AVP2 Marine levels with the motion sensor. 13 or 14 when I played it and it scared the crap out of me. Otherwise I find games tense but not scary. The other problem is that after all this experience in playing games you just expect certain things.
Does anyone else find Bioshock scary?
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Bioshock is edgy, like you can hear the voices in the next room, but you dont wanna go in there, it is a scary game. I would put it on the same level as deadspace for scaryness. Both VERY atmospheirc with lots of little background noises. Doom3 beats them both for out of chair, headphone wire ripping jumpyness. Imps jumping out of hidden walls as soon as you collect a medikit, usually in the dark when you can only hold the torch and no weapon. I didn't find FEAR scary at all. Just blasted through that with the shotgun. Still a brill game though, one of my faves.
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I'm a big scardy cat when it comes to games; I didn't get far beyond the zombie breakout in Doom 3 (I was lucky to get that far). I played F.E.A.R. until that creepy girl appeared in front of you crawling through the vents 
It doesn't help that I usually play with headphones late at night (a must if you have your kids sleeping in the room next door).
I didn't find Bioshock too scary though - I think it came with the fact that you didn't die in game. Although the bit the o/p described with the shotgun did give me the willies!
A some stage I'll pick up Dead Space and give it a go... if I'm feeling brave
It doesn't help that I usually play with headphones late at night (a must if you have your kids sleeping in the room next door).I didn't find Bioshock too scary though - I think it came with the fact that you didn't die in game. Although the bit the o/p described with the shotgun did give me the willies!
A some stage I'll pick up Dead Space and give it a go... if I'm feeling brave
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Good list would have put Dead Space higher tho
Lights completely out, 2am, 5.1 on...few games have scared me in the past 15 years
Shambler in Quake (1) did it.
AvP DEFINITELY did it
System Shock back in it's day was good at producing jumpy moments, guess thats where Bioshock gets it too.
Currently playing Fallout 3, not scary as such but the whole mood of the game/scenery puts you slightly on edge at many times.
Dead Space, not played it, but put out enough hints to the wife to purchase it for Chrimbo
Shambler in Quake (1) did it.
AvP DEFINITELY did it
System Shock back in it's day was good at producing jumpy moments, guess thats where Bioshock gets it too.
Currently playing Fallout 3, not scary as such but the whole mood of the game/scenery puts you slightly on edge at many times.
Dead Space, not played it, but put out enough hints to the wife to purchase it for Chrimbo
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if anything attemps to be scary, it fails automatically.
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Try playing System Shock 2.
my god what a level!
I remember playing System shock when i was about 15, and being amazing a game could produce such an atmosphere.
Dead Space is the only game ive ever witness someone land a game related injury, due to a scare. My girlfriend no longer watches that game
Just a CP of what I said in another thread about it...
I didn't find it scary, just mostly intimidating... like stepping outside of that sphere for the first time. There were a couple of other bits as well, such as this bit where you were a sort of small doctors/morgue room, and you're wading through the water and can see the silouhette of a splicer, then the lights go out and he's gone.
Another bit near where you just get the shotgun for the first time lying on the floor. There's a room there that is like a doctors area. There is a dead splicer lying on the table. You walk in and there is a tonic on the desk. You go up to it and the room fills with steam. You grab it and turn around and there is a splicer like, 2 inches from your face staring at you.
The "worst" bit (i.e. the bit that freaked me out the most) was the bit on the Cohen levels where you go into this room and there are 3 or 4 "plastered" splicers on each side of you bowing down. You run through and go into this room where you have to press a button to get into. When you come out they are all gone and you can now go into the basement. Going down there, there is water on the floor and a tonic in the far corner and nothing else. You run over to it and turn around and all of the splicers that were in the other room and now behind you doing a pose but not moving.
Oh and one other bit on Cohen's level. You in this room and there is a safe in the corner but also a flickering white light, and in the corner is a plastered splicer who is facing the corner sitting on a seat. Just gave me visions of Blair Witch Project. Was even worse when I opened the safe and the splicer had moved to a couple of inches behind me... nearly pap'd
Overall though I never found it scary, but I did find a lot of the bits really intimidating and you ended up having to force yourself to go into a few places. But I like how they never overdid it, there was about 10 places like this in the whole game for me and that was enough... it never tried to do a doom and have a splicer jump out of every corner like "BOO!" like Doom did with Imps.
I didn't find it scary, just mostly intimidating... like stepping outside of that sphere for the first time. There were a couple of other bits as well, such as this bit where you were a sort of small doctors/morgue room, and you're wading through the water and can see the silouhette of a splicer, then the lights go out and he's gone.
Another bit near where you just get the shotgun for the first time lying on the floor. There's a room there that is like a doctors area. There is a dead splicer lying on the table. You walk in and there is a tonic on the desk. You go up to it and the room fills with steam. You grab it and turn around and there is a splicer like, 2 inches from your face staring at you.
The "worst" bit (i.e. the bit that freaked me out the most) was the bit on the Cohen levels where you go into this room and there are 3 or 4 "plastered" splicers on each side of you bowing down. You run through and go into this room where you have to press a button to get into. When you come out they are all gone and you can now go into the basement. Going down there, there is water on the floor and a tonic in the far corner and nothing else. You run over to it and turn around and all of the splicers that were in the other room and now behind you doing a pose but not moving.
Oh and one other bit on Cohen's level. You in this room and there is a safe in the corner but also a flickering white light, and in the corner is a plastered splicer who is facing the corner sitting on a seat. Just gave me visions of Blair Witch Project. Was even worse when I opened the safe and the splicer had moved to a couple of inches behind me... nearly pap'd
Overall though I never found it scary, but I did find a lot of the bits really intimidating and you ended up having to force yourself to go into a few places. But I like how they never overdid it, there was about 10 places like this in the whole game for me and that was enough... it never tried to do a doom and have a splicer jump out of every corner like "BOO!" like Doom did with Imps.
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It was quite easy, and damn well brilliant. Not scary though.
The best way to kill a splicer as the game advances and they become unreasonably hard is to electrocute them with the Electrobolt plasmid (so long as the Splicer isn't an electrically charged one) and shoot them in the face with the crossbow or explosive shotgun rounds (so long as it's not a Nitro Splicer). One shot kill!
Big Daddies and Rosies are easy too, just set up 5 or 6 trap bolts and they die very quickly.
The end is good, the final boss is epic, but somewhat easy.
The best way to kill a splicer as the game advances and they become unreasonably hard is to electrocute them with the Electrobolt plasmid (so long as the Splicer isn't an electrically charged one) and shoot them in the face with the crossbow or explosive shotgun rounds (so long as it's not a Nitro Splicer). One shot kill!
Big Daddies and Rosies are easy too, just set up 5 or 6 trap bolts and they die very quickly.
The end is good, the final boss is epic, but somewhat easy.
I find horror games not really scary but i get really tense when watching horror films. Watched 28 Days Later the other week and even though i enjoyed it i was sweating while watching it.
I think it stems from playing Resident Evil and Time crisis as a kid late at night.
I think it stems from playing Resident Evil and Time crisis as a kid late at night.