Scariest Videogame Monsters

[RelexCryo]

Spoiler: "The Bag" in Resident Evil 4.

If you've played this game, you'll immediately know what I'm referring to. It's this innocuous, unceremonious little thing you come across towards the end of the game. It's just a strange, rusty bin you come across, and you expect to find some ammo or items inside.

Instead is...a bag.

You hesitate for a moment, not sure what it's doing there. And then it starts to move. The filthy, stained bag starts thrashing and squirming and writhing in the bin. You have no idea what's inside. More importantly, you don't want to know what's inside. You're seriously unnerved now and decide it's best to empty a few rounds into the bag. It gives one last, deep convulsion, and lies still.

You thought you were playing Resident Evil, and suddenly the game went all Silent Hill on your ass.

yeah...that seriously freaked me out.

 

[ottenni]

Bloodsuckers from STALKER. Sneaking round some sewers, suddenly seeing one eating the face off a soldier. Seriously creepy, and then they spot you.

 

[blankedboy]

Probably pathetic compared to the others, but nothing scares me quite like the poison headcrab.

Spoiler

Spoiler

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be not sleeping.

Try the Facehuggers from the Alien films.

Spoiler: lol

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Then they do this!

[spoiler="double lol"][img]http://www.tonybullard.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/alien-chest-burster.jpg

Then they turn into this!

Spoiler: triple lol

God, I wanna see those films. I've seen AVPR and played AVP2, but the classics still look awesome.

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

I'm not sure why but i have always been terrified of the Cacodemons (big red ball monster) from doom. The first time i encountered one i ran past where it was hiding and my blood froze when i heard a hiss, i turn around and almost scream when i see it.
I guess, ontop of how it looks, it has to do with the fact that they move silently and can fly. I actually have screamed when i'm on a raised ledge shooting at enemies from afar and then suddenly one of these bastards floats up right in front of me.

 

[blankedboy]

Spoiler: "The Bag" in Resident Evil 4.

If you've played this game, you'll immediately know what I'm referring to. It's this innocuous, unceremonious little thing you come across towards the end of the game. It's just a strange, rusty bin you come across, and you expect to find some ammo or items inside.

Instead is...a bag.

You hesitate for a moment, not sure what it's doing there. And then it starts to move. The filthy, stained bag starts thrashing and squirming and writhing in the bin. You have no idea what's inside. More importantly, you don't want to know what's inside. You're seriously unnerved now and decide it's best to empty a few rounds into the bag. It gives one last, deep convulsion, and lies still.

You thought you were playing Resident Evil, and suddenly the game went all Silent Hill on your ass.

What happens if you don't shoot it?


{Off-topic, who likes my new avatar? Should I go back?}

 

[srm79]

+1 for the Deathclaw. Who else discovered Old Olneye waaaay before they were leveled up enough to even think about being anywhere near it? I was on the way to Vault 92 to retrieve the Stradivarius for the old lady that lives in the wastes (Agatha?) and had no fucking idea what lay just a few hundred yards away from the entrance.

"Oooh look! A new town to loot!" thought I.......

I refused to go back until the Brotherhood of Steel made me. I took Fawkes, a fuckton of heavy artillery and spare sets of armour. I became addicted to umpteen different chems in an effort to boost my combat abilities and I was still bricking it the whole sodding time I was there.

 

[Magnalian]

Spoiler: These sons of bitches

They're... everywhere...

 

[CowboyfromHell666]

+1 for the Deathclaw. Who else discovered Old Olneye waaaay before they were leveled up enough to even think about being anywhere near it? I was on the way to Vault 92 to retrieve the Stradivarius for the old lady that lives in the wastes (Agatha?) and had no fucking idea what lay just a few hundred yards away from the entrance.

"Oooh look! A new town to loot!" thought I.......

I refused to go back until the Brotherhood of Steel made me. I took Fawkes, a fuckton of heavy artillery and spare sets of armour. I became addicted to umpteen different chems in an effort to boost my combat abilities and I was still bricking it the whole sodding time I was there.

I'll check it out sometime, unless I actually did find it

 

[CowboyfromHell666]

Alma from F.E.A.R if that counts.

she's not scary just really messed up

And the fact she is YOUR FUCKING MOM makes it even more messed up.
And Paxton Fettel is your brother

 

[Sebenko]

Bloodsuckers from STALKER. Sneaking round some sewers, suddenly seeing one eating the face off a soldier. Seriously creepy, and then they spot you.

Took this topic long enough.

Red forest bloodsuckers in Clear Sky are the worst. You can hear them rustling the trees every time you go though. They don't attack you every time, but when you set foot in the forest, you better grab that shotgun.

Or the time when you sneak though a lair full of sleeping bloodsuckers.

 

[Ithera]

I bring you the adorable Covenant family, surely you have not forgotten?

Spoiler: Dat pic yo.

These mean old ghosts always put me on edge. Having Aaron hunt you was a terrifying experience.

 

[Who Dares Wins]

Spoiler: Dare I be the first to say it? Do none of you have the courage? Fine.

I know it is hard to look at, imagine being me, the poster of such a foul image.

OH MY GAWD! MY EYES!!! Foul beast return to your evil den at once!

OT:

I must be going crazy because stuff that needs to make me wanna puke is completely normal to me (and all of you too). Scary dudes:
-Zombie in Oblivion - not that scary but I needed to pause my game every time someone was around me so they wouldn't see them.
-Lil' kids - Freak me out

Would you believe the scariest monster I ever saw was in a Spiderman game?

Laugh it up, if you will, but it was one of the first PC games I owned. I'd gone through the usual menagerie of Spidey villains, Venom (who deserves honorable mention for making me panic as he fights you while slowly drowning M.J,) Mysterio, Rhino, Scorpion, what have you. Nothing terribly out of place.

During the end part of the game, you fought Doc Ock, which was neat, and Carnage, which was fairly creepy.

Then the game gave Doc Ock Carnage's symbiote.

Spoiler

The one, and only, Monster Ock appearance.
Indestructible, smashes through anything, and chases you through an exploding base for 6 levels. Oh, yeah, that scream? He'll make it every time he catches you

And that's the scariest monster I ever saw in video games.

Also this

 

[likalaruku]

The Great Mighty Poo from Conker's Bad Fur Day.

Any monster that smells like the rear end of a thousand unwashed hobos & threatens to throw fecal matter at you is one to be avoided.

 

[tombman888]

Spoiler: "The Bag" in Resident Evil 4.

If you've played this game, you'll immediately know what I'm referring to. It's this innocuous, unceremonious little thing you come across towards the end of the game. It's just a strange, rusty bin you come across, and you expect to find some ammo or items inside.

Instead is...a bag.

You hesitate for a moment, not sure what it's doing there. And then it starts to move. The filthy, stained bag starts thrashing and squirming and writhing in the bin. You have no idea what's inside. More importantly, you don't want to know what's inside. You're seriously unnerved now and decide it's best to empty a few rounds into the bag. It gives one last, deep convulsion, and lies still.

You thought you were playing Resident Evil, and suddenly the game went all Silent Hill on your ass.

does something bad happen if you let it keep wriggling around, or does it just not stop until you shoot it?

 

[Johnny Cain]

Due to the sheer hysterics caused by the first encounter, I'm going to call out the Hydra from the original Half-Life.
Edging slowly around the sides of the rocket test chamber, and absoluetely bricking yourself if you slip a step too far and suddenly all three arms swing round to face you. Then it's a standoff, they haven't killed you yet, but yo're not through the door. It's right there but it's boarded up, if you run for it now you can smash the planks and be through before they catch you, at least you think you can...

 

[A Person]

Regenerators From Resident Evil 4.


After My First Venture With One Of those, I Actually Slept With The Lights On For A Week.

I Still Hear That Damn Music...

 

[Randomologist]

Agreed with the OP, Deathclaws.
First time I went on Fallout 3, I was playing on a friends game. I just happened to come across two of these things. A proper Oh Shit moment.

 

[JS ibanez]

Spoiler: /thread.

No. Seriously. It is the most scary one.

Oh phuck yes. No escaping that bastard.

i remember head crabs in HL1 and redeads in ocarina of time giving me a stressful childhood

 

[Mcface]

Any game that has a mirrored (probably evil) version of you. If you ask me, that is the scariest of them all. (epscially if its an RPG or something and you make your character ugly )

this one is interesting, i wouldnt have thought of it.
I remember one of the boss type guys in oblivion cast a spell that made a second of me that I had to fight, it was intesne.

also, in dragon age origns (minor spoiler) when you play as a wood elf (i forget the actual name atm) and you see your dead zombie looking friend again.

EDIT: and just about everything in Vampire: The Masquerade, Bloodlines