SCARY GAMES!

[Mintrude]

Originally Posted by Emu

I just got D the other day.

It didn't age well. :[ Plus, Wikipedia ruined it for me.

"Thi sis especially significant when you find out that D stands for "

To be fair, what D stood for was a mistransalation.

[umop apisdn]

Yeah. I did enjoy it. But I kind of new what to expect from the series.

[Codiekitty]

I broke out laughing so hard I spooked the cat when it was revealed what D stood for.

Night Creatures on the TurboGrafx creeped me out so bad the first time I played it I've had a hard time going back to it. Creepy scenery and atmosphere, there's a circle at the bottom of the screen with your character's face showing how much his curse is rotting his flesh (okay, he's supposed to be turning into a monster, but it looks like his flesh is melting) which is what really got me, and when you die, he goes up in a green flame, his skeleton stands for a while, then collapses.

There was also a minigame in this old PC game called 3D Dinosaur Adventure where you had to go through the various time periods and find dinosaurs in a Noah's Ark type thing to save them from the meteor, though for some reason you could only pick up whichever one your guide told you to find. If you didn't collect all the dinosaurs before the meteor struck, it'd hit and you'd be surrounded by fire while your guide was screaming bloody murder. I'd probably find that hilarious now, but I wouldn't play that minigame as a kid for fear of that.

EDIT: Oh man, how did I forget Sweet Home?

[Mintrude]

Originally Posted by Codiekitty

Night Creatures on the TurboGrafx creeped me out so bad the first time I played it I've had a hard time going back to it. Creepy scenery and atmosphere, there's a circle at the bottom of the screen with your character's face showing how much his curse is rotting his flesh (okay, he's supposed to be turning into a monster, but it looks like his flesh is melting) which is what really got me, and when you die, he goes up in a green flame, his skeleton stands for a while, then collapses.

?

I hated it when the characters face would get all messed up as he took damage. Made me play the games better though.

[Slick Willy]

Originally Posted by Guitar Woman

I just downloaded a Half Life mod called "Afraid of Monsters."

If you wanna shit yourself, that's the game to do it with.

The level design's a little shitty, though, so make sure you're ok with wandering around dark hallways for extended periods and seeing the message "HMM, THE LOCK SEEMS TO BE JAMMED. IT'S NOT GOING TO OPEN" repeated to infinity.

damn, i keep downloading afraid of monsters, but then when i try to play it, it won't go; it says it's missing some file. It's pissing me off.
but definitely the butcher in diablo, and blood raven in d2 because you were all pumped to fight the first real enemy... only to get raped by freaking fire arrows.
also, i still cannot will myself to play or even look at carnevil. i played through every house of the dead, but carnevil? UGHHHHH. *SHIVER*

[Guitar Woman]

I forgot how terrifying the Tomb Raider games were for me as a kid :<

[Slick Willy]

another scary game? golden tee for my windows ME. my buddy cale and me were playing that at like two AM. It randomly has little .bmps of golfers and such. Like a guy who looked like Mr. Rogers in fake Nike's taking a leak. And aliens. Plus, when you'd hit some things, they'd make weird noises. We kept hitting these totem poles and hearing chanting. Freaked the hell out of us until we figured out where it was coming from.

[Fat_Hippo]

Land of Lore - Not the game itself, but the picture of that godddamn witch:

When I was 6 she really scared the shit out of me...still kinda does actually...

[Dr. Octogonopus]

Originally Posted by Slick Willy

damn, i keep downloading afraid of monsters, but then when i try to play it, it won't go; it says it's missing some file. It's pissing me off.
but definitely the butcher in diablo, and blood raven in d2 because you were all pumped to fight the first real enemy... only to get raped by freaking fire arrows.
also, i still cannot will myself to play or even look at carnevil. i played through every house of the dead, but carnevil? UGHHHHH. *SHIVER*

Yeah, AoM never worked for me either. WHat gives?
I remember CarnEvil. Goddamn, that game was freaky as hell. DX

[Asila]

I'm a big scaredy cat, so half the games I've played freak me out. The one that sticks in my mind as the first game to scare the shit out of me is some old computer game (ugh, I can't remember the name now) where you were in an old museum hunting these old, evil mayan ghosts that lived in various elements, and would pop out of things and suck your life if you didn't have the appropriate container for them... the first one is automatic, and scared the ever-loving shit out of me, and then immediately after that I stumbled on the curator who had been sucked dry, and was basically mummified, and I shut the game off for two months, seriously.
Recently, Eternal Darkness was scary and awesome, especially when my head randomly exploded, and Silent Hill 2 I could only play with other people around AND drunk.

[argonath]

Originally Posted by Asila

...and Silent Hill 2 I could only play with other people around AND drunk.

Going waaay down into that tunnel towards the end, and rounding corners to see Pyramid Head was freaky. I don't know which was worse: playing the game not knowing when he was going to pop up, or knowing he was actively searching for you.

[The Mighty Pinto]

All the Silent Hill games were deliciously creepy in their own way, but 2 was only creepy for me BECAUSE of pyramid head. If he wasn't in there, then the game would be somewhat tame. The FIRST one, however, made me shit enough bricks to build a one-story with a two-car garage...AND still have enough left over to make an outdoor barbecue pit.

[Asila]

What got me in Silent Hill 2 was

Spoilers!

When I got to the roof of the hospital, and wandered over to the little building--the mechanical room or whatever--and from behind me I heard the door open... I didn't know what the hell had just come out of there, but I knew it wasn't any good AND I was trapped against the wall.

[Guitar Woman]

I'm almost done torrenting Silent Hill 2.

I expect to shit my pants, I'll let you guys know how that goes.

[schadenfreude]

Up until now I held the original Silent Hill as the creepiest game ever. Even if the sequels were way above it technologically, the atmosphere in the first one was simply unrivaled... Then, not long ago, I played Condemned: Criminal Origins. Boy, I haven't been so genuinely, viscerally scared in a long, LONG time. This game had me actually afraid of exploring certain areas. I would end every night in a state of tension that probably made me age about ten years per week.

Awesome game.


By the way, sorry about that double posting down there :T

Originally Posted by Guitar Woman

Afraid of Monsters: Director's Cut

Also, if you're gonna play it you'll want to open up the console and give yourself infinite flashlight batteries, because there aren't nearly enough pickups for you to be able to go at your own pace.

Would you kindly share the console command to do so? I'm playing right now and I have that very same problem --It's hurting badly

And if you know a command to increase the ammunition for the gun, that would be awesome too.

Originally Posted by Asila

What got me in Silent Hill 2 was

BOO!

[Asila]

AAAIIIEEEE!
Okay seriously, that bastard is horrifying.

[Guitar Woman]

I really dig this game, guys.

Although it's made less scary by the fact that outside I can just run past all the monsters and have them never catch me, and that I can kill them without getting hurt pretty much every time.

[Emu]

Just wait til Pyramid Head is after you.

[MarioRPG]

Amen to that. I remember my friend playing it and I was scared.

[Dr. Octogonopus]

Pyramid head was freaky as hell, but at the same time made it kind of awkward. Especially in (three? i forget, it's been forever) you see him humping, or at least it looks like he's humping, a corpse, and it kinda killed the 'oh god he's going to kill me' mood.

[Girl Drink Drunk]

It was 2, and it was a manniquin.

[Emu]

PH is only in the second silent hill.

[The_Vampire_Zio]

A scary video game eh? X-Com: Terror from the deep when it was released for computers back in the day, I hated swimming in water and playing it in the dark with those evil aliens out to get me around every corner kept me up late at night.

[Dr. Octogonopus]

Originally Posted by Girl Drink Drunk

It was 2, and it was a manniquin.

Really? I don't know if that makes it any worse, considering it's silent hill, and it's still ruining the mood.

[Guitar Woman]

The leg monster rape scene wasn't nearly as disturbing or awesome as I envisioned it.

It might have been a glitch in the PC version but before James shoots at him from the closet Pyramid Head starts waving his arms around for absolutely no reason, and it made me lol :<