Scariest Moments in a Video Game

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ineedscissors

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The Sorrow battle in Metal Gear Solid 3 was the scariest, freakiest, most messed up thing I've ever seen in a video game. In short, Snake (the main playable protagonist) while in a near death experience, has to walk along this dark and creepy river while The Sorrow (who is uneffected by bullets and has a completely empty health bar) shoots weird tendrils of energy at you. But the scariest thing about this fight is that as you're walking through the river, the corpses of all the enemies you've killed in the game (including bosses) chase you and drain your health, all the while screaming in pain over their injuries and asking why you did this to them. Gives me shivers whenever I think about it.
 

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the first F.E.A.R. game, also any AVP game when you're a marine and it's dark and your fucking motion sensor goes off (so all the time). although that's more tense then outright scary?
 

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Soulgaunt said:
Yeah, they are creepy at first, then they're fun!
OT: I guess some stuff from Bioshock as well, such as the fellow in the freezer room in Fort Frolic. (Sorry, forgot his name.)
Ice man cometh
 

Beefjerky

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Pretty much any moment in the Penumbra trilogy. Except for the last game. I was disappoint :<
 

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1) The first Unreal when the lights go out in the hallway and then a Skarrj pops out. Fuckfuckfuckityfuck D:
2) The "ninjas" from F.E.A.R.
3) The fast zombies from Half-Life 2. That moan they make is just......*shivers*
4) When the mutants start showing up in Far Cry. Ugly, fast, and will fuck your shit up.

About all I can think of really.
 

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Any underground section in STALKER, particularly the first underground section.
This. SO VERY THIS. I just got finished with Call of Pripyat, and the first time I realized I had to go into yet another underground laboratory, I went "you've gotta be kidding me". It was just as bad as I'd feared.

Still, nothing beats X18 for turning gamers into bricklayers.
 

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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HighOctaneNightmareFuel?from=Main.NightmareFuelUnleaded

That is all.
 

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I'm surprised no one has mentioned "The Bear".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0e6QOjQkUs

Survival Horror is my genre of choice. I don't get scared often, but this got my heart pumping.
 

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SnootyEnglishman said:
Pyramid Head in Silent Hill raping the mannequin
I don't know that I'd call it the scariest, but it was definitely the most fucked up thing I've seen in a game.
 

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oh man. it was that one gamecube game... eternal darkness or something? it was really really good, im sure you know it. anyways when your in the main house and your insanity is way up, and the house is freaking out around you. creepy creepy stuff.
 

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The Yao Guai cave and Mirelurk Lair (I think it might be called sewers or something) in Fallout 3
Yao Guai and Mirelurks scare the shit out of me
 

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I've rarely seen a fun survival horror game.

I've played L4D and L4D2 alot and I can say that I was always freaked when a Tank showed up when I first started because those things seemed to tear through our groups like a cat on the upholstery.

One game that truly scared me though was this one game my psychotic cousin played when I was a kid (not really a psychotic, just weird). I don't remember what it was called. but he walked into a room and there was a cut scene where weird monster dog things ran from another part of the map, found him, and tore him to shreds. It freaked me out because I was always scared those things would just run from out of nowhere and get me someday too. :(
 

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In silent hill your walking through the apartment and while your walking down the one hallway, the static gets louder and there is this really really loud noise and pyramid head is just standing there looking at you through the bars... creeeepppyyy...
 

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I've got several, in increasing order of scariness:

The third Scarecrow scene from Batman: Arkham Asylum, for all the obvious reasons.

The part on (I think) the ninth level of Dead Space, when you're riding the elevator through the level's main shaft and suddenly the power freezes; the elevator entrace is covered in debris, but you can just make out something behind it...and then, it dawns on you: "I've seen that face somewhere..." And it's just...standing there. Watching, waiting...and then it slowly lopes away, as if its only purpose was to let you know that it has been freed, and wants your blood. I still have nightmares about that scene.

A bit in Bioshock, shortly after the part with the exploding submarine. As I was walking back to the (relative) surface, I saw a narrow, secluded pathway, lined with pools and leaky pipes. Letting my curiosity get the better of me, I readied my wrench and walked down the passage. Inside, I found some kind of shrine, where A book, several pictures, and a Raggedy Anne doll had been surrounded with candles. I studied it for a moment, conscious of a heavy breathing sound I deemed to be the pipes; I turned around, and then not a single foot behind me, was a Houdini splicer. He didn't attack me, taunt me, or so much as acknowledge that I was looking back into his mask's eyeholes. He just...looked at me, before abruptly vanishing, never to be seen again.

I shat myself.

Try topping those.
 

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Had a lot of "scary" moments in games, but usually only stuff that starts panic attacks, like in Dead Space and Alien vs. Predator. Sure, Dead Space is scary, but it doesn't really have those surprise moments, it just causes massive panic attacks.

A golden oldie like F.E.A.R. actually made me, quite literally, fall off my chair.
Can't remember the name of the level, but you're running through some kind of room with a lot of pipes, and at the end is a door and a window, leading out into a large hallway.
Look through the window, all is fine and dandy, but once you step through that door, Alma is 18 feet ahead of you, walking towards you, every pipe along the wall behind her blowing up as she goes.
Fuck that game freaked me out...

If you haven't played F.E.A.R., you ain't got no clue what a scary game is.
Most of them are physical, trying to scare you with some zombie that looks crazy, but F.E.A.R. pretty much skips all that and goes straight to what matters.
The psyché.