The Scariest Game you've ever played

[Kapitan_Phillips]

I'm interested to know which games really affected you, made you jump out of your seat, leave a brown banana in your pyjama.

Cause I'm cool like that.

[Letum]

System Shock 2.

My first two attempts at completing it failed coz I got the willies.

AvP2 also gave me similar willies when playing as human prey.

[rifleman13]

Anything Barbie scares the life and soul out of me! The time my sisters play those games, it was the most horrifying times of my life! I even got a priest to perform an exorcism on my PC just to cleanse it from evilness that is Barbie!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

In all seriousness, Doom 3 just scared the fecal matter right out of me! The advanced graphics was so real that when I tried to play it at nighttime, I can't sleep and I had my dad's golf club at my side! I only found security in the daytime.:oops:

That was a epiphany for me!:huh:

Stick to RTS and sim games!:roll:

[HunterICX]

I voted DOOM3

as I couldnt play the blasted game having some beer and some heavy metal music in the background and having the game sounds low.

Now when I was sober, middle of the night.....and played it I couldnt last up to 5 minutes...an then I would lay in bed rolled up in a ball sucking me thumb and barely sleep :rotfl: having me teddy beer close to me *cough*

HunterICx

[Dowly]

Fahrenheit a.k.a. Indico Prophecy (in US). Nothing really frighting happening on screen, but the atmosphere and how some scenes are made to be played are just nerve wrecking. :yep:

[Polak]

Doom 3, but STALKER is on second place, both games scare the living crap out of me.:D

[AJ!]

I think the silent hill games were creepy. The first one was the scariest :o

All those japanese games like forbidden siren are good contenders as well.

I think the resident evil remake on the gamecube was the best game though. It looked the business and had a great atmosphere

[VipertheSniper]

Doom 3, but STALKER is on second place, both games scare the living crap out of me.:D

Yeah that Lab X-17 or something level scared the **** out of me.

[Oberon]

The Haunted House in Bloodlines is pretty good, not 'oh-shi-' scary but puts the old hairs on the back of the neck up. :up: Playing the demo of Ravenholm in the dark with headphones on, that also was a bit jittery. :hmm:

[Rilder]

After playing barbie rides again I couldn't sleep for a month.:huh:

[GlobalExplorer]

Definitely Call Of Cthulhu, Dark Corners of the Earth. Also the most frustrating one, could never finish, and the devs all went insane until release, so game could never be patched :shifty:

[Midnight Hunter]

Well.. for me since I play all games with headphones FEAR was the worst.. that damn music made your hairs stand on end and when you caught movement out of the corner of your eye it was like "WTF!!!!" and mouse spins around aimlessly and you hit full reverse shooting like a wildman lol...

But a few games have really captured the mood with music or just used the typical "when player gets to spot X, we make nasty mcbadguy jump out of spot y and lay the boots to him)" Far Cry was good for that.. damn monkies :stare:

[d@rk51d3]

The Haunted House in Bloodlines is pretty good, not 'oh-shi-' scary but puts the old hairs on the back of the neck up. :up: :hmm:

I'll second that.

I forget how long it took me to crawl (quite literally) through that level the first time.:rotfl:

[GlobalExplorer]

The Haunted House in Bloodlines is pretty good, not 'oh-shi-' scary but puts the old hairs on the back of the neck up. :up: :hmm:

I'll second that.

I forget how long it took me to crawl (quite literally) through that level the first time.:rotfl:

The music with that dead baby crying in the background was almost unbearably unsettling at first, but I got used to it.

[Captain Vlad]

The hotel in Bloodlines was creepy as hell. Kind of a neat counterpoint to the rest of the game which was much more 'vampire film noir'. It'd get my vote as scariest sequence.

I've never played a game that sustained 'scary' all the way through.

[kiwi_2005]

System shock 2

[Blacklight]

I have it narrowed down to a tie between three.

1. Half Life
2. Half Life 2
3. Silent Hunter III

[stabiz]

Call Of Cthulhu, Dark Corners of the Earth.

[orwell]

Doom 3 gave me a few jumps, but my first STALKER experience, man, THAT was a thrill. The sewers man.... :o The labs were creepy to be sure, especially in one of the more prominent mods, but the sewers get me every time, no matter how many times I go in there. Every game, every mod, I always pause before going in there. Yantar at night can be pretty freaky too.

[kiwi_2005]

Call Of Cthulhu, Dark Corners of the Earth.

That game was quite scary, i never could finish it though as i would get motion sickness. First and only game that made me sick when i play it:hmm:

[darius359au]

There's a whole bunch of moments in games for me so in no particular order

Call of Cthulhu dcote
AVP 1 & 2 (Played as a Marine - I truly do hate the motion tracker sound)
Resident Evil 1,2&3
The Hotel in Bloodlines (Possibly the Creepiest level I've ever played in any game)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R
and last, but by no means least, System Shock 2

[KeptinCranky]

Morrowind....

Sudden attacks and especially unexpected lighting flashes with loud sound makes me jumped out of my chair everytime...:huh:

[Morts]

Doom 3
i tried it when i was 10, and honestly....it scared the living crap out of me
it wasnt the monsters nor the fact that every place i went it was either dark or smeared in blood...it was 2, 3 meter tall bastards with chainsaws in a small space with red lights and steam:dead:

[eddie]

Alien VS Predator for me, played as a Marine, I never could get used to those Aliens, scaring the heck out of me. Dropping from the ceiling, or running along the walls, seemed to be everywhere,lol

[SUBMAN1]

I think for the long term fear was playing as a Marine in AVP 1 & 2. You never knew what was going to happen in those dark corridors! This is a different kind of scare to the FEAR type scare that made the hair occasionally go up on the back of you neck!

THere are different types of scary I think.

DOOM 3 never had the scarieness effect, accept at some unexpected times. AVP series had more a dreaded feel to it than Doom 3.

Just my 2 cents.

-S

[mcf1]

F.E.A.R
that was pretty scary
and Resident evill 3 was also scary, especilly when zombies came just out of nowhere in front of you.

[Blacklight]

Alien vs Predator 2 was CRAZY scarry as the marine !!! It seemed wherever you went... the place would be nicely lit... then..... "They cut the power !!!" :o

I remember one set up they did really well. I was walking down a hallway that had strobeing emergency lights going along with spraying mist... when suddenly the cieling came down in front of me and this gnarled shadowy shape that looked like one of those alien critters came down with it as the lights went out.... I pretty much soiled myself and emptied about three clips of ammo before I discovered that it was just a bunch of cables and pipes that fell in a pile. Then the bastards attacked me from behind ! :o

[Raptor1]

I'll have to agree on AVP2, never played Doom 3

BioShock too, there were some parts of it, like the part at the start when Mr. Bubbles impales the Splicer on the big drill, that was awesome

[Lzs von swe]

OFP, Operation Flash Point:rock:

Dusk, rain, creeping along in a forest with the volume up high in the head phones.

Suddenly I´m dead, the loud cracking sound of AK from my right makes me jump of my chair, looking to my right. But theres only the wall of my living room, no trees, no rain....
After playing OFP for some 6 hours straight it was 0230, I was hungry and tired, and... dead.
I still love that game:yep:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Alien vs Predator 2 was CRAZY scarry as the marine !!! It seemed wherever you went... the place would be nicely lit... then..... "They cut the power !!!" :o

I remember one set up they did really well. I was walking down a hallway that had strobeing emergency lights going along with spraying mist... when suddenly the cieling came down in front of me and this gnarled shadowy shape that looked like one of those alien critters came down with it as the lights went out.... I pretty much soiled myself and emptied about three clips of ammo before I discovered that it was just a bunch of cables and pipes that fell in a pile. Then the bastards attacked me from behind ! :o

I particularly detest the conveyer belt. There I was "Hmhmhmmm, nice little ride here" only to be dropped into a pit full of facehugger eggs right at the end. Then the radio says "The stasis field is weak, dont get too close to those things!" Then they started to open.

Needless to say, I could've got a gold medal in the Olympics for sprinting.

[Ilpalazzo]

This post contains minor spoilers on a level in Thief 3: Deadly Shadows.


Tough one. I remember only really being scared on one part of Resident Evil 2 toward the beginning. The game was probably really scary, but I quit because of this part. It was this hallway in a police station I think. These zombie arms would pop out and grab you. Lol I was such a wuss. I got so annoyed by it every time passing that hall that I turned the game off and returned it to the friend I borrowed it from. I barely gave it a chance :(

Anyway, I find the Silent Hill games to be quite scary in general. No particular part for me. Just the whole game is creepy as hell.


Has anybody played Thief 3 (deadly shadows)? Generally not a scary game, but there is a level called 'The Cradle'. It took place in this big old abandoned orphanage/insane asylum I think. It was very late (about 1am) when I started the level. Lol, my room was completely dark, the house was quiet. It was a bad setup man. That level scared me good. *SPOILER* I think the most memorable moment was walking up this spiral stairway and the closer I got to the top the louder this banging noise would get. The whole time I was thinking something would come down while I was going up. Finally I reached the top to a single door that was shaking like mad and there was this loud knocking on it. I really didn't want to open it. When I got right next to it the noise and shaking stopped. I opened the door and there was nothing. The room was pretty much empty.

Oh well I'm not going to explain the whole level. I just want to point out that it was so well done. There was this vibe. Most of the time there was NOTHING. The level was pretty much empty, dark, and big. It made me so nervous. It took me a long time to finish because I was silently creeping around. I wanted to be ready for whatever was going to happen and creeping around is a big part of that game. I must say, that's probably my most favorite level in a video game ever.

I think it's actually more scary to make the player think something is going to happen and do nothing. Really incredible experience that level was for me.



*End Spoiler*



I hate cheap scares. The BOO kinda stuff you know? Like in Doom 3. That game is a great example of cheap scares. When an enemy just SPAWNS behind you and crap like that. Sure it can be scary, but it's cheap. I'd rather have a moody, nervous environment than a bunch of crap just randomly popping out. Another example of that could be the little girl in fear that just sort of shows up here and there.



Off topic note of interest for a sec here.

I don't know if it was mentioned in this forum, but Thief 4 may most likely be in development. Google it if you want details. That rumor has been around for a couple of months I think. Talking about T3 just got me thinking of it again.


edit added spoiler notice in case anybody wanted to get into that game.

[SUBMAN1]

Has anybody played Thief 3 (deadly shadows)? Generally not a scary game, but there is a level called 'The Cradle'. It took place in this big old abandoned orphanage/insane asylum I think. It was very late (about 1am) when I started the level. Lol, my room was completely dark, the house was quiet. It was a bad setup man. That level scared me good....You are so right! That is probably the all time scariest moment in any game to date. Worse than FEAR, worse than anything for making the hair stand up on the back of your neck! No other game could touch this game for that!

As I said before though, it is a different kind of scary to AVP2 which is more dread.

-S

[Raptor1]

Hmm, I never finished Thief 3, maybe I need to go back through it

[jumpy]

Damn, clicked on Doom3 and missed AVP 1&2 :roll:
Is fair to say, they were both harsh... I still haven't finished D3. I played AVP 1&2 as both of the alien races, but not much as a marine; those motion detectors scared the life out of me. A nice touch in AVP2 was in one of the early missions, where you're outside and your motion sensor picks up the something moving in a big wide open courtyard. Freaky stuff, turned out to be a length of chain hanging from a crane above your head. That and the pop out cables/ceiling panels in some of those dark and confined tunnels.
That game spilled my pint :dead:

[CaptHawkeye]

STALKER wins. The game's dungeons are UNREAL. Walk around corner. Hmm, must be saRAAAAAAAAAAAGH.

Hey, does anyone remember that one fast headcrab zombie in Half Life 2? You know, the one that jumped out of the prison pipeline and gave you precisely ZERO warning before it was in your face?

[TheBrauerHour]

WWIIOL.

Scariest moment:

My squad and I were patrolling East of a town in my first time playing the game. It was dusk, and just before night set in we could hear the German's Panzers and Halftracks rolling close to town. We had no way of defeating armor, as we were a light infantry squad. Once it was pitch black, the German Machine guns opened up and the Panzers started firing into town. My squad ended up in a row of bushes and a couple of Panzers rolled up within 5 feet of me. I remember my heart pounding, hoping to not be detected. The roar of HE111's came overhead and the town was ripped apart by bombs. German small arms could be heard moments later in between me and town. We ended up losing the town, but I lived through my first night battle on the front in World War 2 Online.

Intense stuff.

[nikimcbee]

I'd say Phantasmagoria
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0cE1Z7fQITQ

Chapter 1 intro
http://youtube.com/watch?v=I5l87MfU4_4&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=G7ButWINW2Y&feature=related

(gory warning)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=J0nj1J9jxjE&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=q5f2p42bviI&feature=related

[Sailor Steve]

I have an old Playstation game simply called 'D'. Like Myst, it is all still shots, but it is very moody and creepy.

I never could get into any of the Resident Evil series either.

[Stealth Hunter]

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth


Great game, but HeadFirst Productions went bankrupt several years ago. They had a sequel planned for DCotE called Call of Cthulhu: Destiny's End. Unfortunately, they didn't manage to release it before having to shut down.

I always did have an adrenaline rush on the A Visit to the Old Town level.

*SPOILERS*

You're basically running around this entire mission without a weapon and investigating the mysterious disappearance of this local man from Innsmouth, Massachusetts (a town that Lovecraft quite frequently mentioned in his writings). Anywho, you spend the first half asking questions about this fellow, only to get warnings and whatnot that it's not safe there. The people have a strange look about them (physically), and they don't take kindly to outsiders.

Finally, you spend the last part of the mission running out of this god-forsaken hotel whilst being chased by gun-totting, axe-wielding inhabitants of the town. You run to hell and back and finally get to the sewers. You run around there, and hope to god that your sanity hasn't been decreased enough (yes, this game measures your sanity levels) because you're going to get paranormal flashbacks that ARE creepy as hell (by video game standards; if you play it in the dark like I do, it makes you tingle and look over your shoulder) and if your sanity IS too low, you'll kill yourself or just have a mental breakdown.

The very last part is spent breaking this fellow out of jail (the one you were looking for to begin with), and by this point you FINALLY steal a gun from the ammo locker). You grab this old and crappy car, then floor it to get the hell outta Dodge.

After all this is over, you find yourself in a fish plant that is infested with more of these Innsmouth folks, and they still don't take too kindly to your being there. You shoot the place up, loot a couple of things out of this safe, rescue this girl, and once again get back in the car and try to drive off.

UNFORTUNATELY, you have a wreck, and the girl you rescued dies along with the lad you were sent to find. You survive, are taken to this mental institute, and a cutscene begins... that's all I remember... sorry...

*/SPOILERS*

[Task Force]

Silent Hunter 3 can get afule scary. I fell asleep once at periscope depth once with my headphones once and hit a sub net..... All I remember was loud noises of steel bending and me jumping up.:lol:

[stabiz]

:rotfl:

[Biggles]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R (yes, I bother writing it like that) can be pretty intense at times. Those pesky bloodsuckers for example. Walking slowly in the darkness, trying to detect any sounds of enemies nearby. Then suddenly a terrible howling further down the corridor.

"That can't be good..."

A pare of white, misty eyes without a body appears out of the darkness, heading towards me.

"Oh that can't be good at all..."

[Ilpalazzo]

I started and finished 'Condemned: Criminal Origins' yesterday. I think I was more impressed with the way it was presented rather than the game itself. There were some scary moments. I liked the moody atmosphere, but after a while it all started to feel the same. I hope the 2nd one explains more of the story. I am very confused about it.



*SPOILERS*



There was too much action for it to scare me. I got most surprised by the 'boo' moment where this guy pops up and knocks the player down an escalator. Every boo moment after that didn't scare me because I saw it coming. For instance, there is this part where you discover a body and take a photo. The player is asked to get a close up shot of his face. Big surprise:roll: upon zooming in on this face he turns and BOOOOO. I just laughed because I totally expected it. Which is a shame, that could have been very scary. The abandoned department store with enemies disguised as mannequins would have surprised me as well. If I had not attacked one out of boredom only to find out I killed a guy who was waiting to surprise me. After that, none of the mannequin guys were able to surprise me. Quite hilarious taking random shots of pistols and tazer at these guys while they are just standing there. Oh well, I guess in the end, the game did a good job of making me paranoid. :D

The last level and boss fight was a DOOZY and I never use that word! Such a bizarre game. I fought the final epic battle with a shovel. Awesome.







*End Spoiler*



Started playing Call of Cthulhu today. Here's to hoping for a good game:up: So far I'm incredibly annoyed with the field of view. It's very much zoomed in. I am playing at 1920x1080. I don't know if that's messing with it, but it is annoying to feel like I am playing a game through binoculars.

[stabiz]

You`re gonna love it, its a great game. Try Fahrenheit too, if you get the chance. I rate that as one of the top 10 all time games. (very important to get the one called Fahrenheit, and not the US censored one. Prophesy-something)

[Ilpalazzo]

Thanks for the tip. I'm looking into it. Sounds interesting. If I get it I will be sure to get Fahrenheit. The US one seems to be called Indigo Prophecy. I hate it when games are censored.

[Fincuan]

AvP as humans and System Shock 2

Play them with headphones in a dark room in the middle of the night... brrr...
System Shock 2 is still the only game that has made me fall off my chair, and even then it was only a glass breaking suddenly :huh: It is THAT good

[DemonTraitor]

The first scariest game I played was Half-Life 1

My son used to sit on the bed watching me, hiding behind a pillow. I asked him if he wanted to play it, and it was always a resounding NO!!!!

Not the most scariest, but definitely the most sweat-pouring, heart-stoppingly, edge-of-seat game, is the Silent Hunter Series (when you are down in the depths listening to the destroyers hunting you out :o

:D

[SUBMAN1]

None of these can touch Thief 3. I've played all the games that are mentioned here too. The Thief series always had good moments in them. The first being way better than the second and third, but the third still holds the cake for all time game scary moments! FEAR couldn't even begin to raise the hair on the back of your neck like Thief 3 did in a certain section. FEAR was brief moments too. Thief 3 carried it for a very long time!

Trust me when I say that you will know the section I am talking about the moment you get there! You just know its bad news the moment you walk through the door of the place!

-S

[NeonSamurai]

I have to say I found neither FEAR or Doom 3 very scary at all (system shock 2, and the HL series not at all). FEAR just attempts to mess with your mind a bit and is easy to shrug off once you figure that out, you can also smell when its going to happen a mile off. Doom 3 is more surprise from behind then scary (I would usually run up point blank with a shotgun and let loose a shell or more in the head of what ever showed up). Again you could smell when they were setting you up pretty easily. The zombies in particular I found very amusing to toy with and would often run over and whack them on the head with the flashlight and run back before they could hit me back.

As for AvP 2, personally i didn't think it was quite as scary as avp 1. It did have its moments (I also had a lot of fun playing the predator in that one), but the problem I found was the game would often tip its hand right before springing something with the music (when ever the music would start up you knew something was gonna happen either past the next door, around the corner, or further down the hall). AvP 1 was much better done IMHO and alot more scary (especially when crawling around in vents, never knew which direction or when they would come). I also had alot of fun in multiplayer freaking out my friends using the alien. I had the habit of sneaking up above them, hissing then head biting them before they could get a shot off, that and I was a master of the flying head bite (head on forward leap into their face and crunch). Then there was the time I freaked out 2 of my friends who were playing Predators vs my lone marine using hit and run, a lot of booby traps, and psychological warfare :D ...

Call of the Cthulhu was decently scary at times, shame it was so buggy.

I agree though that the best and most unnerving was Thief 3's asylum/orphanage level. Different type of skin crawl though to AvP 1

Shame that both Thief and AvP seem to be done with.

[Red Heat]

It isnt my kind of game but...Stalker and F.E.A.R., for sure. A old game wich i play some years a go call Spycraft...its not a terror game but, scare me what its possible to make and watch in the game...

[mengle]

Darkness within, gives me the creeps

[OneToughHerring]

AvP 2, Bloodlines, Thief 3. A lot games that I haven't played that are supposed to be scary. And yea, Silent Hunter 3 qualifies as scary.

[Kraut]

System Shock 2

[SUBMAN1]

System Shock 2Good game. probably my favorite from the old days. Rates right up the with the original Thief!

-S

[ivank]

Half life series is up there but the game "The Thing" still hunts me:o

[Wolfehunter]

I think you'r going to have to update this soon when Dead space comes out shortly. I think it will blow away the competition...:hmm:

[mengle]

perhaps Alan Wake if it comes out

[CaptainHaplo]

Well the poll closed before I could vote - but Thief 3 is DEFINITELY the one the gave me the heebie-jeebies. The Asylum was the worst with the dead patients walking around. Thankfully they caused the lights to flicker and warn you of their presence. I will admit, the hammerite zombies that were fast and rather annoyed with you were known to give me the occasional jump as well. I really hated the enforcers in that game - since you could hear em, but they were blasted sneaky! Luckily they were hostile to everyone else too so usually I could get em to follow me into a crowded area and let em get taken down by others. And don't even get me started on Gamal - that has to be one of the ugliest uglies - not scary - just danged ugly!

Thief 2 wasn't really overly scary - though it did have its spooky parts. I recall that the first thief - second or third mission - you had to go thru the mines to the hammerite temple - your first introduction to zombies. From there it was the Horn of Quintus mission - nothing but zombies and those danged gas breathing lizards! And who among you thief 1 players weren't a little spooked just trying to get to the cathedral - and then you get that danged eye talking to you! I have all three thief games still - replayed 3 about 3 months or so ago.... If there ever was a set of games that could create a scary ENVIRONMENT - its the Thief games.

[onelifecrisis]

Hey, good topic. :D I like scary games.

Nice to see some votes System Shock 2! :rock: That was a truly brilliant game IMO and very creepy/haunting, but for me not actually what I'd call "scary".

FEAR was also a great game (I class it as a tactical shooter) and quite scary sometimes... actually there was one point in that game where I literally jumped out of my seat and yelped :oops: and another point where I had such a sense of foreboding that I had to turn the lights on and take my headphones off before I could carry on :oops: but those two are the only two times I can remember being really scared. Most of my FEAR memories are of great tactical combat against what was, IMO, by far the best ever AI in a single player shooter.

Anyway, the poll is closed, but if I had voted then I would have voted for Doom 3. That game scared the crap out of me, and still does when I replay it. It's just so atmospheric and immersive that I sometimes almost forget I'm playing a game, and that makes it scary for me. It's true that monsters always jump out at you from behind, and out of shadows, but that's part of what makes it great because before long you find yourself constantly checking behind you and watching every shadow in case something jumps out of it! Also, the soundscape in that game is simply brilliant IMO. On headphones, in the dark, Doom 3 has me jumping every time I play it. :)

P.S. I'm surprised to see the Thief games mentioned here. I never found those scary at all. :hmm:

[ajrimmer42]

I agree, FEAR was pretty scary, and the AI was fantastic. Though I have to say, I didn't find Doom 3 scary at all, in fact it bored the crap out of me, possibly one of the worst games I've ever played. There was just no structure to it; walk into a room, lights go off, shoot some zombies, lights go on, yawn, repeat. Anyway that's my opinion. And System Shock 2... Damn those monkeys to hell! :o:rotfl:

[joeljansson]

i say cod4 mp i used to play hardcore s&d whit frendlyfire on and every time i went around a corner i shoot and killed a temmate and i was like omg! who was that! i jumped out of the chair like every time...:D:wah::damn: happy hunting:arrgh!::salute:

[Dowly]

Dont remember what I voted (prolly FEAR), but now I got to change it to FEAR 2. That gotta be one of the most scariest games I've played, the scary bits are done very well. Like in one spot, you're in a biggish room with a large round pool in it. The lights go out and your flashlight starts to flicker, as you scan the room, at some point the little girl's (Alma) head is visible just for a 0.5 seconds on the bottom part of your flashlight's cone, standing just 1m away from you. That scared the fark out of me. :o Tho, having watched some youtube clips from ppl playing the same scene, you dont necessarely see Alma if you are pointing the light the wrong way, seems I got lucky when I caught her.

[A Very Super Market]

I always have Yakety Sax blaring when I play anything remotely scary, so I guess I'll have to say: None of these.

[GlobalExplorer]

Anyone here played Penumbra? Tense and scary with very little combat.

http://www.penumbragame.com/

[mengle]

for me it was darkness within, but the game wasn't that good , ik hope the second part is going to be better

[Onkel Neal]

OMG, Phantasmagoria isn't even listed as a choice! :o

[Arclight]

Original Silent Hill freaked me out a bit. Walking down the street in dense fog or through some corridor that looks like it came back from hell, and then that radio starts picking up static...

Crysis, but only the first time through. You have some encounters with alien lifeform/exosuit, snatching your team-members. Eventually you make it to that mountain and enter the mine, kill the general and then the cave collapses. You're forced to enter "the lair of the beast", not knowing what to expect. Pretty freaky.

*ah, and then you're suddenly floating around in 0G, nice.

[Onkel Neal]

The Haunted House in Bloodlines is pretty good, not 'oh-shi-' scary but puts the old hairs on the back of the neck up. :up: Playing the demo of Ravenholm in the dark with headphones on, that also was a bit jittery. :hmm:

Is this the same game as Bloodlines, the Masquerade? (http://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Masquerade-Bloodlines-Pc/dp/B0001NJHH8)

It must be good, that sucka commands $60 and it's a 5 year old game :o

[Oberon]

The Haunted House in Bloodlines is pretty good, not 'oh-shi-' scary but puts the old hairs on the back of the neck up. :up: Playing the demo of Ravenholm in the dark with headphones on, that also was a bit jittery. :hmm:

Is this the same game as Bloodlines, the Masquerade? (http://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Masquerade-Bloodlines-Pc/dp/B0001NJHH8)

It must be good, that sucka commands $60 and it's a 5 year old game :o

That's the one

I think the price has a lot to do with the comparative rarity of the game since it kinda bombed, which is a shame because it is a good game, uses the Source engine and is very atmospheric. Pretty damn buggy though on the original release (hence the bomb) but subsequent official and fan patches have increased the stability. :yeah:

[Egan]

The original Silent Hill is, for sure, one of the most scary games i've played. The section in the school when that phone rings....and those little ghost baby things....and the rest of it.

Thief 3 is a doozer too. I'm going to reinstall it right now, in fact. Even though most of the game isn't 'scary', you get so ramped up trying to get through it without ever being seen that it doesn't take much to set you off.

[Etienne]

That's the one

I think the price has a lot to do with the comparative rarity of the game since it kinda bombed, which is a shame because it is a good game, uses the Source engine and is very atmospheric. Pretty damn buggy though on the original release (hence the bomb) but subsequent official and fan patches have increased the stability. :yeah:

Yeah, it totally bombed; I think it brought the development house under. It's really underappreciated, tho. Any game that'll give me a choice wether to destroy zombies with a sledge hammer, a fire axe or a shotgun is A-OK by me.

It's also the only game I know with a console command to increase the female characters and NPC's... Attributes. Seriously.

The patches are essential, tho. The hotel level is, IMHO, one of the great moments in atmospheric gaming history. Seriously, do not play that level at night. I've warned you.

I don't know if it's because I played out at night in October, way back in the day, or because I'm a sissy, but Parasite Eve creeped the **** out of me. I still have the image of that rat turning into... Whatever the heck... burned into my memory. *Shivers*

Not so much the second game, tho.

[Egan]

Is Bloodlines the same as Vampire:the Masquerade? I've got a copy of that kicking around somewhere which I played for about a day when it first came out.

Hmm, interesting; i never realised it was as well regarded as it seems to be. I might have to give it another go. Does anyone have links to the patches or mods?

[Oberon]

http://www.planetvampire.com/bloodlines/