:rotfl:

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.

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

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

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

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.

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...

Darkness within, gives me the creeps

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.

System Shock 2

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

-S

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

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:

perhaps Alan Wake if it comes out

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.

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:

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: