For me it's Laura from evil within, I still remember being happy to walk into an empty room with Green Gel ( Used for upgrades ) around. I know it was suspicious as hell but I was kinda new to horror genre back then and God did she scared the living BeJesus Outta me.
Mr.X from RE2 will always stand out for me. The way he just slowly followed you around like a bloodhound & never knowing where he'd pop up terrified me
Even though it’s a relatively short period of the game (if you know what you’re doing & where to go) + being the first (& 2nd) boss encounter in the game after Mia in the tutorial part of the game, I remember how scary Jack Baker in RE7 was to me, especially the very first encounter where he breaks through the wall and starts chasing you with only a narrow hallway to work with. Playing on Madhouse, knowing he’ll easily catch up to you and smash you to pieces, was so unsettling to even turn away to try to make a run
Not a boss but i remember a moment in Dead Space 2 when you had to point a laser of a machine into the eyes of your protoganist perfectly and if failed it would end up crushing his head. Still haunts me to this day.
The whole village section in the opening of RE4 and Remake still haunts me. Masterclass in design having a whole mob and Chainsaw Salvadore as a boss. Much love to the GR crew and community.
Definitely, it’s arguably one of the best opening sections in any game ever. I remember the first time I got to that part back when it originally came out on the GC and it was so intense. Then the remake turned it up a notch and make the Ganados way more agressive
@@jeremyroberts8822 ya I remember getting it on the GC when it first came out and it took me like 2 hours to get past it cause I kept thinking I had to stay in the house and take them all out in their instead of jumping out the window after grabbing the shotgun and running around picking up more resources and spreading out the Ganados
That wasn't really scary as much as just overwhelming. The chainsaw man isn't hard to fight if you know what you're doing. Personally the enemy that made me as well as everyone else shut off the game is the regenerators.
Laura was scary without a doubt and pretty hard, I stopped playing because I couldn't beat her but I think that Anima from evil within 2 is even more scary. All encounters are stealth sections, so you are on your toes right from the start and she can face through walls what make it harder to track her movements. But the worst parts is, if your playing with a dual shock controller, she sings through it, which makes it easier to track her but gives an extra feeling of nervousness, like if she's right behind you IRL.
I fully agree. I usually keep myself pretty well under control when I play horror games. I might be scared but often me being so focused in the game keeps it all in the background. But with Anima.. oh man, she is the worst. The only video game enemy I've had nightmares about. Everything about her design just scared the shit out of me the first time I saw her, up to a point where I paused the game for a good while and left the room.
I was playing with my nephew spectating and whenever she showed up I said “oh my god it’s a Kardashian” and my nephew laughed for half an hour so I kind of ruined the creep factor.
The only game that really scared me was Outlast. For you guys, if you've not played it, please do. That is the only 'media' that managed to make me scream. Yes Laura and Anima are tense, Keeper too but the tension and atmosphere in Outlast is the real scare for me. Plus the damn game doesn't let you fight. It's either run or hide. I remember being on edge and I dropped the mouse Multiple times while playing it whenever I screamed. Lol.
One of the few games that make you forget to breath on the edge of your seat with just its atmosphere and buildup alone.... Truly deserves to be redone with AAA attention and maybe a few big wig actor roles.
@@therealdirtydan2940 couldn't agree more man games out there just try cheap jumpscares and ghosts & dismorphed figures and things like that, but condemned was just the environment and atmosphere
About 20yrs ago. Carnage Oc on the PS1 Spiderman where you are running from him out of Doc Oc's underwater facility. 10y/o-ish me was pretty scarred by that. Not the only scar I have from back then, though.
Carnage terrified me as a kid playing this game, the way he crawled, remind me of the Lickers from RE2, i remember running away from him in the lab, as the countdown appears on the screen and the lab starts to blow behind us, i remember feeling like i was by the end of a Resident Evil game, but with spiderman, since then, Carnage became my favorite Marvel villain
I still think about the Dahaka from the 2nd prince of Persia. They do such a good job of setting it up that when you have to run the first time, it's legitimately panic inducing
man, PoP 2 was a strange game for me when i played it first time. i dont know, it kinda had a dark/ opressing vibe to it, and the colors and Dahaka really helped in this sense
I don't know if you guys have already done a video about this, but for a Top 10 Most Disappointing Final Boss Fights In Video Games I'd recommend Kadir "Rais" Suleiman from Dying Light 1. Throughout the game you fight off a bunch of different zombie & human enemies, & Rais was set up to be this big bad crazy warlord character (especially if you played all the side missions that revealed more about his backstory), yet the final mission where you fight him was a letdown. At least the DLC bonus The Following gave us a better final villain, although fighting her was optional.
the boss fights against the lucavi demons in Final Fantasy Tactics felt really creepy, or at least did when I was a kid and used to play it. the soundtrack, the almost claustrophobic settings (several of those fights take place in smaller scenarios), the twisted nature of those beings, all led to a heart thumping experience that I still remember occasionally
The bear is the reason why I don't find any of these walking simulation horror games like outlast scary. That bear scared the crap out of me to the point nothing else compares. Except the alien from isolation
Should have had the Witch or Tank from Left 4 Dead, the Witch can be heard and seen long before you encounter her but she's usually right in the path you need to go and someone has to piss her off, the best way to deal with her is to avoid her altogether if possible. You can hear the Tank breathing but don't see him until you come around a blind corner and get jump scared as he's standing right in front of you, he can take out the entire team in a single attack. Unlike all the games in this video the bosses in L4D appear randomly and never in the same places as previous playthroughs.
Or you can just crown the witch using any shotgun (I prefer acting the Auto or Combat) which practically reduces her eerie aurora severely since you’re competent at pulling it off, she’s not that scary as she used to be when you first encounter the witch.
@@Johnny_Serenity It's like that old Chex commercial; P1: "I'm not gonna sneak up behind her." P2: "I'm Not doing it." P3: "Let's get Mikey the Noob, he'll sneak up on anything." Mikey kills her in 1 shot Everyone else: "He did it! Hey Mikey!"
I will always say this... The Suffering is a game so underrated when it comes to what it brought. A morality system that affects the game's ending, things that question your sanity and you cannot trust anything you see or hear. The combat and story is great, and the best thing about the first one is you see the end boss at the start of the game and it follows you everywhere. Only to find out that it was an alternate you... or the evil itself manifested as you and you have to fight your self.
A shame the Condemned series never got released on PC, such a great franchise and kind of unique in many ways. Also the original The Darkness is another one. I miss those games.
Condemned 1 was released on PC a long time ago; Condemned 2 was the only one that didn't get a PC port. The sequel is also unfortunately not backwards compatible on modern Xbox consoles, so the only way to play it sans emulation is on a PS3 or an Xbox 360.
I gotta agree with the take about Silent Hill 3 being the creepiest game in the series. Everything about it is unsettling, every location has you feeling extremely uncomfortable, but a highlight to me is that stalker kid in the hospital, he creeps the hell out of me, even though he never appears in person. Silent Hill 3 really underlines the anxiety, fears and insecurities that young women must go through, and brings all that to life in a nightmarish way, but without being too over-exaggerated or on the nose.
Playing that part of the game I did something I usually never do. I was so freaked out by the noises coming from the hallway just before the baby showed up that I ran to the nearest save point and then promptly noped myself right out of there for the rest of the day. House Beneviento as a whole was the best part of that game, though. The atmosphere and vibes were incredible.
Not a major Boss but, The Broodmother from Dragon Age Origins. What makes it so creepy is when you realize it was a dwarf woman who they forced to change by sex*al as*ault and being feed dark spawn flesh.
I always feared Dahaka from Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. The ominous walking and the sudden change in visuals when he suddenly appeared and ran behind you was terrifying.
Hell yeah, Falcon. Horror movies and games represent my favorite genre of madness. The bosses, in particular, are grimy and gruesome and disturbing and friggin' awesome.
Ludwig is such an amazing boss to fight but also a bit of an outlier when it comes to bosses. Normally when you fight a boss they become more animalistic by the end of it, but Lugwig gains his composure .
Bro bloodborne is a horror masterpiece rhat doesn't need jumpscares to give you creeps. I think moon presence is probably one of the creepiest bosses in all of the souls games if not all of the horror games.
I think it's because Alan Wake II as a whole wasn't scary. Sam Lake is a great writer but his team really needs to step up the horror in the next Alan Wake title. Of the game's 18 chapters only 3 are scary: Alan's tunnel and hotel chapters and Saga's retirement home/wellness centre chapter. That's less than a quarter of the game.@@cptnmaestro
RE7 in VR was awesome. It was strange aiming guns using your head, but you could get some crazy angles using the chainsaw and circular saw to extend the range of attacks.
That whole bit in RE7 with Margeret Freaked me out so much. That whole house was nerve-wracking. Thankfully, I did that fight on my first attempt but my heart was beating out of my chest
It's actually creepier in the remake cuz he doesn't do the reveal. It just runs at you without any warning at all and you have no idea when it's coming
I don’t really get scared in video games anymore but I can remember that going into PT completely blind when it first came out, not knowing what it was and hearing the guy on the radio telling you to look behind you was by far the creepiest thing I’ve played in a long time.
I thought the Cybil Bennet fight from the first game was a bit creepier than Alessa since Cybil just attacks you and the game doesn’t really explain what happened to her and when. Plus, she uses a gun so she’s a lot more dangerous. The amusement park is creepier overall in the third game, however. Siren for the PS2 has some of my favorite creepy encounters. The spider shibito probably upset me the most because of the sounds they make and I’m not even an arachnophobe. I also love the shibito family you have to escape from as the little girl Harumi.
Bloodbourne is eldritch horror souls. The one boss that creeped me out first time was Vicar Laurence. Get the skull and approach his corpse. Now you have to fight an undead flaming werewolf. Oh but wait... At half health HE LOSES HIS LOWER TORSO AND LEAVES LAVA TRAILS EVERYWHERE. Creepy, unsettling, and down right nerve racking.
I remember being like 11 when i played condemned: bloodshot for the first time at my friends. I remember playing all night and when i went home i was so sleep deprived and scared that my mom snuck up on me in my room and yelled about why i hadn't showered yet and i vividly remember running to the corner of my room screaming bloody murder for about 5 seconds. The look she gave me almost put me in a psych ward itself. 10/10 game
Falcon just putting in all the hours this holiday season! Dude you have been the only one with gameranx vids for this whole week or so! Step it up Jake ;)
The zombie Santa in Hunter The Reckoning: Redeemer should be in this list. That boss was as difficult to beat as it was disturbing and scary to a 10 year old me playing with my dad back in 2003.
The hunter pissed me off so bad when I first played lol. I’ll never forget the demo when I didn’t know you had to dismember them. It was crazy hard if you didn’t know that!
When I was younger, I played Uncharted 1, and I was SO scared of the infected Spaniards, my dad had to help me out with the section because I was too scared to proceed with the game 🤣🤣
Not quite a big boss in the game, but the chainsaw hand mutated guy on the Queen Zenobia in Resident Evil Revelations 1 that Jill and Parker have to fight was definitely the creepiest and most memorable Resident Evil boss fights for me back on x-box 360. The whole set up to get to his area as he bangs and beats on the locked storage room door, crying out "Mayday Mayday This is the Queen Zenobia" as the last remnants of any human consciousness that's imprinted in his mind. Just this terrified desperate cry for help as he mutated into a creature beyond imagination.
@@ledgicyt2929 Oh dude I know, the bosses in that game were so gross and freaky looking. It would be awesome if they re-released it for modern consoles
I was kinda hoping for a Hellblade mention. As someone who never plays “spooky” games I challenged myself to play it on hard and the Garm/Fenrir bossbattle was so friggin intense with the trippy visuals! I came out of that one sweaty and shaky 😹
I remember being a boy too young to be playing that kind of game I played Max Payne and the flashbacks of his murdered family scared the shit out of me. Glad I stuck it out cause that game was 🔥.
Not a game but the scariest and creepiest thing I've ever seen in a media is the Chimera in Full Metal Alchemist. That thing haunts me even after 10 years.
Great content as always Gameranx. But for me I'd give No.1 to the original Resi 3. Seeing Nemesis destroy Jill's S.T.A.R.S colleague Brad for the first time was terrifying back in early 2000. Then given the option to "Fight the monster" or "Go into the Police Station".💀
Not going to a lie, when I was a kid, the invisible pinkies from Doom 2 gave me nightmares. Its weird because not even scary movies gave me nightmares.
Thank you for saying Silent Hill 3 is the scariest. I think 3 often gets left out of discussion. Its always been my favorite because it creeped me out the most by far.
My favourite moment in RE7 was at the dinner table M: "He's not eating it Jack, he is not eating" J: "Shut the hell up Marguerite" I don't know, it's just hilarious in an our RE wacky way if that makes sense, like a modern "Jill Sandwich"
For me Alessa was just tough not creepy at all! The atmosphere and building up was top notch creepy though maybe one the the best (if not the best) in the series!
@@powercoder I'm not saying that they aren't terrifying but they aren't as terrifying if you already know what to expect. They're only truly scary on a first playthrough
@@Spiralredd for me SH3 is always scary! It is because it does not rely on jumpscare that when you play once you expect what's going on! Instead it relies on the true psychological horror!
It's the Rat King from The Last Of Us II for me. That building up to him, the moment he gets in the ambulance and the whole chase plus the fight. My god, after i beat him i told my wife i needed like half an hour just to get my soul back to my body. Spooky stuff, shat myself 10/10
Not sure if it’s a boss but that thing in the basement of RE:Village maybe the creepiest encounter for me especially the sound effects, gives me the shakes
