Okay, I have a fair few...one severely embarassing, but they don't really count to me. And another two I'm fairly sure everyone will take a look at and think...yeah...so? But that aside, here it goes.
Resident Evil 1: I think I was what, age 6? 7? My dad was playing, and had entered these wierd underground areas in the mansion. Man...the music that was playing (still creeps me out today) because it was some kind of long drawn out deep note which cut short, then repeated itself. I practically buried myself in the sofa, covering my ears and roaring my eyes out because I couldn't cut it.
Resident Evil 2: Playing as any of them really, during the second scenario. Mr. X as he was so named, such a scary bastard in that coat...look back at him today and it's laughable, but..how he'd just punch through a wall and kill me, or the worst (causing me to stop playing for a month because I could never be ready for it) was when you fetch a key for a train and turn the corner, only for a note of dramatic music to play, at which you are then blocked by the hulking form of Mr. X and a waffle sized fist smashing into your face.
Resident Evil 3: Only one part, during the police station when Nemesis jumps through the window after you've got the magnum and..lockpick? And launches that rocket at you. Scary.
Now, I can list of all my experiances with the Resident Evil series, but frankly, what I'd list of is common stuff that is put in to do that to a person anyway. But moving swiftly on.
Call of Cthulu: Dark corners of the Earth.
I say this now, and I'll say it again, with more venom if I have to. That game, FUCKS YOU UP. Not just your regular attempt at mindfuckery, it really does totally mess your mind up. This has moved on a fair bit from my under-10-years gaming experiance, but it really made me suddenly feel like a stranded 8 year old again. Dark room, friend asleep, I've drank red bull, and now I'm as awake as ever dripping with sweat. See, with my games I tend to explore everywhere, and peeking into a window only for it to zoom into someones face into pieces hung up on a wall, or looking out another window only to see some lizard like thing jump past, or my personal favourite, looking into a room (through another window, amazingly) and seeing a man dragging a corpse through a door, which then slams shut. Call of Cthulu is totally not to be taken lightly. I'm never playing it again, because from start to finish it is nothing but total a fear fest.
Oblivion: Brown bears. The face they pull when they are midstrike is quite intimidating, and during a first person melee brawl it really demoralizes me. So yeah, good bye. Whenever I meet a bear on Oblivion, I run. Not because they are built like a brick shit house, but because they scare me to death.
And my number one all time hatred favourite whatever: Halo 1, 343 Guilty Spark.
I mean, I played this level, at around age 11, 12 perhaps? The atmosphere was enough to kill me, the game was on Easy (yeah...don't even say it) and I'd just seen the video of Pvt. Mendoza. Flood things, which scared me to death. I got so frightened when the floor arrived, also known as Resident Halo, my Xbox was off faster than you can say 'Whats that smell?'
Couple days later I steeled myself, retried it, and fought, sweat renchingly through them, only to get to the elevator and to watch it come down, in pieces and ablaze. Almost to my wits end, I thought fuck this, and turned it off. 5 months later my cousin, 16 at the time, now 21 I think, comes down for a visit. I make him do the level for me, and the level after that, due to the flood being present. Then, we tackled it in Co-op. I got over my flood fear, but it's still a grim reminder of how much I shat myself back then.
And, if you've been kind enough to read all this, thank you. These are my most embarrasing video moments to look back upon.
