Slender...

I know its a meme and it's very hipster of people to have an opinion about it all, but that game is pretty much the only one I can think of that brought an emotion of fear into things.

#2 for Dead Space when it is the first time you play it and if you play it in the dark. The ending (you know what I mean if you finished it) makes me jump up to my heckles every time...

Brrrr...

Lesser ones would be Ravenholm taken over by Headcrab zombies in Half Life 2, that was so hard and they keep coming, it was pretty frightening when you see a black headcrab zombie (that can throw poison headcrabs that leave your health at 1% temporarily) and a few normal ones to back it up.

Metal Gear Solid 2 when The Patriot AIs are revealed, from the Colonel spouting nonsense onwards, anything to do with them. Not scary, but very creepy. The music of running round Arsenal Gear as they repeatedly codec you and spout about Meryl and VR missions and other things like alien abduction, along with their 'Reason you suck' speech before you have to fight Solidus always just left me feeling, well creeped out by it all.

F.E.A.R.

The playable cutscenes against a guy that turns to ash JUST as you catch up and shoot him and the little girl/ghost thing that pops up unexpectedly worked for me.

STALKER.

The mission where you go into that underground bunker, and encounter one of those invisible bloodsucker things.

You also run into a few of them during a sidequest, in an abandoned village. I spent probably three hours of RL time, on the edge of my seat, sitting in the grain silo of that village with a sniper rifle, scanning through the village for a bloodsucker. You could barely make them out due to the distortion of their invisibility.

Managed to take one out from my crow's nest, after three hours of waiting. I then ran down to confirm the kill: only to run into its buddy, right outside the door of the grain silo.

I had to buy a new set of trousers.

I love spooky games.

Silent Hill 2 was definitely the winner for me. While the actual creep-factor is only so-so, due mostly to limitations in technology, the plot just oozed into my head. I'd love it if they remade that game.

Dead Space was great, although I need to finish it. I haven't played the later ones.

I keep hearing about Paranoia. Just the set up is enough that I think it may be a bit much for me :P

Resident Evil 1. Only game that's ever actually scared me. I used to play it late at night, after the kids had gone to bed. My ex-wife would sit and watch and we'd play it for a few hours. And it was always dark. And quiet. And we'd never played a game quite like this before. To this day the sound of footsteps on metal stairs gives me shivers.

In reply to truemane (msg # 10):

I was in a Teenage Mutants Ninja Turtles pnp game in which the GM insisted that we role-play out encounters where the players were being seduced by nymphomaniac animal women.  I found that pretty creepy.

In reply to Shiv (msg # 11):

Yike! That is creepy. Also, your use of the word 'insisted' gives the mental image an extra creepy vibe. *shudders*

maybe they should play F.A.T.A.L. ...  :-O

You're telling me!

His "insistence" was closer to coercion: "You want to learn the information to move the plot forward, don't you?"

That game happened in the late 80's and we still tease him about that incident.

In reply to Shiv (msg # 14):

It blows my mind that you still talk to him at all.

Y'know, I only seen FATAL as some sample pages over on 1d4chan...

---- circumferance?

Aw, hell no! :x

Also, I would suggest not playing this one Cthulhutech adventure that has you roll a fear check to not get... well, strong-armed into something-something with a bunny girl... ^^'

That's right, you roll to resist that from happening to your character...

I love creepy games.

Dead Space definitely is the best series of all of them for gameplay, atmosphere, and getting my adrenaline flowing, as well as making me jump.

F.E.A.R. (at least the first two and to some extent Perseus Mandate) has a great creepy feel to it.  This one is especially good if you like creepy Japanese horror films.  (EDIT: Notice I left out FEAR 3.  It's fun, but not nearly as good, and it can be finished quickly, so it's a good weekend rental.)

Believe it or not the earlier Aliens vs. Predator games (#2 in particular) did a great job of incorporating the creepy vibe with darkness, sound, and that motion detector.

Silent Hill is...okay...but it seems more weird and I can't recall it ever making me jump or my adrenaline flow, but it's been awhile.

Doom 3 did a good job with atmosphere and sound.

Left4Dead 2 is good for an open world type of game, especially the wailing of the witch and the cornfield and rain scenes.

I love the Bioshock games too, but never found them particularly creepy.
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I don't remember the name of the game but it was for PS2, my buddy got it and we I was there most of the time when he played.  If I remember right it was like some asylum island gone crazy with creepy experiments.  And there were these creatures that had blades for arms and legs.  I found the game pretty creepy and enjoyable

In reply to st_nougat (msg # 18):

The suffering?


Oh I forgot Clock Tower 3 and White Noise {the Xbox indie knockoff of slender}
Oh and Everblue 2 when your in almost pitch black water. Oh and the sewer level of Shadows of the Empire. Any game with a large body of water and something shadowy moving in it.

Well.  That's a nice long list of games I will NEVER PLAY.  o.o

Though I did watch my older brother play the first Resident Evil and Silent Hill back in the day.  Which was scary enough for me, thankyouverymuch.  o.o

In reply to AfrokingJ (msg # 19):

That sounds about right (thank you Wikipedia and Afroking)

Neither Bioshock nor Doom ever came off as Creepy to me.

System shock did a fruiting good job of it.

Amnesia I did in 1 night and fruit that game messed with my head.

The early silent hill games were good, although that could have been because I was very young.

Slender is for many people a jump scare game. Slender the arrival is better, but both games have the problem that unless you know WHY slender is supposed to be scary, its not as scary as its supposed to be.

I HOPE someone makes a game or movie.... several hours long game or 2 hour movie, that does slender RIGHT.

Cracked almost had the right idea... then ruined it with the final revelation showing they missed the point about Slenderman.



Clearly it also shouldn't be, 'no adult under 40' Its the children that are safe from slender... the adults should fear.

Edit: Thanks Snowmantle. I can't believe I someone bet the mods to that.
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public thread here...

Oh I forgot "Illbleed" and "The Ring: Terrors Realm" {Bet the Devs wish they could.}

Manhunt was pretty creepy and the sequel really stepped it up for messing with your melon...

Does this include Doom 3?  The other Doom games notwithstanding, Doom 3 did a good job of atmosphere and some creepiness (before it was better perfected in Dead Space).  The other Doom games are more action based.

I just finished Bioshock: Infinite.  It has become less creepy over time and more of a great and mindbending story, this one with a twist ending that even caught me a little by surprise.

To quote Yatzee, "...Doom 3 tripped and fell over in the dark and forgot it wasn't System Shock."

Having been a fan of System Shock, all I could see was a bad attempt to imitate a classic horror game, when what I wanted when I brought Doom 3 was Doom 3. Which kinda ruined any creepyness and suspense.

It may have been creepy...but all it did was frustrate me.

I never played System Shock, so that's why I saw it through a completely different lens.

I'm kind of amazed that The Path hasn't come up yet: http://tale-of-tales.com/ThePath/

It's really hard to explain, but exceptionally terrifying.  I don't think I slept for a week after I finished playing through as Carmen.

I have never even heard of it.

I'm a gamer with a very limited gaming budget (especially for gaming time without kids making noise downstairs). I am intrigued by what I'm reading. Is it still worth playing, being all these years out of date?