Most Terrifying Video Game Enemy?

[Koski]

The Ritual Monster from Silent Hill 2.

An invisible monster in the game that can't harm you.

You're walking down a dark corridor in a prison; cells on either sides of you. Suddenly, your radio crackles to life, a sure sign that a monster is near. You shine your flashlight in to the darkness, but you can't see anything. As the radio grows louder, you can discern footsteps coming towards you. But you still can't see anything in the darkness.

The radio grows louder and louder, and the footsteps keep coming towards you in a steady pace.

They pass. You still can't see anything. The radio starts to quiet down.

The footsteps stop. A low, male whisper utters a single word; 'Ritual'.

Then the footsteps continue in the opposite direction.



To this day; the noise of that one monster terrifies me so much that I've had to tell my friends to not play that noise for me. Even as a joke. It can seriously send me right in to an anxiety attack.

 

[Togs]

Facehuggers, they're tiny, quick, can scale walls and one hit kill you by humping your face unless you have the reflexes of a ninja.
The sounds of their scuttling and forever burned deep into my pysche.

 

[Drummodino]

Creepers. That is all.

This. Damn creepers

 

[mcattack92]

The Cyberdemon in the Doom series.

This guy can destroy you in 2 shots and takes a lot of punishment to kill.

 

[guntotingtomcat]

Half life 2 antlion guardian, the one you run from in the tunnel in episode 2.

Dum dee dum...what's that noise?
FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK
RUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUN
WHERE'S THE FUCKING SPRINT BUTTON
SHITFUCKCUNTFUCKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
Dead.

edit: Oh yeah! And the smaller colossi in SOTC, the ones that moved fast. Creepy. Still felt guilty killing them.

 

[Drummodino]

D:

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

*FUUUUUUUUUU...*

 

[gibboss28]

I hated those poison headcrabs in hl2. they freaked me the fuck out. not the health prospect but just the size and the slow speed of the bloody things, and then there's the fact they're FUCKING THROWN AT YOU to boot. Ugh

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Every enemy from Painkiller:Battle Out of Hell's Orphanage level. If I recall, I've played that level two or three times in the entirety of the three years I've owned Painkiller.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m9YYpIcuYw]

 

[suitepee7]

The Regenerators from RE4. Powerful attacks, nearly invincible and utterly terrifying to look at.

this. regenerators breathing scared me so badly. not seeing them, but knowing they are around. and then dramatic music starts, and breathing gets louder, and you still can't see them. so you break into a run, try to get out of the room and BAM!

regenerator in the doorway...

 

[captaincabbage]

How have Deathclaws not been mentioned yet?
Everyone's, and I mean EVERYONE'S, first thought when these pop up on screen is "FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!"

Seriously, fuck those guys.

Agreed, and are you taking him on bare handed? if so, tip of the hat to you sir!

Oh that's not me, I'd be too scared to. My policy is literally "Nuke on sight.", and that's exactly what I do.

 

[Droppa Deuce]

Deathclaws in Fallout 3 were pretty intimidating. When I first saw them I didn;t know what to do, they're fast and strong...until I got faster and stronger!

 

[LitleWaffle]

 

[Chased]

Someone may have mentioned it, but the chainsaw zombies from Res 4.

 

[Denamic]

Gargantua.
Half-Life.
Sure, not that scary now, but when I first played Half-Life, it was terrifying.
That scene when you have to run past it and down a corridor with the thing chasing you...
It's the enemy that came closest to making me shit my pants.

 

[GavmatexD]

Wall and Floormasters from OoT, and whatever it is that chases you in Amnesia : The dark decent which you cant see you just have to run like hell .

 

[Rynozeros]

How have Deathclaws not been mentioned yet?
Everyone's, and I mean EVERYONE'S, first thought when these pop up on screen is "FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!"

Seriously, fuck those guys.

Agreed, and are you taking him on bare handed? if so, tip of the hat to you sir!

Oh that's not me, I'd be too scared to. My policy is literally "Nuke on sight.", and that's exactly what I do.

Cazadors from New Vegas too.

 

[Bucky01]

lol you do realize he was actually there, in a cell, invisible, and you can shoot and kill him.

O.P. +1 to the deathclaws

 

[ZydrateDealer]

Well there the first time I encountered the super mutant behemoth at galaxy news radio; "hmm that was a lot of mutants I just murdered, but hey look at all these guards at least I'm sfe here, wait why did that bus explode...oh shit what is that thing? Oh cock why is my hunting rifle not effective?" Anyway I found the fatman on the dead paladin and that was enough to subside my fears about fighting this creature...I don't really get that thrill with any of the enemies anymore though granted when I happen across a swarm of super mutant overlords armed with tri beam laser rifles I cry a little...try getting through chevy chase on you're first go with an assault rifle at level 30...I think I used about 50 stimpacks.

Another OH SHIT! enemy was the Leviathon from Resistance 2...now it's not as scary as it was when I first did it.

ALL the enemies from Abe were terrifying but no more so than the Scrabs...the screeching and the victory dance they did when they killed you. So yeah 50ft Monsters are not teffifying at all but a 2d torso with fingers for legs and a mouth that's what fear is.

 

[Illesdan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTEEsY8lMx0&feature=player_detailpage

I give you this.

Hand down, the scariest game on planet earth.

 

[TitanAtlas]

The Iron Maiden(aka regenerators) from RE4...

but when i was a kid i was afraid from fast headcrabs... those bastards made me shit myself each time i heard one.....

but then i finished the game a hundred times....