I'd like to point out that Myst is supremely fucked up.
Anybody who has beaten EarthBound knows about the final boss.
Uninvited for the NES, perhaps.
I really hated ReDeads when I first saw them.
Eternal Darkness wasn't really THAT scary, just some parts were disturbing to see/hear. The World War I chapter freaked me out a little bit.

any takers?

4/25/2006 12:48:43 PM

um, silent hill

4/25/2006 12:49:05 PM

bubble bobble

4/25/2006 12:49:06 PM

super mario 1....SHE WAS IN ANOTHER CASTLE. BLEW MY FUCKING MIND CUZ I GOT MY HOPES UP EACH AND EVERY TIME.

4/25/2006 12:49:43 PM

michael jackson's moonwalker is pretty creepy, still fun though

4/25/2006 12:50:08 PM

dig dug

4/25/2006 12:50:39 PM

never played silent hill, i have a friend who talked about baby zombies freaking him out, however.

4/25/2006 12:51:36 PM

Doom 3 was creepy, but I've never really gotten into the Silent Hill stuff, so it's probably creepier.

4/25/2006 12:59:26 PM

Doom 3 wasn't so much creepy as it was "OH SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK SHIT FUCK".

To me, at least. That game made me realize how much of a huge pussy I am.

4/25/2006 1:01:12 PM

i just beat silent hill 2 and 3 yesterday and today. those games take the cake.

4/25/2006 1:09:45 PM

Super Mario 2 gave me nightmares

4/25/2006 1:15:21 PM

The Resident Evil 2 was pretty creepy, before the franchise became predictible.

4/25/2006 1:15:55 PM

the alien vs predator games had their high points during the marine campaigns.

being in a confined space with that damned motion tracker really gets your heart going

4/25/2006 1:21:27 PM

^^ i second resident evil 2, that game used to freak the shit out of us back in the day

4/25/2006 1:22:52 PM

system shock 2 was pretty eerie

i mean look at that message, creepy


[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 1:40 PM. Reason : a]

4/25/2006 1:39:08 PM

ill have to 3rd res evil 2

4/25/2006 1:42:33 PM

i hear the weather is nice

4/25/2006 1:50:14 PM

System Shock 2 is one of the best games ever made.

4/25/2006 1:50:58 PM

F.E.A.R. is rather creepy.

4/25/2006 2:08:01 PM

NIGHT TRAP

4/25/2006 2:17:14 PM

ive got a sega cd, i should get it. UNRATED of course

4/25/2006 2:22:48 PM

aha

i remember my friend got shit and we were all hyped about it

but then we played it

4/25/2006 2:24:34 PM

speaking of spoooooooooky and sega cd....corpse killer....except not really.

JUJU STICK FILLED WITH BLACK MAGIC TO PROTECT FROM ZOMBIE WARRIOR.

4/25/2006 2:29:14 PM

F.E.A.R.

I also liked the zombie part of Halflife 2. Those fast zombies make that noise and then climb up walls after you and shit!

4/25/2006 2:44:15 PM

the resident evil 1 remake on gamecube is pretty creepy

the first event in silent hill

battletoads

4/25/2006 3:05:31 PM

old computer game but i thought it was creepy...Phantasmagoria!

which other than king's quest 7 and 8, was the only game i was remotely interested in...and this is the only game i ever finished...

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 3:11 PM. Reason : ]

4/25/2006 3:08:41 PM

I heard silent hill rocks, and I never got interested in Resident Evil with an exception for 4. You guys would dig Eternal Darkness. It's not really that scary, its just fucked up. The more enemies you run into, your "sanity meter" drops, and a bunch of bizarre effects and sounds begin to show up on the screen. Blood will drop from the ceiling, paintings will change into fucked up shit, you'll hear a bunch of weird noises, your guy starts babbling to himself, bugs start crawling all over the screen, the TV screen "shuts off", and the game sometimes tells you that it's erasing all your save data as an insanity effect. Cool stuff, check it out.

4/25/2006 3:14:13 PM

bits of condemed were scary

4/25/2006 3:17:16 PM

Hell yeah I remember Phantasmagoria. I remember specifically the part when that woman was talking or something and that hand/tentacle thing came out of the ceiling and grabbed her by the head.

I agree that the insanity effects on Eternal Darkness were awesome, one of my favourites was when you would try to use a med pack and the guy would just take out a gun and shoot himself in the head. Or you would defeat a boss and go into the next room and it would say "Thanks for playing the demo of Eternal Darkness, please contact Nintendo at ###-###-#### to order the full game"

4/25/2006 3:29:07 PM

Quote :

"Super Mario 2 gave me nightmares"

Same here. Something about digging yourself to the bottom of huge vase with little critters falling on you just unsettles me

4/25/2006 3:35:32 PM

Resident Evil 2 was creepy, especially towards the end in the laboratory.

I wouldn't include Silent Hill in there because I think that belongs to another genre.

Wasn't there a game where that was pretty creepy, where all you did was take photos of the dead?

One game that was never intentionally creepy was Tenchu: Stealth Assassins. No joke.

4/25/2006 4:05:06 PM

Superman, you're thinking of Fatal Frame. That shit was pretty crazy as well

4/25/2006 4:40:35 PM

zak mckracken

I MEAN, YOU WENT TO THE MARS FACE

4/25/2006 4:43:57 PM

Yeah, in Fatal Frame there was nothing really to shoot, just take pictures.

Doesn't appeal to the majority of people. No wonder we didn't hear much about it.

Althought it's based on a true story supposedly.

4/25/2006 5:28:42 PM

et for the atari

4/25/2006 5:44:55 PM

System shock 2 was just so wonderfully creepy.

4/25/2006 5:49:57 PM

TETRIS

4/25/2006 5:50:50 PM

Quote :

"Doom 3 wasn't so much creepy as it was "OH SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK SHIT FUCK". To me, at least. That game made me realize how much of a huge pussy I am."

true that.

i always used to think clocktower was creepy. it probably wouldnt be to me now. never played silent hill. so i'll say the Resident evil remake for GC and the original resident evil 2 and maybe eternal darkness

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 5:55 PM. Reason : .]

4/25/2006 5:51:13 PM

I almost peed my pants when the dogs jumped through the window in the beginning of Resident Evil 1. I was only like 12 though.

4/25/2006 6:22:28 PM

I was more surprised when it happened in Alone in the Dark, which they stole it from.

4/25/2006 6:24:23 PM

Hehe, yeah it's funny how much of resident evil seemed to be borrowed directly from alone in the dark. Of course, alone in the dark got all it's mythos almost entirely from the writings of h.p. lovecraft and I don't think they ever credited him.

4/25/2006 6:29:31 PM

re4 was fun & had some good suprise moments with sound or something popping out at you, i enjoyed Eternal Darkness too even though it was as big on the thrills & chills. nintendo has enough of a darkside to balance its lighter games like smash bro, zelda, metriod etc. even those games, like metroid, get dark ocassionally.

4/25/2006 6:30:16 PM

Crediting a book from a good while ago is different from crediting another work in teh same medium from like two years ago.

4/25/2006 6:32:12 PM

^Like the idea of something busting through a window is SO original.

Some unlikely nominees:
Super Metroid's intro was pretty creepy to me back in the day.
Zelda: Majora's Mask could be a little weird at some points.

4/25/2006 6:37:57 PM

I know it's not the most original idea ever.

But when you have one game come out

and then a few years later a very similar game comes out

and the most memorable moment from each game is the exact same thing

well, you know what I'm getting at.

4/25/2006 6:39:03 PM

^^^ Not too much, the works of h.p. lovecraft are still protected by copyright, and the holders defend those rights pretty strongly. Sure it's a bit older, but "dogs jumping through a window" carries a much more tenuous claim on originality than does the entire mythos of h.p. lovecraft.

Yeah, I see what you're getting at though, but there's so much imitation in video games it's hard to say what's immitation and what's paying homage to something.

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 6:41 PM. Reason : ]

4/25/2006 6:40:11 PM

eternal darkness

4/25/2006 6:43:21 PM

What was the Resident Evil with dinosaurs? That was good.

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 6:44 PM. Reason : ]

4/25/2006 6:44:03 PM

Dino Crisis

4/25/2006 6:46:39 PM

Dino Crisis wasn't scary...in the sense it was dinosaurs. It's not like T-Rex can hide behind a curtain and go boo.

4/25/2006 6:48:48 PM