Silent Hil 1, Resident Evil 1 (Original) I was 7 Clock Tower 2, I think.
All of them are PS1 titles maybe it's because games today are not as scary as games from years ago OR maybe I've grown older to be able to take on scary games.
Doom 3, AVP as Marine, Condemned wasnt scary but it had that atmosphere that kept you on edge. Dead Space first 3 levels (4 - 12 levels were just action oriented)
Silent Hill 1 - This game is still scary the sound of the radio going off and then your left wondering whats coming to get you it's still one of the best horror games I've ever played it's a shame the recent Silent Hill games just aren't that good it's a shame Team Silent don't make it anymore.
Project Zero 2 (Fatal Frame 2) - Good game it was scary especially when ghosts just come out of no where I like the whole storyline with the twins best Fatal Frame game out of the 3.
Siren Blood Curse - The atmosphere to this game is good but it's actually the werid music that makes it scary.
I've only played the Silent Hill and Resident Evil games. So here's my top 3:
1. Silent Hill 2
2. Silent Hill 4
3. Resident Evil remake for the Gamecube
Honorable mention: Under the Well and Shadow Temple from OOT Master Quest. Why Master Quest? Because I hadno f$&#ing clue what to do or where to go. I ran around like an idiot looking for that one key I was missing in the Shadow Temple for like an hour and at the time it was like 2 or 3 am which made it scary.
Resident Evil in 1996 - dogs jumping through the window made me jump.
Doom III (made extra scary by a spider climbing down from the ceiling above my monitor at the same time I was playing the level where you first come into contact with the spider/head things - seriously)
Max Payne - the 'nightmare' levels were pretty creepy.
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FEAR had it's moments, and so did Condemned: Criminal Origins.
The last game to truly make me jump was Dead space, brilliant game, before that would be Doom 3. but thinking back to when i first played resident evil, when i opened the mansion door only for a dog to pop it's head in biting, that was probably the first time a game ever scared me and i sure as hell didnt expect it, i was like 7 at the time as well :\ (playing it nowadays though it has to be the worst zombie dog graphics i've ever seen haha) then there's the very start of silent hill when you're chasing after meryl with a lighter and you come across that freaky ass wheelchair and then the hospital bed... *shivers* i remember playing the demo of it and it had these little white monsters with knives but when i got the full game they were little brown and red things with massive heads.. can anyone tell me if the american version kept the little white dudes? cuz they were far creepier! lesser known scary games would be call of chtulu, one of my fave games, such an atmosphere, i complete it like once a year now. another underrated one would be alone in the dark 4 (the new nightmare, not that recent embarassment), or maybe its just my memory of it being really creepy, it's been a good 6-7 years since i played it. and of course there's the project zero's, great games. scary games i own but havent played yet are haunting ground, forbidden siren 1 and 2, clock tower 3, curse: eye of isis, resident evil 0, and eternal darkness, so even though i cant recommend them yet, i'd like to put 'em across and hear people opinions on them :D
"Doom 3" made me SO uptight, "Eternal Darkness" showed me great hallucination simulation, "Call of C'Thulhu: Dark Corners" for allowing me to live through "Shadow over Innsmouth" (but I'm a Lovecraft nut) - The escape from the Gilman House made me crazy with fear, and most-definitely "SIREN" on the PS2... it out-"Silent Hill"s "Silent Hill" in terms of feeling out of your depth and barely able to stay in control. Nothing worse than sight-jacking a zombie only to see yourself not hidden-enough from it's sight. The graphics and cut scenes alone were enough to put you on edge.
haha yeah i did actually play a bit of forbidden siren, absolutely loved the feel of it, i dunno about the american copy of it but the pal had absolutely awful english voice acting with no option of japanese which was a major bummer, also, i got a good few levels in and i must of done something wrong because i was put back a good few levels, definately gonna start it over again after summer :P and yeah i love anything lovecraft related that ive been exposed to, films like dagon, reanimator etc. him being a total racist kinda put me off reading any of his works tho!
haha yeah i did actually play a bit of forbidden siren, absolutely loved the feel of it, i dunno about the american copy of it but the pal had absolutely awful english voice acting with no option of japanese which was a major bummer, also, i got a good few levels in and i must of done something wrong because i was put back a good few levels, definately gonna start it over again after summer :P and yeah i love anything lovecraft related that ive been exposed to, films like dagon, reanimator etc. him being a total racist kinda put me off reading any of his works tho!urotsukidoji69
"Siren" did have what sounded like proper English actors doing the voices when I played it... not the most ideal accent for the game but I didn't think it was horrible or anything... and Lovecraft spent the majority of his life around the turn of the 20th century, most writers were similarly stunted in their racial outlook. Try to get around it, the stories are 99% free of racial commentary (seriously - I think there are two or three instances tops in over 50 stories) and influenced every great horror novelist who came after him with the concepts and imagery he created. Like Poe, Welles, Stevenson, and many others, his writing is foundation for all that you see today and often predicted turns of science and space travel decades and decades before their fruition.
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