Duke Nukem, baring in mind I was five when I played/saw this game. I used to be terrified of the lard pigs in the game.

I played the F.E.A.R. demo. I got so scared, heart racing, sweaty, and out of breath during the bloody hallway thing I immediatly turned off the Xbox, turned on every light in the house, and, very sadly, called my mom to get my mind off it. Yes, I am a scardy cat. Plus this was at around 8 PM, so it was dark enough outside to make it 10x worse.

Second place would be RE4. I never played a RE game, so it was my first one. The invisible sewer bugs took my 3 tries to complete because the first two times, I turned off my Gamecube halfway though. But I sucked it up enough to beat professional mode. I felt so good killing them with the typewriter on my third playthough.

I recently started playing the first Condemned, and within the first 5 minutes I was almost pissing myself.

You can't beat S.T.A.L.K.E.R.S. atmosphere.

thebobmaster:
Condemned: Criminal Origins chit chat

Is that where you hop over the railing and the guys jump out from your blind spot? That almost made me wet myself. I had to pause it and take calming breaths.

Also, is it just me but after playing Resident Evil, any time I open a closet on a game like those I expect something to jump out. Then the one time I'm not ready for it, that's when it happens.

Fear... That game scared me senseless... I never got past the elevator in the hospital. Now when I think of it It felt like i lost some pride that day :(

Phoenix Arrow:

thebobmaster:
Condemned: Criminal Origins chit chat

Is that where you hop over the railing and the guys jump out from your blind spot? That almost made me wet myself. I had to pause it and take calming breaths.

Naw, it's an easter egg, I think. There's one spot where you walk through a door, and there is another door across the room. I explore everything in the game (until this happened), so I was looking around the room and saw the ledge. I walked over to look over the edge to see what was there, then the guy jumped up right in my face.

F.E.A.R. - without a doubt.

Some levels really f- with your head. I double dog dare anyone to play it at night with headphones on.

There were parts in Prey that scared the hell out of me.

evryones saying about condemmed 1, but i found condemmed 2 scarier, like the part in the housing flats when those manakins jump behind you, and then as you carry on theres a stars that says dont come up, and i accually didnt for about 5 mins. but with C2 I'd say its more about paranoia than actual jumpy bits

Condemned, it is the only game where I have jumped out of my seat.... at my own in-game shadow.

Surely that's just plain embarassing? I was only playing the Criminal Origins demo, and my friend laughed at me.
True horror is all about the anticipation, and condemned had that in bucketfuls. I notice a lot of people seem to agree. Great sound, and I was shocked the first time I got in a brutal melee fight and realised I could completely believe that there's a crackhead who genuinely wanted me to die. Pretty Intense :)

Oddly enough, I always jump at gears of war. When you're stalking someone, and suddenly realise that they're stalking you, and you're JUST about thinking you're in the clear, when they pop out of NOWHERE with a chainsaw.

Exciting game, though.

schubi:
F.E.A.R. - without a doubt.

Some levels really f- with your head. I double dog dare anyone to play it at night with headphones on.

Thanks for the idea, Now i can finaly regain my lost honor. When i get my new computer im going to do just that. It might take a while until i get it though.

World of Warcraft. Maybe the scariest experience of my life.

I'm tanking for a Stormwind raid, and we're doing pretty well, until...

My screen goes black. I freak out for a second. Then I realize the lights are off. "SWEET JESUS NO!" Being pulled away from a raid like that can raise suspicions, and I almost got banned. Sidenote: If you tried to ban me, you sir, are a jackdonkey. I don't even know why the mod supported the guy's argument.

The Resident Evil remake for the Cube. Was playing it with a couple friends the other day on one of the harder difficulties and those zombies don't half get the heart pounding when you're faced with a corridor of them armed with 3 bullets and your knife.

Condemend was scarry. But the scarriest game I ever played was Fatal Frame 2, I can't play that game at night!

As has been mentioned about 8 times already, Condemned and the first half of Condemned 2, the suspense and sheer pant-wetting fear those games instill in me has yet to be matched by any other game I've played. Aside from the medical level in Bioshock.

TOGSolid:
Stalker: Shadows of Chernobyl.
The bits where you're skulking around the underground...

I couldn't agree more.

Oh. Also, We Don't Go to Ravenholm creeped me out a lot. At least until Father Grigori shows up. He made me feel warm and safe.

I have a few entries for different reasons:

Clock Tower. Was pretty young and it's especially terrifying being chased as opposed to most scares in games where it's "EEK. man I'm glad that's over"

Fatal Frame (any of them really. 4 is shaping up nicely it seems) The whole "no bullets" thing goes against everything I thought I knew about fighting the supernatural.

Eternal Darkness for previously posted reasons.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I wasn't expecting it to be a horror game so naturally I was a little freaked when I got into my first underground sequence. The superb lighting didn't help. Only game I can remember where I stopped playing because I didn't feel like being scared. When I got closer to the power plant it became "Okay, there's going to be more scary ass shit over there, I'm going to play CoH now." and I haven't touched it since. Might go back and finish it now that I've thought about it and with the prequel being out.

EDIT: Surprisingly F.E.A.R. did absolutely nothing for me. probably because I played it at a small LAN among friends and was prepared to be scared and also had to suppress it as to not be mocked. But in all honesty once I realized I just picked up a second pistol and that I was now holding this other pistol in my other hand any chance the supernatural had was now gone.

I was the only one there to finish it...

Amnestic:
Silent Hill 1, I played it when I was like...9 or 10? Didn't sleep for a week :( Haven't yet played Condemned 1 or 2, they're on my shelf. I'm kinda scared to play them because I've heard stories of how crazy scary they are

If you aren't going to play em, give them to me!

on a relevent note: American Mcgee's Alice, when I played it when it came out it scared the crap out of me. Also kudos to Bioshock (and Doom 3 to a lesser extent) for that jump out at you while playing at 2 in the morning feeling in my pants.

Special mention goes to the first crimson head to burst through the door in RE. I considered myself an RE veteran and had only seen slightly like that in RE2 (by the helipad I think). I used the door opening sequences to take sips of coffee and nearly spat it all over the place and dropped my controller.

Altered Beast, Aquaman, Superman 64, 50cent bulletproof, bleach wii, and Croc......Horrible, Horrifying games!!!

Condemned, Silent Hill 2, Fatal Frame 2, and Siren.

I suppose The Cradle from the Thief games (Can't remember which one....was it the Dark Project?)

Silent Hill 1 for me. The whining radio was a brilliant concept.

Doom 3 was scary, too, on account of how cruelly designed it was. Special mention should go to Doom 1, too - at the time the lighting and sound design was like nothing we'd ever seen.

Bioshock, meanwhile, had bags of atmosphere, and the Big Daddy battles were intense the first time through - but it was perhaps a tad too easy overall.

i dont really play horror games but i remember spending most of the time playing conflict:vietnam absolutely bricking it. sneaky VC come could come from behind anything. and with the boobytraps and complete lack of save points, i was jumpy to say the least

When I first played Resident Evil I quickly stopped after the first zombie. Tried it again and stopped and so on and so forth. Any time I heard them shambling towards me when I could not see them I freaked out. I was like 10 max at the time.
Funnily enough since me and some mates clocked it together now playing it reminds me of hot summer days, beer and metallica. O.o

It's a toss up between Project Zero, Silent Hill 3, Stalker and Bioshock had it's scary bits.

Project Zero was just constantly horrific. SH3 was one big mindf***k. Stalker was so unpredictable, you were just never safe. And Bioshock which owes much of it to it's atmosphere and the crazy people plus when I first came across a Big Daddy - I thought I'd be fine keeping my distance and plugging away with my machine gun, I'd not expected him to be THAT fast, before I knew it he was up in my business with his gigantic drill. It also had a few other set pieces which were pretty good.

Truth be told... it was the original DOOM game. Yeah I was only about 7 at the time, but that stuff got to me! Never kept me from playing it though.

Agree with the thrawls, and Condemned was creepy. And of coarse Silent Hill 2.

But a game that has not been mentioned yet (I think), is Alien vs Predator 2. I can remember playing as the humans and hearing my motion tracker go off and I ended up almost empting a clip into a bucket on the floor. And the first time you hear that little predator crackel sound... pants wetting.

I am a big horror fan and my most anticipated game of this year is Dead Space. The fraking trailer scared me.

Shadow Man or Eternal Darkness

Bioshock. I can't play scary games...they're just too much for me. I knew Bioshock would be creepy, but I thought I could handle it. I was wrong. I'm disappointed, because I never did get to finish the game and check out the rest of the story.

Luigi's mansion, it appealed to a kiddy market that was not prepared for the hordes of ghosts coming out of nowhere and snatching bodies.

While not scary compared to your standard horror game, it was scary for an audience that did not play those games.

Also, an interesting bit of trivia: Horror games with scary dialouge become half as scary when subtitles are on.

There was the Alien Trilogy game (If, indeed, that was it;s title) on the PS1 which was pretty freaky and then you got into the room just filled with eggs...MonuMENTAL!

Resistance: Fall of man. scared the shit out of me so bad i nearly threw the game out of the window and crucified it

haruvister:
Silent Hill 1 for me. The whining radio was a brilliant concept.

Doom 3 was scary, too, on account of how cruelly designed it was. Special mention should go to Doom 1, too - at the time the lighting and sound design was like nothing we'd ever seen.

Bioshock, meanwhile, had bags of atmosphere, and the Big Daddy battles were intense the first time through - but it was perhaps a tad too easy overall.

Yeah- the only survival horror games I've played are the ones you mentioned above... BioShock was good, but Doom 3 (at least, for the first hour of playing or so) really had me at the edge of my seat. After that, I realized that there was a 95% chance that an imp or something would be hiding behind every cabinet and bulkhead and I sort of became desensitized to the whole thing.

At least, until I saw my first Hell Knight... Wow.... And then seeing all the writing on the walls later on in the game.

The bit that really clinched Doom 3 as a scary game was when I looked at a computer screen and it was a message to all the demons about sacrificial altars or something.

Too bad that Resurrection of Evil was not the least bit scary....