Scariest Game You Ever Played?

**Kekvit Irae** · 02-21-2008, 22:32

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** · 02-21-2008, 22:40

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.

**drone** · 02-21-2008, 23:19

Aliens mod for Doom II. Very limited ammo, xenos coming out of nowhere, great sound effects for the time.

Yes, I'm old. :getoffmylawn:

**Kekvit Irae** · 02-21-2008, 23:23

Originally Posted by drone

Aliens mod for Doom II. Very limited ammo, xenos coming out of nowhere, great sound effects for the time.

Yes, I'm old. :getoffmylawn:

I remember playing the Aliens mod for Quake before it got Foxed.
I think I still have my old "thousands of WADs" CDs somewhere...

**Decker** · 02-22-2008, 01:39

Doom II. I was in elementary when I first started playing it. It was my first ever game but... it wasn't tooo scary after the discovery of the BFG

I've also just started playing Penumbra. (didn't get far...chickened out

)

**TinCow** · 02-22-2008, 01:42

For non-haunted house style fear... I wouldn't quite call it scary, but American McGee's Alice certainly creeped me out a great deal. Sanitarium as well.

**naut** · 02-22-2008, 02:08

Quake IV is reasonably tense.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 02-22-2008, 04:23

The underground labs in S.T.A.L.K.E.R are horrifying, especially when done alone at 1 in the morning.

The only thing more terrifying was the AvP games, which Kek already mentioned.

**frogbeastegg** · 02-21-2008, 23:22

System Shock 2. Certain chimp noises made me break into a cold sweat all these years later.

Thief I/II. Like System Shock 2 it's mainly a matter of sound and atmosphere.

That's all I can think of right now. Scary games don't work on me, and because of this I don't play them unless there's something else about them which attracts me. I laughed at Resident Evil, much to my Resi addict friend's disgust. I loved Eternal Darkness, and found it at best mildly unsettling at a couple of points. Silent Hill 2 bored me. Project zero (or fatal frame depending on where you are) was more irritating than anything else. Doom? Didn't bother my young froggy self, though it gave someone I knew nightmares for months.

**The Spartan (Returns)** · 02-22-2008, 00:52

Originally Posted by frogbeastegg

System Shock 2. Certain chimp noises made me break into a cold sweat all these years later.

Thief I/II. Like System Shock 2 it's mainly a matter of sound and atmosphere.

That's all I can think of right now. Scary games don't work on me, and because of this I don't play them unless there's something else about them which attracts me. I laughed at Resident Evil, much to my Resi addict friend's disgust. I loved Eternal Darkness, and found it at best mildly unsettling at a couple of points. Silent Hill 2 bored me. Project zero (or fatal frame depending on where you are) was more irritating than anything else. Doom? Didn't bother my young froggy self, though it gave someone I knew nightmares for months.

Yes, I find games using psychological horror more scary than games with big shocks. It's just how people get scared.