The Biggest Shock (and, or) Scare you've ever experienced in a game.....

[NoNameMcgee]

Also, in Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines, there's a part where you explore a haunted house. The biggest shock comes when there's been a lot of furniture flying about, but then suddenly becomes very quiet. A door opens, and a child's toy rolls out and stops. It does absolutely nothing, but the quiet jingle of a bell when it rolls out is such a contrast to the stark silence that it's a lot scarier than anything else the poltergeist throws after you (literally and figuratively).

The atmosphere on that level was phenomenal! Especially the stories about the "child's severed head found in laundry room" you see in the newspaper clipping, and I was just terrified to open that washer. Worse for me though were the 'snuff film' levels a bit later on, nothing much even happens in terms of action or danger until you near the end, but all the scenes leading up to it and the atmosphere and just the whole setting was so creepy and disturbing. I hated that damn video at the start with the woman who gets attacked by the those hideous two-legged things and all your hear are her screams and sounds of her being eaten as the screen fades to black - then later you are forced to go into the building where it happened and see that every room is basically coated with blood (if I remember correctly)

 

[ethaninja]

Condemed, when you take a photo of the dude in the locker. That bit made me almost shit myself. And not manny things can do that these days =D

 

[geddydisciple]

In Bioshock when

Spoiler

You are in the mortuary and that crazy doctor guy pops out of the compartment in the wall that usually holds a body

It startled me so much that after killing the bastard i had to stop playing video games for a bit.

 

[Captain Pirate]

My most scary, well, not so much scary as tense, either way it made me go 'AAAAAGH', was in AVP (the new one).
First time you play as the Marine, no Aliens for the first ten or so minutes, but your motion tracker just occaisionally goes 'beep' 'beep' 'beep' and you get ready to fight one, but it's gone or you never saw it. First time you do, :O.
You go to try and get the lights turning back on so you can see, and to do so you have to (what else?) turn the mains off then on again.

That brief minute of near-total darkness, with only a tiny lamp and your tiny torch to help you, and then I got tutorial'd about how to use a flare. JUST as the all but 2 of the lights go out my motion tracker goes batshit. BEEP..BEEP.BEEBEEBEE. I prepare to fight, aim my pistol in the darkness and toss a flare, and in the new bright red light I only see a black sharp tail dissappear up a newly clawed hole in the roof vent. I was all, FUUUUU and just shot up at the vents until the motion tracker stopped bleeping.

BioShock. The plaster-covered spider splicers in Fort Frolic.

Oh yeah, and that too.

Not forgetting when a Deathclaw ( how do they sneak up on you?! They're huuuge!) sneaks up on you in the dark Old Olney sewer maintenance tunnels.

 

[ethaninja]

Also, in Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines, there's a part where you explore a haunted house. The biggest shock comes when there's been a lot of furniture flying about, but then suddenly becomes very quiet. A door opens, and a child's toy rolls out and stops. It does absolutely nothing, but the quiet jingle of a bell when it rolls out is such a contrast to the stark silence that it's a lot scarier than anything else the poltergeist throws after you (literally and figuratively).

The atmosphere on that level was phenomenal! Especially the stories about the "severed head in the laundry" you see in the newspaper clipping, and I kept expecting to see one. Worse for me though were the 'snuff film' levels a bit later on, nothing much even happens in terms of action or danger until you near the end, but all the scenes leading up to it and the atmosphere and just the whole setting was so creepy and disturbing. I hated that damn video at the start with the woman who gets attacked by the those hideous two-legged things and all your hear are her screams and sounds of her being eaten as the screen fades to black - then later you are forced to go into the building where it happened and see that every room is basically coated with blood (if I remember correctly)

Those two levels were the scariest. The ones that included the two legged things, and the haunted house I remember the first time I played that game, I had to get my older bro to do it for me >.<

Also I found that insane doctors basement rather eeiry.

 

[twaddle]

playing finalfantasy 7. I was scared shitless when cloud looked into that container with the human monster at niblheim. Genova scared me the 1st time i saw her in that crazy doctors lab, and that boss in nanaki/red 13 home the ghoust scared me when it's face shifted like that

 

[The Madman]

Also, in Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines, there's a part where you explore a haunted house. The biggest shock comes when there's been a lot of furniture flying about, but then suddenly becomes very quiet. A door opens, and a child's toy rolls out and stops. It does absolutely nothing, but the quiet jingle of a bell when it rolls out is such a contrast to the stark silence that it's a lot scarier than anything else the poltergeist throws after you (literally and figuratively).

The atmosphere on that level was phenomenal! Especially the stories about the "severed head in the laundry" you see in the newspaper clipping, and I kept expecting to see one. Worse for me though were the 'snuff film' levels a bit later on, nothing much even happens in terms of action or danger until you near the end, but all the scenes leading up to it and the atmosphere and just the whole setting was so creepy and disturbing. I hated that damn video at the start with the woman who gets attacked by the those hideous two-legged things and all your hear are her screams and sounds of her being eaten as the screen fades to black - then later you are forced to go into the building where it happened and see that every room is basically coated with blood (if I remember correctly)

Oh I forgot about the haunted house. I've played through that level about 5 times anmd I still jump.

Everyone always talks about the Haunted House in that game, but I've always found the, erm.. 'snuff-film meat house' for lack of a better description much freakier. Maybe it's the pulsing walls, the constant buzzing of flies, the furniture made of, eug, meat, plus the gradual build-up towards entering the building, but that section of the game always sends a shiver up my spine.

The Haunted Hospital was also good, although much shorter since it was only a side-quest. Hell, that whole game is just full of awesomely freaky moments!

 

[ShotgunSmoke]

Half Life 2, Highway...something. The part where you have to drive the buggy. There's a building on the side of the road. I clean out the Combine and climb to the second floor, thinking that there won't be any threats. I enter a room and HOLY FUCK A POISON HEADCRAB CARRIER is right in my face. I nearly fell out of my chair and used the missile launcher on it. I had to have a cigarette after that.

Other than that, I think I've never been properly scared in a game.

 

[wolfapocalypse]

Mine was actually today. I was playing System Shock 2 which is probably one of the most scariest games I've played before and I was walking through some radiated part so I was hurrying to get out of there so I didn't take to much damage and I opened this one door and BAM! Right in front of me there was a monster and of course I had the sound up to high. So I screamed. It scared the hell out of me ^^' I was also on skype with some friends so they were like what the hell was that!?

 

[Reep]

Fort Frolic, god i loved that place, id say the spider splicers and the plastered spider splicers, but one part that stands out for me was when we had to take pictures of the 3 bodies, one guy was in a tobacco shop. I entered the shop and saw a high back chair facing a roaring fire, i crept up to it thinking "Ill laugh if this is a bomb", i turn the chair "BEEPBEEPBEEP-OHSHI-BOOM".

 

[Agorwal]

I have a few scary moments despite my attempts to avoid scary video games lol. First one id have to give to dead space, there was a corridor my friend was walking down and there was a body standing up in the hallway, we initally thought it was floating in no gravity, turned out it was a body that looked like it was skinned completely, smashing his head into the wall to kill himself, holy christ was that creepy.

2nd is another favorite in this thread, Bioshock. dont think i saw this yet but in the room thats frozen that you need to get incinerate to melt the ice, alot of mist in the air, i reached a dead end covered in ice and as i turned around BAM! splicer jumping at me, swear i almost had to get a change of shorts after that.

another one i saw on here that i suffer the same problem from is splinter cell games. while i can play a game like metal gear solid fine which your "supposed" to be stealthy, but i basically run through m4 with underbarrel shotgun blazing. splinter cell ill be going all stealthy and everything is going fine, moment i get seen im instantly freaking out and hating myself for playing that game.

closing freakout would have to be dead rising. i love zombies, resident evil games, movies, books, etc, but something about that game just creeps me out sometimes. its the same situation as the splinter cell, killing zombies, everything is going good, all of a sudden, im getting bit, freaking out, PRESS X TO NOT DIE! and then of course im yelling at myself "WHY THE HECK DID I HIT Y!" and then it gets buried in my game library for a couple months.

 

[Kouen]

Project Zero (Aka Fatal Frame) - Most of the game tbh

 

[Harmondale2]

The biggest jump out scare or shock I remember was in Half-life 1 actually, in the part where you shimmy along these tiny edges on a cliff and after being attacked by a helicopter, and right at the end you see a pipe you can escape through, and I edged my way towards glad to have a way to safty, and once I reached the pipe a headcrab jumps out of it and I was so shocked I backed up and feel off the cliff into the valley below, was such a shock and so funny You got me valve!

 

[FairlyFrightenedFeline]

Most of the time games just go for SADASGSFHYHDSKUFHSDGFKSU-HALO-THAR-JUMP-OUT-SCARE

But I would say Penumbra. The whole friggin game.

 

[JimJamJahar]

The mirror reflection in Indigo Prophecy.
I was terrified.

That made me jump the first time I saw it. I then got it on PC after my PS2 version broke and forgot about this bit and it made me jump again.

As for being shocked, the revelation in KotOR was pretty jaw-dropping.

Spoiler

YOU are Revan! I did not see that coming