The Most Scariest Game You've Ever Played

I'm definately having to tip my hat towards Fatal Frame having played ALL the games already mentioned here and more.

I guess what really makes Fatal Frame scary is what you're limited to do as opposed to blowing sh-x-x apart...because of the system and the presentation employed.

I felt REALLY inadequate in the Fatal Frame series, you couldn't just blast away at things and you couldn't necessarily run/ see/ attack things right away. The ambience and use of sound through out the game I have to say beats Silent Hill, for I thought the SH was scary as in the shocking kind of fear, much like how someone mentioned Alma's utilization in F.E.A.R. Couple that in with false shocks and alerts via vibration of the controller and even vibrations to things you couldn't even see...I have to say the pressure was intense when you played the game, it always kept you on your toes. Did I mention things you couldn't see but knew were there? Damn that sister of yours (in II) and that cat in the house (III) always looking at things...not to mention you couldn't leave the other behind if you ran for it yourself!

But the only lacking thing behind the Fatal Frame series is when you got to fight the bosses...it was like: "Alright Mother F-x-x-er, you're getting this camera jammed into your face!" *Smash-Click.

The intensity builds up and then whoosh...gone, when you fight a boss/ master. Film at maximum? Check. Strongest film? Check. Upgrades? Not so much, who cares...blow the bastard away!! (Err,...take pictures of them...you get the idea...)

...I have to say also...when Resident Evil 2 came out that was pretty freaky...damn those lickers jumping or falling through sh-x-x!

there was this playstation 1 game that you in the woods and you see a house when you go in you see a mirror and you come out of it and grab yourself in then everything goes back to normal and when you go outside in the woods these weird creatures pop out of the ground

does anybody know which game im talking about???

For me i would say its

F.e.a.r

Silent Hill

and especially Condemed Criminal Origins

FallenDeath55

For me was F.E.A.R. scary

SWAT 4.

The A.I. in that, coupled with the sound effects and the tension on "Realistic" is frightening - simply because it emulates one of the most scariest things in the world - a desperate man in a desperate situation with a gun pointed at a hostage. He doesn't want to hurt the hostage, but with the stress of the situation, he is unpredictable and you carry that burden as it is YOUR responsibility for that hostage, but you are no superhero, a bullet is as deadly to you as anyone else.

So whilst not a conventional scary, it is the most tense game I have ever played - simply because it is devishly hard on Realistic settings not to mention realistic. You fear for your own life - in a way because it is an iron man save system, you can't save during the mission - and the levels can be long - very long - if you don't treat it like a regular shooter and try to arrest as opposed to kill the "bad guys".

And that's not even the horror that you are filled with when at the very end of a level that you have executed perfectly with everyone saved and no fatalities and suddenly a hostage bursts in through a door yelling - and then all the hardwork is undone in a second as you accidently squeeze the trigger in fear and kill the hostage.

No game other than SWAT has captured anything quite as scary as that for me.

Fear. Your mind is full with it. :) F.E.A.R. is the most scary game of all times. I have played RE1,2,3,4; SH2,3,4; AVP; Undying; VTMB; and many more. But FEAR is the most scary game (the Extraction Point).

You will only "FEAR" a game if you play it with understandment, and like it is a real thing. Not just some guy saying "I had enough problems at work, I am going to blast some AI creatures". Try to play your game with feelings and your mind fixed on it, and then you will be really scared, like I stood in corners in FEAR EP waiting for those noises and ghosts to go away.

Condemned/Undying.

F.E.A.R. was probably the the scariest game iv played so far (though Knights of the old republic II was pretty eerie too) but i think when Manhunt 2 comes out it will make fear look like a little girl game.

AVP1, Marine campaign in pitch black wearing headphones. That game invented scary.

Thief: the dark project, the cathedral. If you've played it you know what im talking about.

For me FEAR, their is just something about little dead kids that just scares the s**t out of me.fivex84

Sure, it's scary with dead little girls, but I got the feeling that it had already been done to death when I played F.E.A.R. You know.. The Ring, Grudge, etc. It just felt worn out, in my opinion.