scariest in-game moment?

[Azrael_ rage]

I was playing silent hill 3 last night. It actually managed to scare ME! This is why....
You are in an abandoned hospital (Yes, the same one in all the other games) and you walk into a room. The room appears empty, and you're radio has stopped making white noise. Ah, a quick respite! I walk into the room, and notice the contents. A small white bath, and a wall length mirror. I then notice a root-like blackness in the reflection, spreading across the room.. I spi round, but it isn't in the room. I look back, it is spreading all the way across the room. The it fades into the corner.... Suddenly, it comes through the bathplug, and starts spreading across the room. I run across to the door, it's locked! Fuck! Ok, hide in the corner. Damn, it's coming close. Hmmmm... Touched me and no effect. The I notice my reflection. No longer is there a young sweet texan girl. Instaed a horrible demon woman. It mimics my movements, only a reflection. Then, it stops. Stares at you. The whole room now goes black with the root thing, and all you can see is the reflection, staring at you. I ran to the door, and it opened! Thank god!

Man that was good!

Any other favourite scary bits from games?

[Nomad]

Wow. That sounds like its from some dream.

Bah. I jump at all the little things in Resident Evil. My favorite scare was when that bigass aligator pops out of the sewer in RE2. I had to pause the game and quit shaking the first time I played that part.

[Ninja_of_DooM]

Most recently my most scary moment would have to be Thief: The dark project. Running around in the abandoned Cathedral with all those Haunts jangling their chains and the sound getting louder as they come down the corridor and are about to open the door and find you. Always take loads of holy water and flash bombs.:)

[ToXiCFLUFF]

Most recently my most scary moment would have to be Thief: The dark project. Running around in the abandoned Cathedral with all those Haunts jangling their chains and the sound getting louder as they come down the corridor and are about to open the door and find you. Always take loads of holy water and flash bombs.:) Hrrmph. If I die, having never played Thief, I'm gonna kill myself.

[FATAL]

Always when I play sanitarium I get spooky feelings no matter what I do. The game's atmosphere is just the way that you'll start thinking kinda weird things.

I really love the first part of it, the part where there is this small village. In the village there are weird looking kids. They all look like twisted zombies of different kinds. Of course they aren't zombies, but I think it's the best way to describe them. Now the kids act really normally: play tic tac toe, hide 'n seek and so on. But then comes the spooky part. Always when you ask the children about their parents, they say that their parents just didn't show up one day, but they have this mother that looks after them. Now this "mother" is really just a huge alien plant, that is turning the childrens into plants. The childrens also somehow want this to happen and when you stop "mother" from doing this, all the children stop talking to you because you stopped them from being plants. Then all suddenly, you notice that you're inside the sanitarium again.

It was really one of the most spooky adventure games I've ever played! Too bad it's not being sold anymore here in Finland, which really sucks because now you'll just have to download it from underdogs. And that way, it won't come with cd-tracks and speech...

[CheapAlert]

Klingon Honor Guard.

Pacing left and right, then suddenly a vision of KAHLESS appears in your face with a death sound!

[thund3r]

last time i checked, the scaryest game was AVP2 rated my a mangazine i believe.

[Azrael_ rage]

The most effective scare tactics, are not in your face horror. it is the underlyingmenace and plain wierd parts that do it. The enemies are always scarier when they look like remnants of humans, rather than just zombies. That is why I love silent hill, you walk into a room. There is a large bang, and you crap yourself, then you get outside, and there is nothing there. So you are on edge, wondering what made the noise. It never comes. Because it was never there, but it still makes you panic.

[Ninja_of_DooM]

That is why I love silent hill, you walk into a room. There is a large bang, and you crap yourself, then you get outside, and there is nothing there.
The first silent hill had that. In the hospital right? Freaky as hell.:D
Those giant spiders in Thief are freaky too. I hate running into them.
The most effective scare tactics, are not in your face horror.
But there's sometimes nothing better than a chainsaw wielding zombie coming out of the shadows, ready to charge you down when an even bigger monster comes along and throws him into the wall. DooM III btw.:)

[Abrax]

Alien vs Predator 2, playing as the marine, with aliens in tow, a nerve wracking experience. Also the Resisdent Evil series (on PSX), when the dogs smash through the glass. I hav'nt played a game for ages that scared me, maybe I should look for some until Doom3 :)

Despite this though, I do get surprised in some games, but its not as good as fear. :)

[ToXiCFLUFF]

Alien vs Predator 2, playing as the marine, with aliens in tow, a nerve wracking experience. Also the Resisdent Evil series (on PSX), when the dogs smash through the glass. I hav'nt played a game for ages that scared me, maybe I should look for some until Doom3 :)

Despite this though, I do get surprised in some games, but its not as good as fear. :) I found AvP one much scarier; it was much darker, and the aliens moved faster. Haven't played anything scary in a while though, the D3 alpha was the last thing I found really tense, and System Shock2 before that.

[Azrael_ rage]

It was silent hill ninja. And it was in the hospital too. well done that man!

SH3 is the scariest one so far though, really eerie set peices, and the enemies are by far the most warped I have ever seen.

[Ninja_of_DooM]

I only played up to SH 2. That one was freaky in places but not the biggest scare ever.
Another scary moment in Thief. Running around in the Lost City with all those Craymen going about. I could hear one coming and then I saw the light of the rooma round the corner come on, indicating something had entered the room. I then run forward into the nearest shadow and wait. I then see this thing walking up towards me. It just looked so freaky as it was coming towards me in that way they walk. I pulled out my bow and shot it in the head and it died.:)

[HyperFlash]

I read a preview for Resident Evil 4. And I must say that I'm impressed about it. But I'm also very pissed off at Capcom for what they're about to do to one of their greatest series. They're completely dropping the zombies and monsters. The previous RE storyline doesn't exist anymore. Leon is supposed to protect the President's daughter and she gets kidnapped and now he has to go to South America to get her back. Whereas in the true storyline, he and the rest of the Racoon City survivors would go to Europe to Umbrella's main HQ and raise some serious hell there. When I read that article, my liking for Capcom just got chewed to bits by a Pinky. Although the game will have it's scary moments, one of them for example, is you are in a villiage and the "possessed people" try to kill you with farming tools. Another is that later on, the enemies will get really smart. If you shoot someone, they'll retreat since they realize you have a gun, and when you go to chase him, he will lead you into an ambush with other people who are ready to open a can on you. Capcom thinks that making the enemies with human characteristics will make this game really scary. The game has some awesome graphics. But other than that, Capcom can kiss all the RE fan's ass for totally screwing this series up. But my main point here was to point out the future scary in-game moments in this game.

[Nomad]

Not really a game, but I just saw the TV trailer for the new "Dawn of the Dead" remake. Good lord, i can't wait. It's about time George Romero got of his ass and did this.

[iori]

Hyperflash: I COMPLETELY agree with you there. Re4 looks awesome, but the story is way off. Sad really. Although zombies with pitchforks are awesome, if the plot IS as real as you (or new sites) say, then I will be dissppointed. :(

[Azrael_ rage]

A pity really, in the search for new and exciting things to do with the game, they are destroying what makes the game. BTW, did RE:Outbreak ever get released? I really wanted to get this game, but I never heard anything after the previews.

[HyperFlash]

I bought the recent Game Informer and what I said is true. But they did say that a few past characters will make a surprise appearance. And as for Outbreak, it'll be released this month. It looks to be one helluva game, but sadly, it won't have Tyrant-103 or Nemesis in it.

[CheapAlert]

NES Maniac Mansion, when you hear one of these. (http://fragfiles.org/datas/users/4-chpalert.ogg)

[She-wolf]

Ah I have been one to jump about 6 feet into the air from sitting down at Silent Hill. I have played the first two and those were scary but I loved it! Yeah I heard glass smashing in the first one and that really scared me and of course I did go back out of the room and find nothing there. I didn't particularly like that thing with the funny pyramid head thing and big sword either. I have tried RE but it just didn't scare me much, I guess I really get frightened by the menace and what you think might be there, the things you can't see. I also hated how you had to get your character get some object from like a hole in the wall. I'm sure in SH 2 I hads to do that and I thought that something might try and grab their hand or something. Lol I really do think too much.

[Wicked Anime Kid]

Doom64, first level when the huge demon appeared behind me (the first corridor)

Freaked me out*eek*

[BlackFyre]

RE2:When the Licker comes crashing through the interogation window...my wife always jumps out of her seat every time that happens LOL

[Azrael_ rage]

I remember that bit in SH2, it mad me worry too. There are far more bits in silent hill 3 that make you jump. I also heard a rumour that SH4 was on the way. Anyone able to prove or disprove that one?

[HyperFlash]

Awww, this one time when I was playin' Resident Evil 3, I just got done with the confrontation with Nemesis in the Newspaper building. I chose to "Hide In Back" and after he was blown through the window, I made my escape. So I went to get the green crystal in the restaurant's basement, and just as I go up the steps to the back door of the restaurant, he just drops down from above and scares the $hit out of me! I didn't think it was possible!!!

[Tyberious]

lol, I been missing out hardcore, I guess I will have to start to get into those games again. One of the scariest things in a game is the music, when you turn if off its not so bad, same with scary movies, try it some time.

[Ninja_of_DooM]

More Thief stuffage. I get freaked out when I pick up the water talisman in the lost city because after that, Craymen appear all over the level and you can hear them coming to get you in the dark. Their so hard to kill too which makes it even scarier plus the fact that they have massive pincers for hands.
Creeoing around in the abandoned part of the city freaks me out too. I can hear the zombies coming closer as I shoot a rope arrow to the balcony, climb up and hide in the shadows as it comes into sight. I ready my water arrows and use holy water on them to make them work against zombies. I launch an arrow, it stops the zombie dead ahem* in it's tracks. I launch another and it blows up.
And another thing I remember from Silent Hill. In the chool. in the Hellish version. You walk into the toilets (where you get the shotgun) and saw the cubicle door swing open adn freak out to find a half rotted body haning on the wall. The music and all makes it a very scary scene to me.*sick*

[Azrael_ rage]

Yeah, that bit was bad. There are loads of bits like that in the silent hill games, loads of set peices designed to unnerve you.
There is a bit in SH3 where you walk into a room, and as you walk to the other door, a dead body just drops out of the ceiling in front of you! Man that made me jump.

[Doom_Dude]

Ninja was that Thief II? I don't remember that bit with all the craymen. I didn't quite finish Thief and I never installed Thief II. Heh.

[DooMMooD]

clicking a mine on accident in minesweeper

*edit* still cant beat expert

[Agent Spork]

clicking a mine on accident in minesweeper

*edit* still cant beat expert

Yeah, that gets me every time!


Anyway, I don't really like horror games, since, well, the smallest thing will practically give me a heart attack. Heart Attacks == Bad.

[XDelusion]

Mine would have to be the first time I played the Smurfs game on the Colecovision, and had to figure out how to jump over the white fence.

[Ninja_of_DooM]

DD that was Thief. If you haven't been to the Lost City level yet then that answers the question.

[Azrael_ rage]

I never got past the second level, the one with the zombies in the mines. That game was way too hard for me.

[ToXiCFLUFF]

I just got SH2, and I really think it's pretty good. The story is handled in a heavy-handed hammy manner - as story is in most games - but it's moving in the right direction I think. And pretty damn scary I might add. The only thing which ruins it a little for me is the over-population of monsters... I find it lacks restraint in that area.

[Nomad]

A DooM fan, complaining about over-population of monsters? *rolleyes*

[ToXiCFLUFF]

Yeah. I mean, what's good for Doom, isn't good for everything else. Imagine Deus Ex with Doom style amounts of enemies; it'd just suck.

[XDelusion]

I still need to play the original Deus Ex. I can say though that despite the fact that Deus Ex 2 was not intended to be scary, it did have a very creepy aura about it. And your right, what is good for DOOM is not good for everything else. It's like a horror film for example:
One Horror flick may frighten its audience in the Sam Raimi or Peter Jackson style and provide them with tons upon tons of hard core slaughter and mayhem, and pump the movie full of supernatural entities from beyond. Then another Horror flick may scare you with suggestions and anxiety. They have a very small amount in the way of bizzare creatures, and mayhem, but rather replace that with a silent creepyness, keeping you on your toes so that you are always expecting something to happen, but don't know when, or in what form it will manifest, I.E. the ghost story classic The Changeling.

DOOM of course being shaped after Evil Dead would be the first catagory, and Silent Hill (if it were not for the lame ass cheesy dialog) would fit nicely in the latter.

[ToXiCFLUFF]

Wow! Fancy seeing you round here :)

[XDelusion]

:o)

[Azrael_ rage]

Silent hill 2 was the worst of the series. It was too short and too easy. Oh, and prepare yourself for the lake crossing. It takes a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggg g time.

[Ninja_of_DooM]

Yeah I remember it. Too damn long indeed. Why did we have to do it anyway? Couldn't it just be done a different way?

[Doom4Ever]

I got scared when i first played doom
on the last level of Episode 1

when i go up on the lift
then i get close to those 2 doors
and the too Kell Knights come out
and i can't kill them
and they just kill me
the scream they let out just surprised me

that was scary but i was much younger..
but it did get me the first time...