What is your scariest Game ever?

[Korabas]

Originally Posted by ElJeffe

The first Condemned game for the 360, though, was the one that creeped me out the most. The sound design on that game, piped through a good 5.1 system, was brilliant. Noises coming from all around you... crazy hobos yelling at you from behind...

*shudder*

YES! Great game, very creepy. Nasty bad guys, scary violence. Wasn't as thrilled with the sequel but Condemned 1 is a great shout.

Also, Doom 3 - not a GREAT game, as it's quite shallow, but I couldn't play it for long without running out of nerves - usually ended up holed up in a corner waiting for something else to jump out and destroy me.
Doom 3 also had a great co-op mode where players could only use the flashlight if they put their gun away. As the game was mostly pitch black this required some SERIOUS teamwork.

Left 4 Dead had some scary moments, especially the Witch character.


Have you guys seen the concept for new indie game 'Outrun'? Set in an abandoned mental asylum you have to get through it with just a flashlight and no weapons - at all. Your only defence against the monsters is to run away and hope you outrun them! Sounds great!

[katjapants]

For me, I'd have to go with Silent Hill 3. The Otherworld hospital...just the Otherworld hospital. *shudder*

[Hendo]

I've heard a lot about Deadspace being pretty scary lol As for me they're not really my type of game but when I was little and the first resident evil game came out I had a few hair raising moments. But I'm sure if I played it now I'd kinda be like "meh not scary" lol

[Slamhamster]

I thought Deadspace was pretty scary - playing that with the lights off on a 42" TV hooked up to a 7.1 setup was fantastic. The sound design on that game was very well done.

[Shadow Dragon]

Originally Posted by katjapants

For me, I'd have to go with Silent Hill 3. The Otherworld hospital...just the Otherworld hospital. *shudder*

The hospital as a whole was brilliant in that game. The wheelchair in the basement, the ghost stalker, the trapped nurse, and of course, the mirror room.

[cbenoi1]

EA's Spore.

When I read about the DRM stuff it had installed and I could never take out without having to reformat the HD and re-install Windows from scratch.

Freakiest software EVER.

-cb

[aprettytruestory]

The Resident Evil Remake for the GameCube was pretty darned terrifying... though I have to say the only game I refuse to play without someone near me is the original Fatal Frame. I've had it for years and still haven't finished it - I'm too chicken!

[reiver33]

I don't play 1st person but my most unsettling experience playing a game was Homeworld, in the Great Nebula. It was the late night/early morning thing, the fleet was mostly trashed and I'd sent out one ship to try and find the remaining bad guys - I couldn't afford any further losses. It was the tension (first time playing that mission), the atmospheric music, the genuine sense of being alone as my solitary ship slid through the gas clouds - I was so on edge, with a real twist of apprehension in my gut...

[Brightdreamer]

I don't tend to play horror games, but I had one that creeped me out so bad I had to uninstall it within an hour of loading it: Bad Day On The Midway. It didn't have much of a plot, save a vague theme of a killer wandering around a carnival; you jumped from character to character at will, experiencing their dysfunctional lives in various levels of detail, or riding exceptionally disturbing midway rides, until you were randomly offed by the killer and the game ended. The thing was so dark and bizarre and downright twisted that it just creeped the heck out of me, like art produced by residents of a hospital for the criminally insane.

And, as cbenoi1 said, there's that whole trend of "anti-piracy" malware game manufacturers are installing on so many newer games, that doesn't even uninstall when you remove the game it came with; it doesn't slow piracy down a lick, either. Terrifying...