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 Thats some scary stuff, especially with
a Really good sound system (read: SUBWOOFER)

[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.



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!! >)

[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.

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.