well, obviously SOMEONE thinks they're not very useful.....

thedrop2zer0:
Just about every single fight in Ninja Gaiden.

Still the best answer.

The Locker-Scene in Condemned one. 8) Damn man, i was scared shitless.

Having one experience point till you level up T_T

The dogs jumping through the windows in the original Resident Evil. And the crawling things in SH1 when you first go down that one alley. And of course, Pyramid Head from SH2! Then there was the security camera scene in FEAR where the girl shows up on the screen. Exact quote from my brother after seeing it, "What time is it? That's enough of this game for tonight!"

In Descent: Freespace, when the Shivan destroyer Lucifer jumps in to the same system as you after the cut-scene of it destroying the planet Vesuda-Prime.

Ace Combat 6: Coming out of a bank turn, seeing a missile flying straight at you and not having the reaction time necessary to evade.

Metal Gear Solid 3: When the MiGs come back at the very end.

Call of Duty 4: Defending the stranded Abrams tank, running out of ammo, and having to use EVERY means to survive (grenades, pistol, etc.)

FEAR: The first time you come face-to-face with Fattel.

In silent hill 1, either the scene when you walk into the school bathroom and you hear a little girl crying, you try to help her but when you open the door she isnt there. :)

Also in silent hill when the nurse turns into one the infected, blood starts to poor from every part of her and she wont stop walking towards you.

When Snakes/Greens/Purples/Dark Blue triangles spawn all around you in...
Well you guessed it: Geometry Wars

When you are playing resident evil 4, run out of ammo and/or you hear a chainsaw...

laikenf:

Batadon:
Every time I hear that damn Metroid noise. You know which one.

I knew there was someone here who shares the same Metroid fear as I. Once you hear that sound, you just stop, look around, breathe, look around some more and then just stand there like if you don't want the Metroids to hear you breath.

damn right, especially on the first prime when it jumped on my face.

Also, when nemesis appears in resi 3, particularly when you realise you HAVE to fight him for the first time

When you get shot out of the cannon in Twilight Princess.

On resi evil 3 on the hardest mode in the police station when nemesis smashes through the window. gets my blood goin an im shit scraed. *imagine him in todays graphics :P*

First time I played BF2142 and heard the footsteps of an enemy walker behind me when I respawned.

hmm in FEAR when i went around a desk and the little girl crawled towards me, and the first time i picked up a hooker in GTA4

Original Ninja Gaiden (witch already really hard) the temple where you have go up 7-8 goddamn floors until you reach the boss where if you die you start at the BOTTOM FLOOR. the nightmares.

chain saw noise in RE4.

When your Chipp fighting Potemkin.

Every milisecond of I Wanna Be The Guy

Shadow of the Colossus...

ANY of the Colossi...

"So lemme see, I gotta run up to that thing, climb it and then stab it with my sword? without getting trod on, falling or hitting the wrong spots?"

yeah....

pant wetting moment on I think it was the thrid one where you had to get it it to smack the stone platform with its sword so you could climb up its wrist...

yeah...

it hit me first time round.. not clever...

butterkniferampage:
COD4: Running through the corridors of bloc and hearing that ever familiar "click" noise.

Claymores.

So true, they have the perfect delay so you have just enough time to say "oh shit" before your blown to smithereens, same thing happens in Delta Force Black Hawk Down, except they don't have the bright lasers showing off their position.

Accidentally making a dead save in any game and having to start over. Happened to me once in Stalker.

Walking down a nice looking peaceful and quiet corridor in any game of its type then suddenly being shook out of your admiration of the graphics by a quick shuffle behind you, a quick spin reveals nothing but when you turn to carry on the way you were walking there is a few hundred enemies waiting for you...

prime suspects, Res Evil, Halo and Soul Reaver 2

Metal Gear Solid 1: Fighting Raven and that first tank bullet hits you square in the face 10 seconds into the battle.

Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2: First Sephiroth battle.

Metroid Fusion: Running for your life from the metroid samus.

Halo CE: When I realized I could fight the final boss battle with a Banshee. (It was a good oh...shit)

Paradora:

Metroid Fusion: Running for your life from the metroid samus.

QFT

Creeping around corners in TES Morrowind or Oblivion, when a vampire suddenly leaps up infront of you. Especially when you have no health :S :D

In condemned wandering around that school finding that guys body parts around the place and then finding whats left of him in that locker and you "think" he's dead.

From Castlevania 64, a cut scene where, after just defeating a vampire boss, the girl he was just feeding on wakes to finish the job.

In Castlevania for the NES when you defeat Dracula and big surprise! he's not dead yet, then that damn "bat" monster appears.

In Majora's Mask for the N64 when you take a long time with the game and you look up in the sky and the damn moon is almost on top of your head.

In Silent Hill 2, when you know what really happened to Mary. Oh...shit

Vampire: Bloodlines had so many...
Pretty much the entire run through the haunted hotel.
The 'Crack House' level where you get covered in a thick blanket of zombies if you're not careful.
Same level, finding out you're up against the only vampire who can snipe with a shotgun.
Grout's mansion, realising the peons that are on fire now cause HEAVY damage.
Not being prepared for any of the 'tests' in the Fu Syndicate building.
And finally... Getting all the way to the end and accidentally going down the conversation path to the Prince LaCroix ending. Anyone who's got that ending will know why it's an 'Oh, SHIT...' moment...

Aries_Split:

Metal Gear Solid: When your fighting Psycho Mantis and he takes control of your controller and television.

Unless you wait til the fight starts, then unplug your control pad from port 1 and plug into port 2. Heh. You can control your character without Psycho Mantis being able to mess with your visuals or anticipate your actions.

Kojima's great at throwing in those sort of moments.
In MGS2 when the Colonel starts with the weird Codec calls, that initial reaction got a real Oh....shit from me, especially as it was about 1 in the morning when I was playing it.
Then seeing all the RAYs come towards you when you're on the roof of Arsenal.
Also, on COD4 when the ship starts exploding in the first mission. Especially as I was playing in on a mate's 24-inch HD tv. Then the water started pouring in and you had a mad rush back to the helicopter, which you had to dive onto.
Then the nuclear strike in a later mission

rainbow 6 vegas 2.

you rely totally on your team for the whole game and in one of the last levels you have to finish it on your own.............IMPOSSIBLE!!

Condemned: CO in that damn houses basement. Every time you put away your weapon to try to find that piece of writing another enemy appears. Its honestly like theres no end to them. Sure a single tazer shot drops the little bastiches but theres no end to them and theyre all creepy and crawling. ><

Got to be when u attack a random chicken in zelda and they descend in their thousands trying to claw your face off. I was running around saying "MAKE IT STOP, MAKE IT STOP !!!"

There are a lot of "oh shit" moments in games... But one I fondly remember is from:

Metal Gear Solid... SPOILERS (seriously have you not played this game yet?)

when you activate the destruct sequence instead of disarm it, and Master reveals himself as Liquid