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Scariest game you have ever played?

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Doom 3 would be my pick. The ambient soundtrack to that game was excellent. Until I became familiar with all of the monsters in the game, I could never quite tell what noises were actually made by a monster and which ones were just part of the soundtrack. They also had the random pipe bursts, window shatters, and other loud noises in there to scare you. That game got me so wound up I couldn't even play it for more than an hour at a time.

I just started playing FEAR and while it has had some creepy moments, it hasn't been nearly as scary as D3.
 
Fear. I started playing that game the first nite and I kept looking over my shoulder while playing, and I just gave up on it. I really liked the gameplay though. Doom 3 was another one too, but that was on more of a disturbing note.
 

That game got me so wound up I couldn't even play it for more than an hour at a time.
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Damn that was the truth about DIII. I don't know how these guys finish games in like a weekend and what not...
 
Resident Evil 1

That hallway scene where the dogs pop out from the window, that game was scary for my time.

Max Payne

The part where he is dreaming and theres blood and a baby's cry in the background, that was pretty freaky. Another vote for FEAR
 
I do not enjoy being scared or startled in games at all. So I have not played Doom 3 or the like.

So the scariest I've ever played was Max Payne.

Ravenholm in HL2 had me going when you first meet the fast zombies. I realized they were weak and they were less scary.
 
The only time I've actually been scared while playing a video game was when Wolfenstein 3D first came out. 3D games were still pretty new back then and I'd been playing for about 5 hours straight when a german guard jumped out and yelled "Shpeon!" or something similar. I about jumped out of my chair! :Q 😱

That's when I knew it was time to give it a rest and go to bed. 😛 No game since has ever actually freaked me out that much.

 
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That game got me so wound up I couldn't even play it for more than an hour at a time.
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Damn that was the truth about DIII. I don't know how these guys finish games in like a weekend and what not...
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I swear it was like I actually felt like I was in danger while playing the game. I would be scared to go into pitch black rooms (which was pretty much all of them in that game) for fear of what was going to jump out at me.

That was the first game to ever have that much of an effect on me while playing. Then again, I have a hyperactive imagination and love being scared like that.
 
Yeah i'm gonna have to go with Doom3... so dark...so spooky espically at midnight, lights out and 6.1 surround sound. I let my son play 8yrs old (hey he asked for it) and he litereally almost peed him self... it was quite funny. He's like dad "That scared the crap out of me". LOL... he's never bugged me to play it again.
 
The best part in D3 that I could remember was when you're up in the maintenance shaft half way in the game after riding on the catwalk elevator. The hallway goes completely dark the red insignias pulsate through the hallway. That gave me the greatest chill that any game I could remember playing.
 
Games dont generally scare me hehe. But on the other hand im really easily shocked/startled, resident evil 2 did that twice with the hands through the police station windows and the licker smashing through the interview room glass. Both times there was a complete silence and then a sudden loud noise, that always gets me.

Doom 3 scared me a bit, think it was when they introduced the pinky, i was in a room and i could see this fat ugly thing bending the catwalk bars outside the window, i didnt wanna go fight it heh, only took a few shotgun shells to kill though, it aint so tough!
 
I let a neighborhood kid play Unreal on my Voodoo Banshee when it was "the sh!t". He nearly crapped himself when he got locked in the hall and the lights went out, then he was attacked by a huge alien and all he could only see glimpses of it right in his face while it was firing balls of energy.

Hilarity ensued.

(he jumped out of his chair and tried to leave the room, trembling violently, completely unable to speak)
 
Doom 3 wasn't really scary. All they did was endlessly spawn guys behind you... gets really old. Fear on the other hand has the little girl you don't know a lot about, the psycho telepath you're on the tail of, freaky halucinations, disappearing/reappearing characters, and they do it all without once spawning some random BS enemy behind you just to get you to jump.
 
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avp2
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As apoppin mentioned above, they did an excellent job with the marine campaign. I watched those movies as a kid, so perhaps there is some deep psychological scarring, but the first time I encountered the face huggers I was so unnerved I quit. Only recently did I go back and finish it.
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AvP 1 was scary.... 2 was even scarier still.

Played AvP2's Marine campaign at night, lights off, surround sound on. It just builds up the tension until your first alien... then slowly draws you in. The constantly spawning behind you aliens are freaky but its the way those aliens worked. Hiding in every nook and cranny they can, running/leaping at you to rip your face off any way they can.

Facehuggers were a pain. Dangerous buggers.
 
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