Scariest moments in a non-horror game

[ChocoFace]

When Dahaka was chasing me in Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.

When you're running from something that would instantly kill you, you no longer care if the pits you're jumping in have ledges/pillars you can grab or not.

 

[Brandon237]

Fallout 3 and New Vegas: Any vault with feral ghouls. Seriously, WTF?!
Also, walking through some building (many fit the description to follow) in Fallout NV, hear ghouls making those weird hisses, but I cannot see them on radar, keep going, turn corner and have one BLOODY LUNGE AT YOU, while it is dark, playing at night, AND IT HISSES! Hot damn is ammunition wasted. In FO3 I can waste 6 shotgun shells making sure the thing is dead.

 

[Fishyash]

Personally... mine is...

Spoiler: these damn things

Hated them. ESPECIALLY the ones in crystal caves which barely give you a second to get out and that one kills you in one hit.

Did I mention "get out"? REALLY scary the first time I heard it (as a kid, I guess that's what made it unnerving for me from then on).

 

[Shadie777]

In Fallout New Vegas I was bypassing the Deathclaw nest. I turned around and saw a large Deathclaw about to claw my face off, I swore after that, a lot.
Now Deathclaws will always make me nervous.

 

[Sad Face]

The moment the "HEY! SONIC'S DROWNING" music starts in Sonic 2.

 

[newfoundsky]

I found the Darkness as a whole very terrifying. But in a strange way. I was the one causing the terror to the other characters in game. The atmosphere just was out and out wicked, and the character (Jackie and the Darkness) just wound up scaring me through out the game.

FUCKING. BRILLIANT. GAME.

 

[4RM3D]

I have tried to think of something... Nothing comes to mind. Oh wait, those head crabs from Half-Life that jumped you out of nowhere. Talking about that... Alien vs Predator also had those kinds of monsters. Nasty little buggers.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

My first time in Fallout 3, I was doing the Bloodties quest that requires you to head to Arefu. It was a short walk from the starting town of Megatown, so big whoop, I thought to myself.

Wandered toward Arefu. Shat my pants as a Vicious Dog suddenly hit me from behind.

But it was no problem that a few baseball bat whacks didn't fix.

 

[fates_puppet13]

im going to have to disqualify arkumasylum where it has a fake game crash
because it was a horror element

so the winner is fallout 3 when i muted the game in a building
and then it went pitch dark
and i could hear gouls everywhere when i the audio back on
then i tured the light on and shat myself at what was by fallout 3 standards a goul army

 

[DustyDrB]

Spoiler: Uncharted

Those goddamn demon vampire Spaniards nearly made me quit the game. That whole section where you have to switch on the power while those bastards come at you team me forever because I had to take breaks from the game just to calm my nerves. Fucking hell, I hate horror. Keep horror in the horror games so I can stay the hell away from it.

 

[William MacKay]

Ravenholm from HL2 wins it for me.

first time i played the demo, i hadnt learnt the fighting controls and forgot there were zombies in the game.

 

[ZeroDotZero]

Bioshock counts as a non-horror game... right?

Spoiler: Because these bastards scared the shit outa me.

Oh my shit.

I missed that room on my first playthrough, and I was absolutely terrified when I found it next time round. I recall I was enjoying myself throwing around the clothing stands in there, when suddenly SPLICER.

 

[BanthaFodder]

two from L.A. Noire
first, there's the last part of the last Homicide case...
then there's this...

Spoiler

"oh, uh... sorry... I was playing with my kids..." yeah, so why the fuck did you answer the door with a monster mask on and a friendly greeting of "AAARRRRRHHHH!!!!"? your kids are fucking five man, I don't think they'll be pissed that you broke character to answer the door.

also, the last mission from Undead Nightmare in Red Dead... once you started dying... the screen got darker and DARKER... boom bait, lots and lots of fuckin boom bait...

 

[fatmrbunko]

easy. fallout 3 (which has a horror element to it but not at the point am talking about), when you first get hit by an enemy, as your just strolling along in the wastes a little bit bored with no guard up whatsoever then suddenly your screen shakes u hear a loud noise u violently jerk forward and lose health as your attacked from behind and it scares the shit out of youand gives you your first jump in the game

 

[Hexal6]

Fallout 3: Dunwich building (boring if you have the ghoul mask)
Bioshock: turning around to find a blood spattered doctor standing 7 inches away from your face
Half Life 2: Ravenholm

 

[Mike Laserbeam]

Fallout and Oblivion can get seriously tense in caves/vaults/subway tunnels. (Not if you're listening to GNR though!)

 

[Dick Johnson]

The haunted beach hotel in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Had a few great moments and managed to keep up a feeling of dread throughout the entirety of the quest. It really messes with your esteem because you've been kicking ass as this unstoppable Vampire for the last few missions, and now you're being tormented by a wraith and your only course of action is to soak the damage or evade.

Good call, this part of the game is done quite well, gave me chills every time I played it until I did the level with noclip on. After that, not so scary.

Cliff racers in morrowind. D:

 

[Hexal6]

Also the Final bosses of both Fallout 1 and 2
the Master's voice(es) is really creepy

 

[chris_ninety1]

I had a cracking game of Fifa a few weeks ago against some guy online. He was probably a touch better than me but I was 4-3 up, and in the dying seconds I failed to clear the ball and it pinged around a bit before coming to his striker, and with the chance to head the ball into a near empty net he put it agonisingly wide, but just for a few seconds I was scared I'd blown it... is that what you meant?

Alternatively, this...

two from L.A. Noire...
then there's this...

Spoiler

"oh, uh... sorry... I was playing with my kids..."

... was so completely out of nowhere when I played it. And the odd moment in Alan Wake, though that probably counts as a horror.