The second half of portal. It's scary to see how the inviorment that you are used to is falling apart and to realize that it's no longer just a test and they are really trying to kill you. GLaDOS really adds more to it.
Scariest moment in a non-horror game
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Fun fact: The Glock 17 pistol in Half-Life can actually be fired underwater. I found it much more useful than the tranq-crossbow in taking care of those sharks.Kevin Maccaull said:
Oh, and I've thought of one nobody has mentioned yet (The game was mentioned, but not this part for some reason): The Scarecrow sections of Batman: Arkham Asylum. Yes, I realize those were designed to be creepy and screw with your mind, but it doesn't take away from the fact that they do it so well in a game about a middle-aged caped man wearing underwear on the outside of his tight-fitting kevlar-rubber suit thing.
Playing Red Dead Redemption and doing the Stranger Mission in Armadillo about the cannibals in the hills...or the one with the Old Man who asks you to get flowers for his wife, then when you go in the shack you discover that his wife is a rotting corpse! (I was soooooooo disturbed by those side missions).
I'll add another fallout 3 one.... after I blew up megaton I went to the blast site to explore and did not expect my camera to suddenly turn around and reveal a ghoul version of Moria.
Hell, any Bethesda game where someone randomly runs up to you and the camera pans around real fast scares the crap outta me.
Hell, any Bethesda game where someone randomly runs up to you and the camera pans around real fast scares the crap outta me.
I was playing Fallout 3 the other day, with my character at about level 9. I was wandering the wasteland trying to find Big Town (which is strange, I couldn't find it, despite it usually being the very first location I find in the game, besides Megaton/Springvale), when I found a bunch of wastelanders being attacked by raiders. Being the extraordinary gentleman I am in the game, I decided to help them.
I killed one melee raider with no trouble, and was going to manually shoot the other with a Combat Shotgun round to finish him off. That is, until I noticed something about thirty feet away from me.
It was a Deathclaw, at full health, just moseying into the plain we were standing in. I FREAKED OUT, ran in the opposite direction, and prayed to God that the beast didn't see me. I constantly turned around, and only saw a raider chasing me, and started to calm down. I never saw that Deathclaw again.
I know a level 9 player can probably take on a Deathclaw with no problems, but still, I role-play.
I killed one melee raider with no trouble, and was going to manually shoot the other with a Combat Shotgun round to finish him off. That is, until I noticed something about thirty feet away from me.
It was a Deathclaw, at full health, just moseying into the plain we were standing in. I FREAKED OUT, ran in the opposite direction, and prayed to God that the beast didn't see me. I constantly turned around, and only saw a raider chasing me, and started to calm down. I never saw that Deathclaw again.
I know a level 9 player can probably take on a Deathclaw with no problems, but still, I role-play.
Not to mention the very creepy questline with the man who seems to know an AWFUL lot about you...SteewpidZombie said:
*shudder*
Also, I agree with the second half of Portal - it's just unnerving somehow, yet still brilliant and filled with dark humour.
Errrm, what else? OH GOD. The drowning music from the Sonic games... That scared the hell out of me, or rather sent me into a blind panic.
Let's not forget the Yeti from SkiFree, either. That was one scary bastard, right there.
The Lurker shark from Jak and Daxter the precursor legacy, it scared the living crap out of me when I was younger. If you swam to far in the water you'd hear this growling and throbbing, which got louder and louder and shortly after the fish would surface and swallow you whole. Pratically made me aquaphobic.
Nothing else in the game was even remotely scary. However, about half a minute after leaving the demon door, I set the controller down and stared at the screen, realizing the implications.
The last mission in the Quarter Moon murder cases of L.A. Noire - that part had my heart pumping.
Bioshock gave me the creeps, especially the dialogue. The skittering spider-splicers mostly. Freaking forget about it.
Another Fallout 3 experience here. lol Anytime I had to explore an abandoned vault or an old building with feral ghouls in it. Hearing that scream from a distance just made me want to turn right around and get the hell out of there. Especially when you get a bit lost and you KNOW they aren't all dead. Yeah they can be easy to kill, but they skitter. Anything that skitters freaks me the hell out. Like spider-splicers, grah!
Believe it or not, Fable 3 The Darkness Incarnate with Walter really had my heart going. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the The Crawlers voice.....and skittering....
Also, this isn't a gaming moment but it was scary anyway. The other day I was watching a horror movie and the power cut out all over the neighborhood right at a climatic point. Not going to lie,...I nearly shit.
Bioshock gave me the creeps, especially the dialogue. The skittering spider-splicers mostly. Freaking forget about it.
Another Fallout 3 experience here. lol Anytime I had to explore an abandoned vault or an old building with feral ghouls in it. Hearing that scream from a distance just made me want to turn right around and get the hell out of there. Especially when you get a bit lost and you KNOW they aren't all dead. Yeah they can be easy to kill, but they skitter. Anything that skitters freaks me the hell out. Like spider-splicers, grah!
Believe it or not, Fable 3 The Darkness Incarnate with Walter really had my heart going. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the The Crawlers voice.....and skittering....
Also, this isn't a gaming moment but it was scary anyway. The other day I was watching a horror movie and the power cut out all over the neighborhood right at a climatic point. Not going to lie,...I nearly shit.
This, though I'm not sure it counts, since the Cradle was purposfully designed to be a horror level instead of accidentally.Korten12 said:
My first playthrough of fallout 3... my friend had warned me about deathclaws, but I was level 12 and really wanted the deathclaw gauntlet. So I posted up near old olney with my sniper rifle thinking I could pick one off before he could get to me... When I finally found one I took a shot...then another and another they did so little to him and I got slaughtered. I didn't try to take on another deathclaw until level 30
Definitely the hotel in Vampire the Masquerades: Bloodlines. I still get cold chills when I play that level.
Also the scene in MGS 2 inside arsenal gear when Rose and Campbell start wigging out.
Definitely the hotel in Vampire the Masquerades: Bloodlines. I still get cold chills when I play that level.
Also the scene in MGS 2 inside arsenal gear when Rose and Campbell start wigging out.
I'd have to say with the crap that happens in the later half of Uncharted. That game was just creepy as hell. Scared me half to death when they first showed up. Put down my controller, didn't pick it up for a week after.