Scariest Game?

Im kind of new to PC games so i know absolutely nothing about them....

Whats the scariest game? And i mean like psychologicaly scary, good story, creepy settings, stuff like that.....not BLLAAHHHHH shock factor scary, i think those are just dumb

Im assuming PC has the most amount of these kind of games.....what are some good ones?

And i cant run anything really high end....my computer can handle Battlefield 2 the most, so anything under that i should be able to play....what would be the best one?

Oh yeah, figured i should mention my favorite game ive ever played is Indigo Prophecy/Farenheit....i love those kind of games, i guess you'd call it an adventure game, any kind of games like that?

I played STALKER and that game wasn't scary, it had few moments I jumped but not truly scared.pwilletts

I agree. STALKER isn't that scary.

Try Undying.

Wow you guys are weak those are nothng play S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl. That game will make you **** your pants, especially if at the crossraods near the end you choose to go through the woods, I got a concussion playing that game,lol. one guy jumped out and I fell off my chair smashed my head on the floor and passed out. Good times.Starcraft012694

:lol: That made my day.

Wow you guys are weak those are nothng play S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl. That game will make you **** your pants, especially if at the crossraods near the end you choose to go through the woods, I got a concussion playing that game,lol. one guy jumped out and I fell off my chair smashed my head on the floor and passed out. Good times.Starcraft012694

Well that sounds like a complete fabrication.... If its not, pull your thumb out of your mouth. STALKER isn't scary, its just got great atmosphere and some ugly mutants. Don't get me wrong, i LOVE stalker, but come on.

I really cant think of a truly frightening pc game.... Save the port of silent hill 3. That game is scary.

WTF? nobody mentioned F.E.A.R?

It says for its name. Making u FEAR everytime u press W (walk forward).

Condemned: Criminal Origins is pretty scary from what I've heard.Swiftstrike5

system shock 2. Its old though, and hard to find.greatmax1

Try Undying.

Haee

i would say all these three

The Scariest game of all time IMO was Fatal Frame for PS2. Why? Because I played it when I was twelve.

But....

FEAR, Doom 3, Condemned, Silent Hill series and Clive Barker's undying are all fantastically errie games.

One game I'm dying to play, STALKER, is supposed to have a crreepy atmosphere. Maybe that's what you're looking for?

Also, some people claim Half-Life 2's "Ravenholm" level to be frightening..... I didn't, just a great level IMO, heavy on atmosphere too.

Thief 3: Deadly Shadows - Robbing the Cradle level. I completed it but I dont think I want to play that level again despite it being awesome ;-)

EDIT: a link to a youtube video that does a nice job of portraying what the level is about without spoiling anything. Near the end of the short video is the best part, enjoy ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srDSPtKZhfk

Yeah all of the Thief games are awesome and pretty terrifying in a subtle way. You'd have to really look around for them though.

Half-Life 2 is more of a tongue in cheek horror game and you should look at that.

Avoid Condemned....just dont. Read my review of it here on Gamepot if you want to know why I dont like it.

System Shock 2.

Undying was just boring imo... It scared me a couple of times in the beginning, sure, but playing the game became a chore after a while. I've never been as disappointed by a "classic" as I was by this one.

Aliens Vs Predator

Aliens Vs Predator 2

Condemned: Original Origins

STALKER (not really scary as such, but has a creepy atmosphere)

Up until recently I would have said System Shock 2... now, I would say S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. No other game have I ever experienced in my life where the music alone has creeped me out to the point of not wanting to continue playing. Let alone the actual visible horror elements (or in the case of Bloodsuckers, not so visible).

After I finish with Vampire: TMB (finish once... then go back to again and again and again) I will probably pick up STALKER again but it will probably be a little difficult considering how much I hate Bloodsuckers and Snorks... but I will have to tough it out, eventually.foxhound_fox

Bloodsuckers and snorks are your greatest fears? Mind controllers and pseudogiants were what freaked me out the most. The snorks were a bit disturbing at first, but once I got a good idea of how to evade them, I realized they're just like the zombies, only they're faster and make growling noises. They did continue to spook me throughout the game with their fast, out-of-the-blue attacks, but I grew out of my fear of them. Bloodsuckers I can understand a little better since there are invisible versions, and you can start feeling a little panicky when you realize you can't keep track of their tiny white dot eyes, but as long as you keep moving and stay alert while you know they're around, you should be alright.

Pseudogiants, on the other hand, can be terrible foes in confined spaces. Out in the open they're not so bad since they can't keep up with you very well (and they don't look as gigantic at a distance, somehow), but in tight spaces where you don't have a lot of room to back up, they are horribly intimidating since you know it's going to take a hellstorm of bullets to take them down and you have a limited time to fire it at them before they corner you and beat the living crap out of you. Not to mention they just look freaky as hell with their morbidly deformed bodies and lopsided faces.

And mind controllers, well, I don't think it needs to be explained why they're so frightening. While I wouldn't rate STALKER as the scariest game I've played overall (its atmosphere is nice, but it doesn't draw me in the way it seems to for a lot of people, so I'm left only feeling truly fearful at the underground lab areas), the first time I came across that mind controller in the first underground area was the closest thing to a heart attack I'd ever experienced. :P

@JP_Russel: Hey man... I'm still not very far into the game. :P Don't go spoiling all the "fun" of first meeting these things now.foxhound_fox

Oh, my mistake. But if you've already met snorks, I'd assume you've met pseudogiants and especially mind controllers as well. About how far have you gotten?

If you haven't met the first mind controller yet, well... just, um, watch your back. :lol:

Oh, my mistake. But if you've already met snorks, I'd assume you've met pseudogiants and especially mind controllers as well. About how far have you gotten?

If you haven't met the first mind controller yet, well... just, um, watch your back. :lol:

JP_Russell

[QUOTE="JP_Russell"]Oh, my mistake. But if you've already met snorks, I'd assume you've met pseudogiants and especially mind controllers as well. About how far have you gotten?

If you haven't met the first mind controller yet, well... just, um, watch your back. :lol:

foxhound_fox

If you've been to the bar and even met snorks, then you've been to the Agroprom Research Institute in the military base area, right?

I haven't played System Shock 3.Yamada_889

I can imagine, that game is quite impossible to find these days.

[QUOTE="Yamada_889"]I haven't played System Shock 3.JP_Russell

I can imagine, that game is quite impossible to find these days.

I think they call it Bioshock now

hmmm there are alot there, some that come to mind as being the scariest (atleast when i first played them and was alot younger) would be silent hill, dino crisis, resident evil.

in recent memory the only one that i felt was truly "scary" was doom 3, it had its moments.

stalker while the atmosphere was awesome and its one of my favourite games of all time wasnt really that scary, it had a few moments, like when you're in some abandoned village with creepy music and thunderstorms then suddenly you hear a mutant and then some invisible guy comes charging out of nowhere. but still its nothing compared to some of the older survival horror titles.

fear seems overrated, it was good no doubt but the "scary" moments seemed kind of predictable and cliched. some nice jump out of your seat moments were there though.

system shock 2.greatmax1

Have yet to find another game that was as creepy as that one.

If you've been to the bar and even met snorks, then you've been to the Agroprom Research Institute in the military base area, right?JP_Russell

WTF? nobody mentioned F.E.A.R?

It says for its name. Making u FEAR everytime u press W (walk forward).

Superb gameplay besides the fear factor.mac631

Fear? That game isn't scary at all. You get past the fact that basically none of the supernatural stuff hurts you until towards the end of the game, and its all good. Now extraction point, had some intense moments.

I have to go with doom 3 on nightmare though. Very intense. And as long as you don't crank your moniter up, the monsters seem to be really creepy. Gotta love the hell knight.

I know this sounds lame, but Doom 3 scared me. As a child I was absolutely terriffied of the dark, and that game sometimes makes me feel 6 years old and afraid of the dark again. I haven't played System Shock 3, or STALKER, so I wouldn't know anyhting about them. I think HL2 tried to be scary, but when headcrab zombies pop up again and again, it just gets old.Yamada_889

Yeah, half life 2 really wasn't probably just because of its difficulty. Even on hard, ravenholm is easy. Very, easy compared to cod4 on veteran. Now half life 1, that game had loads of scary moments.

Doom 3 has a great atmosphere and countless times of hellish mobs ambushes.

Doom 3 got SHOCK factor, or maybe little fear.

I stopped at HELL level coz D3 is getting repetitive.

Just my opinion. FEAR is scarer coz its supernatural elements, for me.

F.E.A.R + Expansions,

Clive Barkers Undying,

Doom 3,

Quest for Glory 4

Thats about all the ones i can think of right now.

[QUOTE="JP_Russell"]If you've been to the bar and even met snorks, then you've been to the Agroprom Research Institute in the military base area, right?foxhound_fox

Then you've already come across the first mind controller. He appeared behind you right toward the end of that underground section, in a long, dark corridor just before you came out above ground, and started hitting you with these mental attacks, these psychic waves that make a thunderclap noise and make your ears ring (in the game), and make you hallucinate a little. Surely you remember that? He looks like a mutated man with a square-ish head wearing only jeans.

Then you've already come across the first mind controller. He appeared behind you right toward the end of that underground section, in a long, dark corridor just before you came out above ground, and started hitting you with these mental attacks, these psychic waves that make a thunderclap noise and make your ears ring (in the game), and make you hallucinate a little. Surely you remember that? He looks like a mutated man with a square-ish head wearing only jeans.JP_Russell

All you guys playing stalker : Are you playing with mods installed or youre playing the stock game?greatmax1