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

[Phuctifyno]

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Haha i was wondering when that was going to come up. Worked well on me because it was totally unexpected, and i was curious because i was SURE i had seen something in the corner of my eye in that corridor. I know the games about a killer clone, but still

To be honest that entire game is pretty creepy. Its scary what goes on in Mr 47's head :S

Yeah, every mission is a flashback and therefore told from his perspective. The whole game takes place at night, and most of it in the rain, but we can't be sure that's how it really happened. The butcher's private cutting room also gave me the creeps.

 

[BleedingPride]

Definitely the crawler from Fable 3 is at the top there. But i got an all around creep vibe from all of KoTOR2 the whole way through. The Dark Side seems to be more than evil, its blacker than black magic evil. Made me queasy.

 

[kickyourass]

In Fallout 3 there was the part where you have to through the Museum of History to find all the Lincoln stuff, whilst the building is packed to the gills with feral ghouls. Now at this point I was about level 15, I was easily strong enough to make a Super Mutant fly to pieces by gobbing in their face, I had enough ordinance on hand to rival a third world nation and Feral Ghouls are among the weakest enemies in the game, and they caused me to curl up in the corner and cry for a just a little bit.

 

[schtingah]

I'm gonna go with the haunted house in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. While yes, it is a game about Vampires I really wouldn't classify it as a horror game appart from that damn haunted house.

 

[daveman247]

Yeah, every mission is a flashback and therefore told from his perspective. The whole game takes place at night, and most of it in the rain, but we can't be sure that's how it really happened. The butcher's private cutting room also gave me the creeps.

The "extra" dark tone fit the hitman game i think. It would be cool if they could go for a similar tone another time

 

[Radoh]

Fable 3, meeting the Crawler for the first time.
For being a series of slightly goofy games, they always seem to be able to pull the rug out from under you.

 

[Phuctifyno]

The "extra" dark tone fit the hitman game i think. It would be cool if they could go for a similar tone another time

Y'know, I might actually have to disagree with you there. It did work very well in Contracts, but I think that's what they were going for in Absolution (not exact, but ballpark) and didn't pull off as well. I've always preferred the exotic or fancier Hitman levels, myself.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

The Vault in Fallout 3 with the hallucinogenic gas...

That feel when through a window the furniture is on the ceiling and when you go into the room it isn't with no creepy music or ceremony at all. Makes you feel like you are going mad.

Also has anyone ever had their companion just rush towards them out of the darkness when they have routed around another way.

 

[lord canti]

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.

I was 11 when the N64 came out and that eel creeped me out, but felt like a PBS puppet after I experienced THIS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLLVwGgzFSs

Skip to 12:37 for nightmare fuel if you're afraid of deep, dark water and what may lurk within...

Also, The Unfinished Swan was terrifying at times. Like Shadows of the Empire did, The Unfinished Swan did not sit well with my fear of rising, never-ending, deep, dark water.

YOU ASS I've spent a long time trying to repress that damn thing and in one fell swoop you destroyed all of that. I hated this thing so much.

OT: The laboratory in Mother 3. It starts out normally enough and then you see the bodies and then you see it.

 

[Mikejames]

Has this really not been mentioned?

Spoiler: I wonder what's through this pipe

OH GOD WHAT IS THAT

Ah nostalgia. That and the gameover scene always gave me the jibblies as a kid.

Rocket: Robot on Wheels

The whole damn game. So eerie.

Heh, I had forgotten that game existed.
Though the only eerie things I can recall are the clowns...

 

[Mojosaur]

For me it'd have to be in World of Warcraft, I sometimes enjoyed walking around in first person, just enjoying the scenery. Until I managed to unknowingly aggro some vampire bat mob and it popped up in my direct field of vision, that rustled my jimmies.

 

[runic knight]

Well, nothing really jumps out in memory, though the masks scenes in Majora's mask were always pretty damn creepy. Faces freaking out like I just ordered link to kill himself in the most suffering way...thank god I could skip that stuff after seeing it the first time around.

 

[solemnwar]

Pretty much all the Bethesda open-world RPGs. So Morrowind, Fallout 3 (and by extension Fallout:NV), Oblivion, Skyrim... there's always something creepy to make me shit my pants


And any level in ME2 where husks appear out of fucking nowhere, the abandoned mine being particularly bad -_-;

 

[AlexanderPeregrine]

Here's a really obscure one that isn't so much scary-creepy as "I feel really uncomfortable playing this" creepy: Elona Shooter [http://www.kongregate.com/games/noanoa/elona-shooter]. There's no context to what sort of person you're supposed to be and has an SNES aesthetic with chibi sprites. Regardless, the title screen has a character not unlike one you'd play gun down a fleeing crowd of picnickers for no apparent reason. There's a museum where you can see the trophies you've earned and one of the functions is to rob the other visitors. Clicking that very specifically opens with "you shoot women and children!" You can hire your "little sisters" to senselessly suicide bomb. I started to feel like a terrible person playing it and I think that's because the game leaves everything to the imagination.

 

[Crazy]

One time, I paused while playing Luigi's Mansion so I can take a bathroom break. When I got back, I noticed a little Boo at the top of my screen. I thought it was cute, it looking to the side, nice piece of decoration. As I looked at it, I swear that it looked back at me, into my eyes. It was just for a split second, and then looked away as if nothing happened.

I never paused a game in my life ever again.

 

[Mr Companion]

The Water Wraith.
Oh gods the Water Wraith!

Pikmin 2 is all colorful and funloving then you get forced to enter a cave with only blue Pikmin, its the only time a restriction is placed upon you. You enter the cave, and its eerily easy, most of the treasure is unprotected and nothing but the disquieting music warns you of the absolute f**kness that is to come. You keep going down level after level until you become cocky, then this watery visage drops down from the sky. Your AI ally comes up with nothing when analyzing it and presumes it to be a shadow cast from another dimension. It is invincible, the level is dark enough for it to ambush you and it makes the most horrid rhythmical gurgling that creeps ever closer in its unrelenting pursuit. All you can do is run as it chases you down like an insect.

You go down a level, thinking the lapse in music signifies your escape. Only a minute or two later you hear it again because it follows you everywhere, across all levels unlike every boss before or after. I would oft hide in pipes or crevices whist hearing that f**ker circle about outside. Never go to the Submerged Castle.

 

[Joby Baumann]

Not sure if STLAKER is a horror game or not, but the underground sections tend to be terrifying

 

[Euphbug]

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.

I was 11 when the N64 came out and that eel creeped me out, but felt like a PBS puppet after I experienced THIS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLLVwGgzFSs

Skip to 12:37 for nightmare fuel if you're afraid of deep, dark water and what may lurk within...

Also, The Unfinished Swan was terrifying at times. Like Shadows of the Empire did, The Unfinished Swan did not sit well with my fear of rising, never-ending, deep, dark water.

Oh my, I have said on many times in these types of threads about that Eel when I was younger, but you just had to remind me that the sewer level even existed. I love that game but man if I forgot (or blocked out) or moments of that sewer level. I don't think I ever went back to the level to get any of the challenge medals after I beat that game.

 

[Sheo_Dagana]

I'm reaching back a bit here, but I'll never forget this particularly creepy moment in original (not Anniversary) Tomb Raider... When you get far enough into the first chapter and you end up facing dinosaurs, I thought it was kind of weird and didn't make too much sense. I went with it, though. Remember that games did not have good draw distances back then. There's a particular section where you're running forward without a care in the world, and a Tyranno-fucking-saurus Rex comes out of no where and kills you before you really know how to get away from it.

I was seriously scared shitless beyond anything Resident Evil or Silent Hill has ever thrown at me. There was no warning, no build-up, no tense music. All of a sudden, it was just you and a huge ass dinosaur that gave you about ten seconds to figure out what to do about him before he wasted you.

The Tomb Raider series has had other creepy moments as well, but that's the first one that came to my mind.

 

[Riley Holt]

This one was a glitch, but I damn near pissed myself. Waaay back on the GameCube, I was playing Medal of Honor: Rising Sun. It was a conflict my grandfather was a part of, so I wanted to play it. There was one point, I think it may have even been multiplayer. In the baseball field, where the announcer usually would be, was a machine gun nest. You could get up there and cause some trouble for the folks down below. Anyway, as I was using it, I must have pointed it at some weird angle, because suddenly there were floating eyes and teeth in front of me. I nearly threw my controller. Apparently, I was seeing the inside of my or an ally's head, but was clipping through, so only the eyeballs (facing me for some reason) and the teeth were showing. Holy... crap.

I'm sure if I went through the thread I could find plenty more, but that one is the first to come to mind, and WAY off in terms of being a scary game. As for actual game events, I'd have to think before posting again.