Which game has scared you the most?

[nihilyst]

Every time LeChuck appeared at the end of Monkey Island 2 ... ... ... okay, I was a kid, but today I find MI2 scary as well. FEAR had also some good chills.

[Oliwerko]

I actually had to wait a few years to be able to play Thief, and even then I had my heart in throat sometimes....

[InCreator]

Prince of Persia (the original, of course) kept me very tense due very deadly and bloody traps and death resulting in almost every wrong key press...
KGB (no words needed)
Amazon: Guardians of Eden (no words needed, ever). Even those low-quality photos that meant not to scare, still do scare shit out of me
Penumbra: Overture (spidddersss!)
Half-Life 2: Episode two (spiders!) I'm not afraid of spiders in real life, but in game, I'd prefer NOT to play game with any
Half-Life: Getting knocked out by surprise, only to wake up in trash compactor
Police Quest 4 (rather disturbing, I'd say)
Leisure suit larry 2(?) When walking out from river and noticing that Larry's feet are eaten by piranhas
Manhunt was quite scary all the time, like every time enemies noticed you

and the scariest moment EVER...

King's Quest 3: When suddenly getting eaten by big, blue... Spider!!! The scariest moment in video gaming for me, ever made.

[Akatosh]

System Shock 2. Nothing like walking around a corner and being randomly blown up by a protocol droid that just spawned to get your pulse up. Oh, and for some reason I freaked out every fucking time I received an E-Mail.  :

[Evil]

Four letters.

F.E.A.R.

Scared me shitless in less than 2 minutes. I still haven't beat that game. Too damn scary. And you know it's scary when you unload two magazines into ghosts you know aren't really there.

[Oliwerko]

The scariest moments in gaming are IMHO when it is totally quiet and something suddenly kills you faster than you turn to see what it actually was.

[TwinMoon]

Leisure suit larry 2(?) When walking out from river and noticing that Larry's feet are eaten by

Really? I thought it was a pretty lame joke, not scary at all. Strange how different people can be.

I forgot to mention the "Clockwork Orange" guys in Space Quest 4 / XII. Every time I got the close up where his lips start shaking I'd instinctively reach for the volume knob and turn it down. Man, that screaming was hideous.

[voh]

F.E.A.R. so far isn't disappointing (playing it at the moment, finished COD4 not too long ago) but so far I'm not that spooked.

Then again, I don't get spooked easily

My worst shocker's been Clive Barker's Undying, due to the atmosphere. Even if NOTHING was going on, I was apprehensive because something just MIGHT

I refused to play that game if it was dark outside ._.

[Domino]

Silent Hill 2.

Spoiler

PYRAMID HEAD F-ING SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME

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[InCreator]

Ah, I forgot EVERY MOMENT in Condemned: Criminal Origins.

Walking around corner and getting your face beaten in with an iron pipe is, well, quite scary.

[PixelPerfect]

I have to agree with Condemned. That's one scary game if played by yourself in the dark with headphones. Seriously good headphones make a world of difference in the ambiance. In Condemned you get such a jolt everytime somebody starts to run and you can't see where they're coming from. I think pretty much any game would be non-scary if the sound would be muted.

[MoodyBlues]

The Colonel's Bequest made me jump a lot.  Actually, any game where you can randomly die for stupid reasons freaks me out.

Police Quest 4, while being a frustrating, mostly unsatisfying game, had some great scary moments, especially at the end.

[Emerald]

The most freaked out I've ever been in a game was when I got 'Constantine' second-hand. The game itself isn't that scary (it's a 'jump-out-at-you-and-swipe-off-a-few-hit-points-and-then-get-nailed-to-the-wall' kind of game*), but the disc was heavily damaged and therefore the game was riddled with all these weird glitches. The audio was all screwed up, enemies would turn invisible, etc.


* I laughed the whole way through Doom 3. For one thing, the 'pop-out-and-scare-you' thing was so overdone, that if you saw a dark area, it was pretty much guaranteed to have an imp lurking in there. And unless you were playing on 'hard', none of the enemies were particularly threatening -- they pop out, go "graaagh!" and then hit you for 5 damage, to which you retaliate with a shotgun blast to the face. It just didn't strike me as particularly scary.


Bioshock is mentionable (I don't think anyones mentioned it yet). It's not particularly scary - more creepy - but it has its moments (such as that room where the lights go off, and suddenly all the corpses come alive -- I nearly wet myself, 'cause the whole time you get so used to looting the random corpses lying around; or the part where the statues follow you around)

[ThreeOhFour]

Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines in the mansion. It wasn't overly dangerous and was really kinda easy, but man it freaked me out in places.

All of the They Hunger mods for Half Life. Nothing says creepy like being in a dark tunnel with 2 bullets and an umbrella to defend yourself with when you hear a groan right in your ear (curse you, headphones!).

[TerranRich]

I totally forgot about the cyborgs in Space Quest IV... and that ominous music that would play when droids would randomly search the screen and you had to leave or hide. That really creeped me out, every single time.

Actually, one of the Tex Murphy games (Overseer or Pandora Directive) freaked me out when I'd have it on in a dark room, alone, with good quality speakers. It was so immersive, that sometimes I'd lose myself in it.

[fred]

Call of Cthullhu: Dark Corners of the Earth - especially the escape sequence from Innsmouth hotel, running from room to room frantically trying to bolt the doors behind me. Also, that game has the coolest sanity system I've seen so far - hallucinations, panic attacks, vertigo, paranoia, the whole deal. I would have made a different ending to the game though, and tweaked difficulty in many places, but still one of the best games I played in a long time  :o

[Ghost]

Creature Shock. The shocking aspect is right in the title, and shocking it was indeed, in places. With todays eyes, meh.

Undying. Oh yes, that had some nasty little scary moments.

System Shock, both 1 and 2, but 2 was a bit more creepy on the audio side. I have fond memories of The Many.

Bananas In Pyjamas. That's top of the list. There is NOTHING more scary than fruit in bedding clothes offering you marshmallows. I still shiver.

[Mouth for war]

Bananas In Pyjamas. That's top of the list. There is NOTHING more scary than fruit in bedding clothes offering you marshmallows. I still shiver.

HAHAHAHA Yeah that is totally true

[Eigen]

Here's a list of pretty scary games. But I don't know what game has scared me the most .. I guess Doom for one and also Resident Evil.

[[Cameron]]

Four letters.

F.E.A.R.

Scared me shitless in less than 2 minutes. I still haven't beat that game. Too damn scary. And you know it's scary when you unload two magazines into ghosts you know aren't really there.

I have to agree. Quite heartily. I've finished the game, and when playing through again, it still scared me. I always waste so many bullets.