Most dreaded sounds in gaming.

[justnotcricket]

The 'shing! shing!' sounds of an upcoming trap in a Tomb Raider game. Neatly mirrored by the Tomb Raider theme song that played wanly but hopefully when you were about to exit some hell-hole deathtrap of a tomb and breathe fresh, safe air again. Awesome. (And by Tomb Raider I mean back in the old days, like TR1-4.

 

[Squilookle]

I'd say it's a toss up between "HEY!" and "LISTEN!"

 

[loppopoo]

Enemy AC-130 above!!!


FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK

 

[Cain_Zeros]

The motion sensor in AvP2. I heard that damn thing while walking around in the dark after I played.

 

[Nouw]

The sound of Battle in AVP2.

 

[KrazyShrink]

The quick couple beeps in Team Fortress 2 of a level 3 sentry taking aim at you before you're utterly destroyed.

 

[Death on Trapezoids]

This one's not really a noise, but...
While backpedalling furiously from hungry splicers in bioshock/bioshock 2, and suddenly stopping, seeing the screen shake, feeling the controller rumble, and realizing that I just did the fighting equivalent of jumping from a few drops of rain into a lake.

 

[HypotheticalCynic]

The horrible horrible sound of that goddamn fairy that everybody hates.

"HEEEYY! LISTEN!!!

There's a certain place in hell reserved especially for Navi...

 

[blankedboy]

Not a sound, but...

"You wake. You feel the presence of another nearby..."

You turn around and HOLYSHITTHERESAFUCKINGASHZOMBIEWITHONLYHALFAFACEBLASRGHACUIGRTNS

 

[Melgrath]

Witch from L4D. Seems like there is always someone around to startle em, be it a player or AI.

 

[Spartan054]

the slight wispering of a beam rifle shot. because by the time u relised what that sound ment the dam jackel has already mounted ur head on its mantle

 

[Yokai]

In STALKER Call of Pripyat...the sound of dogs barking.
"Meh," say those who haven't played a STALKER game, "Why would dogs scare you?" Because in Call of Pripyat, the dogs are pure evil sent straight from hell.

They move extremely quickly and never stop so you can get a clear shot, jump past you when they attack so they end up behind you and you have to keep spinning around, do bleed damage with nearly every hit that slowly leeches away your health, and can take a hell of a lot more rounds of buckshot to the spinal column than a normal dog could, i.e. more than one.

And they travel in packs.

I hate the dogs more than I hate the Bloodsuckers.

 

[AWOL]

I always found that crescendo of wooshing sounds from the Wallmasters in Ocarina of Time really unnerving. I guess it isn't as bad any more, but I still don't really care for it.

And I agree about the turrets in Portal, they are kinda creepy, but I felt that it was so appropriate so I loved it.

 

[Kalfira]

Nuclear Missile Detected.

 

[Sonic195]

If anyone here has played kingdom hearts 2 and has fought sephiroth then they know that the worst sound to hear is sephiroth muttering "Descend Heartless Angel" and seeing a halo pop above your head.

Also the sound of a blue shell in mario kart on the final lap.

 

[Wither]

This.
Followed shortly by this.
That signifies that a lot of work just went down the drain... and yet I come back for more.

Or in terms of annoyance, the Zelda Beep Beep! Beep Beep! Beep Beep! sound when you're low on life. Drives. Me. Insane.

this, or, the sounds of a splicer talking, but I can't see them, and even though i have surround sound, it always seem to be coming from right behind me no matter where i face *shudders*

 

[sansamour14]

the creaking of the building im in in BFBC2 when its about to collapse

 

[Elandin]

The constant spout of drivel that comes out of the mouths of people that aren't in the same room as I am when playing a game that supports microphones

 

[Dfskelleton]

When you hear this sound, the dread you feel of what you know is going to happen is only drowned out by the horror of when it does happen. If you don't know what happens and you can stand horror games, go get Silent Hill 2 or 3. Don't even read this, if you like horror, go buy it now.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

I hate it when the zombies in HL2 beg for your help. Same as the ones in System Shock 2. It disturbs the fuck out of me.

Spoiler

Lol, goood times, I had forgotten that Half Life was scary