What's your favourite scary game?

Whats your favourite scary movie? ...uh i mean game.

What was the scariest moment from it?

Stalker's probably the scariest thing i have played, though I havent played many games that were made intentionally to be frightening.

I stumbled across a camp site and saw a few corpses laying around. I was like wtf went down here? So i look around a bit and find a corpse seemingly glitching in mid air, it was like flailing around. So I went over to have a better look only to realise there was like an invisible tentacle faced creature feeding on the corpse. PANIC. By the time i realised this it was to late, it dropped the body and turned to look at me. I panic'ed like a motherfucker and released a whole clip hitting absolutely nothing.

In that moment my heart went through my chest. Its probably the only time i have been legitimately shocked in a game.


These things go invisible

I don't have much experience in the genre because I am a self-proclaimed pussy in this aspect of gaming, but that could be because I was young when I first played horror games (pre-teen) and I haven't really tried many recently. Anyways, I would have to go with Bioshock. It may not seem to be too scary, but the sound...hearing voices and footsteps move around you but not seeing where they're coming from...and then there was also that one moment that scared the crap out of me. I thought my game was frozen because I couldn't move backwards but I then realized I could still look around...I turned around and there was a splicer staring me right in the face.

Anything in the penumbra series, those games are scary as fuck.

"Anything in the penumbra series, those games are scary as fuck."

I'd have to go with Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, and Condemned coming at second for Psychological horror.
These are the only two horror games where I had to take breaks because it was just too much for me.
The hotel escape from CoC was so intense... oooh I'm getting shivers...

I'm going through Sanitarium right now, but its more creepy than scary, and I downloaded the Suffering so I'll have to see how that one plays.

Bioshock was pretty creepy but I didn't get too far in it.

"Pibo47 said:

"Anything in the penumbra series, those games are scary as fuck."

Im not familiar with the series. Why are they scary?"

"Rowr said:

"Pibo47 said:

"Anything in the penumbra series, those games are scary as fuck."

Im not familiar with the series. Why are they scary?"

Mostly the atmosphere.  And you're not really given any means to defend yourself, so you always feel vulnerable.  You should definaitly try those games.  They're very cheap.  About $15-$20 an episode."

either STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl or Resident Evil 2. I never beat STALKER, i just couldn't do it.

I know I'm going to sound like a complete pussy but I rented Halo 2 when it first came out and the part where you're the alien and you fight the flood scared the shit out of me. Like I had 5 grunts and 2 hunters and they all just die and I'm left all alone and there are all these sounds and gurgles..*shivers*

Had to beat it with a friend :\

"Rowr said:

"Pibo47 said:

"Anything in the penumbra series, those games are scary as fuck."

Im not familiar with the series. Why are they scary?"

Mostly the atmosphere.  And you're not really given any means to defend yourself, so you always feel vulnerable.  You should definaitly try those games.  They're very cheap.  About $15-$20 an episode."

I HATE scary games.

Siren was really scary, but it unfortunately falls into the classic survival horror "scary because it's a pain in the ass to control" subgenre.

"The original resident evil for the gamecube. Scared me the first time I played it. The atmosphere is one of the creepiest part of the game."

I think any game really that has very dark levels, sounds like they're following you and you see bits of them every now and then but never get a clear view or shot of them. Plus it helps if you're playing at night, alone with 5.1 surround sound on. 

playing at night, alone with 5.1 surround sound on. 

I thinking of trying out the Silent Hill franchise for the first time and wanted to know which SH game is the scariest?

Eternal Darkness was pretty great.

There are few games I have played scarier then Silent Hill 2. That game is sooo atmospheric and intense. At time it could be really hard to take for extended periods of time. Other good horror games I have played are Condemned 1 + 2, and the early Res Evil stuff.

Condemned 2.  That game was really creepy.

Silent Hill 2.

Eternal Darkness.....the bathtub scene. That few seconds of the game was the scariest thing in videogaming at the time (it got me twice).

RE2 for me.  I played it when I was young and had no clue what to expect.  All I remember is a giant spider, then I felt my arachnophobia kick in.  Needless to say, inexplicable fear of spiders + giant-ass spider = me having a permanent hard time with horror games in general.

Even now I have a hard time with them, although I can make it.......if I mute my speakers.  -_-

I guess I'll go with Silent Hill 2 as my first game in that series. I think I'll play when the sun is out though... :P

REmake and Eternal Darkness. That bathtub scene on ED..... my god...... I was shocked, since that time I can't go to the bathroom the way I used too. :'(

I haven't really played all that many horror games, but out of the ones I did play the original Fatal Frame scared the living shit out of me.

I don't like scary movies, nor do I like scary games. I've really only played the Silent Hill Xbox demos and F.E.A.R. Files. The latter scared me a couple of times, like with the nurse and the sound of a dozen monsters screaming at you from the other side of a window.

.....and I downloaded the Suffering so I'll have to see how that one plays.

We dont go to Ravenholm. Half life is so epic every level should count as a game and be sold seperately.

"I guess I'll go with Silent Hill 2 as my first game in that series. I think I'll play when the sun is out though... :P"

Condemned: Criminal Origins, there was one part that made be jump so bad. Anyones who has played could plobaly guess which part it is.

Eternal Darkness has to be my favorite... amazing story, good controls, and some scenes that will make you shit yourself.

Forget everything anyone else said, If you didnt shit your pants the first time you saw Pyramid Head rape a mannequin then turn his attention to you, and theres no room to move then you are more of a man than me.

Silent Hill 2 is the kind of scary that stays with you, i just lodges its self in the back of your brain, and releases itself whenever your out late at night, and you question if somethings in the dark..

A close runner up would be Eternal Darkness but thats more of a cheap thrill scary. You get a quick "Ah!" then you forget about it. You dont take anythign away with it.

"Forget everything anyone else said, If you didnt shit your pants the first time you saw Pyramid Head rape a mannequin then turn his attention to you, and theres no room to move then you are more of a man than me.

Silent Hill 2 is the kind of scary that stays with you, i just lodges its self in the back of your brain, and releases itself whenever your out late at night, and you question if somethings in the dark..

A close runner up would be Eternal Darkness but thats more of a cheap thrill scary. You get a quick "Ah!" then you forget about it. You dont take anythign away with it."

I thought doom 3 was pretty scary when it came out. FEAR didn't seem to scare me as much though.

Phantasmagoria, hands down.

"I guess I'll go with Silent Hill 2 as my first game in that series. I think I'll play when the sun is out though... :P"

"I thought doom 3 was pretty scary when it came out. FEAR didn't seem to scare me as much though."

"Eternal Darkness.....the bathtub scene. That few seconds of the game was the scariest thing in videogaming at the time (it got me twice)."

"REmake and Eternal Darkness. That bathtub scene on ED..... my god...... I was shocked, since that time I can't go to the bathroom the way I used too. :'("

behold!

 
The Scary Maze Game.
 
BOOOO!!!

I wish I could talk like the guy on Resident Evil start screens, but... 
 
 
REEEEEEEEEEEESIDENT EEEEEEEEVIL

i would say resident evil 2 for n64. i was younger back then, i would there hasn't really been any scary games lately.

Any Silent Hill game. 
Just finished Shattered Memories, and got a major mindfuck from the ending.

Well, Dead Space and FEAR 2 weren't very scary, but those are my favorites to play.  Dead space got under my skin when I played it at 3AM with no one around and all the lights off, but FEAR 2 just had some jump scares every now and then.  I can't really remember a game that has scared me, because I didn't play much of the horror genre prior to this generation of consoles.  I played a bit of Silent Hill 2, that was pretty creepy.

Silent Hill 4 
 
Creepy ass story on top of horrible ass controls = a "shit your pants" experience
 
lately no I haven't played anything particularly scary

silent hill 3

Demon's Souls. Even though it's more of terrifying than horrifying.

Games don't really scare me anymore, but when I first played through Resident Evil 4 I was a little scared when I first seen the chainsaw guy.

Superman 64. 'nough said.

" REmake and Eternal Darkness. That bathtub scene on ED..... my god...... I was shocked, since that time I can't go to the bathroom the way I used too. :'( "