Whats the most scary game you ever played and why?

[geldonyetich]

I'd have to go with System Shock 2. Pop-up horror doesn't scare me much, but the deep psychological horror of being trapped with nothing but your mutilated former crew members while forced to follow the orders of a homicidal AI which is several times worse really gets under the skin.

 

[tortured3679]

Uh i love Fatal Frame series but i scares the S*** out of me... also the first time i played resident evil 4 at 2 AM right after watchin TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE...the original... i just got to say... awsome

EDIT: also mainly Silent hill 1 and 2 for obvious reasons

 

[TehCookie]

Resident Evil 4 isn't that scary normally however when your playing it in a dark basement and you are at the part where you are fighting the bugs and a real bug flies at you and lands on your face that's scary.

 

[Jaythulhu]

Hasn't this topic been done multiple times already? Anyway, the freakiest game I've ever played was the Aliens total conversion for doom, followed closely by alone in the dark. Call of Cthulhu is the most recent game to scare me, though the Suffering was a good romp too.

 

[Syntax Error]

Fatal Frame, the Bound Woman in the third installment. The CG sequence before that fight made it all the more disturbing.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Bioshock was pritty fucking scary...then I died and there was literaly no punishment. There were still a few moments that shit me up in that game (the morg and funeral home spring to mind) but mostly the phycotics just made me laugh.

Left 4 Dead manages to shit me up sometimes. I remember when I had literally 1 health,I was seeing in blck and white, we were in the sewers in No Mercy, we went into that room with the door and the ammo. I went down the little corridor first, we came to the corner...A HUNTER CLAWED ME AND I WENT STRAIGHT DOWN!!!! My god, it shit me up so much, everyone was laughing once they got over the shock.

I should really go play some scarier games. I just havn't got many horror games on my shelf, only recently have I been able to convince my parents to let me get 18s. I need to play Condemned or something.

 

[LionheartDJH]

It's a close call between Silent Hill 2 and Doom 3. Silent Hill 2 was scary and really messed with your mind, not sure what was real and not in that game, and Pyramid Head was really creepy. Doom 3 still makes me jump when I play it, just the way it's so dark and claustrophobic and monsters just come out of nowhere, plus of course you can't use a flashlight and gun at the same time.

 

[Arachon]

F.E.A.R... Couldn't sleep for a week... Was a perfect combination of psychological horror and plain jump-scare

 

[Fragged_Templar]

FEAR is the scariest game I have ever played, then again i have a child phobia... so anything involving ghost/zombie children scare me to no end and leave me paranoid for months... I would have to say that dead space was also pretty scary, but not in a lasting way... Deadspace only uses shock scares, so as soon as the initial shock wears off the game isn't scary at all.

I have heard that the fatal frame series is suppose to be fucking balls to the wall shit yourself scary. have heard that is uses psychological horror shock horror and good old just plain creepy horror.

 

[loki1982]

I have to say, when I was about 6 or 7 I remember a game for Commodore,

I think it was Friday the 13th, that game scared the cra@·"·4!!

Jason Vorhees chasing you and never dying and the screams of your friends when they were killed.

When I was young I playd

1) Phantasmagoria 1 (It was scary at that time)
2) Phantasmagoria 2 (Very disturbing)
3) Gabriel Knight the beast within (Not vary scary but it has it's moments)
4) System Shock 2
5) Clock Tower (A little bit scary, and a little bit annoying)
6) Fatal Frame 2 (Scared me playing at night)

 

[Klagermeister]

Oh god, F.E.A.R.
Damn that Alma...
It has its jump-up moments, where you're just thinking "DUDE! WASN'T EXPECTING THAT!"
Also, there's those parts when you're just creeped out.
Like that part where there's a TV in the alleyway.
You walk up to it, and it's static. Then Alma appears on screen, walking towards you.
It goes back to static, and she whispers "Give it back..."
Oh my god, just remembering it makes my heart rate go up.

 

[N-Sef]

Fatal Frame, the Bound Woman in the third installment. The CG sequence before that fight made it all the more disturbing.

Totally agreed. Fatal Frame/Project Zero III was a completely unnerving experiance, I dreaded every moment in that game. Still I was really interested in what was happening to Rei, so I pushed on.

 

[Syndef]

A lot of "horror" games seem to concentrate on only startling you. F.E.A.R., Dead Space, ect.

Real horror means a tense atmosphere and feeling scared even when there is no apparent threat to the player. Silent Hill series, System Shock 2, a few parts of Thief, and what I think is great: Penumbra. Penumbra is one scary game, and has a creepy atmosphere. It's more survival instead of action. The regretful thing is that they used to offer their first game for free, but after they realized how popular they were, they started charging for everything.

The demo is available though if you're interested: http://www.penumbra-overture.com/demo.php

 

[joystickjunki3]

For me it was the original Silent Hill when I first played it a long time ago. Recently, though, it was Condemned. That game scared the crap out of me.

 

[Frybird]

For me, the scariest would be either Silent Hill 2 or 3...although i did only play halfway through the 3rd part.

When i think about it, it's kinda strange: Silent Hill is at it's scariest when there is no real enemy around. I guess when you see an enemy, you can expect what's coming, and i'm probably more scared of being startled.

But as a standalone scene/level it is definitly the bear in Condemned 2. Perfect Mix between the "OH SHIT RUN RUN RUNRUN!" panic of Resident Evil 4 and 5 and the tense breaks where you don't know what will happen next like F.E.A.R. and Silent Hill. Also, the "kind of realism" of the scenario really makes it memorable.
It's a shame the rest of the game didn't live up to that

 

[Incompl te]

viva pinata

NO NOT THE SHOVEL ARGHHHHH

nah but seriously probably silent hill

 

[Yokai]

Games with scary things in them don't scare me as long as I can chop them up with a sword or blow them away with a shotgun. Which is why Thief scared me so much, because Garrett is such an incapable fighter. It was extremely scary to be in a pitch-dark mine, hearing the shuffling and groaning of a zombie nearby, and knowing however may times I whack with my sword, it will keep getting back up and coming after me, or in the basement of an insane half-demon's mansion, watching hideous humanoid insects prance down hallways in a disturbing parody of walking, knowing my only option is to run.

 

[Podunk]

Topping my list would be Silent Hill 3. It had the best atmosphere and sounds and to me was the most immersive game in the series. Certain moments (Like the mall bathroom and the mannequin store room) shows you that things can be scary even if there's no static on the radio.

EDIT: Also, for anyone looking for some oft-missed games full of genuine horror, I recommend Haunting Ground and Fatal Frame. The former is unique because it's more like a horror movie, in that you are only ever being chased by the one antagonist over and again each chapter. The 'panic mode' your character entered if you handled a situation badly was also pretty neat. The latter is based on a true story (my Korean non-gaming roomie knew all about the plot) of some deeply disturbing rituals and you must handle ghosts with nothing but your mother's camera while you look for your brother in a creepy mansion.

 

[magicmuffinman]

Original condemned for me.

F**king mannequins...