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

[BartyMae]

One: why does this thread go up to page 143?
Two: that one scene from Zelda: Twilight Princess. You know the one.


Yep, still pretty creepy.

Also, this.

That's not creepy, that's downright scary. I nearly had a heart attack watching that, haha.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Go to Small Trees in Red Dead Redemption and just crouch down and look around constantly. As soon as you think you're safe- BOOM! Ninja Bear.

 

[Aaron Foltz]

I have a monolith (2001: A Space Odyssey) mod for Skyrim. The closer you get to it the music intensifies, just like in the movie. I came across it by accident forgetting it was installed.

 

[Captain Slow]

My scariest moment was having a creeper come up behind me in minecraft

 

[Olliesama]

Most of Oddworld: Abe's Odysee.

 

[WittyName]

Not really creepy, but one recent encounter that I wasn't expecting was in Spec Ops: The Line.

Spoiler: Specifically, the part where...

... you encounter a Heavy trooper in the mall in a shop filled with mannequins, and all the lights start flickering on and off, and it makes it seem like the enemy is teleporting around swapping places with the mannequins before you can hit him.

That caught me by surprise.

 

[Aean]

For a non-horror game, the Metroid Prime series had some of the best atmosphere in any game I've ever played. Any enclosed space, especially ones infested with metroids, really gave me shivers and I have to say I still play them every so often, because they have such a great feel to them.

Also, Lavender town can be a little disturbing if you are in the right mood for it.

 

[spacecowboy86]

This came at the perfect time! I've been replaying psychonauts and I just found the "Milla's dark secret" room:

 

[Biodeamon]

Fallout 3, this building

The Dunwich Building

Seriously. This place gives me the chills:

And the basement OH GOD THE BASEMENT

And then there was the Point Lookout expansion that made this place 200% creepier.

 

[socialmenace42]

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.

Oh gods, I remember those demon doors, there was one where you walk down this pretty path with lantens an trees and enter a fairytale cottage at the end, except the moment you walk thrugh th door it turns into a dark disturbed world were the cottage is a burnt out husk and the lanterns and trees are replaced with iron maidens and caes with human remains. Freaked me the fuck out the first time...
Also anything in Fable 2 or 3 involving chesty. If you've played it you'll know.

Anyway what I thought of first was Mass Effect 2 when you see people being liquified into grey paste.

 

[zane224]

Drakengaurd for the PS2 had a part where a 9 year old little girl is dancing and twirling, laughing and singing and then her eyes start to glow red and her voice goes from a little girls high pitch to a demonic low while singing, "You cant spell Slaughter without Laughter!"

A more recent one would be from Borderlands 2 when a Maniac was running at me shouting "I'm going to lick every inch of your corpse!"

 

[blaize2010]

IIn Far Cry 3, during one of the hunting missions, this one was for crocodiles.

I never saw one in the game before, so I didn't know what to expect. I was searching around this dock area for I'd say around five minutes, when I decided to jump in the water to look for them. Then the camera did a jarring-as-hell forced snap backwards and HOLY FUCK TEETH, BITING, THING! GAH, MASH!

It was waiting for me. I just know it.

Not to mention afterword, I got jumped again, but this time it was by approaching one that was just floating frozen in place. I don't know anything about crocodiles and how they act, so I thought it was glitched stuck or something.

It wasn't.

Pause>cancel mission

It was sharks for me. I had my eye on one I had just killed, and I didn't notice the other

 

[Epicspoon]

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.

Don't forget the one that's a nice pretty house when you're walking through the yard and then when you actually enter the house it turns into dead stuff everywhere.

 

[Epicspoon]

Also, I hate moments where you're in water and there's monsters down there with you. I think there's something like that in Majora's mask, where Link has to swim down into a deep hole where there's large sea snakes or something. I might be remembering it wrong. Guild Wars 2 is kind of the same, since I don't only dislike water combat, but I don't like being under water at all.

Large underwater areas in 3d environments scare the living shit out of me in video games. ESPECIALLY when the enemies are bigger than you. I wonder if it's because of some primitive instincts or something.

 

[Cookiegerard]

I recently started playing Age of Empires 2 again, and I had built a fairly decent sized wall around my land.

Literally just outside my gates, an AI villager walked up, killed a deer, and instead of, like normal villagers, collecting the meat, the villager just walked away. It was incredibly creepy as this is an AI I was playing against. It might as well have been "come at me bro"

 

[Epicspoon]

May as well actually contribute something.

Here we go

 

[Nicolairigel]

Dunwich Buildinf and Dead Money both from the fallout games gave me the chills, But I feel I Have to but the Feros Colony From the first Mass Effect Series.

There was the incredibly appropriate weird mystery music that played throughout the entire mission, It kept an air of unknown horror which was threatening the colony. I really became illegitimately creeped out when you run into this one colonist hiding is some random area who is screaming about some mental torment, saying how "It's like running through a thorn bush, the more you struggle the more the it stings" or something like that.

 

[blaize2010]

Elder Scrolls Oblivion.

Lucien Lachance.

As stupid as it might sound, the first time he appeared mid-sleep, it jump scared the crap out of me. Did not see that one coming.

Was made all the more terrifying by that damned creepy voice of his.

The entire Dark Brotherhood drama had an air of creepiness about it. The grim unrelenting preparation to kill your brothers, Mathieu Bellamont's deal with his mother, talking to the Nightmother in the grave, Lucien Lachance after the, yknow. The whole being burned alive upside down. It sucks, too, the guy was pretty cool after the whole murder people for a dead chick thing.

 

[dudehead]

Not intentionally creepy since its a glitch rather than a gameplay element but Skyrim produced one genuinely creepy moment for me. At a character's funeral where the entire town came out to watch I got as far as burning the body before , as the body turned to ash , The entire populace just froze. Staring , dead eyed , at a burning corpse. They didn't even blink. I couldn't progress or attempt to continue without resetting the console so for 5 minutes I was left with a crowd of static zombies , some of them carrying torches , staring intently at a burning corpse.

It was unnatural to the level of unsettling me.

Not intentionally creepy since its a glitch rather than a gameplay element but Skyrim produced one genuinely creepy moment for me. At a character's funeral where the entire town came out to watch I got as far as burning the body before , as the body turned to ash , The entire populace just froze. Staring , dead eyed , at a burning corpse. They didn't even blink. I couldn't progress or attempt to continue without resetting the console so for 5 minutes I was left with a crowd of static zombies , some of them carrying torches , staring intently at a burning corpse.

It was unnatural to the level of unsettling me.

gah I've had the worst urges to play Fallout 3 recently, and I'm really considering creating a new character and playing it for the first time in months just to explore that building at lvl 2 or something.

Find a hunting rifle, some bullets, and grab the Lucky Shades and then head in.

God I'm gettin all excited.

Anyway, on topic, one time I was exploring vault 87 (I thinks it is) and I was trying to conserve by backing from a radroach slowly and shooting it one at a time with my assault rifle

then I backed into a wall

then the wall yelled "FOUND YOU" and I screamed so loud I knocked over a glass and threw my headset/controller across the room.

 

[Riobux]

Dino Crisis 2. For some reason, the areas with the poisonous plants always scares the living hell out of me. I think it's because of how formless they are, so it's harder to decipher any intentions from them, so it lead to a very atmospheric few moments as I was sure they were going to do something but they never did. They constantly bided their time, and it just some how got to me.