Creepiest Moments You've Had... in Non-Horror Games

[Trucken]

Assassins Creed 2. That damn ending sent chills down my spine.

"The rest is up to you... Desmond." What. The. Fuck.

 

[keiji_Maeda]

Dragon age origins, rxploring the deep roads under orzammar, the dawning realization on the origins of the Broodmothers, not really BO! scary, but deeply unsettling, and "get under your skin" creepy that i hadn't gotten since Silent Hill the second. and of course with the chant with it.





First day, they come and catch everyone.
Second day, they beat us and eat some for meat.
Third day, the men are all gnawed on again.
Fourth day, we wait and fear for our fate.
Fifth day, they return and it's another girl's turn.
Sixth day, her screams we hear in our dreams.
Seventh day, she grew as in her mouth they spew.
Eighth day, we hate it as she is violated.
Ninth day, she grins and devours her kin.
Now she does feast, as she's become the beast.
Now you lay and wait, for their screams will haunt you in your dreams.

 

[EHKOS]

I think there were a couple games with this sort of atmosphere, but I remember in Republic Commando when you have to board that ghost ship and find out what happens. I think it ends up being Trandoshans but there was a bit with your night vision and a flock of Mynocks whoosh past. I love that kind of thing, getting to someplace that seems abandoned for no reason and you have to find the horror behind it.

 

[Rofl Harris]

Fallout 3, this building

The Dunwich Building

Seriously. This place gives me the chills:


And the basement OH GOD THE BASEMENT

Wow, don't remember this building. But FO3 did have some chilling moments. The vault leaking gas that drove the inhabitants insane, the Garry clone vault, Andale, Point Lookout, Tranquility Lane. Is the Dunwich building really more creepier than those places? Curious and would like to know.

Yes. The Dunwich building. Stay away from the Dunwich building, that place is bad mojo. Easily the creepiest part of Fallout 3 by far.

Spoiler

Even worse if you visit it late in the game with the Brotherhood of Steel add-on and don't have the Ghoul Mask.

 

[Rofl Harris]

Oh, and Minecraft. Been ages since anything shit me up as much as those stupid blocky green penises.

 

[Moralio]

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver - overall this game is kinda creepy but Silenced Cathedral with Zephon at the end really freaked me out. Weird spider vampires crawling on walls and this damned music...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74CRHOAMD8I

I was so relieved when I finally finished that place.

 

[D-Class 198482]

Catherine. More specifically, the seventh stage. I braved the Fists of Grudge, the Immoral Beast, the goddamn Baby with a Chainsaw, and then...
Shadow of Vincent. Oh sweet Lord.
Not only is this boss hard as fuck, but his model, voice lines, and the fact that he's never seen destroyed is creepy: he just eats Steve and doesn't die himself.
I think I was about halfway to a heart attack when this guy smashed his head through the tower.

 

[Longstreet]

The Thief series despite not being a horror series has always had a minimum of one 'scary' level in each game with probably the most memorable ones being Return to the Cathedral in Thief: The Dark Project and the Shalebridge Cradle in Thief 3: Deadly Shadows.

I WAS gonna say, usually games only have startle moments, instead of something creepy.

Then you reminded me of the orphanage level in the second thief, that one was pretty fucked up.

Also, i see some people mentioning ghouls, personally i never had any problems with them.

Let's talk giant radscorpions. OR cazadores. Granted it isnt scary per se, but more of a "o fuck i hope i can run fast enough while downing anti poison and wildly spray and pray and actually survive this."

 

[nexus]

Swat 4

second level when you are looking for the kidnapper.

starts of routine. then you find the basement....

things are not well there

That is a good one. Really creepy mission, and good game.

 

[Darklord008]

I would like to add my support for the Dunwich Building in FO3. I didn't even know it was a reference to anything, I just thought it was your typical building with ghouls in it...Then I found that first room where you hallucinate...and then I found the audio logs...and then I got to the basement....and then I had to stop playing for a while.

Also, the first time I fought a giant frostbite spider in Skyrim outside of the story mission with the wounded one. I'm a little arachnophobic, but nothing too bad. Then I entered a room that I though I had previously cleared...and the damn thing came down from the ceiling ON TOP OF MY HEAD. I may have had to pause the game for a while after that.

 

[Legion]

Bioshock isn't really 'horror', but it certainly has that kind of feel to it throughout. I'm playing it again now and find myself constantly watching my back, sticking to walls, and generally just being really creeped out by everywhere. And don't get me started on the Houdini Splicers...

I don't know... it even has poetry in it.

Spoiler: The Wild Bunny by Sander Cohen

The Wild Bunny by Sander Cohen: I want to take the ears off, but I can't. I hop, and when I hop, I never get off the ground. It's my curse, my eternal curse! I want to take the ears off but I can't! It's my curse! It's my fucking curse! I want to take the ears off! Please! Take them off! Please!

I see what you mean...

 

[AlexKasper]

Most recently? The Witch's Mansion from Lost Odyssey.
That place had really creepy atmosphere, mainly due to the music.
Seeing that figure come out of the mirror wasn't the nicest experience of my life.

 

[The Funslinger]

Welcome to the forums, by the way! Hope you enjoy being a member of the Escapist community!

Anyways, for me it would have to be when you run into the "crawler" for the first time in Fable 3. The game was all upbeat and fun, but then it starts going into plain C'thulhu territory. There were also certain "Demon Doors" in Fable 2 that were plain horrifying. Like the room full of an army of statues.

*opens Demon Door*

Ohh, look at the nice cottage.

The cottage, in fact, is not nice. :'(

 

[Mikejames]

Colossus #5 I think was a good one as well. The one with the lake and the giant bird like Colossus sitting on the pedestal. The music is a bit ominous, but mostly it weirds you out at first because the Colossus just sits there staring at you, and at first you're not even really sure what to do. Then you shoot it a couple of times and all hell breaks loose.

I remember my friend just staring at that thing for a moment, and then handing the controller to me. lol

Bioshock isn't really 'horror', but it certainly has that kind of feel to it throughout.

Frickin Sander Cohen alone was enough to make horror at least a sub-genre of that game.

Dragon age origins, exploring the deep roads under orzammar, the dawning realization on the origins of the Broodmothers, not really BO! scary, but deeply unsettling, and "get under your skin" creepy that i hadn't gotten since Silent Hill the second. and of course with the chant with it.

Chant to make you uneasy, Broodmother to make you lose your lunch.

In retrospect that kid in Haven whispering nursery rhymes was pretty ominous too.
Him caressing someones' finger bone the whole time probably didn't help.

 

[FFP2]

Man, I really need to replay that game...

All the side quests for that game were pretty fucked. Old guy wanting flowers for his wife perhaps?[/quote]

Ooh yeah I remember that one! I only managed to do it on my most recent run... screw collecting flowers.

And there was all the shit with Seth... wasn't it implied that he was a necro too?

 

[Exius Xavarus]

I've had awkward moments in Mass Effect. Sometimes Garrus or Tali would follow Shepard literally on his back. Really, really close to him. Hawkward~

 

[Tohuvabohu]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link DLC

Spoiler

There's a lot in Human Revolution that can serve as a cautionary tale, and quite a lot of serious themes are explored throughout the game. Many events and goings-on in the game were scary and intimidating to think about. But the entirety of the Missing Link DLC went beyond all that, and reached levels of horrifying.

The grimness began to sink in to me once I reached the prison area. I didn't think much of it at first, but as I began working my way through the floors, the more I started to realize what was going on.
The prison was full of perhaps over a hundred innocent people arrested for being "belligerents" (ie. violent protesters) when many of the prisoners claimed to have never actually taken part in any sort of protest, and were law abiding citizens.

That whole situation scares the hell out of me. Imagine being arrested off the streets for doing something you never actually did, and never being seen again?

As if that wasn't bad enough. The picture starts getting uglier once you meet this woman:


It was wrenching hearing everything she had to say, and knowing I couldn't do anything to help her. I can't describe how bad I felt walking away from her after she begged me not to leave.

All her talk about people being experimented on didn't prepare me for what I saw in the labs under the prison.


Basically, the entire lab is full of hyron project drones. And we get to see exactly how these things are created.

Being in that lab was... chilling. Listening to the drones constantly begging for death, and begging for the pain to stop. Whilst lying on bloodstained tables. And the way those drone bodies were stacked into shelves like redundant pieces of merchandise...

By the time I left the lab. I was wide-eyed and at a loss for words. Truly, this part of the game really disturbed me.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is emphatically NOT a horror game. Yet, the Missing Link DLC disturbed me much moreso than many other horror games I've played.

 

[aguspal]

... Yeah, that was creepy as hell.

Also, I never played Dreamfall. Is it any good?

If you enjoy story-based experience then it's definitely worth looking into. If however you're among the type who look at something like 'The Walking Dead' and say that it isn't a game, then no, you should probably steer clear of Dreamfall as it's very much focused purely on the story rather than gameplay.

Thats because TWD isnt quite a game.

It is good... whatever the hell it is, but even thougt I liked it I struggle to call it a proper "game"...

 

[Godhead]

Vault 11 in Fallout: New Vegas. The entire testing that went on there gave me one or two pretty damn depressing thoughts.

 

[xPixelatedx]

I know I won't be the only one, but... The eel in Mario 64. It's really sad that thing is still more frightening then anything I've seen in a dead space game or RE6. I guess even Mario can do horror better haha. Speaking of mario 64, that piano was pretty nasty to.