Scariest game

Resident Evil 2 was definitely the scariest for me, because it was the first horror game I had ever played, so I was totally unprepared for shit like zombies reaching in through windows to grab onto you, and th totally inept controls made running away so hard so it was scarier.

After that I quickly became jaded.
 
Lets see the games I would rate scary would be Nosferatu Wrath of Malachi http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/nosferatu/index.html, Daggerfall and yes AvP as marine and Predator. As for SS2 guess im become to numb, but didn't find anything scary about it. Dark cornenrs of Earth was good reminded me of H.P Lovecrafts short stories.
Right then why I found Nosferatu scary was that they changed the map every time you started a new game so you never knew what to expect also what would happen if you failed to rescue one of the relatives. In Daggerfall it were these damn catacombs that could get you sooooo lost that you'd spend many hours there finding way out, also some of the rooms backround were rather creepy a hanged woman with bag over her head and especialy the invisible elder vamps that could pretty much 1 hit kill you. Undying was fun but not that scary, the mansion part was very well done and using scyring skill awarded you with some nice spooky stuff. Other then that I would recomend Haflife mod They Hunger http://manke.planethalflife.gamespy.com/theyhunger.htm now that was a good one still get the shudders. :twisted:

Edit: Just remembered another classic game that send shudders down the spine, Hexen with its awsome sound and shadow play.
 
Silent Hill 1: The game has atmosphere. The music is very unnerving and grating...kind of like that scene in Full Metal Jacket where Leonard is beaten using soaps in towels. Midwich elementary school is fucking scary...specially when you hear the kids sobbing, you turn around see nothing, then you hear more sobs and one of those fucking headless kids wielding butcher knives jumps you. Also that part were you get into some sort of Stove/Boiler and Normal School turns into Dark School.

Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit: the loony asylum where you have to wander in the dark amongst the fucking crazies.

Friday the 13th: the game used to be scary, specially when you received distress calls from kids only to rush at them.

Resident Evil 1: I like the series but the first was the scariest of them all. It then turned into a Heroic Bloodshed game from a Survival Horror game after the first.

Eternal Darkness: Not scary per se, but the game fucks with your mind after your sanity meter is below half. You hear cries, people beating on doors...after a while, it gets to you.
 
Nocturne
Undying
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Blair Witch Project - Episode 1 : Rustin Parr
Blair Witch Project - Episode 2 : Coffin Rock
Alone In The Dark 3

and some other games i cant remember now ...
 
I found all the Silent Hill games to be scary. I think Silent Hill 2 has the best story and atmosphere of them.

Silent Hill was the one that scared me the most though. The opening sequence (where you take control of the main character for the first time) actually had me panicking.
That game really fucked with me, I almost found it to scary to play through.
 
VTM:B Ocean House, and the first time I was attacked by one of those headrunners in I think the internet cafe.

And also the most classic moment in Resident Evil when the f'kin dog jumps through the window. Heartattack.

Doom I and II always scared the crap out of me, but I think it was also cause I was 10 or something when I first played it.
 
Indigo prophecy is a crap game but that asylum part was very creepy indeed.
 
Games that made you jump.

I recently started playing Bioshock for the XBOX 360 and actually got creeped out a bit! This is surprising considering I haven't played a game that gave me the willies in years. I even jumped a couple times and it made me wonder. What is the last video game that made you jump?
 
Condemned. Scariest game ever along with the Silent Hill series (which didn't really make you jump, but rather just creeped you out).
 
I remember that Stalker gaved me a jump.I was raoming around when suddenly a blood sucker came out of nowhere !
But stalker wasn't scary in general.for me Nocturne was quite a scary game along with Undying and Blair Witch Project Volume 1 : Rustin Parr.
 
System Shock 2, and System Shock 1 before that. Phantasmagoria, way back when, was really creepy too.
 
Madbringer said:
Phantasmagoria, way back when, was really creepy too.
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Wow, somebody else has played those, I loved 'em both. Extremely creepy in places. Parts of Sanitarium were nicely bothersome as well, although other parts were just goofy. If you could get past the horrible voice acting, Harvester was pretty good too.

As for jumps, I'd say the first Resident Evil and the Silent Hill series, although I haven't played all of them. I remember my roommate playing a game about a girl with a camera hunting ghosts, but I can't remember the name of it for the life of me. What I saw of it wasn't half bad.

I love horror games.
 
There is this moment in UNREAL, not that very far in the game, maybe the third or fourth level or so, when the lights switch off and one of those nasty aliens appears and starts bashing your skull. That got me the first time. I totally freaked out.

That and SYSTEM SHOCK 2. For obvious reasons.
 
System Shock 2. As well.

Stalker. Meeting a bloodsucker in a dark room while paying in a dark room yourself led me to yelling "aaaagh!" and unsuccessfully emptying my AK clip in seconds.
 
alec said:
There is this moment in UNREAL, not that very far in the game, maybe the third or fourth level or so, when the lights switch off and one of those nasty aliens appears and starts bashing your skull. That got me the first time. I totally freaked out.
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Ah yes, the original Unreal. That was such a great moment. Too bad the only single player Unreal since then wasn't even close.

Let's see... first time I played Doom 3, I have to admit all the monsters popping up out of the darkness got me a couple times. Stupid monster closets.

Bioshock... not outright scary, but the atmosphere is just so great that I got creeped out many times, starting with that first time where there's the shadow of the female splicer standing over the crib, talking to what you presume is her baby...

Resident Evil 2, many great moments there for me.

Oh christ, that Ocean House in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. Played that in the middle of the night... scared the bejesus out of me.
 
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