Resident Evil we came to know and love. Silent Hill came and threw us a curve ball. Now it's Fatal Frame, Eternal Darkness, and even games like Doom 3. I don't want to discuss games just in the "survival horror" category, but rather in my own "scary ass games" category.
I, personally, haven't ever felt dread in a game before like I do when I play Doom 3. Sure, it's a FPS, but it's also scary as hell. The lighting effects, the amazing graphics, added together with the great sound quality makes the perfect scare. But it's a different kind than what was experienced when Resident Evil first came out. That game not only put you in a helluva scary environment, but also distracted your mind with complex puzzles that made you forget about what was going down, until it came at you again and scared the crap out of you.
I want to know what you think is the scariest game. Whether it be a scary game moment or a game, it's your choice...
101.4% agreement with you as to DoomIII being the scariest game of all time. After playing that, Eternal Darkness was a kid's game to me. (I was never really scared in ED, I was having too much fun).
Doom III has many aspects that just scare me al-together. The fact that you have to switch between flashlight and gun all the time makes it even worse! I have the light, I see the enemy. I put the light down, switch to my shotgun, shoot, and miss! Damnit! I pick the light back up, the monster is gone, SLASH! Owwie! Turn, shoot, monster dead. Satan laughs at me, OMG! Help me!!!!
-Slight Spoiler ahead-
Oddly enough, the only part of Doom III where I wasn't scared, was when I was in hell. It felt like the old doom games to me, weapons lying about everywhere along with ammo and medkits. Monsters of all sorts were in plain view around every corner. I even smiled at the part where you get caught in that cage at the beginning of hell, and then you start to fall. I knew there were imps at the bottom, and I wasn't disappointed.
All in all, Doom III is definetely the scariest survival horror game of all time.
The scariest game of all time is Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde on NES. If the designers were willing to do that to people by making them experience such horror, just imagine what they would do to tiny woodland creatures. I can just hear their maniacal laugher as they cackled in their secret laboratory:
"We shall make a game about a walk in the park. MWAHAHA!" "We shall make being annoyed as a major game element! GWAHAHA!" "We shall make the best game we possibly can!" "We shall make sarcastic remarks like that every once in awhile so we can pretend we care about the customer. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
i remember i was five and i played original Doom, i shit my pants in fear and hid under my bed for close to two hours, now i think the "holy shit scary" FPS is really cool and scary at times
Play the suffering in first person. It can be messed at times. There is one part where u can look at the security cameras and see the room ur in. And the big ass mother comes up behind slowly....but if you wait/ exit and turn around it's gone.... I didn't find Doom 3 scary. I found it funny when i first come across the imp, I was outa ammo, so I beat him to death w/ my flashlight....
i played the demo, and it scared me, but i dont want to play the full game cuzz i saw a video of in hell, there is jesus on an upside-down cross. thats just f**** in my opinion
I've never played Silent Hill or Doom 3. For that matter, the only frightening game I've played was the remake of the first Resident Evil for Gamecube. So I don't really have that much room to talk, but that game freaked the hell out of me. I hate leaving a dead zombie in a room to go get some kerosene so I can burn him down to ashes, but when I come back, he's gone. And then there was the time when those hunters burst through the window... Goddamn I hate those things.
Holy crap, some of you guys were scared while playing Doom 3? Are you kidding? That game wasn't that scarey. Sure it had a few parts that made me jump (more out of surprise though) and the atmousphere was creepy but that game sure as heck didn't scare me.
you just gotta be in the right mindset - for instance....drink about a liter of pepsi or something to get you wired, then be up at three am playing it in a cold, dark basement...these ingredients will provide for an experience, let me tell you
I started playing it in the living room at about 2 AM. Our living room has windows all around and we have surround sound in there so it was freakin scary as hell. I had to finally shut it off after 20 minutes. Resident Evil 4 was intense like that, also. You really didn't know what was going to be around the next turn. But the creepiest game was Silent Hill 2. I never beat it, but there were parts to that game that were scary, parts that were creepy, and parts that were disturbing. Ingredients to a great game.
What I want to know is: Is Fatal Frame and Fatal Frame II as scary as people have told me? I've been meaning to check them out, but they've been put on the back burner several times.
I think "scariness" in these games is not scary in a "OMG WTF is that AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" kinda way, but more like a "Holy F***!!!" followed by filling w/e it is/was with bullets.
I think "scariness" in these games is not scary in a "OMG WTF is that AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" kinda way, but more like a "Holy F***!!!" followed by filling w/e it is/was with bullets.
Yeah, that how I feel Doom 3 was. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the game. But after Hell, when all the lights start working again. Imps, Wraith, Maggots and Commandoes would even care me anymore. Also, the Chainsaw and Chaingun take the edge off since they cut things down like weeds.
Infact.. the scaryness pretty much vanished after the time I reached Beta Labs. The game is HEAVILY scripted and it became wasy to tell when something was going to happen. I quite a bit after the teleporter s the content became very disturbing. Extreme gore and demonic things do nothing for me. It DOES make my skin crawl though... and not with fright.
Everyone also has to take into consideration that everyone is frightened by different things.
This girl that I know is scared to death of Child's Play, but was unaffected when she played Doom III, where-as for me, I played Doom III and was (scared, surprised, shocked, hitting the quit button, however you wanna call it), and I laughed my head off at Child's Play, thought it was funny. She thought I was a psycho...
For me, what makes a game scary is the pressure of something shocking happening to you. I probably didn't word that right... For example: In Resident Evil, I was walking down a creepy hallway. Suspensful music was playing and the only real light I got was the moonlight from windows. I had virtually nothing to protect myself with. I pretty much knew that something bad was going to happen, but when? Even if nothing bad happened, those fifteen seconds of walking down that hall was scary.
Oh, and that big fish that ate Mario in Super Mario 64 used to scare the crap out of me when I was little. Everytime I started swimming in the water, I'd tap "A" frantically to get back to the beach.
I mean I have been weirded out before in a game. Static on the radio in the Silent Hill series, Zombies coming out of nowhere in Resident Evil games. But never have I EVER! wanted to put a game down and stop playing due to the scare factor. Doom 3 changed this. I mean it hard enough concentrating on shooting an enemy without having to find the f***** in the dark. Plus Satan's commentary as you move through the game is no cup of tea. What the hell is scarier then hell. Demons and fire and such. This is the one place no one wants to end up. EVER!! Plus like all this wasn't enough to creep people out, they plop you ON MARS, MARS!!! the scariest and most devoid place we can picture in out minds. No climbing out of a hole at the end no leaving the town, no air lifting away from a mansion . . . no sir! your still stuck on a dead RED planet, hope those windows hold up. I will now state the moment that honestly made me want to put the controller down. I walk into a lab area . . . Delta I think it was. Anyways I walk into a long hallway, and not an office hallway like at work no no no, A hallway of death. Written on the walls are statements like DIE and BURN and SUFFER. Nice I say. As if this wasn't enough I take one step down this hallway and ALL THE LIGHTS GO OUT. I was disturbed before. NOW I am f****** livid. I debate walking down this hallway with just my flashlight and say there has to be light at the end. I start down the hallway and . . . did I just see something, no maybe not. keep walking I here moans and see flashes of ghosts infront of me. Thats it I say I don't want to do this anymore. I have one thing to say I have a history of heart problems in my family. I'm not going down there. No spank you.
uhhh... I hated Doom 3 too much scary too fast, I could only play it in like 20min intervals before i had to take an hour break just to calm down. Even before all the scary crap started happening I was jumping at sounds and stuff. and to think I actually stuck around long enough to beat it.
Definately Doom is the scariest/creepiest/intense games I've ever seen. But let's not just stay on one game, I want to know about the Silent Hill's and the Fatal Frame's or the Teletubbies game for PS1... scary as hell... any game that truely scared you or was definately intense like Resident Evil 4.... damn.
I've never been so scared so as to shut the game off, but when I was nine or something, the first time I saw a ReDead was bad (don't I sound lame...?). Didn't know what the hell it was, 'cause it was just standing there, and it looks at me, and freezes the screen and jumped on me, and that nasty frickin' sound they make when they're feeding off of you....*shudder*, and poor little me who can't handle cheesy horror movies, is all "WTF?!?!?!?"...yeah, I had trouble getting through the Shadow Temple the first time around.
Other than that...I did recieve quite a shock the first time I played Halo by myself and saw the Flood infection forms the first time. I didn't really know how to play, so when they rushed me, I thought "MOTHER F*****!!! WHAT THE HELL?!!?" and filled the floor with assault rifle ammo. My friend freaked out pretty bad on that level, too.
Only games that have ever had me going "f**k that, i aint playing it without lights, during night and head phones" are Doom 3 and the annoying mansion mission in Vampire: Bloodlines (the Hotel with the ghost and flying objects). Doom 3 is fun when you have like five friends playing your xbox behind you but you've got the Doom 3 in full surround sound and you get totally jumped by heaps of Imps. Scared the s**t outta my friends :P. I find it scary when I can hear enemies sneaking up on my but I cant find them (yeah, alot of games have gotten my heart beating) Old game, Darkseed, I've found that game freaky like finding a penguin in the desert. American McGee's Alice is also quite freaky until you get used to the music.
