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What "screamer" moment or cheap scare in a game got you the worst?
- Thread starter MrOogieBoogie
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Man, I don't think I even turned on my Playstation again for a week.
Then there is the redux in REmake. When I first entered that hallway I was puckered up waiting for it to happen again, but then they totally pulled a head fake, lured me into a false sense of security and got me AGAIN. I thought that was a clever little piece of game design.
This was ridiculous. I remember it more than any of the others because the entire level has no enemies in it and is almost totally quiet.
Uhhhh, REmake is Nintendo console exclusive.
aparisi2274
Member
This!
When playing Fatal Frame 2 at 1am in the dark with my girlfriend at the time sleeping next to me I came across an arm dangling on a window, I decided to switch to the first-person camera view to get a better look at it. The arm then fell to the ground and a ghost popped out of the ceiling right in front of me.
Here is a video of the ghost I'm talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rBOWL4lJvE
I actually yelled out loud and woke my girlfriend up
Here is a video of the ghost I'm talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rBOWL4lJvE
I actually yelled out loud and woke my girlfriend up
outunderthestars
Banned
Ahh, I thought it might have been a timed exclusive and put on PSN and XBLA by now.
Pretty much this entire thing was awful. I don't know if I would call it "cheap scares" but I had trouble sleeping after this (Fatal Frame 3):
http://youtu.be/sjOnr-48fgw
http://youtu.be/sjOnr-48fgw
MisterLuffy
Member
It was re-released on wii but it wasn't really upgraded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFVUOfM3WPU&t=8m44s
I follow this guy's LP videos and he very rarely gets scared, possibly because he's played a lot of horror games. When he did Amnesia he mostly ran in the dark, joking around and talking about random crap, but the iron maiden is one of the few things that got him.
And then he walked inside anyway lol
Me too. Practically had a heart attack.
Femmeworth
Banned
Fuck that thing. ;_;
MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
Surprised no one's mentioned the locker from Condemned.
Definitely the bathtub scene in Eternal Darkness. I just happened to be playing at night, in the dark with headphones on. I pooped.
Good one, too.
Good one, too.
Ultimadrago
Member
frAntic_Frog
Member
Doom3....the part where you are near an exposed elevator shaft and
a ghost voice says "PSST....OVER HERE" and once you get near the elevator all these demons teleport out in your face
This one got me. It was on of my first horror game experiences. I got so startled I tried to run away, but the tank controls were so bad I couldn't maneuver my way around a piece of furniture,so I died.
The fucking locker in Condemned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY7uZ7cwhKk
Literally made me jump out of my seat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY7uZ7cwhKk
Literally made me jump out of my seat
Incendiary
Banned
Okay I'm gonna go super old school and say the first time I ever jumped/got scared in a video game was when the motherfucking wall master grabbed me out of nowhere in the first Legend of Zelda. Freaked me the hell out when I was a kid.
Arlecchino
Member
Cecil the vortigaunt (Thumbs up if you get the reference) at the top of the ladder in HL2: Ep 2.
NoirVisage
Banned
Amnesia in the water for the first time. Might not be a cheap scare per say but I screamed like a little girl.
Silent Hill in the school where the locker busts open with the cat.
Silent Hill in the school where the locker busts open with the cat.
Incredibly memorable, when I played the game originally my friend jumped back so hard at this scene he hit his head on the window sill. Funny as hell.
RE is a classic.
excaliburps
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Hell yeah! I agree. That dog jumping out of the window almost made me pee in my pants!
I think Resident Evil was the first real game that got me thinking that games can be a valid source of scares; the same kind you get from horror movies.
strideramc
Member
When the licker busts through the interrogation room window in RE2.
Darkmakaimura
Member
I don't remember the name of the game. It was a game on the C64 and it took place on a spaceship and there were aliens. Anyways, it was a sidescrolling 2D game (but not a platformer). At one point you are walking down a hallway and all of a sudden out of nowhere the alien pops up with a loud musical burst.
If I remember the name I'll post it. Old game (obviously) but it was my first "oh shit, that scared me!" experience in a video game.
If I remember the name I'll post it. Old game (obviously) but it was my first "oh shit, that scared me!" experience in a video game.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Dead kid's face
toddhunter
Member
Silent hill 4 had it's issues, but this moment got me good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T10mS2mq37k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T10mS2mq37k
Shining Sunshine
Banned
LOL!
RE2 had so many great ones, but these two were the best imo:
1) When you're outside on some scaffolding with only one way to go, and you pass a camera pointed at you. You round the corner and there's a bank of computer screens showing the corridor you just came from. You see that huge monster enemy (the huge humanoid) walking where you just walked, and realize that he's about to turn the corner and there's no way to escape. Terrifying.
2) When you're in the hallway outside the library, and the giant humanoid is chasing after you and you're trying to fight to escape, and you juuuust make it inside the library. Whew, safe! Or so you thought. The thing BUSTS THROUGH THE WALL OF THE ROOM, breaking all the conventions of physics and gameplay theretofore established in the series and in your psyche. Kill me.
Damn, Resident Evil 2 was brilliant. I remember it like it was yesterday.
1) When you're outside on some scaffolding with only one way to go, and you pass a camera pointed at you. You round the corner and there's a bank of computer screens showing the corridor you just came from. You see that huge monster enemy (the huge humanoid) walking where you just walked, and realize that he's about to turn the corner and there's no way to escape. Terrifying.
2) When you're in the hallway outside the library, and the giant humanoid is chasing after you and you're trying to fight to escape, and you juuuust make it inside the library. Whew, safe! Or so you thought. The thing BUSTS THROUGH THE WALL OF THE ROOM, breaking all the conventions of physics and gameplay theretofore established in the series and in your psyche. Kill me.
Damn, Resident Evil 2 was brilliant. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Was playing MGS4 a week ago, during the L. Octopus fight. Not a particularly 'scary' battle normally sure.
Anyway, I had my headphones on full blast and she came crashing through a window I was standing next too. Scared the shit out of me. I thought she was camouflaged in another room. Totally unexpected and loud as hell, but quite the thrill.
It was honestly the biggest 'o shit' scare I go out of a game since RE2.
Anyway, I had my headphones on full blast and she came crashing through a window I was standing next too. Scared the shit out of me. I thought she was camouflaged in another room. Totally unexpected and loud as hell, but quite the thrill.
It was honestly the biggest 'o shit' scare I go out of a game since RE2.
Pinko Marx
Banned
I screamed like a girl playin Fatal Frame a couple of times.
RE4 too.
RE4 too.
gypsyOtoko
Member
RE moments already posted nail it.
Also: not particularly scary, but one that was most memorable for me was in Fatal Frame 1 - you walk through a dark hallway you've been through several times before that gives you a view of both the 1st and 2nd floors of the house - and you hear this very faint Japanese koto music being played.
Then with a loud BANG it stops, and the lights go out on the 2nd floor - when you then realize that there was originally a silhouette of a ghost playing the koto there.
That gave me chills - atmospherically it was really well executed.
Also: not particularly scary, but one that was most memorable for me was in Fatal Frame 1 - you walk through a dark hallway you've been through several times before that gives you a view of both the 1st and 2nd floors of the house - and you hear this very faint Japanese koto music being played.
Then with a loud BANG it stops, and the lights go out on the 2nd floor - when you then realize that there was originally a silhouette of a ghost playing the koto there.
That gave me chills - atmospherically it was really well executed.
Yup
Napalm_Frank
Member
RE1: Dog jumps through window
RE2: Zombie hands appear from boarded windows, Mr.X comes through a friggin wall.
RE3: Nemesis jumps through window.
Those got me good.
RE2: Zombie hands appear from boarded windows, Mr.X comes through a friggin wall.
RE3: Nemesis jumps through window.
Those got me good.
Anticitizen One
Banned
Oven man wasn't scary because if you watch the trailer that plays if you leave the START screen on too long it spoils the scene in that.
Magic Mushroom
Member
Sprinkler in Dead Space.
