Are you scared yet??

[ctrl-alt-postal]

it's funny that nobody mentioned the underrated game called "Call of Cthulhu: Dark corners of the Earth" that was a insane game! hahaha

I am thinking of buying this, you would recommend? The main reason I have not is I am so weary of bethesda games crashing on me. I have had crashes at least once every 2 hours with both fallout3 and oblivion, and a crash to desktop kinda ruins the immersion. Did you find it stable?

 

[rokkolpo]

Yahtzee's John DeFoe quadroligy

It has so much atmosphere that I have a constant feeling of that there is someone behind me wielding a machete...

i have not heard of that.

could you link it,or tell me where to find?

 

[Heathrow]

There is a game that you can buy of Steam that my brother showed me. It was a game played in a first person perspective and you were in a coal-mine looking for something about your fathers death if I recall correctly. The idea of it was all based around stealth, and you couldn't actually fight your enemies. In-fact, if you looked at them your character would panic and then the enemy would see you.

I can't remember what it was called, but it sure freaked the hell out of me.

I'm pretty sure you mean Penumbra. Those were okay, they got a little boring after a while though and some of the puzzles are a little obtuse.

I am thinking of buying this, you would recommend? The main reason I have not is I am so weary of bethesda games crashing on me. I have had crashes at least once every 2 hours with both fallout3 and oblivion, and a crash to desktop kinda ruins the immersion. Did you find it stable?

CoC has crashing bugs out the wazzoo. Other than that pretty good though.

 

[bioshockedcriticjrr]

might I recommend, simply because Condemned and Silent Hill 2 were already mentioned, Eternal Darkness. seriously, there are some mind melting bits in that game

 

[Spaghetti]

I'm too much of a coward to play scary games. I barely got through the underground bits in STALKER.

Part of that was due to the atmosphere. It was dark, creepy and claustrophobic. There were also strange noises like screams and yells. You couldn't see there origin, but they were terrifing.

Scarriest moment in the game was in the first STALKER. Entering a narrow corridor with flickering lights in the room at the end. I saw a monster appear for a moment and then a gut wrenching scream before I saw it start walking down the corridor. No music, just more screaming. I truly started shitting masonry.

might I recommend, simply because Condemned and Silent Hill 2 were already mentioned, Eternal Darkness. seriously, there are some mind melting bits in that game

I remember a friend showing me that game. I had nightmares for the next week.

 

[Thaius]

Play Fatal Frame. Play it, and be terrified. So very terrified...

 

[FalloutJack]

I know what a scary game needs. It needs a monster that stalks, and that you KNOW it enjoys to stalk. It won't even suddenly leap out in surprise. It'll show itself, nonchalantly, and approach with an eerie calm. Then, when you see it and go "Oh Jesus...", it knows it's time to charge!

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Fatal Frame is the scariest game I have ever played. It was all about the eerie setting. I mean, it made me nervous that something was going to happen even if nothing was going on. I was always afraid to open doors or even pick up the camera to look around. The ghosts themselves and the battles weren't that scary, honestly. It was the whole atmosphere.

 

[crepesack]

play any game, with all the blind shut, at 4am in the morning after staying up from 6am, drink 10 cups of coffee over the course of the day, turn down the thermostat to around 60-70 (or as cold as your wallet can handle) strip down to shorts and a shirt.

you will be on edge, vulnerable, cold and alone.

 

[laura3lizab3th]

Music / sound plays a HUGE part in the scare factor for me. I think that's the only part of silent hill that really gets me on edge. If it didn't have the weird noises i don't think i'd be dreading going round the corner into the next corridor or whatever. For example in Homecoming, within like the first ten minutes of the game theres the sound of the baby crying when your in the hospital. Thats horrible. There we go, kids... they scare me too...

Other than that i think the real sense of being vulnerable or alone.

In all fairness i haven't really played that many "scary" games cause i'm a terrible wimp. I'm getting there though xD

 

[Mirroga]

I agree that Dead Space was the last actual horror game but it was ruined by the fact you can become a walking tank. The whole point of Horror games is vulnerability. If you have bollock loads of weapons, you just feel too much of a badman to care about the 'horror' aspect.
I want a game where you have no weapons what so ever, only the option to run like a pussy and hide like one too.

I have already made such a game on paper. The problem is, I have no means to produce it without a big budget gaming company on my side. Also, when Escapists read the idea, they said that non-inspirational gaming companies would make the game a shooter. There goes hope.

 

[Mirroga]

I know what a scary game needs. It needs a monster that stalks, and that you KNOW it enjoys to stalk. It won't even suddenly leap out in surprise. It'll show itself, nonchalantly, and approach with an eerie calm. Then, when you see it and go "Oh Jesus...", it knows it's time to charge!

The Regenerator in Dead Space gave me the same scare. You can hear it moving on the vents, but it does not show up, until you fight a bunch of normal monsters. Then the moment you think that you're just fighting a bunch of normal monsters, it appears with them. The Regenerator is the only real scare in Dead Space considering it cannot be killed by your overpowered weapons.

 

[Joachim Aachen]

There is a game that you can buy of Steam that my brother showed me. It was a game played in a first person perspective and you were in a coal-mine looking for something about your fathers death if I recall correctly. The idea of it was all based around stealth, and you couldn't actually fight your enemies. In-fact, if you looked at them your character would panic and then the enemy would see you.

I can't remember what it was called, but it sure freaked the hell out of me.

Do you perhaps mean Siren: New Translation? I think there's a part in that game where you travel into a coal mine...

Games that are dark and have noises that perhaps make shivers run down your spines or noises that make you feel regret for what you've done (see 'The Sorrow', 'Laughing Octopus' and 'Screaming Mantis' from the MGS series). Games that also have human-like beasts that you would probably only imagine in your worst nightmares also scare me (see the ENTIRE Silent Hill series).

Silent Hill 2 wasn't all too scary for me when I played it- until I got to a certain part. That part is what made me snap and instantly declare the game scary from then on.

Said part is below, and is put in spoilers because I doubt everyone would want to read it and, well, there are spoilers for anyone who hasn't played it/doesn't want to know where things are.

Spoiler

I had a walkthrough and everything, and I was at a friend's house. Then I got to the labyrinth part. See, the labyrinth, for anyone who doesn't know, is basically a ladder on each side of two ends of a hall way, and you go down it to try and find things. I went down the one with the gates at the bottom like the dummy head I am. The room is circular and there are monsters on the floor that will harm you if you step on them. Even in the walkthrough it said, "Warning: Don't walk around in a circle too long down there, Pyramid Head makes his rounds quite often!" or something to that effect meaning that if I kept walking in a circle, I would find him.

I am deathly afraid of Pyramid Head in that game- no, wait, of Pyramid Head in general. I am not ashamed to admit it. Well, I walk around for a little, the music is creeping the crap out of me, and so far I'd been avoiding the monsters on the floor pretty darn well. The part of labyrinth is dark. Very dark- and I was focusing most of my attention on the things on the floor. Well, I walk for a little, looking for a door, when something makes mister James Sunderland jump out of nowhere. I pause the game- my health is dark static red, and it was green just a few moments ago. I'm a little bewildered and I rhetorically ask, "What happened?"

Another friend that had been over suddenly chirps, "Maybe it was Pyramid Head!" I shake it off and giggle; I hadn't run into him all that time, I'd figured I'd just been running behind him. I healed myself up and took a breath.

I unpaused it and sure enough the tetrahedron-headed butcher was there right behind me, preparing himself for another stab to my back. I screamed. Not just a little, "Ah, scary," scream, but a full blown, "HOLYJEBUSCRISTMONKEYBALLZPYRAMIDHEAD," scream. I immediately paused the game again before throwing the controller across the room. To say the least my two friends were cackling like witches who had just taken laughing gas. I then ran very fast in a very serpentine motion until I got to the door and salvaged the Great Knife from PH's little hole of a room.

Guess who I see when I walk out of the door? Yep, the great big dark shape of the red helmet of death against my screen as he approached me yet again. I almost had a heart attack.

Thank goodness he couldn't get into his own room.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Orcus The Ultimate]

i do recommend it.

 

[Elemental]

Penumbra is pretty fukcing scary, it gives the feel of alone and VERY vulnerable
i felt so hopeless in this game and it was great!

 

[slipknot4]

i found the Yao guai in fallout 3 scary like shit. I mean, seriously. There came from nowhere and i was like holy shiiiit!
*Breaks the monitor*

 

[Elemental]

can anyone recommend a game that would make me cry from the scaryness?

 

[Booze Zombie]

Seriously, I've not been scared by a video game in my life.

I'm not trying to sound "hard", most games just can't scare people.

 

[Hristo Petrov]

I personally liked The Suffering and its sequel Ties That Bind they didn't scare me the way a game usually scares you while playing them everything was ok but it was after i stop playing and think about the stuff i saw ingame that started to freak me out like the random visions the story of some enemy you encounter or the places you visit