Short one today, on Gummy Fangs. Candy lip lunch. Gotta run, but here's a discussion topic: scary video games/video game moments. Name some of your faves.
Wow, great stuff, guys. I’m with whoever mentioned the worm-things from Marble Madness. Not scary, but they made my heart race.
Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/30/2004 12:31 PM
Those would be the Marble Munchers. I like the way they lick their chops after eating your marble. That sounds kinda naughty.
Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/30/2004 2:08 PM
I don’t go for the survival horror stuff, so the most dreadful video gaming experience would be most of Shadowman for the N64… especially the f’ed up nursery stage with the classical music playing in the background intermingled among the sounds of kids laughing and crying… then you’d turn the corner and one of those pigmen with meathooks for hands would chase you. Twisted.
Scariest moment would be Medusa’s head coming to life in Castlevania.
Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 09/30/2004 2:54 PM
First time playing Half-Life, when I got to the giant Tentacles in the missile silo.
If you haven’t played the game before, they are attracted to noise, so you need to tread along slowly, or else they’ll kill you.
What made it even freakier was that you could hear them making noises and tapping on the walls before you could even see what the hell was going on. Quite a shock to walk into a room and have a giant tentacle plow through the glass window…
Chestnuts roasted by marril159 @ 09/30/2004 11:03 PM
One of my favorites would definitely be in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tommorow where you grab the terrorist leader during his speach to the world. You’re in his television studio and he is convincing the world that "You will never find me". Indeed, I end up sneaking behind him and quickly grabbing him with the gun pointed to his head. All the other terrorists are startled and suprised as I slowely walk up the ramp to the helepad. Pure intensity and one of my favorite moments. Why is my text underlined?
Chestnuts roasted by Miltqn @ 10/01/2004 10:42 AM
Scariest moment in a video game for me: the beginning of Half-Life. Not the train part :p I was playing it for the first time late at night and when I got to the nuclear facility where they’re conducting the dangerous experiment, I knew that something horrible was going to happen, so it wasn’t a big surprise when everything went wrong. Mixed into the standard warning signals and such there was this brief flash of an eerie alien planet that was kind of unsettling. I was already spooked, and when I went wandering down a hall and was attacked by a headcrab for the first time I nearly flipped out, those things were freaky! By the time I saw one of the inside-out zombie scientists, I decided it would probably be better to quit then and play it in the afternoon…
Chestnuts roasted by Aurora Szalinski @ 10/01/2004 1:27 PM
I’ll have to concur with many people here when I say that Fatal Frame is the scariest game ever. But one moment in particular scared the ever-loving crap out of me.
Fatal Frame is a Japanese game where you are in an abandoned (obviously haunted) mansion looking for your brother, battling spooky ghosts with a magic camera. Don’t laugh, because it is abso-friggin-lutely terrifying. You’re in the mansion for something like 4 or 5 nights.
Towards the end of the first night, you are led to a kind of shrine. Usually, when you get to somewhere important, a cutscene is supposed to happen, but this time, nothing. I searched all around the stupid temple and even backtracked towards trhe beginning of the level and still nothing. So I walk back to the shrine, clueless, and glance towards the ceiling inside. There was a dead guy, crucified, on the ceiling who then screamed bloody friggin murder and lunged at me. I had never ever screamed or been physically terrified about a video game until that exact moment.
Having said that, I suggest anyone with a PS2 go pick up the game wherever you can find it. It is AWESOME.
Chestnuts roasted by Evil Brian @ 10/01/2004 2:34 PM
Okay so i know that it was gaming magazine’s "coaster of the month" for its crappy camera views, but NOCTURNE will always hold a place in my heart for scaring me when i played it when i was 12.
and even before that, Alone in the Dark, this old school pc game has haunted me since i was 8 or 9…
Chestnuts roasted by Lucy @ 10/01/2004 3:08 PM
It’s been said a few times now, but Silent Hill definitely takes the cake for creepy games. They’re not so much ‘scary’ as they are ‘disturbing’…
Chestnuts roasted by spoilsport @ 10/01/2004 5:23 PM
I have a couple:
System Shock 2 – the whole game is full of creepy, atmospheric terror. Zombies, ghosts, even the voice of the computer that’s gone insane is freaky. You young’uns who’ve never played it, track it down – you can find it in almost any bargain bib for PC. Classic game.
Clive Barker’s Undying – another game with lots of atmosphere. There is one scene in particular where you walk in front of a mirror, and you see your reflection. You proceed, then have to walk in front of the mirror again. This time, your reflection is surrounded by four ghosts, who also take the opportunity to scream at you. Scary as hell.
3 – This just happened last night. I’m playing Doom 3. You get a radio transmission from your commanding officer that the base has been taken over by some kind of growth. Within a couple rooms, you see it. I have to admit that I shuddered when I saw it. Somehow, they managed to make this slime look really organic – flowing, pulsing, like it was really alive. It didn’t even attack or anything – it just looked really fricking gross.
Chestnuts roasted by Ninj @ 10/02/2004 1:55 PM
Yeah, the whole silent hill series is damn scary; the 4th installment is no exception, the whole game being an oversized crate of "HOLY SHIT!" Seriously, you will not want to sleep for days afterward.
scariest game moment: In silent hill 3, everyone should know the mirror scene; the door is locked, and the room is slowly oozing blood, the music rises to a climax, and according to the mirror, heather is covered in blood and standing completely still despite the real heather running around. UGH!
Chestnuts roasted by mypurpose @ 10/02/2004 4:44 PM
Damn, i also forgot monkey island 2, where it’s only guybrush and lechuck in the weird bunker complex; 3 scary moments in that sequence: 1. where you see the remains of guybrush’s parents. 2. whenever lechuck pops in and uses his voodoo doll. 3. when you take the elevator to the alleyway in monkey island 1 – it was truly a messed up game. On the subject of scary lucasarts games; play Loom.
Chestnuts roasted by mypurpose @ 10/02/2004 4:50 PM
scariest game… the 1st silent hill…
scariest game moment… the ending of silent hill 3
Doom3- When you walk into the bathroom after all Hell breaks loose, I charged in and hit the vent right away, scared me big time. Also, getting so close as to almost be melee’d by Cybersatan was scary and anytime there was the possession thing where stuff just flew around with creepy voices
Chestnuts roasted by anom @ 10/03/2004 12:27 PM
Alone in the Dark was pantswettingly scary for me when I was a kid. Reading all those creepy letters and notes while exploring the haunted Derceto mansion and learning the horrifying truth behind Jeremy’s suicide gave me nightmares (AITD 2 and 3 were pretty cheasy in comparison).
Right now I cant stand to play Doom 3 for more than 5 minutes at a time. I get too freaked out. I spend that 5 minutes wildly firing blindly down darkened closterphobic passagways. WHY COULDN’T THEY LET ME SHOOT AND HOLD THE FLASHLIGHT AT THE SAME TIME!!! WHAT WAS THAT . . . DIE!!! boom! boom! boom! click!. . . AAAAAAAAARGH!!!
Chestnuts roasted by Eilorn @ 10/13/2004 11:39 PM
“dianogas” from early, shitty starwars games (you see one ONCE in the first film, the little eyeball guy in the trash compactor). anyone remember “dark forces”(PC)? the sewer level in that started it for me. dianogas are revealed as huge balls with a gaping maw, whipping tentacles, and that googly eye. they’d just pop out at you.
then came “shadows for the empire”(N64). just the fact that they were IN there terrified me. you actually went underwater and SAW them. i never would go underwater. then the BOSS……
this developed into a constant fear of deep, dark water in videogames. the last time i remember it was in playing duke nukem. the “protozoid slimers”. they’d just crawl up the screen out of NOWHERE. and they were always around pitch black areas, even WORSE when coupled with it being water.
i can’t explain the anxious feeling of dread.
Chestnuts roasted by michael @ 10/12/2006 12:29 AM
Heres a few that creeped me out:
- Dragon’s Lair in the arcades. I recall as a 3 year kid being freaked out during this one seen where Dirk (or someone) gets turned into a skeleton. Even though it was cartoony graphics, i remember being disturbed as a little kid about that.
- Sword of Sodan for the Amiga. Aside from realisticly surreal graphics for its time, it actually had some serious bloodshedding as well as dead bodies that didn’t “evaporate” like most games. I thought that was a bit freaky..
- I can not for the life of me remember the name of this game, but it was around the 1991-1993 period there was a PC role playing game that had digitized (the coolest thing back then) graphics of people as characters whenever you spoke with them. I recall the very first thing that happens was that your father or uncle gets killed immediately when you start the game and you’re suppose to avenge him or something. Anyways, this was the very first game that genuinely gave me a shock. As you explore the land, you come upon this severed head – which you can actually keep as an item. But when ever you viewed it, it was the most disturbingly disgusting sick image I’ve seen in my life….
- The infamous Ravenholm level of Half Life 2. You knew something was bad when Alys states “We don’t go there anymore”. Turned out to be a festering dark zombie infested town…with a lot of dead bodies everywhere. Of course zombies are scattered throughout the town where you least expect it, in the darkess area. Not to mention a demented former priest running around with a shotgun yelling prayer verses everywhere. Pretty creepy atmosphere too.
- FEAR. Well nuff said about that one. Mix “The Ring” with a first person shooter and you got yourself a sh*t in the pants fest.
- If anyone has played Eternal Darkness, then they know what a creepy game is. I’m quite surprise that this is a Nintendo Game Cube exclusive. Everything from the minute you turn the game on is all creepy. From visuals, music, and sound. All creepy. And to make it worse, this “sanity” thing that causes the game to go wacky – litterally. This is the first game i know of that will screw with the player, making them think THEY’RE losing it. Now what other games out there will do a fake turn off TV or system reset on you? Not to mention fake memory card error, change of TV volume..etc…as well as tons of other crap. And thats not even the scary part….
Chestnuts roasted by Dolomite @ 01/25/2007 3:17 AM
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Wow, great stuff, guys. I’m with whoever mentioned the worm-things from Marble Madness. Not scary, but they made my heart race.