Scariest Games You've Ever Played

[RetroYoungen]

Personally I was just realy scared from playing a full 10 minutes of Eternal Darkness. Scariest moment in gaming I've ever had. How about you guys/gals?

[Gunstarhero]

Alien vs. Predator(Jaguar). Never before has the absense of in-game music created such an intense atmosphere in a video game. There is something truly frightening about walking down a seemingly empty corridor, then turning around to find a couple Aliens in your face.

[petewhitley]

Alien vs. Predator(Jaguar). Never before has the absense of in-game music created such an intense atmosphere in a video game. There is something truly frightening about walking down a seemingly empty corridor, then turning around to find a couple Aliens in your face.

Definitely. I love the survival horror genre games and their spinoffs, but nothing is as frightening or pulse-racing as a well-done FPS with thriller elements. We need more like that...

[stargate]

OK, you asked for it............

TV Sports Football for the TG-16. This was the scariest game I ever played. It scared the HELL out of me.

[Sylentwulf]

Eternal Darkness had GREAT atmosphere.

For me, it goes in this order:
Fatal Frame - PS2 - OK, I haven't played this yet, just got it (Thanx pete!). But EVERY SINGLE PERSON that I've seen review or talk about this game says it blows everything else out of the water.

Alone in the Dark - Original PC version, it was 11:00pm - 1:00am played the game straight through by myself in the dark.

Resident Evil - Gamecube. What is there to say?

Silent Hill - The school was REALLY FREAKY, by far the best, scariest, most delusional setup in a videogame I've played. But the rest of the game just didn't do it for me at ALL, thought it sucked.

Dino Crisis - bah, didn't even finish it, although the T-rex DID scare the crap out of me.

[hezeuschrist]

Gamecube = win.

1) Super Monkey Ball 2. Freaked the hell outta me, something about 4 monkeys dancing around clear plastic balls and using the word 'poo' way too often that just scared the hell outta me. I've had nightmares.

2) Resident Evil. Even though I knew it was comming, the dogs in the hallway. Holy crap... those stupid bastards at Capcom made it so they didn't actually bust through, just a dent in the glass, then the NEXT time you go through you get hosed. Scared the crap outta me, not to mention the super zombies. No idea they put them in the game... walk into a room I KNOW is clear and get ambushed. Man.

3) Resident Evil 2-3, Zero, soon to be 4. I mean cmon.

4) Eternal Darkness doesn't really scare me... but it freaks me out like no movie or game can. I'm getting really close to the end and it's just too cool to put down. Once you really start to see the relationships between the characters and all the likes it's just way too well done to not mention. I'm actually really suprised it wasn't on the IGN Top 100.

[Drexel923]

Definitely Eternal Darkness and Resident Evil on cube. Those are the only two games I've played that would scare me and they did.

[Ed Oscuro]

May I mention Sweet Home? (arguably Resident Evil/Biohazard's ancestor, but the phrase "residing evil" in the translated ROM out there is not only new with the translation, but meaningless in Japan, where the series is Biohazard. As I once said, it's an "inferior name, I think, but "Resident Evil" probably translates into something uber-tacky over there," or as my brother aptly put it:

In Japan Resident Evil probably means "Home for Old People."

Sweet Home didn't give me nightmares (played it straight through a couple days) but I realized that Capcom hadn't made BAD music, but rather INSANELY DEVILISH, CREEPY music. It stuck with me for a while, and for being rather unmemorable stuff, I can actually remember some of it just as well as Castlevania's tunes.

Oh, and you get a different ending for each extra player alive at the end. Hooray, replay value :D

Oh, and it's got the famous door opening sequences. Sure, it's always the same door, and sometimes the door and wall are wrong for the area, and there's a LOT OF DOOR OPENING when you go into a new area for the first time, but it's neat.

[hezeuschrist]

Oh, D for Saturn... I played through that game so many times with my friend, with the lights out late at night. Heh, those were the days.

[Mr-E_MaN]

I have never been scared by a video game. I don't scare very easily.

[hezeuschrist]

We don't mean sacre, like actually be afraid, just jump. I know the dogs in that hallway of RE made everyone who ever played that game jump.

[Mr-E_MaN]

I can't remember a game actually making me jump either.

[stargate]

I can't remember a game actually making me jump either.

have you ever played Resident Evil with the lights out? t here are definitely some parts that make you jump. If you have never been scared by a video game, that kinda sucks for you.

I remember playing Nightmare Creatures on PSX. There was a part where this werewolf jumps out at you from behind a closed door. Scared the bejeesus out of me.

[Mr-E_MaN]

I can't remember a game actually making me jump either.

have you ever played Resident Evil with the lights out? t here are definitely some parts that make you jump. If you have never been scared by a video game, that kinda sucks for you.

I remember playing Nightmare Creatures on PSX. There was a part where this werewolf jumps out at you from behind a closed door. Scared the bejeesus out of me.

I have never played Resident Evil with the lights out that I can remember. I think I don't get scared/afraid from video games because they are not real people. If they were actual people acting out the game, then maybe I might get scared.

[WiseSalesman]

Alone in the Dark. Still the only game that's ever instilled any real fear in me.

[hezeuschrist]

Really has nothing to do with that, it's just a loud unexpected noise/occurance.

[Jackalneo]

Michael Jackson's Moon Walker. Who wouldn't be scared by jacko pulling toddlers out of closets. C'mon!

[BIGMIKE]

i'd have to say xmas of 95 when i got the psx. had a hook up at kaybee and got tomb raider (the best) i remember the moment well. on the first level with that big ol bear. i fell in that hole and he came a chargin. scared the piss out of me. since then i was hooked on that game.

[hydr0x]

Alien Vs. Predator 2 (PC)
Resident Evil (PC)
Alone in the Dark (PC)
Ecstatica (PC)

but, when i played those games i was young, nowadays no game really scared me, and i played all of those in the middle of the night with all lights off :D