What do you find scary?

[GenHellspawn]

What, to you, constitutes something as "scary"?

For me, the game Call of Cthulu: Dark corners of the Earth.
For those unfamiliar, see this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptKNm6GD3YM&feature=related

There's something that's really hard to describe that makes that game creepy.

Your thoughts?

 

[CanadianWolverine]

Loneliness.

That is what I remember years ago when I first played Doom, as I played the character, I felt very, very alone. And that made everything that went bump in the night just that much worse.

Other than that, there were moments that go "Boo!" and if done with sufficient lack of warning and threat of immediate violence to your character either cause an instant gut reaction to pull the trigger or run or both.

 

[laikenf]

Tingle.

 

[njsykora]

The popularity of the GTA series.

As a serious answer though, the bit in Resident Evil 2 when a licker busts through the one-way mirror in the interrogation room. That's proper scariness as you'd seen the licker briefly through the station windows but didn't know when it was actually going to appear.

 

[Akirasfriend]

I can't think of what exactly scares me, but I got my friend to play Doom 3 from the beginning yesterday - of course, as soon as it got at all scary, he handed the game over to me. But I hadn't played in quite a while either, and as we were laughing about how what we thought might be an enemy turned out to be a dismembered torso, an imp clawed through the bottom of the stairs RIGHT FUCKING AT ME.

We both screamed as I frantically pumped shotgun shells into it's hide.

Ah, good times.

 

[WingedFortress]

Aperture labratories. There were no people, yet signs of human life everywhere. Clear cut warning signs to the danger ahead, but nowhere to get off the ride.
Very unsettling.

 

[plyons]

escort missions...
*shudders*

 

[The Negotiator]

Nothing!!!

Sure I may act surprised by an ambush, but I would never run away unless I have no intrest and consider whatever not to be a threat. Lock me in a room with a Monster and i'll rip it's arms off and beat it to death with my bare hand's. LOL, i'm probaly the only guy tougth enougth to do that on this whole website.

BTW i'm not insane enougth to go and fight a army unless i was ingected with some preadator serum or I was well armed (G36, OICW, Rocket Launcher, Dule D.Eagles, Plasma Autorifle, etc.o_0

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Facehuggers

 

[GenHellspawn]

I applaud you're subtlety, Negotiator.

 

[The Negotiator]

Thanks, I am what you would call a Badass.

 

[GenHellspawn]

what you would call a Badass

So you're an inanimate object?
I guess I must applaud your grammar.

 

[PurpleRain]

Things that scare me in real life? The usual, death, dying, torture, other people dying. All fun and games.

EDIT

Just watched that video and it helps sum up my points. People comming to kill and/or torture you.

 

[The Negotiator]

what you would call a Badass

So you're an inanimate object?
I guess I must applaud your grammar.

No, I am just a natural born Soldier, preety cool I guess.

 

[The Potato Lord]

what you would call a Badass

So you're an inanimate object?
I guess I must applaud your grammar.

No, I am just a natural born Soldier, preety cool I guess.

so you need to proclaim your manliness and brute strength on a gaming website? Bluff called, Now start feeling bad about being called out...Would you kindly.(Greatest line EVER!)

But on topic: i have to agree with lonliness in video games and torture and death in real-life the lonliness bit in Bioshock is pretty potent, I actually thought having a few mini helicopters around was a bit cheerier and hypnotizing a big daddy to help you made my day playing that.

 

[The Negotiator]

what you would call a Badass

So you're an inanimate object?
I guess I must applaud your grammar.

No, I am just a natural born Soldier, preety cool I guess.

so you need to proclaim your manliness and brute strength on a gaming website? Bluff called, Now start feeling bad about being called out...Would you kindly.(Greatest line EVER!)

But on topic: i have to agree with lonliness in video games and torture and death in real-life the lonliness bit in Bioshock is pretty potent, I actually thought having a few mini helicopters around was a bit cheerier and hypnotizing a big daddy to help you made my day playing that.

This is on the off-topic discussion and I also use diffrent tactics (asshole).
Take my love and hate, but I'm not gonna complain about this reply.

 

[The Potato Lord]

what you would call a Badass

So you're an inanimate object?
I guess I must applaud your grammar.

No, I am just a natural born Soldier, preety cool I guess.

so you need to proclaim your manliness and brute strength on a gaming website? Bluff called, Now start feeling bad about being called out...Would you kindly.(Greatest line EVER!)

But on topic: i have to agree with lonliness in video games and torture and death in real-life the lonliness bit in Bioshock is pretty potent, I actually thought having a few mini helicopters around was a bit cheerier and hypnotizing a big daddy to help you made my day playing that.

This is on the off-topic discussion and I also use diffrent tactics (asshole).
Take my love and hate, but I'm not gonna complain about this reply.

Ad hominem and hypocracy in a single post?that deserves three claps and a peanut!

 

[i_am_undead]

Drowning. I'm a strong swimmer, so it would be scary to feel helpless in the water. And clowns (just the ones with the full face paint).

 

[The Q]

I hate to label myself as "afraid of heights" but I am. I can get up on a ladder, but once we start talking about glass elevators or buildings that scrape the sky...no thanks. All of my nightmares involve heights. Well...heights and being attacked by the tag team duo of Carmen Electra and Sydney Poitier.