Scary Video Games!

[Kiro]

F.E.A.R. freaked me out so much that my girlfriend would actually stop what she was doing and watch me play just because of how I reacted during certain parts in the game.

Then I started cheating and it was less scary. ^-^

[Norelco]

When I was about 13-14 there was two PC CD-ROM games that came out, 7th Guest and 11th Hour. Those games were pretty scary.

I'm 28 now, and RE:4 scared the crap out of me, especially when I played with all of the lights off and lived by myself at like 2-3am in the morning.

[Correction]

7th Guest was the very first game to actually freak me out, but I was hooked. 11th Hour was kind of a letdown by comparison.

[Norelco]

7th Guest was the very first game to actually freak me out, but I was hooked. 11th Hour was kind of a letdown by comparison.

You're right. 11th Hour wasn't much to sneeze at. 7th Guest was freaky.

[evilbau]

RE1 and first Silent Hill for me, was a teenager at the time. First time the dogs break through the window (as others mentioned) and also the first time they fucked with the load screen (go through door... oh shit zombies!) are the scenes I remember most which scared me

[Mayareira]

There was a very disturbing scene in a Clock Tower game I've played years ago that involved murder of a child, still can't forget it.
Also, silent hill games and Echo Night.

[Epical]

Man there have been a couple posts in here that had me rolling... you guys can write some funny stuff sometimes.

Anyways, FEAR is way fucking out of my league. I got to the first roof and proceeded to instantly uninstall the game. In general I'm a huge vagina when it comes to scary games, so my love for the FPS genre and nice graphics had me try out FEAR. Well, yeah, k, no, that just didn't work out.

The worst (for me) I ever endured to finish was Max Payne 2 (the clown funhouse) and the Bioshock demo. Yeah. Despite all this, OoT never scared me as a kid... I actually found it very fun. I've never played the Resident Evil or Silent Hill series, and after seeing those Youtube videos, I don't plan on it.

[Kiro]

If you don't play F.E.A.R. you're missing out on an awesome story. The thing that scares you the most in the beginning ends up being your "guiding light" later in the first game, and throughout the sequel. I haven't played any of the new F.E.A.R. 'expansions' yet though, so I dunno if that changed at all.

[AlexRuzhyo]

Phantom Icecream Trucks. TJ&E.

I was scared of the dentist and Boogeymen and randomizers in my youth.

[Venture]

FEAR with the girl and the air duct. Holy shit. Too bad ghosts are immune to bullets, because I lit her up out of fright, even knowing she was immune due to game mechanics.

AVP, just because i'm scared of spiders. Spider-looking creatures, dark interiors, flares for light sources= win for scare. I got to level 2, and just uninstalled. No.

[Krye]

Shadowgate

No, Shadowgate was not scary to me. But it did piss me off. I never beat it. Fuck that game.

F.E.A.R.

F.E.A.R.

F.E.A.R.

F.E.A.R. didn't scare me at all. Sure, it was a creepy game, but most of the scary shit is in your head. Oh sure, a monster COULD pop out of all those dark corners, but once you realize that they don't...it just become a really mediocre game for me. The ghost scenes were creepy, but not really pop out scary, the fights with the soldiers were clearly pronounced by them talking on their radios, nothing too scary for me there, nothing unexpected.

EDIT: And now that I think about it, I do recall being scared of that hand in OoT.

[archibaldcrane]

Krye, aren't you like 17? Not being scared by Shadowgate playing it 15 years or more after it came out is cheating.

Anyway, I remembered another super old-school WTFscary moment - Strider for NES. Yeah, that side-scroller sword-swinging ninja-y thing. At one point you go to the "base screen" for your next mission update - you could never really interact in that screen, you just read some text and went to the next location, and something gets fucked up and a dude starts attacking you in there.

Fuck that. It's like the post-modern end wtf-ness of MGS2, but for NES.

[Krye]

I played it a few years ago...on gameboy...I guess that still doesn't count?

<.<

[Parshias]

Sonic 2 and 3, drowning. Hearing that rapidly quickening drowning music still creeps the hell out of me today. I have a deep seated hatred of water levels because of it.

[Foof]

I too am guilty of finding OOT scary, but really only the hands in the shadow temple that drop down and pick you up.

RE1 remake was my first real horror game (unless if you consider Doom, which I guess scared me too). When I first booted it up, I went into the dining room on the left. I was playing in my rec room with my sister, lights off and the surround sound turned way up. We both got freaked out by the really short pause (I forget when it happens, but it's in that room) where you hear the zombie in the hallway groaning and turned off the game. I also nearly jumped out of my seat when I went the "wrong" way through the hallway on the far right of the map and the dogs jumped through the windows.

[Priran]

F.E.A.R. ceased being scary about halfway through the office part.

I thought "We Don't Go to Ravenholm..." from Half-Life 2 was pretty scary, any time I heard the black headcrab squeal after that level I shat a brick.

[Mizango]

I played it a few years ago...on gameboy...I guess that still doesn't count?

<.<

lol not quite.

[Poopfacekilla]

VVV Fuck this guy VVV
http://www.eje-zeta.com/wp-content/u...10/nemesis.jpg

id hit it

[Max™]

Halo, you've been destroying everything in your path... then... there are no enemies...

Just a couple of dead bodies... an empty base...

Blood on the walls...


Then you hear something...

...and the floodlings start pouring out of the walls, and you spend the next few chapters running for your goddamn life.

That shit actually made me jump.

"OH WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT" *buddabuddabudda*

"FUCK! THEY KEEP COMING!"

*panics and tries to find his way out of the room, to find one of those big swollen corpses*

"SHIT!"

*blam... SPLORCH*

"FUCK! MORE OF THEM! DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!"

Also, in AVP on the Jaguar, the aliens were so damn fast, they would come at you down a hallway... and by the time you had locked on, it's hacking and slashing at your guts.

[Elcura]

F.E.A.R. ceased being scary about halfway through the office part.

I thought "We Don't Go to Ravenholm..." from Half-Life 2 was pretty scary, any time I heard the black headcrab squeal after that level I shat a brick.

I completely forgot about Ravenholm, those parts were freaky as shit. My friend has some irrational fear of headcrabs because of that level lol. he freaks the fuck out whenever he sees a headcrab, it's great fun to watch.