Scary Games

[Saturos]

I just pop in any old 3D game from the early PSone era. The graphics scared me so much I nearly vomited.

Other than that, Silent Hill 1 & 2 are the only games to actually ever give me the willies.
The original Resident Evil too when those damn dogs jumped through the window, or Resident Evil 3 whenever the Nemesis is after you. You WILL fill you breeches to the brim with Nemesis after your ass.

Silent Hill type games = slow psychological scare.

Resident Evil type games = 'jump out of your seat' scare.

It depends on what style of scare you prefer really.

 

[knut]

HL2 (and EP1 and EP2) actually scared me quite a lot. Zombies, though pretty much a useless enemy, always put me on edge. I never found fast zombies scary, but it was the posion zombie that still to this day makes me shiver. There were parts of Ravenholm that took me hous to get through because I'd be going to slow, or constantly backtracking so I could make sure nothing was following me, and don't even get me started on the hospital in EP1. Theres a part where you have to drop down a hole and though there isn't a posion waiting for you, you can hear one close by. It took me ages to drop down.

Crazy, innit? It's the same with the poison headcrabs - they still make me jump and I dispise EP2 for having so many of them in inane places.

 

[Loke]

How could I forget the AvP series. -___-

I couldn't play the Marine campaign in AvP2 because the facehuggers scared the crap out of me and, embarrassingly, still to this day.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

The Cradle...that level ****s me over

****ing yes.

 

[Shift]

How could I forget the AvP series. -___-

I couldn't play the Marine campaign in AvP2 because the facehuggers scared the crap out of me and, embarrassingly, still to this day.

I could play it because it was too ****ing hard, the aliens kept getting in too close the acid just kills you, gave up in the end.

 

[Barnz]

Clock Tower Second (not the ****ed up name called Ghost Head), because of Scissorman.

 

[Dalamari]

The first Condemned had me scared shitless

 

[Kyorisu]

Project Zero

Kid's google your Japanese video game names. Project Zero is Fatal Frame.

The series deals with exorcism, dark Shinto rituals, and above all, ghosts.

-wiki

How can you lose?

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Like this. http://www.justin.tv/fourplayerpodcast/109865/Scared_so_bad_he_ran_out_of_the_room

I've heard great things about Fatal Frame, never had the pelaseure of picking it up though. Word is a fourth one is on the way.

 

[Lucid]

STALKER, definitely.

Christ, when I just sprint across the landscape... my heart just starts racing at the thought of an anomaly or anything just being over the horizon. D:

 

[MultiVaC]

YES. This mod is f*cking AWESOME, and really goddamn scary to boot. There's a new version with updated graphics on ModDB- I haven't had the chance to play it yet, but I've heard it's awesome

Yeah, the "Director's Cut". It's definitely worth playing again for the updated version. There's lots of new content.

 

[Lucid]

Holy ****, I remember playing Afraid of Monsters now... those god damn weird ass zombie things. D:

 

[VirusType2]

well, I have to be honest. The only game that ever frightened the shit out of me was Dungeon Master, but that was about 22 years ago. I was probably 11 years old.

I had the volume up really loud from playing a different game or something.

well this game has almost no sounds. The sounds they have are digitized recordings so they sound pretty real though.

so here I am walking around in a new part of the dungeon called 'creature cavern'. I hadn't heard any sounds yet, because I had just loaded a saved game.

I was actually very scared to go in, but I got the nerve up. As you all know, first person games can be very engrossing. So I'm searching around in this maze-like room, got a ways in, a little lost, and thought to myself, "It's a hoax, the room called 'creature cavern' doesn't even have any monsters in it!" Those bastards. (the game has lots of tricks, misleading clues, and traps)

so I start to relax a bit, and I'm looking at something, when all of the sudden, FULL VOLUME a monster is like 'RAAAAAAAWWWWRWRRRRRRRRR' as my group gets viciously and repeatedly clubbed in the back of the head by a group of some monsters I'd never encountered yet. the sound of my party whelping in pain was just as loud and terrifying.

I turn to face this new and fairly scary looking and discover I'm now surrounded from both sides - trapped, and beaten to death by 8 of them and the EXTREMELY LOUD and REALISTIC SCREAMS of death as my party turns to dead bodies is visually enhanced with skulls and bones and all of their stuff drops to the ground, laying before my last party member is bludgeoned to death.

I was completely freaked out and ran into my sisters room. too freaked out to play that game for like a year. Next time I played it, I was no longer afraid though, (and had the volume much lower)

Incidentally, this is one of my favorite games of all time.

 

[Gargantou]

Kittenkiller should try Siren, Gargantou swears it'll scare Kittenkiller pantless.

 

[ríomhaire]

Kid's google your Japanese video game names. Project Zero is Fatal Frame.

How does it make any difference which name one uses?

 

[Deadpan]

ahhh, I love scary games. Silent Hill 2 was creepy in a few parts and the Resident Evil remake got me going (never actually sat down and beat it. I could probably play it a lot easier now, I was young when I first played that). How the hell could the Condemned games scare you people? Especially 2. It had tense bits, and definately the final scene of the first one was EPIC, but I don't see how the games were really scary.

What good scary, survival-horrory games would you guys recommend trying?

 

[Pesmerga]

ahhh, I love scary games. Silent Hill 2 was creepy in a few parts and the Resident Evil remake got me going (never actually sat down and beat it. I could probably play it a lot easier now, I was young when I first played that). How the hell could the Condemned games scare you people? Especially 2. It had tense bits, and definately the final scene of the first one was EPIC, but I don't see how the games were really scary.

What good scary, survival-horrory games would you guys recommend trying?

Halo 3

 

[Deadpan]

I lol'd.

 

[Gargantou]

Clock Tower series are great scary series, there's Clock Tower: The First Fear for SNES, PS1 etc.
Then there's Clock Tower(Clock Tower 2 in Japan), and Clock Tower 2: The Struggle Within, both for PS1.

The reason Clock Tower 2 is called Clock Tower outside of Japan is because the first game didn't officially recieve any translation when Clock Tower 2 came out in NA.

 

[Smoke]

Morrwind was terrifying. I'm serious. Creeping around a dungeon or a random cave and seeing shadows play off walls, or hearing that ****ed up chanting, screaming, or just the general noise of enemies nearby.

Then completley bricking it when a tiny imp or a rat jumps outta nowhere.

 

[Kyorisu]

How does it make any difference which name one uses?

It doesn't I never said it did except to remove any confusion. There was that other thread earlier on the same subject. Meh.

 

[Gargantou]

Kyorisu was just being pissy, he's a dick, anyway, RE5 ftw.

 

[Slug Advisor]

Tetris. ****ing L-block made me jump out of my seat.

 

[Gargantou]

^I lol'd

 

[stintage]

Call Of Cthulhu Is the scariest game ive played

 

[French Ninja]

Morrwind was terrifying. I'm serious. Creeping around a dungeon or a random cave and seeing shadows play off walls, or hearing that ****ed up chanting, screaming, or just the general noise of enemies nearby.

Then completley bricking it when a tiny imp or a rat jumps outta nowhere.

2 Words:
Corprus Monsters

D:

 

[hot564231]

Call Of Cthulhu Is the scariest game ive played

Here, here!

 

[Iron Kat]

When I was six I always found Heretic very scary. I would usually have my hands over my eyes, and in some (extreme) cases I would actually run out of the room when my dad was fighting a really 'scary' boss. TBH, it probably wasn't the best thing for a six-year-old to be watching!!! :E

 

[taviow]

Heretic and Hexen were both really awesome.

Especially Hexen, I don't know wtf is wrong with you people that don't like Hexen. It's so underrated.

 

[Kula Meenur]

Call Of Cthulhu Is the scariest game ive played

Concur. Played it once now never again




*starts shaking, haemorrhaging from eye sockets*

 

[Paulaner]

System Shock 1. All that cybernetic sounds...

 

[Tagaziel]

2 Words:
Corprus Monsters

D:

I remember that, sleeping soundly then suddenly waking up hearing "something is close, you canfeel it" D:

 

[Vigilante]

Clive Barker's Undying scared the shit out of me way back when.