Games that are sooo scary you put the telly back on!

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irishguy2008 wrote:Motion sickness?

I hope for Ginga's sake you're right. :shifty:

Can't say I get scared of any games. You might get the occasional shock moment like the dogs smashing through the windows in Resi or the licker through the two way mirror in Resi 2, but that's cheap scares. I did like Project 0 where you would have to wait and wait, letting the ghosts get ever near you before snapping them. Tension!

So no. Whereas I love horror games, I'm not scared of playing them.

irishguy2008 wrote:Motion sickness?

No, it's not motion sickness. I can play "happier" games with no problems. I think the doom and gloom has some odd physical effects. strawberry float knows. I blame listening to Enya as a wean.

Brerlappins little hat wrote:Project zero 1 & 2 are the only games to actually make me so scared i had to force myself to stop playing them. But in my defence i would generally stick them on at like 2am and play them in a dark room

This.

Also, Eternal Darkness in parts was pretty unsettling.

Also, give me my Fatal Frame 4, (Project Zero 4), you euro-nintendo nazis. I've waited for the chance to be scared wii shitless quite long enough now.

Tomb Raider games used to actually piss me off. Theres no need for random orchestra drums whilst your tippy toeing about. Or for things to randomly jump out at you. strawberry float off!

Plurbs wrote:Tomb Raider games used to actually piss me off. Theres no need for random orchestra drums whilst your tippy toeing about. Or for things to randomly jump out at you. **** off!

Randomness FTW! :lol:

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There a couple of times in Fallout where I didn't realise there was something running to my side and attacking (probably a mole-rat or something). On one occasion the sudden surprise, the rumble on the Dualshock made me literally jump and yelp, my girlfriend saw me and thought I was a mental.

closer wrote:
Brerlappins little hat wrote:Project zero 1 & 2 are the only games to actually make me so scared i had to force myself to stop playing them. But in my defence i would generally stick them on at like 2am and play them in a dark room

This.

Also, Eternal Darkness in parts was pretty unsettling.

Very much so, especially this bit;

I was playing the game with my sister and because that moment comes out of nowhere, we both leapt a bloody mile! It still gives me butterflies :oops:

Dead Space is well creepy. But the biggest scare I have ever had was in Resident Evil 4 with the

strawberry floating Pooped my pants there!!!

REmake's reimaging of the bathroom scene was pretty high on the jump meter. It was bad enough draining the bath and finding the zombie but when the bloody thing burst through the door after exiting :shock:

I remember RE3.........The first time Nemesis appeared outside the police station I had nightmares for about a week.

Gandalf wrote:Can't say I get scared of any games. You might get the occasional shock moment like the dogs smashing through the windows in Resi or the licker through the two way mirror in Resi 2, but that's cheap scares. I did like Project 0 where you would have to wait and wait, letting the ghosts get ever near you before snapping them. Tension!

So no. Whereas I love horror games, I'm not scared of playing them.

This, in its entirety.

Condemned. The Mall. The Mannequins.

*does a poo*

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Zenigame wrote:Then again I also got scared playing Bioshock.

Fort Frolic is the scariest thing ever.

Doom 3 also had a profound effect on me. I never knew I had in me the capacity to scream like an actual hysterical woman until I'd played that. Also, Resi 4 never ever failed in evoking a very real, frantic panic. There were a few moments with the Regenerators and Iron Maidens and the Garradors that made it very difficult to press on.

Other than these titles, though, I've never really gotten anything out of any other so-called horror games. I was willing to let Silent Hill 2 have its way with me upon starting it, but the sheer frustration brought about by the combat and some of the scenarios pulled me right out of any kind of atmosphere the game had created. I played through Project Zero 1 and 2 and got nothing from them but heavy boredom. I started 3 a couple of weeks ago, but it's really difficult for me to press on when I know I'm likely to be in for exactly the same kind of unaffecting experience. I mean, when have ghosts ever been scary? Needs more mannequins.

The original Silent Hill demo gave both me and a friend nightmares.

Anung wrote:
Cropolite wrote:The original Silent Hill demo gave both me and a friend nightmares.

The one that also had MGS1 on it...**** scary.

Wasn't the SH demo included in the MGS1 case?

+1 for Condemned, was a brilliant experience playing through it as I'm a total wimp when it comes to horrors. The mannequin scene (first played in the dark at around 1am with headphones when the house was empty) was terrifying and while I hated every minute of it, I'm very glad I saw the game through to the end.

I remember when I got Resident Evil for the GC (ashamed to mention it's the first Resi game I played), I had no idea of what to expect (and I had accidentally skipped one of the initial cutscenes) so I found the dining room and it's camera angle very intimidating. So intimidating in fact, I didn't actually leave that part of the room for about 10 minutes as I was trying to prepare myself for what the next camera angle would reveal. I was 12. :fp:

Anung wrote:
Brerlappins little hat wrote:Project zero 1 & 2 are the only games to actually make me so scared i had to force myself to stop playing them. But in my defence i would generally stick them on at like 2am and play them in a dark room

We never got far enough with that. We need to take it with us to Dunoon next time. :lol:

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Project Zero and Silent Hill 2 are the scariest games I've ever played.

I still need to play my copies of PZ2 and 3. I look forward to it but at the same time I'm scared to play them.

SugarDave wrote:
Anung wrote:
Cropolite wrote:The original Silent Hill demo gave both me and a friend nightmares.

The one that also had MGS1 on it...**** scary.

Wasn't the SH demo included in the MGS1 case?

Yeah, that's how I got it.

Yep, Condemned. Scariest game I've ever played. Brilliant too. Simple, but brilliant.

I remember screaming my head off in terror, as my uni housemates wondered what the strawberry float was going on.

:oops:

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