Biggest scare you ever got from gaming
Kouji_San
Sr. Hινε UÏкεεÏεг - EUPT DeputyThe Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
Sr. Hινε UÏкεεÏεг - EUPT DeputyThe Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
So this here thread hmm, it's not all about NS2, but you can of course use NS2 as a reference... So... Please, I dun wanna be banned to the off-topic forums, that place is scary empty and I think someone farted there... May I please stay here and play? Anyways, slap down your biggest scare you got from a game here, can be a jump scare or a horror story... And go... Also please use this template I'm using with the fancy quote and bold title...
Mine was actually in Counterstrike waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back:
My buddy and I were doing a 1v1 sniper duel on cs_italy, now that map is of course well known for it's chickens. Imagine me, sneaking around the market place, trying to firgure out where my buddy Madman was. SUDDENLY a chicken explodes right next to me from his AWP... He didn't actyually spot me, he just choose to randomly SHOOT THE DAMN CHICKEN RIGHT NEXT TO ME!!!
I literally jumped out of my chair and my mouse indeed went flying, with him going on Teamspeak "dude wtf is going on?". Good thing I don't do wireless
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It's surprisingly hard to recall these moments. I've been scared by games often, but I can't think of anything specific. Best I can come up with:
Alien Isolation had it's moments, especially in the nest.
Best I can come up with right now is Limbo. That fucking spider. Christ. I can handle pretty much everything games throw at me but I hate fucking giant spiders. Absolutely terrifying.
On a somewhat higher level, brain function wise, I did an XCOM: EU classic iron man run once (I won; brag brag). Some of the missions were really, really scary. Although less in a sense of "being terrified" and more in a sense of "being really tense and focused and really afraid of fucking up".
Now I'm totally comfortable with it though, I even find it kind of cool to explore.
Going in there was nightmare fuel...
Another one doesn't have quite as good of a narrative, but a surpringly tense scenario anyway:
Every time the nemesis jumps out from seemingly nowhere and starts chasing you, thinking you're safe from entering a room, only to have him barge through the door or window.
Many stains were made.
Walking down that one hallway in the police precinct when all the zombies suddenly reach their arms through the windows, shattering the glass.. Then the part shortly afterward where that zombie mutant thing leaps through the one way mirror (from a room you JUST cleared seconds ago!) ... but the most scary part was hearing "Staaarrzz" and knowing you were royally ****** with no clue where it was coming from.
Talk about intense... They just don't make games like that anymore.
On a side note how ironic this thread popped up.. Just last night was playing a game on Summit where 3 different Marines were scared so bad by ambushing Aliens at crevice that they jump/walked off the edge. It was hilarious.
That part look me like 30 minutes, because from there on out I've sticked to walking for only 5 meters and waiting for 10 sconds while scanning 360°.
"STAAARS"
I was around 10 years old when I played it for the first time, I was a bit anxious about the huge black area I havent discovered... but when I stumbled into the enemy base I got so scared (yes, scared! elevated heartbeat, sweating, adrenaline rush xD) that I quit the game and didnt touch it for days.
I don't remember any game scaring me like that ever since...
Especially since they jump around so much.
You can just chop the zombies in two with saw blade + grav gun
Nope. Fast zombies everytime.
And it wasn't me playing it.
It was my dad.
Damn game was so scary i couldn't leave the room for fear of being eaten alive. (i was what, ten?)
Nothings given me nightmares since then, OH
Except for one thing.
PT. But we aren't allowed to talk about that anymore.
There wasn't really a surprise like scare, but the atmosphere gave me such an overwhelming feeling of dread that kept me from continuing it.
I could never master hitting those headcrabs in mid-air.
but the scariest for me was Kings Quest 8, not really a horror game but really dark atmospheres and it was basically one of the first games I played as a kid.
Why do I feel like I'm the only person who wasn't really scared of Ravenholm? And I am normally terrified of horror games. (they are playable if friends are with me, but I find them quite hard to play otherwise)
I think it was a pretty scary level, but simply being Gordon Freeman took away a bit of its scariness. I mean, you could toss saw blades into the monsters faces, which was just amazing back then.
Those old games from TLG really hold up well, they are still scary! Even with the dated graphics the atmosphere, lighting and sound really combine to produce that leaves a lasting impression even today.
I remember playing HL1 as a kid, and coming to the section where you first run into that freakish fish thing. Its the part where you have to jump in the diving cage to get the cross bow and are promptly dumped into the water. Well I was so scared of the damn fish that instead of going directly into the cage I decided that I would blow it up first. I took all the explosives which had accumulated over the course of the game and proceeded to go dynamite fishing. The scary part was that I couldn't actually be sure I had killed it, after every explosion I would pause and intently listen to see if I could hear it swimming around. Of course I would never hear anything so I would go ahead and dump in the next load. Eventually I ran out of explosives and had to steel myself to jump into the diving cage. Turns out I had thoroughly vaporized the fish, there wasn't even a body left.
Further down the line there is a section where you have to go along this slippery walkway over a lake with two of those swimming around. Me and my friend were so scared of the things that one of us would take the controls try to make it over the walkway while the other would sit nearby with their hand over the esc button and open the menu the moment we slipped into the water (which happened many times). Good times!