The Bioshock demo.

Horror games are my favorites, I rarely get scared when I'm playing them in a well-lit room with plenty of people around. Though when I'm alone in a poorly lit room they get a lot creepier. Eternal Darkness kept me on my toes like no other game before or since, not so much for the obvious halucinations but the more subtle ones like the phantom noises, the statue that watches you, or the walls bleeding. The first Fatal Frame was really well made too, it's the only game that had me jumping at shadows. The second game was too slow though.

Liaoriao
>.> <.< I'm scared, and still am sometimes, of any Zombie level in Timesplitters... Especially Future Perfect with the Deerhaunter... Whenever a friend would come over and select it, I'd cover my ears because I have nightmares about his voice... Seriously, I'm that wierd.
Yet I play games like Resi 4 and Fatal Frame and nothing...

"The moose is loose!"
Go on, just try tying this guy onto the roof-rack of your sports utility vehicle.

It has no skin, hooked arms and hooves... o.o

I freakin' love that character! It's a shame he's so tall, a big problem on shrink levels.

Need I say more?

Do PC games count? A game that creeps me out to this day is Amber. An hour or so in a very active haunted house with all that subtle haunting (you see a shadow from the window, and when you turn to look it's gone oo), had me kneeling by my bedside and praying for the first time in my whole life (well, I was thirteen...)

But since I'm a fan of the Myst-like games, I picked up the very spooky (but mostly boring) Scratches. The story wasn't much, but the three main scary parts kept me from sleeping for two weeks. It had me checking around corners too.

I've always been a fan of the spooky, creepy, what happens next horror rather than the blood, gore, and split second surprises (it's quiet one minute then BOOM, BLOOD, GUTS, SCREEEEEEEAM! Hate that crap, it's tacky) so I've kind of stayed away from most horror titles. I like a good story and engaging game than rather the violence and bloody parts....

...someone mentioned Clocktower... so has that stopped you from pulling back bath curtains or going into elevators? Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!

i've never really been scared of any game, but when things jump out at you in horror games it kind of freaks me out some times. one time that i really remember is in resident evil 4 when this zombie bursts out of a oven on fire. it wasn't really scary but it kind of caught me off guard.

I HATE that statue in Eternal Darkness. That mansion freaked the hell out of me and I still jump when I see the bath scene (grumbles...ruddy developers). Anyone else find that they are fine as soon as the monsters appear in a game?

Oh by the way Confused Soul- at least I didn't jump at a traffic cone on Silent Hill 2 because I thought it was Pyramid Head!

I'm pretty scared of those games on neopets.com, They make me have hella weird dreams!

Mister Mew
I'm pretty scared of those games on neopets.com, They make me have hella weird dreams!

Oh yes, maths nightmare, faerie wheel of fortune and tombola!

Resident Evil 4 was the only horror game I played, but I was more annoyed having to keep Ashley alive than scared.

I like to think I'm 'ard, but to be completely honest, Scissorman from Clocktower is one of the most terrifying video game villains ever. >> And the music that comes on when he appears is creepy too.

I was also scared of the puppet doctors in Silent Hill 1 when I was small, all the way up until about four months ago when I replayed it and discovered, if you kick them when they're down, they make grunting sounds like Tim Allen. xDDD Aghh aghh aghhhh.

What's the game with the rottweilers with the human faces? Maulers or something they're called.

The Iron Maiden Regenerators from Resi 4, too. >: I saved my rocket launcher for it, and then remembered there was another one later on. Ack.

And William Birkin from RE2. Although I'll confess to finding his 2nd stage a bit sexy (I think it's his second stage... the one with the shoulder-eye and big claw). >>

I know it isn't technically 'turning the console off', but when I first saw House of the dead in an arcade (I was about 5 or 6) I came out shaking with fear. Even now, at the age of , the zombies on House of the Dead 4 scare me.

How come nobody else has mentioned this game?

Masq
Do PC games count? A game that creeps me out to this day is Amber. An hour or so in a very active haunted house with all that subtle haunting (you see a shadow from the window, and when you turn to look it's gone oo), had me kneeling by my bedside and praying for the first time in my whole life (well, I was thirteen...)

But since I'm a fan of the Myst-like games, I picked up the very spooky (but mostly boring) Scratches. The story wasn't much, but the three main scary parts kept me from sleeping for two weeks. It had me checking around corners too.

I've always been a fan of the spooky, creepy, what happens next horror rather than the blood, gore, and split second surprises (it's quiet one minute then BOOM, BLOOD, GUTS, SCREEEEEEEAM! Hate that crap, it's tacky) so I've kind of stayed away from most horror titles. I like a good story and engaging game than rather the violence and bloody parts....

...someone mentioned Clocktower... so has that stopped you from pulling back bath curtains or going into elevators? Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Did you ever play Lighthouse? That's one of my favorite Myst-ish games, pretty creepy too.

You guys don't know SCARY until you play Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. It's one of the few fist person games that choose NOT to make you fight monsters yet you're always being visibly followed by one. Sometimes you'll see this creature jumping across rooftops or little cutscenes through the eyes of a beast that's following your trail but never attacks and it's very unnerving. It also uses a lot of special effects like having your vision and reality altered when you're afraid and the main character is afraid of heights so if you look down when up high he gets dizzy and it really adds to the atmosphere.

I think the point of this discussion has bypassed most of you. It wasn't meant to be a "This is scary because...", I meant horror games which have affected you when you aren't playing them.

the flood in halo freaked me out when i went to sleep, and i seem to remember me getting nervous when the start screen was on and that eerie music played. don't know why.

The first level in Doom 3 me immune to fear. Yes, immune to both fear and FEAR.

After the first level in Doom3, the game started to suck.

I'd have to say the scariest game I ever played was Thief Deadly Shadows. The Shale Bridge Craddle level was uber creepy! (A haunted orphanage / insane assylum).

PokeMitch
If anyone makes me fun of me for this I will hunt them down for their soul!

Haha. :)

This thread inspired me... So I downloaded the demo for Doom 3.
It sucked. Stupid bloody monster killing. Not scary, just awful.
So that was a failure -_-

Aurora Moon

Cthulhu
How can you get scared of a video game...

"AHHH! THE PIXELS! THEY'RE GOING TO GET ME!"

it's NOT THE video game, it's the IDEA. For instance, say you're playing an video game where you're trapped in an dark house where lights don't work. where you have to find clues and objects to escape before the killer gets you just like he does to your poor friends....

and then after you fhinsh playing the game for the night, and then all of a sudden there's a blackout, and you can't go anywhere, you're alone. and then it's suddenly like you're in the video game somewhat...it's the idea that some of it could really happen in real life that gets you nervous.

Here's a guy who had that happen to him.

lol that video is hilarious!

After playing Fatal Frame 2 for a few hours I was unable to sleep well for about two weeks. D8 I was miserable. And even now I can't stand the sound of a creaking door. ):

Also, I once had a nightmare because of those Redeads in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time D8.

waterdragon
After playing Fatal Frame 2 for a few hours I was unable to sleep well for about two weeks. D8 I was miserable. And even now I can't stand the sound of a creaking door. ):

Also, I once had a nightmare because of those Redeads in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time D8.

The ReDeads usd to bother me too. I think it was the scream more than anything. I had to sit with my hands over my ears watching my brother play it (Bear in mind this was a looong time ago).

On a side note, I started playing Silent Hill Origins and the PSP makes me jump more than the game. Damn irrational loud loading.

The Redeads paralysed you as well, they were like zombies only worse because you can't run away.

That video was brilliant, you have to give credit to the zombie actors for keeping a straight face.

ALL of them. O.O No, I mean...yeah. I get easily freaked out sometimes, but ghost stuff is what gets my brain shrieking long after the console is turned off. Silent Hill 1-3 had me jumpy and screaming, but SH4 had me awake for two nights afterwards, terrified of the dark.

Fatal Frame 2 scared the HELL out of me. It was because you're not actually armed with a weapon, but armed with a friggin' Camera. The game forces you into first-person perspective, so you see the ghosts coming "Right At You." It triggered two dreams for me: One where I was in a house like in the game, and was following a woman in a white kimono, only to turn one corner, and she surprised me in an attack- I woke up before she "did anything", but I had an afterimage of her standing over me when my eyes opened. THAT was fun. The other dream involved me going through my old house, which was as aged and decayed as the houses in Fatal Frame 2, and kept finding a ghost that I had to blast with my penlight to make back off.

Alone in the Dark, on the computer, scared me when I was little. The slow movement of your character, and surprising attacks that you needed to prevent by moving, say, a treasure chest over a trap door, or something. The dog crashing through the window frightened me for YEARS afterwards- I still cringe when I see a dog outside the window wherever I am.

So there's this one Capcom game on the PS2 that, like, two people have played called Haunting Ground, and no game has ever managed to scare me quite like that one. And I do play a good amount of survival horror.

The basic premise is that you're this girl named Fiona, you wake up in a castle with no recollection of who you are, and you suddenly start getting chased around by this gigantic mutant man. It really takes you a while to find out what the hell is going on. Early on, you find a dog named Hewie, who's your only means of keeping these evil stalkers at bay. And this game came out, like, two years before Rule of Rose, so it didn't copy the idea :P The story is really psychological and eerie and it just manages to engross you.

I guess what made it so scary was that you knew that there was only this one person, somewhere in the mansion, trying to find you, and when they get close to you the music stops, and you start hearing their footsteps, and you have to scramble to find a hiding place because you're helpless to fight them... and there's so much more suspense than in Clock Tower. In those games you always know that whoever's after you is going to pop out somewhere in the next room (which provides a lot of "jump" moments but hardly any real suspense), but in this game they walk around this big castle in real time so you're constantly listening and looking over your shoulder. The first few times I played it had to turn off the game because I couldn't stand it XD. Also I guess because it seemed so real. Ghosts and zombies never managed to scare me much because I know that they ain't real, but... man, that game is just creepy. I can't even explain it, you really have to play it to experience it.

Anyway, it's one of my favorite games of all time, and if you ever get the chance to you should totally try it out. It'll freak you out.

the game that always scarred me was sonic R after i heard the legend i was scared to play my sonic r game...unless i was holding my shadow doll

A game that did sort of scare me... Playing the first Tomb Raider. Into the cistern levels. The soundtrack is awesome there. You're just facing rats and crocodiles mostly but the music made me jump after hours of playing it, with the sudden shreiky noises in it that make you feel like you were being attacked by something.

Terminal
Psh, I'm always a fan of Humongous Entertainment.

QUOTED FOR ALL THAT IS TRUE.

Rest in Peace, Humongous!

As for the games that had me crapping bricks, I'd have to say Resident Evil 4, and Bishock.

RE4 wasn't all that scary to play- but I couldn't STAND getting chainsawed in the head. I wouldn't even be expecting it- then the camera would zoom out and show how I just got owned by a greasy-looking infected freak.

Bioshock. I Just got it last Christmas (finally) after months of trying to save my own money I cracked under the pressure of recieving more for the Holidays. I've gotta say, it puts real fear in my gut.

I'm not a good aim with any of the pistols at all. I end up completely missing those fast.. completely CRAZY freaks who talk to themselves and SCREAM that I've "Killed their baby". DARN GREASY HOE, I DIDN'T TOUCH YOUR BABY! EAT SHOCKWAVES YOU DEFORMED NUTS! AAAH!

The game has ALWAYS done a good job of making me feel good about killing these "people", so clobbering them in the head is a REAL relief. I curse a LOT while playing the game, especially when they try to scare you by adding deep water areas and flickering lights where you can see your enemy's shadows. AAuugAGggh.

Half-Life two also wasn't a very scary game, but you've gotta admit- the Ravenholm Level was Freaking scary all the way. I am NOT fond of headcrab zombies, in any shape or form, even the standard ones that all look the same. I've hated how they sound, too, especially when they're lit on fire. I'm pretty sure they added human-sounding voices to make you feel sorry for the zombies (which did work) but freaked out at the same time. If you haven't heard a headcrab zombie scream, just think of a screaming woman having an extremely unaturally low pitch in her voice.

Luigi's Mansion!










...not really