Doom 3 - Be honest!

[Kapitan_Phillips]

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

[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]

Originally Posted by 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

[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]

Originally Posted by Wim Libaers

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.

[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 . 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.

[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.

[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 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]

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

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

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

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

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

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.