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I would say hands down that it is Silent Hill 2
Resedent Evil might have a few more things jumping out of walls at you but Silent Hill's got more phsicological aspects.
Silent Hill 2 was totaly Evil

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System Shock 1&2

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System Shock 2.

Thief.

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The scariest game I ever played was (please donīt laugh) X-COM. Many times I would be sending squad members searching through a night battlefield, with the slow, ominous music in the background building up tension, and then BAM something shoots at one of my men and I nearly jump out of my skin.

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For me - Sanitarium

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Waaay back I'd say the sewers in Stonekeep (mind you that I was a bit younger then), but even now I think I would be playing it with cold, wet hands (dangerous beasts popping up from under the water, and especially "The Beast" which is the ugliest monster I've ever seen in a game )


A bit more recent, but still pretty old, Thief... It wasn't really that scary, but it still had this dark gloom and the tension was unbelievable Of course, some levels were worse than others.. When I first entered the derelict church I was like cos the enemies where real

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Glad to see some votes for System Shock 2 here. It's just so atmospheric. I played it late at night alone in my house with the lights off for a few nights running until I completed it. I am a calm person, but the walk downstairs to get a drink after playing was scary because the game makes you so edgy. The adrenaline doesn't so much rush as pour with this game.

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for me: ( you won't believe this ):

Alone in the Dark.
Dracula.( )

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The scariest game I ever played was (please donīt laugh) X-COM. Many times I would be sending squad members searching through a night battlefield, with the slow, ominous music in the background building up tension, and then BAM something shoots at one of my men and I nearly jump out of my skin.


I found the first X-Com game scary as well. Especially the night city missions when an alien would suddenly burst out of a civilian who had gotten too near your party. Creepy stuff.

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I havent played many action games, but the breath sounds of those round pink monsters in Doom always manages to freak me out.

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Thief, in my opinion.

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I'd say System Shock 1 & 2.

A honourable mention goes to "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream".

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Maybe it's because I was around 11 when I played it, but the 7th Guest freaked me out.

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Gotta be Silent Hill 1. Silent Hill 2 was cool and all, but it didn't have little ghost babies with knives running around. Silent Hill 1 just had better enemies alltogether.

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Or my vote could also go to Kiss Pinball depending on what you mean by scary.

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the Sims

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Descent: Destination Saturn.

Play at night with the music on.

Very immersive.

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Scariest in the sense that it sold a bazillion copies sure.

The sunday gamers will soon take over the whole industry.

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I remember Phantasmagoria scaring the bejesus out of me on a bunch of occasions.

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I havent played many action games, but the breath sounds of those round pink monsters in Doom always manages to freak me out.


I'm with ya on that one. Hearing the breathing of the monsters while you frantically looked for them and then, BOOM there they were in yer face!!!!, scared me.

Am I a *****??

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Half-Life was pretty scary when crawling up those vents for the first time and the face huggers dropped down

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Hehe yeah......overall I'd say SS2 was far more scary, but there is one face hugger in a tunnel about 1/3 of the way through the game that scared the living **** out of me. Usually you are ready, but this was the first enemy in the tunnels so I was just crawling along in the dark thinking about the next part of the game when SCREEEEEEEEETCH it came towards my face.

I admit I screamed like a girl.

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I've only seen a bit of it, but my vote goes for Clive Barker's Undying.

Ooh, check that -- Clock Tower, for the SNES. Scares the hell out of me, being a helpless school girl and getting attacked by a possessed French Doll...

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The Deep Sea level in Perfect Dark scared me. My auto-target kept getting drawn to a dead Skedar in the first hallway. I must have put twenty bullets in it before I realized it wasn't getting up.

Then of course you reach the part where you have to run blindly through the hallways, afraid that there's a guy behind you with a gun pointed at your head.

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maybe this was just because of the settings at the time(i was in my early teens, and it was one of my first 3d pc game) but daggerfall was really scary to me. those huge dungeon mazes with the shrieks, and creaking doors not to mention the fact you could literally run into monsters which would kill you in a hit. one wrong turn or a fall and you could be really lost. of course a lot of this also probably had to do with the fact i was playing a warrior at the time and didn't have access to all those nifty spells(recall, invisible, heal, levitate, etc).

doom was also quite scary initially(i was even younger when i first played this iirc), but i got over doom's scariness quicker than daggerfall.

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Well, believe it or not, another game that scared me a lot was Wolfenstein 3D. I was pretty young then, and lived in a small ranch outside town, which was really silent and dark at night. I still remember playing Wolf3D at night, lights off, everybody sleeping in the house, and then, in a corner, those damn mutants jumped in front of me... Wow.

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The mutant Hitlers were great

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Scariest in the sense that it sold a bazillion copies sure.

The sunday gamers will soon take over the whole industry.

no, scary in the sense that publishers will think that 8 billion expansion packs are the way to go

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Well it's a strategy perfect for the Sunday gamers....their target market. Either way I agree it's scary, and we must unite against gaming only on Sundays!!

 
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