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When was the last time a game scared you?

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater


When you face "the end" and your with your microphone and your sniper trying to lurk the sneaky old bas*^&* out of the woods......

the silence is what kills you!:p


and

Resident Evil: ALL OF THEM!!!!! dammm i remember i got one of those copies for my 10th birthday.....and i told my uncle who gave it to me, to give Tony Hawk 4! instead....:p
 
That piano in the haunted house in Super Mario 64 that started to bite and jump at you when you approached it :D

I wouldn't play that level. Ever. I was like 6 though :)
 
Sambo110 said:
The original Condemned. I remember me and my friend playing it, trying to pass the controller to each other, in the end we just played music over it :D.
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I agree. I had nightmares from that game. It wasn't that it was that scary but I would often play it right before I went to sleep so the game would be fresh in my mind.
 
Almost any computer/video game where you are alone and have to fight off creatures in the dark and confined quarters of a hallway. I am thinking of the Aliens Vs. Predator series.

I always get a jumpy feeling when it's just me and no backup/rescue.
 
Winni said:
Doom 3.
Dead Space.
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I guess I'd have to say Doom 3 as well. I don't specifically seek out "scary" games though. I still have Dead Space sitting on the shelf gathering dust, too many other games in my queue, but I do want to get to it soon.

I played both F.E.A.R games earlier in the ye...er, earlier last year, and they were somewhat spooky but not really scary.

iMouse said:
Marathon 2 scared me the other night. Pitch black in the house, headphones on. One minute, you hear ambient sounds, the next is the noise of a Pfhor shock staff in your back.
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Marathon Infinity always creeped the crap out of me as a kid (especially those floating guys with the cloaks, the S'pht Compilers? eek!) — never properly got through it.

It is hard for movies or games to be really scary to me, usually they're either just surprising or gross.
 
dead space, and before that, half life 2 (ravenholm - i used to be a massive wuss with games).

on another note, brad.c, would you beleive that your avatar was perfectly synced with my music (bloc party - little thoughts)?
 
I would agree with AvP. In the darkness and the only noise you here is the bleeps getting faster and faster.
 
dukebound85 said:
hmm many do

doom 3 (so SPOOKY!)
resistance (those dang zombie guys!)
resident evil (holy crap!)

im a wuss and avoid playing these games since they are too scary and make me like throw the effing controler
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Doom3 was tense. I remember those set-ups just made to startle you. :)
 
mscriv said:
I was around eight years old and went over to a friends house to play. His mother got out the board game "Life" and we played a game. Landed here, oops, you're in debt, landed there, oops, you've got kids.... It scared the stuffin' out of me. I remember thinking "if this is what the future holds then I don't want to grow up".
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Lol.
 
iMouse said:
Marathon 2 scared me the other night. Pitch black in the house, headphones on. One minute, you hear ambient sounds, the next is the noise of a Pfhor shock staff in your back.
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My first tense computer experience about 1993 was at the very beginning of Marathon when I saw this Pfhor running down a long hall so he could use his shock staff on me and my puny pistol. What a game!:D
 
It is funny that so many found Doom 3 so creepy ... I found the 'monster closets' were such contrivances that despite making you jump from the surprise of being attacked from behind all I could think of was how it was such a poor and lazy design.
 
doom3 takes the cake not bc of the closet scares, that worked so much, but because of the darkness, only having that flashlight beam out and the ambience. the sounds in that game were intense. I jumped a lot. oh, and the shadows. you would see them and nothing would be there, then you turn around and it's one of those freak cherub babies raping you. gah
 
Original Half Life - there was an area crawling in the air ducts that I literally jumped out of my seat, playing in the dark with headphones.

The first time a game really scared me - original doom, the dark room early on to the left side behind the secret door with the "wooky" type guys who jumped out behind the passageway.

Ah, memories
 
The first time a game scared me was when I was 8 or 9 playing Resident Evil 2. Mind you, this game has fixed camera views, so you never know or can see what will happen. There is one part near the very end of the game when you're escaping the police station and Raccoon City through the sewers. And suddenly, this GIGANTIC alligator shows up and chases you. And yes, I ran. :eek:

The last time a game scared me was probably playing a demo version of Resident Evil 5. That is the one series that continues to scare. And you just know zombies are coming for you. But you can't fight the feeling.
 
Doom 3 when it first came out.

That was a scary game! Not so much anymore the 5th time around.
 
Boy, this thread makes me feel old - when first person shooters got big (e.g. Doom), I was too old to be spooked by a video game. But I think I was about nine years old when my parents got me The Colonel's Bequest. That was pretty spooky for me at the time! :)
 
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