Scariest Enemies in Gaming

[Danny Ocean]

The first time I fought a boss in Diablo I was about five so it always made me so scared that I had to get one of my parents to fight them . XD

Why! Why! Why!

The 1st time a monster popped out in the Suffering, I jumped about 3 feet in the air and my wife fell off the couch. The little Girl from Fear,and the black spots on the floor that suck you down from Extraction Point.
I don't think it's so much the monster as the eviroment. In the GOOD horror games they set you up, the quiet sounds, the dark, it's quiet, too quiet, you know it's comming, you tense up, your heartrate climbs, and then WHAM, out it pops or scuttles, and suddenly it's in your face! You jump and a ICE COLD shot of adrealine hits your heart, you have to KILL IT AND KILL NOW! And when you do God do you feel ALIVE>

Thank you!Someone else knows the secret that most game companies can't FRICKIN figure out.

That's exactly it. Hell, people have made films where dolls are the scary bad guys. It's all about the atmosphere.

 

[danosaurus]

Pyramid Head was scary but his awesomeness kinda overpowers the scary side of him.

I don't really think there's anything scarier than the underwater levels in Sonic The Hedgehog//Earthworm Jim on Sega Mega Drive.
The 'Power Up' level in Half-Life 1 comes kinda close though.
I remember the severe intensity with which I ran to the power generator and the Gargantua right on my heels, he fried me the first couple of times cos i didn't flick the switch fast enough with all my nervous fumbling.

Thank god for quicksaves...

 

[raemiel]

Although the bloodsucker in STALKER are scary, I have to say that the first time I ran into a snork I got seriously freaked out.

It was in the level where you have to go into some underground catacombs for the barkeep and get some documents or something, you find the monolith suit down there too. I had ventured in not knowing how large the area is and managed to waste a clip on those boxes that fly towards you (they're bloody scary too the first time). Apart from that you don't run into any enemies and there are a bunch of dead stalkers around. Peering down one corridor with those heat-haze anomalies I see something loping towards me at gathering pace. For anyone who doesn't know what a snork is, it's a mutated stalker which runs on all fours and wears a gas mask, they make a scary noise too. It charged through the fire and lept at me, I was so freaked that immediately after killing it I just ran outta the bunker and back to the bar.

Also, regenerators from RE4 purely because of the sound of their breathing, especially the first time when you see one dissected on a table and know there's another around the place.

 

[Syphonz]

although this is not an enemy (it does eventually kill you), I would say the creepiest thing in a video game i've seen is in Silent Hill 3, you walk into this room that has a mirror in it. The reflect is the same room but its styled in the 'otherworld'. Then the reflection starts to melt away into a sink next to the mirror. and on your side it start coming out and slowly engulfs the room until what the room looked like when you walked in is now on the mirror and you're now on the otherworld...

it was fucking creepy..and awesome..what wasn't awesome was the frquent nightmares that soon followed that replayed that very senario.

 

[nokori3byo]

The statue splicers were freaky as Hell, and making them silent was a stroke of genius.

The single scariest moment i Bioshock came when I was walking through Arcadia and heard whistling. I never did discover what the source of it was.

As for HL2's poison zombies, I don't know what makes them so scary. They definitely have a tendency to pop up in the game's dankest, most isolated locales, though. That laundry room in Nova Prospekt...shudder.

 

[CAB0SE]

Most of Ravenholm, definently the first half, because I was still getting used to the setting and pacing. But it did keep me jumping until the end, when the light at the end of the tunnel finally came! I did really like the preist character, though. Also, poisonus headcrabs at any point in the game.

FEAR definently made me jump a couple of times, my pulse did get pounding during the end fight with Alma. And the ninja watchers didn't necessarily scare me so much as make me say "WTF is going on?!"

 

[Russian_Assassin]

Those ostriches from a mission (on very hard) in Final Fantasy Crisis Core. I have one thing to say: DO NOT FUCK WITH THEM! If you stay still for a millionth of a second they will kick you in the face with their power legs and damage you to 1000% of your health. They take a million blows to die and are escorted by other enemies that poison you! I nearly cracked my psp in half...

But, a scary looking opponent was the guy with the chainsaw in RE 4. I literally pissed my pants every time he popped up in a fight. Seriously I was pausing and running to get new pants every single time :S

 

[JayCro]

All enemies from the Silent Hill series, not so much SH4 but you know.

Those squeaking, invisible imps in SH1 scared me at first because I couldn't see shit. They got funny when I realised they weren't much of a threat.

Pyramid Head for the 100th time in this thread and those nurses in SH1. -Shudders-

I know I'm forgetting something else...

 

[God's Clown]

I dunno why, but for some reason nemesis from RE3 always kinda scared me, he just likes jumping out of no where.

 

[stompy]

the slow zombies from half life 2. I dont know why they do but they really just freak me out the most. oh and barnacles.

You mean the ones that host the poisonous head-crabs? Those bastards scare me too... gah, I can't stand Ravenholm.

 

[Shabubu]

Dogs.

The first 3d enemy that jumps out of the shadows, ever, was that damned dog in the Quake demo - right at the beginning, in the hallways with the stairs.

First real enemy in Resident Evil? Dogs, through the windows in the first hallway.

Stupid dogs...

 

[Mnemophage]

I ran out of the room at the first instance of ReDeads in Ocarina of Time.

I did not get through the first level of Silent Hill, as the monsters lurking in the fog with the bad radio transmission serving as a signal to run like hell actually gave me nightmares.

I am irreparably paused in BioShock, as now the game is including masked enemies that sneak right the fuck up behind you as you're examining shit and chatter in your face when you turn around.

Also also also the skeleton belle in Uninvited. This was the NES age. I was just a very tiny Mnemophage. She made me cry.

 

[Alstan]

Agree. The only problem with this game is the zapper. Apart from that, is relly creepy. The level you're looking for DNA traces in the dark is pantweting.

Also, I give a vote for Clive Barker's undying. The reapper vision made me jump throug the window

 

[ScreamerKiller]

I have to agree with anyone who said Regenorators. I think they were the only thing I have ever seen in a videogame that made me scared anr/or gave me nightmares.

 

[monostable]

A few days ago I vas playing rainbow six vegas 2 with my cousin (14). On the second level when the guy is getting tortured and then is killed. we went into the room where he was kept and the sight of a dead hostage (even in a video game) wierded him out a bit.

For me its the little girl from FEAR. There's a bit in the sewers where you have to climb down a ladder. as you spin round to climb down it, the girl is suddenly there at the top. Scared the pubes off me.

 

[[zonking great]]

The top one has to be the Chryssalids from XCom. One touch, and a character was zombified, and all you could do was kill him/her before he/she did any more damage.

God, that was awesome. Not scary but annoying as hell. And it gave me an excuse to shoot the townspeople, as it was all in the guise of "containment". A Chrysalid could indeed turn a happy go-lucky greyhunt into a real nightmare.

But truth be told, I have never been scared of anything in a game. Startled, yes, but scared? Never. If I did, I would remember it. I mean, Ravenholm from HL2 is practically the city where I attend university, Diablo and part 2 never did scare me whatsoever, Silent Hill bored me just the same and the little girl in FEAR, Alma, I just hate her. She spawned so many bad gamertags on Xbox Live that I want to kill her. My god.

Then again, I've got a history of being chronically unimpressed with games, movies and life.

 

[jebussaves88]

The bandersnatcher from Resi Evil:Code Veronica freaked me out; then again, I was only ten. Also, some of the ghosts in Fatal Frame/Project Zero II freak me out to this day.

Edit: and Regenerators. The Iron Maiden's were funny though

 

[Orlana]

I'm so going to get laughed at for this.

Larval stalkers from Silent Hill. Dead serious.

I remember the first time I saw one, I unloaded everything I had into it and started screaming "WHY WON'T IT DIE!" at my TV before it passed right through me and left me unharmed. It didn't help that at the time I was playing SH1 I worked in a bookstore that to leave the building, you left through a back door that lead to a long, dark hallway that was very school house creepy-esque that you HAD to walk down to get out of the building properly (you couldn't lock the store up from the outside of the customer entrance). The game destroyed my rational thinking for months. ....and I LOVE it for that.

 

[Xvito]

I have to say the cult members in RE4.
I just don't like them. :C

 

[Shushyne4np2ne]

I waited for RE4 to come to the PS2. I waited and waited, then when it came out, I went out, bought it, turned off all the lights, my cellphone, anything that would distract me. Put it up on surround sound on the highest volume. Gunshots rattled my windows, for crying out loud. Never been scared that bad in my whole life when those little pop up "holy shit" moments happened. I know it might not be scary to anyone else, but man, it got me GOOD.


Oh, and when I was 10, I played Dino Crisis 1 and 2. *Shudders*