Scariest Game You Ever Played?

[The Spartan (Returns)]

Back to that old topic, the scariest game I played was Silent Hill 3, which uses psychological horror very well, I just don't wanna continue. Next was FEAR, interesting scares, certainly shocking at some points.

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I'm talking about to early ladder scare in FEAR.

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Not mentioning, these are pretty much the only scary games I played; I heard alot of other scary games.

[Xiahou]

I don't know that I could settle on just one, but 3 that immediately come to mind are:

Eternal Darkness
Silent Hill 2
Vampire: Bloodlines (certain parts at least)

[Ramses II CP]

I don't think I would call any game I've played scary, but FEAR definitely made me jump a few times. Heck, Doom II made me jump the first time I got charged by one of those red guys. Half Life 2 with the black out in the underground areas was pretty tense, and the black face huggers made me twitch once or twice.

...but scary? Nah, just startling.

[Veho Nex]

ummmm, CoD3 for that first melee part. Wasnt expecting it scared the turd out me.

[Kekvit Irae]

System Shock 2 was creepy, but hardly worth mentioning for me. No real big scares.
The scariest game I've ever played was Aliens vs Predator. I am a BIG Aliens fan, and the whole atmosphere scared the crap out of me, along with the futility of resting (no thanks to unlimited waves of Xenomorphs).

[TinCow]

No doubt on my answer: Doom 3.

I only played it at night with the lights out and the sound pumped way up. Took me several nights to get through due to the need for perfect darkness. It's a heavily scripted game that doesn't have much replayability, but the first run through was fabulous. I nearly jumped out of my chair several times.

[KukriKhan]

Doom.

I guess that would be Doom I, 1993.

The (in those days) innovative story-line and gameplay had me, by turns, riveted to, then repulsed out of, my seat.

It apparently immunized me from "scarey" games. Nothing since has evoked such a reaction from me.

NB: some of today's 'scarey' is just gratuitously bloody, IMO. In those cases, the dev's has misunderstood the concept of horror, mistaking the appeal of their 'more blood' tactic, for the suspense, surprise, and immersion gamers crave.

Graphics iz cool, but content rulz.

[CountArach]

FEAR didn't scare me per-se, just shocked me a few times. However, FEAR: Extraction Point, certainly scared me.

[Fragony]

The first Thief, it's unbearable.

[Xiahou]

FEAR didn't scare me per-se, just shocked me a few times. However, FEAR: Extraction Point, certainly scared me.

That's an important distinction too. I don't really consider games that just have a few sudden surprise moments to be scary- that can be part of it, but it doesn't stand on its own. A game really needs to create an oppressive, creepy atmosphere for it to truly be scary.

[spmetla]

Aliens vs Predator but playing the Marine campaign. Fricking creepy! It's always dark so you need to rely more on hearing to hear face huggers, aliens, and of course your motion detector. You'd hear something, then you need to do a 360 so you're detector knows where its coming from then as the beeps get quicker you start popping flares like crazy so you can make out the alien as it comes crawling on the ceiling or running or whatever as you shoot madly empty clip after clip of pulse rifle ammo and applying ample grenades if there are a lot of them.

Playing as an alien or predator isn't scary though, they're not blind like us humans.

[Raz]

Silent Hill, the first one, made me freak out when I first played it, but I was pretty young when I played it, so, compared to it's successors, it's like a walk in the park. =D
Blood and Doom are notable as well, also played when I was much younger. A more recent one would be the newer Resident Evils and Project Zero, though they didn't make me fear what was under my bed or behind my curtain - they made me jump and gasp, but that's about it.

There should be a horror RPG, these survival horror games are just the same old, same old.

[Mikeus Caesar]

Aliens vs Predator but playing the Marine campaign. Fricking creepy! It's always dark so you need to rely more on hearing to hear face huggers, aliens, and of course your motion detector. You'd hear something, then you need to do a 360 so you're detector knows where its coming from then as the beeps get quicker you start popping flares like crazy so you can make out the alien as it comes crawling on the ceiling or running or whatever as you shoot madly empty clip after clip of pulse rifle ammo and applying ample grenades if there are a lot of them.

Playing as an alien or predator isn't scary though, they're not blind like us humans.

Hahah, never mind singleplayer, multiplayer was just as terrifying when playing a survivor or evac game. Typically, all the humans would gang up somewhere, and gradually be picked off one by one. It was truly a game where standing alone was not an option.

It still stands as the only game where the multiplayer has made me **** bricks.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

FEAR didn't scare me per-se, just shocked me a few times. However, FEAR: Extraction Point, certainly scared me.

Really how? I might check this out.

[Vladimir]

Doom. When you're that young, it's easy to be scared.

[Sarathos]

Resident Evil 5 looks promising and very scary. The trailer, although being a trailer, highlighted what kinda of stuff you would face. I tell you, I wouldn't want to be the hero in that story....

[caravel]

Doom3 and the AvP Marine campaign, definitely. I disliked AvP2. Though the crab creatures in the original Half-Life were quite scary as well. I agree wholeheartedly with Whacker re Doom3 and the voices and general jumpiness of the game. Especially when a metal wall panel falls away with a clang and a zombie or imp appears right in your face. Quake4 is quite scary when you're down in the reprocessing center where the "failed transfers" are walking (or crawling around).

[UltraWar]

I have The 11th Hour which I have lying around somewhere, could I ask your honest opinion, to do you find that game scary? As a note to myself, I really need to get around to installing the 3 1/2in floppy version of Alone in the Dark onto my computer.

[Kekvit Irae]

Both The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour isn't really that scary. You're just looking at FMV in-between long and sometimes boring puzzles. There are some favorite moments in both games, but that's mostly from the plotline as a whole. Such as in The 7th Guest,

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the protagonist seeing the events in the house from a third person perspective, and suddenly realizing he was the 7th Guest.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Vampire Bloodlines. The haunted hotel scared the out of me.


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[Sarathos]

Edit: A very scary moment that made me jump (not because of the atmosphere) was when I opened that wardrobe, a cutscene started and I knew it was going to be bad... the controller started shaking in my hands and then.... nothing there. There was a tape, voice recording of a previous team of explorers who had been there... as I reached out to grab it BAM! A mangled corpse of a journalist drops down and lands on my hand. My god that made me almost wet myself.

Thats rather similar to what happens in F.E.A.R. There is a water level where you have to adjust the level of water in a room so that you can swim into a dark pipe and go progress. But when you surface from the pipe, you are in a small room filled wth blood, and a door at the other end of the room has person on the other side but you can't quite see them. Obviously you have to wade through the blood and get to the door, which at first seems easy enough.When you get about half way, body parts start arising which prompts who to go faster and just when you are about to grab for the door handle, with high hopes of getting out of there, a skeleton launches itself out of the blood and tackles you backwards. I gave the game a rest after that.