Scariest moment in a non-horror game

[starwarsgeek]

Mario 64.
Little me: "The piano's going to EAT ME!!! D:"

 

[1nfinite_Cros5]

That bit in Half-Life 2 a little after you get Dog to open the gate for you. After the dropship carries him away and the setting is dead quiet, you hear this:

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You enter the nearby building and spot a TV that briefly flashed the G-Man on it. At that point, I associated that radio as the leitmotif of the G-Man.

It's a bit hard to put into words. You kinda have to play it yourself to get that sense of creepiness.


Another example I found comes from Kirby: Canvas Curse in

Spoiler

World of Drawcia. It doesn't even need explaining:

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That music in the background is probably one of the scariest things I've encountered in a non-horror game. Also, there are pictures that stare, grin, and laugh at you. WHAT ARE THEY LAUGHING ABOUT?!

 

[kevinsux909]

Fallout 3: Point Lookout quest "Walking with spirits." The giant punga wasn't worse enough, it's fridge horror when it hits you that someone STOLE A PIECE OF YOUR BRAIN.

 

[shrekfan246]

I'm glad I'm not the only person who found Ravenholm to be ridiculously creepy in Half-Life 2, and the derelict Reaper in Mass Effect 2.

My contribution would have to be another vote toward Bioshock, I don't think it's officially counted as a survival-horror game but it's definitely creepy enough. I remember one time when I went into the dentistry room to grab an enhancement tonic, equipped it, turned around and a splicer was literally two inches from my face. I jumped in my seat, killed it, and paused for about five minutes before continuing.

 

[zfactor]

I'll say it once, and I'll say it again, the wall masters from Ocarina of Time.

I was just walking along, ignoring navi, and out of nowhere, a giant hand pops out and drags me to my demise.

I wouldn't touch the game for 6 months after that.

This.

And the entire Shadow Temple.

Don't play it late at night with the sound way up and nothing else making noise in your basement.

 

[CaptVickHartnell]

Bottom of the Well and the Shadow Temple in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The creepy noises and the discordant music, not to mention those re-deads freaked the fuck out of 10-year old me.

 

[DarthFennec]

Minecraft, when that creeper killed me.

 

[mrhappy1489]

The part in Fallout 3: The Pitt where you are sent to find the steal ingots and also the trogs attack you. Maybe not scary just startling, but it's one of few I can recall

 

[Daftmau5]

Creepers sneaking up on you in MineCraft.
They give me heart attacks.

 

[Zanderinfal]

There was this bit in Fallout 3 where I was investigating a random building. It was full of ghouls, which already freak me out. I wandered around and went to another part of the building. I took two steps and I had a "hallucination" of someone or something. I wasn't expecting it AT ALL and it was around 2:30 AM. It was the most recent time I felt real fear while playing a video game that isn't pure horror.

/flashback
Ohhhhhhh-
Shit.
I remember that.

OT: Probably...
God damn-

When Alyx is sniping for you, when you're heading for a car. There's a part where you drop out of earshot and you're in a small room, and there's a door at the end. You have to knock stuff away from it to get into it. Something on the other side is making huffin noises. It's a somewhat common enemy, but when I first came across it I had no fracking clue what the damn thing was. It scared the ever-living shit out of me. Then I finally got my balls together and opened the door, and it was one of those damn things that carries black headcrabs on its back.

Fuckin' ninja'd AGAIN.
Any way, don't doubt it's Area 51-
Oh wait, NON horror games...
Then it would be Half Life 2: episode 2's first hunter scene (SPOILER!!: before Alyx gets mauled), where you go inside a building to flip a switch, and when you turn around, the hunter is behind the glass, it yells and runs away.
I fudged my pants.

 

[William Dickbringer]

you know when I first went to do Those! mission from fallout 3 I didn't know they could shoot fire so I went at them with a baseball bat thing it'd be easy only to be lit on fire (scared me to where I shoot any ants I see in the game)
and also my first deathclaw encounter it appeared behind me and killed me in one hit (level like 2 or 3)

 

[General_Potatoes]

When a lurker jumped me on metro 2033. Scared the living shit out of me.

 

[KapnKerfuffle]

The Zork games where it says "You are about to be eaten by grues." You never see the grues.

 

[Ike Jager]

Spoiler: Nightmares... at least when I was 12.

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Just another reason why I just luuuuv the Homeworld series.

 

[Kevin Maccaull]

Half-life when you get to the part with the giant prehistoric fish and you have to swim with it and all you have is tranq rounds to deal with it

 

[dystopiaINC]

there was one time when i climbed really high in assassins creed and i actually experienced some nausea when i looked down, and i'm not even afraid if heights, it was an odd thing really.

the all gilled up mission on cod4 had me though nerve-wracked when you have to crawl through the patrol with several tanks and men, my first time i went straight through the middle not even knowing it was coming. very scared that time.

 

[bulldogftw]

We don't go to Ravenholm, My god I hate Ravenholm

 

[bulldogftw]

Edit: Double post

 

[Ice Car]

Oh, I have quite a few.

Shadow Hands in Shadow Temple for the first time. The first time, it scared the shit out of me quite literally. Every time after, even when I knew about it, I was paranoid and afraid of them.

There was this non-scripted, seemingly random event that scared the shit out of me in Fallout 3. I went into the Sniper Shack [http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Sniper_shack], which was the shack that contained the Victory Rifle. I was having Dogmeat get the Victory Rifle out of a Very Hard Locked Locker (lolwut, dogs can't even open unlocked doors, yet he was able to pick up a heavy rifle without opening or unlocking the locker it was in. Dogs are so smart...) and checking the rest of the small shack, when all of a sudden I heard a voice. I turned around, and saw a Super Mutant with a fucking Missile Launcher. I thought OH SHIT and started shooting like hell. May I also mention this shack is small as shit, and has barely any room to move around, and I got trapped in with a fairly durable enemy with a missile launcher. And enemies are inclined to shoot you in very close range and hurt themselves or shoot the ground.