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Slapshot

I cant believe nobody has posted this CLOCK TOWER on PsOne is scary as hell.

Ohter than that maybe Silent Hill, the original was pretty creepy also
Fallout 3, the first time your wondering around, in my case at night, and I was carrying nothing but my wonderful flaming lawnmower blade and BAM got slapped in the face by the first Deathclaw Id ever seen. Scared the hell out of me and I dang near threw my contoller. Then it was the oh crap I got to run away and crap they are fast. Good thing i figured out how to cripple them with the toy car gun lol.

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Kim_Jong-Il

King Kong for DS. I was scared I couldn't take it back to the shop.

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Ravage

@slapshot82: Someone did post Clocktower.

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I'm with you on much of your original post; I remember being scared just by looking at the zombies in the earliest Resident Evil games, and even the first Alone in the Dark, angular as it was, scared me with its atmosphere and helplessness. Some of this was undoubtedly the fact that I had terrible images quite regularly in my nightmares at that age, and the thought that some game element or image might make its way into a future dream was enough to add another level of fright.

One of my first experiences being terrified by a game was when I was in 5th or 6th grade, and my friend had The 11th Hour on his computer (anyone remember this fantastic game?). We were playing it at night -- late enough for our age and dark outside but not all that late since his parents were out somewhere but hadn't returned yet --and he went downstairs to get a drink or something, leaving me alone with the computer in the dark room. I clicked around a little idly, being a bit frightened to do much, and ended up (while innocently exploring the grandfather clock) triggering a secret passageway within the clock, so that the game started showing a sequence I could not control, in which you take your flashlight down the dark hallway behind the clock, and the disembodied voice that mocks you throughout the game (you'd have to play it to understand) says menacingly "ooh, bad move."

Well, nothing horrible happens in that hallway, but it didn't need to, as the whole situation was terrifying enough for me. I remained a bit shaken by it as we proceeded to play a bit later after he came back upstairs and joined me, and we ended up seeing a couple sequences that stuck in my mind in a horrible way, one being a ghost of a woman and her dog that made an unearthly sound as its face transformed into that of a man, and another being a video of a woman whose arm had been ripped of, possibly by the very same dog. I couldn't get those images out of my head and couldn't sleep that night.

Here's the thing: I'm not someone who is ever scared by horror films in even the slightest way (there are a couple films that can terrify me on a deeper level, like a certain sequence in Lost Highway and another in Mulholland Drive, but that is a different thing entirely). Horror films are just so disconnected, even on a large screen; I don't really care what awful things happen to the protagonist or his girlfriend, for I simply feel like an outside observer. "Remember what Mr. Halloran said. It's just like pictures in a book, Danny."

On the other hand, from a very young age, I have found something uniquely unsettling about computers and video games in certain contexts. Part of it is having to actually control the character in the situation unfolding, so that you can't just take a passive stance, but there's more at work. Somehow the knowledge that these things in the game are being rendered in real time, and that they respond in some way to your actions, is a bit uncanny. The best way I can describe it is to relate one of the most common nightmare images I had when younger: I'd wake up to find that the computer in the corner of my room was turned on, and would walk over apprehensively to try to read the tiny white letters glowing on the screen (note: these were the DOS days). At the prompt would be something along the lines of "I know who you are," or "Wake up," or something fairly simple but expressing a knowledge, on the part of the computer, of my being. Usually the next part of the dream would be more explicitly freakish, maybe showing images of myself from another angle in the room on the screen, or the printer spitting out some sort of angry nonsense that I'd frantically try to read but couldn't focus enough to make sense of, speaker noises like those I heard years later in Silent Hill games, etc.

Anyhow, this post is way too long already, but suffice to say that I believe video games can be terrifying in a completely different way from any other medium, in particular when you are alone at night playing. Horror films, as I said, are incapable of stirring the slightest fear in me, but even the simplest things in a horror game can make me tremendously tense. Just as the early cinema was seen to be ghostlike, with these photographs suddenly moving around in a jerky and surreal fashion, there's something inherently disturbing, if you encounter it in just a certain way at a certain age, in the initial experience of a game's events unfolding on a screen in relation to your actions, waiting to spring something on you if it can coax you to turn that next corner in the level, etc.

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Slapshot

@Ravage lol ooops, I pulled a 13hr shift yesterday at work and must have been tired and missed that lol.

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Fear

Resident Evil 1 hands down. Gotta agree with TheBlackDragon and slapshot as well though, Clock Tower's suspense is grilling at times. That game was hard as an SOB (on ps1 anyway).

This makes me think of D for some reason. Anyone get to experience D? Old 3DO game ported to Saturn / PS1. Very creepy game...

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Condemned: Criminal Origins, Resident Evil (GC), and The Suffering

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ReDeads and the Shadow Temple way back when Ocarina of Time first came out. I was 8 years old when I first saw either of those, so that didn't help. Now, though, I find them to be sickly hilarious. I cackle maniacally when going through the Shadow Temple nowadays. What that says about me I'm not sure.

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@Brazcanman -The suffering was cool. I recently got part 2. Be nice if they did a third. I love horror games.

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Suffering 2 is not as good as the first, but I'm with you: i want The Suffering 3! for Xbox360 or PS3. I pray every night for it to come. But if you got a X360 or PS3, you should pick up Condemned 1 and 2... FREAKING AWESOME!

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AlexSays

We Don't Go To Ravenholm.

I thought parts of Fallout 3 were freaky as well.

Then there's Dead Space... I couldn't even make it through the demo.

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Chrono_Cross

Silent Hill 4 The Room.
Enuff said.

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Toon_Link

I've never really played any games like Resident or Dead Space or anything like that.
I'm more of a casual gamer. The only game that's ever kinda creeped me out was that part on LoZ:OoT, the Shadow Temple.
Scared the doonkleshtoomp (Crap) outta me.

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Knux

It's My Birthday and Pong Toss.
Actually,I have yet to play a SCARY game.

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Kirigirisu

Sanitarium for PC was really creepy they should really re-release it, it might work on DS. Other than that most of the Silent Hill series has scared me, Resident Evil 2 was pretty scary actually I'm just way too easily scared!

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retired_account

Umm... Real Myst (3D version). Okay stop laughing, it scared the crap out of me when I was 6-7.

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Machu

I played F.E.A.R. when it first came out, in a dark room, on a 20" monitor, with my best gaming mouse and pad. It was awesome! But that girl Alma made me jump, PROPERLY, more times than I care to remember. She freaks me out man!

REmake was pretty classy too, when in a dark room with the volume loud. Crimson-head! RUN!

Rawr!

Maxime

Katamari Damacy, at first, XD. But then, I've never been truly scared playing a game. The closest to it might have been Eternal Darkness.

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apocalypse217

I have never been scared by a game

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