Waiting for a Call Of Cthulhu game to come on the PC soon. And another one for PS2 (same developer, different game). I am glad I own both systems.
I am hoping that it'll be as good as the original Alone In The Dark (which was also based on the Cthuhlu Mythos).

Res Evil and Silent Hill are both scary, but in different ways. The Resident Evil series seems to have mastered, the "calm at one moment, but then a zombie pops out of a window and you crap your pants" atmosphere, while Silent Hill is more like Eternal Darkness, in a Cthulhu-esque sense of overall terror. Both are great though. Also, I remember playing the first Aliens Vs. Predator as a Marine, man that motion sensor beeb was creepy as hell, and when I finally did see an Alien, I actually fell out of my chair.

i was quite young when i first played doom, just the concept of going to hell scared me shitless. seeing the torsos chained to the wall, also priceless.

next in order would have to be quake 2, first time i really played any fps to any extent.. slasher guys, yelling "TRSSPASSR" at random intervals, had me frantically looking around for where the sound was coming from :P

played RE1 the remake, had never played the first one... goood. buddy of mine and i never played it before 1am.. highlights were encountering the berserkers first time, chasing you down the halls.. there were portions within the house where thered be a dark hallway, and you just KNEW there'd be a zombie there.. hardest thing to force oneself to go down that bloody hallway :p and lets not forget the dogs jumping through the windows, my first time through.. god, my heartrate was through the roof :) great game, i measure scary on the ability to force myself to go play the damn game again.. if its hard to do so, its scary :)

I'll prolly get flamed a bit for this but oh well...when I played Doom 3 Alpha the whole thing made me jump...it TOTALLY freaked me out...and it was late at nite with the lights turned off...now I'm used to it...I hope it's even scarrier in the final release...that will be AWESOME!!! It's the only game that has acutually made me jump in my seat and scare me...LOL...can't wait for the final release...THANX
C'YA ?:-D

Wario mentioned the first "Alone in the dark".
That Zombie is the most scary set of vector graphics i have ever encountered.
"System Shock 2" is really scary to.
"Realm of the Haunting" had scary moments too
"Clive Barkers Undying" Good scary fun ..

Common for the last 3 is the fabulous use of soundeffects.

I'm with you and quackers: Undying was a moody, creepy game that got into your head. I remember turning on my computer a few times and not wanting to even launch the game as the thought of going back into the manor was just too much. That's serious.

Behind that, SystemShock2. There are some new mods for SS2 out now that remodel lots of the foes: the Many, the MidWifes, etc. It looks great and I'm playing back through it. The link to the mod is at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/etienne.aube...ck_rebirth.htm Take a look at the screenshots while you're there.

Finally, the Marine campaign from Aliens vs. Predator 2 was great. My hands slipped off my mouse a few times from the sweaty palms!

I sure hope game manufacturers realize what a powerful style of game this is and make some more. I love em! Its even better than reading horror novels!

Silent Hill 3 is fucking really scary, you guys should check that out, it kicks resident evils ass.

My brother and friend are playing it right now. HOLY SHIT it's scary. I thought the first and second were bad. This one blows them out of the water.

-Lasereth

First off Doom. That game with the light flicker and the zombies/pinkies breating/groaning loud. Man those graphics sucked now but nothing freaked me out more than having only a pistol and nothing else.

Secondly, in Resident Evil 2 when you walk to that first hallway around the bookcase and you see that big hulking thing run by the window. You're not sure if you saw it or not...so I was playing with a friend and we were like "Shit...what was that!??!" We walk by the boarded windows cautiously...we get by fine. When we finally backtrack though the arms break through the windows and well...we screamed and I actually dropped the controller!!!

I've got to put another vote in for Thief. The game had very few ambient sounds and music, but when you did eventually turn a corner to be confronted with an enemy, you jumped a mile. What's worse is that the few sounds that you do hear are really important in the game, so you constantly were listening for the slightest sound.

resident evil 1 scared the shit out of me the first time I played. And I agree with ironx, the headcrabs in half life are still creepy, even after beating it countless times, and the add ons etc...

My favorite games that creeped me out, were Thief, and Undying.

Looks like a new Horror game is about to be released. Oct 15th or so, 'Nosferatu'. It's kinda cool, it will randomly spawn weapons and monster in different locations. Mostly based on slaying vampries.
Seems really creepy to me. I remember one room I was checking out a stained glass window, then some vamprie comes crashing though it, scared the living shit out of me. check it out, the is demo out.

I remember playing Doom as a kid. I would always run like a bat out of hell when I saw the Cyberdemon at the end. Resident Evil 2 was scary, because of the desolate feel of the when you were in the empty city. And Silent Hill scared me the most. The part in the school with the little mutant kid things stumbling around and moaning...scared the shit out of me.

Eternal Darkness was creepy, and one of the best games you can buy for GameCube.

The Resident Evil remake on GameCube was scary. I had never played the first one, so everything was new to me. I played Resident Evil 2 for the PC years ago, and that was also scary.

The silent hill games were always good

Resedent Evil was a bit scary and Undying almost freaked me out

I'm surprised so many people have mention System Shock 2, but only 3 have mentioned Thief, also by Looking Glass.

I found Thief much scarier than SS2, especially the level "Return to the Haunted Cathedral." The sounds the undead made were very creepy - the moaning of the zombies, the backwards laughter and whispering of the Haunts (Flames, flames, nothing but flames! Join us, join us, join us now!) and the backwards speech of the apparitions. The fact that your character wasn't a very good fighter and could die very easily also gave a sense of mortailty you don't have in many first-person games, which also contributed to the scariness.

Has to be the first res evil. Nothing since has really. I think it was so new and not sure what to expect. Mind i am 30 now so.

deffinently Resident Evil.. the first time i saw it was when i was like 11 years old and the last thing i remembered about zombies is my traumatic experience with night of the living dead when i was 7.. another game that creeped me out was the Doom III alpha, the bathroom area when you look the mirror spooked the hell out of me, really got my heart going..

Home Alone for Super Nintendo when I was a kid freaked the living crap out of me.
Played it last week and I beat the game in 20 minutes without a problem. Disappointed.

the silent hill games, definetly.

Aliens DOOM is definitely the scariest game I've ever played.

*edit* decided to expand on this post

If you have seen the movie Aliens (not the first one, Alien), you can play it. Someone made probably the best total conversion ever when they made Aliens DOOM. The levels and sounds were lifted right from the movie. As you proceed through the game, Apone is giving you orders with lines right from the movie. The gun sounds, aliens sounds, and graphics are as good as it gets for original DOOM technology. The aliens come crawling out of the walls and appear all around you, hissing, and biting.

Damn.... I want to play it now.


Anyone have a copy? Let me know, please.

Doom, Half-Life, Hexen, & Blood 2. Just spooky games with freaky ambient sound.

Arx Fatalis: Sometimes you can hear those fast little rat guys sneaking up on you from behind... the clincher; they can turn invisible! Play this game with headphones on.

Clive Barker's Undying: Three words (whispered): Look around you.

All in all... games don't produce much fright for me. Those Silent Hill games have their nice elements of surprise, but their more like cheesy eighties horror flicks than anything.

Undying. Creepy game

first game i ever really got a fright out of was Resident Evil.

at some part when a nasty beast/mutation, jumps through a window... i was up late playing it, and i seriously jumped about a foot into the air.

My god, I had nightmares for weeks, and my sis was there and started calling me piss in spanish. I was like 10 or soemthing. Meh, that whole lake and junk scared me everytime.

Anyways, my bro thinks Super Mario 64 is funny (haha). He jumped and started crying when princess's face turns into bowser. He was like 4, hahahaha, boy, was that funny.

Ummm, probably Silent Hill is the only one i've played.

Silent Hill with that eerie crackling of the radio that goes off when an enemy is near by. spooky :P

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