Best Game to Freak You Out

vestanpance

What's the best game to freak you out, be it for the graphics or the sound, for me I'm only now getting around to playing FEAR abd everytime the girl wlaks across the screen make sme jumps, girl ghosts shount not be allowed in games. Another game is The Condemned, there's nothing like playing that at night with lights off on 5.1 surround sound, hearing those noises behind me always makes me jump.

mcgovern

vestanpance wrote: »

What's the best game to freak you out, be it for the graphics or the sound, for me I'm only now getting around to playing FEAR abd everytime the girl wlaks across the screen make sme jumps, girl ghosts shount not be allowed in games. Another game is The Condemned, there's nothing like playing that at night with lights off on 5.1 surround sound, hearing those noises behind me always makes me jump.

Condemnded was good, Doom 3 was pretty scary at times also.
FEAR (made by same people as Condemned) was only ok I thought.

Sabre0001

Aliens v Predator for me...Especially as the marine - plenty of demos available

conzy

The Hidden

Its a HL2 mod, great stuff

Zapp Brannigan

Used to get creeped out at the ghost babies in Silent Hill.

*adele*

I get creeped out by the thing with no arms in silent hill cause after you hit it once it scuttles away really fast. In retrospect that doesnt sound very scary at all...
that alice game freaked me out,purely because it twisted one of my favourite stories when i was little

Retr0gamer

I think nothing beats Silent Hill 2. A very creepy and sufficatingly depressing experience that will get under your skin and stay with you long after the final credits roll. All the games mentioned have nothing but cheap scares going for. SH2 is the thinking mans horror game. To top it off it's also on of the finest pieces of storytelling ever them.

yoyo

Condemned absolutely, after a few scoops Manhunt is also scary, Condemned was the best "scare" expierience I've played, it gives limited ammo, relys on mellee weapons and it actually realistic, FEAR on the other hand couldn't scare anyone I'm sure

Nick

Melion

The first Resi on the PS1, when the dogs come bursting through the window towards the start, oh jesus christ, i nearly died when they came through it.

*adele*

I adore the film so i was optimistic going into the game,i think it was a bit disappointing that way though. The creatures could be scarier i think. And when your fighting them on the streets its not that scary because its really easy to get away from them so theres not much risk. Still amazing imo though

<edit>^ talking about silent hill here still.

vestanpance

Melion wrote: »

The first Resi on the PS1, when the dogs come bursting through the window towards the start, oh jesus christ, i nearly died when they came through it.

Jaysus, yeah, I forgot about that game.

vestanpance

yoyo wrote: »

FEAR on the other hand couldn't scare anyone I'm sure

Ah yeah, game is fairly standard but when that girl walk across in the distance, always makes me jump.

yoyo

vestanpance wrote: »

Ah yeah, game is fairly standard but when that girl walk across in the distance, always makes me jump.

I thought it was too obvious though , one scarey moment was in FEAR Extraction Point admitedly, think the scenes on youtube, the girl appears in a locked room and appears at a window in hospital iirc, thats about it I thought .

Nick

AnCapaillMor

Melion wrote: »

The first Resi on the PS1, when the dogs come bursting through the window towards the start, oh jesus christ, i nearly died when they came through it.

Nah 2nd resi, the bit where the tongue lasher comes through the mirror window in the interogation room, got killed by him first time because i dropped the controller when i jumped. Doom3 is pretty nerve wrecking too.

AlmightyCushion

Doom 3. Not being able to use the flashlight and a gun at the same time really was a great idea. There's nothing scarier than going into a pitch black room and hearing a faint groan. The frantic switching between flashlight and gun while you inspect every nook and cranny of the room will make you crap yourself.

humanji

Harvest Moon on the DS. It's just creepy. It's like a game of Disneylands "It's a Small World" ride.

And Sanitarium on PC was a disturbing. The whole game left me with a horrible feeling afterwards.

Rhyme

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I think nothing beats Silent Hill 2. A very creepy and sufficatingly depressing experience that will get under your skin and stay with you long after the final credits roll. All the games mentioned have nothing but cheap scares going for. SH2 is the thinking mans horror game. To top it off it's also on of the finest pieces of storytelling ever them.

This... so much this. If skinned corpse-mannequin things flipping out from under cars, a massive case of clastrauphobia and an unbeatable enemy hell-bent on brutalising you in many different ways (and orifices perhaps) suit you, then this game is the be-all and end-all. I've had the dog ending song as my ringtone for a while now.

Throw in one of the Project Zero games too.

humanji

Oh, and Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth is a very chilling game. Sadly, the latter part of the game is mainly a shooter with some jumpy bits (but it's still good). But the first half or so of the game sees you investigating a creepy town and it is genuinly terrifying in places.

Slight

One section tells you to go upstairs in a house to check out a sick woman, but she may be something more. You hear thumping and strange animal noises just in the next room...

I never had much of a problem with horror games, but for this, I was playing it at night and had to leave it a few days and play it during daylight. It had me shìtting myself

Morlar

Doom back in the day you turn 95 corners and on the 96th one there would be somebody waiting. Quake also for the things that stomped around then leap and land right on you - and then doom 3 with the lights off, FEAR was scary in parts too.

Half life for the red spiders in the vents, hl2 has some scary bits too (skinned people that run at you then jump the last 40 feet).

The worst one I can think of was manhunt - that fcuker with the pigs head who chases you around with a chainsaw when you lose your gun I literally jumped the first time I saw that.

conzy

FEAR is a strange scariness.. You know whats coming, any second now you will step on an invisible switch and the room will fill with blood and scary things but It gets you every time

Creamy Goodness

ehh System Shock anyone?

20 posts in and it hasn't been mentioned?

Bubs101

Nemesis used to scare the ****e out of me in Resi 3. Would just run whenever I saw him

Grim.

conzymaher wrote: »

The Hidden

Its a HL2 mod, great stuff

QFT

Jackabo

The Hidden deffo messed with the senses,some laugh when 1 noise would make people shoot franticly into thin air lol

kaimera

+1 for AvP.

Nothing like rounding a corner, out of flares and having your tracker light up like a christmas tree. ****ed up I tell ya.

humanji

kaimera wrote: »

+1 for AvP.

Nothing like rounding a corner, out of flares and having your tracker light up like a christmas tree. ****ed up I tell ya.

The worst part was that the tracker would blip everynow and again, even if there was nothing there!

Mr. Presentable

System Shock 2 did it for me

GameSpot review:

"The game was scary. Damn scary. And this is not schlocky-horror-movie-style monster-closet scary, where the bogeyman jumps out at you when you least expect it. Shock 2 projected real psychological terror through the tragic grotesquery of the formerly human enemies, the urgency and grim portent of the crew members' audio logs, and the unparalleled sound design that brought the menace and forebodingness of the Von Braun to horrible life."

sweetie

mcgovern wrote: »

Condemnded was good, Doom 3 was pretty scary at times also.
FEAR (made by same people as Condemned) was only ok I thought.

Fear was a decent game but condemned was much scarier. The last level and the one in the railway tunnels especially. Looking fwd to the sequel. I have the first game for sale on adverts at the moment too as I just finished it yesterday.:o

Kiith

Ya, i would agree with System Shock 2. It was the atmosphere that got my in the game, rather then things jumping at you. Seeing the infected running around shouting "Kill Me", or Xerxes/The Many and the freaky voice, or Shodan and her insane brilliance. Was a genuinly freaky experience.

Also though FEAR was done very well. I found Doom 3 to be a much cheaper scare (i.e. room with gun also has walls that dissapear and monsters appers...rinse, repeat). FEAR at least had athomphsere and a genuinly scary bad guy/little girl. Alma really freaked me out.

Why has no one mentioned Bioshock though? Some of that is pretty damn freaky. The level where the mad guy makes you kill people and take pictures of their corpses? Remember when he has the guy playing the piano? That was pretty damn freaky if you ask me.

koneko

The Project Zero / Fatal Frame games.
*shudder*

Scary Japanese ghosts

FunkyChicken

FEAR, Vampire Masquerades (think thats the name of it?) and bits of HL2. Infact in HL2 whenever I come across them zombies with the black headcrabs on them I **** myself. Every single time. They're fucking horrible.

Retr0gamer

koneko wrote: »

The Project Zero / Fatal Frame games.
*shudder*

Scary Japanese ghosts

Have all 3 games at home and still haven't played them Guess I've something to do after MP3.

Creature

Playing AvP as the marine is pretty scary. The great dilemna of choosing to use Night Vision or the motion detector? Well it didn't matter because you'd end up dieing either way.



Also the Ravenholm level in Half Life 2 was kinda creepy the first time I played through it. And in STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl that abandoned village with the invisible mutants in it.

Trode

Definitely agreeing on System Shock 2, and bits of Vampire:Bloodlines. Also any levels in Thief games with undead, and the excellent Cthulu-ish Eternal Darkness on Gamecube.

Shiminay

System Shock 2 - definite pants wetting potential.

Half-Life - also quite hazardous to pants health in places.

AvP - damn face huggers and ceiling aliens made for a disturbing experience.

But for me, the game that had me most on edge for lingest periods when playing was Clive Barker's Undying. I don't know what exactly it was int he game that made me so nervous, but I could only play it for about 15 minutes at a time.

Nevyn

Kharn wrote: »

System Shock 2 - definite pants wetting potential.

Half-Life - also quite hazardous to pants health in places.

AvP - damn face huggers and ceiling aliens made for a disturbing experience.

But for me, the game that had me most on edge for lingest periods when playing was Clive Barker's Undying. I don't know what exactly it was int he game that made me so nervous, but I could only play it for about 15 minutes at a time.

Clive has a new one out....

Doctor DooM

Not many people have played this one but the giant alabaster foetuses which cry when you kill then in Drakengard 2REALLY freaked me out.


Yuch.

BlitzKrieg

But for me, the game that had me most on edge for lingest periods when playing was Clive Barker's Undying. I don't know what exactly it was int he game that made me so nervous, but I could only play it for about 15 minutes at a time.

Could be down to the game getting so bloody difficult very very quickly.

Ross_Mahon

These did the job for me F.E.A.R, Doom 3, Half Life 2 (Ravenholm) and other parts in half life...:rolleyes: good times

Kiith

Thaedydal wrote: »

Clive has a new one out....

Which is about as scary as the last Freddy Kruger film (i.e. not scary at all). Plus, its ****.

Sarky

FEAR scared the willies out of me first time through. The second time not at all, and it was merely one cool shootout with decent AI after another. Extraction Point had a couple of right bowel-looseners thrown in. I really did *not* like it when

the black guy dies. Well, I hoped he was going to because he was a shallow prick, but damn...

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is brilliant for sheer wrongness and mindf*ckery, if you can get past the really awful FPS bits and slightly dated looks.

Ravenholm in HL2 was and is the shizznit. Any of those zombies, actually, the way their screams are still human... Just plain nasty.

Undying pays homage to the Cthulhu Mythos a *lot*, and there are some great moments of tension, mixed in with Jesus-sh*t-bugger-f*ck running away bits.

It might not scare you much, but there's a HL2 mod called Zombie Master where the players have to work together to escape hordes of zombies. Maps include the lone house you have to barricade up, the empty town where you have to get the truck working to escape, and a few others. One player takes charge of spawning zombies. Depending on who you play with, it can be brilliantly atmospheric.

Retr0gamer

There's one excellent bit in undying that I remember. You fall down a hole into a cobweb covered crypt, then suddenly all the candles blow out and skeletons start rising from the piles of bones. Absolutely terrifying.

randy speeddick

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I think nothing beats Silent Hill 2. A very creepy and sufficatingly depressing experience that will get under your skin and stay with you long after the final credits roll. All the games mentioned have nothing but cheap scares going for. SH2 is the thinking mans horror game. To top it off it's also on of the finest pieces of storytelling ever them.

I've hitherto resisted the burning temptation to bring this up, but each time I sight a post attributed to Retr0gamer I know afore casting my eyes upon his ramblings that it's going to be an arrogant, ignorant and egotistical mound of brainshit.

Why must you come to a thread and completely and utterly rubbish everything that has been posted before you, as if you're the divine fucking right on all things? In every forum that you grace with your supreme presence, you just casually dismiss people's opinion and state your own opinion as the fact of the matter.

"All the games mentioned have nothing but cheap scares going for (sic). SH2 is the thinking mans horror game"...shut the fuck up and get out more. For a "thinking man" you exhibit great difficulty in constructing a sentence. You have the social skills of an autistic silverback ape. Who the fuck are you to tell people what they enjoyed was "cheap"?

I realise your life exclusively revolves around interaction with a computer, both in your freakily obsessive hobby and here on boards.ie. I understand that this forum gives you somewhere to contribute and feel appreciated for the first time in your life. I imagine it gives you hope that this cold pathetic existence you find yourself trapped in isn't as meaningless and hopeless as you once feared. But try at least to be contribute in a mature way and respect people's opinions. You come across as such a pretentious little cunt.

Signed,

Randy Speed-dick

balkieb2002

humanji wrote: »

Oh, and Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth is a very chilling game. Sadly, the latter part of the game is mainly a shooter with some jumpy bits (but it's still good). But the first half or so of the game sees you investigating a creepy town and it is genuinly terrifying in places.

Slight

One section tells you to go upstairs in a house to check out a sick woman, but she may be something more. You hear thumping and strange animal noises just in the next room...

I never had much of a problem with horror games, but for this, I was playing it at night and had to leave it a few days and play it during daylight. It had me shìtting myself

+1

Very underrated game that had excellent sections (early on). Some parts of it had me not coming back to for weeks at a time because I always left it too late to play!

Scariest part has to be near the start when the "axe men" try to kill you. Most nerve racking few minutes of gameplay I have played in ages!! :eek:

Crash

koneko wrote: »

The Project Zero / Fatal Frame games.
*shudder*

Scary Japanese ghosts

Started playing the first one a while back, gave up cus I was too busy, and it made me poop myself a little.

AlmightyCushion

randy speeddick wrote: »

I've hitherto resisted the burning temptation to bring this up, but each time I sight a post attributed to Retr0gamer I know afore casting my eyes upon his ramblings that it's going to be an arrogant, ignorant and egotistical mound of brainshit.

Why must you come to a thread and completely and utterly rubbish everything that has been posted before you, as if you're the divine fucking right on all things? In every forum that you grace with your supreme presence, you just casually dismiss people's opinion and state your own opinion as the fact of the matter.

"All the games mentioned have nothing but cheap scares going for (sic). SH2 is the thinking mans horror game"...shut the fuck up and get out more. For a "thinking man" you exhibit great difficulty in constructing a sentence. You have the social skills of an autistic silverback ape. Who the fuck are you to tell people what they enjoyed was "cheap"?

I realise your life exclusively revolves around interaction with a computer, both in your freakily obsessive hobby and here on boards.ie. I understand that this forum gives you somewhere to contribute and feel appreciated for the first time in your life. I imagine it gives you hope that this cold pathetic existence you find yourself trapped in isn't as meaningless and hopeless as you once feared. But try at least to be contribute in a mature way and respect people's opinions. You come across as such a pretentious little cunt.

Signed,

Randy Speed-dick

Go to your happy place.

BlitzKrieg

wow, thats the first person I ever saw actually complaining about Retro...

Retr0gamer

randy speeddick wrote: »

I've hitherto resisted the burning temptation to bring this up, but each time I sight a post attributed to Retr0gamer I know afore casting my eyes upon his ramblings that it's going to be an arrogant, ignorant and egotistical mound of brainshit.

Why must you come to a thread and completely and utterly rubbish everything that has been posted before you, as if you're the divine fucking right on all things? In every forum that you grace with your supreme presence, you just casually dismiss people's opinion and state your own opinion as the fact of the matter.

"All the games mentioned have nothing but cheap scares going for (sic). SH2 is the thinking mans horror game"...shut the fuck up and get out more. For a "thinking man" you exhibit great difficulty in constructing a sentence. You have the social skills of an autistic silverback ape. Who the fuck are you to tell people what they enjoyed was "cheap"?

I realise your life exclusively revolves around interaction with a computer, both in your freakily obsessive hobby and here on boards.ie. I understand that this forum gives you somewhere to contribute and feel appreciated for the first time in your life. I imagine it gives you hope that this cold pathetic existence you find yourself trapped in isn't as meaningless and hopeless as you once feared. But try at least to be contribute in a mature way and respect people's opinions. You come across as such a pretentious little cunt.

Signed,

Randy Speed-dick

yore ma

johnny_ultimate

Friend of yours, Retr0?

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Friend of yours, Retr0?

Was. Until I accidentally killed his entire family and raped his goat (accidentally). Never really gave me any civility since.

CiDeRmAn

randy speeddick wrote: »

I've hitherto resisted the burning temptation to bring this up, but each time I sight a post attributed to Retr0gamer I know afore casting my eyes upon his ramblings that it's going to be an arrogant, ignorant and egotistical mound of brainshit.

Why must you come to a thread and completely and utterly rubbish everything that has been posted before you, as if you're the divine fucking right on all things? In every forum that you grace with your supreme presence, you just casually dismiss people's opinion and state your own opinion as the fact of the matter.

"All the games mentioned have nothing but cheap scares going for (sic). SH2 is the thinking mans horror game"...shut the fuck up and get out more. For a "thinking man" you exhibit great difficulty in constructing a sentence. You have the social skills of an autistic silverback ape. Who the fuck are you to tell people what they enjoyed was "cheap"?

I realise your life exclusively revolves around interaction with a computer, both in your freakily obsessive hobby and here on boards.ie. I understand that this forum gives you somewhere to contribute and feel appreciated for the first time in your life. I imagine it gives you hope that this cold pathetic existence you find yourself trapped in isn't as meaningless and hopeless as you once feared. But try at least to be contribute in a mature way and respect people's opinions. You come across as such a pretentious little cunt.

Signed,

Randy Speed-dick

Seems rather personal, surely a job for the mods no?
Even if it is some sort of private joke it must also make it seem ok to stoop to personal attacks.

And Retro is right, Silent Hill 2 is one of the best games, never mind scary games ever.

But for me its the sound of the 2-stroke motor in Resi 4 heralding a chainsaw bearing mad person, the moments in HL2 episode 1 when in the car park your torch packs it in, the whole game Eternal darkness on the GC and the 2600 edition of Pacman.