Scariest game EVER

Oh. Then we speak of different things.

 

Silent hill series is much scarier than for example Resident evil series. Resis are just entertaining survival horror stuff. Just love it.

 

If you've read anything about Cthulhu by H.P Lovecraft it's more comical and humurous than frightening. Especially when its portrayed in a video game, it's just one of those REALLY old things that, when they were new, were terrifying, but now they're just funny. *Thinks of something really racist to say but doesn't say it, laughs to himself*

Pokemon Red was damn scary, you never know when you were going to get attacked by a Ratata in the middle of the grass!!!

 

Lovecraft is cool. I really love the creatures he creates.

 

i like silent hill series better than resident evil series. the RE games are more like sci-fi games to me.

 

when i was young i went over to my friends house who had Half Life (1) and he let me play it and i was like hmm meh seems okayish.... Then i got my sight of the famous headcrab zombie and umm ya i freaked out. "OMG WHAT IS THAT" Thankfully i got over my trauma later on and now i have fun burning zombies in Ravenholm (HL2)

 

Do not mock Lovecraft, JudicatorPrime. He's the father of horror literature (along E.A. Poe) and not to be taken lightly. Non of his writing are humorous (maybe except for The Hound which was partly written as a self-parody).

 

Silent Hill... so scary, seriously SH3 scared me the most with the mirror room, the monster in the locker and that wheelchair thing.. so scary

 

I can't believe ANYONE haven't mentioned F.E.A.R yet. That game is like... unspeakably unsettling.

 

i played fear that game is scary but personally think it has nothing on silent hill......... the stuff they come up with that game

 

I agree with people up there ^ F.e.a.R. is definitely up at the top of scariest games ever made. But your desrcription of the scariest "flash" game ever is pretty impressive.

 

I'm trying exmortis but I got stuck after going into Gwen's bedroom and passing out. Can't figure out where to go next. Very frustrating. So far the game has definitely been the scariest flash game I've ever played, though that may be because I haven't played on flash game that has ever scared me in the least since this. The only thing that has frightened me so far was that ghost in the dark hallway that appears after you get the key from the sink. It startled me a bit but wasn't that bad but I want to see more scary stuff but since I'm stuck...

As for the normal game that scared me the most well hmm. F.E.A.R. is probably the scariest all around game I've ever played but the most freaked out I've ever been was playing Thief 2. I had been following the blood trail left by this druid chick through her people's home in the forest. I had managed to get deep deep into there base near the end of the blood trail when I ended up in a grove. I snuck around looking for enemies but couldn't find anyone. This was getting my heart going because I knew someon had to be around somewhere and since Thief is a stealth game I want to see them long before they see me. Scratch that, I want to see them and I don't want them to ever see me.

I looked around for quite a while keeping to the shadows and then I thought I saw a tree move. I froze and watch the tree for a bit and saw that it swayed a little. I relaxed and figured it was just a swaying tree and then decided that maybe this area was deserted after all and figured I could follow the blood trail with no need to sneak any more. I stopped sneaking and started following the blood but before I got very far I noticed a whole bunch of trees that I thought were just simple trees were now coming after me. It was late at night and I had the lights off since Thief is a very dark game and hard to see with the lights on. It is also extremely imersive. Seeing previously inanimate trees come to live and attack me scared me half to death. After my character died and after I caught my breath and the initial shock went away it wasn't so bad but no game or any other media had ever scared me so bad as this one incident.

No other part of the game is really frightening though. It might be a bit tense and there is a bit of suspension waiting in the shadows as a guard walks by hoping he doesn't bump into you but not scary. Now that I think about Thief 2 I rember a part of Thief 3 that was scary, more on par with Exmortis. You had to go into and sneak around a haunted insane assylum. That was pritty frightening but it wasn't that intense of fear.

As for other games that I found frightening. Allien vs Predator while playing as a marine scared me. Having something show up on your motion detector and then having alliens attack you from the darkness is freaky, especially on director's cut difficulty where you can die very easily.

The first time I played Ravenholm on HL2 was scary. Especially the really fast zombies. I really didn't like the really fast ones.

I never found Resident Evil games to be all that scary. Maybe the first time you played one you'd get scared but the fear caused by that game wares of quickly.

 

@Millions: I don't find the SH games that frightening, they don't have the "personal being-feeling" that F.E.A.R got. In F.E.A.R, you never get to see the face of the protagonist, nor do you get to know his name, so you kind of get a feel of "being" the character - also, in a first person point of view... seeing Alma run around and crap... veeeeeeeery unsettling.

F.E.A.R have NOTHING on F.E.A.R: Extraction Point though... that expansion is hella nuts. Insanity in playable form...

Exmortis was really freaky at first, but it's very short too and now i can replay it over and over again without being actually surprised. Imho, it was too short.

Hmm... did you guys say Exmortis 2 was out? Might try it.

 

I hate to admit it but Alien Resurrection for PSX made me jump from time to time.

 

F.E.A.R scared the shit out of me.

 

I say F.E.A.R.

There is an old article about scariest games (2004) at Gamespy
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/561/561382p1.html

EDIT:
Oh my! I just see EXMORTIS... the intro is scariest man!

 

eh... is i just me or am i the only one that thought fear wasn't scary? it was "creepy" and "disturbing" when u say, went through a hallucination... but not the kind of scare you get from silent hill or anything. it was a GREAT game though... the ai was superb... but i really wasn' scared by it some how. I was more scared by ravenholm in hl2 .

 

My vote goes to the Cradle Level in Thief 3 (aka Dark Project 3). "Scaryness" isn´t gore or something cheap like that it is about tension. The cradle is "just another undead level" you expect Zombies to pop up... around each corner, especially thanks to the GREAT background music. Once the Zombies DO turn up they are unsettling as they "disturb" the light in their area (you have to experience it to know what I mean) and unlike any other undead in the Game their Corpses don´t vanish once they are defeated, you always expect them to stand up again (wich they do!).
My description doesn´t even come close to it, I really recomend you to get that game, that level alone is worth it.

 

you guys should try siren where there's like ten well i cant call them zombies but something like that and u have a camera thats it

 

FEAR is a scary game to this one Chinese girl kept reappearing in certain spots