.The Irrelevant Gamer said:
Apart from one circumstantial mess playing Doom 3 I don't ever really find games even mildly startling.