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

[Kyrian007]

There's a great moment early on in Resident Evil 4. You go down into a long cave... you creep along with your gun out waiting for the inevitable horde of Spaniards to leap out and give you the surprise hug... and...

You just keep waiting. There's no one down there... until...

"I've got some good things on sale, stranger."

AGGGGGGGGGG BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM!!!!

Not only did I shred him with panic fire the first time I played it (thus having to re-load...) I did it AGAIN the second time I tried it a few minutes later.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Turok 2. I was about 7 years old, and my brother tried getting me to walk through a dark cave while telling me "don't worry, there's no dinosaurs"

There was.

 

[paislyabmj]

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.

condemned criminal origins.seriously you can not go wrong.

OT:i am a wuss so i never played amnesia or silent hill but I did play the bioshock demo.in the bit before you become robocop that game can be very scary.

 

[mrhappy1489]

On the third world on Demon's Souls. Those fucking gargoyles and those god damn man centipedes had me fucking baby stepping around the entire map.

 

[MrGseff]

Like everyone else, I would say Amnesia. I would start up the game feeling brave and thinking 'Lets do this, its only a game, non of it's real' but as soon as something creepy happened such as a noise or seeing the monster down a hallway I would then think 'That's enough for the day time to save, quit and hide under my desk for the next three hours regretting what I have done'

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

I'm not quite sure what this says about me, as I'm not really all that accustomed to playing "scary" games, but the Project Overlord DLC for Mass Effect 2 made me truly question what kind of game I was playing, if it was the same game at all.

Spoiler

The very first time the David VI garbled and screamed at Shepard from a random console/computer screen, I very clearly jumped in my seat and was forced for the first time to adjust my television's volume. It may have been a cheap shot, but it did scare me.

Other than that, I've played a whole 8 minutes on Amnesia, so that has to give you some idea of how scary I prefer my games to be.

 

[bobmus]

Bioshock, the beginning. The only thing stopping me from doing a second play through is my nerves there!

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Games have never really scared me. Doom 3 freaked me out, but more in a way those youtube videos that you are told to "turn the volume REEEEEEAAALLY loud" are scary.

Amnesia sounds sick though.

 

[kingthrall]

minesweeper, those bombs just freak me out

 

[Penguin_Factory]

The doll house in Fatal Frame 2. I had to stop playing the game at that point because it was getting to the point where if that ghost girl appeared in front of me one more time I was going to have a heart attack.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Lord of the Rings: Something. I was like, 7 or 8 at the time and at the end of the first mission you had to sneak pass those guys cloaked in black on horses (don't know what they were, never actually saw the films) and I just couldn't bring myself to try it. Looking back, it seems silly; I didn't really realise the concept of being able to go back and try again/doing it even being possible. I was young, I genuinely reacted to them like I'd die if they got me.

To this day I never did it. I think the game's been sold off now or something anyway.

 

[Gunrunner]

It wasn't the scariest game I've played per se, but Dino Crisis really had its moments. Like at the start when you first enter the complex and you can hear the snarl/purr of a raptor coming from somewhere and then as you walk past a window...BAM! It jumps straight through and on top of you. From that moment on every time I had to go past that area I ran through like a little girl.

 

[Dreadman75]

Fallout 3 - The Dunwich Building.

Let me tell you, horror designers can take a few lessons from that place!

The atmosphere alone creeps you right the hell out. And the lack of ambient light makes it insanely difficult to tell where enemies are in some areas.

And the whispers...don't make me remember the whispers.

If it wasn't for that Bobblehead, the Dunwich building would be a definite DO NOT FUCKING ENTER for me.

 

[killerguythefox]

Timesplitters Future Perfect:The mission where you arrive in 1994 at a haunted mansion.
that part of the game had me paranoid like hell if you want a scary atmosphere i suggest trying that everything just gets you on edge the music the ambience the voices you hear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh-YCUBExTE

God i just can't get over how much the level scared me

 

[TehCookie]

Resident Evil 4 made me shit my pants. Now before you laugh at least hear me out. I was in my grandma's basement playing the game and having fun. It wasn't scary but it was intense with a nice atmosphere especially in her unfinished basement. I got to the part where you had to kill that bug nest so I was on high alert making sure I wasn't going to be pounced on by a mutant fly. I see one coming at me and I go to aim at it when I realize it's not in the game and it's flying right at me. It looked like it just jumped out of the TV. It lands on my glasses and in half a second I threw my glasses off my face and ran across the room hyperventilating. I had to spend a good five minutes to calm down so my hands would stop shaking enough to hold the controller again.

Or Persona 3's Death. The first time I heard "I have a feeling Death is near!" I just felt like I was going to die. You think in a game it wouldn't be a big deal but I did not want to die and it made me fear for my characters life, especially since I didn't know what was going to happen.

 

[omega 616]

Easily piggsy from manhunt! A guy running round wearing pig suit, wielding a chainsaw and making pig noises ... while you stealth around in the dark with a bit of glass and a carrier bag (I think). The only way to kill him is to get his attention, run up to the roof and make him walk across some mesh, after doing this 3 times he falls through and you chainsaw his fingers off.



To anybody who said bioshock, are you shitting me?

 

[Prof. Monkeypox]

Amnesia, definitely. The first time I ever encountered the water monster.

Ooogh, still a bit paranoid about going into standing water.