Scariest Moment In A Game

[keep dreaming]

It was few years ago, but i still remember. Playing as a marine in Alien vs Predator.
When you've seen Aliens, you can imagine. You walk around with the radar on your gun. You hear a ping ALL the time, and when something moves, it pings faster. I almost got a heart attack when i stepped on an elevator (which of course moved). When an alien comes, you dont know if it comes from the sealing or the floor. I never made it past the first alien, and right now my heart beats much faster even when im only thinking about it.
If you love to be scared, PLAY IT, it will work on every PC.

Call of Cthulhu had a great scary creepy atmosphere, even when you just walk around the town.

I just bought the Orange Box so I guess I will be scared soon (damn i hate it)

 

[JulioCortez]

Contra 3: "Let's attack aggressively!"

Earlier Doom games: first hearing (and fighting) Cyberdemon.

Twisted Metal Black: all of the videos although some were quiet funny in a black humor sort of way.

Half Life 2 and beyond: those fast zombies' screams right before they jump at you, always startles me, no matter how many times I play through it

Oddworld: Abe's Odyessy: first time you have to outrun those damned Scrabs!

 

[Copter400]

The first Fast Zombie sighting for me wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. I was dawdling along when I heard their whooping shrieks, much like a gibbon. I looked up into the distance, and saw a pack of the things jumping across the rooftops. Then I saw some movement on the ground about 40 meters away from me. The zombie had seen me and decided to charge. Zombie moving at four meters per second meeting ballistic saw blade coming the other way. Needless to say, it didn't end well for him.

This was met with a measure of disappointment. Here was the Fast Zombie, allegedly one of the scariest monsters in the game, and now it's dead with barely a thought.

In fact, Ravenholm in general wasn't as scary as I had been told it was.

 

[Wuelfen]

Also, believe it or not, in Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire for N64, I was pretty frightened by the sewer level. Tentacle monster in murky water? Ick.

Heh, I remember that level, i was 4 or 5 when i had that game and it was great!

Also, I got Zelda OoT for my birthday when i was about 6 and the Redeads (zombies) in that game always scared the hell out of me, especially when they scream and freeze me and slowly walk up to jump on my back and suck out my brains, with me mashing every button on the controller trying to make Link stab the damned thing!

 

[Choukou]

Doom 3...all of it. I haven't completed that game with the sound on, it was that bloody terrifying for me. I don't play/watch enough horror, so I guess I'm not that desensitised to it all yet!

 

[ilves7]

Late entry...

One moment I remember very clearly and that got my pulse up to about 120 (I average 55 at rest ) was actually in good old Dark Forces.
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Dark Forces was awesome... it wasn't creepy EXCEPT when you got to the first dark trooper, which did honestly freak me out. I was ~12-13 then, but it was scary like that scene in Superman II (I think 2... maybe 3) where the super computer pulls in that woman and covers her in electronics and turns her into a robot... which is probably, for me, being really young when i saw that, the scariest thing I had ever seen.

 

[Dakan Kurano]

All time scariest moment for me was in RE2 where you go into the interrogation room and you enter the room expecting something to happen to you, but it doesn't. You creep across the room making sure you have your shotgun equipped just in case and nothing happens. You pick up the puzzle piece on the other side of the room and you think to yourself with satisfaction that the deed is done, nothing's gonna happen. You let your guard down and proceed toward the exit when suddenly a licker comes barging through the glass, making that high-pitched shatter sound along with the hissy roar of the creature. I literally jumped and screamed at the top of my lungs, paused the game and walked out of my room. I had found myself just a little pass the dark side of gaming where you forget that reality is still out there and desperately needed a taste of reality. Kudos Capcom, too bad now all you're glory days are over.

 

[Wix]

1. Alone in the Dark - I have to start with this just cause it was basically the beginning of survival-horror and for the first time we were able to explore through a haunted, zombie and demon infested house with 3d polygonal characters.

2. The 7th Guest - This is another old game, but the music, live action footage, and the macabre nature of the story and the house were enticing.

3. Silent Hill - Those games are great at creating a tense atmosphere. I mostly remember thinking of what was going to happen when I heard the siren start going off in the distance.

4. Nocturne - I especially liked the last chapter when you were abducted by the crazy Ex-Spookhouse agent and thrown into his house of traps.

5. Condemned - This game was really great with its lighting. The darkness of the game is what really made it for me, never knowing what was around the next corner.

6. Bioshock - Everyones played it by now. Just great with its environments and story. Chilling at times.

The game that topped everything for me was the first Fatal Frame. The combination of the disturbing storyline, excellent atmospheric audio, and its setting in a house really did it. I mention the setting just because I feel that when you have a story taking place within rooms in a creepy house it feels as if you never have the opportunity to breathe and relax. I found when playing through Fatal Frame 2, that when you were out on the streets in the village, it didn't seem as tense as when you knew you had to go into that next house and explore the dark niches that lay inside. Oh, and I never was more afraid of opening doors in a game than I was in Fatal Frame. Just the way they animated the opening of the doors made it so that it hid what was behind it till the last possible moment, which once was a ghost staring me right in the face. And I still repeat to this day, which drives my fiance crazy, "Myyy Eyeesss!!!!"

 

[Singing Gremlin]

The Bloodsuckers in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. scare the willies out of me. Very well done, them. You're always aware of them before they're aware of you (squelchy laboured breathing noise), but they're invisible so they'll tend to see you before you see them. Then they give out a typical 'oh god you've pissed it off now' noise and it becomes a game of spinning round fast enough to see the shimmer before it starts eating your heart.

 

[puffenstuff]

Freespace 2. I know it's a bit odd. I can play survival horror games or doom3 easily because half the time I can spot the closet or whatever that the gholie is going to pop out of. Cheap tricks. But there were sections of Freespace 2 you are flying in a nebula with 200 meters of visibility, you know something big and evil is out there and you have no idea which way your carrier is. Anyone who has played the game will remember: "DIVE DIVE DIVE! HIT YOUR AFTERBURNERS PILOT!!!"

The game has been made into an open source project that is freely avalable with upgraded graphics and other stuff. Avalable here [http://www.fsoinstaller.com/] with more info here. [http://scp.indiegames.us/news.php] If that is not scary enough for you, the mods Transcend [http://www.moddb.com/mods/4385/transcend] and Sync [http://www.moddb.com/mods/3631/sync] are even creepier than the original game.

 

[rapidoud]

i started playing fear and thought the gameplay was terrible, though the little girl was slightly annoying.

Tried Doom3, one of the sensible people at my school, and another, who thoughtit was horrible (due to me getting lost and the predictability of it, + slightly unoriginal :\)

As a child i played a few games that were scary but they just kept me on, like Run Like Hell, rent that game from a blockbuster and play the first 20mins, even before you get back its still creepy. Especially when that big monster

SPOILER
Chews the head off your teammate as your at the door in the docking bay and shes next to the ship, then you run and mis a button, get chomped, also as he chews the head off he then proceeds to SPIT it at you
SPOILER END

Before that i played some dinosaur games like one like RE just on some island, i forgot its name but i'd very much like to know the name if someone points it out, , also that dino game on ps2 where you used the gun and moveda round, didnt scare me

 

[PurpleRain]

Here's another reason I decided not to kill Sander Cohen and run like a girl:

The Wild Bunny; by Sander Cohen
I want to take the ears off, but I can't
I hop, and when I hop I never get off the ground
It's my curse, my eternal curse
I want to take the ears off but I can't!
It's my curse! It's my FUCKING curse!
I want to take the ears off!
Pleeeease!! TAKE THEM OFF!!
PLEEEEEAAAASSSEEEE!!!

 

[Singing Gremlin]

What?! I loved owning Sander. I always flick to the wrench as he calls in his spider slicers, as it becomes a really balletic fight, specially with the music. Nailing a spider slicer in the head as you both jump through the air and watching all his momentum at the head stop with a sickening crunch while the rest of the body carries on moving is tear-inducingly beautiful.

But then I'm a bit strange.

 

[JulioCortez]

Before that i played some dinosaur games like one like RE just on some island, i forgot its name but i'd very much like to know the name if someone points it out, , also that dino game on ps2 where you used the gun and moveda round, didnt scare me

Dino Crisis. Only played the first and third one but I remember the first time you bump into a T-Rex when his head comes busting through that office window and you have to flatten yourself against the other wall and just hope to God you brought enough ammo.

 

[propertyofcobra]

Before that i played some dinosaur games like one like RE just on some island, i forgot its name but i'd very much like to know the name if someone points it out, , also that dino game on ps2 where you used the gun and moveda round, didnt scare me

Dino Crisis. Only played the first and third one but I remember the first time you bump into a T-Rex when his head comes busting through that office window and you have to flatten yourself against the other wall and just hope to God you brought enough ammo.

Or you can just wait until he pulls back slightly and run out, not a shot wasted
Dino Crisis 2 is my favorite one, as it's much less "horror" and much more "Survival", it's sort of the Resident Evil 4 of Dino Crisis (smoother controls, a lot more action-oriented and fast-paced, etc.).
But yeah, most of Dino Crisis has to count for "Scariest moment in a game", because the dinosaurs are ridiculously durable, fast and strong, and your ammo load generally hovers around a clip and half a clip of handgun ammo, with two or three stun-darts for the rifle.

 

[lordcabal]

ok i mine has to be the first level of the marine missions in alien vs predator on the pc, i played it at night on directors cut difficulty and by the time i got to the lift at the end i had no ammo and a tiny slither of health as i beat the aliens back with the butt of my rifle. it

 

[JulioCortez]

Or you can just wait until he pulls back slightly and run out, not a shot wasted

Well, I was like 10 when I had that game so I was scared shitless and didn't know that worked. I just kept pumping ammo into him and hoping to God he went away.