Scariest Game You've Ever Played

[WiseSalesman]

Alright, should be fairly self-explanatory....what's the scariest game you've ever played?

Personally, the game that creeped me out more than any other I've played before or since was the original Alone in the Dark. I remember playing that on my Dad's PC, on a summer day when my parents were out of the house, back in middle school or something, and I was reading a journal in the game, and I got so scared I had to stop playing. Resident Evil, although gruesome, certainly never evoked that level of fear in me. Although Eternal Darkness' story was brilliant, it certainly didn't have what it takes to make me cower in the corner, Only Alone in the Dark did that, before or since.

Of course, there are quite a few survival horror games I've not yet played, so I'd like to hear your opinions.

Which one got to you? One of the REs? Perhaps a Silent Hill? Illbleed? Fatal Frame? Or maybe one I haven't even heard of?

[Happy_Dude]

Maniac Mansion on NES (I was young O.k)

Silent hill was freaky but Alone in the dark will Always be #1 ;)

[kainemaxwell]

Resident Evil 2 for me.

[qaotik]

1. System Shock 2 (PC)
2. Aliens vs Predator (PC)

[Happy_Dude]

1. System Shock 2 (PC)
2. Aliens vs Predator (PC)
I totaly forgot about AvP :D Thats some scary stuff, especially with
a Really good sound system (read: SUBWOOFER) ;) :D :D

[Ascending Wordsmith]

This isn't a scary game, but there's one part on Bionic Commando that scares the hell out of me. Everyone knows the part where you enter the enemy's communication room and contact your superiors, using your own comm unit.

http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Reviews/BionicCommando/Images/BC-SS-CommRoom.gif

You can also wire tap the enemy's conversations and listen in on their movements. After the enemy ends the transmission you can simply break off the tapping and leave the room. It's not always that easy; sometimes a loud siren will go off and two gaurds with bayonets will charge you as reinforcements parachute down on you. It's a complete surprise when this happens and the siren blaring stuns me everytime! @_@

[Queen Of The Felines]

Illbleed wasn't really that scary (I thought it felt more like a Scooby-Doo episode gone horribly wrong ;) ), but it had plenty of "Gah!" moments where things jump at you out of nowhere.

Resident Evil 3 was similar with that stupid Nemesis monster popping up unexpectedly. Ditto Clock Tower with its Scissorman, and Echo Night with the ghost of the girl towards the beginning.

Silent Hill 1 and 2 were just creepy as hell. Reminded me of the movies "Hellraiser" and "Jacob's Ladder."

However, Eternal Darkness literally made it hard for me to sleep at night. I was staying at my parents' house for a few weeks during the summer, and I had to sleep in the basement. Try playing that game in the dark, in the basement of an old house, with a lot of strange noises coming from the sump pump and whatever the heck else was going on down there. Seriously, that game screwed me up for days.

Kristine

[THXII38]

picture this;

THX1138 living in a brand new house on a housing estate that is still being built. He is the first person to move into the street, no one else lives there. The house is devoid of furniture excpet for;

one small strip of carpet, and a sleeping bag
a kettle, a sandwich toaster
a 'ghetto blaster' style tape deck
a black and white tv
and a playstation.

that's it. No telephone, no furniture, no curtains, no neighbours.

The house is on the very edge of town, it's built on the Darkness on the Edge of Town.

With zero furniture, and no carpets, the house is very echoy. There is only one light bulb - that is in the bathroom. A candle illuminates the kitchen, and the flickering from the b&w television casts a dim glow over the empty lounge.

There is no signal for the t.v as THX had no ariel. The street lights on the housing estate have not yet been erected, it's a bad night outside, and yet there is still a vixen howling just across the field....

To pass the time until morning THX decided to have a go on the Playstation. He chose to play Resident Evil.

Alone in the empty house, and with no one to talk to or anything else to destract him much, he got slowly engrossed into the game.

Hours passed. It started to rain.

Then, he got to a very new bit of the game. A new type of monster appeared.

Outside there was a bit of thunder, but no lightning.

THX had not saved his progress for the last hour's game play or so.

Unexpectedly one of the new monsters jumped out. THX fired his pistol and emptied a clip. His character got injured. Frantically - and with rising panic on account of the hours game play at stake because of not saving, THX hit the menu button - looking for medicine. DAMN! He did not have any.

There was one shot left in the shot gun.

With sweaty hands, and a flashing cautionhe resumed the game, and fired the shotgun, and missed.



His character was decapitated! THX was left in an empty house at night, in a deserted part of town looking at flickering screen. BANG! thunder cracked, and purely by coincidence, due to the ongoing construction? - the power to his entire street went out. The telvision swithced off, and the room was thrown into darkness, with just a small white dot on the screen quickly fading, to indicate the corner of the room, the candle had blown out long ago, unoticed.

The letterbox started rattling, presumably from the wind, and THX felt more alone than he ever had in his life.......

[Quazick]

Maniac Mansion-NES...
There's just something about that music and I allways get freaked out when that dude catches you downstairs or when you walk into Edna's room...

[Raedon]

DOOM

[DarkSoul]

1. Resident Evil 1, late at night, in the dark.... yeah, it was creepy!

2. Quake 1, also late at night, in the dark... in a different way though. I was late in the game (full version), and hadn't slept or eatten in a bit too long, and I became absolutely CONVINCED that the monsters were working togather to hunt me down. In retrospect, the AI, while present, wasn't THAT impressive, it did a pretty good job on me at the time.

[udisi]

I'll have to second Eternal Darkness for GC...not only is it just scary as the character, but the fact that it messes with you too, it was truely ground breaking.

[FABombjoy]

The Aliens-TC mod for Doom got me so damn jumpy & nervous that I couldn't play for more than 30 minutes. Playing in the dark & listening to the game through giant headphones didn't help much.

[Masco73]

Without a doubt ShadowMan on N64. Whoever came up with that game was one sick puppy!! >) :texaschain:

[mauigamer]

My vote is for Silent Hill. When that telephone rings and its the little girl on the other end. That freaked me out. Also those damn midget kids with knives. I could never see em coming.
Maybe a second part of the question could be scariest moment in a game. That telephone ringing has my vote.

[john_soper]

2600 Circus Atari
(tremblng) it had clowns........

[Kid Fenris]

The Silent Hill games are my scariest gaming experiences, just because they throw you into Eraserhead-like settings where you just don't understand the logic of what's going on.

Eternal Darkness also freaked me out, but some of its head-screws also served to remind me that I was playing a game and not battling a Lovecraftian menace.

[Queen Of The Felines]

Scariest moment?

Eternal Darkness.

The bathtub.

If you've played it, you know what I'm talking about. X_x

Kristine

[Anonymous]

That Damn bathtub in Eternal Darkness always gets me. And I love running around the town with faceless nurses chasing me in Silent Hill 2. But the game that scared me the most was Haunted House on the 2600. I was about 4 or 5 when I played it, and it was at my aunt's house out in the middle of nowhere, in my cousin's bedroom while everyone was gone at dusk. I still remember how much that game freaked me out. To this day the upstairs area of that house gives me the creeps. Yeah, I have an overactive imagination.

[GENESISNES]

Its not really scary, but i jumped EVERY TIME in MGS2 when you get caught by a guard, and that noise plays. i was listening to the commercial a few days ago for MGS2 substance, and that noise came up at the end. Of course, I jumped like a little baby.

SH2 scared the crap out of me. those damn freaky noises that is plays is haunting.

[RJ]

...as THX had no ariel... as in "spokesmodel" or "antenna"? ;)

I thought Silent Hill was GREAT. I played it at night by candlelight using a walkthrough. My first BIG scare was in Res Evil: DC when the dog jumped through the window in the hallway.
Fatal Frame always made my adrenaline flow when the filament glowed, alerting you to a ghost's presence.
My last big scare was in Res Evil: CVX when, after I was examining a picture(?) in the lab, a creature burst out of its container.

YIKES!!! x_x

[RucasRiot]

The only game I ever played that scared me was System Shock 1 (and its sequel). It was mainly the ambient audio IMO that scared me in 2, but I have no idea what scared me in 1. I was rather young when I played it, and I still have nightmares about the series.

[Sylentwulf]

Alone in the dark, Original for the PC, definitely wins for me.

There was ONE spot in Dino Crisis that got me (Before I got bored and stopped playing)

Silent hill had a great mood thing going, but no shock scary.

RE1 for Gamecube was SCARY, plain and simple. GREAT graphics, mood and gameplay.

[vincewy]

?? for those who've played Eternal Darkness, System Shock 2, and Silent Hills 2, has any of you played Fatal Frame? How would you compare FF with them, I've played Resident Evil and it just bores me, also what scares me the most is if the game has some realistic concept, in this case, FF really freaks me out, there's one documentary

http://xbox.ign.com/articles/375/375267p1.html

Yup, just like many paranomial phenomenum, you take a pic, you don't see the ghosts until the pic is developed.

[punkoffgirl]

Phantasmagoria
Silent Hill 2
Resident Evil 0

I'm big into "mood" in games, and I can get so easily sucked in and creeped out that I won't be able to continue without someone else in the room with me.

[chocobokick]

Alone in the Dark, definately. I think that was my first "real" PC game.
And I agree, who didn't get that little scary jump when you got caught in Maniac Mansion?
Phantasmagoria- was that the movie like game? I bought that with my first computer of my own- a mac with not enough memory to go past the first disc so I never got to see the rest.
I usually don't play scary games, I prefer to watch ;) But some of the strangest games can be scary. Like Animal Crossing on Halloween I kept picturing my character running through the dark forest, black branches catching on her clothes the animals had turned to rags, trying desperately to get a spooky sofa home. The animals were really scary how they would try and run after you!

[Stark]

Only one game has ever scared me while playing. Duke Nukem on the PC. Yes its a FPS but this is why it scared me. I was casually playing it one night. Had my 6 computer speakers turned up quite loud, the lights were off and I was moving and shooting for a while. So I entered a cave like place, killed a couple bad guys and then silence. No music, no bad guys, nothing to hear. I remember the cave had a strange brownish orange color, candles or torches were lit so it was a low light environment I was walking through. Anyway I'm deciding where to go when I suddenly hear something. Strange ghostly noises coming from the cave!!! Ahhhhhh I almost shit myself.
I had to stop playing that night! What scared me was the combination of dark room, dark cave, loud speakers that enhanced the background noises, and my deep concentration on the computer screen. No other game has ever scared me. 8-)

[NvrMore]

Eternal Darkness for me too (Damn Bathtub!). Playing that game with the full surround system really lets the atmosphere and insanity effects take hold. Some of the sounds and effects are so subtle and unnerving I keep finding myself hearing them (Paranoia) after I've switched the cube off.

[Cafeman]

I've never played a game that truly frightened me, not like a good scary film has done. Mind you I don't really enjoy those kinds of Silent Hill or RE types of games & haven't tried 'em all.

But I have been startled a bunch of times. Doom comes to mind, it really had by heart pumping when it was new. Also the original Tomb Raider -- running around in those creepy, silent tombs, and then a wolf jumps out at you YIKES!! I just about fell off the couch that first time. EXCELLENT MOOD in Tomb Raider 1!

Kaboom! is an intense game, the kind that puts knots in my stomach. When I'm down to 2 buckets, and I've got the fastest wave ahead of me and only like 100 points until an extra (3rd) bucket -- it is SO scary to press the 2600 paddles button to begin that wave. Yikes! When people come over and play this game (Kaboom! is great pre-football game material for guests!), their knees knock and you can feel their excitement before each round.

However, this thread is about scariness and I just remembered the KING of classic gaming fright fests. All I will say is that my heart lept into my throat when I heard those words "I hunger"!

[WiseSalesman]

SINISTAR scared you?

[Cafeman]

Yes it did! At the arcade, I'm furiously trying to grab that crystal without getting shot and I hear EXTRA-LOUD "Run, Run!" and then "REEAAARRRRGHHH!". VERY effective and frightening!

[WiseSalesman]

Actually, I can understand that, and I shouldn't have been so quick to judge. I was a teenager when I first played it, so it didn't bother me. On the other hand, I was actually a bit frightened by a point and click game called Kyrandia 2, and the mad doctor in Wolfenstein 3D used to creep me out a bit too.

[Nature Boy]

I also vote for Eternal Darkness.

I only play it at night when my wife is out. The lights are out and the volume is high. No matter how many times I hear a knock on the door it freaks me out. You'd think I'd be used to it after awhile but it always gets me. And that whispering. There have been a few times I found myself on edge even after turning the 'cube off.

ED is one of those games I think I'll always rave about. I never really got into any horror games before it but it's got me looking at picking up Resident Evil and Silent Hill...

@VinceWy: I've played a demo of Fatal Frame and found it pretty chilling. That was awhile ago though so take my comments with a grain of salt. EDs scary stuff comes from the sanity meter. As your character loses sanity, really odd stuff happens to you. Some of it you realize what's going on, some of it really throws you for a loop. It's that plus the music and special effects that give me the willies. Similar to FF's ambiance from what I remember.

[Moose]

RE 2 got me because I played through the night with all the lights off. And at about 4 in the morning I started losing the ability to distinguish reality from dream.

Also Uninivited for the NES.

[brandver3]

FATAL FRAME.

I'm suprised no one listed it.
Gave me nightmares. RE is my favorite series, but as far as sheer creepyness and horrifying imagry go, it has nothing on Fatal Frame.

The girl in the well.........(runs to bedroom to cry).....

[IntvGene]

Another vote for Sinistar...

That voice was in my nightmares when I was a kid. Plus, I played the sit-down version of Sinistar, with the sound coming from behind and everything... freaky. :-(

[nesman85]

i don't think i've played a truly scary game. but i guess eternal darkness, the castlevania's, and the resident evil's were kinda scary compared to other games. i haven't played the silent hill's yet, or alone in the dark.

[diskoboy]

SINISTAR scared you?

Sinistar scared the shit outta me.... I was 8 when that game came out. I remember the night I played it for the first time, I had a nightmare some huge faced monster was chasing me.

And there was nothing like hearing the Sinistar taunt you with those immortal words... "Beware, I live!"

[mezrabad]

Okay, you've all made me want to run out and get Eternal Darkness.

Alone in the Dark. That game had the perfect atmosphere like none I'd played before it. Startled me a lot, true, but, more importantly, made me not able to guess when I was going to be scared next, in fact, making me guess wrong a few times so that the next real scare was even more effective.

System Shock 2 was also quite effective but rarely did it give any false sound cues. Generally if you heard something coming, you knew it was coming. I don't remember hearing something, dreading it, and it not showing. Still plenty scary. The midwives made my skin crawl.

OH! and Realms of the Haunting had some nice chilling moments.

[EnemyZero]

I'd def have to say I couldnt sleep much after playing Silent Hill 1 & 2 for a few hours.

[Arqueologia_Digital]

Doom (i had 10 years old) and i couldn´t sleep very well after playing it...then, finally i cleared it :-D
Other scary game is Sillent hill & Resident evil 2

[wberdan]

the ones pog mentioned also scared the crap out of me...
but my all time one is definetely one no one would guess

VENTURE for the colecovision...

i used to freak right out when i was 4 or 5 when my mom would play it... i couldnt even be in the same room when she played it, and i couldnt play it myself... the absolute worst was the room with the moving walls, cause she'd always drag ass and that green monster would come in for the kill.... i can play it now with no problems, but that was my first seriously terrifying game. mouse trap also freaked me right out- but not that bad.

willie

[Alex Kidd]

I've never played a game that TRUELY frightened.. many that have SHOCKED me...
those that have shocked me
Wolfenstein 3D: When those white suited guys yell "Beyahnt!" (or whatever I spelled it phoenetically)
Blake Stone- Aliens Of Gold: Much the same as Wolf3D.. a certain enmiy used to yell something when they seen you... so the suddenness would shock me.
Aliens Vs Predator: When those DAMN facehuggers make there leap, however I must also admit, when it's dimly lit and you can hear facehuggers scrambling along and ambient noise... it's not FRIGHTENING.. bnut man.. it's something

FurtherAway

Keep in mind I have played next to NOTHING on any console system between the Sega Genesis and Dreamcast

[TripppsK]

#1:Resident Evil 1, late at night, half buzzed in the dark with surround sound. Really sucks when your dog sneaks up on you to go outside.

#2:Pac Man for the 2600, I still crap myself when I see it.

[Retsudo]

I would have to go with RE1. When those Dogs jumped through the window in that hallway. Man, i almost crapped myself :embarrassed: :D

[Kamisama]

Resident Evil was the most scariest game for me for sure. But i dont play many scary games...
Man, the scene with the dogs really was scary :embarrassed: ;)

[threeoclockhigh]

certain points of the Resident Evil games.

I always was in fear of the wall monster and Otto (Venture and Berzerk) as a kid when playing my old Atari/Intellivision. Those really filled me with dread and I did try to go fast as possible to get out before they came.

Bionic Commando, when listening in on the enemies as I always worried about being busted, too.

AVP for Jaguar, until you get the motion detector. Those damn things come out of nowhere, the Aliens.

Friday the 13th when I was younger with Jason popping up all the time not only in cabins but also on the paths. I really hated it sometimes when he would pop up in cabins even when he was supposedly not in there (no 'Jason' listed, as it usually is if he is in a cabin with children or counselors). It didn't happen a lot but once in awhile when you are lighting fireplaces trying to get the torch......

Metal Gear, when I was younger since the pits always seemed to open out of nowhere.

Dragon Warrior, when I was younger, early in the game if I wandered too far away from the easier enemies and would rather not face stuff like Wyverns and Goldmen with chain mail and the copper sword. Of course, they always would pop up, no matter how hard I tried running back across the bridge to the 'easier' area.

[jaybird]

At the time I was playing it: the original Resident Evil.

It's not as scary today, but it worked its mojo on me back in the day.

Fatal Frame is really freaky - then again I'm absolutely a big puss when it comes to ghosts.

[Thief187]

Believe it or not, I'm so freaked out playing The Uninvited for the NES. :o

Every single room I go into, these monsters pop out unexpectly. What I got scared the most is the part with the maiden, in which a big fat skull pops in your face.

I'm also freaked out playing D for the PS1. It's too scary for me to play in the dark.

[SoulBlazer]

System Shock 2. I can NOT play that game at night. It's damn freaky. The first time I saw a ghost I threw my mouse in the air and then wasted a full clip on it. The sound effects are the really creepy thing -- and those damn spiders! Bad enough I don't like them in real life (shudder) @_@

Silent Hill, Eternal Darkness, Alien Vs. Predator, and Resident Evil also get an honerable mention.

[Neb]

I remember renting Orb 3D for the NES when I was like 8. It seemed like a fun game, but when I visited the gas station in the game for like the third time, a giant monster head appeared. I closed my eyes and started screaming until my parents shut off my NES. :)
That, Sinistar, and the zombie dogs in the first Resident Evil were the only things in a game that REALLY scared me before.

[Oobgarm]

Oddly enough, Frankenstein's Monster used to scare me to death when I was a kid. My cousin had the game, and I never, ever, played it. Only he did. When Frankenstein was stomping toward the screen, I ran and hid. It still gives me that "creepy" feeling when I see it.

Oh yeah, and those zombie dogs from RE scared me the first time I came across them.

[orrimarrko]

Silent Hill 2 for me (by far) - it's the only game that actually ever made me jump out of my seat.

When you are walking around town with that fog, and the noises, and all of a sudden those things run out from underneath the cars!!! Man!

The first time I encountered a Hunter in RE 1 was pretty scary. The creature with the long tongue in RE2 was scary also.

You have all made me want to play Eternal Darkness and Fatal Frame now!

[nintendofan#1]

i totally agree with Master of Felines. I got to the sit because i typed in " scariest game moment" in google and was looking for " the battub scene... !!!!! my friend was over and it was midnight, foggy outside and we were playing eternal darkness..... We were progressing and we found ourselves in a bathroom. we alked around and saw the "action" button flashing when we were by the tub. pressed it, unknowing what we were about to see..... x_x i dont want to ruin it for you but the result of this was my friend (who was wathing) and me hiding our faces in our arms, and jumping back 3 feet. HOLY ****. that game is awesome...pay the 15$ to get the used version to just see this part. @_@

[Sotenga]

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

[sabre2922]

SILENT HILL is my favorite game series ever!
they are all excellent, but the scariest one is the original.
I could go on forever about how great this game is, but ill keep it simple.
You see I always hated school as a kid and when I entered the "nightmare" version of the school in the first Silent hill, it was almost too much, the skinless children, the damn phone with his little girl talking to him, VERY SCARY STUFF! The Silent Hill games are truly brilliant in that they get to you emotionally like very few ,if any, other video games can.
I personally think that the SH series tops any "so called" scary movies, including the original hellraiser and on certain levels even matches the disturbing, classic THE EXORCIST, with the sights, sounds and pure insanity that surrounds you in the games themselves.
Later Gamers!!!

[Dave Reinquest]

I had a half finished MAME machine (In my bedroom, of course) that I would leave in demo mode on my favourite game...SINISTAR...

Man...even on an old AWE32...I'd be almost asleep...Perfect Darkenss save for the monitor's flickering light...And "Beware, I LIVE!" ...I had to change clothes several times that summer.

Then there was Metal Gear Solid, going after the PSG1 or to fight Revolver Ocelot...and you step onto the trapdoor...scared the hell out of me.

But as for the absolute scariest game I have ever played...well...I'm surprised nobody ahs lsited it, but Barney's Hide-And-Seek Adventure.

[orangemage]

resident evil.......those damn dogs jumping out of the windows

[BrAInDeD]

Scariest games had to be alien trilogy those damn face huggers and shit i own it for saturn

also friday the 13th for nes (i was a kid) LOL
and univited for nes

[BrAInDeD]

Scariest games had to be alien trilogy those damn face huggers and shit i own it for saturn

also friday the 13th for nes (i was a kid) LOL
and univited for nes

[hu6800]

Biohazard ........ psx (first night i played it all my friends came over and whatnot ) although it was japanese , it was a spooky ass game.

Snatcher ,,,,,,,,, sega cd (first time i played it)

hells groove kitchen for the import psx is kinda disturbing as well.

[hu6800]

Biohazard ........ psx (first night i played it all my friends came over and whatnot ) although it was japanese , it was a spooky ass game.

Snatcher ,,,,,,,,, sega cd (first time i played it)

hells groove kitchen for the import psx is kinda disturbing as well.

[waxpoet]

i dont really get scared by game but sometimes I get a really freaky feeling. Actually sometimes if the game is a little older it can give you a little bit of flashback nostalgia plus its freaky so...you get a really weird feeling. One example of this is Marathon Infnity for Macintosh. I played the game for the first time in 1999, well after its original release date....but the music and 'mood' is really freaky....check it out if you happen to have a mac

[stevec1636]

Resident Evil 1 was the scariest game i ever played, those dam dogs comming through the window made everybody jump i don't care who you are!!

Silent hill 2 was real creepy too

[atarifan49]

From all the posts I've seen on this topic, I'm shocked no one has said Rescue on Fractulas for the Atari 8bit.

That was the first game to do a classic scare on me. And when I say classic scare, I'm referring to the type of scare that you get when someone jumps out from around a corner without warning.

For anyone who's unfamilar with the game, it's one of the first two titles that Lucasfilm developed when they decided to write games for computers. The object of the game is to fly a rescue ship from a orbiting space station and rescue downed pilots on a planet where a battle is ensuing. In each case you must locate a down pilot, land the ship nearby, turn-off the engines/shields, and wait for the pilot to come knocking at the airlock door. Then you open the airlock and let him in. You keep doing this until you rescued the required number of pilots. You then return to the space station and proceed onto the next level.

Game was incredible for it's time. Did some neat terrain generation effects that looked very good on the Atari 8bit machines.

Going on with the story... You get in this routine of recuing downed pilots. Level after level. Until the one level where you do the standard land and prep routine you notice that the pilot has a slightly green face. You think, "Ah, it must be some artificating with the graphics." So you sit there waiting for the knock at the airlock door. When the next thing you know there's an ugly green alien at your viewscreen window banging on the window with the weird freaky sounds to go with it. If you don't expect it you will end up generating the same kind of shorts that John Hardie had tried to auction on eBay (picture a pair of underwear in a ziplock baggie filled with all kinds of things that look brown, resembles chili and has mix vegitables added for texture).

The second game that has come along over the years that has had the same effect was Alien Vs. Predator for the Jaguar. The mixture of ambience and the sounds of an alien clawing at you as you come around a corner is enough to cause you to elevate your heart rate dramatically. Plus the sound of the Predator laughing and taughting you.

And a more recent title that keep me on the edge of my seat has to be Resident Evil!

I'll have to check out Alone in the Dark. Sounds good!

Glenn

[QBert]

Has anyone played Fatal Frame for Xbox? I not sure but I dont believe it was for any other system. This is the one game(and only one I can think of at all) that scared me. Enuff to actually jump and shake for a sec. That NEVER happens to me, even with horror movies, so when I did happen while playing a game, it really got me good. I mean, I try to freak myself out. Play a game like that late at night, lights all off, stereo pumpin nice and loud and everyone else is asleep(Girlfriend) and Im hanging out with Mary Jane.......

There's one point in that game where a ghose grabs you from behind and OMG, that along with the music, just freaks the hell outta me. Come to think of it, I'd better get back into that game again and finish it!



Anyone else played it?

QBert

[eolsen]

I first played DOOM when I was like 8. and that scared the **** out of me. It was on PC and my dad wouldn't let me use god mode, just to be fun. I was scared to ****.

[gamergary]

Fatal Frame 2 the cutscene with all the hands scared me when I first saw it.

[NintendoMan]

Definatley Resident Evil 1 + 2 for me!!!

[Jasoco]

DOOM can get pretty scary once in a while.

When I was a kid, I'd play Dragon Warrior and the only thing that scared me was the sudden Music change that occurred when you encounter a monster. So every time I left a town, I'd turn down the volume. Doesn't happen anymore. Actually, I enjoy it now.

Serious Sam. That game had some scary ass shit parts. I love that game! The first time I encountered the Beheaded Kamikaze I jumped. Killed it and laughed. Then when about 5 dozen more came over the hill, that was classic.

Oh, and also, the Bowser's Castle music from SMB1 used to give me the creeps every time I got there, so I had to turn the volume don as well. But now I love it.

[Steven]

Wow, no one has mentioned CLOCK TOWER yet (PS1)

Scissorman was a great villain and was the closest thing to a Michael Myers as you'd get in a video game. He jumps out at you at various points in the game, and this is one of the most entralling PS1 games I've ever played.

One moment sticks in my mind: Mansion. Upstairs... if you examine one of the paintings the camera zooms in and SUDDENLY Scissorman JUMPS OUT AT YOU!

I dropped the controller to the floor (only time a game has ever made me do that) and I paused the game to regain my breath. (for a split sec there I thought I was gonna have a heart attack!)

2 thumbs up for Scissorman.

The other game is... and you might laugh...

GODZILLA for the NES

The music was SO creepy to me back then (4, 5 years old) and I always fought and beat the giant squid Gezora and the robot MOGUERA. But then came the bigger monsters like GIGAN and it just scared the hell outta me.

[SegaAges]

So I take it none of you have played Britteny's Dance Beat. I still have nightmares, "NO, NO MORE DANCING!"

[RetroYoungen]

Scariest moment?

Eternal Darkness.

The bathtub.

If you've played it, you know what I'm talking about. X_x

Kristine

Oh, DAMN. Just flashbacks of that moment are creeping me out, not just with the suddenness of it, but the picture itself coupled with it...

Eww...

I would say Eternal Darkness is the scariest game experience I've ever had. Except of course when it's the game pissing of a friend of yours who gets violent with controllers... that guy scared me quite a bit too. But not as much as :shudder: the bathtub.

[Jasoco]

I like the music in Godzilla. It was some of my favorite. Because it was unique.

[RJ]

@Qbert- Fatal Frame first came out for PS2- it's one of several games/series "hijacked" by Xbox from PS2.