Do you get scared of games?

[Sick Wario]

I haven't really been scared by any games......when those zombie dogs busted through the window in RE1, that surprised me, but it wasn't really scary.

scared the shit out of me!!!!!

honestly i can admit i was scared playing through quake 4, prey and the original alone in the dark probably made me cry more than once

 

[Eternal Myst]

Some games make me jump rather than scared.

Though there are games that are just plain scary

OMG That is fuckin scary man.AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

 

[SkH]

I couldn't finish Silent Hill 4 . . . I was so fucking scared every time I look to the door

I put the game in the freezer after this:

Whoa, I NEED to play that game!!

 

[Cyan]

I feared a little Silent hill 1.
SH 4 too, but did play only the beginning past the metro.
(I didn't play 2 and 3 yet).

I find Silent Sill 4 more claustrophobic than scary. You want to escape but you can't.

 

[Rehehelly]

Most poeple here probably never heard of it but "X-Com 2: Terror from the deep" in the mid-90's I would be playing a ship terror mission all wrapped up in a mission the muisc would real quite slowly so you would not notice then then it go "dun-da" pretty loud. It would send me out of chair every time. It did it to my friends as well.

I still have all the X-COM games. I didn't find them scary in the slightest or jumpy o_o

@The silent hill 4 screenshot: Is that a huge girls head just ready to eat him?

I WANNA KNOW THE STORY BEHIND IT.. but i don't wanna play it

 

[Javacat]

I can get scared by them, but it's like with horror type movies, I need to let myself be scared by what is going on and really get into it and then even the crappiest game/movie can scare the hell out of me, which makes everything oh so much more fun.

That said, Eternal Darkness is a bloody scary game and I didn't need to try that hard to get scared with that one

. It's also an incredibly awesome game and one of my favourites for teh cube

 

[Issac]

Most poeple here probably never heard of it but "X-Com 2: Terror from the deep" in the mid-90's I would be playing a ship terror mission all wrapped up in a mission the muisc would real quite slowly so you would not notice then then it go "dun-da" pretty loud. It would send me out of chair every time. It did it to my friends as well.

I still have all the X-COM games. I didn't find them scary in the slightest or jumpy o_o

@The silent hill 4 screenshot: Is that a huge girls head just ready to eat him?

I WANNA KNOW THE STORY BEHIND IT.. but i don't wanna play it

Spoiler

It's just a giant head of a girl that you meet in the game, and she dissapears and she's hurt.. and you're at the hospital.. go in through a door where she's supposed to be, and that head is there looking at you and moaning... but it won't eat you just freak you out

it's ingame as well, not a cut scene.

great game just spoiled by the unkillable ghosts that follow you around everywhere

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

As far as I can remember, no game ever made me scared.

I played Half Life when I was about 10 and kicked head-crab ass
I played Silent Hill 3 at night alone at home and nearly fell asleep because it was boring
I played Resident Evil 4 and was laughing my ass out as I ran passed zombies

I have yet to find a game that will scare me shitless. Any good recommendations besides FEAR?

 

[fristi]

only Penumbra scares me XD
orther games like half life and resident evil dont scare me

 

[Wombleton]

I Think Many People Get Scared Of Games Because There In Control. In A Movie The Viewer Has No Control Of Whats Going To Happen Which Means If Someone Was Walking Down A Corridor You DONT Have Control So You Not Fused By What Happens. BUT In Computer Games You Control The Outcome. So It Makes You Think That The Charachter You Are Controlling Is You. So Think About It Loggically In Real Life Dark Alley Way Groaning Voices Coming From One End Which Way Are You Going To Go Most People Go Backwards. When RE1 Came Out I Brought It But Couldnt Play It On My Own For The Sheer Terror That It Gave Me But Over The Years I Just Overcame My Fears And Have Battled My Way Through Many Survival Horror Games Like RE0-RE4, Silent Hill, Alone In The Dark Etc etc.

 

[thegame16]

F.E.A.R is for me the scariest Game. I didnt completed it. And I hate Games with spiders in it! I cant play them!

 

[darkangel5000]

I like the Resident Evil series very much, I mean.... where the hell are zombies scary or anything? o_ô
Or Half-Life. I REALLY love it. Don't know how people could be scared about these Games*

But.. Games like Silent Hill, FEAR or The Condemned, that really play with your most innermost and human fears, nah. Even today, 2 years after I've played FEAR first, I could shit my pants when I think of Alma ;_;"


*-and now I think other people will think how the hell could I be scared of FEAR or Condemned...

 

[miruki]

Mhn, I got pretty scared of Half Life too when a friend once showed me the game, those thingies that suddenly jump at you just made me squeak alot. XD

Silent Hill totally freaked me out, my best friend kept telling me how awesome it is, so when I was at his played I was like: "Ohh, now you can show me your Silent Hill thingy" and he made me play it then, knowing how easily scared I get and after 5 minutes I threw the controller at him telling him what a meanie he is for making me play it, it was okay when I watched him, still got me scared like hell, but not as creepy as playing it myself.

I just get too scared easily, by everything. Movies, Games, Showers. lol.

 

[jalaneme]

the only thing that i remember being scared of is in resident evil 1 when you walk down that corridor and those dogs jump through the windows.

 

[gizmo_gal]

I hate scary images. I cant watch, read, or play anything that will give them to me as I always see this stuff in my dreams where its 10x more realistic and horrifying to me.

At a slumber party I watched Jurassic Park (I was really little but still) and peed on mysef because I didn't want to go in the back of the house to the bathroom, then I had to take a bath and I was almost crying I was so scared to be in the tub while everyone was in the living room. I got back just in time to see the T-Rex tear up that bathroom stall. I sat up all night trying to count to 500 or something so I wouldn't sleep. Lol, I watched that movie again several years later and it wasn't nearly as bad I'd been thinking and remembering for years.

Oh, and once I read this book, only mildly scary, I was so engrossed (because I needed to know that the villian would die) that I was up in bed reading at night, past my bed time. A storm blew in, just as in the book, and the lights went out. I yelled then ran to my brothers room and slept on the floor surrounded by them so that when the Skeleton Man came through the window--I was sure he would--he'd get one of them first. I literally had a night mare about the faceless skeleton man so I had to get up, get a candle and finish the book to. I had to hide that book in box under my bed and couldn't wait to give it back to the library.

Again when I was little, I feel asleep after coming in a cool house from the hot outdoors and when I woke up it was dark out but I was alone and there was some show on the TV that I thought was scary, I hid under the couch, covering my ears and counting my brains out until my sister came in, turned the TV off and told me to grow a spine, some common sense, and go take my bath.

Turns out, it was only one of those stories from "Are You Afraid of The Dark" or GooseBumps or something, and if it scared me I should've turned the TV off or left the room.

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The scariest thing I've ever been able to watch is Lord of the Rings and StarWars. I've always liked those things too much to be scared of them, though I had time getting through the first few Orkai scenes in the theatre until my brother threatened to never take me to the movies again.

So, yeah as you see, Gizmo_gal has no tolerance whatsoever for scary stuff. I dont know why, no one else I know is as frightened of imagery as I am, but 90% of this stuff comes back to me as I try to go to sleep.

 

[PizzaPasta]

Most of the RE games are terrifying, especially the remake of the 1st and RE4. I'm still hesitant to play Dementium even though it looks kind of stupid and uninspired. I just haven't been in the mood for survival horror in awhile.

Games are a lot scarier than movies. I used to have to play Silent Hill with all of the lights on and a blanket over my head but I can watch a scary movie and not jump once.

 

[Topfragger]

if scary games can't get me scared that would take the fun out of it!
I like a good horror game, i liked RE4 but then the mystery of the Ganados is revealed completely, and that ruined the creepiness of it,

Kinda like how Yahtzee complained that Condemned was creepy since the Hobos where unexplicably violent, which is what i loved about RE4
you don't know what is wrong with these villagers.

 

[Trolly]

Haha, the only proper horror game I've ever played is Doom 3, and that was quite a while ago.

I scare easily anyway, so I found Ravenholm in HL2 scary, and I'm still finding BioShock pretty scary. It's the random moans that get me, especially when you think nothing's there. Also, Dementium's a little scary. Though when you see the graphics for the first time, you think the graphics are too crap to scare you, boy I was wrong.

 

[Da Foxx]

When I was very young I was very scared of those type of games. I over came my fear by beating Resident Evil 2 on N64.

 

[beautifulbeast]

It's the atmosphere what really gets to me: I still can't play the original Resident Evil because I used to be afraid of staying home alone at night. The rest of the series though is just an action game like any other, so they don't scare me as much (if anything at all).

@Madr0x: Agreed; videogames make for excellent thillers for that reason, but movies might be better for psychological terror. i.e: you can't replicate the fear you get from Psyco in a game.

@gizmo_gal: woa, that sucks! I used to be like that too, but luckly I grew up (slowly and at my own pace). I still can't watch scary movies, but anyway.