Bioshock started with enemies jumping out of corners then just when I thought I had it figured out the lights started going off, corpses started attacking me and statues followed me across entire levels.
This. I don't count cheap startle moments as genuinely scary. A game that pulled that off with me would be FEAR, especially the office level where you first meet those cloaked melee guys. A large portion of the level is completely enemy-less, but dear gods it's scary. You know they're going to pop up at sóme point, just when and where....no idea. After you've discovered the trick (you hear a chirping sound, engage slow-mo, look behind you/above you/etc and shoot) however, it's not even remotely scary anymore.Wardog13 said:The quiet calm before the storm, the pure fear and anxiety you feel as you stumble about every corner expecting to see an other worldly demon and you find nothing, only to be assaulted from the other side, that is true fear, its to bad the only game I ever played tjat pulled it off was Silent Hill.
I really don't want to know what's in thereReg5879 said:No man, it's all about Dr Killjoy. What goes through that guys head we will never know.lewism247 said:and HermesReg5879 said:It's a truly eerie scene. "Shudders" Also, you gotta love the random flashes of monsters with the loud sound when your just walking along.lewism247 said:Yeah,he goes daddy then they appearReg5879 said:Doesn't your kid pop up and say "Daddy..." on that part?lewism247 said:That and the bit when you go in the bathroom and you hallucinate all those slayersReg5879 said:Don't worry mate, we all shit ourselves when we heard that. lollewism247 said:When i first heard the growl slayers make i about shat myselfReg5879 said:Alas, I have not. You know what? I will try and play it with surround sound at some point.lewism247 said:Have you played it with surround sound?Reg5879 said:Indeed it is, the fuzzy cameras, the eerie sound of a Slayer crawling along the walls, the deserted corridors and having that feeling "They were coming". The first time I played it (In a dark room), my heart was racing.lewism247 said:It's seriously fucked up isn't it?Reg5879 said:THIS THIS THIS AND A THOUSAND TIMES THIS!!!lewism247 said:For me it would be pretty much everything in the suffering,not played it?MisterM2402 said:I mean, who are the scariest characters, what are creepiest locations, the most bone-chilling music, etc. ?
Also, which games tried hard to be scary but ultimately failed?
For me, the Shalebridge Cradle from Thief: Deadly Shadows was just... *shudder*. Wallmasters (Ocarina of Time), too - horrifying!
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Oh god Hermes
Neither Do I. lollewism247 said:I really don't want to know what's in thereReg5879 said:No man, it's all about Dr Killjoy. What goes through that guys head we will never know.lewism247 said:and HermesReg5879 said:It's a truly eerie scene. "Shudders" Also, you gotta love the random flashes of monsters with the loud sound when your just walking along.lewism247 said:Yeah,he goes daddy then they appearReg5879 said:Doesn't your kid pop up and say "Daddy..." on that part?lewism247 said:That and the bit when you go in the bathroom and you hallucinate all those slayersReg5879 said:Don't worry mate, we all shit ourselves when we heard that. lollewism247 said:When i first heard the growl slayers make i about shat myselfReg5879 said:Alas, I have not. You know what? I will try and play it with surround sound at some point.lewism247 said:Have you played it with surround sound?Reg5879 said:Indeed it is, the fuzzy cameras, the eerie sound of a Slayer crawling along the walls, the deserted corridors and having that feeling "They were coming". The first time I played it (In a dark room), my heart was racing.lewism247 said:It's seriously fucked up isn't it?Reg5879 said:THIS THIS THIS AND A THOUSAND TIMES THIS!!!lewism247 said:For me it would be pretty much everything in the suffering,not played it?MisterM2402 said:I mean, who are the scariest characters, what are creepiest locations, the most bone-chilling music, etc. ?
Also, which games tried hard to be scary but ultimately failed?
For me, the Shalebridge Cradle from Thief: Deadly Shadows was just... *shudder*. Wallmasters (Ocarina of Time), too - horrifying!
DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!!
FUUUUUUUUUUUU
Oh god Hermes
This is exactly what I'm talking about. Those things would literally be brushing you as they passed. I'd always wait for one to do it's rounds several times before I moved - even if the thing was on the other half of the map, it was never the right time to break free from the wall... just in case... And when those lights started to flicker - :OAce of Spades said:Thief 3. Shalebridge Cradle, huddling in a corner praying to god that the twitching monstrosity that's about two inches away from my face doesn't care to lean in a bit farther.