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Well just about everyone here knows what a wuss I am when it comes to playing scary games, but I thought we'd find out what scares you guys instead. :grin:

What's the scariest game you've ever played?

What in particular was it about that game that scared you the most?

Do you find a lot of games scary or are you generally fearless when it comes to playing video games? (Because really they're not real and are nothing to be afraid of :wacky:)

Does your fear of scary games (if you're not brave) stop you from buying them?

Go! :monster:
 
The scariest game I've touched I guess... was Haunting Ground. :hmmm:

I've actually played through a Resident Evil game before when I was younger and used cheat codes, with my cousin stuck to my side while she forced me (even though I'm younger) to play. I was not amused. Screaming our lungs out at 5am didn't amuse my mom.

Silent Hill 3 a few years ago, too. Can't remember if it was with or without cheat codes. I fucking hate the controls on Silent Hill. Some parts my mom played, I remember that.

Haunting Ground, I simply cannot finish. I can't even get halfway let alone through the beginning it's fucking nerve wrecking. I can't do it.
 
The first scary/horror game to phase me was actually this Japanese Horror game called Kuon.

Everything about that game was just very disturbing on the young mind of a 11 year old (me)

That game set everything off, ever since then, I've grown a major tolerance for horror games.
 
The scariest game I played was Amnesia, that game just puts chills down my spine...It's so scary :gonk: (and hard, I hate puzzles -__-) But I love watching the reactions of other people that played the game :lew: It put me more at ease.

When I first watched my brother play Parasite Eve, it scared me so much, but I was young. I later played it and it freaked me out too being my first scary game.

I like watching scary games more than playing them, or playing them with friends. It's the only way I can handle them :lew:
 
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Well just about everyone here knows what a wuss I am when it comes to playing scary games, but I thought we'd find out what scares you guys instead. :grin:

What's the scariest game you've ever played?

What in particular was it about that game that scared you the most?

Do you find a lot of games scary or are you generally fearless when it comes to playing video games? (Because really they're not real and are nothing to be afraid of :wacky:)

Does your fear of scary games (if you're not brave) stop you from buying them?

Go! :monster:
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Good question, Toni. :wacky: It's hard for me to choose one specific game but I'd have to say it's Silent Hill 2. As for what's scary about it, it's anything involving Pyramid Head. Silent Hill 2 spoilers. For example

His first introduction when it looks like he's having sex with 2 Mannequins with James in the closet at the Apartments, James getting knocked off the roof of the hospital by Pyramid Head, running away from Pyramid Head through that long hallway in the basement of the hospital, the thought of fighting 2 Pyramid Heads at once. O_O

Anyway I am not easily scared though I am generally not fearless as well. If I play a horror game, I usually expect to be scared at least once or twice. If not then I'm usually going to be bored unless either the game has good gameplay or an interesting story.

Though some honorable mentions of games that scared me go out to Silent Hill 3, Fatal Frame/ Project Zero 2, and REmake.
 
Haven't had much experience with Scary Games, but from what I have had experienced it would be that Dead Space is one of them. What I found scariest about it was just how unpredictable the creepy-crawlies can come at you. Plus, I played it in the dark, so I guess that added to the scariness. :lew:And no, howscary these games are do not prevent me from buying them. :rofl:
 
What's the scariest game you've ever played?
Eternal Darkness.

What in particular was it about that game that scared you the most?
The insanity effects. Eternal Darkness was a fantastic game in that it fucked with your mind so much that it was difficult to tell when you weren't going insane and when you were...you could just sink into the floor, or randomly explode, and you wouldn't know about it until the moment it actually happened. Eternal Darkness didn't build up to the insanity, it just threw it right at you. It was amazingly atmospheric, and it scared the absolute crap out of me the first time I played it, because I was expecting generic brand horror, with zombies, dodgy lighting and surprise attacks, not to have my entire perception of events distorted.

Do you find a lot of games scary or are you generally fearless when it comes to playing video games? (Because really they're not real and are nothing to be afraid of )
I haven't found a video game scary in years, because games that try to be scary are so painfully predictable. If a spot looks like a prime place for an ambush, then you're probably going to get ambushed, or it will be just after you expect it. I haven't found a game scary since Silent Hill 2 really. There have been moments when I've had a :srsly: face at something, or just gone "Oh, fuck." because of something mildly worrying, but nothing on the scale of genuine, crap your pants, turn the console off fear.

Does your fear of scary games (if you're not brave) stop you from buying them?
No, my lack of interest stops me from buying them. I enjoyed Resident Evil 4, but it wasn't scary (although the Regenerators DID freak me out a bit, since I had no idea how to kill them) and I wish I'd never bought Resi 5. I've lost all faith in Silent Hill, and other horror games I've encountered just seem generic; the genre seems to have died out almost entirely to be replaced with survival action instead. I was more freaked out by the Scarecrow sections in Arkham Asylum and the general atmosphere of BioShock than I was by Resident Evil 5, which is supposed to be a scary game :hmph:
 
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But really, I think the scariest movie I played was Silent Hill 4 The Room, I am not sure what it is about this game, But I jumped in it like 100 times. It wasn't that I wasn't expecting the things that happen, but still freaked me out.
 
First scary game I played was Silent Hill 3. I know it's not the scariest in the series by far, but it was the first I played, and I remember having to take breaks because I got too scared. It's just the atmosphere coming together so well that it horrifies the shit out of you.

The soundtracks are sort of the scariest part of SH to me now. Listen to them at night in the dark, and I beat you have one of the scariest experiences of your life, I know I did.
 
Ugh I hate scary games.

I don't play them at all anymore. I used to watch scary movies all the time but I used to get horrible nightmares for months on end about the same movie, so I've stopped watching scary movies and don't dare go near scary games at all anymore either, due to the same problem.

The scariest game I played when I was a kid was Jurassic Park on the Sega. I am so scared of dinosaurs and still to this day I have nightmares about that game.

The most recent scary game I sorta played was Dead Space. I watched Steve play some of it and I took over for a bit and then had to leave the room. >.<

The main part that scared me was the start to be honest. The whole Twinkle Little Star bit at the start with the freaky girl singing it was enough to make me never want to play it again. >.<

Aliens scare me. <_<
 
I guess if I had to pick the "scariest" game I've ever played, it'd probably be the first Fatal Frame.

The scariest thing about it was the almost complete absence of music. All you ever really hear is floor boards squeaking, wind howling, and sometimes you hear demonic voices chanting.

For me, though, the whole "scary" effect of survival-horror games quickly dies out because I'm the kind of guy who can get mad at a game incredibly quick and and even faster when playing survival-horror games because almost every single one of them has horrible controls and stiff character movements. I'm a big fan of the genre and I realize they do that to make the game scarier and I do appreciate it but it doesn't alleviate my frustration.

And no. I never get put off a game because I hear that it's really scary. It just makes me wanna play it more.
 
When i was younger i was a complete wimp. I couldnt play horror games at all. They terrified me. I knew it was stupid aswell because its a game, its not real and it cant affect me in real life. It wasnt til i got a bit older maybe 14+ that i actually decided to man up and get on with it. Confront your fears and all that. It maybe sounds daft but going into it with that frame of mind sorted the problem.

Nowadays horrors are probadly my favourite genre of game though i havent played one since i was younger that has made me feel really tense or scared. I love dead space 1 and 2 though not because i find them scary.
I have every worthwhile horror game on ps3 on my shelf and the only one id really consider a good horror is siren blood curse. Its not an amazing game, infact its quite awkward, but does a good job as a horror. Your quite helpless in that game and you cant ever kill an enemy for good so it really leaves you feeling alert and cautios.
Amnesia has been recomended to me by so many people. I actually have it on the laptop and have played a few hours of it. From what i played i really liked but it just wasnt any good playing with a laptop mouse pad and the keyboard. When i get a PC that game is my next mission.
 
Silent Hill 2 in the dark is almost impossible to play, I normally play for an hour before I am too exhausted from personal pep talks to continue playing. Fortunately the graphics are dogshit so it is still humanly possible to play
 
Admittedly, I'm easily scared, so my experience with the survival horror genre has been limited to say the least. Still, I at least had a good shot at it, and I tried out Project Zero III: The Tormented, otherwise known everywhere else as Fatal Frame III. What strikes me about the Project Zero/Fatal Frame games is that you are a vulnerable protagonist, not a muscular and well-ripped man with a sawed-off shotgun ready to shoot at anything remotely supernatural waiting around the corner for you. I don't know how far I got in that game actually, but considering I would often frantically pause the game whenever I felt the controller rumble and/or see something moving or staring at me in the darkness ahead, I managed to get several chapters in.

A little ambition I have, while I still have flickers of interest in gaming in general left in me, is to get into the survival genre a bit more, and to give myself a little test. I honestly think that I can probably restart Project Zero from the beginning again and do considerably better this time round, as long as I'm not playing in the dark.
 
What's the scariest game you've ever played?
Dead Space / Dead Space 2. I haven't played any Silent Hill or anything so that's why my top scary game is only mildly scary. :wacky:

What in particular was it about that game that scared you the most?
Necromorphs jumping out of vents and springing up from faking death.

Do you find a lot of games scary or are you generally fearless when it comes to playing video games?
I'm extremely wary when playing scary games and I usually pause whenever something scares me so I can gather my thoughts. :mokken: I'm not a huge fan of horror games anyway.

Does your fear of scary games (if you're not brave) stop you from buying them?
Not really, if I really wanted a game and it looked interesting I'd probably buy it anyway. Can't say I've been interested in a scary game in a while though.
 
Dead Space would be the only game I've played that I would say could be class as "scary" although I don't think it was necessarily that scary, just jumpy at places. It kind of reminds me of Paranormal Activity in that it's based a lot around sound and if that it's much worse if the sound is loud then what it would be if it weren't. I didn't think Dead Space 2 was as scary, if just felt a lot more tense in some areas.

I'm not a massive fan of the horror genre anyway tbh.
 
Fatal Frame, all the first three games. They've all succeeded in making me scream like a little girl at times.

AND I FUCKING LOVE IT <3

They're awesome.
 
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