Justsomeguy

I was thinking back about the games that I've played in my life that were almost too scary to even play.

The first game I can think of is Diablo. When I played the game, there was something creepy about the graphics, the voices, the music, and about everything else in the game. Of course, going to hell isn't the most jolly setting in the world. I was young when I got this game. However, I can recall deliberately avoiding playing it. I was anxious to see what happened next, but I was just too chicken to play it.

Resident Evil was a classic. I played this when it first came out. My brother, my cousin, and several other people played it with me. All hovered around the television and all a little more jumpy than usual.

Twisted Metal: Black. The stories in this game are just crazy. They definitely do fit the title as they are very twisted. I've read some crazy books and seen some strange movies. But the stories in this game was about as evil as you can get. Enough so that I gave it to a friend just to get it away from me. Fun game though. Of course, nothing really to be afraid of, but I think we all do some stupid things when something scares us a little.

omega2K4

I've never been scared by any games I've played. I have to admit that the Fatal Frame games can be a little creepy at times, as are the Silent Hill games.

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You got scared by Diablo and...did you say...TWISTED METAL!? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

As for me, only two games actually made me jump: Silent Hill, and Resident Evil 2. Silent Hill made me jump just about every time I heard that radio going off, and Resident Evil made me jump when Spoiler: that licker crashed through the window.

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No game other than Silent Hill has really creeped me out. The tension just gets to you after awhile if you approach playing the game from the right direction.

Lots of games have made me jump. Jumps are cheap, and reletively easy to achieve. Mostly used by 'wish I knew horror' designers.

On a tangent, I did LOVE the stories for Twisted Metal: Black, probably more than the gameplay itself.

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Justsomeguy

I was like 8 at the time. 8 year old sometimes get scared easy. For twisted metal, I'm referring to the PS2 version. The stories are very strange. The stories in all the TM series for the PS were just dumb.

Mr.Deflok

Silent Hill for sure and number three the most. It's a suffocating nightmare where no matter where you are or what you are doing feels unsafe. Hell of an unsettling game.

Metroid Prime was sort of the same, mainly during the approach and during boss fights... but maybe that was more of an intense sort of feeling. The entire Echoes game was incredible dark and forboding but never 'scary'... for me anyway.

sadistikdreams

Bloodrayne. Those damned Nazi Daemonites.

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Silent Hill and Fatal Frame both scared the shit out of me. I couldn't play those games alone. Seriously. I mean cmon', kids with knives?!?!?! Holy crap!!!!!

Malou

An old computer game called temugin

Bratwurst

Clock Tower for ps

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System Shock. Everybody is dead, and wants you dead.

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Fatal Frame II had me seeing disebodied floating kids everywhere i looked for 3 days..
not something i'd imagine saying about a game but the cinematography is great. some of the camera angles work so well, and the ambiant noise is so absolutily mood setting..


while we play the game (a group of friends taking turns "steering") we learned the following

My friend erick screams like a girl
ps2 controls can take a fair bit of throwing. (not out of anger..)
vibrating phones are the best things in the world.. provided you don't own one and your friends do.

seriously my hair was standing on end, and my skin crawling at times..

a dark room, 6 friends, a good scary adventure game, good times.

whocarz

Unless you are breaking the forum rule of no one under 18 allowed, there is no way you could have been 8 years old when Diablo came out. It was released January 1st, 1997.

Anyway, I'm going to say Doom 3. Playing it at night by myself, it was a bit creepy. It's too bad that feeling didn't last very long, since the gameplay got repetative very quickly.

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Spartak

Silent Hill, fucking hell it REALLY got to me after a while.

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CyCo PL

friday the 13th on NES always had me on edge when walking through the cabins, wondering which turn jason was gonna jump out on and stab me with his machete

Frosstbyte

I've never played any of the classics of adventure horror (Silent Hill, Resident Evil, etc.), but the two that come to mind immediately are Half Life and System Shock 2.

Half Life just had atmosphere down pat. I'd be a lying dog if I said I didn't jump in my seat at least a few times when a headcrab would jump at me seemingly out of nowhere. Creepy tunnels with all kinds of weird stuff going on and this monster jumping out at me with a gutteral growl? Yeah, it was scary.

I never actually played System Shock 2, but just watching a friend play it freaked me out. That game is intense and atmospheric to the extreme. The fact that compared to a lot of games you spend a lot of it hoping you can survive because you don't have much to work with really adds to the fear element. You have one half-broken gun and a few handfuls of bullets instead of an arsenal of destruction. Makes a big difference. Too bad I hated the interface.

TheWalkinDude

System Shock 2 remains the scariest game I have ever played. Throughout the whole thing, you just felt so hunted and helplessly alone. The feeling was completely relentless. Pity you can't buy the game anymore for any kind of reasonable price.

kaiho

Doom 3. The way that they made it so you had to use the flashlight to look into dark areas, but you couldnt have a gun out at the same time...that made the game pretty scary at times. The fact that the game looks pretty real doesn't help.

McG

Yep Doom 3 for sure. Played it with lights out and surround sound made it very creepy.

Redjake

Definitely some games that make me hide under bed sheets, or at least scare me shitless.


Doom 3 in the dark, which I refuse to play now.


Resident Evil (first one on PSX) scared the shit out of me, to the point where I wouldn't play the game at all. Me and Lasereth played it when it first came out, it was revolutionary. We didn't know what to think, it was just too damn freaky. We raved about it for months.


SILENT HILL. Possibly the scariest series of games ever? Silent Hill was really bad. Silent Hill 2 was really scary as well, but Silent Hill 3 took it overboard. We had to gather a group of friends into the same room and pass around the controller just to beat the damn thing. Rediculous. Damn scary game.

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NeverBorn

Silent Hill and the Original Resident Evil

FngKestrel

Resident Evil and Silent Hill series. Both of those games have caused me to throw the controller across the room, jump straight up in the air from a sitting position, and terrified me with just a flicker of motion.

Great games.

shakran

Pacman. Four scary ghosts coming after one decapitated head. Gives me shivers just thinking about it.

Bacchanal

Silent Hill definitely gave me the chills once or twice.

I've played the Resident Evil games, but never owned any of them, so I never really got to play by myself, or in the dark for that matter.

The nightmare sequence in Max Payne was pretty disturbing, and the beginning was just not what I expected of videogames at the time.

spongy

My brother jumped playing the first Tomb Raider game, I believe it was a bear coming around the corner to get him. I still dog him about that.

hulk

REmake, first time I played it. I'd never owned a PlayStation, so it was just crazy, even with five of us in the room. Later, and with RE Zero, I was still shitting myself while playing, just not as much =) Eternal Darkness had me going, though. Even though most of the insanity effects were tame, some of them like the unattached controller and game reset messed with my mind. And that damn crying and laughing when the meter fills up, once I turned off my 'Cube mid-game because I didn't want to listen to it at 2am.

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undying with high volume at night

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MPower

The original Doom. I used to play it at night when it came out. Had never seen anything like it.
System Shock 2. Damn scary
Eternal Darkness. Played at night. Doors knocking, babies crying noises. Creeped me out.

Arc101

Resident Evil when the dogs jump through the window is the only game that has ever made me jump.

Charlatan

The ghouls in Zelda: Ocarina of Time... when you go forward in time and everyone is dead... and they jump on you! Seriously creepy.

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Coppertop

Yes, such ans awesome game. It just drips with atmosphere. Every round of ammo was precious. I don't even know how many times I stood outside a door simply not wanting to go through it. I think this had a lot to do with the sounds in the game.

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talkingtiki

Its the same with me as a lot of you guys. Resident Evil 2 was really scary. And I played that forever ago. These days the only game that has gotten to me was the Ravenholm level of HL2. I was playing that in the dark and had to stop playing it because I was too tense. I laugh about it now, but it was freaking me out a little the first time I played it.

Slavakion

I haven't found a game that actually scared me, but Painkiller made me jump numerous times. I'd turn around and OH SHIT IT'S ANOTHER ONE! Damn demons were as silent as cats...

longbough

Silent Hill wasn't nearly as scary as it was being promoted. Resident Evil was much more immersive with more tension and better sound effects and music and scarier by far. The only thing it didn't have was much of a plot - but atmosphere is what makes for a good scare.

Then there came Doom 3 - which is the most frightening experience I've had in a game.

Wingless

Doom 1. The fireball spitting brown Imps with spikes freaked the shit out of me! The other creatures never got to me, just those damn brown Imps!

Surprised no one has mentioned Rez as a game that makes you hide under the bed sheets

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hulk

I'm playing Undying now, and if it wasn't for the crazy-fast run speed, extremely loud footsteps, glitched audio in cutscenes and loading screens every minute or so, I'd probably be a bit freaked.

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Homey_V

AVP2 playing as the marine caused me to get nervous quite alot...

Ok, Im lying... That game freaked me out at places... Such intense atmosphere.

Sytem Shock 2 also made me pee myself... and not from laughing.

Doom 3 got me a bit edgy as well.

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Prophecy

Resident Evil gave me a few jumps. However, the game that creeped me out the most was Eternal Darkness. It didn't have me hiding under the beds, but it gave a nice scare and a bit of paranoia late at night.

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Onions

Eternal darkness was a great game to play in the dark, the sanity meter made things real fun.

McFrosticles

I started playing Doom when I was 8...was definitely a scary game for me.

I recently played Doom 3 with no lights on and felt the same way. It was great actually

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