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What game made you afraid?
« on: March 17, 2007, 11:47:59 am »
I decided to make this thread after finishing Condemned: Criminal origins. Now i will forever see nightmares of wall crawling addicts :'(
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Re: What game made you afraid?
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2007, 02:08:19 pm »
Oh man... games scare the crap out of me. Its kinda sad. I couldn't even play through Doom3, 'cause the audio creeped me out so much.

Right now I'm playing through the original Deus Ex in my spare time (sooo awesome) and I've had numerous heart attack moments getting caught while trying to sneak past a guard bot.

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Re: What game made you afraid?
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2007, 03:07:21 pm »
I don't really get too scared by games anymore. When I was a kid, I was mortally afraid of Rescue on Fractalus (and still am, having discovered it on emulator, it still scares the crap out of me) - if you've never played it, you should. Wikipedia claims:
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Some old-time gamers claim that this is the first time a computer game included a true, "shock appeal" moment.

I happen to agree.


I also used to get nightmares when playing (or watching my dad play, now that's youth) the Alternate Reality series, also for the Atari 800. We had both AR: The City and AR: The Dungeon. The gamaplay and particularly the music was awesome, but some of the enemy sprites were a little too scary for my sensitive young self. ;P
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Re: What game made you afraid?
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2007, 06:44:50 pm »
Resident Evil 4 recently did it for me, even when playing on easy. (I'm not that good at it)
I had never played a RE game before, and I only played this when it was dark with the volume turned up. Some real jump moments in there, without giving anything away for those who have not played it yet.

Spiders in games are usually scary for me, except for the ones in Twilight Princess, they sucked. The pink spider(!) in Knytt was scarier for gods sake!

Playing Quake3 against a friend of mine is quite scary too, with Instagib enabled and carrying the flag, some tense moments.

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Re: What game made you afraid?
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2007, 10:18:50 pm »
Mm... Silent Hill 2 and Fatal Frame 2 are perty much the scariest things I've played. The human demo for Alien Versus Predator 2 was also really scary for me, but I was disappointed to find that the version I had bought was after a patch which moved all the Aliens into incredibly easy to spot places.
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Re: What game made you afraid?
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2007, 02:20:46 pm »
I managed to find a good video of condemned from youtube. It shows pretty well the atmosphere in the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07y0kwM01SI
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Re: What game made you afraid?
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2007, 09:26:07 pm »
Actually, Resident Evil (the remake for the GameCube) did make me jump a couple of times. Definitely worth playing in the dark at 4am  >:D
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Re: What game made you afraid?
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2007, 01:50:22 am »
Sonic the Hedgehog 2, played with Sonic and Knuckles, on the final boss, with only one life and no continues left, and the fear that I would have to start all over again to finish the game.  Then dying, and having to start all over again the next day. :(

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Re: What game made you afraid?
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2007, 03:16:05 am »
Actually, Resident Evil (the remake for the GameCube) did make me jump a couple of times. Definitely worth playing in the dark at 4am  >:D

RE4, Widescreen TV, at 4am no lights... it got to a point where my buddy and I opened a door and aimed a gun, opened a door, aimed, opened, aimed... paranoia rocks so hard at that hour.

Doom (the original) had my heart pounding as well.
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Re: What game made you afraid?
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2007, 08:56:10 am »
Altered Beast. :'(

Seriously, I can't believe they packaged that game with the SEGA Genesis!

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Re: What game made you afraid?
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2007, 12:44:50 pm »
Altered Beast. :'(

Seriously, I can't believe they packaged that game with the SEGA Genesis!

You what?!?!   ;P

I don't really remember much of it, but I don't remember it being that scary. All I remember is "Powerrr UP!" but I could be wrong. *goes off to find his Mega Drive*

I've thought of another one from my childhood: that Ghostbusters game where you run the franchise. For some reason the Marshmallow Man used to scare the crap out of me!
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Re: What game made you afraid?
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2007, 03:56:53 pm »
I've thought of another one from my childhood: that Ghostbusters game where you run the franchise. For some reason the Marshmallow Man used to scare the crap out of me!
As I got older, but not too much older, that is one of the things that always confused me.  In the scene where they are all supposed to make their minds blank, and Ray thinks of the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man, he claims that he is trying to think of the one thing that could never harm him.  However, as a kid, the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man scared the f*ck out of me.  I couldn't understand how he found that thing to be safe.  Of course, years later, I figured it out, but when I was 10, it MADE NO SENSE.

Now, to answer the original question asked in a serious manner:  I don't tend to play horror/suspense games.  In general, they are not my style.  I like old school SHMUPS (Ambrosia's Deimos Rising is excellent, by the way), old school games in general (I grew up with a Genesis, and still think it had some of the best games ever made), and an eclectic mix of modern games (Rez, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, &c.).

However, there is a spot in Metal Gear Solid 2 that really bothered me.  I am a bit claustrophobic, and really don't like the idea of drowning.  In the section where you have to get E.E. through the flooded corridors, I found myself very close to panic a couple of times, as she nearly drowned.  It was not a comfortable feeling.  Not quite the answer that you were looking for, I assume, but man, that part of the game freaked me out...

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Re: What game made you afraid?
« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2007, 11:06:32 pm »
There really has been no game that scared the **** out of me just yet. I think it's not quite possible for games to have a real scare effect on me, it's just not convincing enough to make my heart pound a bit faster. I don't get scared by movies either though.

Doom3 had it's moments of trying to 'boo' me towards the ceiling, but it didn't quite work. It mainly uses the same scare tactics over and over again. Some growl noises in the background, perhaps the ocassional fast footsteps, then the lights suddenly go out and woosh once they're back on there's this monster in front of you. Infact it's so close that if it would be real you would have faded from there bad breath instead of suffering the consequences of the heartattack. :p 

Well, that's not scary or frightning, but it can indeed give you a heartattack, but purely because of this sound thing.. Criminal Origins' atmosphere is w
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Re: What game made you afraid?
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2007, 03:56:00 pm »
Just recently, "Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth". Seriously, I'm often afraid of going on while I'm playing, and it's really creepy how the character starts talking to himself and starts hearing voices and seeing things after you encounter disturbing stuff.

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Re: What game made you afraid?
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2007, 11:41:38 pm »
I completely forgot freaking F.E.A.R.  Little insane girls FTL.