Scariest Moment In A Game

[Strafe Mcgee]

Btw, just to say, I really don't know how people can find silent hill scary. Don't get me wrong, they're great games and I've enjoyed all of them (the mirror room in SH3 is GENIUS) but they just aren't scary. Perhaps system shock, resident evil and project zero have numbed me to the atmosphere. Oh and the twist in Silent Hill 2? Painfully obvious. Sorry, but I just wanted to get that off my chest

 

[Ragnar34]

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The yeti from Ski Free.

 

[Spartanspork]

I was playing Bioshock when the power went out (not talking about the part where the lights go out and the splicers come, but the power in my house went out). I could hear the demented ramblings of a splicer around the corner as the water dripped down so my nerves were already on edge when it happened.

I believe I was yelling "Holy expletive! Adam Ryan is after me!" for about 30 minutes afterward. Good times.

lol i had something similar except that the TV got turned off (i must have ike put my foot on the remote or something) and i was playing with the lights off in my basement, so when i turn it back on there is a splicer right in my face and i'm like "Holy ****" and i start screaming that something is going to eat me. I checked like every corner of my house for splicers like i had just seen alien when i was 5.

 

[Katana314]

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(I would be VERY surprised if no one on even THIS forum gets the reference [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chzo_Mythos])

 

[Kuneru]

I remember one of the halucinations on Eternal Darkness fondly.

I was sat in my room reading while my friend was playing the game (back then I couldn't handle scary games at all). All of a sudden he turned round and asked me why I was turning the sound down on the TV, I just looked up at him and said "what?" before we both turned to look at it and the screen flashed and went back to normal. In any other circumstance it wouldn't of worked because it was the first hallucination we had seen and I knew what the volume control looked like on my own TV. When scripted events go beyond the screen its scariest...

 

[FanboyInDisguise]

Max Payne 1 & 2 - The dream levels were downright creepy, especially when Max's baby screams.

Amen to that, though I wouldn't find that altogether scary as more of downright friggin disturbing...As for myself I'd say plenty of moments during Fatal Frame, such as the soothing hand from your loving sister comforting you on your shoulder...then you see your sister walk by on the other side of your body...either that or the pre-Ring-and-The-Grudge japanese horror make you so uncomfortable you want to scream when nothings there atmosphere that Fatal Frame excels at.

 

[rapidoud]

Soul Caliber IV.
Voldo Fighting
That **** scares me. Doing the worm, doing the crabwalk, moonwalking, fighting backwards, looking like a PEDOPHILE. scary

 

[Dommyboy]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R was a great game for me until I got into the tunnel areas and you start to see Psychic monsters (controllers) and those invisible monsters. I had to bring myself to finish the game. Though the controllers were pretty cool, I found the game a bit scary and annoying but just fighting other humans was really fun, that's why I am waiting for Far Cry 2.

 

[PureChaos]

Pretty much the whole of Shadow Man on the N64, especially the Playrooms. many brown trouser moments in there!

 

[wewontdie11]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do5SttjEygM

When I played this part at like 12 at night when I was a bit younger. Nearly had a heart attack.

God the fatal frame series is creepy.

 

[minispike47]

Three games really jump out at me for this topic:

In Doom 3 when you just got the shotgun and you feel invincible, you exit the area and come upon a large set of stairs. Halfway up, a demon bursts from underneth and you procede to crap yourself.
Near the beginning of the game in Bioshock, where you go to investigate a table in a corner of a room. Picking up some supplies you turn around and theres a Splicer standing right in front of your face. Safe to say he got blown away with my shotgun, but still...
And in Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, where the main character Alex enters a bathroom and the camera flashs, tilts slightly and shows Alex dead in the bathtub drowned in her own blood. The music in that games creepy too...

That bit in bioshock freaked me out so much! Another bit in that game, 2 of my mates were over my house and we were totally sucked in to the game, then my friends phone rang and he jumped out of his chair and smacked his head on the the side of a table it was so funny!

 

[Wellby]

Ok, i'd like to start with, i don't often get scared by games, but i go hunting for the scariest things i can find. Personally i'm bothered by the fact that people get afraid of ACTION/survival games like Doom 3(OH god, me and my Massive friggen minigun versus that scrawny looking demon), and bioshock (you can shoot friggen bees nuff said). oh and personally Dead rising has more of a "WHO WANTS SOME!?" feel to it. OK now for my scariest games moments... hmm gotta say Fear, when Alma really gets in your @#$^ing head. especially with that goddamn ladder... i was afraid to turn around quickly for about a week.
OK next on the list goes straight to Condemned:Criminal Origins. Now heres a game that doesn't sacrifice combat to try... and be scary (silent hill). I love that your guy may for the most part be defenceless but he can still shove a 2x4 down the nearest crazys throat. This made levels like the farm house and the department store all the more terrifying. wondering when they're going to strike.
Now for a more obscure game. Call of Cthuluark corners of the earth. The entire opening segment of this game is littered with HORRIBLY FRUSTRATING stealth segments, and i gotta say, finding a gun is a beautiful moment.But anyhow this moment is one i found truely haunting. early in the game your character Jack "can't throw a punch" Carver accidently causes the death of a little girl. Insanity is a big thing in this game by the way. So Jack is in the car driving with a buddy, i decide to look up into the cabin, and guess whos in the friggen passanger seat; a mangeled little girl.. before i can blink she's gone. its that sorta stuff that made this game worth playing. Oh and ... when Daigon makes the scene in it, well allow me to quote what i think Jack would be saying "WHAT IN THE NAME OF CALAMARI JESUS IS THAT THING?!"
Oh and of coarse, in eternal darkness when it lies about the data being corrupt (lowest of blows in a game).
Oh and about my earlier comment, ya i find silent hill 2 to be a boring, frustrating adventure game with decent creature design. Wasn't really worth a play through for me.

 

[irrelevantnugget]

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.

Oh god, I had nightmares of that superman scene for weeks. Just thinking back to that still more or less leaves me feeling uncomfortable.

 

[ZacOfTheZombies]

The moment in Silent Hill 2, where James was hiding in the clolset and Pyramid Head is walking towards you.

 

[KraitRazer]

It wasn't just a scary moment but a whole scary level. Thief-Deadly Shadows. The whole of the cradle level. The sheer concept of the level alone that it was an insane asylum AND an orphanage at the same time was .......terrifying. It just goes against every pert of sane reasoning. And the way that the whole first half of the level was empty which is the most unnerving part of it which sets you up for the whole thing. The most terrifying part of the level though has to be when you go down to the generator because you have to open a gate and your creeping around jumping at shadows just waiting for your first combat scene. You go down and wade through the water to reach the generator and you flick the switch. The lights flicker into life. And you hear a horrific scream from deeper in the building. You know now that someone or something knows you are here. You go back through the corridor and all the time you are frantically wishing for the darkness back to hide in rather than the horrible flickering light. Also later on in the lever where you come to stairs and you hear thudding above you.It took me 2 or 3 tries to get up the courage to go up the stairs. You climb the stairs and as you do the thudding gets louder and more frantic as if the thing that is thudding knows you are getting closer. You reach the door and open it. It just stops. You go around the dusty Grey-brown attic and search every corner for what it was. Nothing except a blood stained painting in the corner. You head back down the stairs and the thudding starts again. No matter how many times you go up and down, in and out of the room you can never find the source of it. Lastly because I'm rambling on a bit here was later on when you come to the second half of the cradle and you find a desk with a book in it. In the book it describes all the patients and what their obsessions are. One of them is obsessed with perfect portrait painting and if the person he was painting moved while he was painting he would tear up the painting and then the person. After reading this you can go up a tower and you find the room filled with paintings on all sides and a deformed man with a bent rusty cage around his face. All the paintings are torn up with blood on the paintings. Its then that you identify the patient who is stumbling about the room moaning and shouting at nothing. I could go on rambling about this level of the game because it just hit me so hard and plays with your mind so well. A gaming magazine I sometimes get called PC Gamer UK did a review on it a few years ago and I found it on the internet. They have a whole internet page dedicated to this one level of the game and they explain what they understand of the building and rooms, patients, the past of the building and what their explanation for this was. The link to the site is here --->http://gillen.cream.org/thecradle.pdf<--- for anyone interested. I personally think its the most twisted, scary level that gaming has to offer up to date but that is a personal opinion and you will have to try it for yourself to understand just how great a level it was.

 

[Pohlkat]

Wing Commander: Prophecy
It was a mission where you're out fighting while the mother ship can repair its warp drive or something, then when they do, I was so far out that i couldn't get back in time, the commander comes through saying like "sorry ***** but we gotta go" i'm spamming the turbo boost and like 10 seconds more id be there, but all of the sudden, the ship jumps and i'm left there alone. it made me feel tiny and scared, i had to turn off the game and sit for awhile pondering that.
no experience has come close

 

[Spartan Bannana]

This has probably already been said, but the entire Medical Pavilion section of Bioshock, specifically the part when you walk in on Steinman doing his "work."
Also when you go into the dentist office, pick up the gene tonic, the room fills with smoke and the guy is standing behind you, just staring.

 

[Copter400]

Finding out that there's a mandatory sliding puzzle in RE4.

"Ooh, this is pretty creepy. It's all dark. I just know those suits of armour are gonna wake up soon. 'Ello 'ello, what's all this then? There's some sort of picture on that pedestal there! Let's just see what..."

"SLIDING PUZZLE! ARRGH! FUCK! FUCK YOU, CAPCOM! SERIOUSLY!"

Whoever invented the sliding puzzle deserves to be pulled apart by wild tortoises.

 

[Sketchy]

I have a few

1. Call of Cthulu: I was playing this with a friend and I just got into the grocery store and picked up the stuff from the safe when I heard a bang. I didn't know what it was so I walked out. I was facing the front entrance of the store when the guy came in and my view quickly did a 180 too look at him. Me and my friend screamed very loudly.

2.F.E.A.R: I was walking down a hallway with a door at the end when I heard a noise from behind. I turned around to find nothing there. So I faced the front again to find a man walking past the glass bit on the door. I uninstalled the game.

3. Myst: I was about 7 and playing Myst when I opened a chest that I didn't know what was inside. It was a head. I have never played Myst again.

 

[Renko]

Project Zero 2 (There was one moment in this where I walked into a wee cabinet and the sensor was telling me there was a ghost somewhere. So i stare out the window for a minute and a ghosts jumps up at my face screaming. Scared me sh'tless!)

That happened to me too! The only time I've ever screamed out loud at a game >_< Also in Project Zero 2, the whole of the Dollmaker's house scared me so much on my second playthrough I couldn't bring myself to do it again. The bit where you walk in the little cupboard and the creepy doll of Akane is PHYSICALLY IN THERE WITH YOU on the shelf...*shudders* So many scary moments in that game.
I remember watching my uncle play Tomb Raider when I was young and being terrified of the skinless "mimic Lara". So satisfying when she finally fell to her fiery death.
The first time I ran into the tentacle dogs in Resi 4 scared the crap out of me ^^