Haha this was many years ago, I would have been about 15 at the time. That game freaked me outright. You don't even need to be alone xD As I said, scared a group of us hahaRaioken18 said:
Games that Actually Scared You
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resident evil on the ps1 was the first game that scared me, then again I must been about 4-5 years old at the time
I blame that game for making me terrified of the dark when I was younger and for being so bad at handling scary games/films now
games I played this gen that scared me;
fallout 3
minecraft
bioshock
gears of war (mainly because I'm awful at it and in most fights Dom goes down straight away and I only just barely survive) whenever I hear that damn screeching sound and the beserker fights scare the **** out of me no matter how many times I play it
half life 2
I've never played COD zombie for more than 5 minutes due to how much it creeps me out
I blame that game for making me terrified of the dark when I was younger and for being so bad at handling scary games/films now
games I played this gen that scared me;
fallout 3
minecraft
bioshock
gears of war (mainly because I'm awful at it and in most fights Dom goes down straight away and I only just barely survive) whenever I hear that damn screeching sound and the beserker fights scare the **** out of me no matter how many times I play it
half life 2
I've never played COD zombie for more than 5 minutes due to how much it creeps me out
Come on, guys - Most of these games have nothing on Thief 3 - The Cradle/Inner Cradle.
That was bloody terrifying. It's also wonderfully done, but I won't spoil any surprise. Just play it. Per-leeease? It's amazing.
I had to stop a fair few times because I was so scared..
That was bloody terrifying. It's also wonderfully done, but I won't spoil any surprise. Just play it. Per-leeease? It's amazing.
I had to stop a fair few times because I was so scared..
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is the game that scared me the most. I couldn't play longer than 10 minutes at a time because I was so tensed up, I had to stop and take a breather, lol.
Also Penumbra: Overture and Black Plague, Silent Hill 1 and Ravenholm from Half Life 2 scared the heck out of me aswell.
Also Penumbra: Overture and Black Plague, Silent Hill 1 and Ravenholm from Half Life 2 scared the heck out of me aswell.
Resident Evil 1 used to scare me shitless. Silent Hill 2 is also pretty terrifying. I thought I'd pick it up when I saw it at a car boot sale, because if Yahtzee loved it surely it had to be outstanding in some way. Turns out it's brilliant at making me shit my pants, by not having monsters about... Also that one bit at the very beginning where Pyramid Head is just standing there, watching.
I would thoroughly recommend this game to anyone with constipation.
I would thoroughly recommend this game to anyone with constipation.
I'm gonna have to go with Fallout 3.
Going through the DC subway with no food, Stimpacks and a crippled arm, head and leg with only a 9mm pistol and a moderate sneak skill is not easy.
Especially on the hardest difficulty in a dark room and no music on.
Those feral ghouls don't half move fast i've gotta tell ya....
Going through the DC subway with no food, Stimpacks and a crippled arm, head and leg with only a 9mm pistol and a moderate sneak skill is not easy.
Especially on the hardest difficulty in a dark room and no music on.
Those feral ghouls don't half move fast i've gotta tell ya....
Really? NO ONE has mentioned the STALKER series? Has anyone on the Escapist even played those games? Cause I'd be sorely dissappointed in this place as a gaming community if they hadn't.
Seriously, next to Condemned, STALKER is the only game that has seriously freaked me out. Namely the part in Shadow of Chernobyll called "The Brain Scorcher". You have to go into a derelict bunker filled with mutants to turn off a device that has been frying peoples brains and turning them into zombies.
First, as you near the bunker, the screen goes sepia and staticy, and you begin to hear Russian radio transmissions whispered around your head. Then ghostly "echoes" of mutated animals start to assault you, but they disspate if you shoot them or when they touch you. Then when you actually get into the base, it's pitch black, filled with deadly anomalies that can kill you in an instant, and there's eerie noises from every direction. "Snorks", degenerated humans wearing gas masks, run on all fours and lunge at you. And worst of all, a creature with telekinectic powers can pick up objects and fling them at you any time, meaning every item is a potential danger.
20 minutes crawling through that situation, and your nerves are shot. Best scary/tense scene I've ever played in a game. I both dread and look forward to it every time I play.
Seriously, next to Condemned, STALKER is the only game that has seriously freaked me out. Namely the part in Shadow of Chernobyll called "The Brain Scorcher". You have to go into a derelict bunker filled with mutants to turn off a device that has been frying peoples brains and turning them into zombies.
First, as you near the bunker, the screen goes sepia and staticy, and you begin to hear Russian radio transmissions whispered around your head. Then ghostly "echoes" of mutated animals start to assault you, but they disspate if you shoot them or when they touch you. Then when you actually get into the base, it's pitch black, filled with deadly anomalies that can kill you in an instant, and there's eerie noises from every direction. "Snorks", degenerated humans wearing gas masks, run on all fours and lunge at you. And worst of all, a creature with telekinectic powers can pick up objects and fling them at you any time, meaning every item is a potential danger.
20 minutes crawling through that situation, and your nerves are shot. Best scary/tense scene I've ever played in a game. I both dread and look forward to it every time I play.
Those are on my list too.kman123 said:
Dark Corners of the Earth is great at building tension, leading up to that legendary chase sequence.
Condemned gets so many things right. Including making me think: "Holy sh*t, I just clubbed five homeless men to death with a lead pipe. What the f**k is wrong with me?"
I almost forgot that one (Shadow of Chernobyl in my case). The sights and sounds alone make me uneasy... And then the mutants and anomalies come in. I remember my first encounter with the bloodsucker, or trying to sneak past the pack of dogs outside Rostok.Project_Xii said:
As for less obvious titles, I remember being freaked out (but fascinated) by The Neverhood [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aDh_O3FQWY] when I played it as a kid. It doesn't seem scary now, though.
The original LUNAR: Silver Star for SEGA CD.
Before the final battle between the heroes and Ghaleon, Ghaleon transforms and that freaked my shit out like no one's business. I was 13 at that time, however.
Before the final battle between the heroes and Ghaleon, Ghaleon transforms and that freaked my shit out like no one's business. I was 13 at that time, however.
Eternal Darkness, hands down. The enemies aren't scary in themselves, just how well the sanity meter works in game, it changes everything. I haven't played much of Amnesia, but from what I did, I didn't think it was as scary as Eternal Darkness.
Thief 3. I played 3 first, no one told me it had horror elements and I'd been having mighty fun sneaking around and pinching things. Then it got to the second last level; The Infamous Cradle.
I'd known their were zombies from a previous boat bit but they went down if you stabbed them in the back. So my first zombie I saw went down, so did several others. Now I'm in the level, sneaking around in darkness, approach a dead body andAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
The body jumps up in a single frame and screams into my earphones, it is 11pm, I'm the only one in the house awake and until now the darkness had been a fun place to knock people out in.
Eventually I brought myself to play the rest, the final museum level was the most fun.
I'd known their were zombies from a previous boat bit but they went down if you stabbed them in the back. So my first zombie I saw went down, so did several others. Now I'm in the level, sneaking around in darkness, approach a dead body andAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
The body jumps up in a single frame and screams into my earphones, it is 11pm, I'm the only one in the house awake and until now the darkness had been a fun place to knock people out in.
Eventually I brought myself to play the rest, the final museum level was the most fun.
Well I don't tend to play scary games in the first place (I'm a fraidy cat) but I did buy Resident Evil 4 which pretty much scared me when you encounter the Regenerator.
Stalker: Call of Pripyat; Zaton and Jupitar have their moments, but Pripyat itself is terrifying; so quite and yet so suspicious; I find it hard to explore at night.