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

[Atmos Duality]

Dungeons and Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin

I was nearly out of weapons better than iron, and completely out of food for healing.
Nearly any door I opened next could end me...and then I heard the 4-bit digital growl of the Tarmin Minotaur while searching for a path back to the upper level.

I rounded a corner, and a secret panel opened on the right wall revealing a Wraith. I darted backward and into a 3-way intersection...right into the Minotaur....and died.

Yeah...I was 8 years old.

 

[Robot-Jesus]

No more heroes.
Bad Girl.

at first it wasn't so bad, but by the 30ith time she beat my ass to a bloody pulp I leaned who's ***** I was. I still fear colourful party dresses.

 

[Erttheking]

Defiantly while playing Fallout New Vegas Dead Money. Those freaking Ghost People.

 

[pyrosaw]

Pyramid boss fight Silent Hill 2 anyone?

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

Though video games try to scare me, I haven't found any to really make me jump out of my skin. But when i was a bit of a chicken i used to be freaked out by the mirelurks from fallout 3. But then i grew some balls and continued to play other games like dead space 2, without get scared, only startled.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Dark Souls.

I am scared every second of gameplay, because that game has some goddamn horrible monsters that like to one shot your face

Spoiler: Oh hi there I would like to stretch my arms out and give you a hug.

 

[Nieroshai]

Minecraft.

There i was, in a dirthouse with a half-finished roof. hearing all sorts of ungodly sounds just outside. I had no windows, beside the one in my front door. But i didn't dare to go near it, because a few seconds ago an arrow flew past my nose as i tried to go near it. "What was that sound?! a SPIDER!". I knew they could climb walls, and my roof was unfinished. so my options were: to fight the vile beast, or flee.
I hurried to the door knocked it down, showing a skeleton and a few zombies out of my way and ran, with only a few scrapes from the encounter. Without looking back i headed to the forest, and found a nice big tree, and lighted a torch. i couldn't see any of the horrid creatures, but i still felt watche-
"TSSSSSSSS...."

Endermen scare the crap ouut of me. I got used to creepers and have tons of security measures in place. ...none of which prevent teleportation or creepy hich pitched... is it laughing? And the face they make before charging you, only to teleport away an inch frome your face. The fear comes from not knowing when they'll decide to teleport back... and whether or not they still remember the color of your eyes.

 

[Nieroshai]

Playing Doom when I was 10. My dad kept the PC in a dark corner of my room so it was always creepy.

Personally, I can't really feel anything BUT adrenaline when the game's entire soundtrack is digitized metal. I just feel pumped and powerful. So... to change that, I muted the music and listened to the Dead Space 2 soundtrack instead. WHOLE new tone...

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

I'd say a tie between my first time playing REmake for the GC and Dead Space. REmake freaked the bejesus outta me, meek adolescent I was. The horror bug had yet to really take hold within me and everything I encountered in it seemed like some horrible manifestation of the mansion's id come to devour me whole.

As for Dead Space, I know most people accuse it of being un-scary, but I found it terrifying. The necromorphs, the claustrophobia, it all really ate at my nerves. By the final shot of the game I was quaking in my boxers.

Apart from those two there were likely others, but they come to mind more than most.

 

[Don't taze me bro]

The original Alone in the Dark was probably the first game that made me jump. Then Project Zero (Fatal Frame) literally gave me goosebumps. I was asked to review it for an Xbox related website. I was alone, at night, with the lights off and it was great.

 

[Starglider]

System Shock 2. Played that as a student over a long weekend, with giant projection screen + surround sound + total blackout + munchies + complete isolation from reality. I think that's the most immersed I've ever been in a video game world, and damn it was genuinely scary. Dead Space was a pretty good modern equivalent, obviously better graphics, but the pacing and inventiveness isn't on a par with SS2.

 

[lettucethesallad]

I played Bioshock with a friend in a completely dark apartment in the middle of the night. Splicer sneaks up from behind, I turn around and get a screen full of crazy splicer mask. We both screamed bloody murder, turned the game off and played Viva piñata for the next hour or so just to calm down.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Doom 3. Oh my god. I had a save for every room because I was so afraid of going through a doorway.

Funnily enough though, the game became not scary when I went to hell, and then became scary again after I came back. Dark corridors and supernatural jump scares work better than over the top fire and brimstone.

 

[Kyrian007]

There's a great moment early on in Resident Evil 4. You go down into a long cave... you creep along with your gun out waiting for the inevitable horde of Spaniards to leap out and give you the surprise hug... and...

You just keep waiting. There's no one down there... until...

"I've got some good things on sale, stranger."

AGGGGGGGGGG BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM!!!!

Not only did I shred him with panic fire the first time I played it (thus having to re-load...) I did it AGAIN the second time I tried it a few minutes later.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Turok 2. I was about 7 years old, and my brother tried getting me to walk through a dark cave while telling me "don't worry, there's no dinosaurs"

There was.

 

[paislyabmj]

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.

condemned criminal origins.seriously you can not go wrong.

OT:i am a wuss so i never played amnesia or silent hill but I did play the bioshock demo.in the bit before you become robocop that game can be very scary.

 

[mrhappy1489]

On the third world on Demon's Souls. Those fucking gargoyles and those god damn man centipedes had me fucking baby stepping around the entire map.

 

[MrGseff]

Like everyone else, I would say Amnesia. I would start up the game feeling brave and thinking 'Lets do this, its only a game, non of it's real' but as soon as something creepy happened such as a noise or seeing the monster down a hallway I would then think 'That's enough for the day time to save, quit and hide under my desk for the next three hours regretting what I have done'

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

I'm not quite sure what this says about me, as I'm not really all that accustomed to playing "scary" games, but the Project Overlord DLC for Mass Effect 2 made me truly question what kind of game I was playing, if it was the same game at all.

Spoiler

The very first time the David VI garbled and screamed at Shepard from a random console/computer screen, I very clearly jumped in my seat and was forced for the first time to adjust my television's volume. It may have been a cheap shot, but it did scare me.

Other than that, I've played a whole 8 minutes on Amnesia, so that has to give you some idea of how scary I prefer my games to be.

 

[bobmus]

Bioshock, the beginning. The only thing stopping me from doing a second play through is my nerves there!