Bjossi on 2/1/2007 at 21:38
Just yesterday I was playing through Ops on my first ever OSA run on Impossible, and whenever I hear those arachnids it makes me shiver like I'm walking around antarctica nekkid. It was 5 AM, so I was more easily scared though. :p
steo on 20/1/2007 at 16:52
The scariest game I've ever played has to be Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. Next would perhaps be Shock 1 or Resident Evil 3. Shock 2 would probably be somewhere up there as well. Granted, I haven't played any Silent Hill.
With games that are specifically meant to be scary, I make sure I only play after midnight. It makes games so much scarier and makes them last longer too. Leaving it a week or two before playing again can help too.
Bjossi on 20/1/2007 at 18:45
Make sure you are pretty tired too, makes you more vulnerable to scares. :cool:
Volitions Advocate on 8/2/2007 at 08:16
I loved System Shock 2 for its scaryness. Different things scare different people though and its pretty obvious by the diverse opinions in this post.
What made system shock scary for me was finding polito dead and having shodan your "ally" I felt pretty alone, and considering games like ss2 really draw me in i'll play them marathon style. so after you've been playing for 6 straight hours and its 2 am you start getting a little jittery, thats what made it scary for me.
I never found Doom3 to be scary but half the world seemed to, there was only one part that made me jump, (when the imp inside the stasis tube lurches at you then falls back asleep, i wasn't expecting it,i nearly choked on my root beer) Silent Hill 2 i liked. I never finished it though cause my disc was scratched. I just like the imagery.
I think what draws me to scary games is putting myself in the position of the person you're playing. If i was in their position would i freak out or what? Silent hill 2 was creepy for me cause a lot of it is indoors where you dont know what the heck you're hearing and if you dont have your flashlight on the darkness around you in tangeable. Mind you i never freaked out, and Resident evil is just awesome, the story get me hooked on that one. (and the gore.. exploding heads is always awesome)
The only game ever to make me lose it and force myself to stop playing before i had a nervous breakdown was the AVP series. I watched the Alien movies since i was 5 and i find them fascinating and freakin creepy. But theres probably lots of people who think thats stupid and that they're dumb not scary. (my ex-g/f got bored watching those shows, she didn't find them scary at all)
top of my list would be AVP1 for scarethepissouttame factor.
june gloom on 8/2/2007 at 08:32
if i had to list all the games that had me panicky and freaked out, SS2 would not be on that list. it was creepy, but i wouldn't say it was scary per se. system shock 1, however, IS. guh, that maintenance deck. brr.
a list of the games that DID freak me out:
all of the silent hills at one point or another in the game. (yes, even SH4 had its moments.)
thief 1: return to cathedral.
thief 3's cradle. to this day it still emotionally drains me.
there's one scene in condemned: criminal origins, in the abandoned department store, that had me very, very tense, and very grateful i was carrying a gun at the time (i never had to use it, though, thank god.)
there's at least two scenes in the FEAR expansion pack that had the same effect.
alien versus predator 2.
can't think of any others as it's 3:30 in the morning.
Kefren on 8/2/2007 at 13:26
I agree with the games already listed. However there was also a moment in a non-scary game that did scare me - TombRaider 2! There was a level where you get carried down to the sea floor without oxygen and are suddenly stranded there; you can't swim back to the surface; it is pitch black and you don't know where to go; and then a huge shark begins to circle you! A few primeval fears combined (drowning, deep water, the unknown, blackness, sharks) - it was a moment that lit up the whole game, and stuck in my mind for years afterwards. Because on the one hand are scary games; but there are also games that aren't scary, but maybe have one amazing moment or level that stays with you.
june gloom on 8/2/2007 at 19:56
hey, yeah, that was a bit tense. the whole bit on the sunken ship afterwards is also a bit creepy, partly out of its sheer novelty.
Kefren on 9/2/2007 at 11:46
And since the underwater ship level was the best bit of TombRaider 2 - that bodes well for BioShock!
Volitions Advocate on 9/2/2007 at 11:47
TR2 was my favorite tr game, the maria doria levels scared me like you said with the primeval fears. drowning and water and all that. Made me think of movies like the abyss and leviathan and deep star six (i'm a survival horror junkie) but the part in tr2 that bugged me was the spider parts in the underground temple back in china.
Also.. Scariest part in avp2 would probably be the whole level where you go back to the POC alone and you've gotta fight through it and the whole place is infested. the part where you go into the dark hallway to flip the switch to turn the power on or whatever it is you're doing in there, just before the very end of the level. man I had to work up the courage sometimes to walk in there (seeing as how your flashlight is so finite)
i guess im just a pansy
go Giger!
