Parts in games you are ashamed of once being scared of [Archive]

PDorr3

07-19-2005, 01:51 AM

Cmon, you all know there are parts in certain games that just freak you out! maybe its that first zombie you see in resident evil or that certain boss in the game you love, be it horror or not, that you were or still are scared of, and are ashamed of it!

I got some bad ones..

In sonic 1 on genesis I was really scared of the level where the lava chases you down that path, ever since I have been scared of being chased by something in games (note this was when I was like 7)

In mario 64 I was affraid to play the ghost house level, I just found it really creepy, and I hate ghosts that...follow me :embarrassed:

In zelda OoT I had many instances in that game where I was just plain out scared to fight or do something, but the #1 of all has to be nightime in hyrule feild, those skeletons that poped out from the ground scared the shit outa me, thank god there was the song to instantly turn night to day!

Resident evil games, basicaly every moment of these games scare the shit outa me, not too embarrasing though since they are meant to freak you out.

Doom 64, that shit came in so dark on my tv that every corner was a suprise, it truly did freak me out, and I dont believe I ever beat the first level, but the first time you meet up with one of those pink demon monsters oh my god... also the game of cat and mouse in there (try a cheat code to enter it) is downright scary as hell!

Zombies ate my neighbords had this one level with the chainsaw jason guys in a maze, it always manages to scare the shit outa me, even to this day.

Alien vs Predator on jaguar has some truly scary moments, especialy when you play as a human vs the aliens, the dark fog in that game makes it all the more scarier.

Haoie

07-19-2005, 02:02 AM

In the first Clock Tower [the First Fear], just walking around scares me. It's a bit obscure, so people probably won't recognise these bits.

1. When the first 2F hallway collapses when you try to walk on it.

2. The shower bit.

3. Checking places where Scissorman could be.

Plenty more, but it'll ruin the surprise for new players. CT1 is the scariest [and the first actually] horror I've ever tried.

CrimsonNugget

07-19-2005, 02:05 AM

The only game that truly scared me was Enemy Zero. I bought it when I was way too young and really couldn't figure it out. I was in a dark room and I heard faint chiming, but it continued to get faster and faster and faster then ROOOAR! I turned the system off. I regret selling the game though, would have been fun to play now.

halbert

07-19-2005, 02:54 AM

In sonic 1 on genesis I was really scared of the level where the lava chases you down that path, ever since I have been scared of being chased by something in games (note this was when I was like 7)

When I played this when it came out and I was young, it scared the crap out of me too! :embarrassed:

These days, the only game that scares me is Silent Hill. I cannot play that game for more than 5-10 minutes; it's sad. I'm sure Clock Tower would do the same thing, but I've never gotten around to trying it. Scary!

Push Upstairs

07-19-2005, 03:30 AM

I remember playing "The 7th Guest" and always having this feeling that some ghost or something was going to pop out and kill my character.

I guess all those years of playing "Translvania" on Apple //c had an effect on me. LOL

I'm not really ashamed of this, but there is a enemy in the game "Blood" that always makes me jump the first time it shows up. The 2nd episode had some levels inspiried by "The Shining" (winter empty hotels/giant houses) and in those levels there is a ghost baddie that can go from being "there" to "not there" but still be seen. Anyway, when this thing sees you it lets out this horrible scream that always makes me jump.

Cauterize

07-19-2005, 04:21 AM

Heh i posted a story similar a while back...

back in the day, in 1996, i was 10 years old, i didnt have a games console, my parents always got me computers.. (Spectrum, Amiga and PC) as you could pick up the games so much cheaper and easier back then...

anyways i remeber getting the PC Format magagazine as i usually did to get the game demos...
there was a demo for resident evil on it, and i had heard that this game was meant to be quite scary, and as it had a 15 rating, it had a cool factor with me being 10! (very sad i know, but weve all been there wether it be films etc...!)

So i invited my best friend James over to check it out with me, we popped in the disc, installed the demo and ran the game...

the title screen was a little chilling saying "Resident Evil"...

we played through the first few minutes and thought.. "whats all the fuss about? were not scared" ...then it came to the first zombie encounter with the FMV Sequence of it eating the STARS Member... this slightly scared me, but deep down i thought "Its only a game! Its only a game!" so we blew the crap outta this zombie and carried on....

the door sequences also sent a shiver down my spine, as the slow openin of the door mixed with the creaking can really scare a 10 year old!!!

so we eventually got to the part where your team splits up and goes missing and you have to check the opposite room... casually walking down the corridoor... then BAM!

two high pitched undeveloped voices start screaming!

my mum comes running in to see if were ok

...the zombie dog had smashed thru the window in the small coridoor and scared the daylights out of me and james!!!!

we hit alt+F4, quit the game and i didnt play it again... i just stuck to monkey island and my favourites for a long long time...

..until today, ive decided to finally confront it on the Sega Saturn, as i recently got it quite cheap... so if anyone hears a scream near by, dont panic its only me!

i just thought id share this gaming memory with you all....

Now ive finished all the Resident Evils and probably consider them as on of my favourite games :)

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=43753

Adam

Veepa

07-19-2005, 04:37 AM

For some reason, when I was young, I was afraid of the intro to Fester's Quest for the NES. The bit where it shows Fester on the roof, and the UFO drifts by.. and then Fester turns and takes his sunglasses off.. and that damn creepy music. It was just so damn eerie.. and when I was young I was convinced that there was some outside intruders (like aliens) that wanted to get me.

McBacon

07-19-2005, 04:41 AM

1. Wizzrobes in the Wind Waker. They are like, parrot... things, and they laugh and scare the hell out of me.

2. The Pyramid Sphinx in Power Stone 2, so wierd.

Teo

07-19-2005, 05:31 AM

I know the fear just about exploded out of me when those zombie dogs broke throgh the hal window in RE1 but that's not to be ashamed of actually.

roushimsx

07-19-2005, 05:57 AM

I am incapable of finishing the game "Thief" for PC because of the level "Return To The Cathedral", which is mission 18 or some such.

The first time you encountered the cathedral was in a much earlier mission and THAT was scarry as hell (really showcasing the great audio work in the game), with a hammer spirit chasing you and The Eye taunting you...man...that was crazy....but "Return to the Cathedral" is hands down one of the scarriest levels (if not THE scarriest) I've ever played in any game. ever.

System Shock 2 was also an insanely scary game. Again, a large part of it was the amazing audio work (Irrational and Looking Glass did some amazing things with The Dark Engine :( ), which featured fantastic, haunting voice acting.

Glory to the many. I am a voice in their choir. (http://themany.ytmnd.com/)

heybtbm

07-19-2005, 07:40 AM

I wouldn't say I'm ashamed, but there's a room in the water temple (from Zelda OOT) where there's this dragon head statue under the water. You have to swim past it...very creepy. I've never heard anyone else mention this particular part of OOT, so I guess it's just me.

Also, any section of RE4 with a chainsaw guy/gal is terrifying. There were so many times that I had to take a break and stop playing RE4 when my nerves were shot.

Aaron.

Gemini-Phoenix

07-19-2005, 07:48 AM

I'm not ashamed to say that everytime I play the very first Resi game, those dogs which jump through the window shit me up. Every. Single. Time.

I know they are there, yet for some reason, the sound of the window's smashing really does me in!

Also, the sound that those Redeads make in OOT really do my head in. Especially in Super Smash Bros. Melee in the action stages...

There are also a few parts in various Legacy Of Kain games where it scares the crap out of me.

Parasite Eve II - That moment after the shower scene where that massive monster shows up with the gun in it's mouth! Truly scary shit the first time you se it ~ Especially as you just get relaxed watching a nice nekkid shower scene...

Also, those horse-like things just after (When you enter the mines) are pretty freaky too.

jajaja

07-19-2005, 07:53 AM

I never liked horror games like Silent Hill and stuff. Hate psyko stuff. But I aint ashamed of it.
Remember when I bought a Resident Evil game for PSX, think it was RE2, I returned it because I thought it was scary hehe. Im not ashamed of it tho. Can tell it everyone if I want.

Yago

07-19-2005, 08:24 AM

I am in the mood now, I have not played Silent Hill and would probably get it for the PC, should I get the first one first then work my way down the sequels? Does the story carry over from one game or the next or can I just jump into 2 with no probs? Just curious.

BrokenFlight

07-19-2005, 08:33 AM

When I was 10 or 11 I was playing Tomb Raider. I got a few levels in and was walking around, as you do. Suddenly a tyranosaurus rex came running out of nowhere and started attacking me. I tried shooting it but it kept getting me and I died. I nearly had a heart attack through a mix of excitement and fear.

Looking back on it I shouldn't have been so scared over something so blocky, but I was only 10 or 11.

When I was 15 I played a Silent Hill demo. That was creepy and made me not want to buy the game. Since then I haven't played any scary games. I'm probably mature enough to not get scared from a game now. Maybe excited, but not scared.

Graham Mitchell

07-19-2005, 08:51 AM

There are some things about Snatcher that have gotten to me. All of the little medical facts concerning the malignant melanomas that the Snatchers get are pretty accurate. If you understand anything that they're talking about, you tend to get pretty wrapped up in it. The very thought of the Snatchers taking over an abandoned hospital, running the cyclotron and performing their own sugeries and tumor resections makes my skin crawl.

Slimedog

07-19-2005, 09:43 AM

The Silent Hill series scares me in a good way.

There is one specific situation that gives me the willies on sort of a primal level. Any 3D game (either first or third person) that makes me fight enemies while swimming. Like an FPS that has me fighting pirannahs or sharks underwater. I actually had to pause Shadows of the Empire and psych up for about 5 minutes before I could fight the Dionaga boss in the sewers. Oddly, I'm not hydrophobic in real life, but that situation really freaks me out.

On a more embarassing note, I actually got rid of Metroid as a little kid because I was scared by (*drum roll*) the title screen music! It gave me nightmares. Glad I got over that one. :embarrassed:

legov8

07-19-2005, 10:33 AM

Bowser's Castle from Mario Kart 64. (I was only 7)

Lothars

07-19-2005, 11:05 AM

Well the times I can think of is when playing any Resident Evil and Whenever something had jumped out from the windows

I always keep jumping in those situations

but I find that in resident evil 4 with the chainsaw men/women

that when i know they are coming I start to panic and prepare the best I can but always seem to be scared of them

though I still love Resident Evil games though

I've been wanting to play the silent hill games but I haven't as of yet.

Gemini-Phoenix

07-19-2005, 11:10 AM

Silent Hill is the all time scariest game. Theres a bit near the beginning of Silent Hill I where you are walking down a narrow passageway, and past a shopping trolley, and then it's a dead end... You turn around and then suddenly this freaky baby / child is there...

(Ok, it's been a while since I played it, but that's how I remember it anyway)

And I do remember that the ending is a bit horrific as well - Depending on which ending you get that is...

Silent Hill is the game of the devil I tells ya!

Crush Crawfish

07-19-2005, 03:01 PM

Super Metroid used to scare the living hell out of me when I was younger. Hell, just the title screen alone (with the dead scientists lying by the metroid) used to creep me out.

The music in that game is what really makes it unsettling...it really does an excellent job of making you feel like you're alone on a hostile alien planet.

Wow, I really feel like playing it all of a sudden. :D

Stark

07-19-2005, 03:10 PM

Well a long time ago I was playing Duke Nukem 3D on the PC for the first time. It was late at night so I had my speakers turned down but not all the way and the lights off. I was walking through this cave type area and came up on an altar of some sort. So I was looking for enemies to kill and saw none. I slowly walked up near the altar and whooooosissshhhhheeeeee HOLY CRAP! I jumped out of my chair! The spooky background noise was unexpected and unique and I was not prepared for that. I'll never forget that moment. 8-)

Cantaloup

07-19-2005, 04:10 PM

Aliens vs. Predator (the PC/Mac version) scares me, especially when playing as the marine. Even Alien 3 for SNES scares me somewhat. I've never completed either game. I guess the Aliens just freak me out.

I tried playing the Silent Hill 4 demo, but couldn't take it for more than about 5 minutes.

When I was younger, Haunted House for the 2600 used to scare me.

MegaDrive20XX

07-19-2005, 04:13 PM

Good timing for this thread. I just finished Silent Hill 1 today. Now that still scares the piss out of me by far.

Rooms that mess with your head...like the tapping on the glass from outside...or bizarre animal-like noises that you cannot figure out at all.

Hit a switch and you hear a low low growl. Doesn't the feeling that you did something correct feel good...or is it? Set in the pit of your stomach....that's pure fear buddy, as fresh as lemons...and just as sour...

Scariest moments come from Resident Evil, Clock Tower, and Silent Hill series.

I remember playing the SFC import of Clock Tower...I didn't know what was going on...but man even with no english, I could understand the terror the girl was going through

Also, "The 11th Hour" that Mansion creeps me out too. I felt something was going to attack me.. Yet luckily nothing major happens, just figuring out mind-boggling puzzles.

As for Resident Evil....scariest moments...mostly from RE1...Like the dogs popping out of the windows...the first time I saw a Hunter I really freaked out and I didn't know what to do...

The first battle with the Tyrant...that tripped me out...I was running like a chicken with his head cut off...

At the moment, Silent Hill 4 scares the living HELL out of me...because that one scene where Henry is looking through the hole in his apartment...and that scary ass Rabbit from Silent Hill 3 is sitting on the bed...all of a sudden you hear the phone ring....and the rabbit sits up.....looks RIGHT AT YOU and tells you to pick up the phone....I nearly crapped my pants!

b0bby

07-19-2005, 05:09 PM

the beginning of resident evil 0 in the train :eek 2: dude i was scared

Graham Mitchell

07-19-2005, 06:13 PM

Have any of you played Sweet Home? It's sort of the inspiration for Resident Evil. It was developed by Capcom for the Famicom, but there are translated ROM hacks out there playable on NES emulators. There was a U.S. version planned, but Nintendo decided it was just too much to unleash on poor little Susie and Johnny American. I actually find Sweet Home to be one of the scarriest games ever because it depends way less on cheap thrills and sudden loud noises. Like a book, the game tends to describe horrific things, or give you little 8-bit depictions of them such that you have to use your imagination to fill in the rest. Believe me, it's much scarier that way. That's why reading horror novels are much more disturbing than watching movies, because the visuals you create are your own, and you tend to go for things that are particularly disturbing to you.

Even the plot of Sweet Home gives me the creeps. I haven't gotten to this point in the game yet, but apparently you reach an incinerator where you can still hear the cries of a child that was thrown into the fire and burned alive. @_@

sabre2922

07-20-2005, 02:45 AM

The skinless children things in Silent Hill 1 always FREAK ME OUT @_@ plus I always hated school anyway thinking about going back to it gives me nightmares as it is LOL

Memblers

07-20-2005, 03:44 AM

I remember playing Drakkhen on SNES when it was new, that game seemed very creepy.

It used to scare me, walking around at night with calm music playing.. suddenly the stars shift around and form into a giant flying creature that comes down and often does one-hit kills on your party.

And these metal things in the ground, I used to assume they were grave makers. If you bump into them, a tall, all-black figure would climb out of the ground and attack while it played some freaky music. Not to mention those giant black cat heads that would shoot beams from their eyes. Damn.

Probably the only game I've played anytime recently that scared me was X-COM UFO Defense (PC). Sounds kinda strange to say, heh. If you name your team members and get attached to them.. Maybe someone who's played the game a lot would understand the suspense, heheh.

Daniel Thomas

07-20-2005, 03:53 AM

As a kid, that spider's den in Raiders of the Lost Ark always freaked me out. You'd get stuck on a web and that spider would spit out of nowhere.

Mountain King had the very same thing. Big spider at the very bottom. Bam! Is there a connection there? I get along with bugs now.

But the game that always jolted me was Slime World. Those damn giant teeth! You walk along, minding your own business, and BAM! The giant teeth get you. It put the zap on me every single time. And after getting that split second of fear, you feel like an idiot for falling for it every time.

Ah, good fun.

DTJAAAAMJSLM

07-20-2005, 05:13 AM

- Night scenes in Castlevania 2

- The skeleton lady in Uninvited

- Jason and his mother's head in Friday The 13th

Graham Mitchell

07-20-2005, 08:33 AM

evildead2099

07-20-2005, 11:41 AM

I remember playing "The 7th Guest" and always having this feeling that some ghost or something was going to pop out and kill my character.

The 7th Guest seemed pretty scarry when I first played it as well.

Ever play Zork Nemesis? That game scared the SHIT out of me - there was just something vaguely Satanic about it. Unlike Doom, it didn't throw it all out in your face; it was subtle, like it was trying to take over your mind and senses.
x_x

evildead2099

07-20-2005, 11:43 AM

diskoboy

07-20-2005, 11:59 AM

Sinistar used to scare me when I first saw the game. Him, and that one eyed freak from Space Fury. He still scares me. :D

Milk

07-20-2005, 01:11 PM

The Space Harrier arcade machine frightened me so much as a child that I never had the courage to play it. It was just too weird for me to stomach.

tritium

07-20-2005, 01:29 PM

Wow, I realy have to dig far back to get all the biggies.

Atari 2600
Berzerk.
The sound it made when you died scared the crap out of me, I must've been about 4 or 5.

NES
Metroid.
Just a creepy atmosphere, and some of the areas were so weird and creepy that when something jumped at me, I jumped.

PC
Under a Killing Moon
A dead clown skull in a vat of acid. Nice.

PC
Doom
The first time I saw the barons of hell.... end of episode 1, scared the crap out of me.

PC
Doom 2
I tink its level 18 or 19 or so, there's a place thats mapped out like a small town with buildings. In one of the buildings there's a wall with eyes on it. Its just a texture (I edited the level to find out), but the first time I saw it, I blew 90% of my amo at it.

Gamecube
Resident Evil Zero
Stupid stuff jumping out of fridges, and windows... damn unfair I tell ya!

Dreamcast
Ilbleed
My heart started beating faster than the character in the game, I played for about 8 minutes before I just gave up.

PC
Quake
About the 4th or 5th level, this giant boss monster jumps out at you, eventually it becomes a regular monster, but its a biggie.

XxMe2NiKxX

07-20-2005, 01:43 PM

I've never been scared of a game, knowing full well that I was always in control of the situation and that none of it is real; I could make it all go away by pressing the power button. This is why I've also never been scared by a movie or a book.

Cmosfm

07-20-2005, 01:45 PM

Bowser in the originall Super Mario Bros. scared the CRAP outta me as a kid.

Nowadays Silent Hill games scare the bejeezus outta me.

Another kind of scare I get is from games like Sonic Heroes, when you're waaaay up high in the air and grinding on rails and such, and one slip and you're dead...They get my heart racing and I am in constant fear that I'm gonna fall.

DogP

07-20-2005, 01:50 PM

It always seemed to be the music that creeped me out... The two games that I remember freaking me out was the dungeon music in Dragon Warrior (NES), and parts of Deja Vu (NES), when the music sped up and had that creepy tone (usually when the guy starts remembering something, or something big was about to happen).

It never kept me from playing the games, although I'm not sure that I would have picked those games to play some night that I has home alone :P .

DogP

The Plucky Little Ninja

07-20-2005, 02:03 PM

I remember when a friend of mine got his hands on the original Doom (PC). I had played wolfenstien 3-d but it didn't have squat on Doom.

With all the 2-d games we'd grown up with, if an enemy wasn't on screen it didn't exist. There was nothing like walking through those hallways and hearing those pink demons howling in the distance, knowing they could be around any corner.

Red Hedgehog

07-21-2005, 12:43 AM

When I was 5 or 6 (or maybe even 7), there was a game my dad had gotten me for the Apple ][. I don't remember its name. I think it was a sort of RPG or action RPG. You would go into various rooms that were in a sort of overhead/diagonal view perspective (you could see the floor and where all the exits were). The first few rooms were empty or had enemies you could easily kill, but pretty soon you got to rooms with things like a mummy or a vampire or a giant spider, or lots of little spiders and all that completely freaked me out. I would quickly run from that room, back to the hallway, try another room, and find something just as scary. I ended up running away from the computer. My parents were so concerned about my reaction to this game that they took it from me (and eventually threw it away, much to my dismay when I got older and wanted to play it again).

I found Uninvited pretty scary. I played a demo of it on the Mac and the Southern skeleton lady scared me, as did the skull scenes describing what you were thinking that came up when you took too long. I was a little older and a little less scared when I played the NES version, but when the music became the "anxious" theme, I still got scared.

Pathways into Darkness for the Mac also got to me. It had such a dark atmosphere with all these ghastly characters that would seem to sneak up on you and make creepy noises. Especially the spectres as they were black and translucent, so hard to see, so often the first warning you got was their moan when they started to drain your health.

Ernster

07-21-2005, 01:04 AM

Resident Evil Remake (GC) I was walking and this dog comes crashing through the window, i was playing in the dark and had sound full blast, and i screamed out loud LOL

OdSquad64

07-21-2005, 01:19 AM

All of the Resident Evil games scared me, also Silent Hill 2 is pretty scary when you're alone. The little doll things in sweet home are freaky at night time. And when i was a baby the snake head thing in Mega Man 3 scared me.

Also, was i the only one whe found Luigi's Mansion to be quite frightening at times?

Cmosfm

07-21-2005, 10:46 AM

phreak97

07-21-2005, 11:12 AM

i know there have been a bunch of games which have had me scared, but not with true fear, it feels like some kind of synthetic fear somehow. like it's there, but at the same time theres the canceling feeling that it's just a game. the most fear i have got from a game was when i was younger playing quake 2 on n64.. there was one enemy in particular that scared the crap out of me.. (a something tank?)

Lord Contaminous

07-21-2005, 01:00 PM

>The intro to Contra III: The Alien Wars

>The game over screen of "Adventures of Bayou Billy"

>I don't know why, but there's something about that intro music to Die Hard on NES that kinda gives me the creeps. It's one of those tunes that you don't want playing in your head if you have to simply walk to your car to get something or take out the trash at night and you forgot to turn the floodlights on.

>The Ninja Gaiden series. I used to get scared looking at the villains' face close-ups in the cut cinemas. When I was 11 years old, H.P. Clancy (Ninja Gaiden III) did me in the worst. The more levels of evil he underwent, the scarier he looked with those transformations. Let's see...

Level 1: Your normal average human
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Level 2: Pale-blue-faced crack addict.
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Level 3: Psychotic Alien
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/Oldschoolage/3.png

Level 4: The "H.R. Giger Chestburster"
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Level 5: Giant Mech
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