Scariest Game You've Ever Played

[WiseSalesman]

Alright, should be fairly self-explanatory....what's the scariest game you've ever played?

Personally, the game that creeped me out more than any other I've played before or since was the original Alone in the Dark. I remember playing that on my Dad's PC, on a summer day when my parents were out of the house, back in middle school or something, and I was reading a journal in the game, and I got so scared I had to stop playing. Resident Evil, although gruesome, certainly never evoked that level of fear in me. Although Eternal Darkness' story was brilliant, it certainly didn't have what it takes to make me cower in the corner, Only Alone in the Dark did that, before or since.

Of course, there are quite a few survival horror games I've not yet played, so I'd like to hear your opinions.

Which one got to you? One of the REs? Perhaps a Silent Hill? Illbleed? Fatal Frame? Or maybe one I haven't even heard of?

[Happy_Dude]

Maniac Mansion on NES (I was young O.k)

Silent hill was freaky but Alone in the dark will Always be #1 ;)

[kainemaxwell]

Resident Evil 2 for me.

[qaotik]

1. System Shock 2 (PC)
2. Aliens vs Predator (PC)

[Happy_Dude]

1. System Shock 2 (PC)
2. Aliens vs Predator (PC)
I totaly forgot about AvP :D Thats some scary stuff, especially with
a Really good sound system (read: SUBWOOFER) ;) :D :D

[Ascending Wordsmith]

This isn't a scary game, but there's one part on Bionic Commando that scares the hell out of me. Everyone knows the part where you enter the enemy's communication room and contact your superiors, using your own comm unit.

http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Reviews/BionicCommando/Images/BC-SS-CommRoom.gif

You can also wire tap the enemy's conversations and listen in on their movements. After the enemy ends the transmission you can simply break off the tapping and leave the room. It's not always that easy; sometimes a loud siren will go off and two gaurds with bayonets will charge you as reinforcements parachute down on you. It's a complete surprise when this happens and the siren blaring stuns me everytime! @_@

[Queen Of The Felines]

Illbleed wasn't really that scary (I thought it felt more like a Scooby-Doo episode gone horribly wrong ;) ), but it had plenty of "Gah!" moments where things jump at you out of nowhere.

Resident Evil 3 was similar with that stupid Nemesis monster popping up unexpectedly. Ditto Clock Tower with its Scissorman, and Echo Night with the ghost of the girl towards the beginning.

Silent Hill 1 and 2 were just creepy as hell. Reminded me of the movies "Hellraiser" and "Jacob's Ladder."

However, Eternal Darkness literally made it hard for me to sleep at night. I was staying at my parents' house for a few weeks during the summer, and I had to sleep in the basement. Try playing that game in the dark, in the basement of an old house, with a lot of strange noises coming from the sump pump and whatever the heck else was going on down there. Seriously, that game screwed me up for days.

Kristine

[THXII38]

picture this;

THX1138 living in a brand new house on a housing estate that is still being built. He is the first person to move into the street, no one else lives there. The house is devoid of furniture excpet for;

one small strip of carpet, and a sleeping bag
a kettle, a sandwich toaster
a 'ghetto blaster' style tape deck
a black and white tv
and a playstation.

that's it. No telephone, no furniture, no curtains, no neighbours.

The house is on the very edge of town, it's built on the Darkness on the Edge of Town.

With zero furniture, and no carpets, the house is very echoy. There is only one light bulb - that is in the bathroom. A candle illuminates the kitchen, and the flickering from the b&w television casts a dim glow over the empty lounge.

There is no signal for the t.v as THX had no ariel. The street lights on the housing estate have not yet been erected, it's a bad night outside, and yet there is still a vixen howling just across the field....

To pass the time until morning THX decided to have a go on the Playstation. He chose to play Resident Evil.

Alone in the empty house, and with no one to talk to or anything else to destract him much, he got slowly engrossed into the game.

Hours passed. It started to rain.

Then, he got to a very new bit of the game. A new type of monster appeared.

Outside there was a bit of thunder, but no lightning.

THX had not saved his progress for the last hour's game play or so.

Unexpectedly one of the new monsters jumped out. THX fired his pistol and emptied a clip. His character got injured. Frantically - and with rising panic on account of the hours game play at stake because of not saving, THX hit the menu button - looking for medicine. DAMN! He did not have any.

There was one shot left in the shot gun.

With sweaty hands, and a flashing cautionhe resumed the game, and fired the shotgun, and missed.



His character was decapitated! THX was left in an empty house at night, in a deserted part of town looking at flickering screen. BANG! thunder cracked, and purely by coincidence, due to the ongoing construction? - the power to his entire street went out. The telvision swithced off, and the room was thrown into darkness, with just a small white dot on the screen quickly fading, to indicate the corner of the room, the candle had blown out long ago, unoticed.

The letterbox started rattling, presumably from the wind, and THX felt more alone than he ever had in his life.......

[Quazick]

Maniac Mansion-NES...
There's just something about that music and I allways get freaked out when that dude catches you downstairs or when you walk into Edna's room...

[Raedon]

DOOM

[DarkSoul]

1. Resident Evil 1, late at night, in the dark.... yeah, it was creepy!

2. Quake 1, also late at night, in the dark... in a different way though. I was late in the game (full version), and hadn't slept or eatten in a bit too long, and I became absolutely CONVINCED that the monsters were working togather to hunt me down. In retrospect, the AI, while present, wasn't THAT impressive, it did a pretty good job on me at the time.

[udisi]

I'll have to second Eternal Darkness for GC...not only is it just scary as the character, but the fact that it messes with you too, it was truely ground breaking.

[FABombjoy]

The Aliens-TC mod for Doom got me so damn jumpy & nervous that I couldn't play for more than 30 minutes. Playing in the dark & listening to the game through giant headphones didn't help much.

[Masco73]

Without a doubt ShadowMan on N64. Whoever came up with that game was one sick puppy!! >) :texaschain:

[mauigamer]

My vote is for Silent Hill. When that telephone rings and its the little girl on the other end. That freaked me out. Also those damn midget kids with knives. I could never see em coming.
Maybe a second part of the question could be scariest moment in a game. That telephone ringing has my vote.

[john_soper]

2600 Circus Atari
(tremblng) it had clowns........

[Kid Fenris]

The Silent Hill games are my scariest gaming experiences, just because they throw you into Eraserhead-like settings where you just don't understand the logic of what's going on.

Eternal Darkness also freaked me out, but some of its head-screws also served to remind me that I was playing a game and not battling a Lovecraftian menace.

[Queen Of The Felines]

Scariest moment?

Eternal Darkness.

The bathtub.

If you've played it, you know what I'm talking about. X_x

Kristine

[Anonymous]

That Damn bathtub in Eternal Darkness always gets me. And I love running around the town with faceless nurses chasing me in Silent Hill 2. But the game that scared me the most was Haunted House on the 2600. I was about 4 or 5 when I played it, and it was at my aunt's house out in the middle of nowhere, in my cousin's bedroom while everyone was gone at dusk. I still remember how much that game freaked me out. To this day the upstairs area of that house gives me the creeps. Yeah, I have an overactive imagination.

[GENESISNES]

Its not really scary, but i jumped EVERY TIME in MGS2 when you get caught by a guard, and that noise plays. i was listening to the commercial a few days ago for MGS2 substance, and that noise came up at the end. Of course, I jumped like a little baby.

SH2 scared the crap out of me. those damn freaky noises that is plays is haunting.

[RJ]

...as THX had no ariel... as in "spokesmodel" or "antenna"? ;)

I thought Silent Hill was GREAT. I played it at night by candlelight using a walkthrough. My first BIG scare was in Res Evil: DC when the dog jumped through the window in the hallway.
Fatal Frame always made my adrenaline flow when the filament glowed, alerting you to a ghost's presence.
My last big scare was in Res Evil: CVX when, after I was examining a picture(?) in the lab, a creature burst out of its container.

YIKES!!! x_x

[RucasRiot]

The only game I ever played that scared me was System Shock 1 (and its sequel). It was mainly the ambient audio IMO that scared me in 2, but I have no idea what scared me in 1. I was rather young when I played it, and I still have nightmares about the series.

[Sylentwulf]

Alone in the dark, Original for the PC, definitely wins for me.

There was ONE spot in Dino Crisis that got me (Before I got bored and stopped playing)

Silent hill had a great mood thing going, but no shock scary.

RE1 for Gamecube was SCARY, plain and simple. GREAT graphics, mood and gameplay.

[vincewy]

?? for those who've played Eternal Darkness, System Shock 2, and Silent Hills 2, has any of you played Fatal Frame? How would you compare FF with them, I've played Resident Evil and it just bores me, also what scares me the most is if the game has some realistic concept, in this case, FF really freaks me out, there's one documentary

http://xbox.ign.com/articles/375/375267p1.html

Yup, just like many paranomial phenomenum, you take a pic, you don't see the ghosts until the pic is developed.

[punkoffgirl]

Phantasmagoria
Silent Hill 2
Resident Evil 0

I'm big into "mood" in games, and I can get so easily sucked in and creeped out that I won't be able to continue without someone else in the room with me.

[chocobokick]

Alone in the Dark, definately. I think that was my first "real" PC game.
And I agree, who didn't get that little scary jump when you got caught in Maniac Mansion?
Phantasmagoria- was that the movie like game? I bought that with my first computer of my own- a mac with not enough memory to go past the first disc so I never got to see the rest.
I usually don't play scary games, I prefer to watch ;) But some of the strangest games can be scary. Like Animal Crossing on Halloween I kept picturing my character running through the dark forest, black branches catching on her clothes the animals had turned to rags, trying desperately to get a spooky sofa home. The animals were really scary how they would try and run after you!

[Stark]

Only one game has ever scared me while playing. Duke Nukem on the PC. Yes its a FPS but this is why it scared me. I was casually playing it one night. Had my 6 computer speakers turned up quite loud, the lights were off and I was moving and shooting for a while. So I entered a cave like place, killed a couple bad guys and then silence. No music, no bad guys, nothing to hear. I remember the cave had a strange brownish orange color, candles or torches were lit so it was a low light environment I was walking through. Anyway I'm deciding where to go when I suddenly hear something. Strange ghostly noises coming from the cave!!! Ahhhhhh I almost shit myself.
I had to stop playing that night! What scared me was the combination of dark room, dark cave, loud speakers that enhanced the background noises, and my deep concentration on the computer screen. No other game has ever scared me. 8-)

[NvrMore]

Eternal Darkness for me too (Damn Bathtub!). Playing that game with the full surround system really lets the atmosphere and insanity effects take hold. Some of the sounds and effects are so subtle and unnerving I keep finding myself hearing them (Paranoia) after I've switched the cube off.

[Cafeman]

I've never played a game that truly frightened me, not like a good scary film has done. Mind you I don't really enjoy those kinds of Silent Hill or RE types of games & haven't tried 'em all.

But I have been startled a bunch of times. Doom comes to mind, it really had by heart pumping when it was new. Also the original Tomb Raider -- running around in those creepy, silent tombs, and then a wolf jumps out at you YIKES!! I just about fell off the couch that first time. EXCELLENT MOOD in Tomb Raider 1!

Kaboom! is an intense game, the kind that puts knots in my stomach. When I'm down to 2 buckets, and I've got the fastest wave ahead of me and only like 100 points until an extra (3rd) bucket -- it is SO scary to press the 2600 paddles button to begin that wave. Yikes! When people come over and play this game (Kaboom! is great pre-football game material for guests!), their knees knock and you can feel their excitement before each round.

However, this thread is about scariness and I just remembered the KING of classic gaming fright fests. All I will say is that my heart lept into my throat when I heard those words "I hunger"!

[WiseSalesman]

SINISTAR scared you?

[Cafeman]

Yes it did! At the arcade, I'm furiously trying to grab that crystal without getting shot and I hear EXTRA-LOUD "Run, Run!" and then "REEAAARRRRGHHH!". VERY effective and frightening!

[WiseSalesman]

Actually, I can understand that, and I shouldn't have been so quick to judge. I was a teenager when I first played it, so it didn't bother me. On the other hand, I was actually a bit frightened by a point and click game called Kyrandia 2, and the mad doctor in Wolfenstein 3D used to creep me out a bit too.

[Nature Boy]

I also vote for Eternal Darkness.

I only play it at night when my wife is out. The lights are out and the volume is high. No matter how many times I hear a knock on the door it freaks me out. You'd think I'd be used to it after awhile but it always gets me. And that whispering. There have been a few times I found myself on edge even after turning the 'cube off.

ED is one of those games I think I'll always rave about. I never really got into any horror games before it but it's got me looking at picking up Resident Evil and Silent Hill...

@VinceWy: I've played a demo of Fatal Frame and found it pretty chilling. That was awhile ago though so take my comments with a grain of salt. EDs scary stuff comes from the sanity meter. As your character loses sanity, really odd stuff happens to you. Some of it you realize what's going on, some of it really throws you for a loop. It's that plus the music and special effects that give me the willies. Similar to FF's ambiance from what I remember.

[Moose]

RE 2 got me because I played through the night with all the lights off. And at about 4 in the morning I started losing the ability to distinguish reality from dream.

Also Uninivited for the NES.

[brandver3]

FATAL FRAME.

I'm suprised no one listed it.
Gave me nightmares. RE is my favorite series, but as far as sheer creepyness and horrifying imagry go, it has nothing on Fatal Frame.

The girl in the well.........(runs to bedroom to cry).....

[IntvGene]

Another vote for Sinistar...

That voice was in my nightmares when I was a kid. Plus, I played the sit-down version of Sinistar, with the sound coming from behind and everything... freaky. :-(

[nesman85]

i don't think i've played a truly scary game. but i guess eternal darkness, the castlevania's, and the resident evil's were kinda scary compared to other games. i haven't played the silent hill's yet, or alone in the dark.

[diskoboy]

SINISTAR scared you?

Sinistar scared the shit outta me.... I was 8 when that game came out. I remember the night I played it for the first time, I had a nightmare some huge faced monster was chasing me.

And there was nothing like hearing the Sinistar taunt you with those immortal words... "Beware, I live!"

[mezrabad]

Okay, you've all made me want to run out and get Eternal Darkness.

Alone in the Dark. That game had the perfect atmosphere like none I'd played before it. Startled me a lot, true, but, more importantly, made me not able to guess when I was going to be scared next, in fact, making me guess wrong a few times so that the next real scare was even more effective.

System Shock 2 was also quite effective but rarely did it give any false sound cues. Generally if you heard something coming, you knew it was coming. I don't remember hearing something, dreading it, and it not showing. Still plenty scary. The midwives made my skin crawl.

OH! and Realms of the Haunting had some nice chilling moments.

[EnemyZero]

I'd def have to say I couldnt sleep much after playing Silent Hill 1 & 2 for a few hours.

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Doom (i had 10 years old) and i couldn´t sleep very well after playing it...then, finally i cleared it :-D
Other scary game is Sillent hill & Resident evil 2

[wberdan]

the ones pog mentioned also scared the crap out of me...
but my all time one is definetely one no one would guess

VENTURE for the colecovision...

i used to freak right out when i was 4 or 5 when my mom would play it... i couldnt even be in the same room when she played it, and i couldnt play it myself... the absolute worst was the room with the moving walls, cause she'd always drag ass and that green monster would come in for the kill.... i can play it now with no problems, but that was my first seriously terrifying game. mouse trap also freaked me right out- but not that bad.

willie

[Alex Kidd]

I've never played a game that TRUELY frightened.. many that have SHOCKED me...
those that have shocked me
Wolfenstein 3D: When those white suited guys yell "Beyahnt!" (or whatever I spelled it phoenetically)
Blake Stone- Aliens Of Gold: Much the same as Wolf3D.. a certain enmiy used to yell something when they seen you... so the suddenness would shock me.
Aliens Vs Predator: When those DAMN facehuggers make there leap, however I must also admit, when it's dimly lit and you can hear facehuggers scrambling along and ambient noise... it's not FRIGHTENING.. bnut man.. it's something

FurtherAway

Keep in mind I have played next to NOTHING on any console system between the Sega Genesis and Dreamcast

[TripppsK]

#1:Resident Evil 1, late at night, half buzzed in the dark with surround sound. Really sucks when your dog sneaks up on you to go outside.

#2:Pac Man for the 2600, I still crap myself when I see it.

[Retsudo]

I would have to go with RE1. When those Dogs jumped through the window in that hallway. Man, i almost crapped myself :embarrassed: :D

[Kamisama]

Resident Evil was the most scariest game for me for sure. But i dont play many scary games...
Man, the scene with the dogs really was scary :embarrassed: ;)

[threeoclockhigh]

certain points of the Resident Evil games.

I always was in fear of the wall monster and Otto (Venture and Berzerk) as a kid when playing my old Atari/Intellivision. Those really filled me with dread and I did try to go fast as possible to get out before they came.

Bionic Commando, when listening in on the enemies as I always worried about being busted, too.

AVP for Jaguar, until you get the motion detector. Those damn things come out of nowhere, the Aliens.

Friday the 13th when I was younger with Jason popping up all the time not only in cabins but also on the paths. I really hated it sometimes when he would pop up in cabins even when he was supposedly not in there (no 'Jason' listed, as it usually is if he is in a cabin with children or counselors). It didn't happen a lot but once in awhile when you are lighting fireplaces trying to get the torch......

Metal Gear, when I was younger since the pits always seemed to open out of nowhere.

Dragon Warrior, when I was younger, early in the game if I wandered too far away from the easier enemies and would rather not face stuff like Wyverns and Goldmen with chain mail and the copper sword. Of course, they always would pop up, no matter how hard I tried running back across the bridge to the 'easier' area.

[jaybird]

At the time I was playing it: the original Resident Evil.

It's not as scary today, but it worked its mojo on me back in the day.

Fatal Frame is really freaky - then again I'm absolutely a big puss when it comes to ghosts.

[Thief187]

Believe it or not, I'm so freaked out playing The Uninvited for the NES. :o

Every single room I go into, these monsters pop out unexpectly. What I got scared the most is the part with the maiden, in which a big fat skull pops in your face.

I'm also freaked out playing D for the PS1. It's too scary for me to play in the dark.

[SoulBlazer]

System Shock 2. I can NOT play that game at night. It's damn freaky. The first time I saw a ghost I threw my mouse in the air and then wasted a full clip on it. The sound effects are the really creepy thing -- and those damn spiders! Bad enough I don't like them in real life (shudder) @_@

Silent Hill, Eternal Darkness, Alien Vs. Predator, and Resident Evil also get an honerable mention.

[Neb]

I remember renting Orb 3D for the NES when I was like 8. It seemed like a fun game, but when I visited the gas station in the game for like the third time, a giant monster head appeared. I closed my eyes and started screaming until my parents shut off my NES. :)
That, Sinistar, and the zombie dogs in the first Resident Evil were the only things in a game that REALLY scared me before.

[Oobgarm]

Oddly enough, Frankenstein's Monster used to scare me to death when I was a kid. My cousin had the game, and I never, ever, played it. Only he did. When Frankenstein was stomping toward the screen, I ran and hid. It still gives me that "creepy" feeling when I see it.

Oh yeah, and those zombie dogs from RE scared me the first time I came across them.

[orrimarrko]

Silent Hill 2 for me (by far) - it's the only game that actually ever made me jump out of my seat.

When you are walking around town with that fog, and the noises, and all of a sudden those things run out from underneath the cars!!! Man!

The first time I encountered a Hunter in RE 1 was pretty scary. The creature with the long tongue in RE2 was scary also.

You have all made me want to play Eternal Darkness and Fatal Frame now!

[nintendofan#1]

i totally agree with Master of Felines. I got to the sit because i typed in " scariest game moment" in google and was looking for " the battub scene... !!!!! my friend was over and it was midnight, foggy outside and we were playing eternal darkness..... We were progressing and we found ourselves in a bathroom. we alked around and saw the "action" button flashing when we were by the tub. pressed it, unknowing what we were about to see..... x_x i dont want to ruin it for you but the result of this was my friend (who was wathing) and me hiding our faces in our arms, and jumping back 3 feet. HOLY ****. that game is awesome...pay the 15$ to get the used version to just see this part. @_@

[Sotenga]

Metal Gear Solid 2. After waking up in a certain place near the end of the game. The Colonel and Rose. That's all I can say without spoiling too much. It's funny about what he says, but I don't like the way he says it. And that face... :O :O

[sabre2922]

SILENT HILL is my favorite game series ever!
they are all excellent, but the scariest one is the original.
I could go on forever about how great this game is, but ill keep it simple.
You see I always hated school as a kid and when I entered the "nightmare" version of the school in the first Silent hill, it was almost too much, the skinless children, the damn phone with his little girl talking to him, VERY SCARY STUFF! The Silent Hill games are truly brilliant in that they get to you emotionally like very few ,if any, other video games can.
I personally think that the SH series tops any "so called" scary movies, including the original hellraiser and on certain levels even matches the disturbing, classic THE EXORCIST, with the sights, sounds and pure insanity that surrounds you in the games themselves.
Later Gamers!!!

[Dave Reinquest]

I had a half finished MAME machine (In my bedroom, of course) that I would leave in demo mode on my favourite game...SINISTAR...

Man...even on an old AWE32...I'd be almost asleep...Perfect Darkenss save for the monitor's flickering light...And "Beware, I LIVE!" ...I had to change clothes several times that summer.

Then there was Metal Gear Solid, going after the PSG1 or to fight Revolver Ocelot...and you step onto the trapdoor...scared the hell out of me.

But as for the absolute scariest game I have ever played...well...I'm surprised nobody ahs lsited it, but Barney's Hide-And-Seek Adventure.

[orangemage]

resident evil.......those damn dogs jumping out of the windows

[BrAInDeD]

Scariest games had to be alien trilogy those damn face huggers and shit i own it for saturn

also friday the 13th for nes (i was a kid) LOL
and univited for nes

[BrAInDeD]

Scariest games had to be alien trilogy those damn face huggers and shit i own it for saturn

also friday the 13th for nes (i was a kid) LOL
and univited for nes

[hu6800]

Biohazard ........ psx (first night i played it all my friends came over and whatnot ) although it was japanese , it was a spooky ass game.

Snatcher ,,,,,,,,, sega cd (first time i played it)

hells groove kitchen for the import psx is kinda disturbing as well.

[hu6800]

Biohazard ........ psx (first night i played it all my friends came over and whatnot ) although it was japanese , it was a spooky ass game.

Snatcher ,,,,,,,,, sega cd (first time i played it)

hells groove kitchen for the import psx is kinda disturbing as well.

[waxpoet]

i dont really get scared by game but sometimes I get a really freaky feeling. Actually sometimes if the game is a little older it can give you a little bit of flashback nostalgia plus its freaky so...you get a really weird feeling. One example of this is Marathon Infnity for Macintosh. I played the game for the first time in 1999, well after its original release date....but the music and 'mood' is really freaky....check it out if you happen to have a mac

[stevec1636]

Resident Evil 1 was the scariest game i ever played, those dam dogs comming through the window made everybody jump i don't care who you are!!

Silent hill 2 was real creepy too

[atarifan49]

From all the posts I've seen on this topic, I'm shocked no one has said Rescue on Fractulas for the Atari 8bit.

That was the first game to do a classic scare on me. And when I say classic scare, I'm referring to the type of scare that you get when someone jumps out from around a corner without warning.

For anyone who's unfamilar with the game, it's one of the first two titles that Lucasfilm developed when they decided to write games for computers. The object of the game is to fly a rescue ship from a orbiting space station and rescue downed pilots on a planet where a battle is ensuing. In each case you must locate a down pilot, land the ship nearby, turn-off the engines/shields, and wait for the pilot to come knocking at the airlock door. Then you open the airlock and let him in. You keep doing this until you rescued the required number of pilots. You then return to the space station and proceed onto the next level.

Game was incredible for it's time. Did some neat terrain generation effects that looked very good on the Atari 8bit machines.

Going on with the story... You get in this routine of recuing downed pilots. Level after level. Until the one level where you do the standard land and prep routine you notice that the pilot has a slightly green face. You think, "Ah, it must be some artificating with the graphics." So you sit there waiting for the knock at the airlock door. When the next thing you know there's an ugly green alien at your viewscreen window banging on the window with the weird freaky sounds to go with it. If you don't expect it you will end up generating the same kind of shorts that John Hardie had tried to auction on eBay (picture a pair of underwear in a ziplock baggie filled with all kinds of things that look brown, resembles chili and has mix vegitables added for texture).

The second game that has come along over the years that has had the same effect was Alien Vs. Predator for the Jaguar. The mixture of ambience and the sounds of an alien clawing at you as you come around a corner is enough to cause you to elevate your heart rate dramatically. Plus the sound of the Predator laughing and taughting you.

And a more recent title that keep me on the edge of my seat has to be Resident Evil!

I'll have to check out Alone in the Dark. Sounds good!

Glenn

[QBert]

Has anyone played Fatal Frame for Xbox? I not sure but I dont believe it was for any other system. This is the one game(and only one I can think of at all) that scared me. Enuff to actually jump and shake for a sec. That NEVER happens to me, even with horror movies, so when I did happen while playing a game, it really got me good. I mean, I try to freak myself out. Play a game like that late at night, lights all off, stereo pumpin nice and loud and everyone else is asleep(Girlfriend) and Im hanging out with Mary Jane.......

There's one point in that game where a ghose grabs you from behind and OMG, that along with the music, just freaks the hell outta me. Come to think of it, I'd better get back into that game again and finish it!



Anyone else played it?

QBert

[eolsen]

I first played DOOM when I was like 8. and that scared the **** out of me. It was on PC and my dad wouldn't let me use god mode, just to be fun. I was scared to ****.

[gamergary]

Fatal Frame 2 the cutscene with all the hands scared me when I first saw it.

[NintendoMan]

Definatley Resident Evil 1 + 2 for me!!!

[Jasoco]

DOOM can get pretty scary once in a while.

When I was a kid, I'd play Dragon Warrior and the only thing that scared me was the sudden Music change that occurred when you encounter a monster. So every time I left a town, I'd turn down the volume. Doesn't happen anymore. Actually, I enjoy it now.

Serious Sam. That game had some scary ass shit parts. I love that game! The first time I encountered the Beheaded Kamikaze I jumped. Killed it and laughed. Then when about 5 dozen more came over the hill, that was classic.

Oh, and also, the Bowser's Castle music from SMB1 used to give me the creeps every time I got there, so I had to turn the volume don as well. But now I love it.

[Steven]

Wow, no one has mentioned CLOCK TOWER yet (PS1)

Scissorman was a great villain and was the closest thing to a Michael Myers as you'd get in a video game. He jumps out at you at various points in the game, and this is one of the most entralling PS1 games I've ever played.

One moment sticks in my mind: Mansion. Upstairs... if you examine one of the paintings the camera zooms in and SUDDENLY Scissorman JUMPS OUT AT YOU!

I dropped the controller to the floor (only time a game has ever made me do that) and I paused the game to regain my breath. (for a split sec there I thought I was gonna have a heart attack!)

2 thumbs up for Scissorman.

The other game is... and you might laugh...

GODZILLA for the NES

The music was SO creepy to me back then (4, 5 years old) and I always fought and beat the giant squid Gezora and the robot MOGUERA. But then came the bigger monsters like GIGAN and it just scared the hell outta me.

[SegaAges]

So I take it none of you have played Britteny's Dance Beat. I still have nightmares, "NO, NO MORE DANCING!"

[RetroYoungen]

Scariest moment?

Eternal Darkness.

The bathtub.

If you've played it, you know what I'm talking about. X_x

Kristine

Oh, DAMN. Just flashbacks of that moment are creeping me out, not just with the suddenness of it, but the picture itself coupled with it...

Eww...

I would say Eternal Darkness is the scariest game experience I've ever had. Except of course when it's the game pissing of a friend of yours who gets violent with controllers... that guy scared me quite a bit too. But not as much as :shudder: the bathtub.

[Jasoco]

I like the music in Godzilla. It was some of my favorite. Because it was unique.

[RJ]

@Qbert- Fatal Frame first came out for PS2- it's one of several games/series "hijacked" by Xbox from PS2.

[Miguel_The_Machine]

Barney's Hide And Seek for the Sega Genesis still have nightmares about that game LOL

[blissfulnoise]

Alone in the Dark is definitely #1. The fact that it was all based on H.P. Lovecraft's work make it all the scarier.

The library was an endless source of fright. My brother and I actually translated the Latin text down there. We still have a copy of it somewhere. You know the one, when you finish reading it, your character begins to float (much to his/her suprise) only to be ripped apart by unseen forces.

Also, the Conquistador’s log of the Aztec rituals was extremely disturbing. And at the end, where he sketches out the shape of the unworldly monster they were sacrificing to... and it looks just like that damn paperweight in your inventory, you begin to freak the hell out. The only time I've ever turned off my PC cold while playing a game was at that moment. I did not want to close that book and have my paperweight eat me (god that sounds dumb!).

And the hallway with all the paintings.... *shiver*!

And the chair in front of the fireplace! AHHH!!!!!

I LOVE Eternal Darkness, but it owes an infinite amount towards AitD, INCLUDING the bathtub scene. AitD did a lot of it first, and did a lot of it better.

The sequels are terrible though and should be avoided at all costs.

And yeah, Sinistar is ungodly frightening to an 8 year old when they're back in a dimly lit bingo hall's arcade at 11 at night... alone. I thought I was going to crap my pants when he warned me that he lived. I was minding my business playing some Jungle Hunt and ol' Sinie had to go and scare me like that.

[RJ]

I had the pleasure of finishing Juggernaut (PS) last weekend. It's older w/ rather dated graphics, but what a great game! Not "jump-out-at-you" scary, but kinda "what'll-happen-next" creepy. It's much like Myst in walking around exploring/looking at things in a 1st-person view, & the puzzles are well-crafted & quite clever. I never saw one error in all the text either! The game spans 3 CDs & well worth whatever you can get it for.

[Daltone]

The scariest game I've ever played is ... Night Trap :embarrassed: I was quite young when I first got it (my parent isn't too worried about ratings) and the scene where the special forces guy gets the blood drained out of him gave me nightmares. Now I can barely play the game without giggling away, but it seemed quite horrific at the time.
Other than that - Flashback (!) when you were sent on the mission to kill the two escaped andriods (at least I think that's what they were - it's been quite some time since I last played) caused no small level of tension on my part.

[Dr. Morbis]

I've never played any of the modern 'survival horror' games, or whatever they are called. But the good ol' 8-bit game that scared me the most was Sweet Home. That is a sweet game (with a shitty name).

[Spoony Bard]

Eternal Darkness, when you let your sanity go. Trying to heal and exploding was awesome, and when it asked if you wanted to delete your save....man, that played on so many fears gamers have.

[ghostangelofcky]

The remake of Resident Evil for the gamecube. The lights off, with the surround system on full blast. Damn jumpy zombie and freaked out camera angles.

[Gilius_Thunderhead]

Fellers, all these games ('cept maybe that Lucasgames one) are horrific and scary in their respects..

.. yet why has no one yet mentioned SplatterHouse?

In the game, you had only your fist and a few ambient weaponry devices (pipe, bone, shotgun) between you and an army of mentally challenging and disturbing, ranging to enemies that hide in teddybears and giggle, to those that resemble sliding tumors, to even a room full of meat with carrion worms the size of snakes leaping about
All one needs do is play through the Turbo-Grafix 16 version to find both horror and timing.. like the first boss, the meat room, the boss with chainsaws and the burlap bag goin' on... man... so cool.

Oh, and Monster Party for Nintendo was scary too..

[Daria]

Wow, no one has mentioned CLOCK TOWER yet (PS1).

You were *this* close to being my hero... but no Clock Tower the original for Super Famicom. Erm conviently translated for our non-Japanese gaming pleasure.

I have to admit I've never ever in my life played a truley horrifying game. Silent Hill 2 was creepy for awhile, until you get past the apartments then you're just jaded to the Zombies. Eternal Darkness had a good story but lacked atmosphere. Resident Evil... more action then horror.

But Clock Tower? Despite the fact that it's 2D the game is hands down the creepiest Survival Horror game I've ever played. You're exploring this mansion, and there's absolutely no background music. No sounds at all except the slow.. methodical.. echos.. of.. your.. own.. footsteps. Then *BAM!* this fast pace music kicks in and Scissor man jumps out at you with one of your friend's impaled on the end of his ridiculously large pair of scissors, he then flings their body aside and begins chase. You can't fight back, you're a pathetic 14 year old Japanese school girl so you run, scurry to the nearest hiding spot, and hope to god that he doesn't remember you using it before.

It sounds silly, but the game kicks ass and does so without any fancy realistic graphics or cinematic effects.

Clock Tower (PSX) is pretty good too... but you really need to play the original first.
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[Savedman]

Definitely Alone in the Dark. Resident Evil Scared my brother so bad he had to stop playing it. Didn't finish it just gave it away...and not to me!!!

[Richter]

Silent Hill

to this day, i refuse to play the game in the dark. Even when i get up in the middle of the night to get some food/drink, i turn on all the lights on the way there

[lym]

I don't play many scary games but the one on my list has to Shadowman.

[jokerama]

Definately Resident Evil 1..Especially the part where the Dobermans come out of nowhere

[jokerama]

Definitely Resident Evil 1..Especially the part where the Dobermans come out of nowhere

[bluberry]

Doom on the PSX. The ambient lighting and ambient music were just like x_X

[Kamisama]

Definitely Resident Evil 1..Especially the part where the Dobermans come out of nowhere

Thats exactly what i was gonna write :) I dont play many scary games but i still remember this one :)

[Richter]

you talking about where one of them jumps through the window?
gets me everytime x.x

doesnt happen on the GC version if you enter from the other side of the hall

[Dead Sexy]

The scariest games that I have played are System Shock 2 and Clive Barker's Undying. For me Undying is way too scary, so I have never been able to play all the way through.

[Canadianzombie]

My choice (by far) would be either the Fatal Frame series or the Silent Hill series. I've hooked my gaming system up to my surround sound stereo system and when a noise comes screaming from behind as you're playing the game at night in the dark, well, there are no words just a quick change of clothes.
Thanks

[Funkenstein]

I totally agree with Phantasmagoria. That part at the end where you're running through the secret passages while your posessed husband chases you is absolutely nerve wracking.

Has anyone mentioned Clock Tower? That game's scary. The whole point of the game is to run and hide while a guy with a giant pair of scissors chases you. You're more or less defenseless. You hide in a hamper, Scissorman comes into the room, looks around and sometimes he leaves, but sometimes he pretends to leave and then THWAK! Scissors go right through the hamper and in your character.

[Funkenstein]

Apparantly while I was composing that about 6 people mentioned Clock Tower. I gotta type faster...

[Jasoco]

What system is Clock Tower on? And how can I find it?

[Funkenstein]

Clock Tower 1 & 2 are for the PsOne, they're not terribly rare, but if you don't feel like using ebay they might take some looking. I got mine from a friend, and I've only seen Clock Tower 2 in a store once, never Clock Tower 1.

Good games, pick them up if you can find them. They're not at all easy, and at times fuzzy on what you're actually supposed to be doing.

Clock Tower 3 was just released on the PS2, it should still be in the stores. I haven't played it but I've heard it's pretty intense. Like opening cinematic is a 6 year old girl getting her skull bashed in intense.

Daria just mentioned up there a Clock Tower for the super famicom which is the first I've ever heard of it, but I'm very intruiged. Care to elaborate further?

[Johnny]

The scariest games that I have played are System Shock 2 and Clive Barker's Undying. For me Undying is way too scary, so I have never been able to play all the way through.

I agree with you. Clive Barker's Undying is just too damn scary.

Resident Evil, with all that open / close doors is scary too. Silent Hill is more disturbing though. Same for Fatal Frame.

What about Siren. I haven't played it yet, but i have a DVD that was given away at Tokyo Game Show 2003, that has a trailer of it. Pretty scary if you ask me. @_@

[the_wizard_666]

The Game Boy version of Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land. A fun Bible game!?! SCARY!!

[NeoVenom]

For Playstation: Resident Evil (When I first played it.) and Silent Hill
For Commodore 64: Project Firestart (To this very day, I still can't play the game cuz it freaks me out. LOL)
For Turbo Grafx: Splatter House (It wasn't that scary, but it's disturbing.)

[NeoVenom]

Sorry for double-posting, but there seem to be no "edit" button on this thread. I forgot to mention, I don't like playing as the Marines in Alien vs Predator 1 and 2. LOL

[jammajup]

hi

Silent hill (walking around the town with alarm sounding)

But `NOMAD SOUL` on DC did it for me im trying to remember the exact details but i think it involved either a demon or corpse in the morgue or hospital.
I enjoyed NOMAD SOUL,the exploration with the sinister atmosphere worked well.

[1up]

Wizards and Warriors without a doubt. I never played that game at night with the lights turned off. Scary stuff...Werewolf scary! :eek 2:

And I didn't dare attempt to take my Wizards and Warriors 2: Ironsword game out of the packaging...Fabio's cover shot provided all the nightmares I needed :(

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/4608/wiz2_iron_sword.jpg
"I will haunt you forever more"

[DasCrewShtool]

it is a toss up
both games are for SEGA CD

Ground Zero Texas, it made me think that every redneck I met was an alien,

Double Switch, come on Corey haim in a basement watching everything you do on security cameras is enough to make anyone afraid to go to sleep!

[jezt]

BY FAR, I would have to say that silent hill is the scariest game I have every played in my entire life. I mean, Resident evil had its moments of intensity, and whatnot, but Silent Hill tapped into the innermost chambers of my mind and dragged the child inside me out kicking and screaming and then proceeded to beat him senseless with a tire iron.
That is one freaky game.
Do not play it in the dark.

[Nez]

Silent Hill for the Playstation has some freaky stuff the shadow peguin things that would come out of no were and squeek at you freaked me out. They didnt hurt you they just scade the crap out of you.
Eternal Darkness the only game that will truly mess with you head. Uggghh books flying in the library cock roaches walking on the tv a statue that watches you as you walk buy!!! Damn it now im all freaked out alone in this damn hotel.

[-hellvin-]

I am such a panzy but these are my tops:

Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade: Part where you open the tomb and where you have to pick the holy grail. I didnt know in the nazi castle you could see the picture of it in one of the rooms so I would always choose poorly and the game made the HIGH pictched noise and you turned into a skeleton...AHHH.

Maniac Mansion: Those creepy as hell residents. When you walk up to the one at the fridge and (Nurse Edna I think?) she GRABS you, and takes you down into the dungeon that freaked me out when I was little.

Zak Mckracken: When you go to the Aztec temple and there is this dark room with loud ass breathing that freaked me out a lot as well.

Space Quest IV: Let's just say don't bother the homeless gimp running around.

Pretty much all old adventure games when I was a kid.

Recent:

Silent Hill 3: Holy SHIT, do not read all the newspapers in the subway, that got me the worst cause I didnt do it on my first play through.
Silent Hill: This game still can scare you to death despite it's blocky graphics.
Eternal Darkness: God I hate the sanity effects. And of course the infamous scene everyone knows.

And I used to have some old Atari 800xl game on a disk where there was this creepy ass raggety anne looking doll sitting in one of the rooms. Ugh. I would just leave, never went near it.

[Jasoco]

Eternal Darkness sounds like a really good one. I'm gonna look for it next time I go out.

[Dr. Morbis]

Sweet Home freaked me out a couple of times. What a game!

[BloodshedPlague]

Resident Evil 1 and Silent Hill 2. I jumped the first time the dogs jumped through the window, and was on edge for most of silent hill 2.

[DeanoCalver]

Two oldies but

The Uninvited on Amiga and
The Lurking Horror, Infocom

Eternal Darkness is a great game but not really scary (IMHO but read on and you might understand I might be immune these day...)

Personally though scariest game ever is Silent Hill 2, I get cold sweat ever time I think of the conference calls... Naked James turns me hysterical... Buts its Laura on the piano that the worse thing.

If your thinking "there not quite the scary moments I was thinking of in Silent Hill 2" or just "He's gone totally mad", its worth mentioned something. I was lead programmer on the port of Silent Hill 2 to the PC, I seen and played the game hundreds of times, I know every trick to increase tension etc. Even the ones that never made it in...

Naked James was quashed as an idea (luckly) before it ever got in (so don't bother looking). Though the Dog ending does show him with his top off (and Maria actually).
The Laura and the piano is the hardest scene to render in the entire game, so we saw it hundreds of time and her hammering the piano to make you jump, quickly becomes the most annoying thing you can imagine. Just thinking about it, makes me mad :-)

Great game, I was only involved in the port the experts at Konami Japan are who made the game and all credit to them, just stunning.

A truely seminal (IMHO) game. Having studied it more than most people, the complex storyline is truely a work of interactive fiction.

[dethink]

everyone's named all the standard "scary" games, but i remeber the original metroid creeping the pants off me when it came out when was 7...all that thought of organic machine brains controlling life sucking parasties combined with the oppressive atmosphere, a kids imagination can just run wild with that, way further than any modern graphics card...

dunno, a lot of those old games that had to leave more up to your imagination were a lot creepier. not "make you jump and shriek" scary, but creepy.

the first level of the arcade version of strider had tons o' dark atmosphere and tension, especially the part where you waltz into the communist parliament (or whatever) at the end of the level, hear all the voices chattering, combined with the change in musical score...then you walk in the room and that guy points his finger at you...

maniac mansion and space quest IV (the sequel police and the ruins in the beginning) while also not scary, were just wonderfully tense. :D

[Hovoc]

pong





no serioulsly though, back in my early days of everquest, a co worker was on and told me to come see him in the dreadlands to get an item.

being a gnome necromancer, i couldnt wallk into Firiona VIe (the nearest town), so I for a port to the Druid circle in the dreadlands.

at the time I was only level 18, it was my highest character at the time, and I followed the walls of the dreadlands to meet up with him at his camp spot.

while not a frightening type of scary, it does get the adrenaline pumping knowing that the creatures around you, that are 30+ levels above you are hungfry and love to eat gnomes.

[doomedpeasant]

When I was about six i got a demo disc that had Legend of Legaia on it. I started playing it in the middle of the night half asleep and the part that scared my most was the first time you see the juggarnaut and he destroys the outside wall to the town. Those cut scenes looked very real for someone who is six and half asleep.

[Jasoco]

I also love the box for Fast Food on the 2600.

http://www.atariage.com/2600/boxes/b_FastFood_front.jpg

My favorite 2600 game.

[Jasoco]

Wait. Wrong thread. LOL

Well, slap me silly and call me a clown. Someone feel free to remove these two.

[MegaDrive20XX]

Silent Hill 1 and 3..2 was creepy...but part 3...trying to keep a straight face while playing the game was impossible

[Ninja Blacksox]

Metal Gear Solid 2. After waking up in a certain place near the end of the game. The Colonel and Rose. That's all I can say without spoiling too much. It's funny about what he says, but I don't like the way he says it. And that face... :O :O

Yes. My vote for #1 as well. The first time all the codec madness started going down, I was three sheets to the wind... I had to call the guy who lived in the dorm room next to me to come "check it out." By "check it out" I mean "protect me from the evil sounds coming out of my PS2."

-A Boy

[Kroogah]

Adding to this because I inexplicably have not seen this in the thread yet.

MANHUNT.

The first few levels I was tensed up the whole damn time I played the game. It's so damn real. I love how the music changes depending on how aware the hunters are of your presence, and when you're silently making your way down a hallway and all of a sudden a hunter jumps out from around the corner screaming and runs after you, fully intent on beating you to death.

Some highlights include (spoilers in black text follow) the body bag that sits up and groans in Kill the Rabbit and the last level's Texas Chainsaw Massacre atmosphere. Last boss spoilers: Ever get chased through an attic by a fat naked guy with a severed pig's head over his head, swinging a chainsaw around and squealing the whole time?

For the most fun, play the game on hardcore difficulty with the USB headset. You have to rely completely on your senses of sight and hearing to figure out where the enemies are...and if you make any noise into the mic it can alert the hunters. Adds a ton to the atmosphere of the game.

[QBert]

everyone's named all the standard "scary" games, but i remeber the original metroid creeping the pants off me when it came out when was 7...all that thought of organic machine brains controlling life sucking parasties combined with the oppressive atmosphere, a kids imagination can just run wild with that, way further than any modern graphics card...



My oldest son is afraid of the music in Super Metroid. Its cute because the younger one(by 2 years) doesnt have any problems with it at all. Once the intro and music is gone, then he comes in the room and will play.

[Songbird]

Definitely Alien vs. Predator on the Jaguar for me. It's the only game I've ever played that made my heart skip a beat! :D They did everything right in that game by focusing on atmosphere and tension vs. an out-and-out blastfest (like Doom, which can surprise you but not really scare you IMO).

Having ambient space station noise instead of background music was a brilliant choice, and the first time you hear a Predator whisper "Come on" or see a facehugger sneak up on you from nowhere and latch on will make you jump out of your skin. ;)

[vectrexer]

For me the scariest game I have stood next to and played as well was Sinistar.

I can't tell you the number of time I was in an arcade in the evening when it was just closing. I would be playing another pleasant game like Mappy and have the bejesus scare out of me by the signature Sinistar voice saying "Run!" or some other thing.

It go so bad I would take to walking around the game during an intermission when I knew the game wasn't going to say anything.

And the walk home in the dark??!! Well that was just freaky. Especially after actually playing Sinistar just before leaving! Fast action. Contrasty screen. Freaky-Scary voice. A walk home alone in the dark with the game still playing as a buring image in my eye and brain with the work "RUN!" ringing in my ears as I passed dark alleays filled with shadows. Oh year I was scarred!!.

My hat's off to the voice for Sinistar for provide me with such thrilling moments in video game history. Even though the moments were provided as much by my own head, as the Sinistar voice from the video game.


On the PC game side I don't think I was every scared outright. Though DOOM did provide a great mix of eerie environment and multi-player excitement. I guess that would be the first multi-player game where the other players surprised/scared me for an instant during a deathmatch. Fun! Fun! Fun!

Now if you want to talk about the kind of running-away, pee'ing-your-pants, shouting-out-of-fear moments I would have to say the hand sceen in "Carrie" at the end of the movie, or the head scene in "Jaws". I am still waiting for a video game to give me that kind of experience. Though I doubt it will ever happen now I have seen almost every shocking moment in video game history. Blood and gore included.

No friends, I think the next kind of moment when the fear will overtake me will have to come from something more subtle. Something from a slow buildup of terror that you get when you realize all of your fantasy playing might just have an effect on your real life. And from real people. Let's see, drug dealing in the Sims computer game results in the police arriving at my physical door to cart me away for an introduction to my new boyfriend. With the end result being I am dragged back out of the cell just before being shiv'ed and returned back home. A fine mixture of gaming and reality. Now that would be scary!

[Tank]

The Silent Hill series, not really scary, but definatly freaky as hell man :eek 2:

[The_EniGma]

Silent Hill2 and one part of MGS2 whre the colonels voice goes freaky those ppl start chasing u

As u probably know pressing r3 and l3 will zoom in on their faces and it made me jump when he turned to a skull

And BUBBLE BOBBLE2 OMG THE MUSIC NOOOO ITS TOOOO CREEPPY

[Biff_McFresh]

Boy oh boy, I have a load of survival horror game moments that severly got to me, here's a few:

*Small scare SPOILERS I suppose*

-Silent Hill 1, just those damn burnt school children, gheez!

-Silent Hill 1, when Alessa's ghost runs towards you O.O

-Silent Hill 2, in the apartments, when you see Pyramid head on the other side of the bars, and he's just casually standing there facing directly towards you and your radio is going berserk. Gheez, that was such a disturbing and well done scene.

-Silent Hill 2, the long passageway in the historical society to the underground portion of the historical society. So much tension was built up at this point, that I just had a feeling pyramid head was chasing me down this long path the whole time, yet he really wasn't, heh.

-Silent Hill 2, the unknown voice from the prison cell *shudders*

-Resident Evil 2. Scenario B, Mr.X following me around and not knowing when he'd bash through a wall.

And many more...

[grimbal]

Toss up between Alone in the Dark on PC and Resident Evil on PS1.

It just so happened that my first night with RE a thunderstorm came through. I thought that it would really set the mood to turn off my lights....

I turned the game off after the dogs jumped through the window and didn't play it again until the next day. AFTER the storms had moved out.

[Biff_McFresh]

Oh, and I keep hearing about this 'bathtub scene' in ED, yet having beat ED awhile back, for some reason I don't exactly recall this scene. Anyone care to refresh my memory via PM, to of course not spoil it for others =)

[shellac]

whoever said Metroid and Lurking Horror was a good call.

I think it just had to do with me being a kid, but Castle Wolfenstein for c64 or apple IIe used to scare me. My memory might be faulty, but i seem to remember the guards' voices get faster and higher-pitched when they got closer to you, which used to freak me out.

The other was a PC game I can't find anymore, which was about escaping from an insane asylum, but it wasn't Sanitarium because I was playing it in 1990 or so.

[videogameking26]

Either Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly or Silent Hill (all of them)..also Clock Tower 3 is pretty wicked @_@

[Cauterize]

as a kid Maniac Mansion for the NES freaked me out big time.... scary as hell! still makes me shiver! @_@

[YouLoveGames]

FarCry!

[Mitch_Naz]

Aliens vs predator for the atari jaguar - its scary hearing predators all around you and you can't see them (they make some kind of different spooky sound not from the movies)

[Zenmaster]

MGS 2 when you realize you don´t play as solid snake all the time...







nah, when the game starts messing with you - patriots, colonel, raiden nude & alone, fission mailed etc.

resi and eternal darkness never did anything to me...but alone in the dark 4 on dreamcast is pretty scary as well

[Jasoco]

I'm disappointed. I haven't played enough Eternal Darkenss and haven't gotten to the "Bathtup Scene" yet, and I was all ready to be surprised. Then I stumble onto a damn thread on another forum (Not DP or AA) with a "Guess the Screenshot" thread. Some asshat posted a shot from the scene. Now I'm fucking pissed off. :angry: Nary a gosh darned spoiler or anything.

[racecar]

i think fatal frame was pretty pretty damn scarry ,when i was playing it at1 in the morning, and i paused the game to go take a leak,then when i came back there were these little red handprints on the screen.

[SMB]

Ok when i played Silent Hill 2 and 3 those games scared the pants off me. The ominous sounds in Doom freaked me out :)

http://www.jucaushii.ro/img/SilentHill2/10.jpg O_O O_O O_O

[classicb]

Fatal Frame 2

The story and the way it scares you when you least expect it is really well done. Not only is this a scary game but a great game too. I like only having a camera as a weapon. I very good take on this genre.

[Fuyukaze]

The stuff in black could be viewed as potential spoilers. If you are one of the few who havent played this, dont try to read them.

Silent Hill. When I got it, I thought it would be another Resident Evil so I played it in the dark. It was good and creepy. Right untill I got to the school with the babies. I turned it off and didnt play it again untill 6 months later.

[cracked8ball]

Shadowman on N64 was pretty damn odd. The abandoned apartment building with the serial killer stalking you was the scariest level on there.

[videogameking26]

Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly
Fatal Frame
Clock Tower 3
Silent Hill
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 3
Silent Hill 4

These are some that freaked me out O_O

[dj898]

Fatal Frame LE on Xbox
with surround sound at mid night it was creepy...

[Nick]

I'd say first place goes to Silent Hill the original..but Resident Evil 2 was more enjoyable and nearly as scary.

The zombies through the windown in RE2 nearly gave me a heart attack..and the game was scary enough that my friend watched me play and beat the whole game and never played it himself. :D

[Felixthegamer]

I not big into horror games, but The Suffering is kind of freaky. I haven't played it a lot, but it is decent so far

[jerkov]

The Resident Evil remake for Gamecube. I rented it and played it all the way through with a friend when it came out, and there were some parts where I literally did not want to round a corner or go down a stairwell because I KNEW that something fucked up was waiting for me. That game gave off strong feelings of dread, like nothing I've ever experienced from any other game. It just seems so much more realistic and horrifying than the PSX original.

Looking through this thread, I really want to get into Sweet Home (I've got the ROM floating around somewhere on my computer) and the first Alone in the Dark (since I'm a huge H.P. Lovecraft fan). Fatal Frame may also be interesting, but I don't know if it'd really be up my alley. Clock Tower series might hold some potential as well (I actually still have a sealed copy of Clock Tower 3 floating around somewhere that I got during the big 4.99 Circuit City sale).

[simontemplar]

The Haunted Mansion for gamecube ? :o


Silent Hill

The Suffering



I used to get pretty scared playing text adventure games like Zork and Dragonworld, back in the early 80`s ...

[tholly]

Myst is pretty friggin scary if you play it late at night, in a dark room, speakers up kinda loud, with no one at home. there are some weird sounds in that game that really freak you at if you are all alone.

its not a scary game at all....but, the atmosphere def. plays a part in whether this one is scary or not


also, in Unreal on the PC when you are in the one tunnel and all the lights go out and that alien starts attacking you....thats pretty friggin scary....

[om3ga]

Myst is pretty friggin scary if you play it late at night, in a dark room, speakers up kinda loud, with no one at home. there are some weird sounds in that game that really freak you at if you are all alone.

its not a scary game at all....but, the atmosphere def. plays a part in whether this one is scary or not


also, in Unreal on the PC when you are in the one tunnel and all the lights go out and that alien starts attacking you....thats pretty friggin scary....

Hell yeah. That game is so freaky specially the first time though it, you are expecting some freakin moster to hop out around the corner at any second but you never do find it ... lol

[MegaDrive20XX]

Silent Hill 1....the original is just too dark and serious compared to 2 and 3's storyline

and seeing Resident Evil: REBIRTH for Gamecube for the first time....damn...

[FlufflePuff]

Resident Evil 1 is probably the scariest game I've ever played. Both because of the dogs, which I forgot about from the Playstation to Gamecube conversion. And the fact that in the Gamecube version, the dead zombies would get back up. That happened to me when I walked past one and I screamed pretty loudly.

More recently, I really like Doom 3. It's agravating as hell not being able to carry a pistol and a flashlight but it does make for some tense moments.

[Crush Crawfish]

heh....Monster Party for NES used to scare the hell out of me when I was younger...Not the whole game but just the 2nd half of the 1st level. If you've played it you know what I'm talking about. God do I love that game.

[NintendoMan]

Pretty much the whole resident evil series. I don't like scary games at all, even though I LOVE HORROR MOVIES, so have never played anything real scary like silent hill or whatever else is real scary.

[Shawn Carr2o]

:snipersmile: :rockets: The Resident Evil &
Resident Evil Zero scared me. :bawling: :yipes:
The Crimson Heads, Spiders, Shark, Zombie dogs,
& the giant Snake too. :2gunfire: :evil:

[drdrew1469]

Smurfs (2600)

Homer Simpsoid: 'Scared the hell outta me' :)

[van_halen]

This isn't a scary game, but there's one part on Bionic Commando that scares the hell out of me. Everyone knows the part where you enter the enemy's communication room and contact your superiors, using your own comm unit.

http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Reviews/BionicCommando/Images/BC-SS-CommRoom.gif

You can also wire tap the enemy's conversations and listen in on their movements. After the enemy ends the transmission you can simply break off the tapping and leave the room. It's not always that easy; sometimes a loud siren will go off and two gaurds with bayonets will charge you as reinforcements parachute down on you. It's a complete surprise when this happens and the siren blaring stuns me everytime! @_@

Haha, you're right on it!!! My ass lifts of my sofa when that happens!

[Djfinny]

I would have to say the scariest was Alone in the Dark. The game that inspired the RE series. Played it with a friend of mine until we finally beat it. Opening the closet in the kitchen and the zombie is standing there waiting for you scared the hell out of me. Between the weird camera angles and the music - the game was just plain creepy. Other games that some of you had mentioned:

Sinistar - "Run! Run! Run! ......Roooaaar !!" Talk about a feeling of dread!

Maybe its just me but did Tecmo's Deception scare anyone? Running thru that old castle with adventurers chasing after you was a bit scary.


Games to get -
System Shock 2 - I should have bought this when I had the chance.
Silent Hill, Clock Tower and more. Thanks for the recommendations all!

[cr0n0]

My vote goes to silent hill. My friend let me borrow it and I used to play it in the dark with the stereo on, giving me full surround sound. Very scary. I recently got the soundtrack for part 1. Downright disturbing.

[EricRyan34]

Silent Hill series are def. the scariest games I have ever played! And I have played ALOT of them! (alone in the dark, Eternal Darkness RE etc.)

[vincewy]

Want to revive this thread, as Fatal Frame 3 is coming out

http://www.the-magicbox.com/0503/game050316g.shtml

Is it just me or that this sequal doesn't seem scary to me? What makes a game scary? Real, based on true story, the series seem to progress into something more fictional, I still feel the first one is the scariest.

[drwily008]

I always wanted to play Daydreaming Davey when I first hear about it. I played it for the first time yesterday....DAMN IT IS SCARY. I'm glad I didn't lay down $50-65 back when it was new!

[poloplayr]

pitfighter on snes. it was so crappy it scared me shitless.

[Xantan the Foul]

Fatal Frame is the scariest that I've played, but I haven't played the second one yet.

[PentiumMMX]

"Earthbound Zero" scared me, I was in the cematary, then the music stops and
plays that song letting you know that you are about to be in a fight. THAT
SCARED ME!

(Hides behind Mayl)

[EricRyan34]

Silent Hill games

[Psyleid]

Phantasmagoria... I think that's how you spelled it

Played it back when i was like... 8... Was my brother's game but played it anyways

[ghostangelofcky]

Phantasmagoria... I think that's how you spelled it

Played it back when i was like... 8... Was my brother's game but played it anyways

The sequal "puzzles of flesh" was good to

Never played any Silent Hill games, any you'd recommend?

[ROBOTRON]

To heck with Resident Mid-Evil...that was baby sh*t compared to Splatter House TG-16.

[Jumpman Jr.]

Well, everybody is writing this, but Resident Evil 2 scared the bejesus out of me :embarrassed:
I haven't played it in a while... but I remember this part where you thought everything was safe.. and then you would walk through the door (and then the screen would show the door opening) and there were dogs in the door.
I lost it then

[SMB]

I think Resident Evil 4 is scarier then the rest of the series, some of the moments when there are like 14 guys on the screen and you are using you very last bullets trying to shoot the ones you can, awesome.

As for the rest...

Silent Hill
Eternal Darkness
Fatal Frame
and the ever popular Alone in the Dark series

Thank god for games that support Dolby II...scary as hell in eternal darkness when the volume is turned all the way up and those sanity effects start happening... @_@ @_@ @_@

[Evil E]

Doom 3 perhaps?

[SuperNES]

Karaoke revolution for the Xbox. hearing my friends try to sing "kiss me" or "do you beleive in love" is the scaryest thing i have ever witnessed in my life.

actually, it was one of the funniest things me and my friends have ever done, aside from 'Karate Box'. one of us would get inside a bix box with no eyeholes, and then we would fight each other and slide down the stairs. whoever was inside the box would fall over a lot, so fighting was nearly impossible as you got pummeled by a pillow.

[daminmancejin]

resident evil(gamecube) use too scare me when i first got it

[frost69nyc]

No doubt, the scariest moment in video game history was when Capcom violated section 107 article 1 of the Video Game Constitution, which states "If ye exit said room filled with baddeth guys, they will not pursueth you"

So, as my clutching-his-side Leon Kennedy stumbled out of the room where that Nemesis-type thing was, hoping for the safety and security of the second floor police station walkway, the thing breaks through the frickin' wall and slaughters me. Made me jump more than when the girl got hit by the bus in Final Destination.

Best gaming moment ever for me.

Anyone else have any violations of my Video Game Constitution to report? ;)