Scary/ F'd Up moments in Gaming

Technology and Gaming
#1

As the title says, post descriptions in moments of games that you made you jump or made you think the developers had a spot of bad acid. Spoilers be ahead.

If anybody’s played it, Condemned 2, the whole damn thing looked like a really bad dream. [COLOR=‘DimGray’]But one moment in particular was when the Alcohol Demon said “Ignore this Man, he’s already dead.” Later on when you return to sobriety you see the note in the elevator that says “Memorial Services will be held for Agents Pennington and Miller [Officers killed in the dream]”. The whole level creeped the shit out of me and that part blew my mind despite being relatively unspectacular. Apparently you should take the voices in your head literally.

#2

All of Aliens vs Predator 2000 playing as a marine.

#3

The Giygas Battle in Earthbound.

#4

Came in here to say this. It’s really indescribable. If you haven’t played Earthbound, DON’T WATCH THE FINAL BATTLE ON YOUTUBE. You won’t get it. It has to be experienced in the context of the rest of the game. I think I want to play Earthbound again.

And I guess I’m the first to say that the end of Half Life Episode 2 was the scariest thing I have ever experienced in any form of fiction.

#5

I’d say that the Cancellation of Duke Nukem Forever was pretty fucked up;
Thirteen years and all we got was a handful of screen shots, about five trailers, a gameplay video, a cavalcade of “In production” videos, and the lost hope that it would eventually be finished.

Damn you, George Broussard!

#6

I was pretty scared from the dream sequences in Max Payne.

#7

Made a post like this before, I call them “OH SHIT!!!” moments in video games, they make any game a little better.

Condemned - The infamous locker.

Condemned 2 - RUN DOWN THE HILL! HE HAS STUBBY LEGS!

Fear 2 - Its a bird, its a plane, wait what the hell? Its a fucking train!

Half-Life - All the damn headcrabs in the vents lol.

There is more, but those are some of my top favorites.

And Pokemon Eater, are you sure those 2 Policemen mention for that memorial was from that dream? I dont remember any police dead in that scene, and your guilty concious (Because he was more than your Alcohol demon) was talking about Vanhorn has already been dead. I always thought those 2 Policemen mentioned for that memorial was the first 2 cops in the first Condemned that were killed.

#8

Humm, hard to really say because I’ve never really been scared or creeped out in a video game, and I defiantly can’t recall any particular moments where I’ve jumped. However, games like Doom 3, Dead Space, and the original Half Life defiantly had a creepy atmosphere to them. Movies are scarier than games are…but I enjoy playing a horror game too.

#9

Nightmare House.

#10

Mostly multiplayer games. People are much bette at scaring people than scripted events.

#11

Probably playing WoW for 15 minutes and realizing millions of people actually enjoy it.

#12

This is hard to answer for me because few video games have ever really scared me or freaked me out. Some games, like Jurassic Park for SNES, had some moments that made me jump, like walking along quietly by the forest and the freaking T-Rex just appears out of nowhere, or when you go inside in the dark and its in first-person but you can hardly see anything because the night vision goggles only give you a narrow view, and you turn really slowly and then WHAM there’s a raptor right next to you. But for true fear/scare/horror moments…I don’t know if I can think of any right now…

EDIT: I guess you could count some of the parts of the Half-Life series. There were a couple times, like when you have to go through the blast pit, or the tunnels with the ant lion guard, where you had to run away from an enemy you couldn’t see and that can get me a bit terrified :slight_smile:

#13

Also I hear that the Japan only Fatal Frame games are pretty scary, might have to go and check them out.

#14

Oh shit. I completely forgot about fatal frame. I haven’t even played it and it scares the fuck outa me.

#15

Couple of moments:

Half Life: The Icthyosaur encounter

Quake 4: Just all the human parts being used in machinery

FEAR 1: The scene with Fettel in the ruined apartments where you spot Alma in the open lift, that scared the balls off me for some raisin.

Dead Space: The embryo lab and living quarters lobby. Muffled infant cries and someone singing twinkle twinkle little star do NOT relax you when on a ship full of animated corpses.

DOOM: I was younger back then and opening a door to a pinky demon or imp right in your face is pretty jarring.

STALKER series: The first Bloodsucker in SoC and CS, Lab X18, the Red Forest, Chimeras, the Bloodsucker lair in CoP and Burers all terrified me.

Natural Selection: Aliens, bots or players, still manage to shock me at times.

#16

Diablo 1
That part where you fought the Butcher used to give me Nightmares
Then again I was 7…

#17

Clock Tower for the SNES. This part where you are getting chased by scissor man and I went up onto this loft and he went away, a little bit later, after I died and started the game over, I was being chased again and I went up to the loft again, this time I just see these scissors come through the ceiling and he jumps down right in front of me, I was like :fffuuu:, then I died. Seriously, one of the best, and scariest, survival-horror games ever.

#18

Fear 1: Extraction Point - the part where you’re in the hospital and you can see through a window a nurse holding a baby. When you walk closer to it, it smashes against the window along with a horrifying scream.

#19

Dead Space and Prey had quite a few (Prey in the first few levels on the alien ship where that kids kills the other one). Dead Space had several momens like the mutated baby’s and that thing when you shoot it all kinds of monsters come out of it. Bioshock had some pretty good moments too.

#20

Just before you get to the air-boat in HL2 there’s this scene where a fellow resistance member gets headcrabbed. Seeing him cry in pain followed by a creepy song did make me uncomfortable at the time.

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