The scarierst moment/level in gaming history!

[Federkitzler]

The title says it all... What was the scariest moment or level you ever had to endure in a video- or computer game? Here are mine:

1) The Showdown of Resident Evil II - A thunderstorm over my town made it much worse!

2) The classic dog-jumping-trough-the-window-scene in Resident Evil,

3) The insanity-effects in Eternal Darkness - Sanity's Reqiuem,

4) The first half hour of Doom³,

5) Laugh at me, but the nightly phone-calls by unknown persons in "The Sims" were pretty terrifying!

6) Resident Evil 4, the first time being surrounded by mad villagers who want to kill you in the most horrible ways was horrible!

7) Now I'm starting the Thief chapter: The Bonehoard, where you had to steal a famed horn from the crypt of the Quintus family (Halls of Echoing Repose, wasn't it?). This distant horn music down there between all these zombies was spine chilling.

8) The Abysmal Gale in Deadly Shadows. A rotten ship full of zombies!! Does it get any better?? YES!

9) Return to the Cathedral in Thief I... That was the first time I had to end a game because I was so terrified I couldn't continue.

10) It took me about 3 days to complete this level, the scariest moment I have ever played: The Shalebridge Cradle in Thief: Deadly Shadows. I still have mental scars from playing this. For those, who dont know (without much spoilers): The cradle was an orphanage, after this it was a madhouse and after that both in the same time. Then a little girl vanished while playing with her friend, who said "The Hag" or "Gray, Old Woman", an urban legend in The City, killed her. After that, the whole building burned down in a "demonic fire"... And many many years after, you have to enter that building to search details of this old hag... Garrett, the cynical bastard you are playing doesnt fear anything and is bold as a brass, but for the first time you enter the cradle he is really anxious, you can hear it in his voice ("A vial of blood... Grrrrm, and it's still warm! ...Great!!") xD
Mad screams in the distant corridors, something moving at the top of the building and the closer you get to there, you hear a knocking on the door to the attic which changes into a wild thumping... Then you open it and... Well, play it for yourself 😉 I really have to say that was the most atmospheric, gruesome level I've ever played, Doom³ is a children's birthday party against this. Get a decent soundcard supporting EAX 4.0 and surround speakers, turn down the lights and wait till you are all alone... And then enter the most terrifying gathering of polygons and pixels ever commited in gaming history 😉

Now it's your turn!
Greetz,
TNO

 

[BigMan]

Yeah I agree Shalebridge cradle made me cry like a little girl, I have to throw in Ravenholme in HL2 I know some people may not find it that scary but it is the rattling black headcrabs, you hear it and you shite yourself!

 

[Federkitzler]

Damn, I forgot! Ravenholm was pretty nasty, thats right 😉

 

[pabuluz1]

scariest Moments... so far

1) Resident evil one the Game cube remake... i was on edge all way through lol

2) Silent Hill 1 i borrowed this from a friend and i was jumping all the way throught it.

3) Resident Evil 2 - when the licker crawled across the window. i passed the pad to my friend and said what the fuck was that!

4) the dog jumping through window on Resident evil 1

 

[Anti-Social]

System Shock 2 has some pretty evil bitch bits with the ghosts and screaming women things. Of course if you played it now you'd think I was stupid, but that's what graphics were like back then 😛

The original Alone in the Dark on the Acorn was also pretty bad, but I was young then 😛

 

[Goodieluver]

For me i was playin silent Hill 1 and for some reason there was a power outage on the next block, so my block was lit and the next block was COMPLETELY dark, it looked just like the friggin game, my block was good, and the other black was EVIL!

Another is playin doom 3, i had lights off, surround sound on and i just got wormholed to Hell, yeah the screaming and vortex freaked me out then im stuck in hell with no flashlight

 

[michal1]

5) In Warcraft 3 there is a level where you have to protect a Lich from an attacking army (you have to last 30 minutes). The final minute of this level is a real horror.

4) In Heretic there is a level where you have to battle a group of evil wizards. Just listen to those creepy chants and whispers *shudders*.

3) The last level of Doom 2. I never had the courage to play it without cheating.

2) Any Marine level in Aliens vs. Predator.

1) Playing a level one wizard in AD&D (pen & paper). The best survival horror I ever played.

 

[nessonite1]

I grew up with 8 bit systems and it doesnt take kickass graphics to get my heart pumping. I remember nearly pissing myself more than a few times just watching my brother play the first Resident Evil.

 

[Federkitzler]

Ness, if you ever get to buy or rent "Thief - Deadly Shadows", tell me and I'll send you a savegame of the "Robbing the Cradle" mission. Would be fun to read what you think about it 😀

 

[XaviarRkR]

As odd as it may sound.

Any moment where I could not, in modern terms, whip Dr. Robutnik, sorry Dr. Robotnick's derryair in any Sonic game (about two tries. I'm something of a Sonic vet)

 

[Drago691]

Resident Evil 3 - anytime Nemesis was around.

All you could hear was "Stttaaarrrssss" and then you could hear his footsteps around and wondering where he is. And I was scared to go forward because I didn't wanna run into him. =p

I eventually beat the game, though. Was my first one to actually complete.

 

[AphxA1]

The beginning of silent hill 2. Your walking down this path and its all foggy and you keep hearing noises as if something is coming towards you.

Also, theres a sick puzzle room in silent hill 3. Its a fernace room and there are empty examining tables and you have to open this lock. If you turn your tv up full volume, i swear I hear two people have a conversation

 

[Anti-Social]

Actually, I remember another one; Clive Bakers Undying. The whole first part of that is creepy; the ghosts in the mirror, the way pictures transform when you hold the stone etc.

 

[hubadl]

I have played Half-Life (first part) and in one moment something like a bug unexpectedly jumps from some ventilation pipe in your face .
And in Silent Hill 2 there are some crepy moment not to mention Silent Hill 4

 

[Yet_One_More_Idiot]

The blobby creatures in Quake scared me quite a bit; they would bounce at you, then when you least expected it, they would explode in your face! :wooha:

Similarly, the same sort of creatures in Duke Nukem, except this time they crawl over your face, and they look like a green octopus with the entire body taken up by a single gigantic eye. They then sit on your face and suck you of your energy...until you shoot, and they explode, hurting you even more. 🙄

Generally, though, I don't tend to play deliberately scary games - I prefer racing and shoot'em up games; my all-time fave is Carmageddon (1).

 

[GEORGIATKLER]

Does Atari Star Clarence The Crosseyed Lion??

Pong- Damnit I Missed That @$&8ing Ball Again..............lol!

 

[SF85]

One point in Civ2 scared me badly. I was a small country thinking I declared war on another smaller country. But when I traded maps with a few others I found that they actually owned half the world! Needless to say I made peace very quickly.

 

[Janus4385]

The beggining of Alone in the dark: the new nightmare, the game was pretty neat until you got to the caves, then it sucked!!!! But the first part of the game was good.
I like the whole silent hill series, the first one is my favorite though...
Ummm, let's see, oh yes, the scariest moment I can remember, once when I was playing Silent Hill 2(I was playing like at 2 am, alone and with the volume real high, it was great, I love to do that), in the hospital, I just opened a door and on the other side when I came out there was a nurse standing next to me, the radio made such a horrible loud noise that I jumped up and started yelling at the nurse like: DIE!!!! DIE!!!!! GOD!!!! WHY WON'T YOU JUST DIE!!!!????? It was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I also liked the part when you are on the elevator and they start asking you questions as if you were on a gameshow, it is not to scary when you are playing, but if you actually start picturing if that happened to you, if it were you on that elevator, that would be too much....

 

[Duke Diablo]

Hmm... I never got scared of a game but my brother and friends tell me they crap out when they see me playing Silent Hill 4: The Room. They say they don't even want to watch it. What scares them most is the thing that I constantly say: "Come over here my dears, daddy has a nice surprise for you" ever since I got that axe and the fact that I constantly prattle on about how it is a shame you can't cut their limbs out and fight with that as a weapon. But, admit it, it would be fun using a demon's head as a flail, it would give the game that special touch...

 

[suppai1]

hmmmmm, would have to say what comes to mind is the beginning of fatal frame 1(crossing the hallway with the hanging ropes, some great angles in the game) also fatal frame 2(whenever mayu senses something evil i.e. in the beginning when you cross the doorway upstairs). sure there are others but can't think of anymore at the moment.

oh and totally getting beasted in any fighting game.

 

[phatazzfluffy]

silent hill and res evil series all the damn way man (espically when im tripping on shit, no joke!, i tried it...)

 

[CoopXLR]

The first game to ever scare me as far as being creepy was Splatterhouse on the TG16. The music, the backgrounds, the creatures, my life long phobia/weird fascination; floating severed heads that attack and the stage where the evil Rick unexpectedly busts through the mirrors to attack you doesn't help any either. That game scared me so bad I stayed up until sunrise and I was about 19 at the time! Second scariest would probably be Alone in the Dark 1 for PC. The thing that turns into a mass of bubbles and chases you from room to room that you can't escape from is damn scary. Then, there's those frigging Atlatisians creatures in the first Tomb Raider that you can hear them tromping around a few feet away and saying "Uuuuuugghh...uuuuugghhh..." then when they spot you they let out this god awful shreak that makes you almost drop the controller then, they pounce on your Lara and start blasting her to death with their rocket guns "BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!!!". Next up is the Resident Evil series and those damned hard to kill hunters that can take your head off like a hot knife going through butter even when your energy bar is on yellow Fine and even worse, they shreak horribly when they attack and the moment you hear them walking near by with a heavy "click, click, click" you think "Oh shit!" and try to aim good and blow them the hell away before you loose your head -pun very much intended. Silent Hill was a total creep fest for me and when ever I was out in the fog and heard the radio start crackling, I would get pretty scared because I didn't know where the attack was coming from. Also fighting enemies in 2d games over pits, spikes and lava is scary especially when you've come a long way in to the game and don't want to have to start over. I absolutely hate anything in a game that causes instant death just from the slightest touch and when your power-ups are maxed out too it really sucks! Except for those things nothing else really scares or makes me uneasy in games and if I think the difficulty in a game is beyond rediculous, I just pop in the ol' GS or GG to even the score.

 

[Hungarian21]

I never got to try the doom, silent hill, or any other games mantioned above. I always bought something else, and I was also saving, so I got scared of something basic: Metroid Prime. I know, this sounds dumb, but on mission 1, when you have to look around some spaceship, I had no idea on what to expect. I kept on finding clues about mutated creatures freaking out and killing everyone, so I thought that on those dark and dead corners something creepy will come out at me. Man, it took me 3 hours to get past it, though I realized by the end of it that it is not a horror game. Phew. :snob:

However, there is one game that was actually not so silly to be scared of, however I doubt you know about it. It was a Hungarian game, it never came out in the USA or anywhere else, due to the fact that translating it would have been a pain in the ass, and not many people know Hungarain. Anyway, the game was something like doom, though in English I would call it Pain. The game was about a town where u crashed from space due to some system faliure, and the next thing u know, u wake up near a town, realizing u need some replacements for ur ship. So what do u do? Go in the city, find that everyone is a Zombie, and scare the @%=/ out of u. 😎 I wish I would have finished it, but I let someone borrow it, and he never returned it. (And I dont remember who it was). Oh well. I dont miss it. :happy:

 

[Sarah]

What platform is 'Thief' on? I'd like to try that...if it's PC only, I'll have to pass though, this old machine is going downhill...

 

[AphxA1]

nah you can get it on a console.