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[Wh1tefang12]

Three games that scare me are

Penumbra.. nuff said

Alan Wake: its not really scary but more of you have moments where you are yelling mild profanities as your reloading your gun as a swarm of enemies coming

Demon Soul: You walk into a room covered in bloodstains of other players you look at one to see how the player died to only figure out to late they died because they were to busy looking at bloodstains to notice the hoard rushing them

[Tilla]

Stalker

Get out of here Stalker

[Catastrophic lolcats]

I've been playing through Amnesia and so far I've enjoyed Penumbra a lot more.
I think I just prefer the atmosphere and storyline of Penumbra better.

A note from a dead father to venture into some artic bunker to find out the secrets going on there versus waking up in a Prussian castle with a sore head and no real idea of progression.

Overture, which I thought was the strongest of the Penumbra series, did a better job of making you feel isolated. The notes have no voice overs like Amnesia and the only other person in the game is a crazed pscyopath. Which without spoilers has one of the best endings I've seen.
Shame it started to decline in quality after overture a bit. I was one of the few people who acutally liked the melee "combat" in overture and was sad to see it go. The third installment was just terrible, seemed like the devs played way too much portal.

There aren't too many games that scare me. Most games idea of horror is to have monsters jump out of the shadows and shriek while you mow them down with your lead spitting gun-metal-gray errection.

I did find the orginal Alien Versus Predator to be terrifying, mostly because I was like 7 years old when I played it.
Could not get past the second predator/marine levels because thats when they'll release the facehuggers onto you.
God I hated those so much.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. had it's times but I much prefer the game when it had the depressing atmosphere rather than when they try to go for the all out horror feel of the tunnels. The two do juxtapostion eachother nicely and helps to break up the gameplay a bit.

[Draco18s]

^ Followed by the second Penumbra.

Pathologic is up there somewhere too.

[Dutchling]

Dead Space :S
Everytime I play that I usually quit before I even see an enemy...

[kulik]

2. Clive Barkers Undying. I got like 2 hours into it, hit this hallway with freaking scary curtains (yes, curtains) and said "screw this". And exited.

I know exactly which hallway you mean. I had to wait for the morning to play through that part.   

[neotemplar]

2. Clive Barkers Undying. I got like 2 hours into it, hit this hallway with freaking scary curtains (yes, curtains) and said "screw this". And exited.

I know exactly which hallway you mean. I had to wait for the morning to play through that part.   

I think I played that area in a totally dark room in the middle of the night.  At one point I freaked out and shot the heck out of a wall in a panic.  Great moment in gaming.


Oh another one with potential is King's Field the Ancient City.  There's a part where you must drop down a wall that you can't climb back up and in the distant darkness there's like 8 pairs of glowing eyes.

[Pnx]

Yeknow, I was kind of expecting someone to point to a popular and really bad game and go "AHHHHH scary, get away!"
I suppose you can't always get what you want.

Anyway, I'm going to add "The Void" to the list, since it hasn't been up there yet. It's scary in an extremely subtle way, the way you're desperately struggling for resources that are trickling through your fingers...
It's a "desperate" kind of scary, it's very powerful. Of course it wouldn't work without the frigging awesome atmosphere.

[Grakelin]

I was playing Crusader Kings this one time, and about half an hour in, it was so much I couldn't even play any more. I literally turned off the game, removed it from my computer, and gave the disc away. No joke.

[ductape]

I didnt read the whole thread but for me, at the time of playing, I was scared with System Shock 2. Probably wouldnt be true now but back then it was kinda freaky, maybe we are de-sensitized now.

Also, when I was a kid, Haunted House on the Atari 2600 creeped me out.

[Kay12]

I find the best thrills you can get out of videogames are being in a tunnel filled with water or crouching in the shadows just next to a guard.

I don't really get the "boo" and "splatter" types of scariness. Well yeah, sudden loud noises may make me jump. But that's just the "what the fuck" reaction similar to the screamers you see in YouTube. I don't get people who are genuinely afraid of them, but then again, I'm a bit bad at suspension of disbelief anyway.

[neotemplar]

I didnt read the whole thread but for me, at the time of playing, I was scared with System Shock 2. Probably wouldnt be true now but back then it was kinda freaky, maybe we are de-sensitized now.

Also, when I was a kid, Haunted House on the Atari 2600 creeped me out.

Oh man! Haunted House was balls out awesome when I was a kid.

[Singularity-SRX]

I remember when playing through the first halo, the part where you meet the flood scared the living SHIT out of me. When they burst out of the doors i remember trying to shoot at them with the assault rifle but failing horribly.
And I was probably around 10 at the time ^^

I always thought they added the level 'The Library' to get you used to the flood.

[Twerty]

The hotel?

The hotel's pretty crazy.  The rest of the game isn't all that scary.  The

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

shoggoth

has potential but it's too damn hard.  After running down the same hallway fifty times I'm no longer scared, just annoyed.

Running down hallways while being chased by some sort of monster, I can only hear it, but I don't want to turn around all the way to see it because I know it will kill me.
Turning back just enough to close and lock the doors behind me.
I'm not sure which is going to kill me first, the curiosity or the monster. So I stop. And I turn around.
And I see a giant green... wall rushing towards me.
And I think I hear a sputter or a gasp, or maybe nothing at all.

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What the fuck.
I just suffocated to death inside of a shoggoth.

The hotel scene was really intense too even though it was obviously trial-and-error that you could only win after going through at least two dozen times. The whole rest of the game is pretty uninteresting, especially after you get guns and the adventure-y aspect of the game pretty much melts away. I got about halfway through the very last level and never even finished it I was so offput by the drudgery of the everyday shooting bangbangness.

[Ahra]

god when you mentioned penumbra i watched p-bats vids, so goddamn creepy