Doom 3 - Be honest!

[Kapitan_Phillips]

How many times did you jump/squeak/yell/swear at this game? :arrgh!:

[Dowly]

To be honest, not a single time. I play with headphones and they are usually on high volume, to hear EVERYTHING, but still nothing. ;)

[Kapitan_Phillips]

To be honest, not a single time. I play with headphones and they are usually on high volume, to hear EVERYTHING, but still nothing. ;)

Lies. ;) Play with the lights off and a subwhoofer. Then you will know fear ;)

[Wim Libaers]

Doom 3 is OK. But I would not consider it exceptionally scary. Have you ever played Aliens vs. Predator as the marine (especially before they added savegames in a later patch)? Or Thief, Haunted Cathedral level?

[Konovalov]

Have you ever played Aliens vs. Predator as the marine (especially before they added savegames in a later patch)?

Now those were soil the pants moments. I would wind up panicking and spraying my pulse rifle in every direction. The tension and fear became just too much so I decided the best course was to play as the Alien or Mr Predator. Then the tables were turned and I could sit back and hear those girly marines scream. :D

[TteFAboB]

Yup. I loved the Predator and just couldn't play as the Marine for more than 30 minutes in a single go. Way too much tension. Damn that motion sensor. If it weren't for his limited eye sight I'd have prefered to walk around without it! It scared the heck out of you and kept your stress, blood pressure and adrenaline high as much as the real traps and attacks. If it had been a while since I last opened a door, that guaranteed a small spike, besides from the fact that opening any door was frightening enough. Anyway, I can still hear the noise of the tracker very faintly in the back of my head. Where's my rifle?

Doom 3 was good. But I didn't liked the final boss. Back in Doom 2 when you faced the...what's his name? Cyberdemon?! you had little rooms to hide into and just watch the legs of the monster walk by looking for you. Lovely experience. Hide, run like a chicken, shoot, run, panic. There were too many monsters at the end of Doom 3, sort of like the prologue of Doom 1 in a sense. I'd have prefered to meet the big guy alone. Him, me, our battle arena and a double barrel shotgun that is only available at the expansion :nope: . I know, we needed the monsters to charge up the Little Box of Doom (oh it's inevitable), but that kept the place too crowded and distracted you from the big guy.

I haven't tried the Doom 3 expansion yet. But yeah, I had my moments. Jumped on my chair a few times, dropped the mouse on the floor once. Scary pixels. :-?

[Cpt. Stewker]

Doom 3 was sorta scary. I finished it. But my older brother on the other hand, who is 32 , refuses to finish it because he says it freaks him out to much.

F.E.A.R though was a game that scared the living crap out of me. Towards the end when Alma gets out of her stasis-tube and then you have the vision where she is slowly walking towards you in a room and then all of a sudden she is crawling towards you. I fell over in my chair and had to stop playing for the night, because I couldn't keep going without constantly looking over my shoulder. Not to mention the fact that she is no longer just a specter, but can actually attack you. It took me a LONG time to go to bed afterwards, I kept imagining her standing next to my bed just watching me in that freaky Alma way.

That game and the ring movie. I watched the Ring once... and by my life I will never watch it again. For that mater all horror based on the Japanese style is so $%!&ed up.

I loved the action in that game though. I have yet to play a FPS that matches the AI and mayhem in that game during the fight sequences.

[Camaero]

I usually play Doom 3 at night. I still can not bring myself to finish it.:o

[NeonSamurai]

AvP was the best, but my favorite was the alien, much more fun to scare others, especialy in multiplayer hehe. Pitty AvP 2 killed the tension with the stupid music switch when something was about to happen would tip you off every time.

Doom didnt scare me in the slightest. As for FEAR, well all the girl did was just make me mad for trying to mess with my head (though the ending did catch me off guard).

[RedMenace]

Now AvP, THAT was scary. God I can still hear the scitter-scatter of the facehuggers. I used to panic everytime they came by, i would torch a whole room down, myself in it, as soon as I heard them coming.:oops:

[nightdagger]

FEAR scared the **** out of me playing at night, surround sound headphones plus a woofer.

[Der Eisen-Wal]

DOOM3 was alright at the beginning, i was freaked for the first hour, then it got monotonous... so monotonous that i don't even remember what the final boss looks like. FEAR was ok but could never get into it... ended up being deleted after 6 months of on and off gaming.

that AVP game sounds good... maybe i shoudl pick it up

[jumpy]

AVP2 was great, graphics are a bit old now, but that doesn't really take anything away from it as a great game. Your first couple of levels as a marine...scary tunnel bit where you have to turn on some power relay and all of a sudden a ceiling panel blows out and some pipes/cables fall down - scared the crap out of me. Then there's the bit soon after where you get movement on your motion detector; beep... beep... beep... beep... beep... beep... beep... beep... it turned out to be a chain hanging from a crane in an outside courtyard, swinging in the wind. I must have spent a half hour cautiously searching the area for bad guys only to be lulled into a false sense of security so that when I finally did encounter some aliens I ran away lmao.
On the subject of the Aliens films/games, who has never looked at the false drop ceiling panels in their office/home or wherever in quite the same light again?:hmm:

Doom 3 I never did finnish. Too many late nights with the sound turned up loud and the lights off :oops::lol: The sound made that game so much more freaky. I blame that Trent Rezner (sp?) guy and his ******up NIN atmosphereic sound recording. Maybe I'll get round to finishing it one day.

[kiwi_2005]

How many times did you jump/squeak/yell/swear at this game? :arrgh!:

First time - ALOT! not scary but more shock treatment to my nervous system - that quick little jump in your seat type that cause me to fire uncontrollably with the shotty:lol:

One game that sort of freaked me out where doom 3 doesn't even come close, was System Shock 2....

[Dowly]

To be honest, not a single time. I play with headphones and they are usually on high volume, to hear EVERYTHING, but still nothing. ;)
Lies. ;) Play with the lights off and a subwhoofer. Then you will know fear ;)
I usually play with lights off, can see better when there is a dark spot in the game. But even with a subwoofer, I doubt I would be scared. After the two first Halloween movies, I´ve yet to see a game/movie that scares me big time! F.E.A.R., The Ring and the Silent Hill series (NOT THE MOVIE, YUK!!!) came close. :)

[Enigma]

I may have to pick up some of these titles....I love a game that keeps me on the edge of my seat like that..

[Oberon]

"We don't go to Ravenholm...."

Especially not with dimmed lights, headphones and the volume up... :lol:

[P_Funk]

"We don't go to Ravenholm...."

Especially not with dimmed lights, headphones and the volume up... :lol:
That was such a scary level partly because it was so well executed and also because it was such a shock of a change after the dystopian running from the man deal. It just was such a moody level.

HL2 is the best game in all the ones mentioned here just cause it does the spooky scare me stuff and the other trippy dystopian stuff thats so rarely that well done.

[HunterICX]

Doom3 scared me a couple of times
I hated the ghost voices ''Heeeeelp...meee''

and the bloody lights pissed me off...turning off and on...and flicker...because really when the lights turned of ... I didnt move for 5 minutes...I just picked a flash light and looked.....pffff....nothing...lights back on..I walk 10 meters and then BANG! lights off and I have enemies everywhere...and that scared me the most. at the point u get the minigun, and the music in the background is thrilling I just had my 5 minutes of shooting every ugly son of a b!tch away. but then ...sometimes I just played 15 minutes...and then a door came...will I enter it? ...no..quit&save and calm down

[Sulikate]

FEAR scared the **** out of me playing at night, surround sound headphones plus a woofer.
The same here:o

[Dowly]

"We don't go to Ravenholm...."

Especially not with dimmed lights, headphones and the volume up... :lol:

That´s another thing that I fail to find scary. :roll:

[tycho102]

Doom 3 was scary. FEAR was suspenseful and frightening. Half-Life 2 was a blend of all this stuff -- the organic warfare being used by a police state was highly disturbing.

Riddick was also a fairly suspenseful game. There was some pretty horrific stuff involved with completing that game. That's last year, but I just got around to playing it not long ago.

Can't think of any other games off-hand.

[Cpt. Stewker]

"We don't go to Ravenholm...."

Especially not with dimmed lights, headphones and the volume up... :lol:
That´s another thing that I fail to find scary. :roll:
Aye, I too wonder what the big deal was with this section of the game. The Citidel part with the zombified humans (stalkers?) gave me a jump or two.

EDIT: Actually check that, right when I posted this I remembered the fast zombies, I had forgotten all about those those in Ravenholm. Suppose my brain was trying to repress those paticular frightening moments, LOL.

[Sailor Steve]

I've never played any of those, and probably never will. I like history, I play historical sims and read historical books. Mostly.

[Dowly]

"We don't go to Ravenholm...."

Especially not with dimmed lights, headphones and the volume up... :lol:
That´s another thing that I fail to find scary. :roll:
Aye, I too wonder what the big deal was with this section of the game. The Citidel part with the zombified humans (stalkers?) gave me a jump or two.

EDIT: Actually check that, right when I posted this I remembered the fast zombies, I had forgotten all about those those in Ravenholm. Suppose my brain was trying to repress those paticular frightening moments, LOL.

Bah, my shotgun ate those for breakfast. ;)

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Doom3 scared me a couple of times
I hated the ghost voices ''Heeeeelp...meee''

and the bloody lights pissed me off...turning off and on...and flicker...because really when the lights turned of ... I didnt move for 5 minutes...I just picked a flash light and looked.....pffff....nothing...lights back on..I walk 10 meters and then BANG! lights off and I have enemies everywhere...and that scared me the most. at the point u get the minigun, and the music in the background is thrilling I just had my 5 minutes of shooting every ugly son of a b!tch away. but then ...sometimes I just played 15 minutes...and then a door came...will I enter it? ...no..quit&save and calm down

I always hate it when Imps are crouching behind the door and when it opens they pounce straight at the camera. The number of CUSSES escaping from my person is unbelieveable. However, the game does have a few points where its just cool. Two of which I enjoy every time

1) Putting on that crazy death helmet, and becoming beserk and invincible
2) Picking up the radioactive barrels and dumping them in the incinerator, then picking up the dead body and his little mop trolley and burning them too :rotfl:

Talking about the whispering voices, I was lulled into a false sense of security, as the first voice led me to a good weapon, and then I heard another later on and all I got was a facial makeover at the hands of Hellspawned plasma. :shifty:

[Godalmighty83]

silent hill is the game for genuine scares, doom 3 bases itself completely around [lights flicker off; monsters jump out of nowhere; monsters killed; lights back on repeat+nausum]

ravenholm (hl2) is scarier then doom 3, the only thing scary about f.e.a.r is its system requirements.

theres a zombie section in timesplitters future perfect which got to me for some real odd reason yet i wasnt scared by resident evil 4 which IMO is the best game of the past 5 years by a wide margin.

[NeonSamurai]

The zombies in Doom 3 (not the army guys with guns of course) i use to toy around with, make them follow me around, run forward and smack em in the head with my flashlight, and run back before they could swing.

AVP2 was pretty good, my complaints were the multiplayer was hopelessly unbalanced, the music tiped you off in single player way to darn much, and as the alien in sp you couldnt sneak up on anyone unless they had their back completely too you, and even then half the time they would turn around as you got close. AVP in many ways was better.

[Godalmighty83]

as ive said on another forum 'playing as the marine in AvP is just a declaration of how much you love to be horribly death-raped'

no other game ive played has made you feel so geneticaly useless,

'its ok iam just walking along this corridor here hiding behind my machine gun...beep....W....beep..T....beep.F.bebebebe.....[death-rape]'

[Blacklight]

I actually didn't enjoy Doom3. I don't know why.. I think everything was so dark and the maps were so linear that it took a lot away from me. Graphicwise.. pretty damn scarry.. the gameplay got boring to me pretty quick.

Now Half Life and Half Life 2.... (Especially Half Life 2) scarred the bejeezus out of me. Especially when you went to that town that was entirely taken over by zombies and headcrabs !! The part that really got me was when the really decomposed zombies, the ones that run real fast and sound like a mucussy pitbull on the attack... when I was on the roof and those things popped up out of nowhere and were climbing the walls of the buildings to get me going so fast that shooting them was super difficult....
Just the sound effect in that game kept me up nights.
You ever listen to what the guys with the headcrabs on their heads are actually saying ????
It's something like *muffled because head is encompased inside a headcrab* "MY EYES !! OH GOD !!! MY EYES !!! MY EYES !!! OH GOD !!!"
That alone kept me up for weeks.

[kiwi_2005]

"We don't go to Ravenholm...."

Especially not with dimmed lights, headphones and the volume up... :lol:
That´s another thing that I fail to find scary. :roll:
Aye, I too wonder what the big deal was with this section of the game. The Citidel part with the zombified humans (stalkers?) gave me a jump or two.

EDIT: Actually check that, right when I posted this I remembered the fast zombies, I had forgotten all about those those in Ravenholm. Suppose my brain was trying to repress those paticular frightening moments, LOL.

Yep me too, i found the ravenholm level strange all of a sudden we in some doom type level shooting bad guys, then its back to HL2. I suppose this was suppose to be the scary bit. Not scary at all.

Anyone know the latest Silent Hill game - whats it called

[Blacklight]

...and what about KNOWING you have to go down that damn mine shaft and all you hear is those headcrabs skittering around down there in the darkness...

[Dowly]

I just cant think of it as scary, when Gordon Freeman is chased by zombies with "We-Rip-Alien" type things attached to their faces. I mean, COME ON! It´s Gordon Freeman, the King of the Crowbars!

Now, the first Resident Evil game, that was something. I still can remember how ugly the 'Hunter' creature was, ugly but deadly. One jump and I was headless.

But anyways, it pretty much depends on who you are in the game to determine if it´s scary or not (atleast for me). Doom guy is a bada$$, so I laugh at the noises and screams I hear in the corridors. Instead I clean my chainsaw from all the blood. ;)

[Cpt. Stewker]

I just cant think of it as scary, when Gordon Freeman is chased by zombies with "We-Rip-Alien" type things attached to their faces. I mean, COME ON! It´s Gordon Freeman, the King of the Crowbars!

Now, the first Resident Evil game, that was something. I still can remember how ugly the 'Hunter' creature was, ugly but deadly. One jump and I was headless.

But anyways, it pretty much depends on who you are in the game to determine if it´s scary or not (atleast for me). Doom guy is a bada$$, so I laugh at the noises and screams I hear in the corridors. Instead I clean my chainsaw from all the blood. ;)

Personally I'm a fan of Resident Evil 2. Resident Evil is a classic don't get me wrong but... oh god... what terrible voice acting.

A part that stands out in Resident Evil 2 though was when the licker skitters across the outside of the window. You see it do that and then there is a door that goes into a hallway that it was headed to and it's like, oh Sh!t, I got to go in there. Then the CGI part takes over and its on the ceiling... classic RE shot there.

[Godalmighty83]

way back when that was where the re2 demo ended, it was a moment of 'so buying this game'

[2019]

Have you ever played Aliens vs. Predator as the marine
I remeber palying the first level!
whoos that was some scare expariance.
Doom3 even with lights off and a subwoofer comes close to that level.