It's funny, cos in the film, the dogs didn't scare me at all, but then when I played the game, my heart was ready to leap out of my mouth 😅. I think Rosie is right about that whistling music; that made it much scarier.
For me, it has to be when you’re in the Deep Roads in Dragon Age Origins. *SPOILERS* you have to go on a quest in search of the dwarves paragon. You’ve been battling through hordes of Darkspawn and you reach a maze of tunnels that looks like they’re covered in offal and slime. As you’re going through these tunnels you begin to hear a despondent voice echoing as it recites a very disturbing poem: “First day, they come and catch everyone. Second day, they beat us and eat some for meat. Third day, the men are all gnawed on again. Fourth day, we wait and fear for our fate. Fifth day, they return and it’s another girl’s turn. Sixth day, her screams we hear in our dreams. Seventh day, she grew as in her mouth they spew. Eighth day, we hated as she is violated. Ninth day, she grins and devours her kin. Now she does feast, as she’s become the beast.” It’s not until you come to the end of the tunnels that you get a clearer picture of what this poem is referring. I’ve played through this game so many times and this part is still very disturbing and chilling for me.
Firewatch has a MUCH scarier moment where (spoilers) someone violently knocks you out by repeatedly bashing your head in with a shovel and it's really loud and sudden and you can't quite make out what they look like. It's basically a horrific jump-scare.
SO glad someone mentioned Fire Watch! Had to stop playing for a couple of weeks due to intense paranoia about being followed. The game looked too good to ignore for long though and managed to get back to it and finish it off. Very glad I did, still up there with one of the most moving games I've played. Recommend to everyone!
@@deannoakes8038 agreed. I can never decide whether its the dialogue or the artwork that made it better. Both were outstanding and bother deserved awards.
Hard agree with rosie here, even that thumbnail brought back spoopy memories of me being a wee guy and being terrified of chicken run. First stealth experience and its honestly a miracle i ever got into MGS 😅
Even starting Firewatch always gave me that uneasy feeling from the jump and as it unravels it became harder and harder for me to feel safe in and then the ending Jesus Christ…
The scariest moment in a non horror game to me is in Tomb Raider 2. Not all games but some games with sharks scare the hell out of me and the scariest was the underwater level where the whole area is pitch black except a small area of light around Lara and there's big great whites swimming around.
For me it was HP and the chamber of secrets on ps2 whenever you had to avoid the prefects. Any time I got caught and they shot a spell at me I’d jump a foot in the air!
Lol especially in the libary. I would rather fight the giant trantula or a dementor and rhe woomping willow then get chased by a prefect and lose house points.
My daughter was so convinced I was making her play a horror game so in The unfinished Swan, the first time her paint blob bounced off some glass, she almost jumped out of her skin.
It was the opposite for me. I would only hear the wolves howl (no music at all) and then while I was looking for them they would suddenly jump me from behind! It was enough to make me turn the game off and to this day I still haven't gone back to any of the original PS1 Tomb Raider games. I didn't become a fan until Tomb Raider Legend.
There was one moment I rrreally hated in NieR: Automata - in Route C, when the Red Girls started turning on each other, there was a split second when half of them were shown with creepy smirks on their faces.
Something that absolutely terrified me when I was younger was when I was playing the game Digimon Digital Card Battle. When you complete Infinity Tower, the final boss of that arena (VenomMyotismon) gets possessed by a programmer simply known as A. The first indication that something is wrong is when the boss starts repeating previous dialogue and lots of text boxes come up. The music also stops, replaced by a lot of sounds that sound like something is crashing. And then you're greeted by a black screen that occasionally flashes A's face in hologram form, which freaked me out so much I turned the game off and didn't do that section again until years later.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. Me and a buddy had spent an hour or hours just poking about, solving mysteries, chilling, when from out of nowhere the game threw a jump scare in our faces. It terrified me to the extent that I screamed and threw my arms in the air, losing my grip on the controller and effectively throwing it in my friend's face with a thud. Adding insult to injury I then refused to play anymore and forced my battered friend to do the rest of the scary bits.
For me it’s a moment from Abzu, a beautiful game about the ocean and the importance of conservation. Or at least it is if you’re not deathly terrified of the ocean like me. Specifically there’s one part that I can only assume is supposed to beautiful and calming, but for me is utterly terrifying. Up until this point you’d mostly be in coves or temples, when suddenly you exit out and you’re in the vast bottomless ocean and a pod of whales pass by. You follow the whales for what feels like ten minutes but is probably more like two, just swimming across this expanse with nothing to protect you next to a pod of these enormous monstrosities. I’m not exaggerating when I say I nearly fell into a very real panic.
Yes! I had that same feeling, along with regrets that I had bought a diving game despite knowing I dread everything ocean. Though, I have a friend who is a diver and obsessed with the ocean and aquatic life, and he said he too felt more dread than anything else playing that scene.
Tomb Raider 2. First diving with sharks was scary but I got pass it. But then yetis on the dark was too much! I dont't even remember did I play any further
For me, the mini bit of Lego Harry Potter 1-4 freaked me out, purely because Filch grabs you and flashes his lantern in your face. Made my blood run cold. I'm glad they didn't have the screaming book in that level..
Might be a weird question, but I found a PS1 copy of Harry Potter that I can play on PS3, but the digital memory card won't save my progress. Is there some way to get progress to save?
Elite dangerous freaks me out. Just everything about it. Jumping in next to stars that feel way to close. Running out of fuel falling into stars. Everything
The freaking butler Winston in Lara Croft's mansion in the old Tomb Raider game. Technically it isn't even the main part of the game but damn he gave me the cREEPS to the point that I always tried to clear a room or area before he could come find me there skskdjskdndkdj (Yes i know and have used the freezer trick countless times)
I dunno if outer wilds counts as a "scary" game (it's not a horror game but there's plenty of things that can be fairly frightening in it) but..... those angler fish...... eugh.........
Drakengard 2 on PS2 when you fight the manifestations of Manah's past/guilt and you have a male otherworldly voice taking over a small child size body. Honestly creepy.
For me, it was Dragon Age Inquisition in the area of Fallow Mire, where you first encounter the undead corpses! The first time they freaked me out because I don't like zombies, and they remind me of them! I eventually got over it, but it was creepy the first time I played it. Edit: Love the outro, Rob!
Man mrs tweedy in chicken run walking around like a scarecrow scared me so much. Even the stage where you are dressed as her and try to escape is freaky
That trapdoor en route to a Bowser room in Super Mario 64? I'll never get used to the way the Peach portrait turns into Bowser, and then the floor opens below you and you hear Bowser's laugh whilst you fall
When Rob began to talk about MGS, I wondered if he was going to mention the bit in the elevator when Otacon yells that there are other people in there with you in stealth suits, that bit scared me when I first played and I was always tense when replaying that particular section.
For me it's Metal gear solid as well--with the big elevator scene before going to the snowfields against sniper wolf. It still scares the hell out of me everytime i re-play this fantastic game
For me it was the sudden change of tone in Thief. The game was eerie and sombre, but it wasn't scary. Until you look through that keyhole... Shat bricks for weeks...
For me it was the end of Dear Esther: the change in the atmosphere was so spooky, the storm coming up, a feeling as if nature has turned against you, the intense music, the voice getting more aggressive! Man, I love that game.
I've not played Firewatch yet. Really intrigued now and definitely gonna play it. Just listening to Dave's entry gave me the chills. Nice video as always Access😊
For me I’d say was from Thief 2014. The moment when you first see one of The Freaks beneath The House of Blossoms, which for me was unbelievably unexpectedly terrifying, in a game where I thought was just some simple stealing and whatnot.
For anyone unaware, Rob's poking fun at himself for an embarrassing moment a few years ago. He got asked to do an on-stage discussion with some game developers at an industry event. And when he signed off, with all of the cameras watching, he accidentally said "We'll be back right soon!" So it took time to get over the mistake and learn to just laugh about it.
Agreed on the Wolves it was the red eyes when you hide in the darkness I don't know if they ever scared me. But there was a way to get through it easily before you get the Sniper wolf hankechief, when Meryl says "Snake What's wrong i thought you liked Dogs" if you hit her and hide in the cardboard box she would whistle n the Wolf pup would pee over the box meaning you smelt like wolf pee and they wouldn't attack saved alot of time as for me I didn't like to kill the Wolves. But onto my actual thing that used to scare me n a non horror game as a child had to be for me the Sonic drowning countdown music... That used to fill me with dread water levels in Sonic games as I knew at some stage I would hear that music and panic trying to find a air bubbles to make if out of there lol even to this day there is slight hesitation playing sonic games when entering water levels lol 😂😂😂😂
Agree with Rob's original comment about the Spanish zombie's from Drake's Fortune, but also have to mention the first encounter with the Man-bat from Batman Arkham Knight. So scary and unexpected 😳
Rosie, Mrs. Tweedy in the Chicken Run film *terrified* me as a child! With her toothy face, odd expression, and diabolical schemes, I barely managed to watch it back then. If I'd known there was a game and had played it, I would likely have felt the same way as you!
The interesting thing about GLaDOS/HAL 9000 parallels is that HAL was conceived at a time when AI was more of a fictional construct than a practical possibility. HAL is introduced as human-like because the audience is familiar and comfortable with humans, but they aren’t familiar with or comfortable with living computers. It's when HAL starts acting robotic and calculated that the audience realizes "oh no, he's a computer" and he becomes threatening. By the time GLaDOS was conceived, we had become used to automated systems. Synthetic voices offering us information is something we encounter daily. GLaDOS is introduced as a pre-programmed voice because that's what the audience is familiar and comfortable with. It's when she starts acting human and emotional that the audience realizes "oh no, she's alive" and she becomes threatening.
Fable 3: when you end up wandering around Aurora and have to deal with The Crawler. That game went from King’s Quest to Silent Hill way to nonchalantly.
Fable 2 with the illusion dream farm with your sister. Everything seems nice and happy but then suddenly in the dark of night you hear the music box off in the distance. And if you follow the music box the path gets gradually more gruesome as your sister tries calling you back before giving a chilling scream that has still given me nightmares since. In a comedy fantasy game.
Spooky 👻 games like red dead redemption games series mass effect 2 Spyro sly cooper 2 and 3 witches 3 LEGO games series Skyrim final fantasy series and far cry games series too including call for duty and battlefield series and Batman games series ratchet and clank game series
The one example from my youth I can think of is the clown carnival attraction in the Jimmy Neutron the movie game for the game cube. You just go inside a clown head as the entrance, then the inside is just a maze that is designed to look like a tongue with teeth all around to keep you on your path. There’s also toothbrush obstacles that I think can damage you. To top it off, the music was basically low, echoed grumbling with the occasional burp sound to just to complete the unsettling ambience.
Arkham City - The Mad Hatter side mission. The mission itself is not unsettling, but afterwards Alice just sits there and cries even though she’s safe. I finally left the shop still hearing her sobs.
Firewatch really is an ingenious game. One that I still talk about frequently now and encourage others to play. I haven't played anything else that's made me that paranoid!
