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

[Mikejames]

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

That, and the asylum. No one called attention to those clouds...

May as well actually contribute something.
*Creepy Watson snip*

Unintentionally hilarious.

Unintentionally terrifying.

 

[CNKFan]

In Hitman 2 Silent Assassin the garden area that you go to between missions there is a scarecrow the TURNS ITS HEAD TO STARE AT YOU!!!! I forgot all about that untill last night when I started playing the new Hitman triple pack thing.

 

[Malfy]

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

There's also a side mission in FarCry 3 where you have to investigate a "pool" in a cave because of three patrons that never returned from it. The music ramps up as soon as you discover the bodies, and left wandering "so what happened to them" as you try to exit the cave...and get your answer.

Just did that mission last night.

 

[flying_whimsy]

The Dunwich building in Fallout 3 never creeped me out that much; after fighting through all of the vaults I felt it had a significantly less satisfying payoff (I also apparently never stumbled across the related quest in one of the add-ons, so I missed out). Generally, Fallout 3 really creeped me out at a psychological level; from the vaults where people were treated like lab rats to the mutations roaming the plains to the overwhelming horror of the atomic war. There was one side mission where you find a cult that worships a talking tree; it's the only side mission in the game I didn't complete because I couldn't decide what to do. It probably isn't surprising that Spec Ops: The Line horrified me to the point that I had to stop playing.

As for creepy moments in games more non-horror than FO 3: going underground in the first Megaman Legends used to scare the crap out of me, especially early in the game before getting better equipment.

Also the Gribbler from The Longest Journey. *Shudder*

 

[major28]

Deus Ex: HR
The Picus Building.
Just has a lovely air of unease that makes you think something is bound to happen.


And of course, ladies and gents and those in between....
Let no "Creepy Game" thread ever go ungraced by this.

Oh, God this! It's so freaky and terrifying and it's never explained, it's just this random building filled with ghouls that for some reason is haunted as fuck. There was no quest that was like figure out why this place is so batshit creepy, it was just scary cause Bethesda didn't want you to sleep well that night. Actually, now that I think about it, there was a quest for it in Point Lookout but you didn't get any explanation you just buried a creepy ass book in the basement or something equally horrifying.

 

[Morsomk_v1legacy]

Alright, Pandora's Tower the game I'm pickin'. Now, some people might tell you that the game is sort weird at certain times, the plot is a bit special, especially when it comes to the relationship between the main characters(the guy you are playing and the girl who is your love interest).

For those who don't know, the plot revolves around saving this girl by feeding her freaky, purple and gooey meat(totally life saving legit AMIRITE?). If she doesn't eat the meat, well, she ends up getting more corrupt by a curse she has.

There are certain moments in this game that are sort of......"ok this is a bit freaky but I am still going to roll with it." moments. Now, it is at the later part of the game where stuff starts to get heavily suspicious, not in just that you are actually starting to worry that you might not be feeding her the right thing, but the change she has gone through from eating it.

Now, what is the biggest reason I was sort of freaked out by this game other then most of the things I explained? In a lot of the cutscenes of the game, the girl starts saying and sometimes shouting your name in a sort of freakynotsexyandnevershouldbe kind of way.

Why is that the freakiest thing? The main characters name is Aeron. My real life name is Aron. So..........yeah.

 

[George Francis Gaspar]

Banshees from Mass Effect 3.

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/102/6/f/banshee_by_hallucinogenmushroom-d4vy1fe.jpg

You cannot tell me that seeing this in the middle of the night WON'T scare you.

 

[Fenra]

It may sounds odd at first, some probably think nothing of it but it really unnerved me. In Persona 4 (this was back on the PS2, don't have a Vita or Golden so don't know if its different):

Spoiler

after you rescue nanako and she is hospitalised and the fog from the otherworld comes across, really creeped me out, constant fog cover, people getting sick, people freaking out, the sense of dread and the unknown, the music really went along with it too to add to the feeling, found myself setting down the controller and one point and thinking "what the hell is going on! when is it going to end! make it stop!", almost like I was one of those people in the game and I knew in that moment what they must be feeling

Effective but creeped me out

 

[Siege_TF]

Most of the Breath Of Fire games have a few scenes, as does the original Wild Arms (what a good son you are [crunch, crunch, schlorp]).

 

[ASan83]

In Dragon Age: Origins, the part in the Deep Roads right before you fight the Broodmother never fails to creep me the fuck out.

 

[mitchell271]

In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, there's perma-death. I'm doing my first playthrough on Ironman mode, where I can't load saves. If a guy dies, they're dead for good. Doesn't matter what their rank was, how good their gear was, one bad crit and they drop dead like that guy I [REDACTED]. Nearly piss my pants every time I see a pair of Chryssalids or when 4 different squads of Mutons appear out of nowhere and my sniper doesn't have a line of sight. Maj. Hawkeye, NOOOO!!!! *bawls*

Sorry about that.

There was another time in Fallout 3 when I entered a shop, talked to someone turned around and HOLY SHIT WHEN DID YOU GET HERE FAWKES was all that ran through my head. Stupid trigger finger made me drop a nuke on us too.

 

[Images]

I'm going with the haunted hotel in Vampire Bloodlines. For a game that's mainly about hanging round nightclubs and beating gangsters to death you suddenly have this Shining based spookathon with some creepy as shit sound mixing.

"beeeeee carefulllll..."

CAPTCHA:Slimy Goop

 

[VoidWanderer]

Any game that involves plants that attack you. I hate those damn things....

 

[Gypsyssilver]

Lucian Lachance yelling "NO" at me during the Dark Brotherhood quest line in Oblivion. I was so frightened that I jumped.
Scary dude to disappoint.

Definitely! Also, the part where you see him... for the last time. Yeesh, I didn't know where to look.

The creepiest part in Oblivion for me though, was another one in the Dark Brotherhood quest line - when you find the head of 'Mother' in that building and you realise what's been happening.

 

[darkcalling]

Just started the Dragonborn dlc in Skyrim and so far I'll agree with anyone that's mentioned that.

By far the creepiest thing that's happened in that game was a glitch though. Actually the only major glitch that's happened to me.

Spoilered for those rare few who haven't played the game yet.

Spoiler

During the Companions quest line one of your new friends, a veteran named Skjor is killed. Absolutely nothing you can do to save him. Later (like maybe a month, real time took me a long time to get around to finishing the game) I'm wandering around near Windhelm when something floats past my field of vision. I investigate. It's Skjor's contorted corpse frozen in the worst case of rigor mortis EVER just floating by with a slight but extremely creepy grin on his face. When I go back to Whiterun later to turn in whatever quest I'd been working on I stop by the companions lodge to see if I'd remembered to grab the stone of barenziah there (wiki said there was one and I hadn't found them all yet) and guess who's standing around in the back of the building? Skjor is now one very lively zombie in my game.

Also in Captain America: Super Soldier the Arnim Zola film reels where he explains what went into creating the various hydra forces you're fighting were really unsettling to me for some reason.

 

[nincrony]

Any of the boss sequences from Catherine xD
Also, probably finding the town of cannibals in Fallout 3. I can tell you I had never experienced anything like that in a video game before!

 

[animeprime]

At one point in Singularity you have to swim through some tunnels at the bottom of a soviet nuclear research lab. When you turn the corner of one you find a skeleton floating in the water with its arms stretched out like its going to get you. The game music, which had been very quiet up to that point, does a "psycho" violin draw. It nearly threw me out of my chair since up to this point the game had been bleak, but never done any scare jumps like that. It stuck with me because a few feet on you find a makeshift camp where a man hanged himself and a letter saying that his wife has tried to swim out and get some help...

 

[Rufio's Ghost]

Lucian Lachance yelling "NO" at me during the Dark Brotherhood quest line in Oblivion. I was so frightened that I jumped.
Scary dude to disappoint.

Definitely! Also, the part where you see him... for the last time. Yeesh, I didn't know where to look.

The creepiest part in Oblivion for me though, was another one in the Dark Brotherhood quest line - when you find the head of 'Mother' in that building and you realise what's been happening.

So scary, but so good.

Spoiler

I think what made the Dark Brotherhood so terrifying is that I knew something was wrong earlier in the quest line, but could do nothing to stop it. I could tell things were fucked when I got the first drop and the tone of the letter was completely different from past drops. I wish there was a "Hey Lucian, this isn't your handwriting" option.

And yeah- I took that head and tossed it into the lava of an Oblivion gate, I didn't want to look at that shit any longer than I had to.

Morrowind had a good amount of creepy moments as well. Every time a dreamer talked to me I felt my fight or flight response kick in. And voiced Dagoth Ur talking throughout Dagoth made me so uncomfortable I wanted to quit.

Then again, I am probably just a jumpy person. Most people I know were not nearly as scarred from these experiences.

 

[Fappy]

Lucian Lachance yelling "NO" at me during the Dark Brotherhood quest line in Oblivion. I was so frightened that I jumped.
Scary dude to disappoint.

Definitely! Also, the part where you see him... for the last time. Yeesh, I didn't know where to look.

The creepiest part in Oblivion for me though, was another one in the Dark Brotherhood quest line - when you find the head of 'Mother' in that building and you realise what's been happening.

So scary, but so good.

Spoiler

I think what made the Dark Brotherhood so terrifying is that I knew something was wrong earlier in the quest line, but could do nothing to stop it. I could tell things were fucked when I got the first drop and the tone of the letter was completely different from past drops. I wish there was a "Hey Lucian, this isn't your handwriting" option.

And yeah- I took that head and tossed it into the lava of an Oblivion gate, I didn't want to look at that shit any longer than I had to.

Morrowind had a good amount of creepy moments as well. Every time a dreamer talked to me I felt my fight or flight response kick in. And voiced Dagoth Ur talking throughout Dagoth made me so uncomfortable I wanted to quit.

Then again, I am probably just a jumpy person. Most people I know were not nearly as scarred from these experiences.

You seriously need to hear all of the dreams read out by Dagoth Ur in the Overhaul mod. The modders did a great job making the creepiness reflect what was actually written in your journal entries.

Also, look what I found XD


Also, Tribunal spoiler:

Spoiler

"Now you face the one true God!"

 

[Rufio's Ghost]

Lucian Lachance yelling "NO" at me during the Dark Brotherhood quest line in Oblivion. I was so frightened that I jumped.
Scary dude to disappoint.

Definitely! Also, the part where you see him... for the last time. Yeesh, I didn't know where to look.

The creepiest part in Oblivion for me though, was another one in the Dark Brotherhood quest line - when you find the head of 'Mother' in that building and you realise what's been happening.

So scary, but so good.

Spoiler

I think what made the Dark Brotherhood so terrifying is that I knew something was wrong earlier in the quest line, but could do nothing to stop it. I could tell things were fucked when I got the first drop and the tone of the letter was completely different from past drops. I wish there was a "Hey Lucian, this isn't your handwriting" option.

And yeah- I took that head and tossed it into the lava of an Oblivion gate, I didn't want to look at that shit any longer than I had to.

Morrowind had a good amount of creepy moments as well. Every time a dreamer talked to me I felt my fight or flight response kick in. And voiced Dagoth Ur talking throughout Dagoth made me so uncomfortable I wanted to quit.

Then again, I am probably just a jumpy person. Most people I know were not nearly as scarred from these experiences.

You seriously need to hear all of the dreams read out by Dagoth Ur in the Overhaul mod. The modders did a great job making the creepiness reflect what was actually written in your journal entries.

Also, look what I found XD


Also, Tribunal spoiler:

Spoiler

"Now you face the one true God!"

Shit dude, it's even scary out of context.