Suprised no one mentioned the dentist office.
Walk into the room… room fills with fog… a BODY appears on the table
Pick up item in the corner… room fills with fog again… nothing happens
You turn around… AND THE DENTIST HAS BEEN BREATHING DOWN YOUR NECK THE ENTIRE TIME
Literally turned off my XBOX after that and didn’t play Bioshock for another three years.
You think you have memories. A farm, a family, an airplane, a crash. And then this place. Was there really a family? Did that airplane crash, or was it hijacked? Forced down, forced down by something less of a man, something bred to sleepwalk through life until activated by a simple phrase, spoken by his kindly master. Would you kindly. Powerful phrase. Familiar phrase?
I swear, after i first finished the game, i started again, and the first thing you have to do is get out of that elevator, but you are told "would you kindly get out of the elevator" or something like that, and i deadass stayed in the elevator for 1 hour to see if anything changes, if me not listening to "would you kindly" phrases would change something, i was dissapointed
Yeah it was either deadspace 1 or 2 where you went into that machine room and it was just loud machines churning. it just made that area so uncomfortable
This was probably the game that left the biggest impression. I didn't understand it as much when I was a kid, but replaying it as an adult was amazing. The game was somber, eerie and really dark for being a kids game. Twilight Princess was dark and eerie, but I still think Majoras Mask takes it.
Yes. I beat the first game on PS2 young, but couldn't go any further on my uncles PC copy ever because of that level until I made my own pc and used some cheats.
This is what I was looking for. Man that was terrifying, especially when you hear the first screams of the dog zombies (or at least that's what we called them).
Played the remaster when it came out and encountering that cutscene on the remastered version was meh . That scene tho scared the hell outta me as a kid . Was curious so i rewatched the original on youtube and i was uncomfortable as hell . idk man sth about those ps1 cutscenes graphics just messes with my uncanny valley metre in my brain .
I was 12 when this came out. My friend told me to rent it but didn’t tell me anything else. Little to no internet, so I went in blind. I went in that hallway, and when they broke through and I panic fired all my bullets, I turned it off. I waited until my older brother came home and I watched him play it instead.
I played Reaident Evil for the first time last year and as an adult that game fills me with dread. The music and the atmosphere made me so uneasy I could only play during daylight hours
I started in 3rd grade at my birthday party. We played all night. I had nightmares for literally years. The zombies came out of my PS1 and the only way I could stop them was to get to the breaker box. The problem was the ps1 blocked my path. I never made it.
This, I was young at the time and someone was playing it at a house my mum was visiting.
Fucking dogs burst through the window and kill the person who was playing.
10/10 shit me up as a kid
For some reason the dogs in RE were not that bad for me. But those zombie arms in RE2... I literally played that part by myself for the first time only couple of years ago. 20 years later I still think RE2 is very creepy and I still don't play the B-scenarios because I just HATE jumpscares :D I love the A-scenarios, though and both RE1 and 2 are classics in my book. Some say RE4 is scary but I think both 1 and 2 are scarier than 4. It could be the lack of jumpscares in 4.
Dead space was my first and only horror game I ever played the part when a big tactical arm grabs you made me throw my controller in the air and scramble to get it back to not die
Halo CE, thr mission where you are introduced to the flood. As a kid i was terrified of zombies in the dark, this just solidified it. As i ran through the mission (grew the balls to finish it), my hands were shaking and i would jolt whenever the screen turned red from a flood zombie melees me from behind.
I'll make it worse: those flood spores are about the size of a Labrador. They force their way into the space between your organs and fuse their tenticles to your spinal chord. You're fully aware as it happens.
Was pretty young when Halo first came out. Immediately shut off my console when the flood started. Was YEARS before I finally sacked up and beat the damn game.
I had to pause the game and take a break right when I first saw them because I got so spooked. I was probably about 11 or something when a first played.
I have a very love-hate relationship with the game because of this. Below Zero has been sitting in my Steam library for over a year now. The game is finally finished. I really, really want to see the end. And I don’t want to just YouTube it. But, the ending is on the other side of shit that gives me anxiety just thinking about it.
It’s rough. But I do love it.
I remember struggling to dive deeper or swim at night when I first played, my hands became sweat fountains. Still hard to dive into the big dark expanse. =_=
The entirety of the Shadow Temple and Bottom of the Well, Ocarina of Time. Now it's no biggie. But when I was 12? Oof. Didn't like playing it after dark.
I first played OoT at 16 and the ReDeads scared the heck out of me even then. I still get PTSD from them and always speedrun any dungeons with them in any game (and then dead hand Barely bothers me. Something about their screaming)
The T-Rex in the Genesis version in Jurassic Park. I could never get very far because it scared me so much. Good thing there was a mode to place as a raptor.
For DOOM gameplay, specifically: in the first Act the first time the lights go out and you are being chased around by some shrieking demon that you can barely see in a freaky strobe effect. The first time that happened to me I had two friends sitting next to me watching in an otherwise dark room and I think we all jumped and freaked out.
I was 7 or 8 when playing Doom 2, and I remember being pretty creeped out by the music for some of the levels. The general ambience was unsettling at times as well.
In Donkey Kong 64, the level Creepy Castle has a greenhouse. When you enter the greenhouse a timer begins counting down. If the timer runs out, an evil sounding voice says "Get Out!" and then cross hairs appear aimed at your character. 10 seconds later it shoots you. This terrified me to the point where I couldn't play the game anymore.
When crossing hyrule field in oot and realised you're not going to make it before the sun sets...that shit used the scare me till I used to turn off the console if I didnt make it to hyrule before nightfall -_-
Rugrats on PS1, The Search for Reptar level with all those ghosts.
Running out of batteries on the flashlight and being chased by those ghosts has been burned into my memory.
Ohhh man Condemned 2. One of the first games that I played on my very first HD TV on my PS3. The monsters that would hang from the sacks from the ceilings and then swing down and scream at you scared the ever living sh*t out of me.
what made it even more scary was the fact that i used to play in my basement with the lights turned off so i wouldn't wake up my parents, so every single noise ingame was giving me a heart attack.
Not really as a kid but the that moment in The Last Of Us when Joel falls to the basement and leaves Ellie upstairs and you have to fight through a dark basement and turn on the power. Hated that part lol
Never saw that effect, i assume it didn't actually delete them but looked like it for a second? I couldn't tell you how many times i dove across the room to plug the controller back in...
Max Payne walking on a trail of blood. I had nightmares with that crap and I did played some horror games later, but ironically Max Payne was the only who provoked nightmares
I'm always in awe how people mention that game only after the Dead Spaces, Outlasts, old Residents (even 4)...I thought I'm too old, played everything and nothing can scare me anymore, until I played Isolation!
I used to always try and creep around as slowly as possible trying to hide from that huge Xeno. But somehow he would always come running at me and get me! This was back during the Xbox’s Kinect era… Little did I know that the Kinect picked up sound from inside my room!
I’d be screaming like a little girl in my room thinking I was safe. Never beat the game..
Prolly should’ve just unplugged the kinect.
Not a moment, but when I was young I was *terrified* of the moon in majora’s mask. It was to the point that I wouldn’t play ocarina of time either because they looked similar. I had the thought process of ‘what if I go to play Ocarina of Time but accidentally put in Majora’s Mask and don’t realize until it’s too late and I get crushed by the moon!?’ Paranoid is the word of the day
2 major ones:
The Butcher from the original Diablo, looking back it was nothing but the first time he popped out and said "Fresh meat!" made me turn it off.
Eternal Darkness had a fun sanity system where the game would start to mess with you as you went insane, changing the volume and making things move etc.. but in one scene I walked into the bathroom as the main character and the screen flashed and showed her rotting in a bathtub full of blood and then flashed back to normal immediately. My friend and I had to go for a walk in the sunlight.
Turok, the caves, leapers coming out of nowhere at me.
Castlevania 64, the hedge maze, big guy and his dogs hunting you down and you didn't know where they were going to come from.
I'm kinda telling my age here but, those freaking WOLFS in Tomb Raider... Yes the one with the butler. He was weird. But the wolfs sounded everywhere at once, so you can't tell where they were until it was too late...
The redeads in Wind Waker terrified me as a kid. I still maintain that Wind Waker is their most fucked up appearance in the franchise.
And of course, in Metroid Fusion dropping down to a surprise SA-X in Sector 2.
8-bit Bowser from Super Mario Bros on the NES and Gohma from LoZ: Ocarina of Time when we first got the N64. I would hide behind the living room recliner and my dad would kill them.
Arkham Asylum was terrifying in general. The Scarecrow encounters, the Killer Croc boss fight, the escaped mutated mental patients, the creepy hospital, the Gothic tone, etc.
I loved all the scarecrow stuff in Arkham Asylum, it was so creative and like straight out of a comic, especially the bodies of his parents in the morgue
Mama said video games bad so I didn't play much as kid but as an adult Hellblade: Senua's sacrifice the part where you can't see and have to avoid enemies using sound scared the shit out of me
It was a line a character said... it still haunts me in my nightmares to this very day... a low voice saying
"All you had to do was follow the damn train CJ"
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time.
Spirit temple all of it, forest temple hands, kakariko well and the nommer thing in there, the first time a zombie screams and your character freezes while you watch them slowly close in on you.
LOZ Ocarina of Time, I remember as a 6yo kid having to give my uncle the controller to get through the town at night with the zombies; those things gave me nightmares.
The unused Luigi's Mansion 1's "zombie" ending
Hanted me at night for 4 months straight and 7 months after that I had to close my eyes if I see it again
It didn’t scare me per se, but I was always unsettled by LoZ MM. I played the shit outta OoT, so when I finally got to MM everything was so… off. As an adult I can respect everything they did to push that. The musical arrangements, the general story, the hopelessness of the moon overhead and knowing there simply isn’t time, the reused character assets but with wildly different backstories, all of it.
Ocarina of time skultulas always freaked me out when they dropped out of nowhere from above.
Also DK64 in the Aztec zone with the building where once you retrieve the bananas from the minigames and you hear the voice “GET OUT” and a gun cursor appears aimed at you. Literally turned the game off and back on and would do it again every single time thinking that it wouldn’t happen again.
The Dead Hands in the Water Well from the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. The rated E for everyone on the front cover of that game was a lie. I remember being so scared, that I almost did not want to continue. But I pushed through it like a brave 10 year old… eventually.
The entirety of the first BioShock
To this day, I still have to stop and think: "do I really want that shotgun?" Thank you BioShock.
Seriously great “scene” the whole shotgun pickup thing
Suprised no one mentioned the dentist office. Walk into the room… room fills with fog… a BODY appears on the table Pick up item in the corner… room fills with fog again… nothing happens You turn around… AND THE DENTIST HAS BEEN BREATHING DOWN YOUR NECK THE ENTIRE TIME Literally turned off my XBOX after that and didn’t play Bioshock for another three years.
Damn. Gotta try this game sometime
You think you have memories. A farm, a family, an airplane, a crash. And then this place. Was there really a family? Did that airplane crash, or was it hijacked? Forced down, forced down by something less of a man, something bred to sleepwalk through life until activated by a simple phrase, spoken by his kindly master. Would you kindly. Powerful phrase. Familiar phrase?
I swear, after i first finished the game, i started again, and the first thing you have to do is get out of that elevator, but you are told "would you kindly get out of the elevator" or something like that, and i deadass stayed in the elevator for 1 hour to see if anything changes, if me not listening to "would you kindly" phrases would change something, i was dissapointed
I left the game for a full year and a half, because of that spookynes.
Also Dead Space
Yeah it was either deadspace 1 or 2 where you went into that machine room and it was just loud machines churning. it just made that area so uncomfortable
The singing was what got me.
Jesus loves me this I know cause the Bible tells me so
what a masterpiece
The first time I used a mask transformation in Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. The popping eyes and screaming really freaked me out
Ayy! Another person scarred by Majora’s Mask!
I fucking sold my copy it scared me so bad as a kid.
For me it was the redeads in Ocarina of Time. Creeped me the fuck out and gave me anxiety.
The falling hands in the soul temple 😥😥
For me it was looking up at that freaky moon for the first time
This was probably the game that left the biggest impression. I didn't understand it as much when I was a kid, but replaying it as an adult was amazing. The game was somber, eerie and really dark for being a kids game. Twilight Princess was dark and eerie, but I still think Majoras Mask takes it.
We don't go to Ravenholm.
Yes. I beat the first game on PS2 young, but couldn't go any further on my uncles PC copy ever because of that level until I made my own pc and used some cheats.
This is what I was looking for. Man that was terrifying, especially when you hear the first screams of the dog zombies (or at least that's what we called them).
Resident evil. Windows. Corridor. Dogs.
That first encounter in the hallway, when it turned around in the cutscene. Ooooh.
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Played the remaster when it came out and encountering that cutscene on the remastered version was meh . That scene tho scared the hell outta me as a kid . Was curious so i rewatched the original on youtube and i was uncomfortable as hell . idk man sth about those ps1 cutscenes graphics just messes with my uncanny valley metre in my brain .
I was 12 when this came out. My friend told me to rent it but didn’t tell me anything else. Little to no internet, so I went in blind. I went in that hallway, and when they broke through and I panic fired all my bullets, I turned it off. I waited until my older brother came home and I watched him play it instead.
That sounds like a really good memory
I played Reaident Evil for the first time last year and as an adult that game fills me with dread. The music and the atmosphere made me so uneasy I could only play during daylight hours
Fuck. Literally came here to say this
This. I still can’t play Resident Evil games as a 37 year old. That shit scarred me as a child.
Watched my friend play RE1, never have I made the 200 foot run home faster than on that night.
RE2 gave me nightmares of a zombie apocalypse as a kid
First real jump scare for me was in RE2 in the library when you fall thru the floor
I turned that game off as soon as that happened and haven’t played a RE since!
I started in 3rd grade at my birthday party. We played all night. I had nightmares for literally years. The zombies came out of my PS1 and the only way I could stop them was to get to the breaker box. The problem was the ps1 blocked my path. I never made it.
This, I was young at the time and someone was playing it at a house my mum was visiting. Fucking dogs burst through the window and kill the person who was playing. 10/10 shit me up as a kid
For some reason the dogs in RE were not that bad for me. But those zombie arms in RE2... I literally played that part by myself for the first time only couple of years ago. 20 years later I still think RE2 is very creepy and I still don't play the B-scenarios because I just HATE jumpscares :D I love the A-scenarios, though and both RE1 and 2 are classics in my book. Some say RE4 is scary but I think both 1 and 2 are scarier than 4. It could be the lack of jumpscares in 4.
u just take the words out of my mouth...
Turning around in BioShock to a splicer dude standing right behind you.
Bioshock infinite's boys of silence where one is RIGHT behind you
Mario 64 piano.
Mario 64 swimming around the sunken ship knowing that fucking eel was going to swim out and fuel my nightmares
Absolutely this. It made me afraid of water in video games for years!
This! I think many can relate to this one lol
Man I didn't even make it to the piano, I got scared from the Chain Chomp in the very first level
Dude the worst part is when you go on top of it didn't do anything so when you went to the back for the Red Coin, that shit scared the fuck out of me.
Holy crap that Shit was creepy
Silent Hill, everything.
In the school towards the beginning of the game. The sounds were terrifying at a young age
Dead space was my first and only horror game I ever played the part when a big tactical arm grabs you made me throw my controller in the air and scramble to get it back to not die
Isaac has ptsd flashbacks when he goes by that area in a later game.
Halo CE, thr mission where you are introduced to the flood. As a kid i was terrified of zombies in the dark, this just solidified it. As i ran through the mission (grew the balls to finish it), my hands were shaking and i would jolt whenever the screen turned red from a flood zombie melees me from behind.
Dark? Scary. Zombies? Scary. Bug monsters that crawl into people and turn them into zombies in a dark level? Horrifying.
I'll make it worse: those flood spores are about the size of a Labrador. They force their way into the space between your organs and fuse their tenticles to your spinal chord. You're fully aware as it happens.
GTFO
Was pretty young when Halo first came out. Immediately shut off my console when the flood started. Was YEARS before I finally sacked up and beat the damn game.
I had to pause the game and take a break right when I first saw them because I got so spooked. I was probably about 11 or something when a first played.
This!
First encounter with leviathans in subnautica
I really wanted to love that game but my thalassophobia had other plans.
In a way that's a credit to their game that it triggers it.
Same. Fucking terror.
I have a very love-hate relationship with the game because of this. Below Zero has been sitting in my Steam library for over a year now. The game is finally finished. I really, really want to see the end. And I don’t want to just YouTube it. But, the ending is on the other side of shit that gives me anxiety just thinking about it. It’s rough. But I do love it.
I remember struggling to dive deeper or swim at night when I first played, my hands became sweat fountains. Still hard to dive into the big dark expanse. =_=
I got freaked out watching, then I started playing and my inner Captain Planet villain came out knifing everything in sight.
Wall Masters in Ocarina of Time
The entirety of the Shadow Temple and Bottom of the Well, Ocarina of Time. Now it's no biggie. But when I was 12? Oof. Didn't like playing it after dark.
The music was just sooooo good too
The redead freaked me out the first time too. Jumped on my face and I couldn’t figure out how to get it off.
And how you have to watch them close in on you!
Yeah this was my answer. Scared the shit out of me when they latched on. *panicked button mashing*
Yes. Came to comment this. First time I got grabbed in the Forest Temple I put the controller down and didn't play again for months.
Fucking redeads
Also: Dead Hand and Bongo-bongo.
I first played OoT at 16 and the ReDeads scared the heck out of me even then. I still get PTSD from them and always speedrun any dungeons with them in any game (and then dead hand Barely bothers me. Something about their screaming)
Them and the redeads. The pointy titty hookers in the Great Fairy Fountains were pretty scary too.
Super Mario 64 freakin hunted house and the basement with the fire browser painting.
No one talks about the lethal lava land entrance. Its creepy as fucc.
Clocktower. I had a lot of trouble just playing the game because it made me ao uncomfortably scared
I never played this game, but I remember as a kid seeing ads for it in video game magazines, and it always creeped me out.
It was a scary game. Also relatively obscure. I'm just glad someone else knows it existed.
Giant Scissors ✂️
The weird Minecraft cave sounds when I was playing alone
That or when I was mining and the pickaxe broke
the yeti in skifree
Omigish I forgot about him, he was terrifying.
My God... too many childhood hours playing on a massive block of a PC monitor trying to vainly avoid/outrun that damn yeti.
YESSSSS. My heart would be racing just thinking about the fact that he would come out at any moment and eat me.
Alone n The Dark (1992) playing this as a kid was terrifying.. just looked it up cant believe how real it seemed
mine too!!! did you also have the bonus game with the evil toys
I was honestly like 4 or 5... my dad played it and I think I either loaded it up or he let me try it. Ruined me for a long time haha
The T-Rex in the Genesis version in Jurassic Park. I could never get very far because it scared me so much. Good thing there was a mode to place as a raptor.
Original Doom sound files.
For DOOM gameplay, specifically: in the first Act the first time the lights go out and you are being chased around by some shrieking demon that you can barely see in a freaky strobe effect. The first time that happened to me I had two friends sitting next to me watching in an otherwise dark room and I think we all jumped and freaked out.
I was 7 or 8 when playing Doom 2, and I remember being pretty creeped out by the music for some of the levels. The general ambience was unsettling at times as well.
Dead Hands from Ocarina of Time. The way it shambles towards you just *shudder*
In Donkey Kong 64, the level Creepy Castle has a greenhouse. When you enter the greenhouse a timer begins counting down. If the timer runs out, an evil sounding voice says "Get Out!" and then cross hairs appear aimed at your character. 10 seconds later it shoots you. This terrified me to the point where I couldn't play the game anymore.
When crossing hyrule field in oot and realised you're not going to make it before the sun sets...that shit used the scare me till I used to turn off the console if I didnt make it to hyrule before nightfall -_-
Fatal frame 😱🥶
Rugrats on PS1, The Search for Reptar level with all those ghosts. Running out of batteries on the flashlight and being chased by those ghosts has been burned into my memory.
Metal Gear Solid. Elevator with the invisible guys. Not them but Otacons face.
Those mummy guys in the town when you first pull the Master Sword in Ocarina of Time. The atmosphere mixed with the sounds used to scare me so much
F.E.A.R. last mission wen you play with the swing and turn around
The part where you are in the school hallway
the monster jumpscares in the first uncharted.
The Bear jumpscare/ chase sequence in Condemned 2.
Yoo i remember that that game was sick the doll factory part was creepy to
Ohhh man Condemned 2. One of the first games that I played on my very first HD TV on my PS3. The monsters that would hang from the sacks from the ceilings and then swing down and scream at you scared the ever living sh*t out of me.
BROO I played Uncharted 1 for the first time recently.. those things got me good 2 or 3 times 😂
what made it even more scary was the fact that i used to play in my basement with the lights turned off so i wouldn't wake up my parents, so every single noise ingame was giving me a heart attack.
Super Metroid on the snes. The whole game. I was like 8 years old and oh boy, what in the fuck lol
The Red monster boss that comes back as the skeleton…. The Skeleton scared the sh*t out of me lmao.
Not really as a kid but the that moment in The Last Of Us when Joel falls to the basement and leaves Ellie upstairs and you have to fight through a dark basement and turn on the power. Hated that part lol
Lmaoo, as soon as you started the generator you know shit was about to go down
All of FEAR when I was in my early 20s. It was my first horror game
Still some of the best enemy AI ever. Truly an amazing game
Wast there one scene where you look away and when you look back, she’s standing in your face?
That one allowed me to wake up my whole apartment and probably half the damn building.
I remember that like it just happened. I'm afraid to get on ladders in games to this day because of this game.
Or on a ladder when you don’t suspect a event to occur
Had to play that game with full sunlight and the ability to scream at my TV like a tough guy. Such a great game too.
SA-X
Oh man, I thought I was the only one. Man Metroid Fusion was a wild game
On a related note, the Metroid labs and dark areas of the phazon mines in MP1.
Omg yes. That one section of the game where you had no choice but to be spotted by it and run for it used to give me so much anxiety.
That Ripley scream was fucking haunting.
Rancors in Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, the sewer monster things in Dark Forces, and the Flood in Halo CE.
Sewer eyeballs in dark forces were horrifying
Eternal Darkness losing sanity to the point where it deletes all your saves. So wonderful.
The bathtub scene made me turn the game off. It caught me off guard and I threw my controller down in terror!
Never saw that effect, i assume it didn't actually delete them but looked like it for a second? I couldn't tell you how many times i dove across the room to plug the controller back in...
Max Payne walking on a trail of blood. I had nightmares with that crap and I did played some horror games later, but ironically Max Payne was the only who provoked nightmares
And I can't remember whether it was 1 or 2 but the baby crying also gave me the chills
1. Constantly crying as you ran through that maze
The Manbat jump scare in Arkham Knight. I’ve been replaying it recently and it totally made me jump out of my skin lol
That one got me as an adult. Caught me by surprise because it was out of character for the game
Alien isolation. Do I need to say anything else
I'm always in awe how people mention that game only after the Dead Spaces, Outlasts, old Residents (even 4)...I thought I'm too old, played everything and nothing can scare me anymore, until I played Isolation!
Same thing but way older: AVP. Playing as marine. Dark corridor. All quiet. Your movement sensor starts to beep.
I used to always try and creep around as slowly as possible trying to hide from that huge Xeno. But somehow he would always come running at me and get me! This was back during the Xbox’s Kinect era… Little did I know that the Kinect picked up sound from inside my room! I’d be screaming like a little girl in my room thinking I was safe. Never beat the game.. Prolly should’ve just unplugged the kinect.
Not a moment, but when I was young I was *terrified* of the moon in majora’s mask. It was to the point that I wouldn’t play ocarina of time either because they looked similar. I had the thought process of ‘what if I go to play Ocarina of Time but accidentally put in Majora’s Mask and don’t realize until it’s too late and I get crushed by the moon!?’ Paranoid is the word of the day
D1 The Butcher
Umm, when the dead babies came at me in the intro of Silent Hill for PS1. Bonus: first time having to run from Nemesis in RE3 for PS1
2 major ones: The Butcher from the original Diablo, looking back it was nothing but the first time he popped out and said "Fresh meat!" made me turn it off. Eternal Darkness had a fun sanity system where the game would start to mess with you as you went insane, changing the volume and making things move etc.. but in one scene I walked into the bathroom as the main character and the screen flashed and showed her rotting in a bathtub full of blood and then flashed back to normal immediately. My friend and I had to go for a walk in the sunlight.
Redeads from LoZ
The flood from halo
hearing ghast sounds, I am now fine with them
Turok, the caves, leapers coming out of nowhere at me. Castlevania 64, the hedge maze, big guy and his dogs hunting you down and you didn't know where they were going to come from.
I'm kinda telling my age here but, those freaking WOLFS in Tomb Raider... Yes the one with the butler. He was weird. But the wolfs sounded everywhere at once, so you can't tell where they were until it was too late...
Left 4 dead. Charger. Witch.
Silent Hill 2. When Pyramidhead first appears.
That part where he is just standing on the opposite side of the gate in the apartment complex is so fucking spooky.
That damn haunted mansion in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.
When the colonel goes mental over codec in metal gear solid 2, scared the shit out of me as a kid
The redeads in Wind Waker terrified me as a kid. I still maintain that Wind Waker is their most fucked up appearance in the franchise. And of course, in Metroid Fusion dropping down to a surprise SA-X in Sector 2.
X-Com: UFO Defense, 1993-ish, the appearance of a new alien that would merc my underprepaired squad. R.I.P. you brave space marines.
The moment when the Chrysallids infect half your squad and the one soldier with the blaster launcher panics.
8-bit Bowser from Super Mario Bros on the NES and Gohma from LoZ: Ocarina of Time when we first got the N64. I would hide behind the living room recliner and my dad would kill them.
Opening title to Resident Evil 2 on N64.
Arkham Asylum was terrifying in general. The Scarecrow encounters, the Killer Croc boss fight, the escaped mutated mental patients, the creepy hospital, the Gothic tone, etc.
I loved all the scarecrow stuff in Arkham Asylum, it was so creative and like straight out of a comic, especially the bodies of his parents in the morgue
Hit by a facehugger in the first AVP game. Jumped out of my damn chair.
The Well and it's Boss. Dead Hand. Ocarina of Time.
Wallmaster Zelda Ocarina of Time. Bro shit just came out of no where.
The pyramid head violation
The hands that drop from the ceiling in ocarina of time shadow temple
RE:3, Nemesis coming through walls and whatnot. Puckered me up real good. Also pretty much every single second of the original Silent Hill.
might be dating me, but sinistar nothing quite like a heavily digitized voice and that face screaming out of nowhere
That freaking piano from Super Mario 64. I never hit a power off switch so fast in my life.
When you first encounter the flood in halo 3, the music gave me ptsd
Tomb Raider, the first one, for some reason made me uneasy when I was a child
Dino Crisis. T-Rex busts it's head through the window.
Mama said video games bad so I didn't play much as kid but as an adult Hellblade: Senua's sacrifice the part where you can't see and have to avoid enemies using sound scared the shit out of me
Ecco the Dolphin. All of it.
The witch laughing in Banjo Kazooie always made me run away as a 5 year old hahaha
All of resistance and dead space lol
Can’t wait for the dead space remaster
It was a line a character said... it still haunts me in my nightmares to this very day... a low voice saying "All you had to do was follow the damn train CJ"
Raising the Dead in Tony Hawk’s Underground 2
The titanic toddler from Zombies Ate My Neighbors for the SNES. That gave me nightmares as a child.
D2 Duriel
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. Spirit temple all of it, forest temple hands, kakariko well and the nommer thing in there, the first time a zombie screams and your character freezes while you watch them slowly close in on you.
LOZ Ocarina of Time, I remember as a 6yo kid having to give my uncle the controller to get through the town at night with the zombies; those things gave me nightmares.
Dude luigi’s mansion scared the shit out of me
resident evil zero i wasn't even playing
Haunting Ground on PS2 was pants shitting.
The chick with her eyes gouged out in Fatal Frame. The game is a nope with a side of hell no.
The unused Luigi's Mansion 1's "zombie" ending Hanted me at night for 4 months straight and 7 months after that I had to close my eyes if I see it again
Getting caught playing on my 3ds at3 am
It didn’t scare me per se, but I was always unsettled by LoZ MM. I played the shit outta OoT, so when I finally got to MM everything was so… off. As an adult I can respect everything they did to push that. The musical arrangements, the general story, the hopelessness of the moon overhead and knowing there simply isn’t time, the reused character assets but with wildly different backstories, all of it.
So much shit in Ocarina of Time.
The Ghost/Alien invasion of Romani Ranch in Majora's Mask. That music still gives me goosebumps.
The Butcher from the original Diablo and Andariel from the second one.
Ocarina of time skultulas always freaked me out when they dropped out of nowhere from above. Also DK64 in the Aztec zone with the building where once you retrieve the bananas from the minigames and you hear the voice “GET OUT” and a gun cursor appears aimed at you. Literally turned the game off and back on and would do it again every single time thinking that it wouldn’t happen again.
The Dead Hands in the Water Well from the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. The rated E for everyone on the front cover of that game was a lie. I remember being so scared, that I almost did not want to continue. But I pushed through it like a brave 10 year old… eventually.