Scariest Moments in a Video Game
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I would definitely have to say it's in the first Silent Hill. You're just wandering around this normal, innocent school, then you go through one of the doors and....suddenly you're in some nightmare world where the walls and floor are made of rusty, bloody chainlink and there's bodies strung up. It's dark as hell and there's all kinds of ambient noises and who knows when one of them is actually a monster waiting to strike.
Total ambiance immersion.
Total ambiance immersion.
Bioshock, in the Medical Pavilion. There's one room in one of the dentist's offices that fogs up as soon as you walk in. When the fog goes away and you turn around, there's a guy standing behind you, just staring at you. Scares me every time, even when I know it's coming.
Either the ending to Dead Space (2am, not good), or when that guy pops out of the oven in Resident Evil 4/the Regenerators breathing and footsteps are coming closer and OMG ITS RIGHT BEHIND YOU! (again, like 2 in the morning). Those are the only two times that a game has genuinely scared me.
After reading the topic fora bit however, I am reminded of the Houdini Splicers...
After reading the topic fora bit however, I am reminded of the Houdini Splicers...
I have a bunch of these.
Clive Barker's Undying was pretty good. The whole scrying thing was great. Room looks normal, little spooky, but otherwise fine. A little voice whispers in your ear... "scry..." so I did. The painting on the wall goes from a nice happy scene to a scene of gore and dismemberment. There's a body hung next to you.
Another favorite of mine is System Shock 2. At first glance, its just a shooter/RPG, probably not meant to be scary at all. But its the moments where your really getting into the game that are the best. Low on ammo, you switch to your pipe. You hear one of the mutants down the hall, so you rush into a room and crouch next to the door, hopefully he didn't see you. Then the voices pumped directly into your mind remind you, your soo utterly alone. Everything here will kill you.
"You seek your associates, but you cannot find them. You are so very alone. How does it feel to be one, against... the infinite?"
"The individual is obsolete. When you and your kind are extinct, we will cleanse our collective memory of the stain of your existence." - literally gives me chills every time I hear that line. Its the inflection they have on the whole "stain" part, makes it seem like he really doesnt like you.
Kind of reminds me of being lost in a mall, seperated from your mom, frantically searching for her, but finding nothing. Being alone and soo vulnerable to everything around you.
Clive Barker's Undying was pretty good. The whole scrying thing was great. Room looks normal, little spooky, but otherwise fine. A little voice whispers in your ear... "scry..." so I did. The painting on the wall goes from a nice happy scene to a scene of gore and dismemberment. There's a body hung next to you.
Another favorite of mine is System Shock 2. At first glance, its just a shooter/RPG, probably not meant to be scary at all. But its the moments where your really getting into the game that are the best. Low on ammo, you switch to your pipe. You hear one of the mutants down the hall, so you rush into a room and crouch next to the door, hopefully he didn't see you. Then the voices pumped directly into your mind remind you, your soo utterly alone. Everything here will kill you.
"You seek your associates, but you cannot find them. You are so very alone. How does it feel to be one, against... the infinite?"
"The individual is obsolete. When you and your kind are extinct, we will cleanse our collective memory of the stain of your existence." - literally gives me chills every time I hear that line. Its the inflection they have on the whole "stain" part, makes it seem like he really doesnt like you.
Kind of reminds me of being lost in a mall, seperated from your mom, frantically searching for her, but finding nothing. Being alone and soo vulnerable to everything around you.
Doom 3 was the scariest game I've ever played because it made me afraid as a gamer. In no other game have i looked down a hallway at a medkit, looked at my flashing red health, and hesitated to grab the medkit. With D3's darkness and sudden door-openings I knew that there was a really good chance if I got that medkit, a door would open once i grabbed it or on my way back down the hallway and something would beat the crap out of me, leaving me with less health than I went in with.
As scary as it was to play all through Silent Hill 2, the meta-horror of Doom 3 keeps it at the top of my scariest games list.
As scary as it was to play all through Silent Hill 2, the meta-horror of Doom 3 keeps it at the top of my scariest games list.
The first few moments of Bioshock were nerve-racking for me. Here I am, with no weapons, trying to evade a spider-like man with a scythe and bloodlust. I mean, I know the game wouldn't make me fight it, but even so...
Oh, and Bottom of the Well/Spirit Temple from Ocarina of Time. Sure, it's not like "OMG WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT???" scary, but it was greatly unnerving nonetheless.
Oh, and Bottom of the Well/Spirit Temple from Ocarina of Time. Sure, it's not like "OMG WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT???" scary, but it was greatly unnerving nonetheless.
STALKER by far. The first X14 and X16 (I think) and even the damn sewers. The first controller was just a massive mindscrew where it zooms in on him as he blasts your brain apart, then you have about 2 seconds to find cover before he hits again.
Sadly CoP just didn't replicate the atmosphere of SoC but its still a darn good game.
Oh and the first AVP. When a facehugger gets you it fills the screen with its underside and the last sound is your guys screaming.
Sadly CoP just didn't replicate the atmosphere of SoC but its still a darn good game.
Oh and the first AVP. When a facehugger gets you it fills the screen with its underside and the last sound is your guys screaming.
This one time in Mass Effect 2, I was playing on...veteran maybe? I had just lost my shields and about half my health. We were surrounded by collectors and one had a lazer. I was afraid my no-death run would get screwed up. Just before my shields come back, 2 husks pop out from nowhere. I happened to have a sniper rifle equipped. I killed them with about 20% of my health.
Thinking I'm in the clear, I turn around. There is a Preatorian right there, about to activate it's barrier.
Thinking I'm in the clear, I turn around. There is a Preatorian right there, about to activate it's barrier.
The only game thats ever scared me was fear... that was a really scary game. There was one point where your walking through a hospital and you see (through foggy glass) someone holding a baby and singing to it, and when you walk around the corner the person slams her self against the window and screams. I had to pause the game for a few minutes I was so shaken up.
This old sega game... I don't remember too many details, you drank blood to heal (Though I'm pretty sure your not a vampire)and the beggining cinematic was you breaking out of asylum after everyone is slaughtered.. I was like 6 but it still scared me >.<
Anticitizen_Two said:
This.
And the first level in F.E.A.R. where you're chasing that guy up to the roof, and all of a sudden he just hits you with a pipe from behind this ventilation boxes, god I shat myself there. Then again, you shit yourself pretty much the entire game.