Most Frightening Game You've Seen?
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Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem in a dark room at 3 AM in a blizzard. I still get freaked out just thinking about it sometimes.
Aaaaah why. You knew it was going to happen. You knew, and you had to do it anyways. Also the bit with the mannequins surrounding out. I had to stop playing for a little while at that part.HT_Black said:
I'd also put Penumbra and it's sequel up there alongside Condemned in the list of games that scared me most.
Haven't found a game frightning in years. Last game I found frightening was Thief, when it first came out (and I was just a kid). I had never seen anything like that: dark shadows, zombies, people searching for you if you accidently make too much noise, desperately trying to hide all the time. As a kid, that was scary-ass stuff. It hasn't been topped yet.
I played "penumbra" which is basically a tech demo made before the actual trilogy.JackRyan64 said:
Too. Fucking. Scary.
I didn't even meet a single enemy. just... the atmosphere.
I usually don't play horror games, and I loathe the horror movie premise even more, but Dead Space's premise was enough to convince me to give it a try. I was so fraked out by the scares and creepy atmosphere that at several points in the game I had to switch it off and go do something else for a day or so before I could be lured back.
I know that many pretentious horror fans say that it wasn't really good horror because it was all about cheap shock scares, but it certainly didn't matter to me at the time.
Interestingly, apparently my reaction wasn't uncommon, because I saw an article about Dead Space 2 that the developers found out that a lot of people were too scared to play the game through, so apparently they're going to try to make you feel less helpless, but at the same time keeping the scares and stuff. I hope so.
I know that many pretentious horror fans say that it wasn't really good horror because it was all about cheap shock scares, but it certainly didn't matter to me at the time.
Interestingly, apparently my reaction wasn't uncommon, because I saw an article about Dead Space 2 that the developers found out that a lot of people were too scared to play the game through, so apparently they're going to try to make you feel less helpless, but at the same time keeping the scares and stuff. I hope so.
Yeah, you knew, but the thing that made that scene scarier than any other scene in the game was the flawlessly-done moment of rest that immediately came before it.meatloaf231 said:
Picture this: you're in a maze-like room, but you've killed everything in it. You're alone, but danger can come at you from any direction. you recieve a vision, open the lockers, and OH SHI-- No wait, you knew that was going to happen. Your handler tells you to get a close-up on his face, for further confirmation while the DNA goes through the lab. Somewhere above you, there's a rattling sound. At this point, you see jsut how stupidly close you'll have to zoom your camera in, and both your gamer and horror movie veteran senses start tingling. You know what's coming next.
Then...nothing. Recalling the time where you had to do this with the Matchmaker's body earlier, and relieved by the moment of silence, you realize that it was a false alarm on your end. You place the call, and---AHFUCKFUCKFUCKAAAAAHFUCKKILLITAAAAHOhwaitnow he's dead.
It was the momentary silence right before the "boo" that made that scene so terrifying-- it briefly lowers your defenses, and then it hits you with everything it's got.
But yeah, the mannequins were creepy too.
I'm having a really hard time remembering the name to the game...it was old...i think it was a PS1, but i'm not sure...but everytime I think of scary, I think of the clown scene in Brave Little Toaster. I know, I know, it's not a game, but even now, I still get nostalgic chills whenever I watch that movie. SORRY!!!!! D: When I was maybe seven or eight, there Rugrats game was obviously childish...but there were these possessed demon clowns (im serious) that wandered around in certain levels that could murder the babies! It was rather traumatizing for my age. Figures that a few years later, I call Hostel 2 a comedy. 
Penumbra Penumbra Penumbra holy fuck. So yeah, you're underground in Greenland looking for Daddy with plenty of evil horrors lurking around. There's not exactly combat. There are puzzle solving tools you use as a last means of defense when you fuck up at stealth. And the stealth is great. And the story is amazing. And the characters are unique and deep. And the sound design is fucking A.
Also coming soon by the same developers. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo053hjMkcs[/youtube]
Also coming soon by the same developers. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo053hjMkcs[/youtube]
This.T0xiCity8 said:
I've never been scared by a game, but SH2 is the closest I've been to it. But it's completely different than other horror games I've played. No jump scares at all in that game, instead it focuses on an unbelievably creepy atmosphere that slowly creeps into your nerves and disturbs the hell out of you.