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[Tunahead]

Mary Barrows from Clock Tower is the most disturbing character in the game despite

Spoiler

being the only "human" antagonist

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Most people who are into the original SNES Clock Tower probably know this by now, but it's worth repeating just in case: It's based on the Dario Argento movie Phenomena. Not officially or anything, but still. Shamelessly and obviously so. Y'all should check it out because it's classic Argento surreal dream horror. The ending is particularly amazing, and was one of the few things not featured in the game. (Don't read this spoiler if you intend to watch the movie because that scene is an amazing surprise.)

Spoiler

Jennifer is saved at the last minute when an enraged chimpanzee attacks the main villainess and stabs her to death to avenge the death of Donald Pleasence.

 

[Brerlappin]

I've never even played Zeno Clash, but Fathermother freaks me all the way out.

Fathermother isnt even as bad as some of the other creatures in ZC. I forget the name but theres one enemy who steals people eyes so he can be invisible. And in ZC2 theres an enemy called the ear collector, who wears a necklace of....ears.

 

[Dark_castle]

 

[The Crimson Beast]

curtis in killer 7 skeeved me out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXwWjxbzuIk

kinda sad i missed out on this game in its time. curtis voice acting is good but the other guys kinda took me out of it but it also had animations.

 

[B-Genius]

By far one of the most disturbing characters or things in any game, I might argue any medium, is AM from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. I'm sure many of you are already familiar with AM but for the uninitiated I'll give a brief explanation. The game was based on the 1967 short story written by Harlen Ellison. During WWIII the militaries of the world create a supercomputer called Allied Mastercomputer in order to run the war which has become too complex for humans to handle themselves.The AIs coalesce and gain sentience and decide to carry out a genocide against the entire human race. Pretty familiar stuff far as evil AI constructs go, right? Well AM, in its utter hatred for humanity, has decided to enslave and essentially grant immortality to a small handful of people for the sole purpose of torturing them. Because you see... AM really resents humanity for having created him.

That's a lot of hate.

AM is so disturbing because he's essentially a wrathful god who cannot be reasoned with or appeased. The only thing that gives AMs existence any purpose is torturing this group of people. Pretty sick.

Kinda cheating taking a game based on a short story...

But yes, that story was very disturbing. I would love to see this kind of "wrathful god" construct in a fully-fledged modern game. Something that truly hates the player... Maybe I should play System Shock S, but I have a feeling it's not what I'm looking for.

 

[The Crimson Beast]

By far one of the most disturbing characters or things in any game, I might argue any medium, is AM from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
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i suspect the name of the game came from a dream. i had a similar dream and it was scary enough to never forget.

 

[SomTervo]

Pyramid Head from Silent Hill

This one is the answer

And the gif doesn't even display why he's so horrific

The game

Spoiler

(Silent Hill 2)

sets up a precedent for him being an incongruous, violent figure with no backstory. Then, after introducing him, the game will leave him out of the picture for hours at a time. Sometimes like 3-4. You'll forget he even exists. This isn't a Bioshock or Metal Gear villain where they'll call you and talk to you all the time.

After hours of just dealing with the other shit the game throws at you, suddenly he'll walk out from the side of the screen. No fanfare. No music. He'll just be there. Walking towards you.

And you can't kill him.

You can't

Run

Spoiler

Each time he appears is unique and horrible. No filler, no patterns, just genius horror. I made up the example above, that never specifically happens, but things just like it do

 

[Grazzt]

No one has mentioned Lucifer in Dante's Inferno so far?
That thing has the biggest

Spoiler

DICK

in the whole video game history I guess...

 

[dreamlock]

Spoiler

Alma from F.E.A.R series.

 

[Bulbasaur]

Manji Cultist from Tenchu.

Back in 199? I found them disturbing.They made sounds like cats and moved crazily.

Years later a video surfaced of how they used motion capture for their movements. Brilliant.

http://youtu.be/GKWpagWQFGI

 

[Necromanti]

Most people who are into the original SNES Clock Tower probably know this by now, but it's worth repeating just in case: It's based on the Dario Argento movie Phenomena. Not officially or anything, but still. Shamelessly and obviously so. Y'all should check it out because it's classic Argento surreal dream horror. The ending is particularly amazing, and was one of the few things not featured in the game. (Don't read this spoiler if you intend to watch the movie because that scene is an amazing surprise.)

Spoiler

Jennifer is saved at the last minute when an enraged chimpanzee attacks the main villainess and stabs her to death to avenge the death of Donald Pleasence.

Thanks for reminding me that I really need to watch that movie!

 

[Gurgelhals]

Dethmold from The Witcher 2:

He's not blatantly disturbing, but just creepy without it being clear why he actually is creepy. It's kind of hard to describe, there's just something off about him whenever he appears.

 

[ChryZ]

Trevor Philips, GTAV

 

[Wabba]

This motherfucker.

I immediately thought about him. Really creepy guy. Maybe more disturbing characters in horror games, but the bar fight scene was really scary for me.

 

[SomTervo]

Manji Cultist from Tenchu.

Back in 199? I found them disturbing.They made sounds like cats and moved crazily.

Years later a video surfaced of how they used motion capture for their movements. Brilliant.

http://youtu.be/GKWpagWQFGI

Forgot about those guys - they were bad in Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven/Return from Darkness too. Really creepy - and immortal. If you killed them, they would come back to life shortly afterwards. Until you found a special sword.

Spoiler

Dark Souls catacombs eat your heart out

 

[pinkurocket]

The Aristocrats in Rule of Rose are disturbing in a non-gory way

A bunch of kids bullying a grown woman... In some disturbing ways :I

 

[littletran22]

Pyramid Head from Silent Hill

What the fuck is this psycho doing with those bodies!?

 

[MechaX]

What the fuck is this psycho doing with those bodies!?

Pyramid Head gets lonely too sometimes.

 

[B-Genius]

After hours of just dealing with the other shit the game throws at you, suddenly he'll walk out from the side of the screen. No fanfare. No music. He'll just be there. Walking towards you.

Wow, I can picture this build up vividly. Shame I never got into SH 1 or 2. Pyramid Head always struck me as a disturbing villain; one who is simple on the surface, but has a complex and bizarre history. Love stuff like that.

My contribution is the Chaos Eater from Dark Souls:

You might say "that looks dumb and out of place in a fantasy game", and you may be right. But I'd argue that it's that absurdity you find in dark sci-fi or Cthulhu literature - that unnerving feeling of not knowing exactly what you're looking at. Some of the parts seem familiar, but none of it makes sense.

Why does this thing exist? Why is it only found in Lost Izalith? Was it there due to natural causes when Izalith fell to chaos? Is it a species introduced by some other means? Even if I'm thinking about it too much, or you believe they were just put there last minute, their very presence still disturbs me - much like the Great Race of Lovecraftian horror. You descend all this way through a fantasy world of demons and dragons, and suddenly there is this thing... It's the epitome of madness, and it's utterly gross.

I mean, just look at it...

 

[Fattony12000]

Came here to post AM.

 

[crmetteer]

2 heads and arm for legs, can't handle it

This thing. It just stares and points at you before charging. Nightmare fuel. Definitely made Silent Hill 4 the scariest game in the franchise for me

 

[Genio88]

Definitely the Dead Space child necromorphs, their screams are creepy as hell

 

[RipperGrim]

What the fuck is this psycho doing with those bodies!?

I don't really know, I think it's supposed to kinda represent rape or something, I just know the first time I saw that shit it disturbed more than any game has in that fucked up kinda way.

 

[lazygecko]

Watson

 

[Steel]

Voldo from the Soul series. Or creepy BDSM fetishist turned fighter.

Exactly why Voldo is one of my favorite characters in soul cal. Trolling people with him is hilarious.

Though that reminds me, I once ran into a custom voldo(Soul cal has a pretty in depth character creator) in an online ranked match in Soul Cal V that was a male transvestite that had a gigantic rainbow furry phallic tail sticking out from between his legs, the character's name was "Hard Gay". He then proceeded to repeatedly use the absolutely harmless pelvic thrust move with him in the first round. After he did that a couple times, he never moved again.

 

[bosseye]

Recent one that creeped me out was Laura from The Evil Within. I think its because she looks a bit like a spider.

Those spiders in Skyrim gave me the willies too.

 

[dan2026]

What the fuck is this psycho doing with those bodies!?

He's trying to shove them into the garbage disposal.

 

[Cindres]

Lisa Trevor from the Resident Evil remake.

This probably gets it for me, just read her backstory, super fucked up.

 

[Chibot]

The appearance and voice work of the Manji cult boss from the original Tenchu is pretty creepy. Really, that whole level and its enemies are fairly disturbing.

 

[Nimmermehr]

This guy:

 

[SomTervo]

This guy:

A lot like

Dead Space 2 babies :

Yup... It's horrible shooting them, let alone looking at them

What the fuck is this psycho doing with those bodies!?

He's doing things. Horrible things.

Spoiler

Exactly what you think he's doing.

Also they're not bodies – they're sentient mannequins. He does this then vanishes from the game for a little while.

 

[Mauricio_Magus]

anything like this

I agree.

 

[CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls]

I immediately thought about him. Really creepy guy. Maybe more disturbing characters in horror games, but the bar fight scene was really scary for me.

I credit Nolan North for being so not Nolan North with this character. The bar fight gives me shivers every time. It's his quick stalking and dialogue that gets under your skin.

 

[NotSelf]

It was fun running from this monster.

 

[LaunchpadMcQ]

How have we made it this far without mentioning Danganronpa 1 and 2 (full-game spoilers)

Spoiler

pretty much half of both casts. Nagito in particular for his very elaborate suicide.

 

[schaft0620]

What the hell is that

 

[Hank Scorpio]

condemned 2.

 

[Rymuth]

Wow, I can picture this build up vividly. Shame I never got into SH 1 or 2. Pyramid Head always struck me as a disturbing villain; one who is simple on the surface, but has a complex and bizarre history. Love stuff like that.

My contribution is the Chaos Eater from Dark Souls:


You might say "that looks dumb and out of place in a fantasy game", and you may be right. But I'd argue that it's that absurdity you find in dark sci-fi or Cthulhu literature - that unnerving feeling of not knowing exactly what you're looking at. Some of the parts seem familiar, but none of it makes sense.

Why does this thing exist? Why is it only found in Lost Izalith? Was it there due to natural causes when Izalith fell to chaos? Is it a species introduced by some other means? Even if I'm thinking about it too much, or you believe they were just put there last minute, their very presence still disturbs me - much like the Great Race of Lovecraftian horror. You descend all this way through a fantasy world of demons and dragons, and suddenly there is this thing... It's the epitome of madness, and it's utterly gross.

I mean, just look at it...

The reality is far goofier than you imagine.

They're inspired by the evil wrestler, Mixer Tatei, one of the antagonists in the manga/anime Kinnikuman, of which the Dark Souls director, Miyazaki, is a fan of.

He even mentions this in the Dark Souls Design works.

 

[Lightning Count]

deadly premonition

Yes, but

Spoiler

He's actually on your side in the end.

Edit: spoiler tags weren't right, my bad.

 

[zeroroute]

I always found voldo humorous for some reason, but his scv design bothers me because you can see his eyes now.

 

[Odah]

condemned 2.

I was about to post that exact same picture >_>

 

[Flipyap]

Tim from Braid.

Pyramid Head from Silent Hill

That sure is a fancy hat, but take it away and all you have left is a boring muscular guy. A generic slasher villain in a game filled with more interesting, more disturbing monster designs.
It doesn't help that Konami turned it into a joke by treating it like a franchise mascot with all the nonsensical cameos.

 

[PsihoPerihelion]

Lisa Trevor, whitout a doubt. She gave me nightmares first time I played REmake.

Pyramid Head from Silent Hill

Wait, is he penetrating her? I can't remember seeing this on the game.

 

[Handy Fake]

This bastard.

 

[Stereogatari]

Pigsy from Manhunt. Stuff of nightmares.

He was a man sized Pig/Human hybrid, or was it a man with a pigs head or something I can't remember. Just a general scary and fowl thing, the game as a whole was disturbing and I can't believe I played it to completion as a kid. It had good stealth though, Last of Us plays very similarly.

 

[TheSpaceBetween]

Joel from The Last of Us. Just a straight up doushe. I sympathize with Kratos more than I do with that piece of shit.

 

[Woo-Fu]

No Bobby Kotick pics? You've come a long way GAF.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Spoiler

David from The Last of Us. This creepy bastard is a cannibal paedophile.

 

[TheSpaceBetween]

No Bobby Kotick pics? You've come a long way GAF.

Yves is creepier than Bobby.

 

[More_Badass]