Has A Game Ever Truly Scared You?

I'm currently playing Alan Wake and I'm underwhlemed how un-scary it all is. shadowy hillbillies and squawking crows arent scary. I havent batted an eye yet, even the random 'jump' moments are lame. pretty lackluster, boring stuff for something billed as a psychological thriller

the only games that ever made me feel really uneasy was the silent hill games. now thats atmosphere. team silent really nailed it

i was actually scared by a level in each of the resistance games which is wierd :oops:

This gen Amnesia

Resident Evil 2 was the only game that terrified me. Mind you I was very young when I played it (8-9)and I was stupid enough to think a zombie apacolypse could happen. But yeah, scared me to death.

Everything nowadays doesnt really give me any real scares. Dead Space and Resident Evil 4 were good for a jump or 2 but they were just cheap scares.

System Shock 2. The only game that scared me so badly, I have yet to finish it.

When those dogs jumped through the window in the first RE game.

No game has really scared me, but the closest thing I've experienced was in SH2, when you get the first glimpse of Pyramidhead (not the cut scene) He's behind some bars on some aisle and you have to go through a door next to those bars. I was like "Oh man wTF is that??" Kinda freaked me out the first time.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R SOC, The part in the underground labs, truly the scariest thing i've ever seen in a game.

No, its a video game. I picked the last option.:D

I'm like a solid rock.tagyhag

I haven't been scared by a game yet. Although, I haven't played Amnesia or System Shock 2.

amnesia, condemned: criminal origins, and doom 3 scared the crap out of me lol

[QUOTE="tagyhag"]I'm like a solid rock.Skittles_McGee

[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"][QUOTE="tagyhag"]I'm like a solid rock.tagyhag

Amnesia, Afraid of Monsters, and Silent Hill from what I can think of.

[QUOTE="tagyhag"][QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"] So you sit and do nothing all day?Skittles_McGee

Meh, it's not all bad, it keeps my lifestyle on a solid standing.

[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"][QUOTE="tagyhag"] Being a rock comes with perks.tagyhag

Meh, it's not all bad, it keeps my lifestyle on a solid standing.

i was actually scared by a level in each of the resistance games which is wierd :oops:

mammojo

[QUOTE="tagyhag"]

[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"] Sounds like a pretty hard life though.Skittles_McGee

Meh, it's not all bad, it keeps my lifestyle on a solid standing.

EDIT: Hope it isnt a pop culture reference that I'm missing... lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhTJYa3Cwuw

Scared the ever-loving s*** out of me when I was 7.

Almost makes me wish they would remake this game in HD. The Well and the Shadow Temple could actually be really creepy.

Also, speaking more recently....am I the only person who can easily freak himself out while playing Gary's Mod or a similar in-engine sandbox thing? Something about being alone in an empty map puts me on edge sometimes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhTJYa3Cwuw

Scared the ever-loving s*** out of me when I was 7.

Almost makes me wish they would remake this game in HD. The Well and the Shadow Temple could actually be really creepy.

Also, speaking more recently....am I the only person who can easily freak himself out while playing Gary's Mod or a similar in-engine sandbox thing? Something about being alone in an empty map puts me on edge sometimes.

Cherokee_Jack

Nightmare creatures used to scare the hell out of me, just the fact it had no music and you'd be attacked by something you didn't see

A rat in one of the underground labs in STALKER SoC. Made me waste half of my ammo and then I stumbled upon a controller =\

No game has ever scared me, or has even come close, but I'm pretty hard to scare, especially when it comes to entertainment.

As a kid:

Metroid Prime 1 and 2: the metroid labs. God, those were creepy.

Paper Mario: TTYD. The Tower of Riddles beind the Thousand Year Door.

The ambiance was unsettling, and I played it in the dark, home alone, while it was raining. 0_o

Nowadays:

Dead Space 2 demo: HOLYCRAPHOLYCRAPHOLYCRAPWHATISTHATOMGOMGOMG!!!!!1!!!!!!??!?!!!!1!!!111!!!!one!!!!

Heavy Rain: Even watching youtobe videos, I was kinda freaked out by the Doctor fight.

Siren: blood curse in First-person mode is terrifyingly immersive

Mostly just the Jump at certain moment type of scares but in my defense I do have the surround sound system lol!! I thought Alan Wake had excellent sound as did BC2. Than Dark Ascent game looks interesting.

There a are a few games where I was on the edge the entire time. For example Dead Space or Resident Evil Remake (especially when the hunters start appearing).

Two scares that I remember fairly well were from F.E.A.R.:

- One is when you go down a set of stairs and when you turn around the girl is staring right at you;

- The other is near the end of the game where a corpse gets sent flying into a glass pane in front of you. Made me unload a clip until I realized it was already dead.

Another really evil one was from REmake: the dogs don't appear where they used to appear in the original, so you go through that zone waiting for them to pop up and nothing. Then, after you go through that zone a few times, they end up jumping the same way and it gets you again...

Clive Barker's Undying was great. Resident Evil 3: Nemesis was good too.

Hmm... well if I have the volume too loud, pretty much any game with guns can make me jump, but it's surprising, not scary. Shadow of Chernobyl was a little scary in the underground parts, but I didn't really like the game. It just made me feel depressed whenever I played it. I played the demo of amnesia and got pretty scared, don't really want to buy the game right now though because I already have so many games.

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhTJYa3Cwuw

Scared the ever-loving s*** out of me when I was 7.

Almost makes me wish they would remake this game in HD. The Well and the Shadow Temple could actually be really creepy.

Also, speaking more recently....am I the only person who can easily freak himself out while playing Gary's Mod or a similar in-engine sandbox thing? Something about being alone in an empty map puts me on edge sometimes.

Arbiterisl33t69

These days, The Penumbra games made me too scared to Continue at times, and Silent Hill: Homecoming was the same, I haven't finished that for this reason, but back in the day, Tomb Raider 3 and Resident Evil 3 Scared me, in Tomb Raider's case there was always the sense of Dread, like there was something that was just around the corner that i couldn't see but was gonna eat me when I went around it.

In Resident Evil 3's case, it was the distant screams and Moans that got me frightened, I always imagined more Zombies entering the area and overpowering me, like I had No safe place to hide.

[QUOTE="tagyhag"]

[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"] Sounds like a pretty hard life though.Skittles_McGee

Meh, it's not all bad, it keeps my lifestyle on a solid standing.

[QUOTE="Skittles_McGee"][QUOTE="tagyhag"]

Meh, it's not all bad, it keeps my lifestyle on a solid standing.

ubpoker123

You're quite adamant about your standing aren't you?

None that I've played so far.

I used to cry and be horrified by the monsters in Quake 2, and I was genuinely scared in the start of Bioshock.

Dead Space has only been able to scare me, that's why I only ended the game when I came to know that a sequel is in the making. Otherwise I had decided to stop playing.