What Were Your Scariest Moments in a Video Game?

[oranje]

What scary moments did you experience while playing games? Did any particular monster or enemy freak you out?

The Re-Deads in Ocarina of Time really freaked me out, especially after I went forward in time for the first time. All the Dead Hands I encountered in Ocarina of Time also freaked me out. I was also scared of the husks in Mass Effect, particularly in the side missions in the first game and especially in the derelict Reaper mission in the second. Also last but not least, the shark in the island level of Banjo-Kazooie scared me whenever I entered the water. The Jaws like music didn't help either. :/

 

[#1 Senpai]

i think playing left 4 dead would be a scary moment for me and the charger zombie scares and freaks me out lol
on a computer it scares me wayyy more than on an xbox aha
even tho its not as scary

 

[Tom_Nooks_Party_Pants]

I had marvel vs. capcom 2 playing in my ps2 standing up and my dog knocked over my ps2. When I opened the disc tray there was a huge scratch on the disc and after that the disc kept on coming up with a "disc read error" on my ps2. Fortunately I bought a cd / dvd buffering machine that worked wonders and I was able to buffer out the scratch from the disc getting it to work again.

 

[Ehingen Guy]

The hallucinations in Eternal Darkness really freaked me out. I literally jumped when I saw Alex' body in the bathtub.

 

[Saylor]

It's dumb but the skulltulas in Ocarina of Time make me jump because I always walk into them when I'm not paying attention and they freak me out. The scariest thing for me though is rooms with floormasters in any Zelda game, they make me super nervous.

 

[spCrossing]

The first part of the PC game "Unreal"...
And it was my first ever video game....whoah...

 

[Mega_Cabbage]

It's dumb but the skulltulas in Ocarina of Time make me jump because I always walk into them when I'm not paying attention and they freak me out. The scariest thing for me though is rooms with floormasters in any Zelda game, they make me super nervous.

This. My first time encountering the redead was scary. Some of the ghosts that pop out of the ground/wall when playing as knuckles in Sonic Adventure 2 jump scare me.

 

[OneTimeUser]

Let's see, going chronologically...

Ocarina of Time Re-Deads and Floormasters when I was a kid.

I got Metroid Prime when or shortly after it came out, so I was 12 or 13. Didn't get past the intro level for at least a year. The atmosphere in that frigate creeped me right the hell out.

About a year ago I played Amnesia: The Dark Descent. $20 spent to be scared 0-to-****less in under 15 minutes. I regret nothing.

 

[Beleated_Media]

I straight up get scared when I see some Mario Galaxy characters, I remeber when I was scared about that bone fin shark 0.0

 

[LunaMoon Crossing]

Lumiose Hex Maniac

 

[oranje]

Let's see, going chronologically...

Ocarina of Time Re-Deads and Floormasters when I was a kid.

I got Metroid Prime when or shortly after it came out, so I was 12 or 13. Didn't get past the intro level for at least a year. The atmosphere in that frigate creeped me right the hell out.

About a year ago I played Amnesia: The Dark Descent. $20 spent to be scared 0-to-****less in under 15 minutes. I regret nothing.

Yeah Metroid Prime scared me too when I was a kid. I got it for my 13th birthday and was too freaked out to play until I was 16. I was able to beat it though, but I was always startled by the space pirates.

 

[BerryPop]

Almost everything in oot (Well, not really, but the music creeps me out and the enemies too), Drip Drop Galaxy, Bonefin Galaxy, Minecraft mobs

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I straight up get scared when I see some Mario Galaxy characters, I remeber when I was scared about that bone fin shark 0.0

I was 7 or 8 when i first saw that guy and i STILL cant play that level.
Oh and oddly enough girantina made me laugh
it was the way i imagined cyrus saying interferrerererrererer- in my head that made me laugh. Same thing with a certain twilight princess boss.
I guess its because i'm just weird like that.

 

[n64king]

When I was a child the only thing about redeads that scared me was the horrific scream, their visuals were ugly/cool but not scary lol.

Um but since? Pretty much anywhere too dark to really see in Fallout 3, the Corvega Factory & Chryslus Buildings, both dark, both protected by Super Mutant Overlords by the time I decided to look inside, and several collapsed areas inside, which made navigating sooooo hard as well as Our Lady of Hope Hospital, don't you EVER put me in there again. Do not like hospitals AT ALL. Some Subway tunnels were freaky, as well as the obvious thought that most the skeletons were fried in the original nuclear blast 200 years before x_x I always got the image of the people standing at their work post, being lit on fire by the bomb, then their skeleton just has to be there forever now... that's where you landed!!!

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Lol I just remembered when Protectron robots came from out of no where with their glowing red and gatling lasers in FO3 it use to startle me too....


Oh and any sudden gasps and screams in Fatal Frame

 

[Earth Wolf-Howl]

Definitely my first encounter with an Orne in Kid Icarus: Uprising. At the time, I had no clue what it was, so I was kind of intrigued. At the same time, however, I knew something wasn't right due to that dreary tune repeating over and over in the background... thankfully my cowardice repelled me from trying to attack it, but even today, now that I know that they're insta-kill, I can't help but start shaking whenever I see/hear one. Even worse was the fact that this didn't even happen that long ago...

 

[Reindeer]

Playing Hexen II. I was 10.

 

[Yui Z]

I was playing Ib one time and got to a part where arm thingies come out of the walls. It freaked me out because I wasn't expecting it.

When I was younger, I remember playing Rayman with my sister. I can't remember it too well, but there were some freaky monster things which made us repeatedly throw the controller back to each other because neither of us wanted to be caught. Can't remember exactly which game it was though.

Also, I wouldn't really count Scary Maze game usually, but I love this one. Me and my friends were playing Scary Maze game on the laptop, and we all knew what was coming but what we didn't realize was that the volume was right up. The face popped up and the friend holding it threw the laptop as we all screamed.

 

[n64king]

When I was younger, I remember playing Rayman with my sister. I can't remember it too well, but there were some freaky monster things which made us repeatedly throw the controller back to each other because neither of us wanted to be caught. Can't remember exactly which game it was though.

Also, I wouldn't really count Scary Maze game usually, but I love this one. Me and my friends were playing Scary Maze game on the laptop, and we all knew what was coming but what we didn't realize was that the volume was right up. The face popped up and the friend holding it threw the laptop as we all screamed.

Omg I want to know what the Rayman thing was. Do you know which console you played that particular one on?
Also LOL @ Scary Maze because me and an old friend of mine had a similar experience, where we knew what was coming but the the volume somehow went all the way up and this stupid cartoon ghost came up and laughed and we screamed and threw a drink and woke our other friend up who got mad haha

 

[Yui Z]

Omg I want to know what the Rayman thing was. Do you know which console you played that particular one on?
Also LOL @ Scary Maze because me and an old friend of mine had a similar experience, where we knew what was coming but the the volume somehow went all the way up and this stupid cartoon ghost came up and laughed and we screamed and threw a drink and woke our other friend up who got mad haha

It was years ago, but I'm pretty sure it was Rayman 3 for Xbox.

 

[Zeiro]

I played Resident Evil 3: Nemesis a lot as a kid. I loved it, but I did get very scared at some points and I did get nightmares lol. It was fascinating to me. The scariest moments were when you get cornered by Nemesis or a group of zombies, or Nemesis when Nemesis appears out of nowhere and starts chasing you. The environments and the scenario itself were horrific enough to terrify me as a child.

 

[ellabella12345]

Baraca from tekken (i don't know how to spell his name) and amnesia on PC ... zombies were following me also left for dead 2 omg more zombies.