Terrifying moments in video games.

[Terazokie]

Every now and then we experience something in a game that either gives a quick jump or just plain haunts you. This is the topic where you post the event in.

My example would be a couple of weeks ago I got Monster Hunter Tri and I get really into it. At one point I'm swimming and I go into a new area and there a cutscene happens. The toughest monster that you are supposed to fight much later in the game is right in front of me. Plus the game starts paying this really threatening music and the people who talk to you during a quest are freaking out and saying to get the heck out of there. I barely manage to escape the water and then I wait for the music to stop playing, meaning the monster has left. When that happens I dive back into the water and continue with my quest, only to run away because it turns out the monster was hiding behind a rock and almost ambushed me. After I completed that quest I avoided all water quests like they were The Plague.

[Kiddiecat]

A giant fish that eats Yoshi.  You should stay away from him.

[Mitch]

Terazokie -- I know the moment you're talking about. When Lagiacrus finds you while you're supposed to be killing some Epioths? Yeah. That was the scariest moment of that game. Because I knew he was such a badass and I was going to die. And the music is epic for that scene. My favorite track of all times.

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[Dr. Demento]

My example would be a couple of weeks ago I got Monster Hunter Tri and I get really into it. At one point I'm swimming and I go into a new area and there a cutscene happens. The toughest monster that you are supposed to fight much later in the game is right in front of me. Plus the game starts paying this really threatening music and the people who talk to you during a quest are freaking out and saying to get the heck out of there. I barely manage to escape the water and then I wait for the music to stop playing, meaning the monster has left. When that happens I dive back into the water and continue with my quest, only to run away because it turns out the monster was hiding behind a rock and almost ambushed me. After I completed that quest I avoided all water quests like they were The Plague.

Tsk, tsk... That was a freaking exciting moment and I actually stood there to fight the thing...But eventually left because I was using up all of my items.

My first example would have to be in RE4 (You know where is this going, don't you?) with the regenerators and iron maidens... They still give me goosebumps.
The second one would be pretty much all I've played of the original Silent Hill.
And lastly, this isn't really a scary game or anything, but in Metal Gear Solid, in the cave thing with the wolves, the puppy got surprised (With the loud ! effect) and I nearly soiled my pants.

[ZachZ]

I first played Metroid Prime a few years ago, and got only as far as the Omega Pirate. I must have put down the game a dozen times simply because I'd freak out when invisible space pirates would come out of the ceiling behind you or above you or right in front of you.

For my first first-person adventure/shooter/live-action thriller (face it, Link is easy enough to get out of danger, it's not that terrifying), Metroid Prime was amazing. I'm still jumping when I run through it now, after I've gone through the Trilogy on the Wii and beaten all three of them.

;-)ZachZ;-)

[Larke12]

Bioshock (the first one) .......... do I even need a reason?

[Stephen J. Weber]

Those metroids in Prime with the extra long tentacles freaked the shit out of me the first time one got me.

[Mitch]

The ones that grab onto you and like, electrocute you?
Yeah they scared me too.

[Unexpected_Duck_Noises]

Mine is actually from a Zelda game. For some reason, I am terrified of Like-Likes, especially 3D ones from the N64 games, and the OoT ones in particular. I don't why it is, but they just scare the heck out of me. The worst example is from the Beneath the Well mini-dungeon:

I'm just walking casually by, not noticing that the wall to the left of me is in fact a grate, and not a wall; I can't see it because my camera is not facing that way. Unbeknownst to me, there is a Like-Like behind that grate. So, I'm walking by, and Link starts to slide towards the left for some reason. I rotate the camera, and there is a Like-Like sucking at me from the other side of the grate, pulling me towards it, and it's covering up about the entire screen. I try everything I can to kill it and make it stop, but nothing I have can hit it, because it's protected by the grate, so I can't stop it. And it's the sucking motion that scares me in particular. After pushing the analog stick as hard as I can, I make it away after a few seconds, but that is still probably the single scariest thing I have ever experienced in a video game.

[Kiddiecat]

I think I remember you telling that story sometime. I particularly don't like the Wallmasters, or Floormasters, or Redeads.

The way I remember is that each one of the Mini Floormasters could grab onto you and become a big Floormaster again, except now there would be 3... Can't remember if that was just how it was in one of the games or if it was like that at all...

And the Wallmasters well... as if they weren't already hideous enough in A Link to the Past... and then in Ocarina of time they didn't just make a falling noise, they made a monster noise...
Although I couldn't say one was less frightening though because of how fast the Link to The Past Wallmasters fell... you always had to be moving in that dungeon...
Plus in OOT they made a big shadow... Finally I faced them; I used to have to kill them with the volume off, and now whenever I kill one I continue to swing my sword at it even as its dropping dead...

[Erik Schröder]

Re-Deads in OoT.

Seriously.

[Okoa]

Speaking of OoT, as an adult, walk right up to the windmill guy face-to-face and go into first-person mode. Dear God....

[Kiddiecat]

Speaking of OoT, as an adult, walk right up to the windmill guy face-to-face and go into first-person mode. Dear God....

That's how I felt yesterday when I found out that I missed 6 Pokemon event only events, because after not having one for a long time they put them all really close together during busy and school times... and I've had both Diamond and Pearl since their release...

[Zei]

RE4 and the first time you meet the Regenerator. All of a sudden the ambiance drops and you hear "ba-dum - ba dum". A heartbeat. My heart stops every time. And, to make matters worse, in my first playthrough I didn't get the Thermal sensor for my sniper, so I couldn't see the little bug things..! I would literally pump all my lead into them... for nothing. And then when they got spikes... agh...

The noise Wallmasters make when they fall scare me. It's just so... freaky!

Speaking of Metroid Prime... in the Ice level. The Blue dinosaur things whose names I can't remember right now. I had to call my friend over so I could beat the big momma one. Scary...

[ZachZ]

Sheegoths in Phendrana Drifts. Playing through it the third time, they weren't that difficult. Being under them when they open their mouths, however, and start biting/attacking/ramming/hurting you in general, was still a challenge to endure.

;-)ZachZ;-)

[Stephen J. Weber]

Those things were a pain in the ass the first few times, but I don't think they were that terrible.

[Komodo_Zero]

Bioshock (the first one) .......... do I even need a reason?

Pansy, that wasn't scary.

To be honest, I can't really think of anything.  All my gaming fears are irrelevant now, as they were irrational childhood ones that I've now grown out of.  I used to be deathly afraid of Metroids, now they're cute, if annoying, buggers.  Floormasters in the Zelda Oracle games used to strike fear unto me, now they're just tame. 

However, games that are supposed to scare, I don't really see as counting... Though if I have to say, Resident Evil 4 Regenerators...

[kevinsano]

LikeLikes are scarier in the first Zelda. Your magical shield is your only hope in a room full of Wizzrobes, so when THEY SWALLOW YOU AND EAT IT... you're a sitting duck...

[Kiddiecat]

Water Wraith... yup, I headed straight for the hole on every floor the first time I saw that thing... And I didn't come back until I learned of it's weakness from somewhere else in the game...

[Zei]

Those things were a pain in the ass the first few times, but I don't think they were that terrible.

I agree with you.

Now.

Back then? I was all of 10 and a bit of a pansy. I didn't even watch horror movies while most of my friends were. Eventually, I did the "It's just a videogame..." talk and got over it. But still... it SUCKED.