Scariest Game You Have Ever Played

[[T]rickster]

If you're in the right environment, the Silent Hill series is some of the scariest stuff you'll ever see. There aren't really any jump out moments. Just a hell of a lot of creepy and disturbing atmosphere. It gets to the point where you're swearing to yourself repeatedly as you're forced to do stuff you really don't want to. Believe me, it you're expecting monster-closets and good controls, look elsewhere, but SH has the best atmosphere and monsters manifested by the protagonist's subconscious (Freud would have a field day), it doesn't get much better. Oh, and the soundtrack rocks if you dig ambient music.

heck yeah... since it's not a FPS, it wont have something suddenly POP OUT OF WALLS or anything like that... it'll make u build up suspense... and then keep building it up... and then keep building it up... up to a point where u just cant take it anymore, and then u stop playing it... that's wad happened to me anyway while playing the SH on PS1...

 

[Echolocating]

I get the impression that there are some who get scared from a creepy video game and those who won't allow themselves to get scared. ;-)

 

[Talisker]

Condemned was pretty disturbing.

Condemned, in a dark room with headphones on and a huge tv. Absolutely bloody terrifying.

 

[Inquisitor94]

I hate narrowing it down to just one game. There have been several games I consider scary for different reasons:

-Silent Hill 2
-Fatal Frame
-F.E.A.R.
-Doom 3
-Thief: Deadly Shadows (Shalebridge Cradle)
-Shadow of the Colossus (don't ask)

Oh, but I will ask.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

Portal. Not in an actual scary way, but just scary. I can't explain it, you have to play the game, and yes I know that just about everybody will disagree but my friends and I found it very "off putting" as we say.

I thought so as well. Particulary when she was wandering the maintenance areas after the "Cake", I came up with a strange theory(and when they talked about her DNA on file). It was when GLaDOS said "You're not a good person. Good people don't end up here".

What if Chell is the only person in this facility? What if she's escaped before, drew the cubes, put the signs up to point the way out, and finally was recaptured or killed(and then cloned by GLaDOS). And she just repeatedly escapes and tries to find the exist, but never does(until now).

It felt depressing and creepy, the whole thing. Like she was in a mechanical, labarotry hell run by an insane computer. And I loved it. Portal had more atmosphere then a lot of other "scary" games(like FEAR). Hell, It had more atmosphere then Bioshock.

Man, your comment made me think back at portal just now... I pissed my pants thinking like that.

Anyway I don't play scary games that much... you should try HL2:Ep1 in that "Low Life" chapter, it's dark as hell, no weapon other than grav gun, only 1 min worth of flashlight time.
Also try PREY. Generally it's not that scary... but then you get to an open space, with a school bus, the lights go out, then the windows of the schoolbus glows blue and you hear childrens laughter...
Quake 4. Just for the horror show of being turned into a strogg... *quivers*

I would like to have a game like those "who's the parasite" maps in WC3... that was scary.
14 men and women on a spacship, no communications, no help from others, barely any wepons, poweroutage now and then and one of the crew is a deadly alien in diguise...

 

[ThaBenMan]

I hate narrowing it down to just one game. There have been several games I consider scary for different reasons:

-Silent Hill 2
-Fatal Frame
-F.E.A.R.
-Doom 3
-Thief: Deadly Shadows (Shalebridge Cradle)
-Shadow of the Colossus (don't ask)

Oh, but I will ask.

I can understand how SotC could be scary in some parts. Like that one Colossus that chases you and smashes the walls down, it's like "oh shit, ohshitohfuck". And a lot of the times when you first see the colossus and you're just like "now how the hell am I supposed to do that?"

 

[IanDangerously]

Parts of Condemned were somewhat scary because of the cutscenes and dramatic lighting effects when they kick in, but during most of the gameplay and when not involved in direct combat, my mind is often wandering off thanks to some truly awful level design. That game does a great job with the sound as well so what you hear will scare you a hell of a lot more than anything you see during most of the game in my personal opinion. Its still a fantastic game, and I would recommend renting it as opposed to buying it if you're looking to get into horror games as it is single-player only and takes no more than 8 hours on normal mode before its all over. Sure, the storyline is a bit convoluted and kinda drifts off after a while, never delivering as much as it teased, but the combat more than makes up for it, and, not for nothing, its certainly left me longing to buy Condemned 2 when I have some money.

The best horror game I have ever played, however, is Bioshock. Its a lot less scary, in the conventional sense, than Condemned but its a hell of a lot more uncomfortable and disturbing. The moral concepts and storyline running through the game are dark and twisted. The only problem is, again, the game is way too easy on Normal mode, and it should be possible to get to the final boss battle with hardly any deaths at all. Plus, theres health-kits, ammo and money pretty much everywhere so its ridiculously unbalanced but still a fantastic game. Well worth buying, imo.

 

[crusha_aa]

Personally i didnt find F.E.A.R. scary at all, i jumped a few times but i wasnt really that scared while playing it. Oddly though, i found the demo quite scary..

Silent Hill 2 scared the crap out of me though, i had to keep taking breaks cause i was so scared lol.
Especially in the prison section and entering a corridor of prison cells and hearing a really creepy groany voice mumbling. Ran straight out and didnt go back for at least five minutes, too scared to find out what it was. Also the big area with the hangmans noose in the center, kept hearing something running around in the fog but there was nothing there!!!

 

[gamshobny]

F.E.A.R The only game that has ever scared me to the point I wont play it anymore.

Had thesame feeling in the original, Extraction Point still gave that feeling at some points, but by the time of Persues Mandate, it was completely gone. Perhaps it's because I played all of it in a row, so I got used too it, but then again, F.E.A.R still manages too make me creep out when I play it now, allthough I know what's comming for me.

 

[pwnzor23]

the scariest game i ever played was doom 2 or 3 i cant remember. (this was probaly due to the fact i was like 8 or 9 when i played it) but still silent hill 2 never scared me as much as the first lvl having the devil set free to send never ending legions of badies

 

[Adiona]

Clocktower the original Japanese one and the Europe one.....graphics aren't up to much now but I still find it shit scary when some cloaked figure with huge scissors jumps out from a locker.

 

[RPJesus]

Haven't gotten very far, but Uninvited for the NES has a creepy vibe to it.

 

[Karisse]

Without a doubt, Condemned.

 

[FanboyInDisguise]

Fatal Frame 2: being a little japanese girl in a haunted village where your only ally is your sister who can't stay focused for five seconds before she runs off after shiny butterflies. Your only weapon is a camera where you are forced to watch ghosts hunt you down so they can get close enough so you can take a good picture of them...truly haunting. The Fallen Woman and Lady in a Box (actual names...or close enough anyhow) still keep me up at night...

 

[TiffM]

For "Oh holy crap! Don't scare me like that" I would have to say Project Zero, they jump out at you from everywhere, or Resident Evil Nemesis, when good ol' melted face Nemesis is waiting for you nearly around every corner.

For "Oh please God, let this sequence end before I have to abandon this game." It has to be Resident Evil, when they introduced the first ever zombie that looked like Harry Hill.

 

[babyblues]

I'm not sure I understand titles like "The Ring" and "FEAR" because.. LITTLE EMACIATED WHITE GIRLS ARE NOT SCARY. There. I said it. Can we get our real monsters back now?

All of that aside, I'm going to be honest. I have never played a horror game. I can't do it. But I HAVE watched friends or family play them.. and had nightmares for days after. Yes, I'm a whimp. I'll name a few I suppose.

The 13th Guest - I was like nine years old, leave me alone.
Fatal Frame 2(I think) - It was more the art of the ghosts that scared me, rather than anything else.
Thief 3(The Cradle level) - Just plain freaky.
Parts of RE4 scared the crap outta me.

That's all I can remember, I think.

 

[Dalisclock]

I'm not sure I understand titles like "The Ring" and "FEAR" because.. LITTLE EMACIATED WHITE GIRLS ARE NOT SCARY. There. I said it. Can we get our real monsters back now?

Actually, I liked "The Ring". FEAR, on the other hand, didn't particularly impress me.

As for why I liked one and not the other? Well, "The Ring" didn't make "Pyshic clone supersoldiers" a major plot point.