scariest horror game ever?

[moonsorrow]

personaly my opinion on this one must be silent hill 2...or system shock.
havent played silent hill 3 yet though...was it any good?

[avenger00soul]

I think the first Silent Hill was the scariest game ever. I just didn't know what to expect when playing it. Oh, and Clock Tower used to scare the hell out me when I was younger. Every time that little bastard would jump out of nowhere with those huge ass scissors gave me a heart attack.

[ChaoticMinister]

What about Fatal Frame... one of the rare cases in which a game is based on true events: http://www.gamers.com/game/1076493

I never played it, but I did hear that it was based on actual events, although I can't find much information on that though for some reason... oh well...

Also... "avenger00soul" has beaten "horror" for the most posts... I think there's gonna be some major rivalry going here!

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

Instead of violence, how about a horror-off... where the two contestants duke it out in a one-on-one horror knowledge test... hrmm...


*FADE OUT*

[avenger00soul]

Originally posted by ChaoticMinister
I think there's gonna be some major rivalry going here!

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!


Haha, I don't think there's any rivalry. The only fight on this board appears to be with thehalk and HalkX.

[dethbyfire]

i would have to agree with Silent Hill 2 being the scariest game i have played. you never knew when someone was going to scurry out from under a van or something

[Tony]

The only game I ever played that made me jump was the original Resident Evil. Those damn dogs!!!

[moonsorrow]

i remember always throwing the controller 6 ft in to the air each time one of those zombie things came out from under a car!
when does the pc version of silent hill 3 get released? anyone got a clue?

[redruM]

Silent Hill and SH2...fucking disturbing ass games.

Clockwork something was also very frightful

Alone In The dark was very chilling to say the least

[_Leatha_Face_]

Resident Evil:Code Veronica and Silent Hill 3 but u gotta have surround sound and all:)

[Voorhees]

Anyone ever played Clive Barker¨s undying? Have just begun playing it, looks cool.

[moonsorrow]

Originally posted by Voorhees
Anyone ever played Clive Barker¨s undying? Have just begun playing it, looks cool.

its amazing, i predict your favorate weapon will be the ...the thing, you know? the thing the grim reaper has? whats it called...schythe!

[SoUl SuRvIvOrS]

Fatal Frame flipped me for a loop...scared the crap out of me..played it in full surround sound(LOUD) and in the dark. The duel shock controler killed me. Cant wait for Fatal Frame2 Crimson Butterfly to release in November...definate purchase for this gamer.:D

[Voorhees]

Oh my God, just remembered a great game i used to play in the commodore64 days:) Ghost's and goblins! Ever tried it? Really brings back memories!
http://www.home.no/jatandstad/ghostgoblins.jpg

[AUSTIN316426808]

I'M GONNA HAVE TO GO WITH SILENT HILL ON THIS ONE EVEN THOUGH WHEN ME AND MY COUSIN USED TO PLAY RESIDENT EVIL FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER WE'D BE SCARED OUTTA OUR HEADS.

[Mad Adam]

Doom! I remember the first time I went into an area that had strobes flashing and hearing the imps but not being able to see them until they attacked from behind. Opening a door and hearing a Baron of Hell roar was pretty nerve wrecking too. Doom3 looks really good. I hear id software is making the Mars base a very unpleasant place to be!

[FreddyFan]

It's a tie between the resident evil series and the silent hill series. Scary games!

[Ritualistic]

friday the 13th .....man.... LOL

nahh I would have to say Silent Hill

[moonsorrow]

its pissing me off, iv been looking for silent hill (first part) for a long time now i just cant find a pal version, never played the first one.

[bloodrayne]

DAMN...I pride myself on NOT being like everyone else but,...SILENT HILL is the scariest (in a haunting, sneaky, freaky, creepy, kind of way) game...EVER!!! YOU HAVE TO ADMIT IT!!!

[mudsliptones]

hmmmmz
silent hill games, resident evil, especially the first 2, clive barkers undying is not THAT scary but pretty cool
ow and alone in the dark, it's hard to play, but really dark, thats why it's called alone in the....DARK

[ringmovierocker]

i have to say tellytubies:D . actually silent hill because well i didnt know what is going on and the monsters just made me have nightmares. also its so gory especially the bit when you open the bathroom door that dead thing hanging eeeeeeeeeeeww i was just nearley scared for life:( .


ps tellytubies their voices, their faces aaaaaaaaah nightmares.:eek:

[coldwhisper]

Originally posted by Voorhees
Anyone ever played Clive Barker¨s undying? Have just begun playing it, looks cool.

i played it... hehe.. i can still hear the howling till now... still my fave game. Not as scary as SH. but still scary...

moonsorrow, i agree with you on that.. the scythe is still the best weapon! not to mention all the blood that comes out of it.

[Midgard Dragon]

Not really scary, but American McGee's Alice (haven't gotten very far, but it's not scary so far) and (forget who made it) Sanitarium will mess with your head, to say the least. Both very fun games, and must haves for any Horror/Creepy Video Game fans.

I played a little bit of Clive Barker's Undying and I am impressed so far.

For any who are interested American McGee's Alice and Clive Barker's Undying are being sold as a double pack for only 10 bucks at most Wal-Marts. Very worth it!

[agoniste]

i'd have to say Silent Hill 1/2 and Resident Evil serie..
i heard about games called Phantasmagoria.
it's like a movie but u r the hero..
anybody played it?

[LegionFilms]

They Hunger

[LegionFilms]

Originally posted by agoniste

i heard about games called Phantasmagoria.
it's like a movie but u r the hero..
anybody played it?
If what your talking about is an old game then I think I did. It's like myst. You walk around the house and shit. I played it when I was young and don't remember being that scared. It's like Shivers, if anyone played that back in the day.

[psyco_wolf]

ive never found any that were scary... just freaky and things that screw with your mind... one that i can think of that screwed with my mind the best i think is eternal darkness... walk in one room, when you go into the door you walk back into the same room you were in except its upside down :D... then there are the accidental suicides that are a hallucination, dying in some freakish way (turning into one of the monsters, falling through a hole that just opened up infront of you, etc. another hallucination aswell), the cutscenes are odd too, one of the guys turns completely psychotic and is in a solitary confinment chamber in a straight jacket... just to name a few things of course.

[Sam The Egg]

Realms of the Haunting > Everything you guys have said.

Shivers was like the Goosebumps of the horror computer games

[psyco_wolf]

Realms of the Haunting? what was that for?
ive never heard of it till now.

[Sam The Egg]

it was a PC game
http://www.realmsofthehaunting.com/
it was totally the shit. It was this huge 4-disc game. I would have gotten past the first disc had I not loaned it to someone who subsequently lost it and then moved. Bastard...

[swiftdeath]

Shivers, Sanitarim, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame. Can't choose. Shivers is the only game that can get me scared. The 7th Guest was the first horror game I ever played.

[cheebacheeba]

Clock tower was pretty fucked up...I liked that....
havent played the sequels...
I had a dreamcast, and I remember a game (jap port) where you were some girl who got tickets to go to some "terrifying" theme park, you go in with friends, who dissapear, and you've gotta keep an eye on your "fear levels" or something....god it was confusing, but scary all the same, the name of the game was the same as the name of the "theme park" in it, I think....bloodlet or something....blood something, Im sure.....that's it, IllBleed!
violent too!
ghosts n goblins was pretty good, yeah, although I think it totally got out-done by the sequels, ghouls n ghosts, and super ghoulds n ghosts, pretty much diff versions of the same game, did u know the ps2 title "maximo" is meant to be like, the third game in the series....boy oh boy, it sure lost its feel, didnt it...?

[psyco_wolf]

i heard clocktower was a good game for the most part, just as you said, screwed up... hmm, i heard form a few people i know that in the second the voice acting was awful, funny, but awful.

[Evil Ash]

Clive Barker's Undying (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/clivebarkersundying/)
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/gs/news/010202/clive_thumb022.jpg (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/clivebarkersundying/screens.html?page=69)

Scariest game I have ever played. Fun and beautiful to boot. Playing this late at night, home alone, tired. Oh god. It's not really the OMGMONSTERS kind of scary. The environment, the silent sound of howlers, and the omniscient shadow that seems to follow you that just sends chills up your spine and makes you want to close your eyes. I love this game. Scyre mode is also freaky, it's a spell that allows you to peer into the world of the undead. You see some freaky shit with that thing.

Aliens vs Predator 2 (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/aliensversuspredator2/)
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2001/pc/act/avp2/avp2_thumb017.jpg (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/aliensversuspredator2/screens.html?page=73)

This is the kind of game that will give you a heartattack. Especially human campaign, or multiplayer as a human. I'm always an alien, so I'm the guy speeding around stopping players' hearts. Tis major fun.

Blood (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/blood)
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/1/196781/blood_thumb001.jpg (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/blood/screens.html?page=5)

My favourite BUILD game of all time. It's more fun and hilarious than scary, but there are many parts, especially the haunted house level, where I got the shit scared out of me. Closets stuffed with grim reapers that litterally SCREAM in your FACE. Playing this game on my TV, late at night, made it all better. The room was black, when a fucking red eyed ghost scares the shit out of me and the room just lights up red because I got hit... I almost died I swear. Fun times.

Originally posted by agoniste
i'd have to say Silent Hill 1/2 and Resident Evil serie..
i heard about games called Phantasmagoria.
it's like a movie but u r the hero..
anybody played it?

I own this game, and I did actually forget about it unitl I read this post. This game was uber-freaky, especially the ending, and the greenhouse scene. Fucking hell, I shit my pants. I was 12... havn't played it since. I highly recommend it.

[SoulEater]

I thought I was the only person in the world that had played Shivers. I don't remember being particularly scared at any point in the game but I do remember running a cheese-grater over my eyballs in frustration at the puzzles. Chinese checkers anyone? I was only 12 at the time but from what I recall, it was an excellent game.

The soundtrack was also very good and I've spent many fruitless hours trying to find the damn thing online. If anybody could shine some light in my direction -- not the cheeseball sampler gimmick that came with Shivers 2 please -- I would be VERY grateful.

I'm playing scary games more than I watch scary movies these days and the current, and most likely all-time champion, is the original Silent Hill. I love the series and everything it's done but as far as pure terror is concerned, the first is the best.

The fear of blood tends to create fear for the flesh...

[orangestar]

The first Silent Hill

I played it before I got into horror and it scared the hell out of me!
I just remember walking around in a school and those creature things jumping out with the *SCREECH SCREECH SCREECH* sounds they made.

[cheebacheeba]

What th fuck were thos lil ghost babies? I only had the game on hire, and hadda return it the next day, so I never made it beyond the "piano" scene, I think I just said "fuck it" as soon as I saw it....but those ghost baby thingz, what was with them?

[swiftdeath]

I don't know why Shivers scares me, but yesterday I was playing Silent Hill 3 and I came across this one part where a dog is barking at you and I thought it was one of the monsters. Turns out it was just a scary effect.

[SoulEater]

The little ghosts that you refer to are called "Stalkers" and they are impervious to any damage. Their purpose is to - while unnerving the player - cause you to waste unnecessary ammo. If you use the aglophotus (red liquid found in the hospital after meeting Dr. Kaufman) on them in the Lakeside Amusement Park, you can trigger a glitch that allows you to bypass the fight with Cybil and the cut-scene involving Dahlia and Alessa.

In a way you are correct Swiftdeath; the sound effect that they used for te Stalkers is that of a small dog barking.

[Mike_the_killer]

I'd have to say the remake or Resident Evil one for the Gamecube

[Graf-Orlock]

Fatal Fram 2 freaky as all hell

[Madman]

wow nobodys played The Thing?that games pretty fuckin scary,good too.

[Weird Terrain]

The Thing is an excellent game, no doubt about it, and I think the continued story worked perfectly.
One of the horror games that scared me the most was RE: Nemesis. I just made little green gnomes in my pants, everytime I meet him...
I am so looking forward to Silent Hill 4 btw, as well as Resident Evil 4. I am very positive about the changes they've made so far in RE4.

[SoulEater]

I'm with you on that one. SH4 is shaping up to be even more inventive than any of its predecessors and RE4 looks simply awesome. It's also interesting that is will be the first Silent Hill to have a subtitle: Silent Hill 4: The Room. No gaudy demon laser dragon shit... just "The Room". It's so ordinary yet intriguing at the same time and makes for plenty of speculation.

[Cult_King]

I don't think manhunt is one of the scariest games but the dark environments used to creep me out. But the scariest game for me would be Alien vs. Predetor when playing online, especially since I was young when playing it the dark areas and the aliens hiding in the shadows while the fucking radar is beeping its ass off.

[MythMan84]

i really feel sorry for the people who made these games, they must have some pretty warped minds

[Cult_King]

Since when is warped a bad thing?
btw if your hells guitarist then why is your avvy a bass?

[MythMan84]

jsut to state a point basses are guitars, and i didny notice it was a bass until today so i plan on changing it

[Hate_Breeder]

For me it would go like this
1.)Resident Evil(Gamecube)
2.)Silent Hill 3(PS2)
3.)Resident Evil 2(N64 or Ps)
4.)Fatal Frame(Playstation)
5.)Silent Hill 2(Playstation 2)

[Dreaming Girl]

Eternal Darkness had some wonderfully creepy bits... I liked the tension that built as Alex slowly went insane... Maximillion's scenario where he starts out a bit paranoid, and eventually his servents go insane and/or are possessed by those demon things... walking into the bathroom and hallucinating the dead body in the tub... some of the subtle things, like the paintings changing... I found the whole feel of the game just great, and very disturbing.

The first Resident Evil was the first real horror game I played... It did a pretty good job of creeping me out and/or making me jump. The dogs, of course. And the first time you encounter a Hunter. You see it coming from behind, and I was thinking... Oh, what the hell is this? :eek:

I didn't think the Gamecube remake would creep me out since I pretty much knew what was coming, but they did a really good job with the atmosphere, and adding some new stuff. ...

Sadly, I have never played any of the Silent Hill games (though have wanted to...).

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by MythMan84
jsut to state a point basses are guitars, and i didny notice it was a bass until today so i plan on changing it


BAsses ARENT guitars......guitars are skinny basses..... Damn guitarists.....

[SoulEater]

Wrong.

Guitars and basses are BOTH just retarded ukeleles.

[William]

Scariest game in my opinion would have to be Clocktower: The First Fear for the Super Nintendo. Although it was never released in the United States, they did a remake of it for the PS1, but they changed around the story a bit and added some things. I have yet to play it, but I think that the original would be better.

Here are some screenshots of the game:

http://www.dark-legacy.org/survivalist/images/firstfear4.jpg

Scissorman

http://www.dark-legacy.org/survivalist/images/firstfear3.jpg

Nice fog effect.


The story:

"Tragedy struck Jennifer Simpson at an early age. First, her mother passed away. Then her father, a medical doctor, mysteriously vanished while answering a late night house call. Seemingly abandoned and with no surviving relatives, the turned custody of Jennifer over to Granite Orphanage. Although quiet and reclusive, Jennifer manged to make friends with a small group of her fellow orphans: Ann, the prankster, the insecure Laura and the pessimistic Lott.

Then in September of 1995, a woman named Mary Barrows visited Granite Orphange. The wife of the wealthy Simon Barrows, Mary Barrows had come in her husbands stead to adopt children for their family. At first Jennifer and her friends were afraid of being separated. However, they were shocked to learn that Mary Barrows planned on adopting all four of them! What followed seemed to come right out of the pages of a fairy tale. Their new stepmother led Jennifer and her friends up the lush country road to the "Clock Tower" mansion. The townspeople called the Barrows mansion this because of the large clock tower built into the roof.

Mary took Jennifer and her friends inside the gigantic mansion that would be their new home. She tells the children to wait there for her in the main hall while she went to get her husband Simon. At first, the children were excited and waited patiently. Soon they realized that Mary has been gone for an awfully long time. Finally, the girls suspect something was terribly wrong. Jennifer told the others to wait for her and decided to go find out what happened to their new Stepmother.

Jennifer was searching for Mary in one of the mansion's long hallways when suddenly the lights went out and there is a blood curdling scream. She rushes back to her friends only to find the main hall deserted. Desperately, Jennifer searched the nearby rooms looking for her friends. Then a being straight out of a nightmare revealed himself, a madman wielding a giant pair of scissors! She thought she'd escaped him, but he kept stalking her and nothing seemed to be able to stop him. Now, you must assume the role of Jennifer to find a way to elude the murderous Scissorman, rescue your friends and escape the Clock Tower mansion before it is too late!"

If you want to play the original, you'll need a SNES emulator, the rom, and a translation patch...unless you of course know japanese.

Great game nonetheless.

[SoulEater]

That actually looks pretty damn impressive for a Super Nintendo game. Thanks for sharing.

[William]

Originally posted by SoulEater
That actually looks pretty damn impressive for a Super Nintendo game. Thanks for sharing.

You're welcome. I wish it were released in the U.S. though. :(

[Nightmarian]

Well, I'll have to go with Silent Hill and SH2. They were kinda scary, for as scary as a game could be.

Anyone here had a Commodore 64 when they were young? I remember a game I used to play back then, it was called "friday the 13th" and it was pretty freaky. It had nothing to do with the lame F13 released by Nintendo on the original Nintendo game console. You were playing any character you choosed from and you were roaming around a map, collecting weapons, ranging from a knife to a chainsaw and you had to discover Jason and kill him. Fun part was that you also could kill just anybody you wished!! The challenge of it was that jason was 'sahping' like another character and the only way to find who he was was by witnessing a murder. Pretty damn cool for such a old game. Each time a killed was made, by you or Jason, the screen turned to bright red with a pixelised drawing of a Jason hockey mask showing. A loud girlish scream resounded and the shivers caught me every time. I was about 10 back then and it really was freaky.

[XFeaRX]

I would have to say the original resident evil. Fuck Silent Hill! (no offense). When I first played Resident Evil when I was about 7, It scared the hell out of me. I do not know why everyone is saying Silent Hill? That game was not scary.

[Midgard Dragon]

Nope, Silent Hill gets my vote now (yes I'm changing my vote 'cause I just recently played Silent Hill.)

As for why people are voting for SH over RE, it's b/c SH's spookiness is just that. It's not "in your face" zombies and stuff like RE. It's more like being alone in the dark and hearing something off to the side. You turn and sometimes there's nothing. But, on SH, *sometimes* you get demented little kids or evil nurses attacking you from all sides. My only complaint with SH1 is the retarded controls. Apparently the gaming industry hadn't perfected how to use the analog when SH came out :rolleyes:

[Charlie]

The Seventh Guest

[Nightmarian]

Originally posted by Midgard Dragon
Nope, Silent Hill gets my vote now (yes I'm changing my vote 'cause I just recently played Silent Hill.)

As for why people are voting for SH over RE, it's b/c SH's spookiness is just that. It's not "in your face" zombies and stuff like RE. It's more like being alone in the dark and hearing something off to the side. You turn and sometimes there's nothing. But, on SH, *sometimes* you get demented little kids or evil nurses attacking you from all sides. My only complaint with SH1 is the retarded controls. Apparently the gaming industry hadn't perfected how to use the analog when SH came out :rolleyes:

Bingo!

You've got it all right here.

Once again, atmosphere!... It's all about the atmosphere given to the whole game.

[Killer Clown#1]

Originally posted by Nightmarian
Well, I'll have to go with Silent Hill and SH2. They were kinda scary, for as scary as a game could be.

Anyone here had a Commodore 64 when they were young? I remember a game I used to play back then, it was called "friday the 13th" and it was pretty freaky. It had nothing to do with the lame F13 released by Nintendo on the original Nintendo game console. You were playing any character you choosed from and you were roaming around a map, collecting weapons, ranging from a knife to a chainsaw and you had to discover Jason and kill him. Fun part was that you also could kill just anybody you wished!! The challenge of it was that jason was 'sahping' like another character and the only way to find who he was was by witnessing a murder. Pretty damn cool for such a old game. Each time a killed was made, by you or Jason, the screen turned to bright red with a pixelised drawing of a Jason hockey mask showing. A loud girlish scream resounded and the shivers caught me every time. I was about 10 back then and it really was freaky. Are you sure you are not getting two games mixed up? because some of it sounds similar to the friday the 13th game, however if you could find some pics then that would be awsome, sounds like a cool game:)

[Weird Terrain]

Resident Evil 3 and Silent Hill 2 are two of the scariest games I've ever played. I just loved the story and twists in SH 2 and just loved to change pants whenever Nemesis came along, and scared the shit out of me...

[Weird Terrain]

Btw the Friday the 13th game you are talking about, I think there was one game out called Splatterhouse, but that one is from 89 or so. Think it was the one out on Amiga or Nintendo.

[guardian]

I still love the father of all Resident Evil alike games - Alone in the Dark. By Infogrames I think.
And Nocturne was scary too.

[SoulEater]

I never played Nocturne but I did play the Blair which series -- all of which I enjoyed -- and they used the same engine. I should try Nocturne since it goes for about $10 at the store.

Great words on Silent Hill there Midgard Dragon... I completely agree.

[hellfire1]

am i the only one who got freaked out by the song in the opening credits of SH ?? freaked the hell out of me :p

[XFeaRX]

Splatterhouse was a scary ass game! I remember playing it when I was young.

[VampiricClown]

I found no scares from these series: Silent hill, Resident Evil, Doom, Clocktower or even Clive Barker's Undying.

I am unable to play Fatal Frame in for the fact that I cannot sleep at night or take the sudden scares from it while playing. And the second was even scarier than the first. If you're looking for a good scare, pick this up and put the movie you were gonna watch back on the shelf.

[Jacob Singer]

I'm a big fan of Silent Hill saga (For me the 2º part is one of the best videogames I ever play) , but the scariest games I ever play is Fatal Frame...man I remember when the blind woman cames at my back telling 'My eyes it's too dark here' ... danm I'm too old for this shit. The second part(Crimson Butterfly) it's good but the history it's too similar to the first one

[IDrinkYourBlood]

Id have to say all 4 silent hills. Some of the best games Iv ever played.

[noctuary]

Fatal Frame is definitely the scariest game I've ever played. Overall, I prefer the Silent Hill series (especially if we're talking about SH2) but the SH series is really more sad and disturbing than outright horrifying, to me at least. Fatal Frame, on the other hand, had me afraid to walk around the house in the dark.

[Despare]

I loved Eternal Darkness for the ability of the game to mess with your head, I turned my GC off the first time the screen went black and stuff, very cool. I remember D being kind of creepy and System Shock made me jump a couple times. I will never forget the first Resident Evil though, when you run down the hall and the dog jumps through the windo for the first time. Good stuff.

[The_Return]

To be honest, Ive on;ly ever played one horror game- Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requim. Scared the living crap out of me...

[hypnocil addict]

have any of yall played this game "F.E.A.R."? i think its only for computers, i havnt played it, but the commercials scared the crap out of me!!

http://tinypic.com/jb0lqs.jpg

[alicefan]

Yeah, I agree with others that Silent Hill 2 is a pretty strange game.

[Posher778]

Half life 2. the ravenholm level... try it out, you can download the demo and one of the demo maps is ravenholm.

[Haunted]

Silent Hill (1-2) and Fatal Frame scared the shit outta me.

[Zero]

Originally posted by Haunted
Silent Hill (1-2) and Fatal Frame scared the shit outta me.

agreed - the babies in silent hill totally freaked me out

[Jacob Singer]

This is for all Silent Hill fans, the official trailer of the film adapptation

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/silenthill/site/?dl=trailer (http://)

I hope you enjoy it

[Angra]

Fatal Frame 1

[Hellsing]

Does anyone remember turbo grafx-16 game called "Splatterhouse" and the two pinball games called "Alien crush" and "Devils crush"? Awsome games and cool to play in the dark.I still have my old system and the games.I have the playstation 2 with doom collection and final doom. :cool:

[flabby_man22]

Quake
just because my parents wouldnt let me play it when i was little, so i would have to play it at night after everyone went to bed. i dont think i slept for months

[hulkamaniak]

The only real big shock ive ever got is offcoarse from them dogs on Resident evil , though my favourite horror game is RE4, though its probly more an action game then anything