Scariest Games you've Played

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  • NEX9NEX9 Join Date: 2005-03-08 Member: 44299Members
    wow thanks i love you guys.
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1651773:date=Sep 24 2007, 05:01 PM:name=Haze)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Haze @ Sep 24 2007, 05:01 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1651773"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->MGS2 was scary?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yeah, what the ###### is it doing on the list? Nothing in either MGS2 or Eternal Darkness that's scary...
  • schkorpioschkorpio I can mspaint Join Date: 2003-05-23 Member: 16635Members
    -system shock 2
    -doom3 for a while
    -wacky wheels
  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    I liked the hotel in Bloodlines, and thought it was quite scary and generally well done. they definitely did overuse the flying pottery though.
  • ZaggyZaggy NullPointerException The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-12-10 Member: 24214Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos, Subnautica Playtester
    <!--quoteo(post=1651877:date=Sep 25 2007, 01:11 AM:name=UltimaGecko)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(UltimaGecko @ Sep 25 2007, 01:11 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1651877"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->So you don't experience fear, you just experience an adrenaline rush and all of the biological responses to fear when something scary happens, okay, got it. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
    How could you be anythign except annoyed at the dream sequences in Max Payne?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I LIKE the rush, it's not a fear of something bad or evil or life threatening.
    Well, the whole -they killed my wife 'n baby- thing got me tbh.
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1651899:date=Sep 25 2007, 01:45 AM:name=Liku)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Liku @ Sep 25 2007, 01:45 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1651899"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Yeah, what the ###### is it doing on the list? Nothing in either MGS2 or Eternal Darkness that's scary...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    The problem is that he took a list of "scariest moments in games" and reduced it down to "a list of those games." Without the actual moments they're referring to, there's no way for us to know what they were thinking. I bet the Eternal Darkness one is the part with the bathtub, but really, we can't know.
  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    Probably "The Suffering" on the original X-Box (although you can get it for PlayStation2 and PC as well).
    Playing it at 3am, in the pitch black and after watching a documentary on haunted prisons (it was on
    the game disc! How cool is that!) probably didn't help.

    Great game though. I think the sequel is now down to budget prices too.
  • sgt.wafflessgt.waffles Join Date: 2007-09-22 Member: 62406Banned
    <!--quoteo(post=1651899:date=Sep 25 2007, 06:45 AM:name=Liku)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Liku @ Sep 25 2007, 06:45 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1651899"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Yeah, what the ###### is it doing on the list? Nothing in either MGS2 or Eternal Darkness that's scary...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Well in MGS2, i was kind of wondering that aswell, but it was mainly confusion for it.

    But for Eternal Darkness, i'll type it....

    Your grandfather dies mysteriously and you travel to his estate to investigate the incident. So the scary part is when you walk into the bathroom, and everything is normal until there's a flash and the tub is filled with blood and a dead body is in the water with her eyes rolled back and you hear a woman screaming and than you realize that your the person in the bathtub...

    And Esuna, that crawling girl part that i mentioned, was on the xbox version, and it was also directors cut, so they might've added it in there for the players who hadn't experianced the first game.
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    I totally forgot about the bathtub part! That was pretty good, but it was more of a shock moment then actually fear inducing stuff.
  • schkorpioschkorpio I can mspaint Join Date: 2003-05-23 Member: 16635Members
    <img src="http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Uninvited/ASShot2.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

    Uninvited - for the Amiga,

    This was the first horror game I ever played, I was about 7 or 8 years old and it scared the absolute ###### out of me playing it with my friends in broad day light lol

    looking at the graphics now, just goes to show how much imagination you have when you are a kid hah!
  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    edited September 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1652033:date=Sep 25 2007, 08:34 PM:name=sgt.waffles)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sgt.waffles @ Sep 25 2007, 08:34 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1652033"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->And Esuna, that crawling girl part that i mentioned, was on the xbox version, and it was also directors cut, so they might've added it in there for the players who hadn't experianced the first game.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Except that it's in the original release day PS2 version. I've never played the Xbox version. Quit backpeddling.
  • Sub_zer0Sub_zer0 Join Date: 2004-05-09 Member: 28569Members
    system shock 2
    F.E.A.R
    and I got bored of stalker before I got to the labs..
    I also found half life 1 scary at the first bit with zombies when I loaded it up for the first time (as I had only played doom before hand)
    and marines on avp (slightly)
    system shock 2 rates highly on my brown pants factor..
    think thats it..
  • sgt.wafflessgt.waffles Join Date: 2007-09-22 Member: 62406Banned
    <!--quoteo(post=1652131:date=Sep 25 2007, 11:52 PM:name=Sub_zer0)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sub_zer0 @ Sep 25 2007, 11:52 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1652131"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->system shock 2
    F.E.A.R
    and I got bored of stalker before I got to the labs..
    I also found half life 1 scary at the first bit with zombies when I loaded it up for the first time (as I had only played doom before hand)
    and marines on avp (slightly)
    system shock 2 rates highly on my brown pants factor..
    think thats it..<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I loved stalker, it was an addicting wonderful game, that is, if you have the machine to run it, right now im running it on full graphics, maybe a few little cut outs like i disabled grass shadows and turned down the object detail one notch. but everything runs as smooth as possible, the lighting is just awesome.

    And esuna, what are you talking about? are you saying that the ps2 version released the same day as the xbox version? if so... that doesn't really make a difference at all, the xbox version of tom clancy's splinter cell double agent came out the same day as the 360 version and the 360 version had a level that the xbox didn't and the xbox version had a level the 360 didn't...
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1652135:date=Sep 25 2007, 07:02 PM:name=sgt.waffles)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sgt.waffles @ Sep 25 2007, 07:02 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1652135"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->And esuna, what are you talking about? are you saying that the ps2 version released the same day as the xbox version? if so... that doesn't really make a difference at all, the xbox version of tom clancy's splinter cell double agent came out the same day as the 360 version and the 360 version had a level that the xbox didn't and the xbox version had a level the 360 didn't...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    He's saying the girl was in the PS2 version. He saw the girl, he played the PS2 version, he didn't play the XBOX version, ergo the girl is in the PS2 version. Originally you said it was in Fatal Frame 2 and esuna said it was in Fatal Frame 1. Then you told esuna to go study harder because it was definitely in Fatal Frame 2. Lolf said it was in Fatal Frame 1, or at least he figured it was, then you said

    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Well seing as it's the XBox version and it's also directors cut they could've added it in so esuna might be right aswell, seeing as how some things are added in ports and especially if they're special additions like this one.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    which I can't quite figure out. In any case esuna replied with proof that it was in Fatal Frame 1. Then you said

    <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->And Esuna, that crawling girl part that i mentioned, was on the xbox version, and it was also directors cut, so they might've added it in there for the players who hadn't experianced the first game.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    which again I can't quite figure out. esuna replied and said that he has only played the PS2 version so it's obviously in that one.

    So that should clear up any confusion, except for the parts where I don't know what you're saying, but you shouldn't have trouble there.
  • sgt.wafflessgt.waffles Join Date: 2007-09-22 Member: 62406Banned
    <!--quoteo(post=1652151:date=Sep 26 2007, 12:47 AM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Sep 26 2007, 12:47 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1652151"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->He's saying the girl was in the PS2 version. He saw the girl, he played the PS2 version, he didn't play the XBOX version, ergo the girl is in the PS2 version. Originally you said it was in Fatal Frame 2 and esuna said it was in Fatal Frame 1. Then you told esuna to go study harder because it was definitely in Fatal Frame 2. Lolf said it was in Fatal Frame 1, or at least he figured it was, then you said
    which I can't quite figure out. In any case esuna replied with proof that it was in Fatal Frame 1. Then you said
    which again I can't quite figure out. esuna replied and said that he has only played the PS2 version so it's obviously in that one.

    So that should clear up any confusion, except for the parts where I don't know what you're saying, but you shouldn't have trouble there.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    mm k.
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    I'm a horror sissy, but didn't find Fatal Frame 2 scary. I have 1 but haven't gotten around to beating 2. Too lazy to game. Great games though.
  • sgt.wafflessgt.waffles Join Date: 2007-09-22 Member: 62406Banned
    I love horror games
  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    I loved stalker so much, the snork was so scary the first time i saw it. I was down in the labs and it was walking through the flamer anomaly, i crouched down ready to shoot a dog (as it looked through the heat-bent dim light) and then it leaped at me. My wife was sleeping next to me and i was so surprised that it was a mutated human over a dog that i didn't know what to yell other than a distorted nnnOOOOOOO! as i flipped backwards in my chair haha. Scared the ###### out of her and my room mate came out not knowing wtf was going on lol

    Doom 3 had its moments, i found the leaked alpha much scarier than the final. I played the alpha right around when it first got leaked, at the time the best graphics i had ever seen were from halo (lol). I could hardly get through the first room, it looked so damn real to me that just the thought of something coming at me was almost as real as it could get. I stepped down that first step and the loud CLANG made me pause the game for a few. Walking through the 2nd hall with the whispering just about made me quit, then the zombies came. It took just about everything i had not to freak out and quit hahaha. After that i relaxed a bit and moved on, the zombies rose again (alpha lulz) and came up behind me and scared the ###### out of me.

    The 3rd level was the worst, going up to the mirror and having the pinky run up behind me was about the worst i had ever been scared, they should had included it in the final game as it was done so brilliantly (my god, why did they cut out so much good stuff like the pinky ripping through pipes, and john romeros actually good sounds over the newer zombie's sexual grunts and horrible not so scary noises?).
  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1652166:date=Sep 26 2007, 02:45 AM:name=sgt.waffles)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sgt.waffles @ Sep 26 2007, 02:45 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1652166"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I love horror games<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    So much so that you haven't played some of the most notable modern horror titles.
  • sgt.wafflessgt.waffles Join Date: 2007-09-22 Member: 62406Banned
    edited September 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1652248:date=Sep 26 2007, 07:48 AM:name=esuna)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(esuna @ Sep 26 2007, 07:48 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1652248"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->So much so that you haven't played some of the most notable modern horror titles.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Just because i haven't played Fatal Frame 1 or 2 doesn't mean i'm missing out on every single horror game. Sheesh, i only get horror games i think i'll like... and so far that's worked out for me 100%

    But i have played alot.
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    Also, I hate Silent Hill. Awful gameplay makes the scary parts uninteresting to me. That's why Fatal Frame rocks. I wouldn't mind some more stuff with ghosts, though. I got Fatal Frame 1 and 2 just for the fact it has traditional styled ghosts, because they're my favourite form of horror.
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    Games like Silent Hill aren't about the gameplay really(outside of the puzzles), they're about the atmosphere and story. Silent Hill 5 is supposed to have a new combat system that'll add to the gameplay, but hopefully it won't turn the direction RE did.
  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1652335:date=Sep 26 2007, 08:11 PM:name=sgt.waffles)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sgt.waffles @ Sep 26 2007, 08:11 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1652335"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Just because i haven't played Fatal Frame 1 or 2 doesn't mean i'm missing out on every single horror game. Sheesh, i only get horror games i think i'll like... and so far that's worked out for me 100%

    But i have played alot.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Let's do a checklist:

    Ecstatica
    Alone in the Dark 1
    Clive Barker's Undying
    Realms of the Haunting
    Clocktower series
    Fatal Frame series
    Silent Hill series
    Eternal Darkness
    Call of Cthulhu
    Blair Witch series (far better than the movies)
    Noctourne
    Dark Seed
    Siren
    Obscure (the Buffy of survival horror, but surprisingly fun)

    played any of them?
  • sgt.wafflessgt.waffles Join Date: 2007-09-22 Member: 62406Banned
    edited September 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1652381:date=Sep 26 2007, 09:11 PM:name=esuna)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(esuna @ Sep 26 2007, 09:11 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1652381"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Let's do a checklist:

    Ecstatica
    Alone in the Dark 1
    Clive Barker's Undying
    Realms of the Haunting
    Clocktower series
    Fatal Frame series
    Silent Hill series
    Eternal Darkness
    Call of Cthulhu
    Blair Witch series (far better than the movies)
    Noctourne
    Dark Seed
    Siren
    Obscure (the Buffy of survival horror, but surprisingly fun)

    played any of them?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Yes...

    And although i said i like horror games i didn't say that i'm a horror fanatic... Unlike you...

    You want to see all the scary games i've played? Fine, here's a list.

    The suffering
    FEAR
    STALKER
    The suffering: Ties that bind
    Condemned
    DOOM 3
    Alone in the Dark: the new nightmare
    Resident Evil 1, 3, Zero, and 4
    Curse: the eye of Isis
    Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
    Return to Castle wolfenstien
    The Thing
    Silent Hill

    My Horror game's list may not be as built up as yours but that's because it's not my favorite genre, i still like them though.
  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1652387:date=Sep 26 2007, 10:33 PM:name=sgt.waffles)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sgt.waffles @ Sep 26 2007, 10:33 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1652387"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Yes...

    And although i said i like horror games i didn't say that i'm a horror fanatic... Unlike you...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    which ones have you played, tell me about them

    i'm not a horror fanatic, i just enjoy horror games, so much so that i've actually played them, crazy as it sounds
  • sgt.wafflessgt.waffles Join Date: 2007-09-22 Member: 62406Banned
    edited September 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1652389:date=Sep 26 2007, 09:38 PM:name=esuna)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(esuna @ Sep 26 2007, 09:38 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1652389"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->which ones have you played, tell me about them

    i'm not a horror fanatic, i just enjoy horror games, so much so that i've actually played them, crazy as it sounds<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    first of all the proper way you should of said that is "Sounds crazy, doesn't it?"

    And second of all, horror games that i thought I WOULD LIKE i have played or bought, since i only like games taht appeal to me... As everyone else does... other's that i didn't think i would like i didn't play or buy. So, what is your problem? Please, tell me, i'm dying to know.

    And if your excuse is that i think or said that "I'm the horror master" than your wrong, because not once did i say that, or anything close to it.
  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    edited September 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1652396:date=Sep 26 2007, 10:57 PM:name=sgt.waffles)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sgt.waffles @ Sep 26 2007, 10:57 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1652396"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->first of all the proper way you should of said that is "Sounds crazy, doesn't it?"

    And second of all, horror games that i thought I WOULD LIKE i have played or bought, since i only like games taht appeal to me... As everyone else does... other's that i didn't think i would like i didn't play or buy. So, what is your problem? Please, tell me, i'm dying to know.

    And if your excuse is that i think or said that "I'm the horror master" than your wrong, because not once did i say that, or anything close to it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    "crazy as that sounds" or "as crazy as that sounds" is grammatically correct, shock horror, but hey let's attack grammer use good instead make talk discussion right?

    second of all, sounds like you don't actually like horror games, that's cool, just don't make a thread about horror games, saying you enjoy horror games when infact you like the gaming equivalent of someone jumping out at you and shouting boo

    who said you're the horror master, you didn't, i didn't, you said you enjoy horror games but haven't actually played any


    why don't you bugger off back to facepunch


    e: also, i'm still waiting, which of those popular and / or critically acclaimed paragons of the horror or survival horror genre have you actually played and please, tell me about them.

    e2: sealed with a loving kiss
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    edited September 2007
    Undying's not that scary, either. Decent game, but you get that dumb dragon cannon early on.

    For Liku, the problem with Silent Hill is that it's unejoyable for me with the gameplay it has. SH3 was just laughably bad. 90% of the game was spent dodging monsters while trying every door in the room. Stupid, and not creepy. I killed the first boss and never touched it again. The staticy TV scene in the mall creeped me out a bit though. Always been afraid of ###### like that.
  • esunaesuna Rock Bottom Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15175Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1652402:date=Sep 26 2007, 11:13 PM:name=Testament)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Testament @ Sep 26 2007, 11:13 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1652402"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Undying's not that scary, either. Decent game, but you get that dumb dragon cannon early on.

    For Liku, the problem with Silent Hill is that it's unejoyable for me with the gameplay it has. SH3 was just laughably bad. 90% of the game was spent dodging monsters while trying every door in the room. Stupid, and not creepy. I killed the first boss and never touched it again. The staticy TV scene in the mall creeped me out a bit though. Always been afraid of ###### like that.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I've always played the Silent Hill games on easy combat and hard puzzles, you're right, half the game you spend just running around the monsters as opposed to actually fighting them, but the atmosphere really is the main part. If you didn't really get passed the mall in Silent Hill 3, i'd really suggest going back to it, the hospital and the abandoned offices are some of the high points in the Silent Hill series, along with the fact that just before you actually head to Silent Hill, the story starts to tie together with Silent Hill 1 and it really does have a great atmosphere to it.

    Hopefully Silent Hill 5 will be an improvement on Silent Hill 4. I know Silent Hill 4 was originally made to be another game and eventually turned into a Silent Hill game, but the combat was abysmal and the point where you realise you have to backtrack through the entire game for an escort quest it really becomes pretty tiresome, but the comedy burping nurses and the general atmosphere in the game and the new enemies actually make it still fairly worthwhile playing. Silent Hill 4 did actually try to do something different to make combat a little less buttonmashing than it has been before by making you charge your swings and the like, hopefully Silent Hill 5 expands on that and finally makes the combat fun along with having a good story and amazing atmosphere.

    And for once i wish i had a PSP just to play Silent Hill Origins.
  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Dark Seed was creepy and athmospheric, but damn near unplayable without a walkthrough.
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