Scariest Videogame Monsters

[Doinstuffman38]

The first time I saw the Lambent Brumak at the end of Gears 2, I was moderatly spooked... that is until I realized it had the resilience of a gnat with cancer.

But, some of the scarier ones:

El Gigante and "It" from Resident Evil 4
The Rancor from KOTOR
The first encounter with a thresher maw in Mass Effect
The Leviathan in Gears of War 2
The Bull Rancor from The Force Unleashed
Those almost invincible bugs in Resident Evil 5 (can't remember their name...more annoying than scary, but the cutscene when they kill you still gives me the jibblies)

 

[Arduras]

The puppets from Thief 3 *shudder*

they twitch, lights flicker when they are near and when you stab them... they GET BACK UP WHEN YOU TURN AROUND!!!

I still have nightmares about em

 

[acosn]

whatever those things in eternal darkness were that hid in people's corpses while they were still able to function. eeesh. And then they'd pop out and try to crawl into yours.

 

[ExileNZ]

Curiously it just lost a lot of its scare when Rebirth (better graphics patch) came out. I still remember it fondly, though. Along with FEAR it's one of only two games to ever make me afraid to go for a toilet break at 2am.

 

[Metallicsheep]

The Tryceratops from Crash Bandicoot Warped. That mother just keeps running.

 

[Malkavian]

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.

That game was awesome beyond compare. Now I wanna play it again....

 

[explorerxofxgibson]

me

 

[Rauten]

The woman from the blinding ritual in Project Zero (Eu) / Fatal Frame (US)

She's a good one, but I always found Sae Kurosawa, from the second game, scarier:

Spoiler: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

No, that's not promotional art (whoever took the pic added the "fatal frame II crap).
That scene is part of the game.
Yes, she did all that.
Yes, she's laughing her ass off (her laughter is the stuff of nightmares, too).
And she's doing it because her twin sister refused to kill her.

Isn't she lovely? =D

 

[Spitfire175]

From Diablo.
If you've played it, you know what I'm talking about

Spoiler

The Butcher!

Dear god, no! It took me 5 years of intense therapy to sleep at night because of that... Thing.

 

[mrdotcom1]

Everybody is talking about Resident Evil and Silent Hill. What about things in games that are scary and annoying? Remember those hands in the original Legend of Zelda that, once touched, would take you to the beginning of the level? I think they brought them back in later games of the series... But I remember when I saw them in a room, I would get a little scared.

 

[Riddle78]

Deathclaws and Yao Guai from Fallout, and Alma Wade from F.E.A.R.

 

[minimacker]

I couldn't really choose at first, but I knew after only eyeing the game for a split second.

When I was younger, this was the scariest shit I had ever seen.


The Anthropod from X-com Apocalypse.

Spoiler

During battles, it looks ridiculous.

And this:
The god damned autopsy/research art

Who knew a big, blue alien cookie monster would be so scary.

 

[WitherVoice]

Barnacles from Half-Life 1 and 2. Even after death they are highly unnerving, since a glance does not always let you see if it's harmless or not.

 

[kommunizt kat]

for me its the pinatas from viva pinata. They scare the crap out of me; as soon as I played the game, I pissed my pants.

 

[KjellKanon]

From Diablo.
If you've played it, you know what I'm talking about

Spoiler

The Butcher!

Dear god, no! It took me 5 years of intense therapy to sleep at night because of that... Thing.

If you're after a similar experience, or at least as close as you can get in that genre; You should play Demon's Souls.
It's the only game that I felt the same creepy feeling from as I felt when I first played Diablo.

It's a hard feat to accomplish.

 

[dontcallmemuffin]

nurses from silent hill, those things all twitchy and creepy scared me.

 

[Thedutchjelle]

The Protozoid Slimer from Duke Nukem 3D, damn I hated those things. They'd suddenly appear on my face and freak the shit out of me.

This. To this very day, I can not play any episode of Duke Nukem 3d besides the first one.

I used to play the other episodes with the complete map view on if I thought that there might be a slimer around. One time, during the map Going Postal (which have the most of those fucking things on any map aside from The Queen), I thought I had cleared the whole thing and turned the map view off. THEN RIGHT AT THAT MOMENT arrgh. You know the pond in Inhiding, the first map of episode 3? I used to empty my RPG twice (Dnstuff ftw) before going in.

STALKERs X18 has nothing on Duke Nukem's 'The Incubator'. I mean just look at it! The first minute of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHSMIRZxpt8

 

[Snowden's Secret]

+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 hated those things as well. Then I found out that the Metal Blaster (souped up Laser Rifle from the Pitt) actually works really well against them, provided you get the opportunity to sneak crit them, or have lots of AP.

My personal choice definitely has to be the Regenerators from Resi 4. The Infrared Scope is probably one of the ultimate godsends of my gaming life.