Scariest game i've ever played...

**hoom** · 05-12-2006, 14:57

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.

AvP 1 for me but this is exactly it, you've seen the Alien & Predator movies and there you are walking down some enclosed corridor, knowing those scary buggers are out there while all you've got is a pop gun and a friggin motion detector going bii.....dok bii...dok bi..dok bi..dok bi.dok bidok bidokbidokbidok then a blood chilling Scream leaves you retreating down that corridor leaving a brown trail...

**Somebody Else** · 05-12-2006, 15:16

Originally Posted by hoom

AvP 1 for me but this is exactly it, you've seen the Alien & Predator movies and there you are walking down some enclosed corridor, knowing those scary buggers are out there while all you've got is a pop gun and a friggin motion detector going bii.....dok bii...dok bi..dok bi..dok bi.dok bidok bidokbidokbidok then a blood chilling Scream leaves you retreating down that corridor leaving a brown trail...

I dunno, I found that the way the aliens always always stood still to attack made them ridiculously easy to deal with. Facehuggers on the other hand...

**English assassin** · 05-12-2006, 15:31

No, I'm with Hoom. That motion detector was an invention of satan.

**drone** · 05-12-2006, 16:41

The Aliens mod for Doom2 was pretty freaky. They had a couple levels inside the hive, and little alcoves where they placed aliens. You could hear the hissing, it's dark, then all the sudden they would jump you.

**Ironside** · 05-12-2006, 18:23

Originally Posted by English assassin

No, I'm with Hoom. That motion detector was an invention of satan.

Isn't it ironic how a great help can be such a scare maker?

Hearing the mumblings of the enemies in System Shock 2 has the same effect.

**Zenicetus** · 05-12-2006, 20:48

Originally Posted by Ironside

Isn't it ironic how a great help can be such a scare maker?

Hearing the mumblings of the enemies in System Shock 2 has the same effect.

Yeah, I'd have to rate System Shock 2 as the first game that really scared the crap out of me. That was so well-done, and at a fairly early stage of PC game development.

**Mount Suribachi** · 05-12-2006, 21:29

Whilst HL & HL2 have their spooky moments, and the Resident Evil series of games have the odd "made-you-jump" moment, nothing, and I mean nothing comes close to the terror inducing System Shock 2. The entire game was built around making you scared, all the time!!!. Not by making you jump, not by the odd freaky moment. But by the relentless psychological pressure, by the fact the enemies respawned and sought you out, and by the brilliant use of sound.

When someone says a game is scary, the gold standard to which it should be compared is SS2. I'm not ashamed to say I was too scared to play it. So scared I uninstalled it after quitting the game in terror.

**econ21** · 05-12-2006, 23:47

Yes, System Shock 2 scaried the heck out of me. I would occasionally load it up, do the training missions, get to the first door that leads to combat and then quit when the pumping techno music started. BTW, there's a nice piece on gamespot about Bioshock during E3 - it sounds very like a SS3 in spirit. Audio logs, freaky mutants, mad robots, cameras etc. Very promising.