What Were Your Scariest Moments in a Video Game?

[Cashews]

Not many of you are posting actual horror games! Nothing wrong with that, (I just expected more horror-genre games) though non-horror games can get scary for sure.

I've probably played 50 horror games over the last year (BF and I really like halloween lets just say) and the most scared I've ever been has been playing Nightmare House 2, Outlast or Penumbra 2. But i will say that Metroid Fusion for GBA scared me pantsless (at age 12ish?) when I saw SA-X patrolling beneath me and I knew I had to jump in the room.

 

[Zeiro]

Not many of you are posting actual horror games! Nothing wrong with that, (I just expected more horror-genre games) though non-horror games can get scary for sure.

Yeah, I wasn't really expecting people to be saying Zelda.

 

[oranges_ate_you]

the no eyes thing in animal crossing for gamecube use to scare me to death

 

[n64king]

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

Ah okay. I need to replay that one, it's the odd one out for me since I don't have it but there's a PS3 download for it. Rayman has some creepy elements. Especially those N64 and GameCube era ones, which the latter falls under PS2/Xbox era too.

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Yeah, I wasn't really expecting people to be saying Zelda.

The N64 ones use to creep me out more than any before or after. It totally was the graphics though, the "bad" (on today's standard) graphics use to give me nightmares sometimes. Any of those eerie flames or fog graphics looked more ghostly ethereal than like a computer graphic. Also some of the neon glowing colors that the system produced that was subdued in later Nintendo consoles also made it creepy to me. It was a mind over matter thing haha

 

[RainbowCherry]

Dark Souls 2, Old Iron King just bursting out of the lava Wasn't scary, but surprising.. I was scared for the first few seconds "HOLY **** IS THIS SHADOW OF THE COLLOSSUS?" (He wasn't THAT big lets face it, nothing is bigger than the stuff the game throws at you in Shadow of the Colossus...) But then.. Dark Souls 2 again, The Duke's Dear Freja.. Oh.. please no... (Spider thats about 1000x times bigger than you with heads you can cut off and roll it around. Play football with the heads because its so much fun ) Even with my Blacksteel Katana's I couldn't just charge at her and rip her face off cause she was so scary... waahh...

 

[Motte]

Coming upon bears in the original Tomb Raider for the first time.
Aaand hm... the crimson head zombies on the Resident Evil remake for the GameCube. Always pooped a little.

 

[lazuli]

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.

you mean the green area with the ant or the hallway with the hanging dolls? that spooked me the first time i played it too.

 

[Manzanas]

the no eyes thing in animal crossing for gamecube use to scare me to death

Who? Coco? I know she looks freaky but she's actually very adorable.

Coming upon bears in the original Tomb Raider for the first time.

Ohh, a Tomb Raider game scared me once. I can't remember which game was it, but it was the one where you are in a mansion. I was having fun exploring the place as Lara when this "Igor'' comes out of nowhere, I freaked out, turned off my console and never touched the game again.

 

[shayminskyforme88]

Scariest thing for me wasn't really a monster or anything of the like, but it was when I tried to transfer my Bells from one character to another using the re-tail method. I realised that the Bells were not in the ABD. It scared me to death since that was around 7M(Most of my money at that time).

 

[lazuli]

Who? Coco? I know she looks freaky but she's actually very adorable.

i think they mean when you reset or smth, your character's face is replaced so it looks like coco's face.

 

[Cory]

The spirit realm in skyward sword is skary!!!

 

[RayOfHope]

I was scared of monsters that weren't even scary.

I had just started playing Minecraft and was hearing the monster sound effects, not knowing what these things were or what they looked like. Turns out they're some of the least scary enemies I've ever seen in a video game. But as a kid those noises were making my imagination go wild.

edit: Well, I also kind of used to be scared of every enemy ever in video games. I'd make my brother do all the fighting in Zelda games so I could do the rest, hahaha. Hilarious and embarrassing to look back on. Something as simple as moblins would make me go into a panic.
Everything scared me.

 

[lazuli]

throwing a pokeball and hoping that you catch it is the most stressful thing in a game ever.

 

[Teru]

I was going to say that I'm a big wuss and some of the scariest moments I've encountered were scenes from Ocarina of Time. Then I read the first post and I feel much better.

 

[Zane]

THE ZOMBIE LEVEL ON CONKER'S BAD FUR DAY UGHHH
there is no horror movie monster that scares me except zombies and those levels were creepy as ****. I literally couldn't play them as a kid (probs shouldnt have been playing that game at my age anyway LOL) and even now they stress me out - they have a 'jump scare' element to them as well that just makes them worse.

 

[Kaboombo]

whenever i'm hunting for beetles on acnl and they fly away and make the "BZZZ" sound, it scares the flippin sh!t outta me

 

[mikanmilk]

The only time I ever felt really scared playing a video game was when I played Resident Evil 2 the first time. I was in high school but had never played any horror games before and didn't know what to expect.
My brother got it and I first played it alone at night in the dark after getting home from work. I was jumping every few minutes lol. And the scariest moment in that game is one point when you are walking through a narrow, quiet hallway and suddenly out of nowhere BOOM! Mr. X crashes through a wall right in front of you. I literally yelled and jumped. Not only is Mr. X huge and horrible looking, he is basically invincible and can kill you in one hit. All you can do at that point is run until his scary music stops, then you know you got far enough away.
As soon as I read the title of this thread that moment came to mind haha.

Of course later Resident Evils are scary, but I always knew to expect something popping out by that point. Nothing can be scarier than playing RE:2 through that first time for me.

 

[The Peanut Butter Fish]

Back in the old days of DPPT (Sinnoh ) I saw this blue screen that told me that my save was corrupt. I freaked out really badly. Luckily after I saved one more time I didn't get that notification again. That was my scariest moment in any video game ever.

 

[ApolloJusticeAC]

When i played animal crossing for the first time. I was like: AHHHHHH TALKING ANIMALz!!1!

 

[Radda]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQE2f6rJk8Q
Cicero in Skyrim.