Salvador's Right Hand from RE:4. Running around a claustrophobic industrial environment when a eight-feet-tall invincible lobster thing is chasing you? Not fun times.

I was just too damn scared to go fight the Regenerators.

Scorch_Phoenix:

Spierek:
The Chainsaw Guy from RE4.

"F***, it's him. S***, he's getting closer, no, no, shoot him, in the head, agh, F***!"

Great retrospective of that scene.

Fixed

Thank you ever so much! I was hoping that nobody else would have to hear such terrible language! Now we can be safe.

When I was 6 I was terrified by the eel from Super Mario 64. I always thought that it was gonna swim up and eat me.

As for enemies that actually creep me out now, the wall shadows from ocarina of time. they just drop down from nowhere and kill u.

Red Arremer from Super Ghouls N' Ghosts. They could just cut right through you. A little retro, perhaps, but if you beat one of those things, it was either luck or homing arrows. Probably arrows.

SurferRosa:
Bloodsuckers from STALKER. Invisible, fast, hard-hitting and able to take crazy amounts of damage without dying.

Yes, Bloodsuckers! One of my most hated enemies ever with their glowing eyes watching me from a distance...

The Prisoner in Silent Hill 2. Walked past it the first time and it creeped the fuck out of me.

Almost anything from Silent Hill. Even the thought of Walter being a few meters behind you (and you even hear his laugh and footsteps) creeps the hell out of me... But P-Head takes the cake, he gave me so many nightmares.

All the realy big dinosaurs in Turok, especially the T-rex, the first time it notices you and heads towards you I just thought "Aw shit.", and was then swiftly eaten.

Fast zombies from HL2.

Pretty much anything from any game (including other people who get the drop on me) can make me jump, nothing has really terrified me.

This is gonna sound pathetic. Laugh all you want, folks. Maybe it'll put a smile on your face.
The first game I ever bought, instead of borrowed, was Donkey Kong 64-- and I was a wee thing when the N64 was prime. So when I stumbled into that pyramid in the Angry Aztec level, a gravelly voice hissed a warning, and a crosshair landed on Diddy...
Good lord. I know it's ridiculous, but I shook like a leaf and panicked. I think Kong died long before I found my way to the exit.

As a fan of the horror genre, these days, I can't think of an in-game event or character who scared me more.

Quake 2, I was about 12 at the time. One of the enimies who was a head, in a robot suit! With a drill and I guess some sort of machine gun arm? Well I was walking around and this thing jumped out and scared the living daylights out of me! They also made a weird noise as well!

I would have to say The Butcher from Diablo...my palms were sweating the first time I fought him. Second would be the Hammer Haunts and Ghosts from Thief I and II (especially the ghosts in Gervasius' library)...and then the crab-men from Thief I...and the greasels from Deus Ex that attack you when you're sneaking through ventilation systems...damn them.

Good question...

Alien Vs Predator 2 had it's fair share of "I just crapped me pants" moments, namely the first time you see the lasers of a Predator hit the ground in front of you, and hearing that clicking sound, or even the part at the start when playing as a marine where a pipe falls through the ceiling. First time that happened I emptied an entire clip at (whilst squirming backwards in my chair) it before realising that it was just a pipe. Classic tension.

Pyramid Head, hands down.

the bear with rabies from condemned 2. hands down almost wet myself.

the splicers in bioshock

made me jump off my chair when the shadows passed and you know they are there but
U CANT FIND THEM

the first time i faught a boss in diablo i was anout five so it always made me so scared that i had to get one of my parents to fight them XD

Those junkies in the first condemned, the first time that I played that game I jumped back so quickly that I hit my head on the back of my chair.

The psionic monkeys and cyborg midwives, System Shock 2. The monkeys are going to kill me!

Those blood creature things in condemned 2.you always know where they're going to appear because of that stuff on the walls, but then they come from behind you and freakin kill you.
They die in one hit, but they still scare the shit out of me. plus they're fast

More props to the bloodsuckers in STALKER they scared the crap out of me when i first found one. I was walking around minding my own business, occasionally fighting some bandits when i hear this gutteral growling and poof, right in front of me is one of these horrible things clawing at my face, then in the blink of an eye it was gone, when i first fought it i thought it could teleport, when i realized it was just invisible the fights became a bit easier. Also the controllers scared me. nothing beats walking alone, in a dark damp sewer, finally reaching the exit, then hearing a painful wail, and being torn out of your body and pulled down a corrider toward this grotesque freak.

Those poison headcrabs in Half-Life 2. Specifically, that hissing noise they make. You know how it is, you stumble into a dark corner, looking for medkits and ammo, and you hear this...thing hissing at you. It's dark, you can't see ****, and you just immediately take out your shotgun and start firing at random, hoping you'll hit it before it hits you.

...Or maybe that's just me.

The Chimera for Resistance. The way they practically swarmed all over you and attacked in droves. They were even worse when they got close up and even looked scary when they were dead.

maxusy3k:
The Miniblins in Wind Waker. I don't know what it was about them particularly, but man they absolutely terrified me.

Just the "Dini, dini" noise and then the frantic swinging the camera around all like WHERE ARE THEY and then suddenly there'd be like twenty of them all up in yo' grill.

Is that what those things were called?They scared the **** outta me.and the giant squid things out at sea.

but other than that,Gannon.

WolfSchwarzMond:
The 1st time a monster popped out in the Suffering, I jumped about 3 feet in the air and my wife fell off the couch. The little Girl from Fear,and the black spots on the floor that suck you down from Extraction Point.
I don't think it's so much the monster as the eviroment. In the GOOD horror games they set you up, the quiet sounds, the dark, it's quiet, too quiet, you know it's comming, you tense up, your heartrate climbs, and then WHAM, out it pops or scuttles, and suddenly it's in your face! You jump and a ICE COLD shot of adrealine hits your heart, you have to KILL IT AND KILL NOW! And when you do God do you feel ALIVE>

Thank you!Someone else knows the secret that most game companies can't FRICKIN figure out.

D2wontdie:
The first time I fought a boss in Diablo I was about five so it always made me so scared that I had to get one of my parents to fight them . XD

Why! Why! Why!

jeremyTH:

WolfSchwarzMond:
The 1st time a monster popped out in the Suffering, I jumped about 3 feet in the air and my wife fell off the couch. The little Girl from Fear,and the black spots on the floor that suck you down from Extraction Point.
I don't think it's so much the monster as the eviroment. In the GOOD horror games they set you up, the quiet sounds, the dark, it's quiet, too quiet, you know it's comming, you tense up, your heartrate climbs, and then WHAM, out it pops or scuttles, and suddenly it's in your face! You jump and a ICE COLD shot of adrealine hits your heart, you have to KILL IT AND KILL NOW! And when you do God do you feel ALIVE>

Thank you!Someone else knows the secret that most game companies can't FRICKIN figure out.

That's exactly it. Hell, people have made films where dolls are the scary bad guys. It's all about the atmosphere.

Pyramid Head was scary but his awesomeness kinda overpowers the scary side of him.

I don't really think there's anything scarier than the underwater levels in Sonic The Hedgehog//Earthworm Jim on Sega Mega Drive.
The 'Power Up' level in Half-Life 1 comes kinda close though.
I remember the severe intensity with which I ran to the power generator and the Gargantua right on my heels, he fried me the first couple of times cos i didn't flick the switch fast enough with all my nervous fumbling.

Thank god for quicksaves...

Although the bloodsucker in STALKER are scary, I have to say that the first time I ran into a snork I got seriously freaked out.

It was in the level where you have to go into some underground catacombs for the barkeep and get some documents or something, you find the monolith suit down there too. I had ventured in not knowing how large the area is and managed to waste a clip on those boxes that fly towards you (they're bloody scary too the first time). Apart from that you don't run into any enemies and there are a bunch of dead stalkers around. Peering down one corridor with those heat-haze anomalies I see something loping towards me at gathering pace. For anyone who doesn't know what a snork is, it's a mutated stalker which runs on all fours and wears a gas mask, they make a scary noise too. It charged through the fire and lept at me, I was so freaked that immediately after killing it I just ran outta the bunker and back to the bar.

Also, regenerators from RE4 purely because of the sound of their breathing, especially the first time when you see one dissected on a table and know there's another around the place.

although this is not an enemy (it does eventually kill you), I would say the creepiest thing in a video game i've seen is in Silent Hill 3, you walk into this room that has a mirror in it. The reflect is the same room but its styled in the 'otherworld'. Then the reflection starts to melt away into a sink next to the mirror. and on your side it start coming out and slowly engulfs the room until what the room looked like when you walked in is now on the mirror and you're now on the otherworld...

it was fucking creepy..and awesome..what wasn't awesome was the frquent nightmares that soon followed that replayed that very senario.

The statue splicers were freaky as Hell, and making them silent was a stroke of genius.

The single scariest moment i Bioshock came when I was walking through Arcadia and heard whistling. I never did discover what the source of it was.

As for HL2's poison zombies, I don't know what makes them so scary. They definitely have a tendency to pop up in the game's dankest, most isolated locales, though. That laundry room in Nova Prospekt...shudder.

Most of Ravenholm, definently the first half, because I was still getting used to the setting and pacing. But it did keep me jumping until the end, when the light at the end of the tunnel finally came! I did really like the preist character, though. Also, poisonus headcrabs at any point in the game.

FEAR definently made me jump a couple of times, my pulse did get pounding during the end fight with Alma. And the ninja watchers didn't necessarily scare me so much as make me say "WTF is going on?!"

Those ostriches from a mission (on very hard) in Final Fantasy Crisis Core. I have one thing to say: DO NOT FUCK WITH THEM! If you stay still for a millionth of a second they will kick you in the face with their power legs and damage you to 1000% of your health. They take a million blows to die and are escorted by other enemies that poison you! I nearly cracked my psp in half...

But, a scary looking opponent was the guy with the chainsaw in RE 4. I literally pissed my pants every time he popped up in a fight. Seriously I was pausing and running to get new pants every single time :S

All enemies from the Silent Hill series, not so much SH4 but you know.

Those squeaking, invisible imps in SH1 scared me at first because I couldn't see shit. They got funny when I realised they weren't much of a threat.

Pyramid Head for the 100th time in this thread and those nurses in SH1. -Shudders-

I know I'm forgetting something else...

I dunno why, but for some reason nemesis from RE3 always kinda scared me, he just likes jumping out of no where.

gibboss28:
the slow zombies from half life 2. I dont know why they do but they really just freak me out the most. oh and barnacles.

You mean the ones that host the poisonous head-crabs? Those bastards scare me too... gah, I can't stand Ravenholm.