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Have you ever played a game and been freaked out of your skin? Tell your stories of when games have freaked you out, made you jump, caused a shudder or a nightmare, etc. They don't necessarily have to be from horror games!


I should start off by mentioning Oregon Trail, I suppose When I was six or seven, I got so scared of my "people" dying, even though you can't see them and you just get a little message saying they died, I refused to play the game anymore or even watch my brother do it. It was too traumatizing

Another time was early in my first playthrough of ICO, before I knew how it worked. (This was shortly after you first meet Yorda.) I'd left Yorda behind to head off on my own to try to figure out how to move forward, but then I got too far away, and I heard her plaintive little gasp and the camera whipped over in that direction. But I was way too far away, so even though I started running back, heart pounding, I knew I couldn't get to her in time. And then that wave of darkness swept over me and it was Game Over, and that one incident got me so scared that I hardly ever let Yorda out of my sight after that.

There was a freaky part in Bioshock where suddenly the lights went out and I heard all these splicers rushing towards me, so I just started shooting wildly in all directions. Thank goodness I had the fire plasmid!

But the scariest experiences I've ever had have been in the game called Penumbra, which I've actually been too scared to finish ^^' It all takes place in this underground mine, it's very dimly lit, and they have such a realistic physics system that you're encouraged to react to the situations as though you're actually there. For example, in the demo of the game, I was walking down a corridor when a grate overhead suddenly fell open. There wasn't anything there, but it freaked me out so much that I immediately turned tail and ran to a closet and grabbed a broom to defend myself with, before I even stopped to think about it. And that's another thing - the complete lack of normal weapons makes this game absolutely the most terrifying game I've ever played. It's okay in most scary FPSs, because at least you have a machine gun in between you and the enemy. But in Penumbra, all you've got is like...a little hammer and whatever you can pick up around you.
Other scary moments have been a sudden scream overhead when everything had been quiet for a long time, then going upstairs to see a big bloody streak across the floor; the first time a rabid dog came running at me, snarling viciously and realistically; and whenever the creepy danger music starts playing, because it sounds like a heart pounding (to me) and makes me really tense.
There have been times in Penumbra when I've gasped really loudly or even cried aloud. Probably because I usually end up playing it when it's dark outside

I was scared of those Hands in Zelda when I was a kid. I lived in a really big house (my parents used for ministry) and I remember trying to go through the room that had my games, and seeing the outlines of hands in the dark (actually furniture, of course) and freaking out.

I was also scared of the game "Golgo 13." I used to have nightmares about the sniping scenes.

Funny thing about games that are supposed to be scary, is while they may make me jump (Mannequin scene in SH3, for instance) they haven't scared me since 2001. I borrowed my friend's PS2 and played the first hour or so of Silent Hill 2, and the walk on the path where absolutely NOTHING happens scared me, and that was the last time I was scared of a horror game in a true sense.

Other kinds of games scared me, though. Heavy Rain, most recently. I was honestly scared of Shaun dying.

Oh man, the Wall Masters freaked me the heck out in OoT. Not so much in any of their other incarnations. The Re-Dead did the same.

The game that's got me the most in all these years was Fatal Frames. Man... That game screwed with my head real hard. I have an irrational fear of ghosts anyway, though, and the camera controls were so clunky that it was like being in one of those dreams where you're trying to defend yourself or run away and your body just isn't reacting fast enough.

The first three Silent Hill games had me terrified from beginning to end. (The first one in particular is arguably the scariest game of all time.) Also, Condemned: Criminal Origins. Wow, that one's intense. I'm glad I got to finish it before my 360 died. I just really wish it would come out for the PS3 so I could play it again. Rule of Rose ( and I believe I've said this before) had some real potential, but there were just too many things wrong with it, rendering it almost unplayable.

But the first time a video game ever really scared me was Ghostbusters for the Sega Genesis. No lie. Specifically, the level where it's totally dark and all you have to see by is a flashlight with a light radius of about two feet.
Back then I was an easy scare.

Htom Sirveaux (post: 1391199) wrote:The first three Silent Hill games had me terrified from beginning to end.

I've only played SH3 and I totally agree except I still haven't beaten it yet. S'what I get for playing it in the middle of the night alone in my room with no lights on.

Pac-Man scared the heck outta me when I was kid. I still can't figure out why, I think it's the whole "run run run or you die" factor. Either way, I still refuse to touch it. ._.

That's pretty much it.

Re-deads are terrifying. XD Also? The Kakariko Village Well in Ocarina of Time and the Dead Hand? asdfffffffff. XD I'm a wuss when it comes to scary video games, but man, those used to terrify me so much. XD

The scariest game I ever played was a Christian PC game... that depicted hell.

The boss that you fight with Tiny Kong in DK 64 scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

Radical Dreamer (post: 1391201) wrote:Re-deads are terrifying. XD Also? The Kakariko Village Well in Ocarina of Time and the Dead Hand? asdfffffffff. XD I'm a wuss when it comes to scary video games, but man, those used to terrify me so much. XD

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Oh man. I freaked out so hard. Like... The second I heard that mumble moan that the Re-deads made... Or if I heard the drop from the Wallmaster. Rolling out of the way and slashing the crap out of them was really therapeutic though. I got way into it with jumping and yelling. I like conquoring (or at least beaking the snot out of) my fears.

The Chzo Mythos series.

Forget you people who go on and on about the bathroom scene in Eternal Darkness. Eternal Darkness' bathroom scene is small time. Play 5 Days a Stranger.

Of course, the goings-on in the first game are peanuts to what you have to live through in Trilby's Notes the Tall Man the Tall Man the Tall Man the Tall Man the Tall Man the Tall Man the Tall Man the Tall Man the Tall Man the Tall Man the Tall Man the Tall Man it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts.

Also those fast zombies dudes in Half Life 2. I hate those guys.

LadyRushia (post: 1391203) wrote:The boss that you fight with Tiny Kong in DK 64 scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

And then he turns invisible.

You've got to be kidding me O_O
Who on earth is insane enough to play a game like that?!?!?!?
That's... morbid... I need to avoid these threads

Eternal Darkness...just Eternal Darkness...

Alcuinus wrote:The scariest game I ever played was a Christian PC game... that depicted hell.

Why am I not surprised.

Let's not get too personal, guys.

On topic, I spent way too much time in Left For Dead yelling "AAAH GET IT OFF GET IF OFF!"

Htom Sirveaux (post: 1391218) wrote:Why am I not surprised.

Answer: You shouldn't be! lol Yup! I'm a coward when it comes to scary games.

King's Quest 2
Whenever that witch would pop into a scene and start chasing you...
Or in King's Quest 3 when you try to walk down the mountain path. I suck so bad at that. Whenever I fell off it freaked me out. I would hyperventilate and stop playing for a while.
The sudden graphical/aural stimuli during intense concentration sends me over the edge.

Alcuinus (post: 1391226) wrote:Answer: You shouldn't be! lol Yup! I'm a coward when it comes to scary games.

Maybe you should... [SIZE="1"]try the elevator. [/SIZE]

I forgot I played some Resident Evil 4 as well. Three words: zombies with chainsaws.

@Cap'n Nick & Alcuinus: That wasn't meant to be personal. It was meant to be a comment on the all-too-common "hellfire and brimstone" scare-tactic evangelism. Clive Barker himself couldn't make hell look as scary as a Christian could.

CrimsonRyu17 (post: 1391241) wrote:Maybe you should... [SIZE="1"]try the elevator. [/SIZE]

Are you kidding??? O_O
I am not clicking that link.

As long as we can keep it nice. Good job so far.

Couple other things I forgot.

Though Dark Forces technically is fairly removed from the trappings of the horror genre, I could never for the life of me EVER beat Anoat City, because the darkened lower sewers were teeming with those dianoga creatures, which scared the crap out of me as a kid. One of these days I'll have to play that game again, just so I can face them without fear.

Aside from that, I'm ashamed to admit it completely left my mind to mention Umineko no Naku Koro ni, which should easily be a shoe-in for this sort of thing. That golden breathing, man...

Alcuinus (post: 1391216) wrote:You've got to be kidding me O_O
Who on earth is insane enough to play a game like that?!?!?!?
That's... morbid... I need to avoid these threads

Some people actually like to be scared. There's a sort of thrill that accompanies it that games, better than most mediums, are able to convey. Though for my part, I'm usually not one of them since my love is suspense and tension, not the gore that's become the genre's hallmark as of late (which, I am aware, appears to run contrary to my mention of the Chzo Mythos games, excepting that choice examples, the majority of those games are tension).

I see... perhaps that explains why I don't care for roller coasters either :\

And then he turns invisible.

YES. And he has that creepy laugh. And fires laser missile electricity things at you. Guh.

Peanut (post: 1391217) wrote:Eternal Darkness...just Eternal Darkness...

Yeah that game i had to take sleeping pills to get to bed XD

Dead space is scary as well my friend can only play for like 30mins at a time without being to freaked out

Cap'n Nick (post: 1391221) wrote:Let's not get too personal, guys.

On topic, I spent way too much time in Left For Dead yelling "AAAH GET IT OFF GET IF OFF!"

At my left4dead nights at my place it used to be "AAGH! WITCH WITCH WHY DID YOU STARTLE THE WITCH AAAAGH!" Then we rented 2 and started stockpiling rocket launchers in each level. Now it's "JOCKEY'S DRAGGING ME INTO THE HOARD, DUDES!"

And then there's the tank...

Iji has the pit full of Assassins, if you're doing a pacifist run. Basically, you get chased by a bunch of very hard-to-kill enemies that teleport around constantly and fire very large guns at you. Also, it's dark. All you can see are the outlines of the platforms, and all you can hear is the constant sound of them teleporting as they chase you...

And then there's R-Type. Hairy squishmas, R-Type. It's more scary in the "those Irem guys are really messed up" way than anything else. For example, level 2 from the first game (the video is of Dimensions, an updated remake on XBLA). And then there's stage 7 from Delta. Uh, wow.

When I am sneaking in Oblivion late at night through a dungeon with headphones on. Also, back in the day Dad used to freak my sibs and I out by messing around on Tomb Raider. I told him that mummy wasn't dead. But perhaps the top was fighting the three velociprey for the first time in Monster Hunter. I still remember the feeling.
Zombie games are just disturbing. The suspense is the only thing that gets me, and that is thanks to the music XD

Oh, Siren Blood Curse. It's an episode-based PSN download. It's sort of like a combination Silent Hill/Fatal Frame/Res Evil 4. The bits where you play as the little girl are the scariest because there's nothing you can do but sneak around and hide.

Zelda 64. Oh, Zelda 64. I guess I don't really play too many scary games, but when I first fought the ghosts in Majora's Mask, I was a lot younger and it freaked me out. Now, if you look through TVTropes' Nightmare Fuel section for OoT and MM...yeah, now I've just been scarred by a kids' game. o_o;
Also, the Flood in Halo: Combat Evolved. Not so much scary, but it was still really disturbing.
One of my friends told me that RE4 is pretty scary as well. And I've seen the final battle of Earthbound against Giygas...that's REALLY disturbing.

My roommate would like me to post on her behalf:

Anything with tentacles in Zelda: The Wind Waker terrifies her. XD