Condemmed scared me pretty good and i loved every second of it since it had been a long time since id had a good scare.

Doom, I think it was for the N64. . . .I had to be at least 10 or 12 years old when I got this game. It was actually just a simple rental game that my mother got for me. I was happy because I thought it'd be a really cool shooting game.

But then as soon as I reached the title screen my innocence was shattered by the bloody intro that came after. The game wasn't just scary to me, it was out right terrifying. I couldn't stomach the thought of playing the game. So for the next three days it laid in my console untouched.

finally, a day before it was to be returned I got the balls to play the game. I didn't want to bother starting from the begining though, so I used a saved file that someone else previously left on the game. Well, this was a bad idea, because as soon as I appeared in this new world, I found myself getting attacked by this invisible monster. I was so shocked, that I forgot where the trigger button was and I promptly died. Leaving me, sitting there looking at a bloody screen.

Now I play games like Bioshock and Devil May Cry.

Hahaha, fun times.

Walking around the shotgun room in Bioshock, inspecting the mutilated body of the poor guy stabbed with the surgical scissors and then spotting the shotgun on the ground. As soon as i got it the room went black and about 50 screams went of simultaneously, followed by the slicers who made the screams. You can draw your own conclusions of what happened there. A balls to the wall, pants dampening moment. I think i almost crapped myself after saying "Oh shit.."

Medical Ward in Bioshock and the famous dentist room.

qbert4ever:
I don't get scared. When I game, I inject myself with pure MAN juice.

...On second thought, that sounds horribly wrong, so I'm just gonna say the first time you fight the regenerators in RE:4. Just hearing them breathe before you can see them...

Creepy.

OMG those were the scariest things I've ever fought. Just hearing the laugh scared me.

Yet Heaven Smiles don't scare me at all.

Reep:
Medical Ward in Bioshock and the famous dentist room.

Yes, and all instances like it.

FEAR also provided the first time I ever actually screamed in a game. It was around the second or third level where your doing some simple platforming on some catwalks and when you turn around to climb down a ladder there's Alma standing right where you were. It was so unexpected I screamed a little. Then promptly turned off my Xbox and didn't try the game for another two days.

Condemned 2 got me at a few points. The mannequin cameo and running from the bear were some good ones.

The first time I every played Resident Evil, for the Playstation. I was staying at my friend's old wooden victorian house. Him and his family had gone to sleep and I was up late playing Crash Bandicoot. I couldn't sleep because it was raining HARD outside. I saw RE on the table and decided to play it. I was 10 at the time and the first time I went through the dining room and into the hallway with the first zombie chowing down and noticed me I freaked out. Loved that game, though they have gotten progressively less scary. The Gamecube remake is very very good.

the-loopy:
The Ocean House Hotel in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. *shudder*

I came at this topic with that game (and particulary that part) in mind, it combines the cheap "Hey it's sure calm around her-*loud noise followed by something crashing near you*" and the psychological effect of the atmosphere.

I think the majority is what im going with, Silent Hill 2 had me on nerve pratically through the entire game.

Condemned was also a huge scare once I started getting into it.

The original Resident Evil is also up there, along with a handfull of others that I can't remember.

I really am hoping we get another good scary game before the year's out, doubting Dead Space or Silent Hill will pull it off. Put then again sawing apart enemies that just won't give up might get freaky. We'll see.

Project Zero 3/Fatal Frame 3. Holy crap, it was the most unnerving experiance I've ever had playing a video game. This thing messes with your head so much, a great example of a horror game done right. Haunting Ground was disturbing also.

Just going to parrot back this post.

Silent Hill 2, Thief, Bioshock,

Unusual ones - Daggerfall. I got to a part where my fatigue was too low and I hadn't saved (in the old game, if your fatigue fell to zero you passed out. In a dungeon that meant you were good 'n fucked). And let's just say, I was ill prepared for the Vampire I encountered and guess what they drain. They have this really creepy sigh/shout/erotic gasp thing they did that was just disturbing. And all the dungeons had an unsettling quietness about them.

System Shock 1 - The hairs on the back of my neck would prick up whenever I heard the radio static that meant a lovely call from Shodan. Definately gave me a tingly pit in my stomach. Also, when you get turned into a zombie cyborg when you died was really horrifying to me.

A bit about Thief - Shadlebridge cradle is disturbing but one of my most jump-out-of-my seat moments was in the 2nd game. Got to the forest part to meet Viktoria at the end of a level. Heard a growling noise and I was like "where the hell is that coming from". Just then the huge tree right in front of me takes a swing.

Disappointed with Doom 3. It took too many "cheap shots" and you became desensitized to the whole thing because they were ALWAYS in that dark nook and corner.

The White Chamber. I feel dirty, because I haven't promoted it in a while.

http://www.studiotrophis.com/site/projects/thewhitechamber

Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines - the Ocean House Hotel level.

The first time I saw it I was 12 and was watching my brother play through it at 2am. Well that was a mistake! :) I ended up running for my baseball bat and jumping at loud noises for days.

Good scares: SH, Thief, All ~shock series games up till the halfway point of bioshock where you became a god with a wrench, CBU.

Bad attemps at scares: Doom 3, CBJ the latter half of bioshock

Reasons why they failed:
D3 - EVERYTHING was hiding in those dark corners, you could anticipate every single fight by looking at the dark places.
Biosock - If i can heal faster then anything in the game could possibly harm me, the game is not scary.
Jericho - combination of the above, when you see a pool of gore you can bet your supernatural ass that something's going to jump out of it. That and the chaingun+infinite ammo approach made enemies rather pathetic instead of of scary(exept for the fat cultists, those were annoying the first time you encounter them in Al Khali and are still annoying when you see the last of them in Godseal).

DOOM. My heartbeat was at about 150 every time you got some clip and the lights went out o.O! My excuse: I was like... 6 years old back then ^^!

As much as I love SH2 I donīt really think it was scary (except for the underground labyrinth where Pyramid Head suddenly appears out of nowhere), but SH1 has to be the scariest game of all time. The run to the lighthouse in the alternate reality scared the shit out of every cell in my body.

Clock Tower 1 was extreme too.

Project Zero (Fatal Frame) II: Crimson Butterfly. Scared the hell out of me one dark night

Probably the original Condemed

MrMisfit:
The games that freaked me out the most would have to be The Suffering. That whole game was spooky. Especially Dr. Killjoy's asylum.

Dr. Killjoy is my favurite.

Doom3 was the only game that scared me. Or at least the only one i can recall. But i do remember that when i was a kid and when i played Doom2 there was always this one bit i couldnt do on my own, i had to get my dad to do it for me.

When I was 5 my mom was playing a little game called Maniac Mansion on the NES.
I walked into the room, watched her play until some bad guy appeared (I remember his face was blue, like all the other bad guys)...

I hid under the table until she stopped playing.

Silent Hill 1, the school after the lights have gone out. Didnt help that I was playing at 2am in the dark.

oh i have a list... resident evil 4, i entered the village, ran along a bit exploring, ran into the chainsaw guy and had my neck sawed off... i had never played any re game before and had no idea what to expect from the game... i literally dropped the controller...
and condemned criminal origins, which was scary, which is scary, which will always be scary, no matter how many times you play it.
and some portions of doom 3 in my first play through... again i had only heard about doom and just started playing fpses and my control was horrible at the time... but once you get used to the whole cheapo darken everything and one enemy at a time tactic.... it transitions from scary to frustrating.
also the dahaka chases in warrior within on my first playthrough... everytime that dahaka chase music started and i would be like, oh god not again... now i think they're fun... and dahaka is cute... very cute....

wahi:
oh i have a list... resident evil 4, i entered the village, ran along a bit exploring, ran into the chainsaw guy and had my neck sawed off... i had never played any re game before and had no idea what to expect from the game... i literally dropped the controller...

You should've been there when the first RE was released.
Picture this, You're playing as Jill and you've just encountered your first zombie, and you're sent back to report to Wesker. Wesker's gone, so you'll have to search for him on the other side of the mansion.
You walk into this hallway, completely empty, nothing strange in sight. Halfway through the hallway zombie wolves jump out of the windows, you panic while they feast on your character.
GAME OVER.

Took me about a week before I dared to play that game again. Then again I was like, 10 or something.

For me it would probably be F.E.A.R. My 5.1 helped out alot, that games got some fantastic sound design.

Other than that, I can't think of too many times I've been legitimately creeped out or afraid to walk around a corner in a game.

actually after fininshing the game i thought it might be fun to try the original, but i could only get the playstation version, and after a year or so of HD gaming, i just couldn't bear to look at the unsophisticated graphics :( same thing happened with half-life.....
so now i have discovered that i can only play anything post-halo... it are the old games that i just can't enjoy :(

playing resident evil 2 when I was only 7 years old, I wish I never did.

EDIT: my friend telling me to shoot the water 5 times in RE4, you know that secret :D

The Suffering was good, I liked the enemy design. It had some creep factor too it, but not a pants wetting experience.

Crimson Butterfly 2 was very creepy. I like the helpless factor, you don't have a real gun and you have to go into a very vulnerable 1st person mode to attack. Don't know if it was done deliberatly to add to the scare factor, but if it was, it was brilliant.

I thought the game based on The Thing was pretty good. Like the movie you had that isolation feel and you didn't know who was the thing. Plus they kept the music from the movie, I loved that.

Another one that really scared the piss out of me was Alien vs. Predetor 2, playing as the marines. You got the all to familiar sound of the motion tracker and you had no damn idea what was making it or where it was going to come from. And there were parts where you could hear the predator but not see him obviously. That was creepy.

Bioshock did have some creepy moments, especially the crazy talk of the splicers. Although it kinda got like oblivion in that they had the same voices, but I'm nit picking.

Shalebridge Cradle from Thief: Deadly Shadows and The Ocean House Hotel from Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines definately spring to mind

Like so many others, Silent Hill 2 scared me when I played it the first time. Not so much because of how damn scary it was with the lights out and the sound up, but more because I was playing it on my friends system, and he would scream any time anything scary happened.

Fatal Frame is still the scariest game I've played alone.

Old game called Realms Of The Haunting. Wasn't really scary per se just had a certain atmosphere. You would find a record player make it play and hear children and women screaming playing through it. Coupled with enemies that would spawn right in front of you and make this shriek as they appear.

Would make you jump a bit if you weren't expecting it. Mixed with enemies that took a good number of shots limited ammo and health and a game world that is rather bizarre made for quite a good game back then.

Good to see that no one has played the un-fucking-disputed kings of horror gaming, Penumbra: Overture and its sequel, Penumbra: Black Plague.

When Half Life 2 first came out on PC.

"We Don't Go To Ravenholme!" In the middle of the night with like no ammo or health... I was just genuinely spooked.

Or Resident Evil 3 when I was like 8. Whenever Nemesis chased me I was freaked.

Alot of people seem to think bioshock was really frightening but, although i haven't gotten really far into the game yet, I don't think it's that scary.

In Bioschock, when splicers play dead.
Fooled you, monster!
Holy shit!!!
I need new trousers now.

doom 3 scared me, but it doesn't take much to scare me

Erana:
Duke Nukem. I still have nightmares about the pig cops in air planes.
Its not funny. Don't laugh at me. =(

Actually, I have a bunch of scaries from DOS FPSs. I don't really remember most of them. I tried to play Duke Nukem once with all the cheats on, and no monsters, but I was horrified and was coated in a cold sweat.

Hey, that what scared me when I was a kid....

Wait. It was Duke Nukem 64.