What's the most scared you've ever been in a game?

[Woodsey]

There's a part earlier on in BioShock in a morgue. One of the rooms has a short corridor, where the lights are flickering and the floor flooded, and you can see a Splicer's shadow every time the light flickers and he's grumbling to himself.

"... Fuck that".

[sub](Turns out that if you do go down there, he disappears and will pop out from a vent or one of the morgue beds in the previous room, as I discovered to my horror on my second playthrough.)[/sub]

 

[CheckD3]

The garden maze in Resident Evil 4...I used to be petrified by dogs, now I'm okay, but those fuckers came out of nowhere, and for the first 10 playthroughs, scared the shit out of me...damn dogs...

There have been some "Oh crap!" moments, but nothing scared me as much as it did with those dogs coming out of nowhere..and being all...tentaclely.....

 

[Nyaoku]

Pokemon Black cartridge on my GBA when I was in middle school. I think my cousin gave it to me as a joke. I thought he just found a strong pokemon (the ghost) and blew through the game but the ending got me.

 

[EHKOS]

When I was a wee lad the Suffering scared the shit out of me. Jet Moto made me turn off the game once cuz I was in the cave level and these eyes appeared in a shadow. That was when I was young tho. Condemned was an amazing experience and the only reason I miss having an Xbox. The second one kinda sucked tho. I had to pause Penumbra so many times and then just ended up quitting on the first wolf. I bashed it's head in with a hammer and then it GOT BACK UP!
Oh and the werewolf in VTM:B made me figuratively poop my pants.

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

There's this game, Yahtzee made it (it's free if you want to try it), called Seven days a Skeptic which I found on an old disc lying around. I guess what made this 2D indie game so scary to me was that I never expected it to even be scary, I thought it was just a regular space story.

Well there is the part in the game where you first see the killer, terrified me. Can't find the scene but here's a taste of that from a different scene:

 

[lacktheknack]

So, I'm six.

I'm playing Myst.

I finally get to the third level in Channelwood, with help from Dad. YAY!

I go to the first building I see, and enter, only to have the MOST FECKING HORRIFYING CLOSE UP OF A MOUTH APPEAR IN MIDAIR AND HOWL GIBBERISH AT ME. I wept.

 

[ablac]

I am yet to play a true horror game. One which actually scares. Can anyone suggest one for xbox because I cant do good PC.

Have you tried Metro 2033? That game delivers such a good atmosphere, the people living in the metro stations... And of course the tunnels. One of the most immersive FPS games I've played

And is it scary? Well, tell me after you gone through the Library... Damn that place to hell

Cheers I thought it wasnt meant to be that good. well ill pick it up sometime then.

Catchpa: graveyard shift. Strangely suitable.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Pretty much all of Project Zero.

It's the only game where I've had to occasionally put it down and do something else for a few minutes in between bursts of pant shitting terror.

The second one isn't as scary, but it does still ramp up further into the game when the ghosts get trickier.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I don't know...I really need to think about this one...

Actually, I think the time I was most scared was when I was 12 and playing Pokemon blue (was wandering around the cinnabar lab, very late in the game), and a Wild growlithe used Roar on my beloved Blastoise.

The screen said "Blastoise ran away scared!". I stared in shock at the screen and went "oh no! Did....did I just lose my Blastoise?!?! OHNOOO!!". To my relief, however, he was still in my party, and I realized that Roar just ended wild battles.

Still, can you at least understand why I was freaked out?

Some other moments that freaked me out were:

a) I literally couldn't finish the demo for Amnesia. I saw the first enemy shuffle past a doorway in the distance and went "Oh !@#$ this, I'm not ready" and hit the escape button as if my life depended on it.

b) The EFFING royal tomb in OoT. Where you get the sun's song. I was TERRIFIED of Zombies back then. >_< effing redeads...

c) Etrian Odyssey 1 (a first person dungeon crawler on the DS): There were two scary parts for me. The first one was when this REALLY creepy music kicks in on the third floor, and the game describes this really scary sounding red eyed monster, and how it WILL kill you if you run into it....and then I ran into it by accident and it MURDERED MY PARTY IN TWO TURNS FLAT. And the second time, I was wandering around, admiring this underwater lake...When MORE creepy music came on, and this weird and creepy little girl appeared and said "You shouldn't be here...". Ok, maybe it didn't actually SCARE me, but both those instances were REALLY unsettling.

d) OH!! I just remembered! When I was 13-14 I was playing the demo for Diablo one, and messing around in the first floor. Then, I opened a door and... "AAAAH!! FRESH MEAT!!!". I think I may have screamed, or at least yelped.

Let me tell you, I haven't been this scared since playing the first Silent Hill back when I was 6. I'll be sleeping with the light on tonight.

YOU PLAYED SILENT HILL WHEN YOU WERE SIX?!?!?!?!? 0_o Why?! How?! Why would you do that to yourself, or did a sibling put you up to it?

 

[thegamermn]

Any horror game tends to scare the crap out of me. I usually only play a demo and still can't play the whole thing. However the one game that I -did- finsh was Alan Wake...the atmosphere of the game is just...*shudder*. ANd finding pages from his novel gives you glimpses of what's up ahead. And the anticipation of when it will happen just makes things worse. That said...one specific instance that just completely creeped me out was a level where you can explore cabins for loot and such. I saw one of the enemies walk past the window. Followed by footsteps being hear moving towards the door...then nothing. ANd when I went outside the enemy wasn't there. Spent the rest of the level shining a flashlight into every frigging corner

 

[deathninja]

Either one of the Endless Ocean games, Night Abyss and Temple of the Gods respectively.

Cradle had nothing on that.

 

[cahtush]

The first dungeon and every dungeon with zombies in oblivion. The first time i played the first one i sneaked the whole way, just becouse i was so scared.
Also i hate the zombies, they just do so much damage and have so much health.
So yeah im not really one for horror movies and games.

 

[Robert Ewing]

Probably Amnesia, I was genuinely on the edge on my chair then.

BUT, there was an old game for the PS1. I can't remember what it was called.

But you started off on a fog-laden trawler ship, and a little undead girl would follow you floating around, scaring you.

I can't bloody remember what it was, I doubt it was FEAR, urrghhh

 

[Pressure666]

The X labs section in return to castle wolfenstein, the mega creepy sound of the weird monsters nails as they walked on there hands. specially the part where you find a caged one that suddenly decides it can break through the glass all of sudden!

Or the first boss from the same game, just after the walking through loads of already scary catacombs. hes basically just a big teddy bear that fires ghosty skulls at you but it made me poo my pants every damn time. loved that game so much.

failing those, the bit earlier mentioned in the thread from painkiller... just so messed up, some sort of abandoned mental hospital is what i think its supposed to be.

 

[Angry_squirrel]

YOU PLAYED SILENT HILL WHEN YOU WERE SIX?!?!?!?!? 0_o Why?! How?! Why would you do that to yourself, or did a sibling put you up to it?

Nah, it was my dad being irresponsible. I had nightmares about that woman (I forget her name) turning into a psycho nurse for ages after though.

 

[Rheinmetall]

Project Zero. By far the scariest game I have ever played and because it was very scary I quit it.

 

[Deathmageddon]

I'm not really into survival horror, so I'll have to say...

DEATHCLAWS

 

[Rheinmetall]

YOU PLAYED SILENT HILL WHEN YOU WERE SIX?!?!?!?!? 0_o Why?! How?! Why would you do that to yourself, or did a sibling put you up to it?

Nah, it was my dad being irresponsible. I had nightmares about that woman (I forget her name) turning into a psycho nurse for ages after though.

Lisa Garland. Poor Lisa...I played it when I was 25, and I still can't forget the scene with the blood covering her eyes and face.

 

[gusenborge]

I first played Half Life at a young age and was scared shitless of the fish thingy when you first get the crossbow and at the dam.

To this day im still scared of the thing!!

 

[Rooster893]

Half Life 2, the Ravenholm level. My friend and I decided to plow through it while it was storming outside at 2:00 A.M. Needless to say, it was fairly scary.

BioShock. More specifically, when the Dentist creeps up behind you in his foggy operating room. And also, The Wild Bunny by Sander Cohen.

I WANT TO TAKE THEM OFF, BUT I CAN'T! IT'S MY CURSE! IT'S MY FUCKING CURSE!