What's the truly scariest pc gaming experience you've had?

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 10:38 pm

SuperHiro wrote:Any interest in doing some multiplayer?

Sure. But not until at least after Thanksgiving weekend.

I can host.

Fubeca · Post by **Fubeca** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 3:23 pm

My scariest moment had to be when I uninstalled Pool of Radiance. (Uninstalling had a bug that could wipe your install of Windows in some cases)

SuperHiro · Post by **SuperHiro** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 4:27 pm

Amish Warlord wrote:
SuperHiro wrote:Any interest in doing some multiplayer?
Sure. But not until at least after Thanksgiving weekend.

I can host.

WORD. No expansion right?

bobsmods · Post by **bobsmods** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 10:16 pm

Definitely Doom 3 ... the beginning, where you can here people getting slaughtered over the radio; the Hell level; and the CPU complex were chock-full of crap-your-pants atmosphere. One moment in particular that I remember sending a shiver down my spine ... the level right after you get off the monorail, I walked into a lobby-type of room, with a big glass window looking out over the Martian landscape. I happened to look up, and saw a monstrous figure scrabbling across the sky-lights in the ceiling ... freaky-deeky!

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 8:50 pm

Anyone remember the original Alien for the C64? You're directing the crew members of the Nostromo around the ship trying to find a way to eject the Alien (or more likely running for your life). If a character had a motion detector or the cat, you could know whether the alien was close by. And the background music was that bump-bump sound that increased speed whenever a character was in danger. If the tension wasn't enough, when the Alien attacked you'd get a popup screen with the Alien and the SCREECH! when it attacked. All low-tech, but it made me jump EVERY time. And it ususally meant that someone in the crew was about to die.

For the same reason, I'll say X-Com. The background noise consistently set up a nice tension before a grey popped out to blast my team into oblivion with either mental powers, rockets or headsuckers. It's all about the right mood, IMO.

I'll give Doom 3 its due for being creepy, too. After the beatifully executed but storyline deprived HL2, I respect Doom 3 a lot more for sticking to its demon-zombie atmosphere and using it to tell the story.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 10:48 pm

SuperHiro wrote:
Amish Warlord wrote:
SuperHiro wrote:Any interest in doing some multiplayer?
Sure. But not until at least after Thanksgiving weekend.

I can host.

WORD. No expansion right?

Right.

Look for a thread in Multiplayer gaming later this week regarding some AvP2 action.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 9:33 pm

I'm actually pretty freaked out right now. Just finished moving through a haunted hotel in Vampire: Bloodlines.

There's something about hotels and ghosts that's just downright freaky.

RunningMn9 · Post by **RunningMn9** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:51 pm

There have only ever been two moments in PC gaming when I had to stop because of the tension caused by a game's scary elements (that's code for "I was too much of a pussy to keep playing").

Both were in HL2. The first was at the entrance to Ravenholm. There was something just plain disturbing about getting to the top of the wooden elevator and being in that wooden hallway. It felt cramped and creepy and I didn't want to go around that corner. I turned off the game for the night.

The second instance caused me to stop playing last night. I am convinced that the most disturbing sound in PC gaming is the ragged breathing of the poison zombies in HL2. In particular, when you can't find them and you know they are close. I am towards the end of "Highway 17", and the breathing just got too creepy to keep going. Especially with the horrific screams that periodically broke up the breathing.

I hope to be playing Bloodlines in a few weeks, so we'll see how that goes.

Eel Snave · Post by **Eel Snave** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:13 pm

Pussy.

Archangel · Post by **Archangel** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:24 pm

Silent Hill 2 (which I am playing now), and "undying" which I never got to finish,can`t find the cd

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 8:07 pm

I'm suprised no one's mentioned Nocturne. At the time, I remember a lot o people saying it was one of the scariest games they played.

Massena · Post by **Massena** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:10 am

No doubts. Vampire. Bloodlines. Haunted Hotel.

Scariest level I've ever seen. I was looking over my shoulder, I was on edge the whole way through. My heater kicked on somwhere in the basement and I almost shit a brick. What a great game.

Giles Habibula · Post by **Giles Habibula** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:03 pm

Nade wrote:I'm suprised no one's mentioned Nocturne. At the time, I remember a lot o people saying it was one of the scariest games they played.

Thanks for reminding me I have this game, still unopened. I didn't buy it originally because it got such mixed reviews and didn't sound very good from what I could gather. Years passed. Then on the GG forums people were talking quite favorably about it. So I got a brand new copy for $10 from GoGamer and forgot I had it. And I've been in the mood for a good scary game lately too.

Zekester · Post by **Zekester** » Thu Dec 02, 2004 10:23 pm

Mark, you might want to have a walkthru handy before playing that game.