The scariest video game experience of your life
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traveling through the ruins of the DC metro in Fallout 3, the first times you encounter ghouls down there, also, deathclaws fucking scare the shit outta me, Ghoul Reavers from Broken Steel, why..won't...they...die i was chased half way across the swamps of point lookout by one, it's head absorbing shotgun shells like the chair absorbing terrified wee....moving on.
When i was little probably about 6, Return to castle wolfenstein on the PC, one of the early section of the game sees u stranded in a crypt with a load of zombies, youve still got all ur guns and stuff buuuuuut being new to video games i ran out of ammo early and had to use a knife.
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Yep never got past that bit alas i never knew exactly what happened at the end, though i can geuss the heroic american protagonist shot everything and saved the day :/
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Yep never got past that bit alas i never knew exactly what happened at the end, though i can geuss the heroic american protagonist shot everything and saved the day :/
When I was 7 the forest temple music that replayed unnerved me so much I couldnt beat my favorite game of all time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXn88mY50XM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXn88mY50XM
Those fucking Protozoid Slimers from Duke Nukem 3D. Those damn things scared the shit out of me.
Amnesia by far for me, can't play it for very long before I wuss out and have to quit out. =<
Luckily the save system is pretty much designed with the fact you'll do this alot in mind.
Luckily the save system is pretty much designed with the fact you'll do this alot in mind.
Hearing the ominous "TSSS" of a creeper behind me usually evokes some sort of mangled yelp/cry of terror. It's just startling.
But the most absolutely horrifying thing ever came for me in Doom 3. Now it may seem lame, yes, but here's the thing: I had played it multiple times on the original Xbox, and decided to buy and try the PC version. Well, there were a few extra things that couldn't fit onto the Xbox version. Almost right after the shit hits the fan, you're walking down a corridor when you see a piece of chest armor on your right in another room. You walk into the room and grab the armor, and a pipe hisses really loud, the lights turn red, and the floor drops away. This was *NOT* in the Xbox version, and I did not see it coming at all, and it scared the bejesus out of me. It was just the unexpected making me poo my pants.
Oh and I refuse to play Amnesia because I like sleeping, thank you. From what I can tell it's absolutely horrifying.
But the most absolutely horrifying thing ever came for me in Doom 3. Now it may seem lame, yes, but here's the thing: I had played it multiple times on the original Xbox, and decided to buy and try the PC version. Well, there were a few extra things that couldn't fit onto the Xbox version. Almost right after the shit hits the fan, you're walking down a corridor when you see a piece of chest armor on your right in another room. You walk into the room and grab the armor, and a pipe hisses really loud, the lights turn red, and the floor drops away. This was *NOT* in the Xbox version, and I did not see it coming at all, and it scared the bejesus out of me. It was just the unexpected making me poo my pants.
Oh and I refuse to play Amnesia because I like sleeping, thank you. From what I can tell it's absolutely horrifying.
I know the feeling! Tomb Raider 4... no idea how old I was, must have been about 11 or 12, but the moment I heard the mummies in that game... never went back! Of course they just sound stupid now and I can laugh. Stupid mummies.ChocoFace said:
This. A hundred million times THIS! I wouldn't call it my "scariest" gaming moment however, more like my most adrenalin filled moment. Good heavens... I swear I couldn't shove those cabinets and slide those bolts fast enough! In fact I really need to complete that game... the whole thing is rather unsettling.Fightgarr said:
I know what you mean. Silent Hill 2 has a bazillion scary moments, some scripted and some just totally random. I remember checking a door in the appartment blocks, instead of giving me the customary "The lock appears to be broken" message, it said something along the lines of "I can't open this door, some sort of force appears to be holding it from the other side." I tell you, I almost wet myself reading that simple line of text!Casual Shinji said:
But probably the most amazingly terrifying moment I've ever come across was in Silent Hill 3 (and most of my scariest gaming moments can be found in this game actually.) No it wasn't the ghost on the subway station, nor was it the bathroom stall in the mall, it wasn't even the upturned wheelchair with blood trail leading to a half open elevator (although that comes bloody close!) It was the mirror room... I think you can guess which room I'm talking about, but for those who can't...
That's why SH2 was so amazing... it kept you terrified of what might happen... and the creature and environmental design was scary by itself, with its bizarre psycho-sexual implications.Casual Shinji said:
In fact.... I did a little write up about it once:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.205006-Miracles-Whip-SILENT-HILL-2-and-why-its-still-the-scariest-game-ever-made
My first genuinely scary experience in a game was in Brave Fencer Musashi (I was 8, give me a break). I was terrified of both vampires and zombies at the time, and about halfway through the game (maybe earlier, I cant remember), monsters begin to appear that are described as being half vampire and half zombie (lit. "Vambees") that feast on human blood. Whenever I was in the main town during that part of the game, there was a creepy ass music track that would play. When night fell, the Vambees would come out of the mine and slowly walk around the town, staring blankly and ignoring you completely. You would see one of them slowly walk into a house of sleeping people every now and then, and if you waited for a minute or so, you would see them walk back out again- no screams, no lights turned on, nothing. The next time you talked to the people that lived in one of those houses, they acted like nothing had happened at all- which just served to make me shit my pants even more, since one of the main issues of that part of the game was how a child who had been caught outside at night was bitten by one and was at risk of being turned himself.
The most recent experience where I would either not play a certain part of the game or just noclip my way through it was in Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines (seriously, one of the best three games ever made). A vampire chick sends you to the partially burned down Ocean House Hotel in Santa Monica, which is haunted by a ghost that she wants you to exorcise so she can claim the place as property. You could hack her computer ahead of time and read an email from a foreman of a construction group working on the place, which described how the crew refused to work any more on it because of the unnerving events surrounding it (this is an immediate clue that shits gonna get real). You go there and see the site in front of the magnificent old building; it's well lit, and only the creepy ambient music hints at something being wrong. You walk up to the door to enter the building, only to have one of the lights on either side of it to suddenly die as you approach. The door is locked; you pass a tractor plow on your way to the site's trailer to find a key. You enter and find one, and as soon as you loot it, you hear a motor start and the trailer lurches violently. You exit, and find that the tractor has violently plowed into it, apparently on its own.
Throughout the level, shit gets seriously spooky. Random objects will beam towards your head as you walk by; hunched silhouettes of the same strange figure are visible in the distance briefly as lights flicker, then vanish when they become stable again; a pale blue shade appears out of nowhere and cries over plot advancing items, only to vanish again as you approach; words appear on the walls as though scratched out with a nail; old newspapers describe how children's decapitated and otherwise mangled remains are found in washing machines and closets. Perhaps the scariest part of the game is when you enter a partially burned room with the words "GET OUT" scratched into the wall, to find a curiously undamaged paper on the floor. It is what appears to be a child's crayon drawing- two young girls, their mother, and their father. The children and their mother are all sporting depressingly sad, frightened faces, which makes sense when you see the father- a tall man, wreathed in flames and burned a crispy brown, with red eyes and an almost shark-toothed smile. You then realize that this figure looks conspicuously similar to the one you see out the corner of your eye from time to time in this place.
TL;DR? Ocean House Hotel is perhaps the best, scariest level ever made in a video game, ever. And that's just the icing on the cake that is VTM:B. Play it, for serious.
The most recent experience where I would either not play a certain part of the game or just noclip my way through it was in Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines (seriously, one of the best three games ever made). A vampire chick sends you to the partially burned down Ocean House Hotel in Santa Monica, which is haunted by a ghost that she wants you to exorcise so she can claim the place as property. You could hack her computer ahead of time and read an email from a foreman of a construction group working on the place, which described how the crew refused to work any more on it because of the unnerving events surrounding it (this is an immediate clue that shits gonna get real). You go there and see the site in front of the magnificent old building; it's well lit, and only the creepy ambient music hints at something being wrong. You walk up to the door to enter the building, only to have one of the lights on either side of it to suddenly die as you approach. The door is locked; you pass a tractor plow on your way to the site's trailer to find a key. You enter and find one, and as soon as you loot it, you hear a motor start and the trailer lurches violently. You exit, and find that the tractor has violently plowed into it, apparently on its own.
Throughout the level, shit gets seriously spooky. Random objects will beam towards your head as you walk by; hunched silhouettes of the same strange figure are visible in the distance briefly as lights flicker, then vanish when they become stable again; a pale blue shade appears out of nowhere and cries over plot advancing items, only to vanish again as you approach; words appear on the walls as though scratched out with a nail; old newspapers describe how children's decapitated and otherwise mangled remains are found in washing machines and closets. Perhaps the scariest part of the game is when you enter a partially burned room with the words "GET OUT" scratched into the wall, to find a curiously undamaged paper on the floor. It is what appears to be a child's crayon drawing- two young girls, their mother, and their father. The children and their mother are all sporting depressingly sad, frightened faces, which makes sense when you see the father- a tall man, wreathed in flames and burned a crispy brown, with red eyes and an almost shark-toothed smile. You then realize that this figure looks conspicuously similar to the one you see out the corner of your eye from time to time in this place.
TL;DR? Ocean House Hotel is perhaps the best, scariest level ever made in a video game, ever. And that's just the icing on the cake that is VTM:B. Play it, for serious.
Every part of Majora's mask is creepy.
God damned majoras mask.
You have a huge ****ing moon with a rape face hanging over you ever damned moment of the game, and every god damned person keeps on reminding you that it's going to freaking crash on you in 72 hours, or go blissfully unaware to panicking for their lives over the course of those 3 days, with the damned theme song going from nice and cheery to gloomy to insane nightmare fuel, the villain is an insane nightmare abomination, the closest thing you have to a mentor in the damn game is a freaking creepy ass madman who may or may not be in control of the aforementioned eldrich abomination.
Did I mention the god damned moon?
Damn, this game was scary as a kid.
God damned majoras mask.
You have a huge ****ing moon with a rape face hanging over you ever damned moment of the game, and every god damned person keeps on reminding you that it's going to freaking crash on you in 72 hours, or go blissfully unaware to panicking for their lives over the course of those 3 days, with the damned theme song going from nice and cheery to gloomy to insane nightmare fuel, the villain is an insane nightmare abomination, the closest thing you have to a mentor in the damn game is a freaking creepy ass madman who may or may not be in control of the aforementioned eldrich abomination.
Did I mention the god damned moon?
Damn, this game was scary as a kid.
Bioshock is the only game I've played that scared me from start to finish
Those fire breathing ants on fallout 3 really made me jump, the ghouls as well...
And Fear I thought was pretty scary to
Those fire breathing ants on fallout 3 really made me jump, the ghouls as well...
And Fear I thought was pretty scary to
The dogs jumping thru the window in Resident Evil. It made me jump so bad, I'll never forget it. Everytime after that happened to me I wanted to watch ppl play thru that part to see their reaction =)
Second-to-last section of Drakan: The Ancients' Gates, wherein you are forced to flee from a creature-person who intends to peel your skin off and use it as part of a patchwork cloak. A cloak he is already wearing. That is made of dozens of womens' skins.
To be fair, I cheated up to max level at the beginning of the game, so while I wasn't invulnerable, I was certainly damn powerful. Suddenly being unable to do damage to ANYTHING?creepy guy OR his golem henchmen that litter his massive, poorly-lit home?probably contributed to my fear.
To be fair, I cheated up to max level at the beginning of the game, so while I wasn't invulnerable, I was certainly damn powerful. Suddenly being unable to do damage to ANYTHING?creepy guy OR his golem henchmen that litter his massive, poorly-lit home?probably contributed to my fear.
umm... has no one posted about that famous scene in Condemned: Criminal Origins? When you're in the school and you're searching for the missing teacher? I won't say much more except "get a closer look at his face..."
Amnesia the Dark Descent. Im not easily scared by movies or games, but that game almost made me piss myself. No joke. Well, yes. But it could have.