Gaming moments that make you panic.

[IronStorm9]

I don't panic that easily...

However, I remember one specific event in my first PlayStation game (which was also the first game I ever owned in general) that made me quite jumpy. The game, lo and behold, was none other than...

Spyro 2: Getaway To Glimmer.

It remember it so clear: the homeworld: Summer Forest; the level: Hurricos.
There's a certain orb-assignment you need to do for an electroll: place all the energy spheres back in their place to power an electricity tower. However, there were Monsters - Gear Grinders - that would constantly steal away the spheres.

Every time they would come, a loud alarm would go of and you would hear the creepy laugh of the Gear Grinders. Both that alarm an that laugh creeped me out for a long time.

I recently played it again, for nostalgia's sake, and I still can't believe that something so silly managed to startle me.

I'm pretty sure that game was called Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage.

And I'm pretty sure you don't live in Europe.

Down here, Ratchet & Clank got numerals instead of titles like "Going Commando" or "Up Your Arsenal".
Down here, we have Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer's Call instead of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.
Down here, we have Dragon Quest: Journey of the Cursed King, instead of Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King.
And down here, we have Spyro 2: Getaway To Glimmer instead of Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage.

Ah, I didn't know that. Spyro 2 and Crash Bandicoot Warped were my first Playstation games as well. So much nostalgia!

 

[Krantos]

Survival mode in AvP.

"Ohshitohshitohshitohshit...." - literal transcript from playing once.

 

[Octorok]

TSSSSSSSSSSSS

OH CRAP OH CHRIST GOD NO MY DIAMONDS-*boom*

Just in case this counts as "low content" this poster summed up my feelings on the matter. That, or the chase scene in Call of Cthulhu

 

[Jacco]

The final leg of the Warthog run on the Maw on Legendary in Halo.

Everything is exploding and the giant bubble flood can flip you over if you hit them. If you die, you get to start the whole thing over again...

 

[Wayneguard]

In resident evil when you're in a small room or hallway and a zombie busts through a door. ohshitohshitohshitohshitohshit runrunrunrun

 

[Vault101]

Banjo kazooie

the fucking shark in treasure trove cove

clankers cavern

any water level really

 

[Conn1496]

Gravemind from Halo used to make me shit bricks. Now I just get pissed off at him. Something i'll never get over is this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7FzDO_eFjw

EDIT:
Oh, and this made me want to scream recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4XNo15KmFw
Skip 40 seconds in.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Generally when I'm playing Minecraft, and all of a sudden I hear a monster, or I turn around to see a creeper coming to give me a big kiss. Just trying to make it home after sundown really puts me on edge.

 

[Look-a-Hill]

In resident evil when you're in a small room or hallway and a zombie busts through a door. ohshitohshitohshitohshitohshit runrunrunrun

Or a window:

I've never been as scared as when I first saw this. The first two games (only two I've played) are unplayable for me. I can't get 5 minutes into them - even now - without becoming a nervous wreck.

 

[scully745]

Creepers from Minecraft, the Ubermorph from Dead Space 2 and Diablo from Diablo II. I can have a fully set out plan beforehand, but as soon as they show up it all descends into running around in circles occasionally swinging a weapon in its direction and trying not to die

 

[onewheeled]

That part in Half-Life 2: Episode Two where you're being chased by the Antlion Guard in the caves. The feeling of being chased in games scares the living hell out of me, especially when it's something you can't kill.

The same thing happens when your health is really low in Borderlands and you're trying to escape an area with ten enemies following you, or in Team Fortress 2 when you're on fire and being followed by an enemy, in your desperate rush to get to a health pack.

 

[Toasty Virus]

I don't panic that easily...

However, I remember one specific event in my first PlayStation game (which was also the first game I ever owned in general) that made me quite jumpy. The game, lo and behold, was none other than...

Spyro 2: Getaway To Glimmer.

It remember it so clear: the homeworld: Summer Forest; the level: Hurricos.
There's a certain orb-assignment you need to do for an electroll: place all the energy spheres back in their place to power an electricity tower. However, there were Monsters - Gear Grinders - that would constantly steal away the spheres.

Every time they would come, a loud alarm would go of and you would hear the creepy laugh of the Gear Grinders. Both that alarm an that laugh creeped me out for a long time.

I recently played it again, for nostalgia's sake, and I still can't believe that something so silly managed to startle me.

Oh my god...the...the laughter...

HELP

 

[Corporal Yakob]

AAAAAAAGH NO!!! GE- GET AWAY FROM ME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHH!!!!

I was in Choir and creeping from pillar to pillar when I turned a corner and walked right into one of those......things.....

OH....MY....

I immediatley entered my inventory, left the computer for 10 minutes, came back and stared at the inventory for 20 mins before summoning my courage, exiting the inventory and crept away with my back to the thing, praying to every diety known to Mankind that it would not give chase.

 

[ThongBonerstorm]

this isn't any specific game, but i hate having a time limit in an RTS. It always makes me feel rushed and panicked and i never feel like i have enough time to do anything.

 

[Ekonk]

http://images.wikia.com/metro2033/images/f/ff/Chase.jpg
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

 

[infohippie]

Pretty much every time I entered a room during the Shalebridge Cradle in Thief 3.

 

[EHKOS]

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth:

"Why, I'm just going to go ahead and sleep in this fishy hotel in Innsmouth. Surely nothing will go wrong as long as I lock the door, right?"

Seconds later,

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

QFT

Also whenever I get within melee range of anyone with an equalizer.

 

[Jazoni89]

In resident evil when you're in a small room or hallway and a zombie busts through a door. ohshitohshitohshitohshitohshit runrunrunrun

Or a window:

I've never been as scared as when I first saw this. The first two games (only two I've played) are unplayable for me. I can't get 5 minutes into them - even now - without becoming a nervous wreck.

Then i would love to know what it would be like for you, when the nemesis is chasing you down every five minutes in Resident Evil 3.

 

[dillinger88]

Being either bunker rushed, cannon rushed, 6 pooled, 4-gated or 3 raxed in Starcraft 2.

I can usually defend them most of the time, but I just started playing Zerg and the pressure is massive if happens and you've been droning the entire time. I shake so much that I have to stop playing for an hour.

Love the game though.

 

[crazy_egyptian]

In Half Life 2 Ep 2 when you're in the room with the Advisor and you decide to piss it off... I mashed every button known to man just hoping I could do something to stop it from killing me, and then shit just explodes... That blew my mind.

I know this isn't a part of the game, but in Doom 3, I was at the peak of immersion, when my little sister walks up behind me and goes "BOO!"
I jumped so high I nearly hit the ceiling.