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[tommib]

I’m not sure From Software was aware they were making the scariest survival horror section back in 2009 when designing 3-2.

 

[existensmaximum]

Totally!

 

[VeganElduderino]

any boss in a game ! I fucking hate bosses man!
they look cool , buttfuck do I hate them!
they kind of scare the shit out of me , just look at Hollow knight or Bloodborne!

 

[Haint]

lolwat. The fake horror game facade for the lgbtq+ coming of age story was the entire point of the game, nothing unintentional about it.

 

[I'm nobody]

Can't think of any games tbh but my kid sister would be scared of VCi intro apparently it was scary for a lot of kids

 

[Randall365]

Those fucking frogs in Dark Souls when you have been cursed, walked miles to fix it and are then back there again in the Depths. ‘SHIT, SHIT, SHIT!’ - while you try and get out of their clouds.

There’s a boss in Demons Souls too who can de-level you with a certain attack - horrific after grinding to be able to take him on.

 

[Madserb2023]

As someone has mentioned before, pretty much the N64. I don't know whether it was due to fog being used so much that it made everything look like Silent Hill but games like Majora's Mask were just really disturbing. I actually found it more unsettling than Resident Evil. It was like a surreal dream which is best way to describe a N64 game

 

[FewRope]

Shadow of the Colossus where you fight the colossus that is underwater. You're just floating in this giant lake and this massive colossus is swimming underneath you.

This and the music when you are swimming. It's legit terrifying

 

[_Ex_]

Spoiler

 

[Gaiff]

Does Abyssal Woods in Elden Ring count? From Software games often go for a horror vibe but I feel Elden Ring throughout wasn't frightening at all. Some mildly spooky bits but by and large, nothing scary...except for the Abyssal Woods.

 

[N1tr0sOx1d3]

 

[Arsic]

 

[Trilobit]

That game had so many creepy moments, that I wasn't sure were meant to be creepy.

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In Arkham Knight you grapple gun yourself up to the roof hundreds of times and then suddenly this asshole appears and screams at you. I nearly had a heart attack.

And then later on the friggin' Joker does the same thing. I angrily shook my fist at the developers.

 

[Madserb2023]

Zelda the thread.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Ecco the Dolphin on Dreamcast. I mean graphics were getting really good for the time, and there was no fucking way I was going near that Great White Shark. It looked so real back then.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Another defective gem from Frogwares xD

 

[sigmaZ]

That game had so many creepy moments, that I wasn't sure were meant to be creepy.

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In Arkham Knight you grapple gun yourself up to the roof hundreds of times and then suddenly this asshole appears and screams at you. I nearly had a heart attack.

And then later on the friggin' Joker does the same thing. I angrily shook my fist at the developers.

The phone ringing thing in Arkham City was pretty terrifying as well.

 

[Trilobit]

The phone ringing thing in Arkham City was pretty terrifying as well.

Not to mention the serial killer in Arkham Knight. Great trilogy, even though the last one was the weakest.

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Jumping off a tall building in GTA, or any game for that matter. It genuinely makes my stomach drop, it's fucking horrific lol.

 

[LukeAJN]

The ghost level in the Rugrats game Search for Reptar on PS1 (also the goose in the maze level). 90s kids will know.

 

[Jack Videogames]

Rare game over screens/videos

 

[Markio128]

Pistol Whip constantly gives me jump scares and I don’t think it’s meant to be a scary game.

 

[Phobos Base]

As a kid, this boss from Contra 3/Super Probotector. You beat what you think is the boss, then this thing rips its way through the wall

 

[Codes 208]

Halo with the flood in general

They have to be one of my favorite enemy classes just for how shocking their first appearance was, followed by their potential and goal of wiping out the galaxy

 

[Corian33]

Half of Shadows of the Empire on N64. Most especially the fight with IG-88 in the junkyard. Absolutely terrifying to me as a kid.

 

[Comandr]

Ecco the Dolphin on Dreamcast. I mean graphics were getting really good for the time, and there was no fucking way I was going near that Great White Shark. It looked so real back then.

I'm a big boy grown man and this is still one of the hardest segments in the game for me to deal with.

 

[Mhmmm 2077]

Arkham Knight's Man Bat jumpscare...

 

[SmokedMeat]

I'm a big boy grown man and this is still one of the hardest segments in the game for me to deal with.

I’ll tell ya, I find having to swim in shark infested water scarier than any fictitious videogame monster.

 

[Plague Doctor]

I am going to be real with everyone. I lose more and more faith in humanity and the arts when I see YouTube videos trump up every bullshit cutesy n64-esque stuff and claim its "Oh My God, traumatizing and uncanny!".

Anyone who legitimately feels this way has lived a sheltered life if it a fucking mascot character in an obtusely banal game about collecting stars, coin, lady bugs, horseshoes, or flully cloudy inspires dread. Fuck....

 

[TintoConCasera]

Rare game over screens/videos

Not the Banjo-Kazooie one.

Donkey Kong Country's used to give me the creeps as a child.

 

[Caffeine]

the flood in halo 1 first appearance on harder difficulty. typically in horror games you are weak and resources sparse. up to this point you have been a super soldier with all the weapons and even still they captured a level of desperation against and overwhelming force and navigating a map where u can easily get disoriented on where to go.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Forest Temple (the whole dungeon)and the 1.00 Fire Temple theme in Ocarina of Time.

The crashed Shinra vessel in OG Final Fantasy VII.

Everything in and involving anything below the first floor of Balamb Garden in Final Fantasy VIII.

Last visit to The Citadel in Mass Effect 3.

 

[MayauMiao]

 

[Danjin44]

Spoiler: 13 Sentinels Spoiler

The whole terminator fight in the bathroom, I was seriously scared for Natsuno.

 

[Zephir]

Megaman legends 2 underwater level... For me

And I'll add the T-Rex Reaverbot in the desert ruins smashing through the windows while you're watching it

Oh, and the cloaked bots that turns into frenzy mummies or whatever that charge at you...lovely

Oh and the single, solitary robot in the first game that turns invisible...screw him

 

[emivita]

Actually the whole game is kinda unintentionally scary. But I loved it.

 

[mrcroket]

Max payne nightmare levels. I can't replay the saga only because of these sucking levels.

 

[Paiky]

 

[Toots]

 

[OmegaSupreme]

The whale from Ecco the Dolphin. Fuck that big bastard under the ice.

 

[FR1908]

Boss Bass - this gave me nightmares back when the game was released.

Some issues with Assassin's Creed Unity. Like I went to Body Worlds while the sculptures/corpses were still alive;

 

[Evil Calvin]

Abby from LOU2