Videogame characters you're afraid of.

[Nemorov]

Well, Myst didn't have many characters, none of them particularly freaky, but the game still scared the bejeesus out of me. It was just so empty, and all the sudden noises freaked me out. I swear the ship level caused my irrational fear of klaxon alarm sounds.

That game scared the crap outta me too.

There was a lot of disturbing things about those games... It think that may be why I enjoyed them so much.

The very idea of Gehn in the second one made me intensely unhappy.

But, I'd have to go with Myst 3 there, because JESUS Savedro... what the hell. The man was a nutter. The eyeless painting of his wife on the wall that looked suspiciously like it was done in blood? Also, I screwed up that one puzzle and the dude runs up and owns you in the face. I jumped out of my freaking chair.

Brad Dourif can make anything creepy as hell, should he chose to. XD

 

[captainwolfos]

Again, too lazy to read through all eight pages to see if this if I've been ninja'd, so:

Catherine from the Gregory Horror Show.

Jesus Christ, she scares me.

Spoiler: WEIRD PINK LIZARD WITH A SYRINGE 0_0

 

[christytc10]

The shark (I think he's called Snapper) in Banjo-Kazooie and the face huggers from Alien Trilogy

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Blanche Mastien in Oblivion.

Smile Dog in human form.

 

[FalloutJack]

There are alot of good answers here, but I'm gonna have to go with this one.

Any enemy in Extermination. Don't know what that is? It's Dead Space 5 years ago and in an Antarctic research facility. You don't get any special future guns, just an M-16 with attachments. Oh, and did I mention that you can get the infection, and if left unchecked, you become one of the monsters? Yeah. I still won't play that game.

Seriously, Extermination never got its fair dues. The game supremely disturbed me as I was playing it. Why? Well, let's see...

Spoiler

There is some kind of infection going around the place spread by parasites who can pretty much rewrite your DNA on the spot if enough of them get at you. My trusted partner was proof of this when he spontaneously mutated and then got shot dead (apparently) by someone I know, and THEN he became a gun-toting and rocket-launching boss character. The organism doesn't just infect the living but spreads over ANYTHING, which makes the ambience horrifying. Apparently, the stuff on the walls can just absorb people into it at random too, like it grew right through their now-dead bodies. The stuff ESPECIALLY grows in wet places and appears to be consuming the base. And let's not forget that it's filling the place with an army of freakish monsters, some of whom carry GUNS. This makes it all more devastating than John Carpenter's: The Thing, since the Things can't maybe cover the world in alien flesh.

So yeah, once you immerse yourself into the I'm-fighting-to-survive-inside-an-alien-organism thing, it's pretty damn freaky.

I could see that.
I'M A BLACK MAN!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!! Wait, I'm not racist.
FROM OUTER SPAAAAAACE!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!

Conversely, Matt is funny as hell.

 

[McMarbles]

Two words: Wee Gee.

 

[Apathetic Flamingo]

I played Silent Hill 2 when I was eight, so I used to be afraid that Pyramid Head was coming to rape me.

 

[Insanum]

Deathclaws still fill me with fear...

 

[Macgyvercas]

the houdini splicers in BioShock, because you'd be shooting them one second and the next, they're behind you kicking your ass

 

[l3dger]

the houdini splicers in BioShock, because you'd be shooting them one second and the next, they're behind you kicking your ass

totally agree, playing that this morning and was like wooo whats happening with this dude lmao

 

[mangus]

KEFKA! that creepy bastard needed to die!

 

[Aux]

The Regenerators from Resident Evil 4. Without a thermal scope I wouldn't stand a chance against them...even with a thermal scome I probably wouldn't stand a chance against them.

I hear you there, those things gave me the creeps. I can't remember how many times I died in that area.

 

[Booze Zombie]

The Darkness was pretty piss enducing...

 

[loophole92]

I forget their name but the weird zombies in Ocarina of Time that hug your face

 

[YYZed]

the first time one of those hands from OOT came down and grabbed me i nearly shat myself cause i didnt know about the shadow getting bigger and it was so sudden.

Also when i play Bioshock i play with all the lights off and in a confined area when no one is home, houdini splicer teleported away while i was going around the sewers didnt appear and was like invisible or something a reappeared directly in front of me.

also when the splicers acted dead and got up i pooped i really paused the game and went to go wipe myslef (not really lol).

 

[molester jester]

sam fisher because he could be in my room right now and i would not know untill its to late

 

[shwnbob]

Pyramid head.

 

[Magnaflame]

Pyramid head seems to be quite popular. I mean, fear wise. He's good at that. Faceless, voiceless, mysterious, powerful as Jesus Christ with a bottle of orange slice. Yeah, he's too good.

 

[Van M]

the beserker from gears of war 1 would freak me out when it was charging down the hallway right for me

aaaaaaaand sidestep! "CRASH" WOGHAAAA thmp thmp thmp thmp aaaand sidestep. you're safe dude. just remember that they turn like granny in rush hour traffic (i.e can't)

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

*ahem*

[hr]

OT: I don't know if it is a specific character per-say, but when I was but a young'un, ReDeads from Ocarina of Time used to give me nightmares. Like, serious, legitimate, nightmares. It took me a while to get over it.

However, can you blame me? Look at this thing: