Indeed, the underground levels (especially in Yantar) are pretty creepy. What freaks me out the most is the controller (those psy guys who screw with your mind) and that voice resonating through the Chernobyl NPP gives me chills.
Penumbra: Overture and Black Plague have to be one of the scariest games I’ve ever played, the Kennels level in Black Plague almost gave me a heart attack and I still have nightmares of that thing… that thing in the walls.
No, your Demon was talking directly in the guy’s face without him knowing. You may be right about them being from the first game, but the card in the elevator specifically said Pennington and Miller, who were killed by the black goo creatures in the dream.
Oh yeah, you gotta love the locker and how young we were when we were surprised by things like that. Now we know better.
My first STALKER was Call of Pripyat, and getting through the lair really had my ureters on edge as to be prepared to what my happen if I made one wrong move in the middle of a room full of sleeping Bloodsuckers. Finding my first Burer was mostly a pain in the ass (you know, like Zulu dying after about the first two or three Snorks), but they weren’t anything a good couple of rounds from the Stryker or getting the drop on them with the SVD could handle.
Not like Pseudogiants. Motherfucker, I still have a couple of bruises after I fell out of my chair from getting fist-pounded by that asshole.
Oh yeah, Bears and winter retreats. Run for your life.
I thought back through everything i’ve played in the past.
All i can think about is when i was off-guard in Bioshock and a Splicer burst out from behind a turned over Desk or Table. And when they started playing dead.
Some plot parts of Dreamfall did scare me admittedly, mainly the story of Fate, up until the very end, when I found out she isn’t in fact trying to just kill me… from that, it was just sad.
F.E.A.R. scared me pretty badly. (Or should i say good?)
The zombie movement from the zombies in HL2 were creepy.
Ju-On The Game scared me shitless. (Ju-On is more commonly known in America as The Grudge.)
Resident Evil 2 & 4 scared me.
That’s about it.
Honestly, the creepiest part of Half-Life 2 is Ravenholm. I STILL get creeped out by it, and I’ve played through it at least a dozen times. That’s kick-ass level design there. I just wish HL^3 was properly on its way, but it’s being delayed by Portal 2.
Well in the original Half Life I turned a corner and there was a Gargantuan within crowbar distance of me.
I. Shat. Bricks.
It chased me all the way to the area were the artillery stike map was i made it to the map, and thought i was safe.
I was wrong.
It busted through the gate just as i called in the strike to kill it so it stayed alive and climbed up this ramp on to a platform that was level with me.
I. Shat. Bricks. Again
So after luring it back to the entrance I then managed to blow it up, but my heart was still going a mile a minuet though.
It’s gonna sound like I’m a pussy, but the first thing that really freaked me out in a video game was Corley’s death in Full Throttle. The way his eyes rolled back creeped me the fuck out. I remember hiding under the desk whenever that scene came, waiting for it to end.
Nothing compares to Condemned, Call of Cthulhu or Penumbra, seriously both the Penumbra games are on steam go check them out, scariest games ever :<
Woah, got into a whole link of videos, was looking for a penumbra video to show but one video lead to another and totally forgot i was in this post which i started about an hour ago haha.
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