What game made you afraid?

[shinygerbil]

Goddamn, I love Resident Evil 4. It's not scary, but it sure is fun. Especially with the Wiimote. I actually think that it has one of the best control systems out there. I just love it.

RESIDENT EVIL 4 BABY!

But yeah, it ain't scary.

You know what's scary? Playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R with a huge, fat set of speakers right next to you and your easily-startled girlfriend just behind. So when that dog suddenly leaps outta nowhere, it doesn't scare you, but the simultaneous roar of the speaker and squeak of the girlfriend shit you right up. Hot piss.

[Toom]

Resident Evil 4 is not really a horror game.

The only scary moment is when you are in the sewers of the Castle and when Salazar had sent his right hand to hunt you down.

Augh that sodding castle bit is dreadful. Well, it's enjoyable enough, but I really liked the atmosphere that'd been building throughout the first half of the game...it's kind of salvaged later on, but as soon as you cross that drawbridge it seems to turn into Auto Shotgun Dungeon Crawl for ages.

[Tosheros]

Resident Evil Biohazard 4 was not really spooking me out... I made it into the castle but left the game at this point. :S

I got my and on "Condemned: Criminal Origins" lately so I'll give it a go and see what it has to offer. 

Well the two only scary moments in the game are both in the Castle.

Then I really loved the Wii control of the game, it's very handy and fun to shoot with it. Eventhough the knive is just like in Zelda --> pretty pathetic.
I hope other games such as Disaster : Day of Crisis will make even better.

[theSamo]

Duke Nukem3d (first FPS i played)

doom3 is inherently scary. which i think is one of it's strong points.

[PHeMoX]

Doom3 is not scary ...  come on, they heavily rely on the following approach: you hear a sound, lights go out, you'll hear a louder sound, lights on and a monster jumps or is spawned in front of you. That's not scary... it's a bit shocking perhaps, especially the first few times, but it's not scary...

[Toom]

Well the two only scary moments in the game are both in the Castle.

Would that be the point where forty cultists charge at you and you effortlessly mow them all down with the auto shotgun? Or the point where Krasuer's arm explodes and then you stab him inna leg twice and he dies?

I love RE4 but most of the castle run is just lazily-designed dungeon crawling.

[Tosheros]

Those two moments are not swary. XD

I thougt about the moment in the sewers chem you hear the sound of a crawling beast, and then nothing...
"Why did this scary sound just stopped? O...O "

And the other one is when you see through the eyes of Salazar's right hand in the darkest place of the game and where he is running on the wall behind us.

[Plaid Phantom]

*joins*

The first game that honestly scared me was American McGee's Alice.  I forget at what point, exactly, but I was playing it at three or four in the morning with everyone in bed and all the lights off.  That game has a really creepy ambiance.  Particularly all of those mental patient kids.

Half-life got me a couple of times too.

[Tosheros]

Speaking of American McGee's Alice, I heard they were making a movie from this game.

[Zeno]

Speaking of American McGee's Alice, I heard they were making a movie from this game.

Indeed they are, sir.  With Sarah Michelle Gellar as Alice.



Anyways, Seven Days a Skeptic.  Terrifying.

[illithid235]

Ahh, RE4 had one monster that just creeped me out terribly...the Regenerators. Especially when you fall down into that sewer and land on one... everything about them sent chills up my spine. BioShock so far has had some moments, but not a lot. F.E.A.R. had some too. But, like some others, I'm not much of a scary games type of guy, only a little. But I do enjoy scares when I get them.

[Ahcruna]

Silent Hill pretty much demeted me for about a two weeks after i finished it.
the added effect might have come from the fact that I finished the game with the bad ending... back then i didn't know it had more then "ONE!" ending hehehe so yeah it was pretty freaky getting that.

as mentioned before in the thread, some older games are actually creepyer becouse of theyr age, example: Dark seed
that game can seriously give people nightmares.

[EntiteFred]

The only game that really made me jump in my chair was the first Clock tower, on the snes.  In one of the "bad endings", while running away, you enter in the elevator, the doors close, and then, after waiting the same amount of time you're normally waiting for the "ping" sound, you hear the crunching sound of rusty shears closing on flesh  immediately followed by a scream.  Then there is blood flowing from under the elevator's door.  All without warning, in the middle of a "running away from horrible things" sequence.  It gave me the goosebumps each time.

[Mush Man]

"Ultimate" Doom. Or Doom 1. Why? I was at a friends house when I was around 9 years old, who had a PlayStation and I managed to get up to Level 14, but I tells ya, there's nothing worse than walking down a hallway, then turning around to see a huge Cacodemon shooting a lightning ball at you! OMG!
The funny thing is that when you're young, you don't notice the pixels and it just seems so real. At one point, I had to hand over the controller so I could take a break, plus, there were no save files! Only passwords. If you die, you're pretty much screwed. But that's the PS version, and one of the best though I am a Nintendo fan.
I once set up a netowrk for Doom 95 for Deathmatches. Pitty was that my anti-virus software Trend Micro crashed the computer because of the program (Hamachi) I was using.

[Toom]

Doom 2 certainly did a number on my tender nerves when I first played it...I got it for Christmas in 1994 and proceeded to complete it in maybe two or three marathon sittings. I was ten years old. Rent my feeble pre-pubescent mind in twain.