Scariest Games or PartsFollow

After playing Amnesia, I gotta say nothing comes close. The feeling of helplessness (no weapons!), the overall mood of the game, & the sound, combine to make it terrifying. Other than that, there've been a few "jump" scares that got me in various other games (Resident Evil, System Shock/Bio Shock, Dead Island, F.E.A.R., etc.).

Dragons in Skyrim can now be scary again too, now that I have the Dangerous Dragons mods. But it's less "run away in fear" & more "run away before it one shots me with it's acid breath" kind of scary.

Yeah, the alien part was pretty freaking creepy too. Also, when Majora's Mask came out, I was seven. God that game scared the **** out of me.



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Edited, Feb 2nd 2012 5:24am by IDrownFish

Resident Evil traditionally had a bunch of "BOO!" parts where something jumps out; but those obviously go for shock value. Silent Hill's games tended to take unnerving to a higher level (although I only played one of them... the second one, maybe?). I remember Parasite Eve 2 had some freaky things, even though the graphics were relatively poor.

Heck, did anyone play Parasite Eve 2 besides me? It's actually one of my favorite survival games (although it's more survival/RPG instead of survival/action like Silent Hill/RE).

The freakiest game-related thing I ever read/saw was the cursed Majora's Mask post from like 2010. You can read it here: http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/2010/09/majora.html

The text was kinda "Meh"... and then you watch the videos. *Shudder*

Way, way back in the day I played a game called Project Firestart on the Commodore 64. Supposedly it's one of, if not the, first games in the "survival horror" genre. It was definitely the first game I ever saw with graphic use of blood; not just "gore" sprites but streaked onto the walls, pooled around bodies and smeared into words warning you of danger. You were getting stalked by these big shambling aliens and the music would suddenly change when one appeared and your laser sucked so you had to run away as often as not.

I looked up some Youtube video and it looks positively quaint by today's standards but at the time it used to spook me out.

Edited, Feb 2nd 2012 9:24am by Jophiel

I remember that I never wanted to play the flight combat sim that we had on the C64, because there was too much requisite knowledge for my little brain to handle, and I always died on takeoff. The game would show a screen showing your character in a coffin draped with the American flag, and a purple heart. I guess I found that mildly traumatic, because I was afraid to play after my first few unsuccessful attempts.

The first intentionally scary game that I remember was off the Alien franchise. Can't remember the system...SNES maybe? I remember that the Aliens didn't make any noise as they approached, so you didn't know that you were @#%^ed until your screen started flashing red and you turned around to see the facehuggers or full grown aliens that had snuck up and were now raping you from behind. It made you pretty paranoid, IIRC, and I'd spend the whole game spinning around and expecting enemies from everywhere (which, really, is exactly what a game about that stuff should shoot for). Tough game.

Edited, Feb 2nd 2012 12:15pm by Eske

Amen... but the videos still make it SUPER FREAKY. I would love to have the skills to make a ROM of this creepy-pasta, lol.

Thinking about it, the Derelict Reaper in Mass Effect 2 was pretty eerie, too. As was the Collector's Base.