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Which games do you find scarier?
Old games with creepy music and atmosphere
 
 76.9%, 10 votes
Recent games with realistic graphics
 
 23.1%, 3 votes
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Posted on 01-25-10 02:41:33 PM Link | Quote
Last night I was playing super ghouls and ghosts. It's not so scary but when I was fiddling around with the options(trying to put in the cheat) I unplugged and replugged the controller and then music just started playing. It scared the crap out of me.

With more recent games I really need to try hard to be put in the mood in order to be scared. For Resident Evil and Silent Hill games, I am no longer scared after I turn on the lights and go to bed.

However I can't say the same with old school games. Maybe because it's something that haunted me as a kid as well? One day after playing Ghosts n' Goblins, I walked by the kitchen and could've sworn I saw that big red flying guy hovering by the window with that creepy smile on his face. It took so long for me to go to bed because I was worried about being chased by flying burritos that make the eeriest noise. The music just wouldn't stop!

One of the first games to have this effect on me was Zelda. The first one. The last dungeon. It didn't help that my brother was not able to vanquish Ganon! I was afraid he was going to teleport into our room with that creepy ass music!

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Posted on 01-25-10 03:22:41 PM Link | Quote
Several older games scared me as a kid.

For some reason, a few bosses in Kirby's Adventure really scared me, so much that I had my mom beat them for a while Specifically the ones that would crush Kirby and/or throw him around. Poor pink puffball

Also, King's Quest games often scared me, specifically the random deaths like when you're going around the wizard Mordack's castle at the end of KQ5 and you have to save every screen lest you run into Mordack, the blue creature, or the cute but evil black cat (really another evil wizard who was transformed into a kitty). In KQ6, there's this room in a labyrinth that is totally dark and only Alexander's eyes are visible. If you don't light it quickly enough, apparently you're attacked by some monster and the eyes move around, and at the end one eye is several feet away from the other eye. Holy shit that was scary to a 7-year-old (or however old I was then, it was around there).

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Posted on 01-25-10 05:50:29 PM Link | Quote
Zelda 1 always scared me when I played it. I don't know why but it always got me all the time. I pretty much could not play it without my dad around...

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Posted on 01-25-10 06:03:04 PM Link | Quote
Hm...

Will say nightmare fuel in one instance was probably towards the end of this:

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Posted on 01-25-10 06:55:39 PM Link | Quote
I prefer newer titles to old ones because I feel you can project a creepy, scary atmosphere better with current technology. I played Eternal Darkness last fall and it was creepy 100% of the time simply because of the effects and the unsettling atmosphere the game constantly projected. The Resident Evil 1 GC remake did this to me and my friend too. Hell, even Metroid Prime 2's opening sections did this with its creepy music, dead soldiers and weird level geometry. It's not so much the content of the game, as in what you see, that causes the scares to me, it's the atmosphere more than anything else. I should really get that new Silent Hill game...

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Posted on 01-25-10 07:15:01 PM (last edited by Reimu at 01-25-10 04:18 PM) Link | Quote
bleh

Originally posted by Hiryuu
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Posted on 01-25-10 08:27:19 PM Link | Quote
No old games scare me. Except for Clock Tower on the snes, and I played that after I was in college.

I find the "mess with your head" horror games are the best.
Sure jump scares are okay every now and then, but they get stupid if they're consistent.

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Posted on 01-25-10 08:36:17 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Reimu
Originally posted by Hiryuu
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[Marx]


Actually, I wasn't too bad with Marx back in the day. He seemed fairly sane (hahahaha) in comparison to Dark Matter/Zero.

Then again I've never seen the DS/Ultra variant until just now. Wasn't expecting the split attacks.
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Posted on 01-25-10 09:36:24 PM Link | Quote
When I was very little, I would not venture into the caverns in Startropics. I really dunno why, now. Guess I was scared of them or something. But not the dungeons in Zelda. Again, I have no idea.

Really, Videogames haven't done much to scare me since. Resident Evil was just cheap thrills, and everything else... well...

-The usual suspects-

"YOU'D BEST NOT DO THAT, AVATAR (Ultima 7, recently). Fsck you, man. I'll do it anyway.

Exception: not continuing in ANY Super Smash Bros. title. That announcer is a horrible, cruel person who has no patience or compassion for you, and his voice will show it in the most horrible way, if you make him tell you "Game over"

GFS Valhalla (Metroid Prime 3, recent): bodies. and Metroids. might make you jump once or twice, but eh.

Ikana Canyon (Majora's Mask, about... age 14?): I got bored running around this place. What? I did.

Bottom of the Well (Ocarina of Time, about age 10): Well, at least it was ugly down there. Still, no effect.

Exception: Duke Nukem 3D: In the same sense that Doom had its telltale sound effects that could leave you guessing where it came from, same goes. Now, a lot of people are apparently terrified of these lizard dudes with the chainguns, or those big freaky aliens that breath shrinkray and claw your face off. Yawn. All of these pale next to one simple little adversary: The Protozoid Slime.

Hatches from eggs, can be destroyed with a single bullet from the pistol, and is otherwise a nuisance. But it also likes to hide in small places, and if you aren't doubly careful, suddenly this ASDOFJO23AFWHATTHEFFFFFSSSSCKK GET IT OFF MY FACE IT'S SO HIDEOUS AND THE TEETH...

Duke Nukem 3D had no flamethrower. Because of this nightmare, such lack of firepower is inexcusable.

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Posted on 01-25-10 10:36:44 PM Link | Quote
Until about 2 years ago, any first person shooter, aside from competitive ones, would make me extremely paranoid and jumpy, and it would take me about 70 times as long to get through any given level than a typical FPS player. However, after a general progression from Marathon to Doom to Half-Life 2 to BioShock, this paranoia is now pretty much non-existent.

The only other games to ever scare me, as I recall, were the N64 Zelda games.
Back when I first played the game when I was around 5, the first Business Scrub scared the willies out of me once it popped out. Later on, once I thought I had gotten used to the game, the ReDeads, Dead Hand, and even the Like Likes to some degree did a pretty good job at spooking me.
Later on, Majora's Mask didn't really scare me with its enemies, but the general feel of the game invoked its fair share of nightmares, especially the whole moon thing. I've played both games enough now that neither have any of these affects on me now, though, so I don't really get scared by games anymore.

The sole exception is when games suddenly and violently crash, especially if it involves a loud screeching noise. Those never fail to nearly give me a heart attack.
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Posted on 01-25-10 11:16:07 PM Link | Quote
These two bosses from SotN just about made me crap my pants when I first saw them. The blood-curdling scream the former emits when damaged still gives me chills.

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Posted on 01-25-10 11:21:30 PM Link | Quote
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Posted on 01-26-10 12:22:28 AM Link | Quote

The only really scary one would be Forest Temple from OoT, I was ~10 the first time I encountered a wallmaster

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Posted on 01-26-10 12:23:58 AM Link | Quote
Fucking.

ReDeads.

Scared the shit out of me.

The moon right before it crashes in MM too.

Nothing else really scared me though >.>

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Posted on 01-26-10 12:57:36 AM Link | Quote
Oh yea Definitely Marx.

That was an awesome game though. One of those that my brother and I rented from "Easy Video" and played on friday nights/saturday mornings right before the cartoons would come on.

But definitely the original scary dude had to be phanto for me.
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Posted on 01-26-10 04:40:26 AM Link | Quote
bleh

No, no, Marx is fine (except for he being like a more psychotic Flandre and his fandom portrayal).

SURPRISE ZOMBIE MARX on the other hand is among the most messed up things in any nintendo game.


Also no zelda dungeon is scarier than the Kakariko Well. Redeads are nothing compared to that PALE HANDS THING. I never touched that place again until I had nowhere else to go for gold skulltula hunting...

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Posted on 01-26-10 04:53:04 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Reimu
Also no zelda dungeon is scarier than the Kakariko Well. Redeads are nothing compared to that PALE HANDS THING. I never touched that place again until I had nowhere else to go for gold skulltula hunting...


If you're talking about the boss, there's one in the Shadow Temple too <_<

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Posted on 01-26-10 02:42:19 PM Link | Quote
Resident Evil 2 scared me something fierce as a child. Same with Redeads, of course, from OoT.

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Posted on 01-26-10 05:29:34 PM Link | Quote
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Stuff like this freaks the hell out of me

Glitches, in other words.

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Posted on 01-26-10 07:45:03 PM Link | Quote
Luigi's Mansion, dear god Nintendo can be eerie/creepy when they want to be and "Zombies!" (also known as "Zombies Ate my Neighbours!" out of the UK) on SNES scared me to some extent as a 5 year old.
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