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Legit Scary Games - Man Up and Sound Off

Posted Feb 21, 2012 at 10:45AM EST by Brett Huffman

Listed in: PS3 Tags: dead space, resident evil, scary video games, Silent Hill

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Disclaimer: This article contains my opinion. The surgeon general recommends that you turn back now if you find such material objectionable and save yourself some mental anguish. If you don't mind, however, please read on.

With a couple of Resident Evil games coming out this year, let's take the time to look at some games that legitimately scared the crap outta you. Maybe you were young at the time or maybe you're just a normal human being that jumps at those "Boo!" moments in games and movies. Either way, don't be a pussy; go ahead and admit it. No one here will judge you.

Of course, there will be those that say, "I've never been scared by a horror game," which either means you may be clinically psychotic or lying. These are the same guys that provide tips on games saying, "It's not that hard..." as some sort of e-peen buffer because they don't want to admit they had a hard time with a certain game. But I digress.

I'll get things started. For me, it was the first Resident Evil. I've been a zombie fan for a long time (before it was "cool"), mostly because the idea of them actually existing scares the crap out of me more than anything else. It's a real nightmare scenario and being able to play in a game that at the time stood way above all others and had zombies and other crap coming after you was intoxicating for me. I'd turn the lights down low (mostly so I could see better), and be in my apartment all alone at 2 AM fighting zombies. I loved it and yes, I jumped at the appropriate moments.

More recently, I found some shivery moments in the F.E.A.R. games (though the games were so-so from what I remember) with those creepy ghost kids. And then the Dead Space games. Oh hell yes. What those games did well was take away the sense of safety you'd build up. For instance, you always felt safe in elevators and those store kiosk things, kind of like those safe rooms in the Resident Evil games. Then about 3/4 of the way through the game you back out of the store or just be chillin' in an elevator and a necromorph would randomly be on you. Good times.

Honorable mentions: All the Silent Hill games (which I've never really sat down and played at length - strange, I know), The Suffering, the Dead Rising games (not really horror, but the damn zombie hordes get my heart pumping every time they grab me), Condemned, COD Zombies (sorta, if you play it alone), BioShock (it had its moments), and Left 4 Dead (that zombie horde thing again).

What about you? Any "Oh shit!" moments you can remember?

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I dont know if any of you remember a game from Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) called Sword of Sodan by EA, it was a Conan like barbarin killing empire soldiers, a very bloody and with a lot gore, the blood looks like tomato sauce. The problem for me was stage 3, I have 11 years when I played it, that stage was the classic graveyard full of zombies, actually the name was Zombie Graveyard, waaaaoooow preatty spooky name. Damn, the stage was super scary, I start shaking when the stage start, there was no music, just the ligtnings and a bell and zombie growlings (actually the game has no music, only enviorment sounds like birds, sword slashing, birds, screams of pain, birds, and more birds), it was a horde of zombies coming to you, the control in that game realy wasnt the must responsive, so probabilities of they eat the crap out of you was high, and saw your character laying in floor with tomato sauce all over him was creepy man. The graphic back then looks really good, right now meeeh, crappy looking, but back to 1991 when I played it, it was nice and spooky, make me sleep with the lights on. Right now Im playing Resident Evil Revelation, that game is as spooky as a Silent Hill 2 or Resident Evil ps one, is really scary, I playe it with heaphones and on the dark, its very claustrophobic.

# RE: Legit Scary Games - Man Up and Sound Off — leonidas 2012-02-21 16:04

For me, more than Zombie or any hordes of hell, the most that scares me was a game freeze, specially when the graphic gets messy, and the face of the characters looks like demons, or when a loud sound stock, man that give me the chills. The two worst game freeze was one with Jordan vs Bird One on One, and the other one ( that was the worst for me of all time) Super Empire Strikes Backs, I was playing it on the dark, with loud sounds, ( I belive that I was remaking 1982)the game freeze, silently, goes pitch black the screen and then a sound of Chewy gun super loud, TA TA TA TA Ta Ta Ta, men, I almos piss on my pants, the only way that I could turn of the sound was turning off the super nes, but because the room was so dark, I dont see the switch of anything, and the sound continues, it was like 2am. Yeah I was with my pussy face of scare. Those memories lol.

# RE: Legit Scary Games - Man Up and Sound Off — Cornelious 2012-02-21 16:22

Dead Space 2 kids, aaaaaaahhh, scary sh$t!!!!!

# amnesia — broman 2012-02-21 20:50

funny that none of you have mentioned amnesia - the dark descent. by far the scariest game ever.

# RE: amnesia — Truedat 2012-02-21 22:44

Screw Silent Hill. It may scare me, but Amnesia totally scares me a lot for having no weapon.

# RE: Legit Scary Games - Man Up and Sound Off — Clive Bernkastel 2012-02-21 23:13

Fatal Frame 4 - English Patched...

# RE: Legit Scary Games - Man Up and Sound Off — NotJesus 2012-02-22 01:53

Nothing's scary after playing Dead Space.

+1 # RE: Legit Scary Games - Man Up and Sound Off — The Invader 2012-02-22 02:17

Wanna hear something scary on video games, go happily to play XBOX Live with your friends, and when you turn on your 360 you got the Red Ring of Hell!! Nothing is more spooky than that, specially if you dont have any kind of warranty. Really creepy.

# RE: Legit Scary Games - Man Up and Sound Off — petrik 2012-02-22 13:41

Dark Seed for PC was kind of weird... almost scary.

# RE: Legit Scary Games - Man Up and Sound Off — Mr Pham 2012-02-22 16:46

Heh, nice article, I really like this topic as horror is one of my favourite genres, and in the case of videogames, my favorite!
Silent Hill 2 is an amazing horror game for many reasons, and while delivering solid hands down fear is one of them, it's not it's strongest point.
Amnesia connects with the players in such an immediate way that you forget that you're protected by your PC screen and do feel like you have to just RUN.

Jump-outs are more common these days, especially in bigger budget games, but that doesn't appeal to me. It makes you jump and feel temporarily scared, but it does nothing for real fear.
Forbidden Siren on the PlayStation 2 is hugely underappreciate d (playing in first person is very underused for horror's I think) and the PS3's Blood Curse is also underappreciate d. It's a shame. Project Zero is another little goodie that can offer more fun to those who have played Silent Hill or Siren to death.

For those looking for a legitimate scare right now, go for Amnesia. Have a shitty PC? Grab a 'good' Silent Hill (read reviews but don't ruin the game with Youtube videos!) on your platform of choice.

It's a great genre that's extremely hard to pull off well, and if done right, you can watch people voluntarily shit themselves. It's amazing.

# scarecrow — Sack Boy 2012-02-24 01:29

how about in Batman: Arkham asylum when your screen gets all screwed up and it makes you think your PS3/Xbox crapped out, THAT SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME!*damn scarecrow*

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