Games that freaked you out the most.

[Star Fox Runner]

Name the game that scared the crap out of you the most.

Now I know I'm gonna sound like a puss here, but the game the freaked me out the most was Doom 64, the very first Doom really scared me when I was 5. So when I decided to play Doom 64, those old memories of fear came back to me, and since they were using the creepiest music imaginable instead of rock music, it just really, REALLY, scared me.

[DoctorAllosaurus]

I've mentioned many times before that Uninvited is the only game to this day that I can't play because it genuinely scares me. I know its just an 8-bit Nintendo game, I know the Scarlet O'hara ghost can't really hurt me, and I know what the rest of the monsters in the game look like (they aren't even all that scary really), the game just caught me by surprise one night and started invading my dreams almost instantly and they weren't pleasent either.

[Kid_Cortet]

The Suffering: Prison is hell

it got to the point I was so into the game and trying to listen for anything coming near, and my dog (rest her soul) placed her cold wet nose on a part of my back that was exposed, making me jump several inches off the floor from a sitting position.

[Milkyway64]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a recent example, being a horror game to make me fucking panic even after being weathered and hardened by the more mainstream horror titles. The only big problem it has is once you figure  out how it works almost all of that scare factor just vanishes.

[FoxMcCloud]

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a recent example, being a horror game to make me fucking panic even after being weathered and hardened by the more mainstream horror titles. The only big problem it has is once you figure  out how it works almost all of that scare factor just vanishes.

I have to agree with ya there. Scared me crapless, playing it in the darkness of a dorm room, in the middle of a night made it even worse

[fox1235]

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[Vy'drach]

I will agree with DOOM 64, as the monsters were actually scary looking there, rather than the Cacodemon being a giant flying meatball with a mouth (The Pain Elemental is what scares me the most, being what appears to be two wolf heads melted together).

The Suffering was pretty good at being trippy too.

But the ones that really get me are the first Dino Crisis, what with your primary enemy being Utahraptors instead of slow, shambling, stupid zombies. Also, the T-rex in there still scares the ever-living hell out of me.

But the one that, to this day, scares me so much is still the first Aliens vs. Predator on the PC. Those Aliens are fast, durable, usually have auxiliary routes into a room, and their acid blood is devastating on Realistic (Normal) and Director's Cut (Hard). Coupled with the game being dark as hell, with no shoulder lamp (get flares instead), and the Aliens screeching out of the darkness, only to see a claw or tail out of the corner of your screen, at which you'd turn and let out a good burst from your weapon (and the M41A Pulse Rifle jammed frequently, as a game play mechanic to keep you from just spraying and praying), face huggers were fast as hell too (though thankfully couldn't climb), were 1 hit kills, tiny as hell, hard to see, and very agile. And the Predators, while poorly cloaked, were tough as hell to bring down, and you had to watch out about your range you're near them at, too far and they shoot you with projectiles, too close, and you get pretty much 1 hit. All this adds up to being one of the most intense and adrenaline-pumping games I've ever played, to the point that I would swear so rapidly and frequently, that the words became sort of a mantra while playing it.

Oh, and SOCOM: Confrontation gets really intense when the maps are at night, as when they say night, they don't mean it's slightly darker and blue tinted. No, they mean night, there's parts of the map where you can't see three feet in front of you. And the maps are much quieter at night as well, less background noise. So you'll be walking along a wall, hoping to creep up on someone, when you'll see dust kicking up off the wall around your character as someone opens up with a suppressed weapon, and you don't hear any of the shots, or see a muzzle flash as they have a damned three foot long suppressor that eliminates both of those. Only reason they can see and are missing you is because they have a thermal scope on their weapon, which is a godsend on night maps, but is much less accurate than the normal scopes (unless you're like me and use the AN-94 with the two-round-burst setting, which still lets you put a burst through someone's face across the map through a thermal). Even if you don't get shot at though, the maps aren't silent, as you're usually near crumbling, decrepit buildings or unstable scenery, so you'll hear chunks of concrete fall off a building right behind you (which sounds a LOT like a grenade), or snow or rocks falling off the edge of a drop. That and the fighting that goes on in the background can make you very jumpy in the game.

[Sabre]

Didn't we have this thread recently?

Depends when you ask.

[DoctorAllosaurus]

Didn't we have this thread recently?

Depends when you ask.

I think I made a thread like this back in 08 around the time I first joined.

[Vixie Darkmatter]

Resident Evil, any of them. Maybe it's just that I scare easily, but many of the zombies/monsters you have to fight are creepy looking. Especially if you run out of ammo and have to use your really short ranged knife. I remember screaming while I was trying to knife something and a huge spider jumped on my back. I really don't have the stomach to play other horror games. I don't even remember what possessed me to play this one in the first place.

[Dublinthefox]

I'd have to say Resident Evil 2. Its not just the whole "limited supply" and the scary atmosphere of the game. I get the creeps every time I see William Birkin.

[Star Fox Runner]

Resident Evil, any of them. Maybe it's just that I scare easily, but many of the zombies/monsters you have to fight are creepy looking. Especially if you run out of ammo and have to use your really short ranged knife. I remember screaming while I was trying to knife something and a huge spider jumped on my back. I really don't have the stomach to play other horror games. I don't even remember what possessed me to play this one in the first place.

I have the remake for the GameCube, any encounter with a Crimson Head will really get the blood pumping.

[Vulvokunvrii]

it was mostly the flood in halo-until i "manned up" and killed them.

Then in AVP 3 for xbox; it was the freakin facehuggers! i wasnt scared of them, but i knew what they could do, and my eyes were wide the whole time because the littel buggars were small and fast; but i had a shotgun, so no problem ^_^

[DoctorAllosaurus]

Resident Evil, any of them. Maybe it's just that I scare easily, but many of the zombies/monsters you have to fight are creepy looking. Especially if you run out of ammo and have to use your really short ranged knife. I remember screaming while I was trying to knife something and a huge spider jumped on my back. I really don't have the stomach to play other horror games. I don't even remember what possessed me to play this one in the first place.

The only Resident Evil game that made me jump was 4, it was more of an accidental scare if anything because I found that game not very scary at all.

I was in the castle, fighting off a group of Zealots and one snuck up behind me out of nowhere. When I turned around and saw him, I jumped and gave a loud "WOAH". My brother thought it was pretty hilarious though. I don't like it when things that aren't there show up out of thin air without any indication, that has to be my biggest weakness.

[Vy'drach]

it was mostly the flood in halo-until i "manned up" and killed them.

Then in AVP 3 for xbox; it was the freakin facehuggers! i wasnt scared of them, but i knew what they could do, and my eyes were wide the whole time because the littel buggars were small and fast; but i had a shotgun, so no problem

I just pistoled those bastids down myself. The motion tracker was incredibly overpowered in the new AvP, even picked up a respective distance behind you. And even on the hardest difficulty they couldn't one-hit you if you were healthy.

[Guest Senshi]

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[Falcory]

I have the remake for the GameCube, any encounter with a Crimson Head will really get the blood pumping.

I had that game and I agree, although I wouldn't quite say it scared or freaked me out. Some of the crimson head encounters did cause me to panic a little though. 

Metroid Prime used to make me feel a little tingle of fear when entering space pirate areas.  Also the way the zombies moaned in Conker's Bad Fur Day used to send a shiver up my spine.

But the game that freaked me out the most? The Lawnmower Man for SNES. That game scared the hell out of me for some reason, when I was younger.  :shock:

[Milkyway64]

The biggest scare of the crimson heads wasn't fighting them, but not fighting them. There was no better motivation to avoid a room like the plague than knowing you left dead zombies in there.

[Redeemer]

Project Zero, aka Fatal Frame. Ghosts = creepy as hell. The Japanese catch my horror imagination perfectly.

[El Zorro de la Estrella]

My first time playing through Castlevania: Circle of Darkness had me on the edge of my seat throughout!

Great game.

Also, gotta agree with Vydrach (sp?) and Lucario, the AvP series can be spine-chilling at times!

"K, no more Aliens chere.."

"Wait, what's that sound?!"

*Alien(s) jump outta nowhere and ROFLstomp you*

"HOLY %&*%^*!"

[Milkyway64]

Project Zero, aka Fatal Frame. Ghosts = creepy as hell. The Japanese catch my horror imagination perfectly.

Fatal Frame 2 was an intense game my first time through, although it SCARED me very little compared to just creeped me out. Two of the biggest notable scare moments were jump scares, one scripted, the other because I turned around and WHOAMGWTF. There was also the bit where the big bad chases you and you have to hide in closets and junk, I was all freaked out there too.

Fatal Frame 3 while not quite as fun IMO, was even worse what with all the stuff that happens in your house as the game goes on. Xort said he didn't trust bathrooms for a while after that game.

[Redeemer]

Fatal Frame 3 while not quite as fun IMO, was even worse what with all the stuff that happens in your house as the game goes on. Xort said he didn't trust bathrooms for a while after that game.

Haha same here! I was scared of mirrors more than usual! XD

[DoctorAllosaurus]

Now that I think of it, I'm pretty behind on horror games. The big three I always hear about that I've yet to play are the Silent Hills, Eternal Darkness, and as mentioned above the Fatal Frames.

[Sylum]

Fatal frame 2. Black and white, lights off volume up mode. Broken neck ghost. I. Hate. Her.

[Vulvokunvrii]

I just pistoled those bastids down myself. The motion tracker was incredibly overpowered in the new AvP, even picked up a respective distance behind you. And even on the hardest difficulty they couldn't one-hit you if you were healthy.

motion tracker wasnt overpowered; the F@cking Predators were over powered, heavy spamming, plasma caster spamming, ricochet disk spamming, arogant bastards!