08-28-2003, 05:38 AM | #81 (permalink) | |
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i remember the level with the big monster in the middle where u had to sneak to the top level , hit a switch and sneak back. i played this late at night and was completely immersed in the atmosphere. i loved that game.
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08-28-2003, 10:04 AM | #84 (permalink) |
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Aliens Vs. Predator 2.
Playing as the Colonial Marine, every single fucking time that motion detector beeps just once, and then stops, you're ready to jump out of your skin. Also, the first time you see the Predator's targeting beam on the floor in front of you you'll be needing a change of underwear. God, how I love that game . . . |
08-31-2003, 12:17 AM | #89 (permalink) |
The one that got away
Location: Over the hill and far away
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Somebody mentioned Eternal Darkness and its revolutionary insanity effects. There's another game - made simultaneously, so none of the two has 'stolen' any ideas from the other. It's called Dark Corners Of The Earth, and if you know who Lovecraft is, you know what kind of a game this is going to be. Lovecraft is one of the best horror writers ever, and it's sneaky suspense and shadows and not really knowing what's going to happen next... It's a FPS, and you can go surely insane... see stuff that isn't really there, that sort of thing. You can get vertigo too. And all of this in first person - and get this: without any interface. No health bar, no powerups, and if you wanna see how many bullets left in the chamber, you look at your gun and check it that way. If anybody played the pen and paper roleplaying game Call Of Cthulhu, they get sort of the idea of how scary it can be. The game's licensed by Chaosium, by the way, so everything's original. Check out the screenshots: http://www.callofcthulhu.co.uk
It's not out yet, but hastily getting there. Last edited by hu-man; 08-31-2003 at 12:20 AM.. |
08-31-2003, 04:27 AM | #90 (permalink) |
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Location: boston, MA
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silent hill at 1 in the morning. There is nothing as utterly creepy as running for your life from midgets with shanks and overanxious canabalistic love slaves.
I'd also like to say that what made silent hill the scariest was the sound moreso than the chasing baddies. That missile siren really freaked the hell out of me.
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08-31-2003, 10:45 AM | #92 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Simi Valley, CA
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System Shock 2 was very freaky...
Half Life in many ways was scary, but on a different level. It was full of suspense, uncertainty. With the total immersion in the game theres some dread over what may be around the next corner. Headcrabs jumping at you from the shadows in vents... The giant blind tentacle thing in the rocket testing chamber, banging randomly with the metal clanking echoing around... its eerie...
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09-01-2003, 07:35 AM | #95 (permalink) | |
Oh shit it's Wayne Brady!
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Also in Silent Hill, the part when the telephones ring, you pick up, and it's Cheryl saying, "Daddy where are you? Help me daddy!..." <-- paraphrasing. That part doesn't jump my adrenaline but it sure creeped me out.
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09-01-2003, 06:50 PM | #97 (permalink) |
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Location: Chicago
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i would have to throw down for Alien Vs. Preaditor 1. now that was some freaky shit. a similar game was alien trilogy for ps1 way back when. The resident evil series gets a hononable mention, as does the early fade to black game for ps1.
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09-02-2003, 01:54 PM | #98 (permalink) |
Tired
Location: Florida
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Any RE game freaks the hell outta me.
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09-02-2003, 07:12 PM | #99 (permalink) |
Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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Let's see...I believe the other thread was just "scary games in general," but this one is actually asking for scary moments. In Resident Evil 1 when the dogs jump through the window, of course. I honestly couldn't pick it up for a year after that. I actually beat it later on though.
Resident Evil 2, when the Neo-Tyrant bursts through the wall right after you're walking back down the hall towards the camera. Scared the FUCK out of me. Hmm...in Silent Hill 1, anytime during the school or hospital. Those that have played it know the horror. In Eternal Darkness for Gamecube, just about that entire game had me on my nerves end. Except for when you get the Elephant Gun with Nitro Slugs a little after half-way through the game with that one character. I could kill anything with it so it made it seem a *bit* less scary. A few noticable scary moments were checking the bathtub with Alex in the second floor of the mansion and the first time I heard knockings coming from the other sides of doors in the mansion. Then you go through and nothing is there. Then you walk back through and your head explodes, game over. Ha ha, then the game would pop back up to right before you went through the door in the first place. My hands were shaking the entire time the Sanity meter was low; expect WEIRD shit to happen when it is. Fucking screams coming from everywhere, people screaming to "get them out of here," and the blood dripping from the ceilings just creeped the fuck out of me. I had to play for short periods of time or I simply couldn't go on. Now that I think about it, Eternal Darkess is easily on par with Silent Hill on the creep-out psycho-shit factor. -Lasereth
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09-03-2003, 10:11 PM | #100 (permalink) |
Upright
Location: Yakima, WA
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Oh man. Gotta love the Survival Horror games.
There's nothing better then playing the gamecube Resident Evil in the dark late at night. For some reason those freakin' sharks nearly gave me a heart attack. Also, the knocking from random walls in Eternal Darkness would give me the chills quite often. |
09-04-2003, 05:30 AM | #101 (permalink) |
Crazy
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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). |
09-04-2003, 08:39 AM | #102 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: In a Dorm
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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.
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09-04-2003, 09:01 AM | #103 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: USA
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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 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
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09-07-2003, 03:43 PM | #104 (permalink) |
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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
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10-07-2003, 02:40 AM | #105 (permalink) |
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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. |
10-07-2003, 08:04 AM | #106 (permalink) | |
alpaca lunch for the trip
Location: in my computer
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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! Last edited by jujueye; 10-07-2003 at 08:07 AM.. |
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10-08-2003, 04:42 PM | #108 (permalink) | |
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Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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10-08-2003, 07:42 PM | #109 (permalink) |
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Location: Lovely City #1
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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!!! |
10-09-2003, 12:38 PM | #110 (permalink) |
Pure Chewing Satisfaction
Location: can i use bbcode [i]here[/i]?
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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.
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10-10-2003, 01:40 PM | #112 (permalink) |
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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. Last edited by Wulf_Hunter; 10-12-2003 at 11:55 AM.. |
10-12-2003, 09:00 AM | #113 (permalink) |
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Location: Chitown!!
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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.
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10-12-2003, 03:16 PM | #114 (permalink) |
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Location: Classified
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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. |
10-14-2003, 04:13 AM | #117 (permalink) |
Insane
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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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.
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10-15-2003, 04:58 AM | #119 (permalink) |
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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..
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10-16-2003, 06:02 PM | #120 (permalink) |
Go Cardinals
Location: St. Louis/Cincinnati
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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.
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