Scariest Games? - Page 2

Kimarhi Ronso · 06-04-2006, 06:17 PM

I thought the replicators were awesome. I didn't find them any scarier than most other RE badguys, and they were really the first monsters other than bosses and the bugs to make an appearance.

Unless you consider Ganado's monsters when their heads bust apart.

You always have those type of monsters in RE4. Hunters, Lickers, Gravediggers, etc. I'm just surprised they waited so long before they were shown.

noodle boy · 06-04-2006, 08:43 PM

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Originally posted by Anoak
I heard Fatal Frame 2 was really scary, true?

You have no Idea....

Morlun · 06-05-2006, 08:37 PM

the thing i found so scary about the replicators was their red eyes you could see a mile away.. and the noise they made scared the shit outta me. i was panicing when those things got close because at that point in the game i had no ammo

PFC_Hudson · 06-05-2006, 11:44 PM

I agree with a lot of people on here as far as AvP being TENSE as hell.

Silent Hill 2 being just insanely scary and terrifying.

Doom 3 being scary and unnerving, a very spooky game.

Silent Hill 2 is definitely the scariest game on that list though.

Glexn · 06-06-2006, 12:03 AM

System Shock 2!

Raptor · 06-06-2006, 01:31 AM

Daikatana

noodle boy · 06-06-2006, 01:45 AM

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Originally posted by Raptor
Daikatana

That's another type of scary entirely.

Psycho Xeno · 06-06-2006, 01:56 AM

Oh I forgot!!!!!!!!!!! Nightmare Creatures for PS1!!!!!!!!!

Kimarhi Ronso · 06-06-2006, 03:36 PM

Could've been scary, if your character/s didn't so totally own all the creatures. Once you realize you can cut them in half or into little bitty pieces it takes the scare factor away imo.

GammaRay-X · 06-09-2006, 11:54 AM

AvP2 Marine Campaign
Silent Hill series
Resident Evil 4

Those are the ones i can think of right now, in no particular order.

Sadogoat · 06-09-2006, 06:32 PM

Silent Hill, Clive Barker's Undying, Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth and the never-released Bloodline (which had a pretty creepy demo).

serprenzus · 06-11-2006, 03:37 PM

Dr. Salvador from Resident Evil 4 was pretty creepy.

Running through the village at the beginning of the game, while hearing that chainsaw was enough to make you piss your pants. You KNEW he was close, but you didn't know WHERE he was.

Pete · 06-12-2006, 01:54 AM

The only game that stopped me playing until it was daylight and there where people in the house was Silent Hill. But Resident Evil 2 had its spine tingling moments.

Pingree · 06-17-2006, 09:23 AM

System Shock 2 and AvP Gold for me.

Desdinova · 06-17-2006, 01:13 PM

^
Ditto.

Newbeing · 06-17-2006, 09:08 PM

All the marine levels in AVP: Gold
The first half of Undying
SH2 (random noises just scare the crap out of me)
RE 2 first run through the streets of Racoon city
RE 4 first play through in the village

Friday the 13th for NES (when I was a kid)

freakboy · 06-23-2006, 03:00 PM

AVP2 [3species demo] marine demo played for the first time. I thought I would die if I go any further. It was scary as hell I was all in sweat and my heart was pounding like never before. I got even morwe scared coz I thought I could have a heart stroke.Then I started getting used to it and then realized it was all scripted.
Also my other scary games:
System Shock 2 [never even finished]
The Thing
Avp
Avp2
and some others I dont remember right now.

Evil_Crawling_eye · 06-24-2006, 08:28 AM

You know....DooM on the PS1...was actually really creepy as hell.

Aposed to the original release with funky guitar riffs and drums.

You get the sound of what it would be like if Trent Reznor "sleep wrote" on his keyboard as he was having a bad nightmare.

Together with that, and the fact i was playing it during a long lonely summer on my farm with the cool air inside the big farm house, and the sun and trees peeking through the blinds, made you feel like you were the only one on earth playing this game.

Conner Macleod · 07-01-2006, 03:41 AM

The original Doom games. There's not much that's scarier than the arch vile. Not to mention the music, it had this really eerie quality that when combined with demons like the mancubus and revenants, it became scary as hell. Few monsters come close to the cyber demon, a 3 story demon with a rocket launcher for an arm, and the ground would shake as it walked. Playing this game in the dark, late at night, it sent shivers down my spine. To this day it remains as one of the scariest games ever.

Quake. The moaning of the zombies, the sound of them ripping off their own flesh and throwing it at you, and the only thing that could kill them were grenades, otherwise they would just rise up and keep on coming, very disturbing. Pretty much everything in that game was freaky as hell. I loved the game but sort of dreaded playing it because of the various monsters and the dark, unnerving architecture.

Return To Castle Wolfenstein. It managed to recapture some of those freaky moments from the old id Software games.

Pain Killer. The only recent game I've tried that was quite disturbing and a little scary.

Other than that, most new games that try to be scary really aren't, too many cliches or special effects, not striking the right chemistry between the various elements that comprise each environment.

Injektilo · 07-01-2006, 12:26 PM

Conner, if you still have Doom installed, see if you can find the 'WAD' file that replaces the original MIDI music with that of the Playstation version. It's brilliant.

Newbeing · 07-01-2006, 06:22 PM

Oh yeah.

They Hunger, that half-life mod from a few years back. That was pretty damn creepy.

Also Evil Dead: Hail to the King, while a shit game had its very creepy moments.

Injektilo · 07-04-2006, 08:38 AM

Mods, that's a good point...

There were two for Quake that skyrocketed the pants-shitting experience of it - first being Hell In A Can, an Alien-esque level which had you as the sole crew member of a long-haul cargo ship transporting creatures stored in cages and boxes back to wherever. Each level had you being awoken from cryo by the ship's computer with tasks for you to carry out - the first couple are mundane "go resolve the gravity problem on the lower deck" and the like. After a while of wandering around this huge lonely ship, you are woken to the news that certain cages have been breached in the cargo hold - this is where it starts getting horribly tense, the creatures mainly compromise of Vores and Fiends, the latter always ready to launch themselves out at you from darkened corners and shattered crates. Eventually after one or two more breakouts, the ship's integrity has been compromised and you must make a mad rush to the escape shuttle, obviously with a few Shamblers chasing you down en route.

The second was a partial conversion called 'Zerst

kirkyl · 07-04-2006, 11:04 AM

Condemned is also pretty scary, the abandoned school level in particular and the old Apple orchid farm aswell.

Fomorian · 07-04-2006, 05:28 PM

What is it about schools and hospitals that make them so scary?

BiomeXhanoid · 07-04-2006, 05:32 PM

Where birth and death occur, where birth and death are celebrated, metaphorically and literally applied. Nothing particularly scary about either. Connotations come from those within.

StrangeWill · 07-04-2006, 05:47 PM

Putt putt saves the zoo.

I shat my pants.

Conner Macleod · 07-06-2006, 06:12 AM

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Originally posted by Injektilo
Conner, if you still have Doom installed, see if you can find the 'WAD' file that replaces the original MIDI music with that of the Playstation version. It's brilliant.

I have the old and the new, but the new Win 95 version doesn't work very well under XP so I didn't bother to install it.

Is there a mp3 version of it? That'd be cool to listen to.

Speaking of mods, anyone ever play the 'Aliens' conversion for Doom? Now THAT was freakin' scary. It was brilliantly crafted, really looked, felt and sounded like the 2nd film of the series. Even the guns were quite authentic. To be honest, I don't think the first AvP quite captured the atmosphere like this mod did.

Another disturbing Doom mod was the Barney mod, which converted all the monsters to the purple dinosaur. Something really eerie about killing a monster that sings "I love you, you love me....". Damn was it freaky.

Attommic · 07-06-2006, 09:57 PM

I was creeped out by Max Payne 1's nightmare sequence, it doesn't have anything jumping at you, or some blood gore. It's overal mood, the baby crying in the background, you running in slow motion in the void.

kirkyl · 07-07-2006, 01:10 PM

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Originally posted by Attommic
I was creeped out by Max Payne 1's nightmare sequence, it doesn't have anything jumping at you, or some blood gore. It's overal mood, the baby crying in the background, you running in slow motion in the void.

Apart from it being annoying i did find that part of the game creepy.

Skibadee · 07-07-2006, 04:40 PM

yeh it was kind of scary, the max payne nightmare.

@conner

post link to the mod for doom, plz.

06-17-2006, 09:08 PM	#46
Newbeing Featured Creature Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: some dark pit in space.... Posts: 2,287	All the marine levels in AVP: Gold The first half of Undying SH2 (random noises just scare the crap out of me) RE 2 first run through the streets of Racoon city RE 4 first play through in the village Friday the 13th for NES (when I was a kid)
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06-04-2006, 06:17 PM	#31
Kimarhi Ronso I thought what I'd do was.... Epic Poster Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hooterville, KY, USA Posts: 16,365	I thought the replicators were awesome. I didn't find them any scarier than most other RE badguys, and they were really the first monsters other than bosses and the bugs to make an appearance. Unless you consider Ganado's monsters when their heads bust apart. You always have those type of monsters in RE4. Hunters, Lickers, Gravediggers, etc. I'm just surprised they waited so long before they were shown.

06-05-2006, 08:37 PM	#33
Morlun F A N T A S T I C Veteran Join Date: May 2006 Location: belfast city Posts: 855	the thing i found so scary about the replicators was their red eyes you could see a mile away.. and the noise they made scared the shit outta me. i was panicing when those things got close because at that point in the game i had no ammo

06-05-2006, 11:44 PM	#34
PFC_Hudson F.U.C.K.I.N A Elite Poster Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 13,631	I agree with a lot of people on here as far as AvP being TENSE as hell. Silent Hill 2 being just insanely scary and terrifying. Doom 3 being scary and unnerving, a very spooky game. Silent Hill 2 is definitely the scariest game on that list though.

06-06-2006, 12:03 AM	#35
Glexn Registered User Hardcore Veteran Join Date: May 2003 Location: Melbourne Posts: 5,836	System Shock 2!

06-06-2006, 01:31 AM	#36
Raptor Used to post a lot Elite Poster Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: Estonia Posts: 13,677	Daikatana

06-06-2006, 01:56 AM	#38
Psycho Xeno Some fear death, others pray for it. Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Alton, Illinois Posts: 2,965	Oh I forgot!!!!!!!!!!! Nightmare Creatures for PS1!!!!!!!!!

06-06-2006, 03:36 PM	#39
Kimarhi Ronso I thought what I'd do was.... Epic Poster Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hooterville, KY, USA Posts: 16,365	Could've been scary, if your character/s didn't so totally own all the creatures. Once you realize you can cut them in half or into little bitty pieces it takes the scare factor away imo.

06-09-2006, 11:54 AM	#40
GammaRay-X Observing the chaos Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 1,031	AvP2 Marine Campaign Silent Hill series Resident Evil 4 Those are the ones i can think of right now, in no particular order.

06-09-2006, 06:32 PM	#41
Sadogoat Execute Order 666 Godlike Poster Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Mont Clare, PA Posts: 21,284	Silent Hill, Clive Barker's Undying, Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth and the never-released Bloodline (which had a pretty creepy demo).

06-11-2006, 03:37 PM	#42
serprenzus Registered User Forum Fiend Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 652	Dr. Salvador from Resident Evil 4 was pretty creepy. Running through the village at the beginning of the game, while hearing that chainsaw was enough to make you piss your pants. You KNEW he was close, but you didn't know WHERE he was.

06-12-2006, 01:54 AM	#43
Pete Im afraid I was very very drunk Hardcore Veteran Join Date: May 2001 Location: Yorkshire, England Posts: 5,198	The only game that stopped me playing until it was daylight and there where people in the house was Silent Hill. But Resident Evil 2 had its spine tingling moments.

06-17-2006, 09:23 AM	#44
Pingree We Lost The Skyline... Hardcore Veteran Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK Posts: 7,732	System Shock 2 and AvP Gold for me.

06-17-2006, 01:13 PM	#45
Desdinova Wait for the cream Grizzled Veteran Join Date: May 2002 Location: Disgusta, GA Posts: 4,940	^ Ditto.

06-23-2006, 03:00 PM	#47
freakboy Registered User Forum Fanatic Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Lithuania Posts: 179	AVP2 [3species demo] marine demo played for the first time. I thought I would die if I go any further. It was scary as hell I was all in sweat and my heart was pounding like never before. I got even morwe scared coz I thought I could have a heart stroke.Then I started getting used to it and then realized it was all scripted. Also my other scary games: System Shock 2 [never even finished] The Thing Avp Avp2 and some others I dont remember right now.

06-24-2006, 08:28 AM	#48
Evil_Crawling_eye Registered User Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 4,920	You know....DooM on the PS1...was actually really creepy as hell. Aposed to the original release with funky guitar riffs and drums. You get the sound of what it would be like if Trent Reznor "sleep wrote" on his keyboard as he was having a bad nightmare. Together with that, and the fact i was playing it during a long lonely summer on my farm with the cool air inside the big farm house, and the sun and trees peeking through the blinds, made you feel like you were the only one on earth playing this game.

07-01-2006, 03:41 AM	#49
Conner Macleod Highlander Hardcore Veteran Join Date: May 1999 Location: USA Posts: 8,906	The original Doom games. There's not much that's scarier than the arch vile. Not to mention the music, it had this really eerie quality that when combined with demons like the mancubus and revenants, it became scary as hell. Few monsters come close to the cyber demon, a 3 story demon with a rocket launcher for an arm, and the ground would shake as it walked. Playing this game in the dark, late at night, it sent shivers down my spine. To this day it remains as one of the scariest games ever. Quake. The moaning of the zombies, the sound of them ripping off their own flesh and throwing it at you, and the only thing that could kill them were grenades, otherwise they would just rise up and keep on coming, very disturbing. Pretty much everything in that game was freaky as hell. I loved the game but sort of dreaded playing it because of the various monsters and the dark, unnerving architecture. Return To Castle Wolfenstein. It managed to recapture some of those freaky moments from the old id Software games. Pain Killer. The only recent game I've tried that was quite disturbing and a little scary. Other than that, most new games that try to be scary really aren't, too many cliches or special effects, not striking the right chemistry between the various elements that comprise each environment.

07-01-2006, 12:26 PM	#50
Injektilo SOBA VIOLENCE Godlike Poster Tournaments Won: 1 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: northampton, UK Posts: 23,087	Conner, if you still have Doom installed, see if you can find the 'WAD' file that replaces the original MIDI music with that of the Playstation version. It's brilliant.

07-01-2006, 06:22 PM	#51
Newbeing Featured Creature Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: some dark pit in space.... Posts: 2,287	Oh yeah. They Hunger, that half-life mod from a few years back. That was pretty damn creepy. Also Evil Dead: Hail to the King, while a shit game had its very creepy moments.

07-04-2006, 08:38 AM	#52
Injektilo SOBA VIOLENCE Godlike Poster Tournaments Won: 1 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: northampton, UK Posts: 23,087	Mods, that's a good point... There were two for Quake that skyrocketed the pants-shitting experience of it - first being Hell In A Can, an Alien-esque level which had you as the sole crew member of a long-haul cargo ship transporting creatures stored in cages and boxes back to wherever. Each level had you being awoken from cryo by the ship's computer with tasks for you to carry out - the first couple are mundane "go resolve the gravity problem on the lower deck" and the like. After a while of wandering around this huge lonely ship, you are woken to the news that certain cages have been breached in the cargo hold - this is where it starts getting horribly tense, the creatures mainly compromise of Vores and Fiends, the latter always ready to launch themselves out at you from darkened corners and shattered crates. Eventually after one or two more breakouts, the ship's integrity has been compromised and you must make a mad rush to the escape shuttle, obviously with a few Shamblers chasing you down en route. The second was a partial conversion called 'Zerst

07-04-2006, 11:04 AM	#53
kirkyl Dead parts surround you Hardcore Veteran Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 5,803	Condemned is also pretty scary, the abandoned school level in particular and the old Apple orchid farm aswell.

07-04-2006, 05:28 PM	#54
Fomorian Stirring again... Hardcore Veteran Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Quebec and a few parallel dimensions Posts: 5,178	What is it about schools and hospitals that make them so scary?

07-04-2006, 05:32 PM	#55
BiomeXhanoid My misinformed opinion > >>your stupid facts/Mom. Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 4,158	Where birth and death occur, where birth and death are celebrated, metaphorically and literally applied. Nothing particularly scary about either. Connotations come from those within.

07-04-2006, 05:47 PM	#56
StrangeWill Run! Elite Poster Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Hixson, TN. USA Posts: 13,815	Putt putt saves the zoo. I shat my pants.

07-06-2006, 09:57 PM	#58
Attommic Registered User Forum Fanatic Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 183	I was creeped out by Max Payne 1's nightmare sequence, it doesn't have anything jumping at you, or some blood gore. It's overal mood, the baby crying in the background, you running in slow motion in the void.

07-07-2006, 04:40 PM	#60
Skibadee Transdimensional War Machine > Turtles Hardcore Veteran Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 8,243	yeh it was kind of scary, the max payne nightmare. @conner post link to the mod for doom, plz.