What non-horror game scared you the most?

[LandoCristo]

Half-Life 2. Suffering from a caffeine-high, late at night by myself, and really getting into the story, and then BOOM Ravenholm. Just the part where you're walking through, and there's nothing but a few bodies hanging from ropes and sawblades stuck into walls is the scariest thing I've experienced in a game.

 

[StevenSuffern]

I wonder how many people bother to read what others have posted, because I see a lot of the same question being asked, and no one really bothering to answer...but I recently nearly jumped out of my chair when I was playing Oblivion; turning around to see a wolf leaping at you tends to spook you

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

Goin' with the crowd here on Minecraft. Exploring caves gets really unnerving. And when you are mining near your house and hear something hissing and slurping and moaning really closeby and don't know exactly where, is just panic inducing as you tear up the place looking for it, only to have it emerge from the darkness and maul you...

on a related note, this guys voice made me lol like hell, no matter how many times i watch

 

[DarthFennec]

Fucking Minecraft ... goddammit that game is scary as shit -.-

 

[GenericAmerican]

Minecraft, because zombies have a habit of spawning inside my base.

F.E.A.R.

Metro 2033, with the librarians...damn the lack of ammo.

One that gets me and it shouldn't is Far Cry 2. Walk around the jungle, all the noises, and then you hear something. Is it a person? Or is it just more ambient noise? Who knows, the AI in that game are so freaking annoying.

Last one,

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HATEHATEHATHATE!!!! I literally flipped backwards out of my chair playing the game when one of these things dropped down in front of me; and since it's the n64, I ended up dragging the whole console off the table and onto the floor because the freaking controller's cords are short.

 

[PurpleTartan]

I'm gonna agree with the Rest of the Minecraft players on this one... just simply because your first night is really scary, especially when playing the game for the first time and Then there are giant Spiders, who are insanely quick at attacking you. Giant Spider have always freaked me out in games, but then of course there comes that moment when you hear a hissing behind you during the Freaking DAY and before you can say what's that noise, you and half the surrounding environment have been blown sky high! XD lol

 

[Thaluikhain]

reminds me of SpooneyOne's LP of SWAT 4 that was hilarious

"you're in my way sir"-Reynolds
"you're in my spot sir"-Reynolds

Why do you think I hate enemies with gas masks? I use tear gas cause I don't trust my people with flashbangs.

 

[Wayneguard]

The imperial sewers level from shadows of the empire. i had to get my cousin to beat that part for me when I was a kid.

 

[Adam Galli]

I thought The Ghostbusters game for the 360 was creepier than it needed to be.

 

[ExileNZ]

Knightmare for the Amiga. It was a dungeon crawler, like Dungeon Master, but those little elf/gnome/goblin things really freaked me out...

Failing that, GreySlayer, also for the Amiga, but that's arguably also horror, albiet in a somewhat more primative form.

 

[triggrhappy94]

I remember playing Halo 1 when I was like 9, and I had to turn it off because the first level was too scary. But right after I turned it off I decided to toughen up and kill some bitches.

 

[homacidal duck]

minecraft definetly minecraft

 

[Retardinator]

Freelancer. Why? I don't know. I'm kinda afraid of big empty spaces (and going above the clouds in Ace Combat 2). That and invisible hazards (in Freelancer's case the radiation in certain systems). Oh, and the asylum level in the first Hitman game. I still hate asylums because of that.

 

[NintendHo]

To all those bellyaching about the Redeads from Zelda, rofl:

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=74

 

[Ailia]

The Wells in OoT and MM scared me to death when I was a kid, I'd run in and run out as soon as possible. And my brother was absolutely terrfied of Wall Masters until we figured out how to kill them.

These days, Thief can still give me a good scare. Especially those darned monsters levels, the Haunted Cathedral actually made me scream and panic when I ran into a hammer haunt in a narrow stairwell.

 

[putowtin]

vault 22 in FO New Vegas is scaring the cr@p out of me at the moment.... I'm clastrophobic and don't like plants (well not ones that try to kill you that's for sure!)

 

[The Night Shade]

Thief Deadly Shadows the asylum part also some vaults in the fallout games

 

[Nuckelavee]

Abe's Oddysee back when I was young and fragile. Mostly due to this guy.

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Awwww, I loved him, thought he was awesome...
Betcha couldn't tell...

OT, Dwarf fortress, my friend introduced me to the game without a tutorial. I, enjoying a good learning cliff climb, began working slowly. I started figuring out what dwarf traits were usefull and which were not. I was learning how to use resources. I had even named each of the little blighters. But because I didn't know I could be attacked by an organised mob I had largely ignored the military concepts and had built a rather open and easily accessible fort. By now I had invested alot of time and had grown attached to my dwarfs as we learnt how to survive in the world together. My friend came to check up on my progress and had simply said, "So? What are you going to do when the goblins come and kill your guys?". I had a BSOD and quickly saved and shut down the came. Better they remain happy in stasis then suffering by goblins.

Diloquent ecerce? WTF.

 

[Daniel Charlton]

cant remember the title but you played as bugs bunny in some sort of fantasy time travelling game from about 10 years ago on the ps one. I s**t my self so much i cried.

 

[Exile714]

I get a sick feeling on certain high places in the game Mirror's Edge. I've never been that good with heights, airplanes and skydiving excluded, and the controls were just glitchy enough that I didn't trust myself not to fling my first-person perspective straight off a 20 story rooftop.

Now, Assassin's Creed I, II and IIb didn't bother me because it was third person and I trusted the controls not to let me drop for no reason. Sure, it made for better gameplay, but honestly Mirror's Edge wins out in the "make me feel like what I would feel if I were actually doing this" department.