Scariest game ever?? - Page 3

poprock · 13th March 2007, 2:17pm

How about that bit in one of the MGS games where the bad guy starts taunting you about the other games you play, by reading the save game titles off your memory card? Talk about breaking the fourth wall unexpectedly … it’s enough to freak a person out until they stop and think about how it was done.

MarkMono · 13th March 2007, 2:21pm

The end of Sons Of Liberty was quite neat like that, the fourth wall essentially melts.

poprock · 13th March 2007, 2:36pm

Eternal Darkness on the Gamecube was good at such tricks too. Some of the insanity effects it inflicted on you when your ‘sanity meter’ fell too low were just plain cruel.

The one which froze the game and flashed up messages telling you that it had crashed and needed to be restarted was nasty, but nothing compared to the one which asked whether you wanted to delete all game saves on your memory card … then when you frantically pressed ‘no’, said “Thankyou. Your memory card has been formatted.” (or words to that effect).

Hmm. A quick Google reveals that the same developers were responsible for MGS: Sons of Liberty and Eternal Darkness. There you go.

Hammer · 13th March 2007, 3:02pm

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You'll probably all laugh at me, but I was actually quite unnerved by AVP when I played it as a Marine - I was the most cowardly Marine ever!

That was actually voted the most scary game ever by GameSpy back in 2004.

Warlord · 13th March 2007, 3:23pm

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Originally Posted by poprock

How about that bit in one of the MGS games where the bad guy starts taunting you about the other games you play, by reading the save game titles off your memory card? Talk about breaking the fourth wall unexpectedly …*it’s enough to freak a person out until they stop and think about how it was done.

Mine never said about the memory card game saved, I justed dingyed the whole lot of calls haha.

**PapaZeb** · 13th March 2007, 3:45pm

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Originally Posted by poprock

How about that bit in one of the MGS games where the bad guy starts taunting you about the other games you play, by reading the save game titles off your memory card? Talk about breaking the fourth wall unexpectedly … it’s enough to freak a person out until they stop and think about how it was done.

Ahh...good old Psycho Mantis...
"sss aaaah...you play Castlevania don't you?" - bugger it only read Konami games though.

GoddamnElectric · 13th March 2007, 4:05pm

I remember the sheer horror of Res 1, which I relieved when it came out on the GameCube. I was especially unnerved by the big crocodile. And being stuck in the sewers with zombies/spiders and having nowt but a knife for comfort.
Silent Hill was also horrific first time through. "Hmmm.. what's with the siren?... Oh the humanity!!!!!".

I also found the Hallowbrook Hotel level in Vampire to be a tad creepy, until I realised you actually couldn't die during that level unless you stood there and got hit by flying plates or something.

**PapaZeb** · 13th March 2007, 4:10pm

The music in Shadow of the Beast always got to me. Always.

Nothing special about the game in creepy ways, but the music of that...argh!

Densu · 13th March 2007, 4:20pm

7th Guest.

The Continental · 13th March 2007, 4:24pm

All this chat has made me download Illbleed for the Dreamcast.

Draven · 13th March 2007, 7:31pm

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I also found the Hallowbrook Hotel level in Vampire to be a tad creepy, until I realised you actually couldn't die during that level unless you stood there and got hit by flying plates or something.

Perhaps spoiler tag that bit, I left that bit out deliberately because I was the same. Spoils it if you know you can't die...

**Ghostsuit** · 13th March 2007, 9:29pm

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See you? You were terrified by Doom 3. I remember.

Aye but not half as much as Doom did

Fallenblackrose · 13th March 2007, 11:29pm

I'm still waiting on a game to scare me...

Eve Bulloch · 14th March 2007, 7:39am

When i was a kid those horrible pig/bull things in Doom were quite scary. But Doom always had so much room to run away in so you could always run off and hide for half an hour.

**djtoast** · 14th March 2007, 2:52pm

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The music in Shadow of the Beast always got to me. Always.

Nothing special about the game in creepy ways, but the music of that...argh!

Some of the music in Prime Target is like that. There's one bit that I always associate with two massive fuckers sneaking up on you and blowing you to a million bits with rocket launchers. Ironically it's the gentlest bit of music in the game but makes you go "OH FUCK! TROUBLE!"