Scariest Game You've Ever Played

[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.
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[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.