Your Favourite Scariest Game Moments

[evilengine]

This has probably been done to death, but I can't be bothered to check if someone's already done it, so here goes... List your top scariest moments from your video game experiences. This can be the entire game, or can just be a single moment from a game, just tell us about whatever you've played that made you jump out of your skin or shiver in fear.

My personal ones are: The Shalebridge Cradle level from 'Thief: Deadly Shadows', The Dunwich Building from 'Fallout 3', and probably the whole of 'Silent Hill 2'.

 

[Fenreil]

It's not really scary, just startling, but the "Oven man" in Resident Evil 4. I had a bunch of friends over and we'd completely forgetten about that part. We screamed like girls...

Oh, the insanity effects from Eternal Darkness were pretty creepy too.

 

[armaina]

Oddly enough, the scene in FEAR: Extraction Point where Holiday gets killed is really awesome. The rest of the game is pretty mediocre and not scary at all :|

Also I have to say, Eternal Darkness did have some awesome moments but they weren't like the gnaw at your brain kind of creepy (which is the best kind). The Strog creation sequence was rather squick in a beautifully chilling way, something kinda haunting about the first person aspect. And of course, Giygas. The toony characters tone it down a bit, but the words and the music and entire atmosphere really make it something else.

Also, Yume Nikki. The entire game.

 

[blindthrall]

Fort Frolic in Bioshock. Or most of System Shock 2.

 

[MikailCaboose]

I loved he sight of one of my friends in Eternal Darkness when the effect that fakes the system/TV being turned off.

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

In the dentists in Bioshock. You know what I'm talking about.

Spoiler: You know, that bit...

That point in Bioshock wher you're investigating the dentists and a cload of fog comes down. When it lifts a dead body has appeared on the examination chair. You then spot a tonic on a desk in the corner and naturally go over to nab it. The fog comes down again, and when you turn around there's one of the doctor splicers right behind you. Makes you shit a brick when you're not expecting it. But when you are expecting it you can place a shotgun shell right in his face as you turn around.

*snip*

High five for Neverhood avatar!

 

[ma55ter_fett]

The first time you were grabbed by a tenticle in Dead Space, that was freaky.

 

[Delock]

I'm going to nominate one from heavy rain:

Spoiler

The doctor's basement where you are tied down and he's coming at you with a drill and at first it really does feel like there is no hope left. You end up having to use the drill to cut your bonds before he returns from his door. This is also the only time I've actually thanked a Jehova's witness for interrupting something

Alternatively, the end of your first bathosphere ride in Bioshock. I actually had to have someone tell me that the Splicer wasn't hanging around before I exited.

 

[Proteus214]

The final chase at the end of the first episode of Penumbra and the nightmare re-creation of that chase in the beginning of the second episode. Holy hell that shit was scary.

 

[Hazy]

The whole "Corrupted Memory Card" thing Eternal Darkness pulls.

Particularly since I had not saved in quite a while.

 

[RadicalDreamer90]

Resident Evil 3 Nemesis lol. 2 am, cousins house, 10 years old.

Your cousin loads up a file at the dead of night, walks through the first door, nemesis screeches and rushes you, pummeling you to death. xD Classic moment.

 

[WINDOWCLEAN2]

The Hallucination in Fallout 3 (Point lookout) Was the scariest thing, So many odd meanings and events and that horrible Medical bed....You know the one i mean if you've played it.

 

[Randall Mars]

World of Warcraft--The Scarlet Crusade

First time my lvl 68 Drenai Shadow Priest had to make the run through Shadowmoon Valley in Outlands to get the Ally flightpath. There I was, solo, heading right straight into the Burning Legion on a palamino I got from earning Xalted with Storm Wind. I KNEW I was gonna be toast. What an adrenalin rush. Players nowadays don't get to experience this treat, they can purchase flight at lvl 60 and can just fly over all of the Bad stuff. Back in the day when my main was questing Outlands you couldn't get flight until lvl 70. You had to ride everywhere not directly connected to a flitepath...and riding at only 4%+ ride speed (mithril spurs) wearing basically crapo greens with a few cherished blues right through masses of the Burning Legions biggest, meanest, Ugliest looking Demons of every description was definitely something not to be forgotten. Btw, I made it without taking a digger. I then popped a top and leaned back feeling more chuffed with myself than I could believe possible. Ahh...the uber sweet taste of success...and cold beer. It doesn't get much better than that.

 

[Prof.Wood]

The first time all your lines disappear in tetris "shudders" Chilling indeed.

OK then it was the first time I saw a wraith in oblivion the sound fucked me up bad and I had a very bad sword at the time.

 

[BlueTomfoolery]

System shock 2's plot twist (and pretty much everything else

Spoiler

The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? I AM SHODAN!!

 

[Caurus]

the whole of silent hill 2 easily, agreed.
THOUGH! I played silent hill when i was 11, so that scared me more at the time plus it was the first ever time horror + games had crossed borders for me. My mum used to get pissed off because I kept audibly screaming.

 

[Zyxx]

Silent Hill 4 (Only one I've played - yeah, I know I need to play 2, I'm workin' on it) - at some point, you can look through the peephole of your apartment door just in time to see Walter standing on the other side, staring at the door (or at you) and smiling a little. He might go away after a while, but until he does he's just smiling and staring.

Imagine a stranger (or someone you've heard vague, unsettling rumors about) just walking up to your door and standing there. What does he want? What's he about to do? Is he going to say something, go away, shoot you through the door?
Should you open the door and confront him? Call the police? Pick a room and hide in it?
(In-game, your character can't do those first two things, and I doubt the third would help.)

 

[DividedUnity]

Stalker shadow of chernobyl. theres a bit where its really dark and although there are noenemies at all the sounds and atmosphere cause me to jump so many times and waste so many clips its not funny

 

[Bonkekook]

Resident Evil 4. I had the sound turned up, and in a hedge maze a pack of hounds is released on you. I had no idea where they were coming from, and I could hear them, so I backed into a corner, to cover both paths that lead to me. All of a sudden I hear this LOUD bark from behind me, made me jump out of my pants. The AI had glitched and all the hounds had gone to the other side of the hedge on my back and were all running into it snarling as loud as possible. Scared me to death.

Most "scripted" scary moments don't bother me though. Quite honestly, RE 4 probably scared me the most of any game, because of barricading yourself in and having so many entrance points. Especially when a chainsaw guy came and you weren't sure where he was coming from, just that you could hear him coming.

OffT: That's why RE 5 let me down so much.