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Screw ghosts, clones and creepy little girls i would have happily walked through a lake of Goddamn fire to stick the shotgun down him goddamn throat and pull the trigger.
The only game I can think of off the top of my head that scares the crap out of me today is Condemned. I refuse to play that alone.
The first Silent Hill scared the crap out of me through the whole game the first few times I played through it, but by the time I was done I had that whole placed mapped out in my mind, to include where all the enemies were.
Abso-freaking-lutely. This was the first game that ever really scared the hell out of me.
Also, as others have said, V:tM in a couple different areas and Fatal Frame 2.
And the tension system(when the main character starts to panic) is insane. The screen goes dim, starts flashing red, rapid heartbeats, the works.
Well in Clock Tower there was just one badguy and he wasn't even big, he looked like a tiny old man wrapped in a robe with these huge scissors who slowly shuffled around, following you. It sounds dumb on paper but it made for some pretty goddamn tense moments, especially running into a bathroom and hiding in a stall.
At night. And I wasn't stoned so much as I was coming down from a joint. Usually I'm so at ease that nothing gets the adrenalin goi-- WHYISTHATBLACKOILTHINGRUNNINGTOWARDSME.
The masochist inside compells me to buy this. But my import of Siren is due any moment...
And as for Bioshock...
Sure the general consensus was that the level design for the Little Sister orphanage and the Big Daddy "centres" were boring compared to the WTF of prior areas (Medical Wing, Fort Frolic, even the Metropolis-inspired engineering section), but there was something so off about the bland, office/hospital cubicle feel of the research areas.
These were real people they were strapping onto those giant crucifix things and merging their skin to the Big Daddy armour but the entire area made it seem so... Matter of fact. Distant. That sense of detachment when staring at the aforementioned crucifixotrons and the Sister cells was so chilling. I wanted to get out of there FAST. And bee-punch a certain bastard in disguise.
You gotta remember that up to this point the best 3D game out there had been Castle Wolfenstein, so 3D gaming was in its infancy at best. I hadn't had a sound card for that long either, so even the cutting edge games were still making pathetic bleeps and bloops.
So to keep from waking my parents, I put on my headphones and typed "doom.exe" at the prompt. The menu comes up looking rather sinister, and I start a new game. I'm oohing and ahhing the graphics when I hear a "ggggggggrrrrrrrrrrglglglgle" noise to my right. I jumped in my chair and looked around the basement expecting to see some kind of vicious attack dog or something. After several of these noises, it finally dawns on me that it's the game and not anything in the room with me. Still, it didn't really prepare me for the "AHHHHH! WHAT THE CRAP IS THAT?" moment when the first demon launched a fireball at me. I was so unprepared, and it scared the bejeebus out of me. I quit the game and went to bed vowing to play it when I wasn't so tired and when it was daylight so I could reassure myself it was just a game.
I still have a copy of the (UK) PC Gamer that had the Doom 1 shareware demo.
On two 3.5" disks.
Nothing prepared me for my first run in with a pinky demon. Or a Hell Knight.
The first ever game to freak me the fuck right out was, of course, the first Alone In The Dark. The proto-3D-survival-horror-daddy of them all. The Lovecraftian terror. The graphics (at the time that shit was CUTTING EDGE), the forced camera angles, the fact every room was guaranteed to be filled with terror.
Awesome. This has been on my hold list for awhile now, but it sounds like it needs to get promoted.
Clock Tower movie? Has potential for awesome. But they have to have to music that plays whenever that jerk shows up in the room with you, because seriously, AGHAHSHGHSGH
Calling terrible now.
It's also really funny to watch a Let's Play of on Youtube, if nothing else than because of the never ending click of her heels on the ground.
clicka clicka clicka clicka
I swear, according to the sound design in that game, the lead protagonist is wearing tap shoes.
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However, I think I'm going to go buy it now
[€dit] This is the video I saw; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOUcFD31VmQ
It really is one of THE most atmospheric games ever. If you haven' played, you should definitely give it a go.
Even on the third playthrough when I decided to put
Also, fuck those BEHIND YOU scares in Bioshock. I played those bits with my eyes closed second time around.
Clock Tower already has a movie.
It's called Phenomena.
Hmmm.
Good point, actually.
Though the insects don't quite fit.
Replaced with crows in the game.
You had holy water to stun them, then halfway through the chase, you transform into Sailor Moon and punish them with Moon Bow Power.
The first time I played it however, was scary in a good way. Nothing really got to me too much except the dogs, the first time the ganado's head splits open, and of course, the fucking regenerators were terrifying.
REmake however, is a game I cannot finish because it scares me too much. I would like to play this game, but I can't. I'm quite sure it's the crimson heads, that doubt they instill is wrong.
I had no problems with Re2,3,0 and Veronica though.
In conclusion: Fuck Crimson Heads and Regenerators.
The Transformers Fandom: Consistantly bitching about something or another since 1984.
http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/03/28/warbot_001/ - "WARBOT In Accounting"
He was the most brilliant character in the game, I really hope he or someone like him comes back in the sequel.
There are few in-game civilian characters (as characters, not because of gameplay mechanics) that irritate me so much that I genuinely want to throw them out the nearest window, but he was definitely one of them.
Favourite part was when you were sneaking along the corridors, you see a discarded cheetos packet on the floor and that music cue plays, and you just know that colossal jerk is hiding around the next corner.
Two words: Lisa Trevor.
By far the most horrific thing in any of the Resident Evil games.
Both Yawn and Neptune are fucking terrifying in that game.
Even the box art is pretty scary, and awesome.
haha
I didn't even see the shadow. I wasn't paying attention and just turned around and he was like
"Yo.." or something.
I screamed "WHOAAA!" and then almost lost my controller before I recovered and started blind firing with my pistol.
I rented resident evil 2 on n64 when I was a kid and got to the police station. I saw the thing run across the window in the hall way. Slowly opened the door and saw the headless cop with the licker over him. I closed my eyes and killed it and immediately turned it off. Then so I wouldn't look like a wuss to my parents(who are religious) I told them that the game was demonic and had demons and devils and they took it back.
Yep. Thats how lame I was.
Oh and clock tower for snes. That part where the hand comes out of the mirror. I crapped my pants.
It looks like Condemned 2 wont be coming out on the PC though
I hear that.
I missed all the hype and reviews and everything for REmake and i'd only briefly played the original.
I remember scoffing when i got the petrol container thinking it would have no obvious use, then just walking past a zombie i'd killed ages ago, with low health and no ammo and it gets the fuck back up.
Cue me running like a scared girl screaming OHHHGODGETITAWAYFROMMEJESUSJESUSJESUSJESUS.....
From then on i burned everything.
Celeste [Switch] - She'll be wrestling with inner demons when she comes...
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age [Switch] - Sit down and watch our game play itself
Yeah, screw that.
Those and those blind claw guys. I can't tell you how often those guys were in the room and I sat in one spot thinking, "Ok, if I don't move they can't find me...don't move, don't move...SHIT HE SMELLS ME! HE'S GONNA KILL ME AHHHH RUN! SHIT THEY BOTH HEAR ME OHMYGAWDIMGONNADIESHITSHITSHIT!"
edit: Also, thanks to this thread I've been remembering all those times in video games that have scared the life out of me. All those repressed memories are slowly coming back....thanks.
The bit in Condemned 2 that stands out in my mind was a really simple scripted moment, but basically in the.. hotel, I think
So, that was fun.
Don't read if you've not played through the hotel in Condemned 2.
I can't wait to play the second one as well.
YES
The Darkness and now Condemned, you are indeed a good man.
And some parts were incredibly atmospheric.