What non-horror game scared you the most?

[Klumpfot]

Abe's Oddysee back when I was young and fragile. Mostly due to this guy.

Spoiler

You were afraid of that guy? I was scared of the scrabs. Freaky eyeless meat spider dog thingies. And the sounds.

When I was a kid, I remember being kinda scared while playing a detective mystery game on the NES called Deja Vu. I was so terrified of muggers hopping out, or the police finding me.

 

[SplitDemonIdentity]

Actually the Adventure Mode of Brawl seriously freaked me out mostly seeing Master Hand die. 'Course then along comes Sonic to kill Tabuu and it ruined it all. -Has a deep personal vendetta against Sonic.-

And trying to think about the background of Majora's Mask and how Link probably handled being forced back 7 years again both creep me out and depress me.

 

[Arcthelad]

FF7: Jenova and Sephiroth parts - eery as shee-it

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Ocarina of Time.

The Shadow Temple and it's wallmasters (giant, disembodied hands), and the Happy Mask Salesman.

 

[Mr. Eff_v1legacy]

Fallout 3 had some scary bits in it.

American McGee's Alice was definitely creepy - the soundtrack, mostly. One of my favourites.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask creeped me out as a kid. The Shadow Temple stands out - no surprise there!

And believe it or not Duke Nukem 3D had some scary bits.

Spoiler: The sounds these guys made...

 

[Waverider]

If anyone was fortunate enough to play KOTOR II, you remember the first planet: Peragus. I should have hated that level, everyone else seemed to, but the feeling of being alone, underequipped, and not knowing why you're there made fighting an army of droids really damn unnerving. The fact that none of them talked creeped me the hell out. They just wanted to mine organics.

 

[CptOverkill]

Black ops combat training with 8 enemy AI on veteran with 1 friend in nuketown, i was just sitting in 1 of the house bedrooms thinkin "oh god where are they? where are the-*gets stuck by sticky out of nowhere*-oh god NO!" they're like the terminator! but they're more effective, and theres 8 of them!

 

[Deep Rooted]

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It seems you are under the misguided notion that genre is something defined by a supreme being and is a soiled rule, rather than a system by which individuals may categorize media.

The makers of said media are usually the first ones to call their works a certain genre. That doesn't mean they are universally so; If I were to make a movie about talking on the phone (something that horrifies me to the point that I have been undergoing a few years of therapy to help in the situation) and call it a horror, that doesn't mean to you it is indeed a horror movie.

Your wrong. A horror game is a game that is designed specifically to scare people. It has nothing to do with what personally scares you.

 

[Julianking93]

Does Fallout count? I was playing with earphones in the other day and something behind my character was hit by one of my companions and it freaked the fuck out of me.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

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It seems you are under the misguided notion that genre is something defined by a supreme being and is a soiled rule, rather than a system by which individuals may categorize media.

The makers of said media are usually the first ones to call their works a certain genre. That doesn't mean they are universally so; If I were to make a movie about talking on the phone (something that horrifies me to the point that I have been undergoing a few years of therapy to help in the situation) and call it a horror, that doesn't mean to you it is indeed a horror movie.

Then for you, talking on the phone is "scary" there is no "horror" involved in it. You seem to be under the assumption that a genre is based on how the player feels. So, Dead Space wasn't scary, so that means it wasn't a horror game? Then what is it? Action? What if I found it boring and not action filled? Can't be adventure either because there wasn't much adventuring, so then it is...?

Genre is defined by the play style or theme. If it has nothing to do with science is it still sci fi? If it isn't weird or bizarre is it not fantasy? You can't market a game based on how you think people will react to it. In various different online games (Black Hawk Down and Call of Duty 4 are two that come to mind), I've jumped out windows or came around corners right in front of a guy and shot them in the face with a shotgun and it scared the hell out of them, and it has happened to me, too. I doubt you could find any person that classifies either of those games "horror", but people still get scared in them.

 

[Anarchemitis]

The implications behind the realizations of playing Age of Empires II.

 

[Deep Rooted]

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Why? Because they have an innate view into what the movie was designed to do? Therefor, my movie about telephones is a horror, as I made it to be scary.

Actually, that is exactly why. genres are assigned by creators to help organize games so individuals may find games that appeal to them. They do not decide what the game was designed to do so they do not define its genre. So yes, your movie about telephones would be a horror movie, it would just be a bad horror movie.

 

[Deep Rooted]

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Why? Because they have an innate view into what the movie was designed to do? Therefor, my movie about telephones is a horror, as I made it to be scary.

Actually, that is exactly why. genres are assigned by creators to help organize games so individuals may find games that appeal to them. They do not decide what the game was designed to do so they do not define its genre. So yes, your movie about telephones would be a horror movie, it would just be a bad horror movie.

I don't see it that way. I guess we will have to agree to disagree.

Was nice talking with you - gave me something to do while I wait for my ride to the dentist

Nice talking to you too. Always nice to see someone willing to be gentlemanly on the internet.

 

[TJ rock 101]

I would have to say Minecraft.
Not because of the creepers but the skeletons always get me, just quietly mining away, then i hear the loud sound it makes when they fire their bows and i panic and take tons of damage.
Also coming out into massive cave areas where there are tunnels on the roof and things could just drop down on me, i just turn back at those points.

 

[Dethpixie]

Ocarina of Time.

The Shadow Temple and it's wallmasters (giant, disembodied hands), and the Happy Mask Salesman.

Damn you for reminding me of the hands. Between that and all the posts about the redeads I'm never going to be able to sleep again.

 

[Deep Rooted]

Genres are assigned by creators

Out of personal interest and outside our debate, if one was to create a movie you found hilarious and side-splitingly entertaining, but they designed it to be, and classified it as, a horror movie, would you call it a bad movie, or a bad horror?

I would have to say a bad horror movie, for failing miserably at what it intended to do, but also a good movie, for having redeeming comedic value albeit unintended. So both, I can do that, right?