Whats the most scary game you ever played and why?

[ace_of_something]

at the time silent hill (and the sequel) mostly because I never played anything like them... at the time.

Although my fiance (who never played them) found my old copy of the first one and began playing it recently, she complains of the controls but is sucked in already by the story.

 

[EvilMaggot]

F.E.A.R... and my most scariest moment was in Extraction Point.. the first exp pack but saw a ladder.. midway on the ladder there a vent shaft... and i just KNEW the little anoying girl would come out of it... took me 5 minutes to get some courage and climb the thing.. and sure enough she scared the c**p out of me xD

 

[latenightapplepie]

Original condemned for me.

F**king mannequins...

Same. I haven't played any of the Silent Hill games so I'm not going to attempt some kind of scare-o-meter comparison. After those mannequins, the creepy lunatics who hid in cupboards, leapt out of water, and pretty could appear and diappear through the cracks in tiniest gaps, I was one terrified mess by the end of the game.

 

[MrGFunk]

For true horror game fanatics and addicts, it's difficult to find a game that scares us anymore. For me personally, fatal frame and fatal frame 2 where the scariest games I ever played.

People are mentioning games that are freaky and jumpy (Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Condemned).

Project Zero (Fatal Frame) is the end of this conversation. Until the question is asked again, which it will be.

There's a rope... and a power switch. Scared.

I'm seeing posters saying they played RE and Silent Hill at 9 years old. Crazy. I would have not slept. At nine I was scared of the Disney film
The Black Cauldron . I would have gone insane to play games such as these.

I think this shows the desensitising of children at an earlier age which can go some way to explain the knife culture in England.
Wow, got serious at the end there.

 

[090907]

F.E.A.R. no other game has come close. although i have jumped a mile on numerous occasions in FPS when things "randomly" fall.

 

[Ranooth]

Eternal Darkness

The only game that has actually properly messed with my head.

 

[dead_beat_slacker]

Eternal Darkness, baby's crying out of no where is scary stuff man.

 

[vondy]

System Shock 2: The isolation and horror you face in space made it scary, you couldn't just bugger off and leave the horror,you had to face it.
Fatal Frame (both of them): Japanese scare, says it all.
Silent Hill (1-4, there is no other silent hill apart from the four and if you correct me then you are WRONG) is a game of its own breed; alone, scared, characters a noob in combat and firearms, monsters that make you scared because you don't know what it is or what its going to do, setting that is masterfully designed, story that draws you in like a cake shop... all mixes together to form a perfect psychological horror, but more SH1&2...

*Spoilers to the ones who haven't played SH2*

The biggest freight i ever got was is SH2, at the hotel after you watch the tape in the room and you walk out, and keep in mind i had been playing non stop for hours so i was fully immersed in the story and game, and you hear Mary say ''James''... Made me scream like a 6 year old girl, launched the controller 5 km into the air and made me nearly conduct a trouser leakage of epic proportions! Love that game!

 

[Wuelfen]

I think i was 6 or 7 when i got the Legend of Zelda: OoT and those damned Redead zombies always used to scare the crap out of me :S SKREEEE!!!

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Either Silent Hill 3 or Thief: Deadly Shadows, the first because it was the only Silent Hill game I've ever played and it was ridiculously creepy, and Thief solely because of the Shalebridge Cradle (I need not go further).

 

[gdnvs]

I thought the original thief was rather scary. Those zombies made really ghastly sounds.

 

[Say Anything]

I've played Resident Evil, Resident Evil 4, and Silent Hill: Origins. I really don't find any of these games scary; Resident Evil 4 suffers from the "L4D syndrome" as I call it. Too many zombies, not enough isolation, not scary. Silent Hill: Origins is very similar, you get a craptastic load of weapons against slow enemies. Dying was common for me, but it wasn't scary. I had the same feeling whenever I died in SH:O as I would in Pacman: "Oh, time to start over." Resident Evil I would say would be the "most scary", but I don't think that's fair. It used the "make you jump" factor too much, which isn't scary, just surprising. If you wake up to cymbals banging (hahaha perverted thought) in your room, you won't be scared, just surprised as hell.

 

[captain awesome 12]

The opening of Bioshock was creepy, and scary, Dead Space was scary as hell the first time an alien jumped up and grabbed me, I think that a game that makes you feel out of your element, ala bioshock, where you don't understand whats going on, you've just dropped thousands of feet underneath the ocean with no way out and you're witnessing a murder through the window of your bathysphere, its dark and everythings leaking and you don't understand whats going on

 

[letsnoobtehpwns]

i never really had been scared while plying a game. i jumped when i walked over to a dead enemy in dead space and it big my dick off. i guess i'm a little afraid of left 4 dead. stop laughing! at least i wasn't afraid of bioshock like you! those witches are just fucking creepy.

 

[shansta619]

half life in ravenhelm, the first fast zombie you fight, and those times they climb up the walls when you are on the roof. or in episode 2 when you are in the antlion nest, when the gaint one is chasing you, damn

 

[Tekrae]

Doom 3. I still sleep with the light on.

 

[jack1oo]

resident evil 2 just because I was young and practically shitting my pants.

 

[J_ingledew]

I have to say, I wasn't into "scary" games until Ravenholm. That was just creepy. But now, after playing a few, the more jumpy games (FEAR, Doom3) just arent enough to even make me twitch. Sure, in the new FEAR (forgot what it's called) I jumped when the woman grabbed me, shook me, then disappeared, but that isn't me being scared, as such. Same with ultra-gore games. Not really scary, just a bit sick. I find atmosphere scary, games that suck you in and then use he atmosphere to freak you out are truly scary. Fatal Frame is pretty good for this, as is Thief (Cradle). I agree with others that too many zombies=no fear.

 

[The Ruler of Nosgoth]

Well I never found horror games really "scary"... until Bioshock. That was the scariest game for me.

**small spoilers**

One part was when you meet the first Houdini and you walk up to the mask on the table with the light aimed at it. You turn around and hes all up in your face! I jumped like a foot up in the air lol

Also, the part in the Medical Pavillion right before you fight the dentist and you have to watch him mutilate his patient... that was horrifying.

 

[Fraught]

Forgive me, tis my first time posting.

Why? All forums have a search button. Is this your first time on an internet forum? I've never gotten how can "I'm new" be used an excuse to not using the Search button.

/dickwasp

Probably F.E.A.R. I've heard many things about Silent Hill, but unfortunately, haven't played any of them.
F.E.A.R. had great horror. It wasn't done too often, but the parts where Alma jumped out were genuinely terrifying.