What's the most scared you've ever been in a game?

[lacktheknack]

So, I'm six.

I'm playing Myst.

I finally get to the third level in Channelwood, with help from Dad. YAY!

I go to the first building I see, and enter, only to have the MOST FECKING HORRIFYING CLOSE UP OF A MOUTH APPEAR IN MIDAIR AND HOWL GIBBERISH AT ME. I wept.

 

[ablac]

I am yet to play a true horror game. One which actually scares. Can anyone suggest one for xbox because I cant do good PC.

Have you tried Metro 2033? That game delivers such a good atmosphere, the people living in the metro stations... And of course the tunnels. One of the most immersive FPS games I've played

And is it scary? Well, tell me after you gone through the Library... Damn that place to hell

Cheers I thought it wasnt meant to be that good. well ill pick it up sometime then.

Catchpa: graveyard shift. Strangely suitable.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Pretty much all of Project Zero.

It's the only game where I've had to occasionally put it down and do something else for a few minutes in between bursts of pant shitting terror.

The second one isn't as scary, but it does still ramp up further into the game when the ghosts get trickier.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I don't know...I really need to think about this one...

Actually, I think the time I was most scared was when I was 12 and playing Pokemon blue (was wandering around the cinnabar lab, very late in the game), and a Wild growlithe used Roar on my beloved Blastoise.

The screen said "Blastoise ran away scared!". I stared in shock at the screen and went "oh no! Did....did I just lose my Blastoise?!?! OHNOOO!!". To my relief, however, he was still in my party, and I realized that Roar just ended wild battles.

Still, can you at least understand why I was freaked out?

Some other moments that freaked me out were:

a) I literally couldn't finish the demo for Amnesia. I saw the first enemy shuffle past a doorway in the distance and went "Oh !@#$ this, I'm not ready" and hit the escape button as if my life depended on it.

b) The EFFING royal tomb in OoT. Where you get the sun's song. I was TERRIFIED of Zombies back then. >_< effing redeads...

c) Etrian Odyssey 1 (a first person dungeon crawler on the DS): There were two scary parts for me. The first one was when this REALLY creepy music kicks in on the third floor, and the game describes this really scary sounding red eyed monster, and how it WILL kill you if you run into it....and then I ran into it by accident and it MURDERED MY PARTY IN TWO TURNS FLAT. And the second time, I was wandering around, admiring this underwater lake...When MORE creepy music came on, and this weird and creepy little girl appeared and said "You shouldn't be here...". Ok, maybe it didn't actually SCARE me, but both those instances were REALLY unsettling.

d) OH!! I just remembered! When I was 13-14 I was playing the demo for Diablo one, and messing around in the first floor. Then, I opened a door and... "AAAAH!! FRESH MEAT!!!". I think I may have screamed, or at least yelped.

Let me tell you, I haven't been this scared since playing the first Silent Hill back when I was 6. I'll be sleeping with the light on tonight.

YOU PLAYED SILENT HILL WHEN YOU WERE SIX?!?!?!?!? 0_o Why?! How?! Why would you do that to yourself, or did a sibling put you up to it?

 

[thegamermn]

Any horror game tends to scare the crap out of me. I usually only play a demo and still can't play the whole thing. However the one game that I -did- finsh was Alan Wake...the atmosphere of the game is just...*shudder*. ANd finding pages from his novel gives you glimpses of what's up ahead. And the anticipation of when it will happen just makes things worse. That said...one specific instance that just completely creeped me out was a level where you can explore cabins for loot and such. I saw one of the enemies walk past the window. Followed by footsteps being hear moving towards the door...then nothing. ANd when I went outside the enemy wasn't there. Spent the rest of the level shining a flashlight into every frigging corner

 

[deathninja]

Either one of the Endless Ocean games, Night Abyss and Temple of the Gods respectively.

Cradle had nothing on that.

 

[cahtush]

The first dungeon and every dungeon with zombies in oblivion. The first time i played the first one i sneaked the whole way, just becouse i was so scared.
Also i hate the zombies, they just do so much damage and have so much health.
So yeah im not really one for horror movies and games.

 

[Robert Ewing]

Probably Amnesia, I was genuinely on the edge on my chair then.

BUT, there was an old game for the PS1. I can't remember what it was called.

But you started off on a fog-laden trawler ship, and a little undead girl would follow you floating around, scaring you.

I can't bloody remember what it was, I doubt it was FEAR, urrghhh

 

[Pressure666]

The X labs section in return to castle wolfenstein, the mega creepy sound of the weird monsters nails as they walked on there hands. specially the part where you find a caged one that suddenly decides it can break through the glass all of sudden!

Or the first boss from the same game, just after the walking through loads of already scary catacombs. hes basically just a big teddy bear that fires ghosty skulls at you but it made me poo my pants every damn time. loved that game so much.

failing those, the bit earlier mentioned in the thread from painkiller... just so messed up, some sort of abandoned mental hospital is what i think its supposed to be.

 

[Angry_squirrel]

YOU PLAYED SILENT HILL WHEN YOU WERE SIX?!?!?!?!? 0_o Why?! How?! Why would you do that to yourself, or did a sibling put you up to it?

Nah, it was my dad being irresponsible. I had nightmares about that woman (I forget her name) turning into a psycho nurse for ages after though.

 

[Rheinmetall]

Project Zero. By far the scariest game I have ever played and because it was very scary I quit it.

 

[Deathmageddon]

I'm not really into survival horror, so I'll have to say...

DEATHCLAWS

 

[Rheinmetall]

YOU PLAYED SILENT HILL WHEN YOU WERE SIX?!?!?!?!? 0_o Why?! How?! Why would you do that to yourself, or did a sibling put you up to it?

Nah, it was my dad being irresponsible. I had nightmares about that woman (I forget her name) turning into a psycho nurse for ages after though.

Lisa Garland. Poor Lisa...I played it when I was 25, and I still can't forget the scene with the blood covering her eyes and face.

 

[gusenborge]

I first played Half Life at a young age and was scared shitless of the fish thingy when you first get the crossbow and at the dam.

To this day im still scared of the thing!!

 

[Rooster893]

Half Life 2, the Ravenholm level. My friend and I decided to plow through it while it was storming outside at 2:00 A.M. Needless to say, it was fairly scary.

BioShock. More specifically, when the Dentist creeps up behind you in his foggy operating room. And also, The Wild Bunny by Sander Cohen.

I WANT TO TAKE THEM OFF, BUT I CAN'T! IT'S MY CURSE! IT'S MY FUCKING CURSE!

 

[Crimson King]

In no particular order:
1.) In Silent Hill 3, the was a random noise heard in the Subway area that made me literally drop my controller in terror.

2.) In the Indie game Which there's this spooky woman that pops up behind you around and no matter how prepared I am, I still jump every time I turn around.

3.) The overall ambiance and atmosphere of the hub area in the sourcemod, Underhell, makes it hard to tell what's worse, the scares or how much it'll cost to fix the holes your fingers made in your chair.

 

[Lugbzurg]

Honestly, I just don't seem to get scared as much as most people. Or, maybe, I'm just subconsciously avoiding it. But, I do never much want to play Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther in the middle of the night with the lights off and my headphones or earbuds on and see what happens.

At this point, the only game that's come anywhere close to leaving me with some kind of dread about what's behind the corner has been Half-Life. That game is way scarier than Left 4 Dead. And, it has a more pronounced focus on survival. I have no idea why Left 4 Dead is marketed as a "Survival-Horror" game. It just doesn't work. Wanna know what the easiest way to kill any and all fear or dread one might have in a game? Put a gun in the player's hands.

 

[Devil's Due]

For me...

Dead Space series, mainly the first one when you're still new to the terror.

Fallout 3's Dunwich Building and that vault where you see things

BioShock for the most part of the beginning and a few parts near the end

A few moments in Alan Wake when you see the enemy and go "how am I supposed to...", e.g. a freaking steam roller comes alive by itself and chases you, when all you have is a flashlight

Half-Life 2's Ravenholm is another, I was pretty young at that time, staying up at midnight with the headphones on and my lights off, alone, and did not expect it.

And finally, this is a bit of an odd one, but since I was so young at the time; Gears of War when you first encounter the Berserker. I mean goodness, even with my friends over I was TERRIFIED, because you have this GIANT, invulnerable monster that freaking charges you and can kill you in one hit, screams a way that freaks you out, and worst of all the only way to kill it is to stand in its path and make it charge at you and dodge it the last second so that it may destroy the walls in the way until you're able to escape outside and use the Hammer of Dawn. First time I ever freaked out in a game. Ever.

 

[Jaeke]

As an 11 year old looking at BioShock for the first time, I mean come one. Hornets flying out of limbs, blood splattering, and a sudden drill to the innards AS IT WAS TURNING ON! Scared the hell outta me.

 

[Scarim Coral]

The Regenerator from Resident Evil 4. I cannot stand unnatural voices that sound nothing I have heard before.