Scary moments in games

[Guest Maurizio C... Version 2]

10 years ago there was nintendo and the goriest game would have probably been Castlevanya. 2 years ago I bought playstation (or was it 3 yearso ago? god, time passes...) and immediately bought Resident Evil 2 after hearing it was being banned i some parts of the world and was rated as an adult game.

 

Then I started playing with my friend and I can tell you i got legitimely scared a few times.

 

- The zombies behind doors. You hear them moaning and when you open the door they jump on you.

- the Licker. When you meet it you run behind a door and he's right behing you.

- the end monster at the end of the game when he exits the elevator and chases you.

 

God, rememeber when playing games actually was funny and didn't give you heart attacks?

[Guest]

Yeah, I got that way when I played RE 1 when you met the first zombie and he turned from eating that dead body and started chasing you.  I think more games today are going for the more scare the shit out of you and then make you cry feeling.

[Guest chirs3]

That damn interrogation room. You knew it was going to happen. You're on the reflective side, so you can't see through it, and you KNOW something's gonna jump through.

 

But the first time you go in, nothing happens at all.

 

The second time you're just inching, inching, inching - and you reach the item without anything happening. You think "Ha! I just scared myself is a-

 

CRAAAAAAAAAASH!

 

Damn Capcom bastards...

[Guest The Man in Blak]

The scariest moment I've ever had in ANY video game belongs to Resident Evil: Director's Cut.  

 

The Guardhouse.

The fucking Guardhouse.

 

You walk in and it's the most decrepit building you can imagine - old wood just like a house that's been left to rot for 50 years.  The first thing you hear of the soundtrack is what sounds like somebody collapsing on a rusted piano.  You walk into the pool room...and then there's spiders.  The largest, ugliest looking spiders I have seen in any video game period (and that's counting all of the other RE's...the last boss for Cde: Veronica doesn't count, though) drop from the ceiling.  

 

I desperately run behind a pool table (after screaming at the top of my damn lungs - I'm an arachnophobe) and uncork the grenade launcher...big mistake.  I see the spider go splat and I think I'm doin' all right...until I see about a hundred little spiders run underneath the pool table.  I freak again and I switch the rounds in the grenade launcher to gas rounds and hit the other big spider...and he just flips over onto his back and twitches in that horrible way that spiders do.

 

Maybe it's because I hate frickin' spiders.  Maybe it's because I was playing at about 2:30 in the morning with the lights out.  But I think it's more because the original RE kicked all flavors and varieties of ass.

[Guest JAMES900]

the silent hill games are full of scary moments.  Damm that cat in the locker.

[Guest J*ingus]

Blak, I'm with you, I fucking HATE tarantulas, and suddenly this game drops FIVE of the motherfuckers on me, each about as big as my car.  Thankfully, I found that you can avoid even seeing all but one of them, but that's the one you fight in the giant webbed-in room, and to my horror, I found out that if you leave the room before it stops moving while it "twitches in that horrible way that spiders do", the goddamned thing comes back to life when you return!  (It's even worse in #2, where you HAVE to go through at least four of the hellspawn.  At least they stay on the ceiling, while the ones in RE1 charge you on the ground (shudder).)  

 

Also, the various zombies, dogs, crows, snakes, hunters, lickers, alien monkey guys, evil plants, giant moths, Tyrants, Mr.Xs, and Nemeses are not good for blood pressure.  Fuck you, Capcom, for making such a good game series that was SO fucking creepy.

[Guest fazzle]

Fatal Frame.  The only video game to scare me.

[Guest Bruin]

Just about anytime I play AvP using the marine campaign. God, they took the best things from the Aliens movies and put it in there. There are very few things as frightening in games as hearing the ominous sound of the motion tracker beeping. Seeing 14 blips start advancing on you, looking all around and seeing the same. Panic sets in, then the blips stop for a moment. You look up, 15 aliens start making a living waterfall of black down the side of a cliff you were near, and getting that feeling of "Oh, shit."

 

However, the last game I played that really truly creeped me out was Clive Barkers Undying. Man thats a great game, but it'll scare the shit out of you at times.

 

Though not that scary, I found the beginning and Valkyire trips in Max Payne really creepy borderline disturbing.

[Guest redbaron51]

Silent Hill 2 on the magic mushrooms is probably the worst combination ever. Every time I see the game, i want to shiver.

 

Also Resident Evil 2 scared the crap out of me.

[Guest crandamaniac]

I feel like a wuss for saying this, but it was in RE 2. It was 10 at night, i was in my room w/ the lights off.  I got to the point where your going thru the hall, and suddenly a licker jumps out thru the window scared the holy beejesus outta me.  I seriously was scared of windows for the next 2 days.

[Guest Renegade]

Res Evil 1, the first time the dog smashes through the window.

[Guest]

This wasn't really scary, just really fucked up.

 

In Code Veronica when your in the mansion at the beginning, when you walk into this room on the ground floor and see that movie with the blonde guy and girl torturing the dragonfly and pulling its wings off.  That made me cringe.

 

Also in CV after you enter the computer code to go into the secret passage behind the bookcase, when the monster just suddenly crashed through the window i almost had a heart attack.

[Guest Maurizio C... Version 2]

oh my, RE 2 beats every game! I also hate spiders. I mean, when I see a spider I have seizures almost!

[Guest Flyboy]

All this Resident Evil talk makes me save up my money faster for the Resident Evil 1 remake for Gamecube.    

 

I want that and WMX8.  

[Guest Ravenbomb]

Realms of the Haunting

[Guest]

I freak again and I switch the rounds in the grenade launcher to gas rounds and hit the other big spider...and he just flips over onto his back and twitches in that horrible way that spiders do.

 

I didn't think they had a grenade launcher in Director's cut, your talking about RE 1 DC right?

[Guest]

To echoe nearly everyone else, my first encounter with Licker in RE 2 scared the hell out of me. One of the bosses in Grandia 2 was also quite creepy.

[Guest Star Ocean 3]

Ephemeral Fantasia....it was scary how much money I spent on that game...

[Guest goodhelmet]

I'll jump on the bandwagon and give my ResEvil2 moments.

 

When running past the boarded up windows and the zombies grab at your arms. I screamed like a bitch (Never play this game in the dark)

And the first time you encounter the Licker.

[Guest Chief Slappaho]

RE2 when you're in the laboratory at the end and a licker falls out of the ventilation shaft right in front of you.

[Guest Pidgerii-4q2]

I remember playing RE1 3am in the morning and costantly looking over my shoulder.

 

Similarly, there was a period where I couldn't play Silent Hill 2 because I could only play it at night and refused to do so.  That's an extremely frightening game.  Some moments:  When you hear the baby cry and you follow the sound to see Pyramid Head beyond the bars.  2. After you beat the Hospital boss and the place rearranges itself.  3. When you walk thought the prison and you can hear voices but can't see where they come from.

[Guest Raven_Effect01]

Duke Nukem 64: In some levels, there are some protozoid slimers.  They break out from eggs and they look pale green, fly up to the ceiling, and back down, and once they get close to you, they jump up right in your face with the scariest bite I've ever seen(of course I did have the Invincibility code on so I wouldn't die in the game), I almost had a heart attack the first time I saw that.

[Guest alfdogg]

The only game I remember scaring me is Doom.  There are two bonus levels in Doom 2 that are set up like Wolfenstein.  In the second one, as you approach the door, the Cyberdemon (the biggest guy in the game) come out the door and scares the shit out of me.

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

I'm telling you in RE:1 when you return from the Guard House and you see from the POV of the Hunter that chases you in.....freaky shit.

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

Also I always get freaked out by FPS's. The Aliens and Demons just freak me out for some reason. Like Half-Life, Doom, Duke Nukem, Red Faction.

I mean why can't there be an FPS where you just fight other people!? Why are there always monsters!? I thought Red Faction had it....then those freaky bastards showed up towards the end.

Then again it's always a good feeling when you unload on the monsters and watch them die.

[Guest]

Some parts of Halo have kinda scared me so far.

Running out of ammo and then trying to escape while some freaky alien dude on your tail chases after you is just awesome in dolby 5.1

It sounds like the thing is actually after you.

[Guest muzanisa]

RE2 along with most people.

The Sharks in Tomb Raider 2. I used to hate them and had to get someone else to get me past them.

The dream sequence maze in Max Payne currently has me shouting at the screen but not in terror.