Scariest game moment/enemy

[lalalei2001]

For me it wasn't a moment. It was a minute of terror.

So there I was, your happy eight-year old self (at the time) playing Chocobo's Dungeon 2 for the Playstation.

You played as Chocobo (from the Final Fantasy games) and explored dungeons. The music was cute, you were cute, and the monsters were cute.

Except one.

Now in the dungeons, there were item shops. Their items ranged from crap to devastatingly powerful.
Convienent, huh?

The problem was who ran them. May I present the scariest game monster EVER, the one who plauged my nightmares for weeks.

The Store Keeper, AKA The Grim Reaper, AKA Doom.

You're laughing, aren't you?

See, the reaper in the game was scary beyond belief, especially for my little self who was used to cute things. The creature had evil, red eyes, green tatters of a robe, and a HUGE (from the game's perspective) scythe.

And he warned me not to steal from his shop.

'Don't even think about stealing,' he whispered to me.

As I continued to chat, his comments turned nasty.
'Why are you so frisky?' he asked.

I was mad. Being only eight, I somehow got it into my head that the word frisky was a bad thing. So I decided to make him mad.

I tried to steal. Note the word 'tried'.

The door slammed shut, scaring me. The music turned from bouncy to a 'get out of here now' piano music.

And the words on the screen chilled me.

'Store Keeper has leveled up into Life Keeper.'

Life Keeper... Brr. What were they thinking?

So I decided to run. But no matter how fast I held down the circle button and no matter where I ran, Life Keeper was right behind me. His ATB Bar (which tells you when you can attack) was almost full.

So I kicked him. I did 1 damage.

Then he hit me. I took 673 damage and died.
I cried, scared to death (no pun intendead :p)

And then came nightmares about him chopping off my head.

I said it before and I'll say it again. Life Keeper is the scariest enemy ever. Period.


What about you?

[The Flash]

Resident Evil REmake. Lisa Trevor.

When she's close, you hear her moaning. It creeped me out!

[DarkSoldier]

Lisa Trevor can't beat Nemesis for the "Scare the Living Poop Out of You" factor.

There you go, running down an alley, the only sounds are your feet against the stones, when all of a sudden, *BOOM* a door bursts open, dramatic, scary music starts up, and you hear "STARS! STARS! STARS!" over and over as this friggin' huge monster with a rocket launcher is chasing you down.

[WhiteFalcon]

In the end of the first episode of Doom I whenever the Hell Knights came out and yelled, I thought that was pretty scary back in the day.

[Xero Kaiser]

Eternal Darkness: The bathtub scenes
Silent Hill 1: damn near all of it

[Sanagi]

The Crocomire from Super Metroid.
The chainsaw guys from Resident Evil 4.
The Bonethieves from Eternal Darkness.

[Morroccobot]

When the first time you meet an enemy he chops a guard's head off and licks the blood off it.

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

lisa trevor

crimson head

verdugo

chainsaw maniacs

the neptune sharks

regenerators

the zealots-their chantings are creepy

the giant eel in mario 64 :o

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Zombie Le Chuck from Monkey Island 2 gave me a nightmare when I was 8 years old.

[The Mirrorball Man]

I've recently played a game called "Vampire: Bloodlines" which isn't scary at all, except for a small segment that takes place in a haunted house. I have to admit I had goosebumps during the whole thing. :)

[wingsofdamnation]

Lisa Trevor can't beat Nemesis for the "Scare the Living Poop Out of You" factor.

There you go, running down an alley, the only sounds are your feet against the stones, when all of a sudden, *BOOM* a door bursts open, dramatic, scary music starts up, and you hear "STARS! STARS! STARS!" over and over as this friggin' huge monster with a rocket launcher is chasing you down.
u think that part of nemesis was scary? that was nothing compared to when your at the police station and you go down the stair and he jumps through the window. i practically had a heart attack

[jessecuster]

Early in the PSOne's life, my roommates at the time and I rented one, and a few games to go with it.

We were about 25 at the time and had stayed up very late playing the games. Among the games that we had rented, one of them was the original Resident Evil. Well as we all know, the PSOne compared to the Nintendos and Segas had much better and crisper sound than any of these earlier popular machines. So it must have been about two in the morning one of my roommates and I were sitting on the floor playing the game and our 3rd roommate was laying on the couch half asleep. We are playing through the game and there is that scene when the dogs come jumping through the windows, well between the dogs barking and the shattered glass effects, roomate on the couch leaps about 10 feet in the air. We still laugh about this today.

[Draconomicon]

I've recently played a game called "Vampire: Bloodlines" which isn't scary at all, except for a small segment that takes place in a haunted house. I have to admit I had goosebumps during the whole thing. :)

Good one.
Also, when the Werwolf hunts you.

[BlairH]

I've recently played a game called "Vampire: Bloodlines" which isn't scary at all, except for a small segment that takes place in a haunted house. I have to admit I had goosebumps during the whole thing. :)
The ghosts are awesome!

[ocelotrevs]

Resident Evil 3, when Nemesis sometimes comes busting through the door without warning.

RE2, when Tyrant comes in the room through the wall in the press room

[KameTen]

The alley in Silent Hill will always remain with me as one of the scariest scenes. That and "meeting" Tyrant for the first time in Resident Evil 2.

Bastard :o

[zombie]

Clive Barker's Undying used to do a pretty good job of creeping me out.

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

Large parts of the Suffering, especially if you played an evil character.

If you were 'bad' throughout the game, Torque tended to have leagues more flashbacks, pop-up images, and hallucinations.


You'd just be walking along, and *bam*, screen filled with horrific crap.

Creatures that can appear out of almost nowhere+first-person view mode+a main character that hallucinates more than Cloud on crack= Really jumpy play experience.

[Mike Pothier]

Pretty much the entire first section of MP2: Echoes. Landing on an unknown planet, seeing soldiers being eaten alive, and god knows what happened.

Then they come to life and attack you.

[Anthony Johanson]

Those monks from RE:4, you blow off their head, and a parisite jumps out, its a bit creepy.

[Xero Kaiser]

Large parts of the Suffering, especially if you played an evil character.

If you were 'bad' throughout the game, Torque tended to have leagues more flashbacks, pop-up images, and hallucinations.


You'd just be walking along, and *bam*, screen filled with horrific crap.

Creatures that can appear out of almost nowhere+first-person view mode+a main character that hallucinates more than Cloud on crack= Really jumpy play experience.

I just got the suffering 2 today. if it's half a scary as the first one, I'll be a happy man

[Melchior]

Less scary, more disturbing.

Albedo (Xenosaga I & II) - his monologue with MOMO from the first game firmly put him in the nucking futz category. The scene in the second game where you find out that: 1) he thinks everyone can regenerate, so he has no moral problems with beating people to a pulp/death; 2) has obviously blown his head off multiple times by this point simply due to how casually he does it. Both by the tender age of twelve.

Less scary, more "Oh, did I do the wrong thing here or what!"

Indalecio (Star Ocean II) - when you meet him after turning his limiter off. His ending speach drastically changes, and is basically:

"You took away the only thing restraining me. Now you're all going to die."

He then procedes to take your normal end-game group apart in less than 60 seconds.

Actually, since I don't normally play horror/suspense style games, I can't really think of any really good ones. Though there are scenes in "Vagrant Story" and "Parasite Eve" that creeped me (or gave me a "what do I do now?" feeling).

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

I just got the suffering 2 today. if it's half a scary as the first one, I'll be a happy man

I'm happy as a clam that Dr. Killjoy is back.




But I'm really going to miss Hermes and Horace.

[The Drunkard Kid]

FFIX. Kuja's enternce.

I swear, that's the first time I ever clawed at my eyes while playing a video game. I still have nightmares about his costume, especially when Garland tells you that Kuja was just *hiding* a 2 and a half foot long tail under what basically amounts to a leather thong.

[deadcheeze]

I have to agree it was the dogs coming through the window in RE 1. At the time no one was used to graphics that good,(my how times change) and the music and everything coming together. Plus that game is sort of boring until then.
My second vote is any doom game with the lights off, surround sound and a slight buzz.

[BlairH]

Clive Barker's Undying used to do a pretty good job of creeping me out.
Yup, awesome game. The only game that I know of that has an Irish protagonist.

[Dissonance]

Eternal Darkness: The bathtub scenes
Good god, I nearly had a heart attack when I first investigated the bathtub.

[AndyAnime]

Good god, I nearly had a heart attack when I first investigated the bathtub.

You and me both. The bathtub scare in Eternal Darkness is one of the few times I've genuinely been scared by a video game. Didn't help that I was playing it at night.

[Lester C.]

I have an intense fear of heights so naturally the scene where Snake makes a Halo jump in Metal Gear Solid Three scared me. Those camera angles and Snakes response made me felt like I was making the jump myself.

[Avalanche]

The mirror room in Silent Hill 3 really creeped me out.

[Young Avenger]

Pymarid Head from Silent Hill 2. He is the scarist thing I have ever seen in my life. My heart stopped when he was chasing me and Maria down the narrow hallway to the evalator. He showed up without warning swinging his sword and chasing me.

Also the when the hell hospital from Silent Hill 3 scared me too. The walls looked like it was made of flesh with blood running arcoss it.

[jessecuster]

I was also recently reminded of the Flood in Halo 1. When you first discover them and are trying to to escape and you see the big ones for the first time, they are plenty freaky.

[Shellhead]

I've recently played a game called "Vampire: Bloodlines" which isn't scary at all, except for a small segment that takes place in a haunted house. I have to admit I had goosebumps during the whole thing. :)

That was my favorite, but there were other scary parts, too. The downtown hospital has a spooky atmosphere, and the house on King's Drive is appalling. The graveyard is creepy, of course, and that crackhouse is intimidating at first.

[Nyssane]

Resident Evil: Outbreak 2, when I'm just prancing along in the hospital when a guy comes out and tries to hack me with an axe. God, I thought zombies were scary...

Finding out the town Yuri and Alice were in were filled with cannibals in Shadow Hearts. That sent chills down my spine.

Thinking I could take a boat to Loban (a new town) in Romancing SaGa, so I carefreely went there and found the town completely under attack by monsters, so I fled the town to the plains where HUGE FREAKIN' DINOSAURS ROAMED. Of course, I was this close to giving up but I actually survived.

Walking around the midgar zolom was scary in Final Fantasy 7, and so was the scary weapons all over the place, I was terrified I would crash into them.

[Melchior]

Been playing "Shadow of Colossus" today. Half the colossi scare the begeezus out of me when I first see them. After all, your some lanky teen with a sword, and they are sky-scraper sized beasts that could walk through Minas Tirith from Lord of the Rings.

[Valmore]

Planescape: Torment freaked me out before the gameplay even began... the freaky part where you're looking in the well/mirror and watch your beautiful handsome face completely scar over and turn ugly and leathery was freaky cool. Being surrounded by really tough demons on Baator was pretty freaky, too.

[Trystenn]

Lisa Trevor can't beat Nemesis for the "Scare the Living Poop Out of You" factor.

There you go, running down an alley, the only sounds are your feet against the stones, when all of a sudden, *BOOM* a door bursts open, dramatic, scary music starts up, and you hear "STARS! STARS! STARS!" over and over as this friggin' huge monster with a rocket launcher is chasing you down.
Eh thats more of a "F******CK!!!!" moment, while Lisa genuinely scared me, honestly she seemed more of a Silent Hill kind of character.

[lalalei2001]

I also was scared of Bowser in Super Mario 64. And the eel in said game.

[Gezora]

Metal Gear Solid 2.

Raiden.

Naked.

You just flinched. Don't lie. I saw you do it.

And I rest my case.

[blackdragon6]

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RE2, when Tyrant comes in the room through the wall in the press room
yeah that f***** me up too lol

[Ray192]

Pfft. None of these games can compare to System Shock 2. The whole game is a training course in how to wet your pants.

[Nik Hasta]

The ghosts in Silent Hill 4.
They just wouldn't f*****' die!
I was playing the demo with a mate and we shot a ghost and it went down and we walked on.
Then it bloody well gets back up again.
Much shouting of "F***!" and my mate yelling at me to run.
Then two more turned up and chased us through the level.
We screamed like small, foul mouthed children.

[Archyduke]

I'm going to second Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2. He was very, very disconcerting.

Psycho Mantis was pretty scary the first time I played through MGS, but with time he's kind of become like that charming uncle who always tells the same ghost stories. Good ol' Psycho Mantis.

[Melchior]

Well, not quite the scariest, but it's similiar Nik Hasta's situation where the problem comes back.

My family was down in Florida at Disney, and there was a massive arcade place. It had a large 3-D-esque game where one person drives and picks up colonists, and the rest of the team shoots down the evil aliens before they kill the colonists and destroy the planet.

Anyway, I was the rear gunner, littlest sister was the front gunner (she mostly kept quiet and blew things up), and little sister drove. After picking up 15 out of 25 colonists, I see a huge ship show up.

Me: Ummm.... there's a really big ship that I can't seem to hit.

LS: Have you tried missiles?

Me: Not locking up. You might want to hurry up.

Me: *Thinking: I bet that's the planet destroyer that was shown in the instructions playing by the waiting line. We need to leave ASAP.*

*A few minutes pass, and we're at 20 out of 25 colonists. Meanwhile....*

Me: Sis?

LS: Yes?

Me: There's a giant wall of fire heading towards us, mountains are collapsing, and lava is starting to rise.

LS: And?

Me: We need to go faster.

LS: Oh, all.... wait, we need to go fetch that colonist over there.

Me: *Glancing over my shoulder.* The one that's surrounded by lava?

LS: Yep.

Me: *Going back to work.* Um, okay, but.... giant wall of fire. And a giant timer that just sprung up says we've got 3 minutes left.

LS: Okay, let me just stop and pick this guy up. *Waits half a minute.* Pooh, he accidently walked into the lava instead. Oh well, next guy.

The entire scenario ended with me chanting "Giant wall of fire X feet behind us, go faster!". Little Sister ended up diverting course to pick up the remaining colonists, and jumping into the warp gate with one second to spare. Turns out afterwards that I was the only one who was looking back to see the giant wall of fire getting closer (I was the rear gunner, afterall), and the only one who paid attention to the descriptions of what would happen in the game.

On the other hand, we got 24 out of 25 colonists, significantly more than the rest of the teams that round, and got out alive.... which is why little sister drives and I concentrate on blowing stuff up.

[Nefarius]

I've recently played a game called "Vampire: Bloodlines" which isn't scary at all, except for a small segment that takes place in a haunted house. I have to admit I had goosebumps during the whole thing. :)
Yeah,the game isn't so scary but the haunted house was the scariest thing in the whole game.:eek:

[Dr. J]

Easily, the scariest thing I've ever played is Aliens vs. Predator 2. I'm a little ashamed to admit this, but when playing the demo in the middle of the day, I saw blips moving in the wall via my motion tracker, and it scared the hell out of me to the point that I exited and uninstalled it right then and there :). The atmosphere in that game is just *amazing*, so far nothing I've played has really compared.

[Pepsigirl]

Well, not quite the scariest, but it's similiar Nik Hasta's situation where the problem comes back.

My family was down in Florida at Disney, and there was a massive arcade place. It had a large 3-D-esque game where one person drives and picks up colonists, and the rest of the team shoots down the evil aliens before they kill the colonists and destroy the planet.

Anyway, I was the rear gunner, littlest sister was the front gunner (she mostly kept quiet and blew things up), and little sister drove. After picking up 15 out of 25 colonists, I see a huge ship show up.

Me: Ummm.... there's a really big ship that I can't seem to hit.

LS: Have you tried missiles?

Me: Not locking up. You might want to hurry up.

Me: *Thinking: I bet that's the planet destroyer that was shown in the instructions playing by the waiting line. We need to leave ASAP.*

*A few minutes pass, and we're at 20 out of 25 colonists. Meanwhile....*

Me: Sis?

LS: Yes?

Me: There's a giant wall of fire heading towards us, mountains are collapsing, and lava is starting to rise.

LS: And?

Me: We need to go faster.

LS: Oh, all.... wait, we need to go fetch that colonist over there.

Me: *Glancing over my shoulder.* The one that's surrounded by lava?

LS: Yep.

Me: *Going back to work.* Um, okay, but.... giant wall of fire. And a giant timer that just sprung up says we've got 3 minutes left.

LS: Okay, let me just stop and pick this guy up. *Waits half a minute.* Pooh, he accidently walked into the lava instead. Oh well, next guy.

The entire scenario ended with me chanting "Giant wall of fire X feet behind us, go faster!". Little Sister ended up diverting course to pick up the remaining colonists, and jumping into the warp gate with one second to spare. Turns out afterwards that I was the only one who was looking back to see the giant wall of fire getting closer (I was the rear gunner, afterall), and the only one who paid attention to the descriptions of what would happen in the game.

On the other hand, we got 24 out of 25 colonists, significantly more than the rest of the teams that round, and got out alive.... which is why little sister drives and I concentrate on blowing stuff up.

I've played that! We sucked at it, I don't think we got anywhere close to half of the colonists.

[Melchior]

I've played that! We sucked at it, I don't think we got anywhere close to half of the colonists.

Well, my sisters and I are relatively close in age, so we're used to playing games and tag-teaming stuff. Little Sister has always been a better pilot, and I'm better at blowing stuff up, and the Littler Sister is between both of us in those two areas. In that old SNES Mechwarrior game, one of the girls would drive while I blew up the enemy (leading to cases of "Now, run clockwise! No wait, the other clockwise!" and "Fire left so we can slide right!" and "Go back, I can kill 'em!" "No, we need more health!").

So, anyway, we literally split ourselves up in the most effective format for our skills, and we were already used to working together in video games for close to ten years. So, we were ready for that sucker. And still only made it out with a second to spare and me screaming my lungs out.

[Lazy_Fiend]

Nemesis is 2nd place for me
in RE 4
the monster thats the right hand man
the one in the robe
scared the SHIT out of me
not kidding
almost stopped playing cuz i was scared

[the ultimate]

the quick zombies in ravenholm in half-life 2 got me screaming...always cause i could hear them before they attacked me like quick demons. Lol i remember my friend watching me play and told me to close the door on them, so i did and camped in a corner. I could hear the bastards hitting the door, but couldnt get in...i laughed...relieved then the scratching stopped. So as i proceeded to a nearby elevator the fucking ceiling window shatters (mind you in surround sound thats a pretty realistic sound) and i turn around and 2 of em had broke in with 2 more coming down...I SCREAMED as i fired at em with my shotty to no avail. (I told you the fuckers were fast) and died...:rolleyes:

[Vaders shoeshine boy]

Silent Hill 2 was a string of WTF moments;

Pyramids Heads 1st appearance;

The entire Toluca Lake prison scenario (who remembers the noise in the bathroom?) a nightmare which gets worse the further down (and I really mean DOWN!)you go,only to have the "boss" be the most "normal" guy there!

the toilet...

the can filled with (")'s
"

finding out how the world looks through Angela's eyes.

In Vampire the masquerade,did anyone have the heart to tell Patty(?) hat her master was at the basement of the hospital?

[Trusty Mutsi]

the giant eel in mario 64 :o

Funny you mention him today of all days. I just saw a picture of him in Game Informer and remembered how creepy he was.

[DarkSoldier]

Metal Gear Solid 2.

Raiden.

Naked.

You just flinched. Don't lie. I saw you do it.
I didn't. If you watch the "Raiden on the table" cutscene carefully, you can discern that Raiden's character model has no dangly bits.

The Naked Raiden sequence was scary to me, in the sense that "I have no gear of any kind (how am I carrying that cold medicine, BTW?), I'm unable to fight, and there are four security cameras and a dozen and a half armoured men with P-90's in a ten-degree hangar between me and my objective."

[hitokiri_]

most of the games are already mentioned. but you guys failed to include fatal frame. try playing that with no lights on in your living room wih open windows.

[Athena Bast]

for me it was the demo of the first silent hill and the freakish camera angles where you really couldn't see much of anything if there was anything to see... then stumbling into the alley way with zombie pygmies/children.. add the vibrating controller and the inability to do anything while they poked and prodded and overtook you.

[lalalei2001]

Just woke up from a Life Keeper nightmare. I thought he was gone >_<

[sePL]

Fatal Frame I and II for PS2 - all through the game you get your kicks.!. :eek: (similar to Silent Hill)
Silent Hill 1 when you first meet this little blackbabyghost enemy.
It is in a small room. It squeaks, and it´s wandering around but it´s not attacking you on this encounter,
the sound, and the fact that I couldn´t shoot it made me shiver.
Also in SH1 near a beach(?) I heard the sound of a dog.
I looked up the wall that led to a higher plane with my torchlight but couldn´t see that damn thing.
So I go along the bottom of the stairs and make a 180 turn to go up there,
my flashlight illuminating the stairs now, and in this moment
that friggin zombie dog comes jumping down the stairs right into my face,
all lit by my Flashlight. I screamed and turned my Playstation off.:eek:
God bless the Rumblepad.

[Trusty Mutsi]

the quick zombies in ravenholm in half-life 2 got me screaming...always cause i could hear them before they attacked me like quick demons. Lol i remember my friend watching me play and told me to close the door on them, so i did and camped in a corner. I could hear the bastards hitting the door, but couldnt get in...i laughed...relieved then the scratching stopped. So as i proceeded to a nearby elevator the fucking ceiling window shatters (mind you in surround sound thats a pretty realistic sound) and i turn around and 2 of em had broke in with 2 more coming down...I SCREAMED as i fired at em with my shotty to no avail. (I told you the fuckers were fast) and died...:rolleyes:

My heart was RACING on this level, and I LOVED how the level ended, with the priest laughing.

Imagine if Valve made a zombie game!

[Evil Teddy]

Oh... my scariest moment.. is lame. For my birthday, a friend of my mum's got me "Cabela Dangerous Hunts 2" or something... well, I don't often play horror games, because I'm a complete spaz and if I can't get a cheat for "unlimited ammo" I would waste it all in the first five minutes of gameplay on ANY given horror game, and then I would just run around screaming and whacking zombies or whatever with the gun. pistol whip ftw. anyway, I was low on health and trying to get through a mission, and I thought I saw a healing item in the brush.. and I walked out to it.. and it blew up into a TIGER. I screamed like the wuss I am :( It got all in my face(the screen) and for a second I thought it would come out of the glass at me.

.... this only happened a few months ago. :(

[C.O. Jones]

Just hearing a character talk for the very first time in 'Tomb Raider' freaked me the hell out.

[mattspideyrocks!]

Nothing has ever come close to scaring me even half as much as Silent Hill did and still does. I still have the occasional nightmare from that. I remember getting it when it came out in 99 and hooking up my playstation in my grandparents basement. It's like 10 o'clock and I turned out all the lights and turned it on. I think I played it for 15 minutes before I flicked it off and ran upstairs to make sure I wasn't about to die or something. By the time I had beaten it, I was absolutely terrified and didn't think I would ever be able to look at anything horror-oriented for the rest of my life. It's my favorite game ever because of that. Nothing ever got to me like that did. And my god. The scariest, most unnerving moment to me was wandering through that school in the dark and finding the classroom with the phones. I'm sitting there in the dark and I go to walk out the door and the phone rings. My eyes automatically bulged out and I had a WTF?? moment. You answer the phone and you just hear Cheryl's voice, no other background noise. Her pleading for help. I honest to god trickled in my pants and didn't go to sleep for a good 3 days after. Every time the phone rang for the next week, I wouldn't answer it. I wouldn't even go near it. It scared the hell out of me.For me, nothing can top Silent Hill for having the biggest array of most disturbing shit ever in one game.

[mattspideyrocks!]

Whoops. Double post.

[FBHthelizardmage]

FEAR

Just about every time the little ghost girl turns up... or the invisible guys...

the worst bit has to be when she's crawling towards you in the vent.

[The Mirrorball Man]

FEAR

Just about every time the little ghost girl turns up... or the invisible guys...

the worst bit has to be when she's crawling towards you in the vent.
Yeah, all in all, it wasn't nearly as scary as it could have been, but the "spider walk" scene was really terrifying.

[lalalei2001]

My friend said Silent Hill was not as scary as Doom 3. I proved him wrong >:)

[kal_el21]

Playing RE in the dark the day I got it. Just in the very beginning, opening the door and getting the quick cinema of the dogs, when the dogs crash through the hallway windows. Yeah, I had to check my pants.

[Alex]

A lot of people mentioned RE4, but they haven't said what scared me the most.
http://www.capcom-central.com/ResidentEvil/ResidentEvil4/images/char/merch.gif
"Whatre you buying?"
"What are you selling?"
JESUS! Don't open your coat mr maskface child molestor voice!

[Sanagi]

A lot of people mentioned RE4, but they haven't said what scared me the most.
http://www.capcom-central.com/ResidentEvil/ResidentEvil4/images/char/merch.gif
"Whatre you buying?"
"What are you selling?"
JESUS! Don't open your coat mr maskface child molestor voice!
Even more bizarre, the merchants seem to be an entire clan of identically dressed, well-armed perverts who squat in caves, huts, and foyers.

[Leslie Lee III]

The Two-Faced baby monsters in Silent Hill 4, bar freaking none except for MAYBE Pyramid Head from 2 or those big monsters with the punching bags for arms in 3.

[Agent Helix]

When Sephiroth first appeared, and an entire generation of gamers somehow managed to convince themselves he was in any way interesting or cool.

Chilling.

[Michael P]

The first time I played Ocarina of Time, Gohma scared the pants off of me.

[Yun Lao]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the interrogation room scene in RE2 when the Licker bursts through the glass.

Also, the Suffering in the beginning when you go into first person view and are right in front of cell bars only before one of the bladed enemies streaks by and slices through the metal.

[Serik]

When Sephiroth first appeared, and an entire generation of gamers somehow managed to convince themselves he was in any way interesting or cool.

Chilling.

hahahahaah the gaming forum has been defeated.

[malephoenix]

I really want to try Silent Hill, now. It's amazing how just reading what you guys are talking about with most of the lights off has given me goosebumps.

[Atomic Horror]

Milla's "nightmare room" in Psychonauts.

[Leslie Lee III]

I really want to try Silent Hill, now. It's amazing how just reading what you guys are talking about with most of the lights off has given me goosebumps.

Like with Resident Evil, Silent Hill is a must play series. And if that gets you going the Fatal Frame series is just as essential. Lucky for gamers, all of these games are intense experiences, not overly long, and can be had for cheap as hell right now.

[Ixion]

Resident Evil 1, the snake in the attic. :eek:

[Chou Blaster]

Milla's "nightmare room" in Psychonauts.


Oh Lord yes, The Milk man wa spretty depressing depending on how you looked at it, and the Meat CIrcus.

That Mind scape damn nea rmade me swea r off meat.

Also the Suffering is pretty dman creepy, i f your gonig the eivl routine.

In Half Lfie 2, the Tri Pod enemies gave me genuine movie magic fear.

And Clock Tower wa spretty damn scary, as your a unarmed person, and you got a Slasher style killer after you.

[genesis]

the quick zombies in ravenholm in half-life 2 got me screaming...always cause i could hear them before they attacked me like quick demons. Lol i remember my friend watching me play and told me to close the door on them, so i did and camped in a corner. I could hear the bastards hitting the door, but couldnt get in...i laughed...relieved then the scratching stopped. So as i proceeded to a nearby elevator the fucking ceiling window shatters (mind you in surround sound thats a pretty realistic sound) and i turn around and 2 of em had broke in with 2 more coming down...I SCREAMED as i fired at em with my shotty to no avail. (I told you the fuckers were fast) and died...:rolleyes:


God, I remember that part. I almost litterally crapped myself hearing their screams and running away and they would pop up then the occaisonal few i caught on fire just to hear them scream and scream that horrible noise. My dad was watching me play it and ended up leaving the room after it was nothing but them screaming for like half an hour.

[lalalei2001]

When I was little I got Clock Tower confused with Clockwork Knights,

I was scarred for life until I forgot about it years later.

[Sheldon]

The Two-Faced baby monsters in Silent Hill 4, bar freaking none except for MAYBE Pyramid Head from 2 or those big monsters with the punching bags for arms in 3.

Yeah Pyramid head is one of really scary ones.
I think the music and sounds really add to the atmosphere in Silent Hill. I remember one level that had the sound of trickling water in the background which just creeped me out.

[Wesley Dodds]

Well, Silent Hill spooked me so badly it was a year before I played another Survival Horror game.

Of course, it wouldn't have been as scary if the controls hadn't been so awful.

[lalalei2001]

Any more tales of doom and general scariness?

[Thorlief]

Resident Evil 4- you play as Ashley and you're into the castle, looking for stuff. You're alone and you have no weapons. You walk thru a corridor in which there are four knight armors, then you enter a room. You start exploring it, there's almost no light at all besides some candles. There's no music. After a lot of searching you find a important item and finally congratulate yourself.
And suddenly the door locks up, CA-CLANK. You hear nothing but metallic steps walking very slowly at first, then running, for about ten seconds. The sound is closer, closer, closer...
Then a knight armor smashes the door with his sword.
Nothing has ever scared me like that freaking moment. I really crapped my pants.

[Mikl C]

Dunno if anyone has said it but Resident Evil Nemesis you're in this abandoned hallway just being like "Oh! a herb!" and then NEMESIS F***ING BURSTS THROUGH THE WINDOW and I actually screamed.

[wingsofdamnation]

the same part scared the crap out of me too. i almost pissed my pants

[Thorlief]

how the hell could I forget? Clock Tower (Snes) has to be the freakin creepiest shiz ever. I was just a child at that time and it used to scare the bejeezus out of me. Now that i think about it, its rather weird that they released a 100% horror game with serial killers, giant deformed cannibal babies, strangled people, electrocuted stepmothers and so on at a time the majority of Snes owners were teens or childs.
It also had a minimalistic soundtrack which sounds a lot like Dario Ardento's movies. The whole atmospehre is totally, incredibly creepy. I musta removed that game from my memory

[Crimson King]

Doom 3.

When walking down a corridor, you seem what seems to be a survivor. All of a sudden, her head flies off and tries to eat you.

[Jack]

Whoever mentioned System Shock 2 was telling the truth. Every moment in that game was like these other moments you guys are listing. You could probably assemble a horror book from all the journal entries and messages sent, even, let alone everything else.

An honourable mention for me, though, from the original Tomb Raider and the T-Rex. One of the single best moments in gaming history, that one.

[Nosgoth Phantom]

Silent Hill three where you're looking into a mirror and all of a sudden the room starts to bleed and the walls start to turn into flesh.

[Farrar]

eternal darkness is one of the most unnerving, and messed up games i think i've played... the sanity meter is one of the best inventions i've seen in a gane for a long time. You can be walking around a completely safe room, and then your body just starts literally falling apart, or you can be chased by a gang of nasties, try and regenerate health and have your entire upper torso explode instead. Add to that your typical scary horror game moments and you have a monster of a game.

[NoMaD!]

Bathroom scene from Eternal Darkness. Plus those lil %$^& Bonethiefs.

Pious Augustus was a great villain also.

Long live Mantorok:evilsmile

[Chris Lang]

The first time I played Ocarina of Time, Gohma scared the pants off of me.

Actually, those Redead zombies scared me when I first played. It was the high-pitched scream of terror that did itt. And seeing them in the ruins of Hyrule Castle Town in the 'dark' future was a disturbing moment...

[Nosgoth Phantom]

Bathroom scene from Eternal Darkness. Plus those lil %$^& Bonethiefs.

Pious Augustus was a great villain also.

Long live Mantorok:evilsmile

That was such a great game. They are making a sequel. Was funny when you'd be walking with a full insanity meter and all of a sudden your head would just fall off. Or when bugs would walk on the screen so you didn't know if it was the game or a real bug on your screen.

[Captain Murphy]

Hospital roof on Silent Hill 2 when you try to open the door and you hear pyramid heads sword, I almost crapped myself because there was no escape, also the prison gave me the chills when you hear those horses but dont see anything.

[GodSmackingReptile]

in the game Thief:Deadly Shadows, i got so freaked out at this one point. okay, im told that i have to go to this orphanage that has been abandoned for decades, so i go in and the cellar door slams behind me. i know that this cant be good. no in the house, nothing happens... this is the part that really freaks my out, the complete silence...you hear nothing, only a few various noises like sometime the floor creaks or opening doors. but theres no back-round music, no enemies that talk to each other (further into the house you run into some zombies) and now here comes the kicker, once you go into the attic and look around a bit you see theres nothing special here so you turn around and wham theres this ghost girl standing right in front of you, no cut scene warned me and she didnt make any noise at all. so yeah i freaked out

[lalalei2001]

Any more scary moments?

[HectorP]

Silent Hill 3. Screaming mannequin head and mirror room. Yeah.

[Hellbaby]

I don't play horror games, or games that would present jumpy situations. But I was playing Halo 1 (the Silent Cartographer level) and when you go under ground, I was always thinking a Brute would just come around the corner and KILL ME!!!!!! But it never happened.

But I get invisible shield then I get Brutes!!

[lalalei2001]

Another scary part was when I was fighting my rival in Pokemon Red for the first time and I came THIS close to losing. I was sweating like crazy cause I was scared I'd have to do it all over!

[TheBest246]

I cant believe that no one has mentioned it but condemned: criminal origin the most f***ed up game I have ever played, I cant pick out one part just the whole game is terrifying!
Silent Hill the room too, I had to force myself to play that game! :eek:

[I Must Break U]

F-ING A!!!! Dudes that scared the poop outta me when i first played it. Also boss battles in resident evil tend to scare the crap outta me too! Especially when i know i am close to dying and i'm all hunched over.

[StreetFighterRyu]

I cant believe that no one has mentioned it but condemned: criminal origin the most f***ed up game I have ever played, I cant pick out one part just the whole game is terrifying!
Silent Hill the room too, I had to force myself to play that game! :eek:

Yeah, Condemned is pretty bad. I jump everytime some enemies just pop out of nowhere. Then there's F.E.A.R.

[Gladiaria_Alata]

When 'The Darkness' first spoke to Jackie.

It wasn't scary persay, but it certainly made me jump.

[kain5252]

Alma from F.E.A.R, theres yo many times where she scares the crap out of me to pick just one.

[Thorlief]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc1dn545qc0&locale=en_US&persist_locale=1

it scared the hell outta me, because it was one of the crappiest intro ever, and I had been literally starving for that game for months. Talk about a f'ing disappointment

[asloveislost]

I don't play horror games, or games that would present jumpy situations. But I was playing Halo 1 (the Silent Cartographer level) and when you go under ground, I was always thinking a Brute would just come around the corner and KILL ME!!!!!! But it never happened.

But I get invisible shield then I get Brutes!!

there are no brutes in halo 1 so i think you'll be fine :p

[Cyke]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc1dn545qc0&locale=en_US&persist_locale=1

it scared the hell outta me, because it was one of the crappiest intro ever, and I had been literally starving for that game for months. Talk about a f'ing disappointment

Hell, the face popping up like that at the end is certainly up there with anything in Resident Evil.

Oh, and also, the fact that they used Peter Graves Phelps as a model instead of Jon Voight Phelps besmirches Graves.

[asloveislost]

Fighting for the first time
Half-Life: headcrabs
Metroid Prime- metroids (them being in 3d was pretty freaky)

[StreetFighterRyu]

Alma from F.E.A.R, theres yo many times where she scares the crap out of me to pick just one.

Tell me about it. There's nothing scarier than a little ghost girl.

[Thorlief]

Hell, the face popping up like that at the end is certainly up there with anything in Resident Evil.

Oh, and also, the fact that they used Peter Graves Phelps as a model instead of Jon Voight Phelps besmirches Graves.

you shoulda seen the pseudo-intro when he's sitting on a bench watching the mission. There was so much fog not even in London

another scary MI64 video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwHWi9dV-cY

[Jade_GL]

there were some moments in Bioshock that scared me. I was actually quite surprised that a game made me jump and freak out, but there you go. :)

If anyone has played the game through, a lot of the areas in Fort Frolic were just creepy. I would say that was the scariest area, just beating out the Medical Pavilion.

[1WEBHEAD]

^^yeah, that Dr. Stienman was really really creepy to fight with. . .

[nervmeister]

Portal
THE CAKE IS A LIE! It was bonechilling just thinking about the mental state of the person who wrote all that.

[Agent Helix]

No way, the secret Portal rooms were hilarious, especially the Weighted Companion Cube room.

[jeanprixx]

Resident evil i think the scariest game ever The special effects are Damn Very Good!

[TheDarkestHorse]

The Metal Gear Solid series has a lot of creepy, sinking feeling in the gut moments. In the first one, of course, you have Psycho Mantis calling you out on your video game habits and talking about your memory card. Kinda goofy the second time around, but weird as hell when I was younger.

In Sons of Liberty, toward the end The Colonol starts interrupting you every few seconds with some random babble, and you think 'has the colonol gone insane?' Then weird stuff starts happening in the game. 'Maybe Raiden's going insane'. Then it just keeps on for like an hour, and...'Am...Am I going insane?

But the creepiest stuff is in Snakeater. The most obvious is the long trek through a river filled to overflowing with the mutilated, wandering forms of all the people Snake's killed in his life, but there's also enemies like The End, a sniper who seems to literally be dead until he needs to wake up for a shot, and The Pain, who's body was a bee's nest, and the one who's name I can't remember who was basically a were-spider. But my favorite was The Fury. You're in completely dark, maze-like catacombs, and this guy in a red astronaut suit roars in with a jetpack and a flamethrower. And through the whole fight, you can halfway make out the fuzzy, crackly radio conversation that I'm pretty sure is coming out of thin air, cuz I'm pretty sure he was some kind of phantom. A phantom with a flamethrower. And a jetpack. Yeah.

Also, swimming in water with alligators in it is my greatest fear.

Now that I'm writing all this down, Snakeater is one severely 'F'ed up game...

[TheDarkestHorse]

I just remembered a game I played several times through when I got my first PS1...it was an adventure/puzzle game like Syberia. It involved a woman who goes into this building where a massacre has occurred, and her own reflection pulls her through a mirror into a creepy castle. Mostly it was just finding items and exploring, but I remember running from a boulder, and a (then) really challenging timed button press sequence where a Knight tries to dismember you. But then, at the end, you find a gun (a special gun, I assume) and have the option to shoot Dracula...or don't shoot Dracula (hint: shoot Dracula).

anyway, i liked it a lot back then, but can't remember the name. Anyone?

[nervmeister]

The Metal Gear Solid series has a lot of creepy, sinking feeling in the gut moments. In the first one, of course, you have Psycho Mantis calling you out on your video game habits and talking about your memory card. Kinda goofy the second time around, but weird as hell when I was younger.

In Sons of Liberty, toward the end The Colonol starts interrupting you every few seconds with some random babble, and you think 'has the colonol gone insane?' Then weird stuff starts happening in the game. 'Maybe Raiden's going insane'. Then it just keeps on for like an hour, and...'Am...Am I going insane?

But the creepiest stuff is in Snakeater. The most obvious is the long trek through a river filled to overflowing with the mutilated, wandering forms of all the people Snake's killed in his life, but there's also enemies like The End, a sniper who seems to literally be dead until he needs to wake up for a shot, and The Pain, who's body was a bee's nest, and the one who's name I can't remember who was basically a were-spider. But my favorite was The Fury. You're in completely dark, maze-like catacombs, and this guy in a red astronaut suit roars in with a jetpack and a flamethrower. And through the whole fight, you can halfway make out the fuzzy, crackly radio conversation that I'm pretty sure is coming out of thin air, cuz I'm pretty sure he was some kind of phantom. A phantom with a flamethrower. And a jetpack. Yeah.

Also, swimming in water with alligators in it is my greatest fear.

Now that I'm writing all this down, Snakeater is one severely 'F'ed up game...The spider soldier is The Fear. And I loved The Sorrow encounter. But I think Volgin was the scariest character in the game. The whole metal barrel scene with Granin and the torture room scene convinced me of that.

[Thnikkaman]

The Redeads from LOZ: Ocarina of Time. That was the first time I was ever scared by an enemy in a video game.

[worstblogever]

I remember this old PC game called "Phantasmagoria" that had a flashback sequence where you watch a guy force feed his wife endtrails out of nowhere...

I think "Fatal Frame" had a lot of moments where you jump... like when you find out the whole house you're in is possessed by ancient Japanese demons.

Other than that, I think any of Silent Hill series does the trick.

[Draconomicon]

Tell me about it. There's nothing scarier than a little ghost girl.

Fear is one of my absolutely favourite games. And while the maingame was scary like heck, did any of you try to the first add on?
Freakiness takes on a NEW level.
It gets really scary there O_O

*Mumbles about hating the hospital levels*
While the bureaus were interesting to fight with through their -normality- of look, the hospital takes the whole thing to near Silent Hill levels.

[lalalei2001]

Winston Payne from Phoenix Wright scared me. The first time I heard his nails-on-a-chalkboard 'OBJECTION!' I screamed.

[Thnikkaman]

Likewise, Manfred Von Karma. He sounds like Satan himself rose from the pits of hell to make your life miserable.

[The Zapper]

The end levels of the DOOM game that had crying babies in the background. I can't explain why, but those soft cries really got under my skin.

[Thorlief]

Winston Payne from Phoenix Wright scared me. The first time I heard his nails-on-a-chalkboard 'OBJECTION!' I screamed.

haha, cool one. Yeah, I wasn't really expecting his voice to be like that

[lalalei2001]

haha, cool one. Yeah, I wasn't really expecting his voice to be like that

And yes, as corny as it sounds, I did wince in pain. :p

[Neal R]

I just remembered a game I played several times through when I got my first PS1...it was an adventure/puzzle game like Syberia. It involved a woman who goes into this building where a massacre has occurred, and her own reflection pulls her through a mirror into a creepy castle. Mostly it was just finding items and exploring, but I remember running from a boulder, and a (then) really challenging timed button press sequence where a Knight tries to dismember you. But then, at the end, you find a gun (a special gun, I assume) and have the option to shoot Dracula...or don't shoot Dracula (hint: shoot Dracula).

anyway, i liked it a lot back then, but can't remember the name. Anyone?

That sounds like "D." Take a look herehttp://www.psxa2z.com/gpgs/BT0249.html

[Neal R]

Silent Hill 3. Screaming mannequin head and mirror room. Yeah.

Must agree here. Here's another handful of my favorite "AGGGH!" moments.

Resident Evil 4: Just returning from the damm that held the crest to open the church (right before finding Ashley). Coming up to the side paths, can't see a damn thing. PARASYTIC DOG LUNGES OUT OF THE DARKNESS AND BITES INTO MY THROAT. I screamed like a little girl.

Fatal Frame 2: Near the beginning, two sisters entering the village, one lays a hand on the other's shoulder. Then the other sister WALKS BY HER and the HAND IS STILL ATTACHED. Classic cheap effect.

Doom 3: I'm inside a room with about four floor to ceiling metal posts, and it's pitch black in sections. One makes it's presence known. A human zombie. No problem. Except this one's head is missing it's upper half. And it's still walking toward me.

I just started eternal darkness. I can't wait for that bathtub scene.

[Laughing Mask]

pyramid head.

and those monks from resident evil 4 give me the creeps.

[lalalei2001]

I'm not a Silent Hill fan by any means, but I heard that if you somehow look inside Pyramid Head's head you'll see one of the developer's heads. That makes him much less frightening. Or more so, depending on your point of view :p

[geejtopia]

Let's see...

Silent Hill: The first time you cross over to the 'bad' (or should I say even worse) world.

Resident Evil: When you re-enter the mansion and it changes to the cut scene of the POV of something coming up the path you just walked, only a lot faster.

Fatal Frame 2: The ghost of the woman who fell (jumped?) off the staircase.

Silent Hill 3: The haunted house at the amusement park. The 'tour guide's' voice really creeped me out.

Super Mario 64: When you get to the underground lake and you see the giant sea monster. Sure it turned out to be friendly, but the first time I saw it coming out of the darkness, I freaked.

And the entirety of Superman 64

[Chris S.]

You guys will probably laugh at this; as you should. I remember years and years ago playing the lion king game. All that time spent and when I would get to the last level I used to have to turn off the volume because the music would get to me. I know it seems ridiculous but it put me on edge. I don't know if that is necessarily "scariest" but it is what comes to mind.

[Alex]

The spider soldier is The Fear. And I loved The Sorrow encounter. But I think Volgin was the scariest character in the game. The whole metal barrel scene with Granin and the torture room scene convinced me of that.

Him grabbing balls was pretty creepy.

[Sgt. Fuzzy]

I'm quite the gutless person, so obviously there are quite a few "scariest moments" for me, even with the limited number of horror games I've played. Spoilers, obviously.

Off the top of my head though, Condemned: Criminal Origins had quite a few. That game, from what little I remember of it, was quite disturbing. Two words: Mr Tibbits. And the lunch lady! o_O Also, the part where you fall through the floor and see the mannequins staring down at you. They never followed you in the end, IIRC, but I ran like a madman as fast as I could.

Also, the moment where the guy in the train station asks you "Spare a little change, mister?" and some crazy hobo smashes out of the dry wall next to him and beats him to death with a pipe, then proceeds to go after you.

In FEAR Extraction Point, Holiday's death scene was pretty disturbing, as well as Jin's, despite the latter not being as graphic. Also, the part where you climb up a ladder, past an open air duct, and Alma lunges out and punches you clean off. After landing I unloaded three full clips from the RPL at the vent.

The cage fight with U3 in Resident Evil 4 was pretty scary; also, not having a rocket launcher to fight Verdugo and not being skilled enough to evade him for 4 minutes was more frustrating than scary, but scary nonetheless. Running as fast as you can down the corridor and hearing him splashing in the water behind you; whoo.

Novistadors are scary because their invisibility is so cheap. And the heavy breathing/spasmic movements of Regenerators and Iron Maidens is more than just a little disturbing. When you blow their legs off they actually slither along the floor towards you to attempt to go for your throat. I freaked out so badly the first time I saw that I had to replay that part the next day in broad daylight.

I'll probably post more when I can remember them.

[HectorP]

pyramid head.

and those monks from resident evil 4 give me the creeps.

I found them funny. Then again, I found the game godly yet funny. 'Alli esta' and 'Matalo' monks especially. :D

I'm not a Silent Hill fan by any means, but I heard that if you somehow look inside Pyramid Head's head you'll see one of the developer's heads. That makes him much less frightening. Or more so, depending on your point of view :p

A camera trick implies the back of its head is a bloated mess. Take a look at the Butcher in SHO (or Valtiel in SH3) for other interpretations.

[PaidHero]

The old school Playstation horror games like Resident Evil cause you move so slow and the monsters except for the zombies move so fast.

[Tequilamokinbrd]

Early in the PSOne's life, my roommates at the time and I rented one, and a few games to go with it.

We were about 25 at the time and had stayed up very late playing the games. Among the games that we had rented, one of them was the original Resident Evil. Well as we all know, the PSOne compared to the Nintendos and Segas had much better and crisper sound than any of these earlier popular machines. So it must have been about two in the morning one of my roommates and I were sitting on the floor playing the game and our 3rd roommate was laying on the couch half asleep. We are playing through the game and there is that scene when the dogs come jumping through the windows, well between the dogs barking and the shattered glass effects, roomate on the couch leaps about 10 feet in the air. We still laugh about this today.





I have never in my life before or since experienced a moment in a video game that scared me as much as those dogs jumping through that window. Those dogs jumping through the window changed the way I look at video games and how much effort creators are willing to put in to immerse you in an experience.

[angilina]

2 games, FEAR and Doom 3. Both were scary

I have a 5.1 sound system which makes things even more scary

[Ta2grrl]

I am so glad I am not the only one to be freaked out by the dogs in the original Resident Evil...

There were a few moments in Parasite Eve that threw me as well...

Oh and buy Fatal Frame/Project Zero...scary...and cool...!!

XXX

[lalalei2001]

I was majorly freaked out by Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid. But mainly because my cousin, who was playing, convicned me it was for real. :p

[Guy1]

I came within a few seconds of being killed by the Chainsaw Majinji after my magnum ammo ran out.
That's.....about it for me I think.

[Mike Pothier]

Here you go.

Exmortis part 1 (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/189227) and Exmortis part 2 (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/303832).

And by all means, play it at night, lights out and sound up.

Its not THAT scary. :evilsmile:

[worstblogever]

Hell, I remember playing the original Legend of Zelda when I was five, before the internet or cheat guides were there to help save you from stuff in games. Summer vacation... one thirty in the morning... Death Mountain. Level 9. After wandering around exploring all the nooks and crannies, staring at a map that vaguely looks like a skull (not fully explored)... and you wander into a room that's dark... the lights come on... and you're facing down Ganon.

Fight time, right? Well yeah. But then the cheap bastard disappears!

One thirty AM. Invisible enemy. You don't know s*** about needing silver arrows. He's just bouncing around flinging fireballs at you. Get used to staring at the skull before you. Because you. are. going. to. die.

On the upside, at least it didn't include the "Game Over' scene from Zelda two where he laughs at you. That would've given me nightmares at that age.

[sHayden]

I wasn't scared but I was freaked out by that critter that comes out of the teddy bear in Splatterhouse 3.

[carabas]

Silent Hill 1, 2 and 3. All of it, really, the stand-out scary scenes have been mentioned multiple times in this thread.

But in 2 and 3, there is the very strong suggestion that there is nothing wrong with the town and its inhabitants, that it is just you that has gone severely off the rails, that there are no monsters and that you have been hallucinating and killing scores of regular people.

[moonknight11]

I have never in my life before or since experienced a moment in a video game that scared me as much as those dogs jumping through that window. Those dogs jumping through the window changed the way I look at video games and how much effort creators are willing to put in to immerse you in an experience.

Fuck Yes. The only thing that surpasses it is Silent Hill 2 when you get swiped by Pyramid Head on top of the hospital roof.

[Mister Kight]

While they won't make you scream, the Splatterhouse games were pretty damned twisted. Highlights include the aformentioned possessed teddy bear (Splatterhouse III), a literal womb level (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WombLevel), complete with embryonic monsters bursting out of the walls (Splatterhouse); and a boss fight that has you chainsawing mutant babies (Splatterhouse II).

[Joe Prevost]

I was on the last level of Ghost and Goblins when, BAM! The game freezes.

[Aziz Abbasi]

.Nemesis in RE3 screams, but he still gives me chills for his abilities
.Mr. X from Resident Evil 2 still gives me chills of how cool, calm, quite, fast in marching and powerful in striking he is