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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.

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Originally Posted by Ilpalazzo

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

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

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:

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?

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.

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.

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*

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:

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..."

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.

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)

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.