Scariest game i've ever played...

[Mikeus Caesar]

...is a map for Half Life 2. With the name Nightmare House, you'd probably expect a few cheap scares, but no, this is something different. I fell off my chair and hid under the table at some points, it was that scary. A recommended must have for anyone who has Half Life 2!

http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/...re_House;47305

[Somebody Else]

Waaah! Now I can't sleep...

[Zain]

With the link, I don't see what Somebody Else's crying about.... Looks interesting though!

-ZainDustin

[Lemur]

There was an RPG called Vampire Bloodlines that did a genuinely creepy haunted hotel. I mean, jump-out-of-your seat scary. I know a person who couldn't complete it because it was too darn scary, so he emailed me his savegame, and I took his character through the sequence, then mailed back the savegame.

Never played the System Shock games; they're supposed to have some hair-raising moments.

[Lehesu]

I thought Aliens vs. Predator 2 was pretty scary. In retrospect, it wasn't really that bad. I guess the main thing was playing a human character that actually felt overmatched going against the other races. As a human, you feel more like prey than a hunter.

This is why F.E.A.R wasn't really that scary to me. It was creepy, but I knew that I had all the tools to take care of anything in my way.

[Xiahou]

There was an RPG called Vampire Bloodlines that did a genuinely creepy haunted hotel. I mean, jump-out-of-your seat scary. I know a person who couldn't complete it because it was too darn scary, so he emailed me his savegame, and I took his character through the sequence, then mailed back the savegame.

Yeah, that was definitely a good one.

Eternal Darkness and RE4 also come to mind.

[Mithrandir]

Resident Evil 2 on the PlayStation had some nice moments too, when you'd just walk on your high heels, and walk, and walk into a dark alley and walk past a door and WHAM the door slams open and a zombie jumps out to get ye.

(ofcourse playing it in the absolute dark with volume to the maximum also helps)

[Lechev]

There was an RPG called Vampire Bloodlines that did a genuinely creepy haunted hotel. I mean, jump-out-of-your seat scary. I know a person who couldn't complete it because it was too darn scary, so he emailed me his savegame, and I took his character through the sequence, then mailed back the savegame.

Never played the System Shock games; they're supposed to have some hair-raising moments.

I certainly agreed on that haunting hotel mission. As i was playing i kept reminding myself that theres nothing to be scared of. Afterall, i am a vampire!

[Ironside]

I certainly agreed on that haunting hotel mission. As i was playing i kept reminding myself that theres nothing to be scared of. Afterall, i am a vampire!

Ended up dead there. So the powers of vampirism didn't help.

Ever noticed that the female ghost had a hair colour change after her death BTW?

[Viking]

Wah...sorry for the lazyness, but, do I have to uninstall this mod in order to play vanilla HL2 again?

[Mikeus Caesar]

Wah...sorry for the lazyness, but, do I have to uninstall this mod in order to play vanilla HL2 again?

No, you just put the four maps into this folder: C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\*your name goes here*\half-life 2\hl2\maps and then go into HL2, bring up the console and type "map nightmare_house1" (without the ").

It's brilliant!

[Sjakihata]

System Shock 2

[Viking]

No, you just put the four maps into this folder: C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\*your name goes here*\half-life 2\hl2\maps and then go into HL2, bring up the console and type "map nightmare_house1" (without the ").

It's brilliant!

Ah, thank you. I`ll download it right away.

[Divine Wind]

Eternal Darkness was an absolute haunting experience for me. The parts where your character would lose their sanity (quite literally) was just freaky! The moans and screams from the dead "flesh and bones" really sent a chill down my spine. Also the parts where your character went mental, actually involved you with it too as strange things would happen on the screen until you regained your sanity. Stuff like the volume turning itself up and down, hundreds of flies swarming onto the screen, error messages coming up, poltergeist activity, getting spawned into hell, it was quite an experience!

I hated playing on my own, so i made my friends come round and keep me company

Edit: I just went onto the homepage http://www.eternaldarkness.com/ and i did laugh out loud when they described the sanity.

"The descent into insanity begins slowly, with mild memory relapses and fleeting delusions, then plunges with horrific speed into manic hallucinations and death."

Lovely :)

[professorspatula]

Whoever mentioned the Aliens mod for Doom 2 - they were spot on. It's probably the first time a first person shooter was turned into a slow-paced nightmarish survival game. Hardly any ammo, aliens that would hiss and jump out when you least expect it and excellent use of ambient sounds taken from the film led to an incredible spooky experience. If anything, Doom 3 is a very similar experience - slow, has you constantly on your guard, and full of spawning enemies. Although the predictable tedium of D3 counts against it. Yawn, another imp behind me as I pickup the medikit.

System Shock 2 is the scariest game I've played though. Aside from the fact you have hardly any ammo for ages and your hi-tech futuristic guns stop working after about 3 shots, the eerie sounds of your enemies approaching and their soul destroying respawn rate creates a game where you're constantly panicking and unable to relax for a second. You charge through a series of corridors, killing a few zombies in your path, and then you suddenly hear their cries behind you - and you're running for your life as they've magically spawned through a locked bulkhead behind you. Actually their respawning annoys me so much I really don't enjoy the experience as much as I'd like to. I haven't been able to bring myself to play it that far. Apparently you're supposed to be able to change the respawn rate, but from what I've read at various SS2 forums, for the most part it has no effect.

Realms of the Haunting was quite scary in some places. A bit Silent Hill like in places, albeit in first person mode.

A less obvious candidate for scariest game - Alien on the ZX Spectrum. You have to guide your crew off the Nostromo, avoiding or killing the Alien along the way, only it picks your people off one by one, leading to your crew panicking and stop responding to orders, and with Jones the cat leading you on a merry goose chase as it messes up your motion detection readings. And then just when you think you're safe on the escape shuttle and you're ready to scuttle the Nostromo, the Alien sneaks in and kills your final character. The annoying xenomorph!