Games that aren't meant to be scary, but you find scary

[Ironbat92]

So, after I saw the Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D, I still remember being scared shitless as a kid by Skull Kid and the moon face. I couldn't finish the game, especially since it gave me nightmares. In a way, that game still kind of scares me. The bleach world, the look of the Majora's mask, and that god damn moon face. I don't know if it was meant to be scary, but it still does on a level.

Anyone else have a game that wasn't meant to be scary, but still scared you?

 

[remnant_phoenix]

Majora's Mask creeped me out quite a bit when I was younger. Even today I find the game a bit unsettling, and when the Happy Mask Salesman puts on his freakout-angry face, I STILL find that creepy.

The other one would be the part in Metroid Prime when Samus first enters the metroid containment area. You walk past all these fishtank-like containers with metroids inside. When you get to the bottom of the area, the power cuts out. Then you hear glass breaking and the shriek of metroids breaking free, and you have to fight them in the dark. -- I first played this at night, in my room, with the lights off, and it freaked me out big time.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire on the N64.

Toward the end of the game there's a segment where you're infiltrating a palace through a section of abnormally large (even by video game standards) sewers. It's dark, it's grimy, and there's a lot of murky water filled with those tentacle monsters like the one in the Death Star's trash compactor in Episode IV: A New Hope.

I have a general fear of water that I can't see the bottom of, and what may be lurking down there... so when an eight year old me got that game for Christmas back in '96, that segment was terrifying.

 

[Shpongled]

I used to find Minecraft foreboding. Exploring the depths of mines, no light at all but that coming from your own torch, hearing creepers, zombies and spiders and having no idea where the sounds were coming from. The tension did dissipate quite quickly once the enemy finally appeared. Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel after a long night cave-crawling was always a nice relief though.