Scariest Video Games You Ever Played

[InformationGeek]

It's October, so why not also talk about the scary video games as well?  No need to leave them out!

The scariest games I ever played were Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and most of the Half-Life games.  While there was no constant threat in SH: SM outside of the ice world; the icsolated world where there is basically no one at all, the quiet nature of the town, and not knowing if the world will ice over made for some scary moments.  The final nightmare was the scariest and the freakiest moment.

Half-Life series isn't really made to be a horror game, but there are plenty of horror moments that always kept me on the edge of my seat, like going through Ravenhelm or the underground of City 13 in Half Life 2: Epi 1.  Those damn zombies.

So what about you guys?  What games scared you the most while playing them?

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

Dead Space  Not only the game itself, but the ending...nuff' said 

Dead Rising being among swarms of zombies and hearing them all groan and grunt. There's a true feeling of being boxed in and nowhere to run as they close in on you.

I got claustrophobia from one of the levels of the old Medal Of Honor games:

Your guy fought in 1st person in a gas mask inside a chemical weapons factory.
The mask fogged up as the guy would breathe, and he mad Darth Vader-like sounds as he was breathing. It really messed with me until I got used to it.

Resident Evil 1 (PS)  When the dogs came crashing thru the window..I think we all suffered from that one! 

[Jack]

Dead Space.  Walking through those hallways, then some scary music cue would play and a horrible necromorph would appear and come after you.  It was like being in the movie Alien.  And Dead Space 2 is coming out at the beginning of January - can't wait 

[metalmonster]

The Video Game "D" Was Pretty Scary



I'm Not Even Sure If They Still Make It , It Used To Be For SEGA SATURN Game Systems





The Plotline Of The Game

A Psychotic Doctor Has Murdered Everyone In His Hospital And Has The Place On Lockdown , Only The Doctor's Daughter Laura Is Let In , The Player Plays The Character Laura And The Object Of The Game Is To Find AND Stop The Bad Guy By Following Various Clues Left Behind (The Ring on the one dead guys hand is actually the key that fits a door etc.) , The Whole Game Is Set Up Like A Haunted House With Pictures That Smile At You As You Pass , Disembodied Voices , Bodies Strewn About In Various Stages Of Rot , Trap Doors , Secret Tunnels , Papers with secret messages And Stuff Like That


.....Like I Said It Used To Be For SEGA SATURN And I'm Not Sure If They Make That Game System Anymore , And I'm Not Sure If They Made It For Any Other Systems


If You Ever Find It It's A Great Game!

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

The Video Game "D" Was Pretty Scary



I'm Not Even Sure If They Still Make It , It Used To Be For SEGA SATURN Game Systems





The Plotline Of The Game

A Psychotic Doctor Has Murdered Everyone In His Hospital And Has The Place On Lockdown , Only The Doctor's Daughter Laura Is Let In , The Player Plays The Character Laura And The Object Of The Game Is To Find AND Stop The Bad Guy By Following Various Clues Left Behind (The Ring on the one dead guys hand is actually the key that fits a door etc.) , The Whole Game Is Set Up Like A Haunted House With Pictures That Smile At You As You Pass , Disembodied Voices , Bodies Strewn About In Various Stages Of Rot , Trap Doors , Secret Tunnels , Papers with secret messages And Stuff Like That


.....Like I Said It Used To Be For SEGA SATURN And I'm Not Sure If They Make That Game System Anymore , And I'm Not Sure If They Made It For Any Other Systems


If You Ever Find It It's A Great Game!

Oh man.....you just hit a memory with me. I remember playng this, but don't ever remember beating it.  Sega Saturn had some good games as well outside of the scary stuff.

That 32x system was a horrible idea though ( I should know) and the games they had like Corpse Killer  Tomcat Alley and the digital versions of  the filmsCongo and Cliffhanger even less good.   

However, the digitized version of Kamen Rider Zo was neat, and despite no longer having the system, I never parted with my copy of it, as it's a collectors' item now.

[retrorussell]

The original Clock Tower for the SNES was pretty creepy, though pretty tame violence-wise.  Clock Tower for the Playstation rememdied this, and it was nearly as scary.  The bad voice acting hurt the overall creepiness though.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

The original Clock Tower for the SNES was pretty creepy, though pretty tame violence-wise.  Clock Tower for the Playstation rememdied this, and it was nearly as scary.  The bad voice acting hurt the overall creepiness though.

I seem to remember that title, though vaguely. Was it about a serial killer or something?

And we should also tip our hats to the Castlevania series.  Not truly scary, but a big innovation in the horror market.  But you know what IS scary though? Have you ever played the Fatal Frame series?  Now those were scary, esp. numero uno in the series!

[retrorussell]

I seem to remember that title, though vaguely. Was it about a serial killer or something?

A pair of evil twin brothers attacked a girl at an orphanage.  One was some bloated mutant monster, and the other was known as "Scissorman", who wielded a giant pair of shears to gore his victims with.  Lots of supernatural evil things also happen in the game that can kill you.  That's the Super NES version, anyway.   I think it was Japan-only.

[Jack]

I've always wanted to play Haunting Ground on the PS2 - looks like a cool game.  But a used copy is about twenty bucks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pszohS86H2w

Cold Fear is a real forgotten gem in my opinion.  It wasn't all that scary overall, but it definitely had its moments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUTO4pNwjYY

[Trevor]

There is a point and click game on www.freewebarcade.com called "Exmortis 2" ~ not to be played with the lights off, trust me on this. 

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Clock Tower for Ps1 was really scary when it came out. I never played the SNES one but watced a walkthrough of it.

Clock tower 2 was kinda lame except for how awesome Mr Bates was.

Resident Evil. The part where you get attacked by the Snake I threw my controller to my friend and was like "Forget this, your turn!"

[flackbait]

Heh, well my old roomates was in fallout 3. He had a deathly fear of scorpians and in that game there are giant scorpians that are the size of a freaking bus! Needless to say he was a little freaked out when he saw one for the first time.

As for me probably deadspace, that game was more than a little messed up!

[Leah]

Thrill Kill- just a...a...a f**ked up game
Postal 2 DAMN, the game is so f**ked up.
Mortal Kombat- I'm sure everyone knows the story...

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Its an oldie... but Clive Barker's Undying has some really scary bit sin the first third.

[venomx]

I have to admit it, Doom 3 PC made me jump a few times lol. But thats when I had 5.1, bass sound on a 22" mont.