Scariest Gaming Moments

[Irridium]

And in Resistance 2, when you first encounter the Chameleons (the enamies that turn invisable) and have to walk through a forest infested with them. Freaky as hell, never know when one will pop out and kill you

I second this as well as what I said earlier!

Dude, I couldn't walk 5 steps during that damn mission without pulling a 360 to check my back, just freaky...

 

[FredFredburgur]

I was ten years old, playing Halo (PC) for the first time. I had no idea at all about the flood, and I was sitting at the compuer which was next to a window. I'm home alone and there is a torrential lightning storm going on right outside, then all of a sudden I get to the first flood cinematic and I was scared to death. Since then games don't realy scare me now for some reason, it's not like that was so scary, they just don't.

 

[rebelscum]

FEAR: Extraction Point, where you've met up with your expendable ally and you're running through a construction site and a phone starts ringing. Naturally, I found the phone, pressed the use button, and THE PHONE SCREAMS!
Cue game being immediately turned off.

Resident Evil 4-me and a friend, first time playing through it. The first level, I ran into a hut, knifed open a box, found nothing in it. As me and my friend were joking about what a rip-off it was, we turned and noticed a female ganado impaled on the door with a pitchfork. That stopped the joking.

Also most of Silent Hill 2.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Just finished the new Resi 5 DLC (Lost in Nightmares) which was much better than the main game.

I won't ruin it but there's one scare that nearly made me dent a hole in my ceiling.

 

[AMX58]

The first time I played RE 1 all the zombies and their moans damn that scared the shit out of me.

 

[fozzy360]

There's this small moment in the first Condemned in the very beginning of the game where you're walking towards the crime scene. As soon as you enter the building, you swing left at the hallway instead, and you walk down this hall that get's increasingly darker as you move along. You reach a point where it's pitch black and the rest of the hallway is blocked by some debris. I just walked down there because I have a habit of exploring every little inch of a level. I was just trying to peer behind the debris when I suddenly noticed this hunched shadow staring me down. After a few seconds, this shadow just slowly walked away. I realized this was one of the crazed enemies you fight just a bit later on. It wasn't a jump-out-of-your-seat moment, but, damn it if it wasn't the creepiest thing I'd ever seen.

At least, until the department store level in that same game...

 

[Birdman1604]

It's easy to have scary moments with your Resident Evils and Silent Hills, but back in the day I remember playing Jurassic Park for the SNES. Whenever the music changed to indicate that the T-Rex was near my heart started beating faster and I instantly back tracked out of there. Not to mention walking around a corner in a building to find myself face to face with a velociraptor.

 

[Birdman1604]

edit: double post

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

Shalebridge Cradle in Thief III. A game that tells you that darkness and shadows is your friends and then turns it on its' head for one anxiety and terror inducing level of sheer horror. Scariest gaming moment ever.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Perhaps the scariest moment was when I was playing Silent Hill 3 for the first time, the first and only Silent Hill game I've played for any longer than half an hour.

I walked into a room with a bathtub and a wall-covering mirror. I saw that there was nothing in the room, so I tried to leave the way came in, the only exit. The door was jammed. My heart started beating a tad faster.

I saw the corruption growing from the drain in the bathtub, starting to consume everything. I kept trying to open the door, but it wouldn't open. Slowly, the corruption had spread across the entire room, and in the mirror, Heather's body was being consumed by it was well, consumed until the reflection stood still, even when I was not.

I tried the door one last time, and it opened. I found myself back the grated metal corridors and red and black stained walls from which I came and I realized that my heart was beating rapidly and a cold sweat had stricken me.

That scared me immensely. It's amazing what games these days can do to you.

EDIT:
Honorable mention goes to the moment in the same game where you walk into the bathroom of the corrupted mall and knock on the stall door. You knock three times. From inside the stall, two knocks are returned. You knock again, three times. The response is the same. You walk away from the stall, only to see that the door opens and reveals nothing but blood and corruption. That was a bit unsettling, especially considering that I played the game in the dark.

Ahh that was going to be my scary moment of choice! I second that! In fact I pick every Silent Hill game from 1 to 4 as the scariest games I have played, the various sequels don't count.

I'm affected more by long drawn out psychological horror than out right gore or simple jumps. Although I have played Bioshock all the way through twice and only on my 3rd playthrough did I come across the dentist and boy did that make me squeal like a little girl!

There's a similar scene in Bioshock (Don't remember seeing it metioned here) where you go into a bathroom and there is a row of locked toilets. when you walk away there is a noise and one of the doors is open. Naturally you go to look and there is nothing there. But when you turn around? Holy christ, it's a splicer just standing there! Didn't see that one coming, I'm used to Silent Hill simply leaving it at an empty stall!

I'll add:

- The RE4 regenerators, the breathing!
- Call of Cthulhu, running from the fish men, that had my heart pounding out my chest!
- Most of Doom 3, damn that shit's messed up.
- Nemesis from RE3, damn he could pop up anywhere!
- Halo, when you first meet the flood.
- Certain parts of Condemned: Criminal Origins (Although the scariest part was that they made such an awful sequel!)

ALSO when I was about 11 or 12 and I got my first games console, a PS1 (Yes I was a late starter) I was terrified by Tomb Raider 4 and the mummies in the 2nd or 3rd level. I couldn't play the game past that point! Today they are just ridiculous and make stupid squelching noises, but I was terrified back then.

Also the area with the wolves in the original PS1 Metal Gear Solid. I always hated going in there, no idea why!

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Those fucking psychic monkeys in System Shock 2 give me The Fear.

 

[clint5254]

ive got two actually i cant decide which one to put in so im putting both in

i was playin halo 3 O.D.S.T and it was during one of those annoying flashbacks they call levels and i had been playing it for a few hours so it was look shoot move on nothing too jumpy to scare me when i walked around a corner with no grenades and next to no ammo i walked right into a hunter O_O

my other time jumping while playing a game was wolfenstine.

i was playin like the 4th level where you get introduced to those big armoured guys with weak spots that are tiny and i didnt expect it but i was walkin through and then he just breaks through the wall and i had no ammo.

 

[clint5254]

scratch that three things Gears of war one on the china shop level when the beserker breaks through the wall i didnt know what to do and it ran at me i was frozen lol

 

[clint5254]

Dead Space gets me so worked up that when my phone vibrates I jump.

Le sigh...

Le sigh? havent heard that one since i was 3

 

[mrbones228]

The "Ghost" level in Metro 2033 is quite freaky and Quake4 has a few spooky moments

 

[LT_Razgriz]

Fear got me sooo many times. I ended up shooting at my shadow a few times to thinking it was cloaked ninjas. not cool and alma that little brat tormented me!

 

[Always_Remain]

Well recently I was playing Fallout 3 and for some reason the Dunwich Building really freaked me out. Especially when you get down in the lower levels. Playing through that with loud headphones is freaky. Oh and I was playing DA:O yesterday and I think a part with a demon scared me a little.

 

[Pegghead]

Don't laugh at me for this...

Back on the original xbox we had the movie to game port of Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets, there is some genuinely freaky shit in that game and considering how young I was it made it all the worse. Much like the first act of the movie you had to go through parts of Knockturn alley, there were sections with dark, gothic rooms with creaky moans and spooky wails and things like this cackling skull that lets off with horrific laughter when you pass sending the shit flying from you. Not to mention the...night...sections of the game when the alreadys creepy halls of Hogwarts are roaming with gjots that just, move along a path without sound or acknowledgement of you, and when they hit you they take a chunk of health. Then there were the wailing ghosts who still to this day remain the only horror game villain to scare me.

As it stands I've plyed through games like Bioshock and DOOM 3 which many consider to be scary with nery a twitch here and there, but harry potter and the chamber of secrets is a guaranteed recipe for shit in your pants, both atmospheric and shocking (I couldn't be joking about this if I tried).

 

[U1849KA]

The elevator at the end of FEAR 1. You know the one I mean. Really want to press that button again?

And the first time I went to the Yantar factory in Stalker SoC.

 

[packedcracker]

Playing Resident Evil 0, I walked into the bathroom to try to find some healing items. However, there was one of the creepy leech zombies waiting for me inside. I managed to kill it, find an herb or two in the stalls and heal up, unfortunately my health was now even lower than it was when I entered the bathroom initially. I almost had a heart attack as I tried to leave only to hear the fast-paced music start playing and see yet another leech zombie burst through the entrance to the washroom.

Note to self: Learn not to Poop. Ever.