Things that scare you the most in games.

[Ix Rebound]

Mine would definently be:
Underwater levels: because I always feel out of my element, and I never seem to be able to see if they are coming at me until its too late.
Tiny enemies: especially the ones that are either: fast, do large damage, make creepy noises(im looking at you poison head-crab!) or are snakes, seriously, fuck snakes.

 

[Zhukov]

Enemies that you can't get a good look at and enemies you can't defend yourself from.

I also have a thing about underwater levels, but that just stems from a general phobia of deep water. After all, there could be anything under there.

 

[CulixCupric]

Eh, Nothing in games scare me anymore, but I am cautious around the following: Dark areas, water, areas with suspicious noises, anything in dark corners of the earth, anything corpse-like, etc, within the horror genre.

my sense of fear was replaced with apathy shortly before getting Amnesia, which i beat at 2 am on Halloween night in a pitch black room. I do, however, get adrenaline rushes from some horror games.

 

[Ix Rebound]

Enemies that you can't get a good look at and enemies you can't defend yourself from.

I also have a thing about underwater levels, but that just stems from a general phobia of deep water. After all, there could be anything under there.

exactly! and there usually IS something under there..

 

[CulixCupric]

Enemies that you can't get a good look at and enemies you can't defend yourself from.

I also have a thing about underwater levels, but that just stems from a general phobia of deep water. After all, there could be anything under there.

exactly! and there usually IS something under there..

eh, i don't have a phobia of water, which is ironic, as i should because I can't swim, ever. had at least 12 near-drowning experiences, yet I still like water... odd...

edit: should say 12...

 

[Elamdri]

I don't get "scared" in the sense of like, "Oh geez, the atmosphere is creeping me out" or "Oh that monster is horrifying" but I'm really susceptible to being "startled." I know, it's like the cheapest scare in the book is the most effective on me. And it doesn't matter that I know it's coming, if something jumps out at me, I always get startled.

 

[FalloutJack]

Lemme give you my impression of the survival horror game, Extermination...

[HEADING=1]THE WALLS ARE EATING PEOPLE!!![/HEADING]

 

[Nyaoku]

The seemingly innocent stuff that jumps out at you.
Unkillable enemies chasing you without dramatic music.
Quiet moments.
Unexplored areas with low hp.
The dark when you know there's something in there.
Enemies that play dead ... I hate getting ambushed. (swamp level in demons souls)
Stealth missions when you can't kill.
Things that ask you to kill them, that clearly can serve you better alive but seem in pain.
And finally, the sound of a young girl singing at the end of a dark hallway lit only by a flickering light overhead and you know she's going to come towards you but you can't make her stop. All of this after slowly crawling your way through a dungeon of traps and killing monsters five times your size.

 

[daveman247]

I dont seem to get scared anymore with games :/ Which makes me sad. I still jump with cheap scares, but thats involuntary. Doom 3 ages ago used to scare me with all the darkness and its weird creatures. As did the chainsaw man from resi 4 (damn that guy).

I suppose the last time i got "properly" scared in a game would be:
- The room in silent hill 4 because you never know what will be in there next time you come to save! And the "double heads". Seriously, screw those things and whoever came up with them!
- The box ghost in project zero 2. Those that have played it know what i'm talking about.

So i guess as a whole the supernatural i guess? Or the weird creatures in silent hill games (pre-5).

-The first time i saw a faceless nurse, or pyrimed head.... good times.

 

[DustyDrB]

Lost humanity. The citizens of Rapture freaked the everliving shit out of me. They did it on the "jump out at you" level, but even more so on the deeply disturbing "that was once a loving mother, but then she became so depraved" level.

That's also why zombies scare me.

Big ass monsters? Don't scare me at all. Most any supernatural being doesn't scare me. But fallen human beings? Must look away.

But since I am a very jumpy person (as in I've hit people hard as a knee-jerk reaction for them sneaking up behind me), jump-out-at-you scares get me very badly. Then I usually will try to prepare myself for them and just be ready. But that results in me just always being on-edge and the whole process just gives me a lot of anxiety. So I don't play games where that's a feature. I had to quit playing Uncharted for a while after those new enemies were introduced around the third Act. Then I played very slowly, with happy music on, and pausing to take breaks often to get through those sections with those enemies.

 

[LobsterFeng]

I'll agree with OP. I think this song scarred me for life.

 

[Akimoto]

Under water levels like OP. Said level in HL scared me shitless. I now view open bodies of water in games with suspicion.

 

[uhddh]

I'm pretty sure the last time I was scared by a game was when I was about five,when you become an adult in Ocarina of time, leaving the temple and finding everything in hyrule broken. These days horror games just have flickering lights and startling moments, like the necromorphs leaping out of the vents. I was, however, very cautios around the Flood in halo 1 and 2 (they were nerfed in 3)

 

[Dandark]

Im not really sure. I used to get really scared on Zelda: Oracina of time whenever I was in a Dark level with monsters like the Redeads or floor masters.

Of course I was younger then, another enemy that didn't scare me so much as make me go "oh crap RUN!!!!" was the Dahaka(I think it's spelled that way) from Prince of Persia: Warrior within. it just creeped me out that it couldn't even walk without distorting time and teleporting everywhere like me in Halo multiplayer.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

Unpredictable AI. I think the worst part of Amnesia wasn't the dark or the castle, but the fact that you didn't know if a monster was following you down the hallway and was RIGHT BEHIND YOUOHGOD or if it had buggered off. Saints Row The Third has this thing were traffic AI occasionally spazzes out, and when it isn't just entertaining, it's disconcertingly horrifying. At any moment one of those cars will snap and run me down. Fucking ohgod sprint away ahhhh

So yeah, AI based stuff mostly. Another reason Minecraft is sort of scary, or things like Left 4 Dead that have random AI spawns. It feels like the game is alive and is actively trying to do terrible things to you, but being coy about it. I think if they made a game based on HAL, it would be the scariest thing ever for me.

Enemies that you can't get a good look at and enemies you can't defend yourself from.

I also have a thing about underwater levels, but that just stems from a general phobia of deep water. After all, there could be anything under there.

exactly! and there usually IS something under there..

eh, i don't have a phobia of water, which is ironic, as i should because I can't swim, ever. had at least 12 near-drowning experiences, yet I still like water... odd...

edit: should say 12...

Maybe because you need water to live! ^_^

And yes. There is usually bad stuff under the water. Like fish. Or monsters. But usually fish. FUCK FISH.

 

[Nyaoku]

Big enemies chasing you that aren't killable, I remember being absolutely terrified in the first paper mario game as a kid when Tubba Bubba (or whatever his name is) was chasing you down the stairs of his house, and also the final level in some spiderman game i can't remember when your being chased by Doc octopus down a narrow passageway.

Spiderman 2 to the ps1. If I'm right, it's the one where carnage (the red venom thing) takes over his body and he's climbing towards you with the four robo arms while the place explodes.