Has there ever been a moment in a video game that genuinely disturbed you?

[DaMan1500]

When I was young, around 7 or 8, I had an awsome uncle Doug. Doug was awsome because he was the only grown-up I knew who played video games, and when he was done I usually inherited them. Now, one Christmas, bundled with the latest batch of games Doug had beat, was a game I had never heard of called Parasite Eve for the PS1. Neither me nor my parents understood what the M rating meant, and when I attempted to play it, The very first thing I saw was an opera house full of people being burned alive. I freaked the fuck out. I had up until that point played only cute & cuddly Nintendo games, and had no idea games like this existed. When I was even younger I had a similar moment in Mario 64, when a piano tried to eat me. Now I'm now fully desensitized to video game violence, but has there ever been a moment in any game that, at some point in your life, scared the shit out of you?

 

[Hazy]

If you know what this means, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

 

[walls of cetepedes]

Dino crisis. Scared the shit out of me when I was 7...

 

[Time Travelling Toaster]

-nightmare snip-

If you know what this means, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

And if you don't youtube it, but it disturbed me as well.

 

[MassiveGeek]

Hmmm, very good question.
I havent actually really played F.E.A.R properly, mostly I've just been checking videos on youtube, trying it at my friends house, watching someone play it or readin up on the wikia page, but the whole scene with the little girl giving birth, when she looks like shes about 8-10 years old, the "father" or whatever revealed to be a soldier at the age of 30... That disturbed me quiet well.
But for the games I've played myself, I dont think there is such a moment that really got to me.
Maby the time when I was about 10 or so and played Tomb Raider with my dad and we were in a temple when a giant T-Rex showed up and we had to hide behind pillars and shit to not get our asses eaten. It may not sound so disturbing, but I get really paranoid when I think about it, becuse the feeling of hiding from certain death that could at any moment just poke its head in through the door and bite your pinky finger and head off, is quiet bothering.
But thats all I can think of really.

 

[karp250]

the splicer at the start of bioshock with the gun in the stroller freaked me out the first time i saw it but there were a few things in that game that did really disturb me

 

[Drakmeire]

I think I Have the most disturbing one of all time. Anyone who has played Psychonauts may have found the room that discuses Milla's eight (I think is was eight) children that died in a fire. well in the room there is a chest that when opened will take you to a chamber populated by eight (I think) emotional demons that scream things like "it burns" and "Milla, why did you let us die!?!" Anyone else have a bad reaction to that?

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Torture chamber in Condemned 2.

Gurgling hobos with thier heads trapped in jagged cages with skin piercing neck traps. Not nice.

Oh and the HL2 Ep 2 ending, obviously.

 

[CoziestPigeon]

-nightmare snip-

If you know what this means, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

And if you don't youtube it, but it disturbed me as well.

I believe they mean This. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLkcXizPXcc]

 

[CoziestPigeon]

Also, you want disturbing? Call of C'thulu.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

I suppose when the zombies first appeared in Resident Evil they freaked me out, but my excuse is that I was was around 8 at the time.

Other than that, I don't think so. Games don't tend to disturb me, really.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I don't remember a game being disturbing exactly but Stan Gimble's prosthetics shop in Vampire Bloodlines was something like that.

 

[Time Travelling Toaster]

-nightmare snip-

If you know what this means, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

And if you don't youtube it, but it disturbed me as well.

I believe they mean This. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLkcXizPXcc]

I meant when he is seen raping a mannequin at one point and just found the link [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcSgjAqSFDM&feature=related] to it. The scenes at's number 1 (3:10 ish)

 

[mskji]

B-B-Bioshock! A damn fine game, but I was scared shitless the whole time. But that "thriller" aspect really added to the awesomeness of the experience. Also the torture chamber in GOW 2 was pretty freaky.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

I know it's wimpy but Condemned 2 has this seen where A guys eyes are ripped out and the blood on the wall says My eyes have seen the glory.
Geez

 

[Pimppeter2]

I steer clear of Horror games, not my cup of tea

 

[Ultress]

The whole eating people thing in Digital Devil Saga initially freaked me out, then I realized that eating people helped me so I stopped caring.

Though for some reason the People turning into pigs in Paper Mario:TTYD scared me especially when the children's mom turns into a pig and they start crying.