Scariest Game You Ever Played?

**Navaros** · 02-23-2008, 01:38

Scariest game I ever played: Nocturne. A very little known PC game from 1999. I've never seen a game that perfectly oozes horror atmosphere and is genuinely scary to the degree that game is.

Silent Hill 2 was scary but I ran out of freakin' ammo killing the ceiling boss and wasn't able to advance once I got to the next level due to having no ammo at all. So not sure if the whole game holds up as well as the parts up until the ceiling boss do.

I didn't find Doom 3 or FEAR to be scary at all. They were way too repetitive (both in terms of monsters, and environments) to be scary past a few hours into the game.

**TevashSzat** · 02-23-2008, 03:23

I usually don't play that much creepy games, but the scariest for me was in Half Life 2 Episode 1(I think) when you have to get the elevator working again in pitch black and as soon as you do, all of the zombies start waking up and charging at you

**Gregoshi** · 02-23-2008, 04:15

For me it was Doom 3. It didn't help that I played it at night, in the dark, wearing headphones. Some of the scares I got in that game had me worrying that my wife would find me in the morning sitting at the computer and dead from a heartattack.

The audio is what accounted for most of my scares. Walking down a corridor with nerves on edge and suddenly having a creepy voice whispering in your ear...

Don't know if the effect was enhanced with headphone - TinCow, I gather it was fairly intense with speak volume jacked up too? Other audio effects just sent chills down my spine. The "baby" demons were the worst. They were pretty easy to kill, but hearing that dreadful cry just stopped me dead in my tracks everytime.

**Veho Nex** · 02-23-2008, 04:43

Actually now I think the scariest game I've ever played was Silent Hunter 3. I had 4 destroyers on me and I've been lurking off the coast of britian for 2 years... I died in the end but it was incredibly scarey...

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 02-23-2008, 05:09

STALKER but I'm a sissy and usually avoid scary stuff.

**spmetla** · 02-23-2008, 08:22

Originally Posted by Jkarinen

Actually now I think the scariest game I've ever played was Silent Hunter 3. I had 4 destroyers on me and I've been lurking off the coast of britian for 2 years... I died in the end but it was incredibly scarey...

I have to agree to an extent but I think it was more frustrating than scary for me. Being the maverick idiot Uboot commander that I was, I tended to do the time in my designated grid square and then motoring off toward Gibraltor or Scapa Flow to hunt destroyers. I have to say no campaign of mine went past '41. In shallow water I can ditch one destroyer some times two if I can shoot one of them with a tail shot. However once there are 3 or more destroyers I have yet to survive because my brown water hunting gives me no depths to hide in.

**Sarathos** · 02-23-2008, 09:31

I would definitely agree with the AVP Marine missions. Nothing is worst when you have to go on recon, solo, into an abanded base, into a dark control room with just a flash light. Next you hear a roar and turn behind you to see a alien imprint in what was a door. Then you have to go through the door and and turn a corner to discovers skinned dead bodies hanging from the roof 2 inches in front of you, I needed new pants after that.

I also agree with F.E.A.R. but it really doesn't help with you play at night in a room surrounded by open windows. But what was the deal with all the guys disappearing in black smoke?

Other games that I would say earn the title of scary is the old Biohazard series. This was the first series of mass zombies hunting, although it is quite old, when I first played it I was a woman running around in New York with a pistol, not cool. And when you got caught, you were forced to watch your character's brains being eatan. Scary and disgusting.

I would also say the Resident Evil series is pretty damn scary, and they only get worst as the graphics improve. I remember playing Resident evil 3 when you are in an abandened house. I get a little bit too scaried/bored and tried to exit the house through the front door. The only thing I did managed to do was let 2 rather annoyed zombie dogs inside. The first one I shot 5 times to make sure before the second one jump on me and had the great desire to maul my face. I ended up killing it with a trusty knife to the throat, but it took me awhile to get back onto the couch and manage to push the right button.