Your scariest video game enemies.

[Nick]

What were the scariest things you've come up against in video games?


I'll start us off.



http://i.imgur.com/xrKj4.gif

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

scissorman

[ThrashO]

http://bulk.destructoid.com/ul/user/1/19858-82967-ZAMN1jpg-550x.jpg

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

What were the scariest things you've come up against in video games?


I'll start us off.





Ecco the endboss?

http://bulk.destructoid.com/ul/user/1/19858-82967-ZAMN1jpg-550x.jpg

Zombies ate my neighbors?

[Nick]

Ecco the endboss?

Yep, that's the Vortex Queen. The bane of my childhood.

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[k0k0]

The babies from silent hill 1.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

We used to call them the chili chitlins.

[Chojin]

scissorman

yeah this, scissorman was responsible for the only panic attack i've ever had

[Esuohlim]

http://images.wikia.com/nintendo/en/images/0/04/Phanto.gif

Imagine being 3 years old and trying not to think of this fucker suddenly swooping in your room when you're trying to sleep at night :(

[Guitar Woman]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4MUf6T4VzPw/SsAXaYPBsZI/AAAAAAAAL_8/5EludjoLV68/s320/zelda-redead-papercraft-002.jpg

http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/8/8d/CloseJenovaHead.jpg

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091021012920/metroid/images/2/23/SA-X_Closeup.PNG

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/4/44112/1056035-gm_construct0011_super.jpg

http://m.blog.hu/pc/pcjatekokelemzes/image/Bloodsucker%20Attack.jpg

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2113/puppetclosemi5.jpg


Fuck all of these assholes, especially the Shalebridge Puppets. It's bad enough that they're terrifying and make the lights flicker when they get close, but they're also impossible to kill without a shitload of expensive and impractical fire arrows, even on the standard difficulty setting.

The Thief games in general are full of goddamn terrifying shit, but I think 3 was the worst.

[k0k0]

Oh yeah, I forgot how freaky the zombies on thief 1 were when me and my bud were on acid.

[Guitar Woman]

I vividly remember playing Thief 2 as a child, and coming to a hole in the floor leading to a dark room full of moss arrows and loot. I dropped down, thinking it was empty, and found myself trapped with no way out in a 10x10 foot room with a fucking giant spider. I shut the computer off instantly.

Spoilered for people who haven't had the shit scared out of them by Thief yet
Then there's the Hammer Haunts, the apparitions that shoot skulls at you and knock off half your health bar in one shot, the mantis men, the humans turned into half-apes by Pagan magic, and the Thief Gold exclusive ghost who's immortal, has a flaming head, and accelerates to retarded-fast speeds when you hit him, running off somewhere else in the level to pop up later when you're not expecting him.

The Mechanist servants in Thief 2 are also creepy as hell, even if they can't hurt you. The cyborg ones wander around having arguements with themselves and speaking in a creepy, echoey whisper, and there's this tiny Cherub robot in "Life of the Party" who pops up behind you after you steal a plot-important piece of loot, and then runs off somewhere else into the level. The first time I saw it I chased after it and threw every goddamn explosive I had at it trying to kill it, even though it was completely harmless; it was just that much of a spooky bastard.

What the fuck, Looking Glass.

[Esuohlim]

Man, I knew someone was going to post ReDeads. I can't think of a more "holy shit" moment during a video game than when I left the future's Temple of Time for the first time

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

yeah this, scissorman was responsible for the only panic attack i've ever had

Me and my friend used to play this together because we both refused to play it by ourselves. We were playing stage two as helen. There is a part where you investigate the fish tank, then the power flickers and scissorman pops out. The power went out in my house and I had the worst fucking panic attack. I locked the door in my room and grabbed the heaviest blunt object I could find.

[Guitar Woman]

They're deffo the worst. The Windwaker versions were creepy too, even if they looked like Dhalsim and sounded like elephants.

The ones in Twilight Princess were pretty disappointing, just like everything else in that game.

Vampire The Masquerade had that Snuff Film quest, which was pretty gruesome by itself, but then you had the sewers that were full of homoncului stitched together from random body parts, and that one giant boss monster made from a pregnant woman fused with her fetus. Yuck.

[Nick]

http://www.captainwilliams.co.uk/sega/megadrive/ecco2/images/tubeofmedusa1.png

The Medusa from Ecco II was also horrifying to me. I'm a dolphin flying in the air being chased by a giant squid-like creature. WHAT AM I SUPPOSE TO DO?

[Tadao]

Wow, I know some people who are gonna get a My Melody nightlight for Christmas.

[King Hadas]

The Regenerators from RE4. The giant shark in REmake. And, even though it's a damn conventional choice, Pyramid Head.

[Sam]

Do you ladies need a phone call from your mommies every time you turn on a game console? JESUS CHRIST.

[k0k0]

Shampoo my crotch, sam. Some games are scary as shit.

[Tadao]

OH NO! LOUD NOISES AND FLASHING IMAGES FRIGHTEN ME!

[Guitar Woman]

None of these really involve loud noises or jump-out scares, j/s

[Chojin]

the zombies in resident evil 1 scared the shit out of me too. i'm also talking about the scissorman from the PS clock tower.

i think the common thing that was so frightening about these guys was their choppy framerate. they constantly moved the way you see people move under a strobelight, and i think it unintentionally triggered some sort of fear response in me

keep in mind all this shit scared me when i was like 12

[Guitar Woman]

I thought the zombies from the gamecube remake were worse, since they would come back to life and inevitably scare the shit out of you when you were backtracking somewhere.

And there's not nearly enough fuel to burn all of them, so...

[MarioRPG]

http://blog-imgs-31.fc2.com/t/h/e/thedogbarks/garrador.jpg
Only the first time. Iron Maidens were pretty bad too.

[Tadao]

None of these really involve loud noises or jump-out scares, j/s

That makes you even more of a pussy then. :(

[Tadao]

j/s

[Esuohlim]

I was scared of all sorts of video game shit that makes no sense when I was three. I had a couple of nightmares about the Coin Ship from Mario 3, and Baron von Blubba from Bubble Bobble :pussy

[mew barios]

the cyber midwives in system shock 2 really unnerved me when i first played it

[Nick]

The worst part about ReDeads was the sound they made when they gabbed you.

[Guitar Woman]

That makes you even more of a pussy then. :(

They're unsettling on a deeper, psychological level.

It's something an... average person like you wouldn't understand.

[Tadao]

I have a religion I'd like to sell you.

[Zhukov]

http://www.2kgames.com/civ4/images/compare_caesar2.jpg

[executioneer]

the cyber midwives in system shock 2 really unnerved me when i first played it
man EVERYdangthing in SS2 is scary when you're running low on ammo

even empty corridors

but yeah the midwives are creepy on so many levels, especially if you listen to all the audio logs

[OxBlood]

Not an enemy per se but a game. Fatal Frame 3. That thing scares me and I think it´s the only game that can do that to me. Back in the day, I really hated the Hunters from RE. You could hear them walking around and you knew, one wrong move and you´re dead :)

The crimson heads were pretty nasty too with their insta-rise-and-claw-your-fucking-head-off and whatnot

[Grislygus]

Best villain ever. (http://www.empire-of-the-claw.com/files/Empire%20of%20The%20Claw%20-%20Beware,%20I%20live.mp3)

[WhiteRat]

Not scary but it definitely had my guts bubblin' when I first encountered the human reaper larva in Mass Effect 2. Too bad it wasn't that hard to kill but god damn was that thing amazing:

http://i.imgur.com/udzVc.jpg

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100126050302/masseffect/images/thumb/d/d1/Humanreaper.jpg/713px-Humanreaper.jpg

[executioneer]

Best villain ever. (http://www.empire-of-the-claw.com/files/Empire%20of%20The%20Claw%20-%20Beware,%20I%20live.mp3)
is it wrong for me to want them to remake sinistar

and yeah i know sinistar unleashed, but i mean a GOOD remake

[Grislygus]

Good remake would be welcome in my quarter. The problem is how the hell do you NOT make it repetitive? Besides, the big guy just isn't cool in 3d

[executioneer]

it doesn't HAVE to be in 3d does it :( maybe they could make it have... rpg elements or something? fuck idunno

[darkvare]

http://www.joystickdivision.com/Regenerator%20%28570%20x%20428%29.jpg
give me a hug

[OxBlood]

I could also add that huge Ghost from Fatal Frame 2 that distorted Reality. He never left his room but you had to pass through there more than once...the whole color changing and stuff...it was kinda intimidating, but as said before, Spirits is where it´s at concerning my personal fears.

[Mad Melvin]

The monsters in Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Even though the monster design isn't that original, the atmosphere of the game make up for it and they become a thing to avoid.

The monsters in Silent Hill 2 you cannot see. For example, the underground prison scared the piss out of me. There is a cellblock where you hear this really freaky sounding monster waltzing around in one of the cells. It is too dark to see it and it can't hurt you, but I always ran through that corridor as fast as I could so I wouldn't have to listen to the sounds. Also in the beginning of the game when you walk on the dirt road, you hear footsteps behind you. That always made me feel uneasy.

[creeposaurus]

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[creeposaurus]

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[Grislygus]

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lolbagina vagina :lol

[Pedro]

There were these flying things called magidrakes in some RPG for NES many many years ago. I can't remember the name of that game . . .

[executioneer]

are you talking about the magidrakee from dragon warrior

[Zomboid]

Not scary but it definitely had my guts bubblin' when I first encountered the human reaper larva in Mass Effect 2. Too bad it wasn't that hard to kill but god damn was that thing amazing:

http://i.imgur.com/udzVc.jpg

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100126050302/masseffect/images/thumb/d/d1/Humanreaper.jpg/713px-Humanreaper.jpg
Yeah, that thing was awesome. I also loved seeing my squadmates get liquefied.

[Chojin]

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lolbagina vagina :lol

christ, the author of that series is the biggest sperg i've ever seen

[Grislygus]

WARIOLAND IS SO SAD AND SCSFJKARY :lol

[Pedro]

Yes, executioneer, dragon warrior. There were drakees and magidrakees. The magidrakees were a bitch to kill.

[Pentegarn]

Not like metal slimes were, damn things always went viva la France on me when I was about to kill them

[Wiffles]

http://images.wikia.com/wolfenstein/images/8/88/Loper22.jpg

[executioneer]

oh man bad memories

[Wiffles]

do i get a muffin? =P

http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss259/wiffles/wifflestein-1.jpg

[MarioRPG]

My friend sent me this on facebook and I think it's pretty much the perfect Crimson Head image from the game.
http://i.imgur.com/xJ852.jpg

[Sam]

do i get a muffin? =P

http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss259/wiffles/wifflestein-1.jpg

WHAT ABOUT RETURN TO CASTLE MIFFLESTEIN?

[Wiffles]

only if your alt account behaves himself!

[daff3w]

the teddy bear boss from splatter house 3

[Kitsa]

Idk who scissorman is but when I was a little kid it scared the everloving hell out of me in Friday the 13th for NES when you were rowing and Jason zoomed by in the water. Dunno what it was about that but it was completely unnerving to me.

[ThrashO]

Idk who scissorman is but when I was a little kid it scared the everloving hell out of me in Friday the 13th for NES when you were rowing and Jason zoomed by in the water. Dunno what it was about that but it was completely unnerving to me.

That whole game is just complete utter nonsense. The only thing scary is the thought of playing through it in general.

[Kitsa]

That's pretty much what Mr Kitsa said when I asked him, but he played through again just to make sure.

He works in "the industry" and is usually my reference for these things.

Edit: I was probably being wussy, in retrospect, but when you're a kid weird things scare you.

[King Hadas]

Friday the 13th spooked me when I was a kid too. I would watch my cousins play it and Jason popping out of nowhere in the cabins never failed to startle me.

[k0k0]

Stupidly, it's the music that I was creeped out from on friday the 13th on the nes as a kid.

[Kitsa]

The music from Jaws The Revenge for NES kind of did that to me a little.