Poll: SCARY GAMES!!!!!!

[DustyDrB]

I have to ask...
What is this frog avatar the OP has that I've seen a lot of other people use? I swear there's like 5 people on here with that same picture as their avatar.

OT: I can't handle scary games. I quit during the Medical Pavilion in BioShock, and apparently most people here don't find that game scary at all. It freaked the everliving shit out of me.

Hell, Husks in Mass Effect scare me. This genre of gaming is just not for me.

 

[zehydra]

Chex Quest. Those friggin flemoids...

 

[tawmus]

STALKER wasn't exactly scary but the first time I ran into a controller(i think that's what they are called). It made me jump when it did that mind attack thingy, plus it was dark tunnel and in russia.

 

[atol]

None of the above.

Amnesia is actually a really boring game if you're not scared.

 

[LeonLethality]

Sweet Home on the NES.

 

[Cyberjester]

Only one Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth mention? That had it's moments. Well.. When you aren't going :O A DEEP ONE!! EEEEE!!!

It was pretty well done though. Too bad the company went bankrupt and didn't do the rest of them.

Doom 3 wasn't scary, more annoying. Flashlight didn't last long, so the "scary" bits were no light. But shotgun, wandering around really isn't scary when you have a shotgun. Unless it's in Stalker where the shotgun doesn't insta kill. -.- Bloodsuckers are annoying.

F.E.A.R. was pretty good, very cinematic, decent story, fun game. First game I found even mildly scary, stalker was next, Call of Cthulhu after that. Didn't really find most other games scary. Res Evil was just annoying, no ammo doesn't equal scary.

 

[Corven]

Condemned 1 still holds scariest game ever for me.

The enemies are real people, driven mad. That shit could really happen,

Kinda makes you wonder if all those dying birds everywhere are a sign?

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

Condemned 1 still holds scariest game ever for me.

The enemies are real people, driven mad. That shit could really happen,

Yeah Condemned 1 is just amazing. There's this one room in the subway level that gives me chills. No other game has ever come close to that.

 

[lacktheknack]

Get through the labs in Stalker without crapping yourself. I dare you.

I did. I only pissed myself.

No, I crapped myself in Amnesia, Penumbra, and Fatal Frame.

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[MAUSZX]

I am so glad nobody voted for Dead Space yet. It's not scary at all. In fact, I was just playing the DS2 demo, and I jumped once because I had the volume up and that big thing crashed down. But not once did I feel any tension.

Yeah I didn't feel scared in all the game, but I should mention that the game is pretty good, just not scary.

 

[MAUSZX]

Scuse me? I think you forgot a little game called F.E.A.R.

It stands for 3 things:

First Encounter Assault Recon

Failure to escape Alma rape (F.E.A.R. 2)

Fuck everything and run

Yeah I know, I just have 8 spaces, so FEAR can be in others, I just put the "popular" games i remember about horror, I really forgot about FEAR and put DOOM. So anyway that why you can specify here.

 

[MAUSZX]

I have to ask...
What is this frog avatar the OP has that I've seen a lot of other people use? I swear there's like 5 people on here with that same picture as their avatar.

OT: I can't handle scary games. I quit during the Medical Pavilion in BioShock, and apparently most people here don't find that game scary at all. It freaked the everliving shit out of me.

Hell, Husks in Mass Effect scare me. This genre of gaming is just not for me.

Well Frog, is one character of Chrono Trigger, since i was a little kid a like frogs so this was my favorite in that game, you should play that game.

And yes, apparently horror is not a genre for you LoL

 

[Cash84]

Played Silent Hill 1 when i was about 14 and it scared the hell out of me. I'm still too scared to play Silent Hill 2...instead it just sits on my shelf mocking me. Oh yeah and I'm 26.

 

[Papadam]

I love horror games but none scared me more than Fatal Frame (2 I think)
Played it with two friends and all of us were scared as hell and throwing the controller at each other because no one dared to keep playing.

We did not get far in that game...

 

[omgct]

don't know if its been mentioned, but anyone remember a game called project zero on ps2 and xbox? scared the heck out of me in my mid teens

 

[Do4600]

I played the demo for Amnesia, in the dark at 2am wearing 7.1 headphones, I liked the mechanics but I honestly didn't find it scary I think I was more amused at the enemy design which was really unique.

The scariest game I've ever played is probably Fatal Frame, the timing of the encounters is brilliantly structured, it really makes you afraid to continue playing sometimes.


DCotE gets an honorable mention just for "Attack of the Fishmen" The whole level is simply terrifying, it starts when you wake up in the middle of the night with townsfolk with cleavers kicking down your door and you have no weapons, the whole level you're being hunted down and hallucinating.

Dead Space was a lot more disturbing than anything else, it was like playing Event Horizon.

I remember the first time I saw a bloodsucker in stalker. The room was almost pitch black and I thought I saw something out of the corner of my eye so I looked, nothing there, then these eyes appeared under a staircase; I had about enough time to mutter,"What the hell?" before it was tearing me up. The rest of the encounter was spent with the fire button held down and I was jamming the medkit button while I was yelling, "Oh shit, oh god, oh shit!" I think I used something like six or seven sub-machine gun magazines and all my medkits. I paused the game after that and just spent the next minute regaining my wits.

 

[Poopster]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl.
Travelling in the dark is just damn scary in STALKER, you're always thinking of something might jump and kill you whether it be humans or mutants...

 

[Fr]anc[is]

One bit near the beginning of Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines is definitely up near the top. Unfortunately it's the only real horror part. Fortunately, it's a fucking awesome game, and everybody reading this should buy it. Now. Steam. $20. Now.

 

[tsb247]

Its really interesting that no-one has mentioned F.E.A.R., a game that prides itself on being scary.

I was thinking the same thing. I loved F.E.A.R., and I could not bring myself to play straight through. I had to stop from time to time to take a breather. That game really creeped me the fuck out!

Honorable mention:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Those fucking bloodsuckers are the most horrifying enemy I have ever encountered. You can't see them, they can absorb TONS of bullets, and they pretty much eat your face. Yeah, they scare the hell outta me every time!

 

[dogmachines]

FEAR is one of the top horror games for me. I know you are have bullet time and are a general bad-ass, but that makes it worse that you can't do anything to Alma and Fettel. I love the way it generally paces things pretty well up until Perseus Mandate. FEAR 2 was a let down for me though, seemed like it abandoned the pacing and tension-building in favor of monsters jumping out. One of the things about the original is that at only one point in the game do you fight anything paranormal outside of the hallucinations, and jump scares are extremely rare because they don't need them to make you scare quit. All you need is that blurry filter that means shit just got real.