7 Moments So Scary They Made Us Stop Playing 😱 

I dunno, Andy reacts (genuinely) really viscerally to the jump scares in their other horror lets plays. But I think you're bang on about what the overall themes are for them as far as "what exact kind of horror scares the OX Team?" Also I 100% agree with being afraid of Cosmic/Lovecraftian horror as a general defining personality trait one can possess. Which is weird because I love stealth games probably as much as Andy does but if my anxiety is already up from other stressors, I'm not gonna play Thief or some other atmospheric but ultimately Cosmic horror type thing until that's calmed down. (Lemme tell you running into the ghost wailing in Lemoyne in RDR2 *before* the Internet/most of RU-vid had posted about it, was Not Fun. I wasn't expecting it and I think I pivoted my horse on the spot and ran out of there so fast the dust would have settled by the time you realized I'd been there.)

You forgot Mike being weirdly calm

And Mike fears nothing for he is a soulless machine

@@Crisjola oh I completely agree. There is an oddly appealing factor with cosmic horror though, because it’s equally horrifying and fascinating. It’s why lovecraft has become so popular, because the horror isn’t in the gore or the atmosphere, it’s in the fear of something beyond our comprehension and it’s terrifying, but it’s also fascinating because it appeals to our innate curiosity. It’s a shame though, since I haven’t seen a lot of mediums outside novels, whether it be through tv or video games pull it off very well. Also I’ve never played rdr2, but I can see how that’d be horrifying since I used to get scared during some of the missions in new vegas.

@@michaelselph3530 oh but that’s the thing, mike IS the horror

Jane has a masters in physics, so, probably yes, only about the game level.

Sounds like my secondary school experience haha, maybe I should check I don't exist actually exist in a hell dimension or something...

I hope she only talking about game level. My second school was scary, opressive, grinding down and rusty (changing rooms, basement, attic...) it was only missing "covered in blood" part :)

Ivan Ivanoff guessing you never checked the janitors office

I remember playing down the halls of that level and thinking why do they have this level, it's already scary in real life...😅

I only made made it to the part where it’s in your Epic library

Same

@@crackofdawn805 Epic launcher lel

And then everyone clapped

@@thunder176 Definitely not the creators of Amnesia cause I still haven't played the game.

@@JonezeeTG Haha, I understand, was just being cheeky tho, I tapped out in the basement with the water monster😂😭

@@thunder176 Damn same dude,same

I accidentally got this achievement as well cuz I started the game got halfway through the first cutscene and remembered I had just downloaded another game I wanted to try and decided to try that first so I quit and bam achievement xD I was like “what 😮”

I was eating when they showed the fetus. totally lost my apetite

To be, or not to be. That is the question.

I was eating a fetus and that showed up and I got hungier

Why dear god did I write those words

@@mrraccoon4949 Lol😂😂

Oh man! That must've been awful!

Reminds me of the time my sister watched the ring movie and as the phone rang in the movie telephone rang and freaked her out. This was before caller identified on phones and cell phones and blockbusters was still a thing. So it was legitimately scary.

I did that to my little brother or I had someone do it Basically I did what they did on the video I texted our other brother

The first wolf in the first tomb raider scared our shits back into our esophageal area. But then it was also at the same time that people had their sexual awakening to triangle tits.

That’s because they both played those games when they were very young

In terms of fear, Mike and Ellen are opposites: Mike will talk on end about creepy kittens in a game, I'm sure. But actual scary things? Nah

​@@astridposeyAlien Isolation did get his heart pounding. The demo had him scared AF.

Eternal Darkness is a crazy mess. It is a journey you cannot complete in one sitting and claim to be okay. Nope nope nope

I played eternal darkness when I was little kid. I beat it eventually, but what nightmare fool stayed with me as a kid was the mantis creatures that would climb into your mouth and took your body over... or the idea of the many fates worse than death unit lol.

@Viktor Samoja "severed head reciting Hamlet, that's some Monty Python level stuff" I had the exact same thought. It doesn't help that graphics were so blocky back then. Even today, I have yet to see a video game with graphics realistic enough for the kind of immersion a horror story requires.

Honestly anyone scared of alien isolation.. Is just ridiculous.. That game is seriously just fucking door opening the game, and the Xenomorphs ai is a joke

What made me laugh is that while other stuff in the game freaked me out, that particular thing happened a few times and I got to the point when I was like 'ugh, head fell off again '

For me it was the next level, in the basement, the very first time you can get killed by one of the monsters. Threw my headphones on the floor and didnt come back for a few days.

Dude the first time I encountered that all I heard and saw was the splashing of its feet moving towards me and I totally lost my shit. I was so not prepared for that.

Exactly looking for this comment. I was surprised this game didn't even make it through their list. The scariest game I have ever played. I still haven't finished it till now.

@@user-fm1do5cz8t this is probably the best horror out there. Alien Isolation is right next to it, but they made a major flaw- allowed the player to defend himself. So basically Amnesia TDD is the scariest horror ever made. Oh, and also Outlast is so overrated, like holy crap, that game's not even spooky

@@paulertjustice You're absolutely right. Amnesia TDD is the ONLY TRUE LOVECRAFTIAN horror game to date.

That's exactly what I did, I had my roommate play the rest of it in front of me after I tried for 20ish minutes lol. I just took the controller for the boss fights, except of course Margaret because that shit was scary as shit.

@@dillpickle59only way I completed the creepy bunker section of the first uncharted game trapped with those mutant things was shouting the whole time and spraying bullets at anything that moved like a madman I think that as it wasn’t quiet I felt safer - it worked well

I can relate to Luke. I, embarrassingly, was scared away from Ocarina of Time by the Lizalfos in Dodongo's Cavern... Let's all pretend I was at an age where this was reasonable.

You know the only bit in ocarina of time e that scared me was the "under the well" and shadow temple bit of the story

@@felixc543 I can relate too lol, I was a very timid child, easily frightened. I was scared of the damn skeletons that would pop out of the ground at night in Hyrule Fields, to the point that I would make my mom cross the fields for me if it was nighttime. I always hated going from Kokiri Village to Hyrule Town after the first dungeon because there was just barely enough time to get there before sunset and the gates closed and if the gates closed you were locked out all night with the friggin' skeletons...

I thought the redead were terrifying as a kid, still not overly fond

First time I played Oot, I was really young and too freaked out by the first dungeon in the deku tree, especially the last two Rooms which is the Queen Gohma boss battle and the room before where 3 mini gohma bug creatures drop down on you from the ceiling. There are plenty of things that are creepy in oot but I don’t know about the water temple. I can see it being unpleasant and annoying but scary?

that or racig games that are not compatible with his racing equipment

As a sim racing fan, my greatest fear is getting a setup in dirt slightly wrong but realising it when I m already one stage into the rally. Dirt can be really frustrating when you re not feeling it...

Lol, that or the dreaded engine management light

Lol, and two years later, Jimmy from FMV horror At dead of night actually managed to scare Mike!

I think it was ”wait near the clock until it turns to midnight” ”Youll hear lisa and this distorted music and then wait until it stops. Once its stopped take 10 steps.” ”Your controller will start shaking and you have to stay completely still” ”Say a males name that starts with J. Ive heard that Jareth works best” ”A phone will start to wring and you have to answer it and youll be done” Something like that

Yeah that game does really clever meta things that mess with your mind still plan to play it myself at some point

i often feel like i'm the only person who ever played that game. i loved it so much! the sanity mechanics were startlingly clever. i'm not sure i ever got the head reciting hamlet one though.

@@irishrunner27 I’ve only seen short clips showing these moments in the game but it really makes me want to play the game so cool

In one of the chapters, you try to use a talisman to heal but before it finishes the process you're cut in half. Then the screen flashes and you're just standing there not having used it yet.

I wish they finished that game. :')

Came to the comments to say just that! I will never get tired of it.

I also loved his later description of it as "All the books came together to form Book Voltron" Book Voltron: Defender of the Library

Oh man, this. Yeah, the Ghost and Sea Dragon leviathans are objectively more dangerous, but there's nothing that quite sparks that "Oh *_SHIT"_* reaction like the Reaper's terrifying "I SEE YOU" roar.

ah yes subnautica my old friend why did I buy it when I am scared so easily underwater. The old Farsky was the same when you had not notice it was getting dark and you turn around staring into a open shark mouth nose to nose.

Or just swimming with nothing but the deep dark abyss below you with no clear idea whether or not a reaper will come up and kill you. Noped out of there quick

@@jafd239 Just go beyond the map boundries, BIG Ghosties live out there. I mean really really big

@@thomasallen9974 Oh God, the first time I ever saw that thing. I actually screamed, almost peed my pants, and got out of Dodge crying repeatedly "Please don't kill me! Please don't kill me!"... A true hero! I was terrified sometimes, but didn't quit. Awesome awesome game.

I hadn’t watched anything and yup, got got by a reaper when I swam to the wrong end of the ship and quit

Same here, I quit the game after a number of times I had to go off the deep end where the shelf ends into the still and the dark and I know there is a leviathan heading my way, and it was the horror the likes of which I never felt. Even remembering it makes me sweat.

I also saw a Reaper at the ship, and quit, haha. I was like, "You have an excellent evening, now." and uninstalled. That game is truly _too good_ at what it does.

You’re a good friend

When I was younger me and my friend watched my older cousin/babysitter play... I can't remember. But we thought the neighbour was gonna send his dogs at us afterwards. We held little plastic golf clubs when near the front or back door

U were ready from the word go 😁😁👍

I had a very similar experience. I was 9 when it came out and first played it. At that time we still had our tv and gaming consoles in the basement, we oringally had the NES, SNES, and Atari in one of the upstairs rooms but moved it down to the basement when we got a PS1 and N64 to better fit more people (and so my dad could play). Our basement was partially finished and had that old horror movie vibe (it gave a lot of the kids an uneasy feeling to the point I had to be the first to go down when friends came over). Open back steps and at the bottom was a coal room. Basically a big dark hole where the previous owner fashioned an old wooden door that didn't quite cover all the imperfect edges, so my dad sealed the corners with plastic to prevent the breeze coming through. On the far end of the opposite wall sat the tv, so we'd sit in metal folding chairs with our backs to the coal room and off to the side was a ramp leading down to another room divided by a brick wall, that the light from the main room didn't quite extend to so it was dark, unless you were to walk in and pull the chain on the hanging light on either side of that room. Well enough build up, one day I was down there by myself playing the game, I was at the hospital basement and the coal room behind me creaked open. I looked over my should and saw what seemed like the black abyss on the other side of the hole and was like "nope" and ran upstairs as fast as possible. I didn't even turn the game off (had to do it when my mom went down to do laundry) and didn't touch the game again until I was able to get the tv in my bedroom... two years later.

@@XenogearSolid Seems like you dodged a bullet lol

"I understood that reference" And so did Palpy

Ouch...

He’s saying young Link. Not youngling. The characters name is Link, later in the game you your grow older. Hence “Young”.

@@davidlee8870 he said "when I was a youngling" first

@@davidlee8870 he said youngling first, then Andy said Young Link as a joke and they ran with it

The first time I ran into a feral goul in f3 I was like nooooo but then I murdered them

Bless your heart 💕

lifeincolour09 I love You please keep it up You’re loved

I always get the two girls mixed up! XD *goes back to edit comment*

Good one you deserve a medal that says "Sean Ellis comedian of the year" And in small letters "have you *sean* Ellis?"

Better than Ellen DeGeneres isolation, where you're on a horrible day time talk show to plug a movie your in and every time you talk the host riffs improv over the end of your commentary...😐

Ellian isolation

And today, she’s actually playing Alien Isolation.

Oh this comment hits hard and it’s December quarantine Remember the simple times when we thought it was only gonna last a month or two

More like, Alien Isolation with occasional glimpses of Ellen as she hides behind the chair.

@@shotgunshells2 yeah that's more likely haha

Please, Xtra, please do this.

Yess make this happen !!!!😄😄😄

I want either Luke or Jane to sit with Ellen. That would be funny.

Ellen: Isolation?

@@yoviyudoyudanto4243 xD I guess he meant Alien: Isolation

@@yoviyudoyudanto4243 17:05

I loved that I was laughing along with all of them.

Yovi Yudoyudanto Ellen degeneres has changed

"Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake"? I remember watching the walkthrough of it by Arglefumph. He does other walkthroughs, but I remember the Nancy Drew ones.

Smiley Psyykotic that game is still the scariest game I have ever played.

I feel bad for laughing.

Sh2, I lived in Dundee at the time which can have some really thick fog. Opening your curtains the next day to really thick fog made me want to stop the game of life

Also underwater is freaky. The shark in the cage in the old guys pool scared me so badly. I hate the eel from Mario 64 too.

i just watched this part and im still asking this question why is zelda on here HAHAA

He stopped at the water temple, that means he stopped before the scariest part of the game. Although I found the canyon in Majora's mask much more eerie

There were no scary temples in LoZ:OoT. The water temple is 1 of the shortest and not that complicated. The shadow temple is annoying when you have to use the lens to see floors, but neither scared me.

Interesting I never knew that.

Yeah I get that, even though silent hill shattered memories always found it so cool how things changed in the game based on the form you filled in at the beginning of the game and the psychological sections in the game that quietly profiled you

The Twilight Zone episode "It's A Good Life" (November '61). Anthony is played by Bill Mumy, who went on to have a massive career as an actor (including three seasons as Will Robinson in Lost in Space and some time as Lennier on Babylon 5) and a musician (as half of Barnes and Barnes...singers of "Fish Heads"). In fact, he reappears as his character Anthony in one of the rebooted Twilight Zones alongside his daughter (the episode is entitled "It's Still A Good Life").

Poor Andy, he looks so broken in the first ten minutes.

I think he needs new pants after that one lol

Same, there is a very thick layer of dust on that case.

Oh but it's soooo good! Watch a let's play maybe and after that maybe have a go at it yourself. That way maybe you're better prepared for what could happen ^^

It's not actually the xenomorph until you turn off a security alarm much later on what you got scared of was a human

I never finished that game...

ForestRaptor I actually got it because of a Let’s Play! No issue watching it or anything else scary, I just can’t play it.

Well you made it far. I never got passed the giant snake.. I was only a little kid back then.

The dog through the window in the beginning. Tapped out. Have beat every RE since, except 1.

This happened to me in Resident Evil directors cut.....It was one of the only games I got for my ps1 and I had literally just started the game......There was this scene early on where you are searching the mansion you are stuck in and I went upstairs turned a random corner and a cutscenes starts showing what looks like a guy freaking out but it's a zombie straight up eating a dude and it turns towards you......I saw that shit and was like NOPE.......And till this day never played it again......Never had a moment like that since

You literally were soooo damn close to the most satisfying part of the game and you tapped out?? Sorry bruh, if you have bad memories of RE it's totally on yourself lol

You mean "Mike the Fearless".

I wish the outro is just Mike sitting there going "ehh...."for 20 seconds, thinking of the last time he has been lightly spooked by anything.

Lol. He doesn't even flinch a little. Gives zuckerborg a run for his money in terms of being robotic. Mans a tank!

Being literally fearless is a paladin class feature, after all :p (well in 3.5 at least)

Shannon Olivas I go back and watch the Slenderman play throughs just for that.

You misspelled "unflinchingly smiles like a robot"

Like Shane in Buzzfeed Unsolved, the man has know fear, well except getting injected with drugs in the street by a stranger.

He certainly laughs in the face of Andy.

Mike said recently that laughing is his coping mechanism to fear. That and saying "it's okay. we'll be okay. we're fine. We are ok." It's how he deals with fear. He is not in this episode because it's probably not his genre. That or they are going to fire Mike. He has been left out of so many things this year I fear there is something bad going on with mike and the show.

The only thing Mike "Balls of Steel" Channell fears is stuffing the Ginnetta again. Man has no fear whatsoever.

@Kevin G Yes but NEW Outsidexbox.

We need MOAR

It was the way they made the pipe frame and angle him. You're just swimming along and suddenly THERE IS ONLY TEETH. I was a relatively savvy teenager (well, okay, I was a teenager, "relatively savvy" is a total lie and I was still terrified by the prospect of being scared) and I still had a visceral "ahhhh nooooo" when that happened.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one! Although I still kept playing, just avoided Clanker's Cavern like the plague! Also, the music when you're underwater in that level is tense, like you can feel the water pressure! I was ONE button press away from triggering Clanker's dialogue! Because of this, I finished Banjo Tooie first! Click Clock Wood was worth this struggle though!

The eel in Mario 64 freaked me out

Thank you for reminding me of that childhood trauma.

@@sorenromano7 your welcome and am sorry😂

Or the letter you get from Bowser in Super Mario Bros. 3.

Oh good god that was the worst.

Relatable.

I watch my sister playing Fatal Frame Franchise from 1, 2, and 3 and it was the most fun horror game but let me tell you, it is scary as fuck when you meet the boss and you don't know what the fuck you doin. My sister is the one who play it but my cousin and I watch her play it get scared especially the boss where you must Hide in Fatal Frame 2 (that girl who have red string)

@@shafwandito4724 soo True i never played game but watching gameplay it scared shit out of me Fatal Frane 2 was most scary for me

YES! A friend bought me Fatal Frame II as a gift and I tried so hard to play it but ultimately was far too freaked out. You did the most damage to the ghost the closer it came to the camera but you had to hold up the camera and watch the ghost come at you...it was too much.

Yes!!! The entire game was terrifying but the first time you encounter Sae and the Kusabi made me take a break, lol Sae's crazed laughter gave me chills for the entirety of the game.

I remember the first time I saw long arms. He backed me into a corner so I just rapid fired at him. I had 6 pics of him opening and closing his mouth in stop motion. It was funny afterward but not when it happened.

One of the cleverest games I’ve seen still want to play it at some point

I would have loved to see a sequel. Sadly the developer Silicon Knights went bankrupt and defunct in 2014. I’m hoping for a remaster but I doubt it’ll happen tbh.

100% agree. There were plenty of scary things in that game, but the Water Temple was never one of them for me. However, I refused to do the Shadow Temple for the longest time.

@@stealthbonus I noped out of Shadow Temple multiple times... even now the music still unsettles me.

I’m personally confused on why Luke said that he was scared by the Water Temple. Like the Shadow Temple is scary, and sure Link can drown in the Water Temple, but that’s only if he is wearing either the Kokiri Tunic or the Goron Tunic and if he is also wearing the Iron Boots. Like the Water Temple is more confusing instead of being scary. And besides, Water Dungeons in Zelda games aren’t known for being scary.

The first time I got caught by a monster in that game it glitched so that I didnt die. It just kept hitting, and hitting and hitting. It was nearly traumatizing

I played it for like 40 minutes, 9/10 years ago. Never played it again and never will.

Haha least you loved it

Your sanity meter goes lower the more you play :^)

Brilliant moment watching someone play a platformer puzzle in Amnesia, staying out of the water. They then had to open a bulkhead by spinning the release. But the game went unresponsive if you spin the wheel too fast. So here the player was freaking out as the monster approached, having to methodically move the mouse despite panicing. So much fun to watch.

That's still more than me. I watched the first few min of a playthrough on RU-vid and had to walk away. Though I eventually finished it.

the furthest i got in outlast was into the basement when the guy starts walking around looking for you. i got to that point when i was alone, and then when i was with a few friends they wanted a go so we started the game again and all of us had a go, huddled around my laptop, and we still didn’t get any further!

I got to the gate in Outlast. Never went in. Quit immediately.

it was like..i waaaatched lets plays of it. and still couldnt play on after the first bad scenes. xD

Same. I got to the guy watching a static TV. We're bros just hanging out forever now

This is my favourite format for videos to, I find them strangely relaxing and therapeutic.

Really does help. A small novelty that makes a huge difference :)

Calm dow, spawn of satan.

Top 1 books where nape kills dumbledore

remind them in 8 months!

Yaas 😂

@D Adams No, preople were always this mad, they're just better at showing it now.

"It gets worse, there's an alien!" had me laughing very loud. Solid stuff

"Ellen: Isolation" got me even more

Maybe he should talk about what he would like to see in a scary game.

@@AlmightyPolarBear That would be like watching one of the really bad Saw films and I am here for that.

It's true. The closest thing to fear Mike has ever felt is the tension from playing Alein Isolation.

@@seanmcelroy9738 And even in that, his heart beat jumped only when he saw the flamethrower. 😂

@@AlmightyPolarBear you got a point. If you can make a game that scares mike then you've got a hit! Maybe some game company should throw some ideas his way and see if any strike a cord.

Corrupted Save Files can be just as bad, not only did you lose progress in a game that you likely played for hours or even years but if you don't delete the corrupt file within a certain amount of time, it's stuck there, forever taunting you

I bought silent hill used (20 years ago) but the second disc was scratched beyond playability. I still can feel the terror to this day.

Having your mom buy you a off brand memory card because it is cheaper, and it cannot keep a save file to save its existence.

Please connect online.

Ah, don't worry. If you save and quit in a dungeon in Ocarina of time, you end up back at the entrance once you load the save again.

I can’t believe he got scared at the water temple instead of the shadow temple. Shadow temple is creepy on a whole other level for me.

MrHj123 Shadow temple is awesome though. The well dungeon. That was scary too

I cant believe it was the water temple that scared him and not the arm thing

Still better than when a certain WWII veteran went down for 70 years under ice

FINALLY, someone agrees! I hated Dead Hand!

Well Bottom of the Well is at least supposed to be scary, at least if you're a little kid I guess? Dead Hand is rather creepy after all.

It used to give me an uneasy feeling for sure. But so does the Shadow Temple and that’s prolly my favorite one

I'm usually freaked out by underwater sections in videogames, but the Water Temple was actually pretty fun for me. Also yes the shadow temple and the Well were truly terrifying for me at least.

Same, the Water Temple wasn't that scary

I remember first buying Gmod(before I bought hl2) and spawning some zombies out of curiosity and being scared out of my skeleton, It took me 2 weeks to get over that fear

Good God, Ravenholm. The poison headcrab sound still triggers my fight or flight.

I believe that was the first horror game I've ever played and I was hooked. I think what made it so effective was the fact that it was just a normal shooter up till that point. It was so unexpected and terrifying. I would love an entire Half Life spinoff of just Ravenholm.

I clearly remeber being up in the terrace of a building in Ravenholm and some unleashed creatures like the Xenos from Alien 3 showed up in the distance... I knew they saw me, but I thought "they wont be able to climb up here. Ill just snipe from afar". And then the pipe on my left which went all the way to the ground started shaking as they climbed...

Hears static voice saying don't go 2 ravenholm c'mon gorden we gotta go to ravenholm

Matthew Doel The Bioshock ones were great. Would have loved to have it continue.

Well crap. I always thought that was normal. Either that or someone spiked my flute.

Far worse than anything in the water level, which was just a pain in the butt.

What colossus

@@knowherehydra3059 2nd I think t

@@outlawsaul9969 So Quadratus gave you the spook of a lifetime? Understandable, since he literally bashes his way out of a cave right in front of you and you barely have any time to react. Luckily, he's slow. The three fastest bosses - Dirge, Celosia, and Cenobia - scared the shit out of me and caused my heart rate to spike.

I don't remember ever being scared when playing Shadow of the Colossus, but then again I was probably older than you. I played it on a PS2 emulator too. What a brilliant game.