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Have you ever been scare by a game/character in a game/part of a game?

I remember when I was young I used to be freaked out by the re-deads in The Legend of Zelda (Ocarina of time), same goes for the Shadow Dungeon, but I WAS only 5 or 6 at the time. (Around that age)

EDIT: Just remebered about the puppet thingies in Thief: Deadly Shadows, I hated those things.

As usual for computer-game threads: System Shock 2. Very scary indeed.

Also Thief, especially The Cradle in Thief 3.
Edit for your Edit: Do you mean the Inmates of The Cradle?

As usual for computer-game threads: System Shock 2. Very scary indeed.

Also Thief, especially The Cradle in Thief 3.
Edit for your Edit: Do you mean the Inmates of The Cradle?
Yes the cradle is where I meant, but no, not the completly black things, I mean the things with cages on them. Which can only be killed certain ways (holy water, mines etc).

I was so scared of, well everything, when i was a tiny little kid playing Doom 2 which was an 18. ;)

The Regenerators in Resident Evil 4.

Or the chainsaw ladies who pop out the walls and run shrieking at you.

Yikes.

Have you ever been scare by a game/character in a game/part of a game?

I remember when I was young I used to be freaked out by the re-deads in The Legend of Zelda (Ocarina of time), same goes for the Shadow Dungeon, but I WAS only 5 or 6 at the time. (Around that age)

EDIT: Just remebered about the puppet thingies in Thief: Deadly Shadows, I hated those things.
Scary games...

Phantasmagoira...

Fatal Frame (I Still cannot play that game at night.)

Phantasmagoira...

Fatal Frame (I Still cannot play that game at night.)

Not heard of either of them.

The first Regenerator in Resident Evil 4. At first, you think it's dead, laying on the table like that. Then you go in the next room to get a key, turn around and he's right there behind you doing that heavy breathing. I gave him a full blast with a shotgun at point blank range and found out that he moves even faster as a torso than with two legs. Scared the shit out of me the first time.

There is some pretty gruesome deaths in Resi 4.



(p.s. 100th post(finally))

Yes the cradle is where I meant, but no, not the completly black things, I mean the things with cages on them. Which can only be killed certain ways (holy water, mines etc).
Yeah, one of those terrified me... Almost blew myself up trying to kill him in my panic.
You're expecting slow, ponderous Thief-zombies, not things like that!

Not heard of either of them.
Phantasmagoria is Possibly the first TRUE horror game. if you can find the 7 disk game, I suggest you try it. and when the game asks for the 7th disk, prepare for non stop clicking.

Story:
You and your husband move into a tiny town and take up residence in a large mansion. While moving in, something buried deep inside the mansion is released and strange things start happening. You start seeing images of the mansion's original owner and the grizzily deaths that occure all over the Mansion. soon you feel that you are now being hunted by someone... perhaps your husband?

Fatal Frame (PS2)
baised on a Japanses Folk Lore/Urban Legend. your bother dissappears in a manson looking for his old professor. You enter, to find him. The mansion is riddled with ghosts and you must complete the ritual to seal the gates to the world of the dead. your only weapon: a camera that your brother had. so you first must find it.

The Silent Hill games are the creepiest, most disturbing ones I've ever played. If you're looking for genuinely creepy, frightening, but very well-made horror games, go for those.

Sounds quite hard.

EDIT: This I mean

Phantasmagoria is Possibly the first TRUE horror game. if you can find the 7 disk game, I suggest you try it. and when the game asks for the 7th disk, prepare for non stop clicking.

Story:
You and your husband move into a tiny town and take up residence in a large mansion. While moving in, something buried deep inside the mansion is released and strange things start happening. You start seeing images of the mansion's original owner and the grizzily deaths that occure all over the Mansion. soon you feel that you are now being hunted by someone... perhaps your husband?

Fatal Frame (PS2)
baised on a Japanses Folk Lore/Urban Legend. your bother dissappears in a manson looking for his old professor. You enter, to find him. The mansion is riddled with ghosts and you must complete the ritual to seal the gates to the world of the dead. your only weapon: a camera that your brother had. so you first must find it.

Doom.

Old school. You'd play for so long, it would end up being night. A pitch dark room, illuminated solely by the PC screen, and BAM! some weird shit monster starts chasing you down dark corridors.

Fr-eaky.

Doom.

Old school. You'd play for so long, it would end up being night. A pitch dark room, illuminated solely by the PC screen, and BAM! some weird shit monster starts chasing you down dark corridors.

Fr-eaky.

Ah yeah doom.

Have you ever been scare by a game/character in a game/part of a game?

Clive Barker's Undying and The Thing immediately spring to mind. And there are many many others that I have not had the opportunity to play.

Doom.

Old school. You'd play for so long, it would end up being night. A pitch dark room, illuminated solely by the PC screen, and BAM! some weird shit monster starts chasing you down dark corridors.

Fr-eaky.

Yep especially when the monsters seem to have the abiliy to follow you very slowly up corridors with out you realising, then when you stay in a small room for a while and you think everything is safe you suddenly see a huge monster open the door which freeks the shit out of you.

Sounds quite hard.

EDIT: This I mean
that's what makes em good!

hmmmm i was scared in the flood levels in halo 1 and 2:p and i hate resident evil.... or this game on xbox 360 called: condemned criminal orgins. that thing is creepy...

Doom.

Old school. You'd play for so long, it would end up being night. A pitch dark room, illuminated solely by the PC screen, and BAM! some weird shit monster starts chasing you down dark corridors.

Fr-eaky.
Yeah, definitely Doom! Even though I played it on easy mode! And like you, I ended up finishing it in the dark. At about 3AM.
Only game I rented that I chucked back before the time was up. It's a wonder I didn't break the cart (I had rented the SNES version IIRC) by zinging it so hard into the slot at Blockbuster.

After that I made sure not to play anything remotely near that level of freaky.

And to go through all that just to end up killed at the end--by script--was the purest form of bullshittery!!!

I don't know if every difficulty level had that ending, but I wasn't about to play a harder level and find out!

Fergi America']Yeah, definitely Doom! Even though I played it on easy mode! And like you, I ended up finishing it in the dark. At about 3AM.
Only game I rented that I chucked back before the time was up. It's a wonder I didn't break the cart (I had rented the SNES version IIRC) by zinging it so hard into the slot at Blockbuster.

After that I made sure not to play anything remotely near that level of freaky.

And to go through all that just to end up killed at the end--by script--was the purest form of bullshittery!!!

I don't know if every difficulty level had that ending, but I wasn't about to play a harder level and find out!
you didn't die at the end, you just ended up in hell... with a full clip of ammo!

can you say Target rich environment!

also there was still Doom 2 and 3.

the best Doom story I had was after playing the game at work, I had to go and visit a floor to fix their computer.

because People are sleeping at that time of night, I had to place my pager on Vibrate, and because I cannot feel my pager, I ususally then clip it to my coller...

now this is at a hospital... and the computer was in the nursery.

so imagine me, just after playing Doom, walking down a dark, dimly lit corridor with the cries of newborns filling the air from the Nursery in the distance...






and I get Paged...

System Shock 2. The monkeys.

Those monkeys were so scary. You would be walking down a hallway, and suddenly you hear them making monkey noises in another room. You freeze knowing they are near by. All of a sudden they start screaming and next thing you know, a group of tiny hard to hit target are shooting big blue projectiles at you.

The wost though, was when I found out the monkeys start shooting explosive blasts after being one of their targets. I had to pause the game and go take a walk I was so shaken up.

Just saw a review of Fatal Frame III... glad I made the vow never to play the game after the lights go down.

masterful use of lighting, sound and music. [shudders]

I Like how the company get's their Fatal Frame games Reviewed... it's a classic.


they rent out an entire floor of a hotel, then turn off/disable 99% of the lights. they lock each reviewer alone in a room with the game and let them play.

As usual for computer-game threads: System Shock 2. Very scary indeed.

Yup. No other game has done suspense so well.

But F.E.A.R. was pretty cool.

Phantasmagoira...

I quickly found out, however, that as horridly gory as parts of that game could be, playing it with pixelation on and HEARING what was happening was far, far worse.

There's a genre they won't do again -- live action games. :)

For atmosphere: Ocean House in Bloodlines.
Doom was good for making me jump, especially played in the dark. Doom 3 technically looks better, but doesn't have as much jump factor -- that, or since I'm --ahem-- considerably older than I was when I played Doom.....

doom and resident evil 2. and the whole jenova and sephiroth thing in final fantasy vii gave me the heebie-jeebies, especially with the music...

I quickly found out, however, that as horridly gory as parts of that game could be, playing it with pixelation on and HEARING what was happening was far, far worse.

There's a genre they won't do again -- live action games. :)

For atmosphere: Ocean House in Bloodlines.
Doom was good for making me jump, especially played in the dark. Doom 3 technically looks better, but doesn't have as much jump factor -- that, or since I'm --ahem-- considerably older than I was when I played Doom.....
You played Phantasmagoira!?!

*falls and kisses feet*

You're the first I've found here who's played that game... I thought I was alone! :(

the fun part is when you get to Disk 7... then realize you don't have all the items so you have to frantically run and find all the items while dear hubby is right on your heels.

I remember when I was young I used to be freaked out by the re-deads in The Legend of Zelda (Ocarina of time), same goes for the Shadow Dungeon, but I WAS only 5 or 6 at the time. (Around that age)
I thought I was the only one who got slightly nervous around those things...geez they were creepy. Then they got really lame in Majora's Mask (dancing when you had that one mask on? Gimme a break)

And though they didn't scare me, was anybody else seriously pissed off by the random Chozo Ghost encounters in Metroid Prime? I'm like 'STAY DEAD ALREADY!1!' What made it worse was that since you had to backtrack through different worlds to progress at certain parts (one of the qualities I liked about that game, tho) I had to face Chozo Ghosts a ridiculous amount of times.

The one enemy that has ever scared me is,well,I don't know WHY it scares me.
Barnacles- Half-Life.
And I wasn't even remotely freaked out in Silent Hill, Resident Evil, ( and I've played all the Resident Evil games), or Doom.

The one enemy that has ever scared me is,well,I don't know WHY it scares me.
Barnacles- Half-Life.


Indeed, barnacles are totally badass. You'd be walking along, minding your own business and blasting headcrabs to shit, when all of a sudden you come across a gigantic chasm. Being the smart cookie that you are, you jump on the rope and starting climbing up in order to get enough height to make it to the next ledge.

You stop climbing, but the problem is, you don't stop moving.

Before you know it "ZOMG BARNACLE AAAAIIEEEEEEEE DIEDIEDIE *blamblam* CRAPFUCK CROWBAR *thwackthwackthwack* EEEEEEEK ITSEATINGMYFACE..."

Also, Alma from F.E.A.R. always unnerved me. It wasn't an all out FEAR of her, it just freaked me out in certain points, always kept me on edge.

Resident Evil 2, playing as a small child. Parts of doom 3 made me jump, but the origional was much scarier.

For atmosphere: Ocean House in Bloodlines.

Oh my gosh, that was nuts. I just strolled up to the door and ended up screaming. My neighbors were probably wondering what was going on. That did have one of the creepiest atmospheres I can remember. I have beaten that game over 10 times and I still get a little creeped out playing that hotel in late at night.

Nothing has come close to freaking me out like getting to Gannon in the original Legend of Zelda when I was like 8 years old. It's freaking Gannon.

Oh my gosh, that was nuts. I just strolled up to the door and ended up screaming. My neighbors were probably wondering what was going on. That did have one of the creepiest atmospheres I can remember. I have beaten that game over 10 times and I still get a little creeped out playing that hotel in late at night.

*whispers -- HE'S COMING.......*

When some of the animals transform into mutant monsters in Parasite Eve.

Doom, in primary school. Shit-scary, that. Especially the growly noises of the monsters even when there aren't any around. Class. :D

Ravenholm on Half-Life 2 was kind of like that. Not exactly scary, more just adrenaline-fuelled twitchy. Fighting the leaping zombies on the rooftops with the shotgun left me incredibly jumpy, if not actually scared. I haven't played any actually scary games, so this is the best I can do.

Yes, Bloodlines was good that way. Ocean House, the Crack-House and the Sabbat lair were the big ones for me.

FEAR was a good one too. That little girl really freaked me out... especially when she popped in from nowhere right in front of me in an air duct. Nowhere to run, so I did unload an unholy amount of ammo into thin air. Or when she appears on the other side of a pane of bulletproof glass, and your first instinct is to fire, and all she does is look at you when you open up...

In the end, I couldn't play FEAR really late at night...

you didn't die at the end, you just ended up in hell... with a full clip of ammo!

can you say Target rich environment!Somehow, just somehow, I didn't enjoy thinking I was about to get a traditional win scene, only to find myself surrounded by what seemed like infinite enemies, and blasting away at the insurmountable horde until the game ended despite that free clip! :eek:

As you can tell, I had NO idea that Hell part was what was coming.

i nominate System Shock 2

and Descent

I really wish I got to play more horror games. :(

Fergi America']Somehow, just somehow, I didn't enjoy thinking I was about to get a traditional win scene, only to find myself surrounded by what seemed like infinite enemies, and blasting away at the insurmountable horde until the game ended despite that free clip! :eek:

As you can tell, I had NO idea that Hell part was what was coming.
actually, I was wrong... the first game ends with you on earth, as the demons invade. I remember the burning city with the dead bunny head on a pike.


the second one you end up in hell with a full clip of ammo.

I really wish I got to play more horror games. :(
what system do you have?

The 7th Guest...

Creepy game :eek:

Long time ago. My first CD-ROM game :)

The 7th Guest...

Creepy game :eek:

Long time ago. My first CD-ROM game :)the dollhouse!
ever played the sequal, 11th hour?

what system do you have?
Pc (Windows XP)
Gamecube
DS

As usual for computer-game threads: System Shock 2. Very scary indeed.
Even the intro movie scared me...it was the woman's voice at the very end. :(

Pc (Windows XP)
Gamecube
DS
Phantasmagoria is a windows baised game.

if you can find it... :cool:

Phantasmagoria is a windows baised game.

if you can find it... :cool:
Okay? I'll try.

You played Phantasmagoira!?!

*falls and kisses feet*

You're the first I've found here who's played that game... I thought I was alone! :(

One of the worst parts for me was the murder in the greenhouse. Ugh. ;)

i nominate System Shock 2

and Descent


Ohhhh, Descent!!! You get VERY used to flying in 3 dimensions in that one!
The designers were REAL bastards.... you blow the core of the place and have to find your way back out before it vaporizes you!!!

One of the worst parts for me was the murder in the greenhouse. Ugh. ;)
for me it was the woman who had her neck broken... *shudders*

Ohhhh, Descent!!! You get VERY used to flying in 3 dimensions in that one!
The designers were REAL bastards.... you blow the core of the place and have to find your way back out before it vaporizes you!!!
better than Mechwarrior2: Ghost Bear.

The last mission takes place in space... and do they even hint that you need jump jets? no... and after blowing the core and escaping, if the turrets are still functional... :rolleyes:

for me it was the woman who had her neck broken... *shudders*

For me it was the... Oh wait I haven't played it! :)

For me it was the... Oh wait I haven't played it! :)
hope you can find it... if not, let me know, I'll copy mine. ;)

Phanstamagoria II was ok, but it was more desgusting than scary.

wasn't there something for the GameCube, Eternal Requim or something?

dunno. Playing a System Shock 2 demo though!

The time I was scared the most was the first time I played 343 Guilty Spark on the first Halo.

When I ran into the flood it was no big deal at first but I was almost scared shitless the first time I realized they got back up. - I was moving through, and had got to the point where the flood combat forms have weapons and I was holding my ground with no shields and only a couple health points when the combat form I was standing over stood back up and smacked me to hell.

When I was younger, I was friggin terrified of the bloody Xenomorphs from Aliens Trilogy (Playstation Game)....

The time I was scared the most was the first time I played 343 Guilty Spark on the first Halo.

When I ran into the flood it was no big deal at first but I was almost scared shitless the first time I realized they got back up. - I was moving through, and had got to the point where the flood combat forms have weapons and I was holding my ground with no shields and only a couple health points when the combat form I was standing over stood back up and smacked me to hell.


Yeah, 343 Guilty Spark was intense.

the dollhouse!
ever played the sequal, 11th hour?
No, I never did... Heard it wasn't as good.

gm_construct. 15 mingebags. 1 me.

gm_construct. 15 mingebags. 1 me.
LOL. What a nightmare! :p :p

Doom 3.

Still havent finished it.
Damn thing gets so intense, and shit constantly jumps out at you from every goddamn dark corner.

Cool :)

The Quake 4 cutscene when the Strogg tear bits out of you and add those metal bits. You just watch and can't do anything.

Pc (Windows XP)
Gamecube
DS
It's called Residnet Evil 4 and FEAR.

It's called Residnet Evil 4 and FEAR.
I have Resi 4!

The Regenerators in Resident Evil 4.

Or the chainsaw ladies who pop out the walls and run shrieking at you.

Yikes.


The wolverine-like guy in Salazar's castle in that game was, though not exactly scary, it was certainly intense to fight him because you are in such a small area and he is very fast.

The zombie priests in that area are also quite intimidating, especially that part leading up the prison, where everywhere you go they seem to come out of the walls, and you can't escape the chanting that signifies that they are very very close no matter what. Also, the fact that their organs come out of their bodies and bite your head off is annoying.

The wolverine-like guy in Salazar's castle in that game was, though not exactly scary, it was certainly intense to fight him because you are in such a small area and he is very fast.

The zombie priests in that area are also quite intimidating, especially that part leading up the prison, where everywhere you go they seem to come out of the walls, and you can't escape the chanting that signifies that they are very very close no matter what. Also, the fact that their organs come out of their bodies and bite your head off is annoying.
What?

What?

Well, maybe they are not their organs and they are just the overgrown version of las plagas coming out after you blow their heads off....It looks like a centipede that comes out of their neck, and reaches out and bites your head off... Geez, that is so morbid.

Well, maybe they are not their organs and they are just the overgrown version of las plagas coming out after you blow their heads off....It looks like a centipede that comes out of their neck, and reaches out and bites your head off... Geez, that is so morbid.
I get ya now. They have never managed to bite my head of yet! :p