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ya me either its crazy time consuming i havent played them in a few years ill have to pick it back up. but that little girl in 2 idk man i havent had a nightmare in a very long time but if anything were to trigger one it would have to be that chick...seriously......i think thats what makes bioshock scetchy..i mean i dont find it as scary as clock tower but idk crazy little girls is #1 in my book for best mind F@#$ if their were to be any #1 super villian or anything that chick takes the cake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnMu1rBPh1c

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Bioshock the atmosphere was just eery and the Big daddys holy crap the first time ya see em pummeling that dude was like jees better him than me.

ya ask sneekypeete and erocker and athlonX2 they were with me on TS first time i played bioshock and when i first saw "mr bubbles" and that little girl i was like WTF?!!!! ZOMG!
 
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can't remember the name of the game, but it came out in the mid-nineties on the PC. It was a first person shooter, sort of. Don't recall there being much shooting though. It was set in a big haunted house. The atmosphere was brilliant, scared the hell out of me.
 

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Doom 3, in one of those first parts of the game (where the droids go with you), where it's all dark, you can't even see the path, and then appears a monster behind you and it sounds like a Shotgun, biggest jump i did in my life, didn't knew i was capable of that.

PS: IMO "Scariest stuff" will only scare people if they "listen" to it, if you watch or play an Horror movie without sound, you'll see the difference. Translating, IMO what scares people are the sounds (at least looking at a monster i don't get scared, it's like neutral, Zombies are neutral to me, i see them all the time in the Metro :) .
 
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ya ask sneekypeete and erocker and athlonX2 they were with me on TS first time i played bioshock and when i first saw "mr bubbles" and that little girl i was like WTF?!!!! ZOMG!

Suprisingly after a while i didnt think the big daddies were that tough it was the other inhabitants which creeped me out.
 

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Suprisingly after a while i didnt think the big daddies were that tough it was the other inhabitants which creeped me out.

well it was late and all the lights were off so i started getting "video game sick" like nauseus and stuff....the farthest i got was when you climb on the rafters at the beggining of the game and you watch thrpugh the glass as some vegabond trys to attack some little girl and this big mofo comes outta noware and drills him to a wall.
 
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call of cthulhu dark corners of the earth ( Was the only game where you had to be careful to not look to corpses or monsters, because the view was obscured and the character loses concentration frightening and slowing )

Doom 3 and expansion Resurrection of Evil ( Most of the enemies comes out from the corners and from behind many times you have to look behind you and this puts strong shock into who play the game )

F.E.A.R. Extraction Point ( I thought I would end soon, but this expansion was the first and the most 'long that they did remember certain moments where I got really scared )


S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Cernobyl ( Expect the day before leaving on a mission these mutants are scary and and missions in the ground were full of horror atmosphere )




Games are usually the most terrifying survival horror where you are conscious of not having enough firepower to deal with every type of monster or an enemy and you get away with iron bars and with the environment ...

Instead, when you find yourself with a grenade launchers, rocket launchers and gatling gun is already difficult to feel fear
 

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I still haven't beaten Call of Cthulu, i love this game it was so hard to find but i plan on finishing it eventually !
 
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Call of Cthulu never heard of it. :eek:
 

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I still haven't beaten Call of Cthulu, i love this game it was so hard to find but i plan on finishing it eventually !

There are puzzles that you can not resolve so quickly is bad to say but sometimes I had to find some walkthroughs on youtube to finish the game, very difficult especially when someone is following and you must solve the puzzle fast.
 

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DOOM3 also had a pretty good atmosphere to it, I didn't find Bioshock remotely scary but it also had a great atmosphere, really enjoyed that one.

And from what Ive seen of stalker it looks to have that same scare factor about it, delerict buildings dark surroundings, still need to get round to that one as It looked really good.
 
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I found the atmosphere in doom to over the top, it made it to obvious it was a game and I was never drawn into it, thus didn't feel fear.

Was like the original doom, could run around blasting at things and not have to worry .

For example of the atmosphere being over the top, the darkness in game was just stupid, there could be a light shining in one corner of the room and yet the 80% of the room was pitch black was just silly : /
 

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True I didn't enjoy it as much as the others nevertheless though i still finished it. The pre release leaked version was tons better than the final release now that had the scare factor, they toned it down a bit in the final release.
 
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Bioshok scary ?? Nahhh

Clive barker Jericho also like atmosphere and how design is worthy of note, not been treated as it should but I liked.
 
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the barbie games....jk lol

doom 3 i played it when i was 15 back in 2005 at this gaming center everyone else was passed at snoring and it was 2 am in the morning it was the scariest thing in my life

RE series scared me also

and tetris it scared made my heart race when ever the music started speeding up lol

condemned scared me and i only played the demo

and then the first tomb raider for ps1 with the dam tiger that would jump out and the pirannas ugh
 
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System Shock 2 was scary as hell back in it's days. Nothing beats the chill crawling on your back when you are fiddling with a crate and you hear a distant "We are we are!" moaning of the hybrids.
The Many sings to us. 1A stuff. Dead Space wasn't bad either. Creppy bastards scared me few times. Oh and when i first played Half-Life:Uplink (the separate demo level) i was scared like hell. All those creepy sounds in those first corridors, aggressive marines and latter zombies in the cannals.
Really good atmosphere. Especially back then when it was the first encounter with the Half-Life universe and everything was new to me.
 

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The graphics in doom3 at the time were outstanding, lots had problems running on the mid-high end range hardware then, think it was around the time of the Radeon 9700 cards, etc.

I found the atmosphere in doom to over the top, it made it to obvious it was a game and I was never drawn into it, thus didn't feel fear.

Was like the original doom, could run around blasting at things and not have to worry .

For example of the atmosphere being over the top, the darkness in game was just stupid, there could be a light shining in one corner of the room and yet the 80% of the room was pitch black was just silly : /

True the darkness was well over the top, although the game looked great overall. The darkness of the game could take some of the atmosphere away, its like it over tried on those parts and they didn't work all that well and as you say it was like 80% of the game was in darkness, funny thing was the brighter parts looked really good so it wasn't like they were trying to hide anything.
 

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Resident Evil on the PlayStation :rockout:

and

Doom 3 on the PC :rockout:

A good scary moment was in Resident Evil 2 (I think, or was it 1?) when the sharks are released.....maybe because I have a massive 'water' phobia lol
 
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Yeah I have to agree, the well lit parts were great to look at!
 
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Silent Hill 4 The Room and Silent Hill 3, F.E.A.R. series are like fairy tales compared to these two IMO...but the 5th one really disappointing.:banghead:
 
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im between dead space and fear.

mmm, dead space. it was REALLY scary for me
 
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