Scariest Enemies in Gaming

[t0mme]

I scare easily, so bare with me.

-Every spider. Period. Especially a huge spider in some sort of semi 3d RPG (early 90's style). I wanted to close my eyes, but in order to move you had to click arrows on screen with your mouse, meaning you had to watch... I opted for the reboot button instead.

-Mimi in Super Paper Mario. Little ***** turning into a crude spider while I'm running around in a maze with her randomly appearing....

-Headcrabs, or anything small that jumps on your face in 1st person. I never played past the first one in Half-Life...which is about a minute after that reactor thing explodes.

-Octabrain in Duke Nukem 3D. Just. plain. scary.

-Phantom Ganon in the Forest Temple in LoZ:OoT. In retrospect the coolest boss I've ever beaten, but it brought back memories and nightmares of a scary book dealing with living things in paintings. The rest of OoT was no fun either with spiders littered around the world. Only made it to the water temple.

-The slicers in the original Prince of Persia (1989) which would cut you clear in half. I still close my eyes when I walk through them.

-AGI horror; the Sariens in Space Quest 1 which would kill you if you wandered around too long in the first space station. The witch in Kings Quest 2, whose cave you had to plunder and would eat you if she saw you doing it.

-Damn mud creatures in Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father. There you are, puzzling along when all of a sudden, creatures come walking out the walls. Damn you Sierra for putting reflexes in a point 'n click adventure.

-The Werewolf in Ecstatica. Chased you. Jumped on you from rooftops. Nearly impossible to kill. All the hints on the internet say: RUN!!

-Alone in the Dark. The first zombie walking up trough the trapdoor. It scared me shitless. I restarted and blocked the trapdoor only to have a flying creatures bashing trough the window. Panic. Reboot. deltree aitd.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

Zombies from Half-Life 2, I was in that cave in uh, I think it was Water Hazard and one of them leapt out of the water next to the achievement-box-thing and I went "BAH!!!", They're kind of funny though (watch Zombie Happy Fun Time on Youtube :3).
Those children monsters in Silent Hill, They're one of the reasons I can't play that game.
Wallmasters from Ocarina of Time and also Re-Deads, they scare the crap out of me every time.
And Floormasters from Wind Waker, they're like Wallmasters only on the floor and harder to kill.
Bongo Bongo is annoying and scary as fuck, That weird white thing from the Kakariko well or Shadow Temple.

 

[savageoblivi0n]

definitely any ghost from the fatal frame series, though personally my worst one from those games was blinded, the one that walked around going "my eyes....it hurrrrts...
gives me nightmares to this day..
also in the first max payne, the nightmare levels where you have to follow the trail of blood and use the baby's cries to find your way :S
::ignores disturbing thought that comes to mind combining the two::
also for the record, never......under ANY circumstances, play resident evil:directors cut for the ps1 while on any hallucinogenic substances.....baaaaad juju

 

[accidentalsuccess]

In no order:
the way's monster from Wheel of time (forgot about those)
the creepy clowns from Painkiller: BOoH
pretty much all of Doom 3
the butcher in Diablo (made me JUMP when I opened the door, and I was in college!)
the button pressing scenes in Jericho (ok, a LOT of that game makes you jump or at least go EWWWWW)

 

[alsamisath]

Second Dark Trooper I think it was, in Dark Forces. You know, the old Star Wars shooter that turned into the Jedi Knight franchise. Anyways, the way you were really in a maze and all you can hear is the clacks of that thing running around... Scary stuff.

 

[Turbine2k5]

RE4: Regenerators and the chainsaw dude. OMG FUCKING DIE!!!11!!11!!oneeleven!!11!cos(0)

 

[Iron Mal]

More or less any enemy from Silent Hill (most of them have quite visceral design behind them...and then there are the undead nurses).

The robot animals from the original Sonic the Hedgehog, they had a constantly glazed over look about them which was quite menacing, like they were hiding something. That and the fact that when you blew them up...cute and cuddley animals flew out of them...oh the cruelty!

Facehuggers from AVP, I won't play as the marine anymore just because of this enemy. After walking into a med-lab in the second level I hear the sound of breaking glass and scuttling, I decide to back up a bit and turn my night vision on, my motion tracker is going mad and I pull out a smartgun just in time to see something flash up on my screen followed by the load game screen. I was twelve...it scared the bejesus out of me and killed me in one hit (apparantly the marine just sits there and lets the damn thing latch onto him).

 

[CombineSoldier]

Sander Cohen from Bioshock

 

[Murrah]

Okay, i'm scared of Yojimbo in Final fantasy X because he can kill me by just letting his dog attack me and eliminates me just like a snap of your fingers.
anyway other than that im scared of the aliens/zombies in half-life/2 because they'll just jump on you and also the sounds that they make is just scary and im scared of them because....




........i dont want to die. obviously

 

[Rylingo]

Tingle from LoZ. If theres something scarier than a pedophile in green lycra i dont wanna know about it.

Awhile back they made a PC FPS of the Wheel of Time series of fantasy books.

WoT FTW!

 

[Jenesis]

Another vote for Pyramid Head here, and a nomination for Sae from Fatal Frame II.

 

[Skarvey]

They tend to remind me of the other Resident Evil creatures that scared the fuck out of me, the Lickers from RE2. One of the first encounters when you're in the interrogation room and it breaks through the window to attack you, almost shit my fucking pants! Then again, I was 11.

Oh man, the interrogation room thing terrified me to the point I had to run like hell to the nearest typewriter, save, then come back to carry on playing during the daylight. The best part was at the time I first reached that encounter, I was playing drunk with a few friends watching. I've never managed to recreate a scenario where four 17 year old guys are sat simultaneously screaming in terror at the TV.

You want to recreate that scenario, have a few drinks and sit your friends down to watch The View.

I literally just joined to post that comment, frivolity of my life.

 

[Skarvey]

Oh and my scariest enemy in gaming would have to be the gigantic screaming mummies with the swords from The Legend of Zelda: The Twighlight Princess. I hated that scream, and it completely incapacitated Link until the absolute last minute, and unless you were in wolf form and just had really good reflexes, it was always too late to do anything. I died so many times in the cave of ordeals trying to beat those guys.

 

[Parallel Streaks]

Berserker's from Gears of War, sure they're not very good later on but the first time you see one you piss your pants, an indestructible enemy with nearly a one hit kill attack, what's not to be scared of?

Also, General RAAM, that guy was freaking scary the first time I went against him, mainly because the Krill were bad enough but they were also attached to a super death machine? No way hosay, I'm out.

 

[Librarian Mike]

Chainsaw guy in Resident Evil 4. My wife laughs at me because whenever I hear a chainsaw in that game my eyes get all wide.

 

[TommyGun465]

all the zombie "artillery" of half life 2, like headcrabs and the zombies. you never know if theyre dead or if the headcrab on him is gonna jump your sorry ass.
that and the tiny aliens in resistance. whenever they enter i just go "bullshit"...

 

[Madz]

Regenerators, god, the problem wasn't when you didn't knew their position but when you accidentally shot it's leg off making it go all freaky snake on you...

Redeads didn't seem like much to me on the first time I saw em'...but...they screamed, Link froze and so did I, never expected such a thing from a "kiddy" game.

 

[Terramax]

I started playing the original Tomb Raider a while back and the Dinosaur in that still scared the heck out of my.

And, yeah, I'm all for Pyramid Head.

Clock Tower First Fear with Scissorman scary too.

 

[Souplex]

The S.A.X. from metroid fusion while not that scary anymore, it was pretty darn scary when I was ten.

 

[this_was_a_mistake]

the berserker from gears. tell me you didn't wet yourself every time that thing charges at you.