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What is the legit scariest game you ever played?

2248 sats \ 35 comments \ @stack_harder 12 Jan gaming

For me, there are 2 standouts. The first was Resident Evil when it first came out, as a kid at the time it was scary and it was stressful and I only managed to get past the spider boss.

I could only play the PlayStation at my aunty's house and we'd only usually go there once a year at boxing day and that was when I could play my uncle's PS1. The licker introduction in RE2 was terrifying, didn't have any clue it was coming. to this day my auntie remembers and knows what a licker is!

the second one was Project Zero (fatal frame in the US). I never owned this, but I would watch my best friend play it. it was a play-along before the genre became a thing on YouTube.

one time when we were like 17, we were house-sitting at his dad's place with a case of beers, while he spent most of the night trying to complete it. absolutely terrifying and man i was glad i didn't have the stress of trying to play it.

They did a release on Switch recently and I thought about getting it, but I thought, nah, my life has enough stress as it is!

honorable scary mention goes to Shadow man 64 and alien isolation. alien was more stress scary than 'scary scary', super atmospheric though.

what were some games that terrified you stackers?

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92 sats \ 3 replies \ @030e0dca83 12 Jan

That was around 2009 and it looked like this:

Who is old enough to remember this maze?

8 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 12 Jan

My screen remembers that!

8 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder OP 12 Jan

kind of looks like a metroid map, or was this an old dos game?

12 sats \ 0 replies \ @030e0dca83 12 Jan

It was windows, as I remember, flash application. You move you mouse pointer and don't have to touch black boundaries. Three levels, next one is harder than previous. If you pass third level you get heart attack as winning prize

17 sats \ 2 replies \ @LowK3y19 12 Jan

Max Payne level where u had to follow the blood trail and hear a crying baby the whole time

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 12 Jan

that does sound teiffying. in re8 the part with the big baby chasing was also horrifying

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 12 Jan

came to say just this

25 sats \ 0 replies \ @j7hB75 13 Jan

Amnesia series and Penumbra series from Frictional Games

14 sats \ 3 replies \ @fm 13 Jan

The first was Resident Evil when it first came out

fuck yes... i had trouble paying this alone..

5 sats \ 2 replies \ @stack_harder OP 13 Jan

it was actually quite groundbreaking in a lot of ways, combining puzzle, horror and story

14 sats \ 1 reply \ @fm 13 Jan

Yes yes and yes.. also groundbreaking in scare the shit out of you 😂

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 13 Jan

annnd then slightly less scary

but we must remember, this was peak performance back in those days lol

32 sats \ 3 replies \ @Blank 12 Jan

I've been playing survival horror games since I was a teenager, and I am normally o.k with them if I turn up the brightness.

With that said, I couldn't play resident evil 7. There is a scene in Dino Crisis where a T-Rex smashes through a window, that use to get me every time.

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @stack_harder OP 13 Jan

was that because it was scary or because you didn't like the direction it went? i really liked 7 actually, the scene where Jack was driving around the garage trying to get you was quite intense lol

separate shoutout, but RE revelations on the 3ds was actually pretty scary when it came out

14 sats \ 1 reply \ @Blank 13 Jan

I genuinely found RE:7 absolutely terrifying. I couldn't make it past the first hour on easy mode.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 13 Jan

the baker house was quite atmospheric lol did you play re8? different vibe, but also good

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 12 Jan

The early Resident Evil games were first in my mind, too.

28 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 12 Jan

people forgot that because we didn't have youtube, there weren't really spoilers, and when those dogs smashed through the window the first time, underpants were soiled!

12 sats \ 0 replies \ @BubeniCZECH 13 Jan

Doom 2, if I first time play with sound card.

12 sats \ 1 reply \ @PictureRoom 12 Jan

Idk I remember playing tomb raider on the pc when it first came out and some of those maps/missions made me feel kind of spooked. Must have been like 5 or 6.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @PictureRoom 12 Jan

Oh, also Metal Gear Solid (the first one)

15 sats \ 0 replies \ @Artilektt 12 Jan

I loved Resident Evil but Silent Hill freaked me the F out

14 sats \ 3 replies \ @Shugard 12 Jan

As a young adult I loved to play F.E.A.R

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @stack_harder OP 12 Jan

missed out on that one, looks like an action horror. any remasters of it?

12 sats \ 1 reply \ @Shugard 12 Jan

I don't thing there are any remastered versions

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 12 Jan

ah that's too bad

12 sats \ 3 replies \ @OneOneSeven 12 Jan

P.T. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.T._(video_game)

It was a Playable Trailer for what was supposed to be a new Silent Hill game, developed by gaming legend Hideo Kojima.

There are remakes of it in Unreal Engine, but unless you downloaded it onto your PS4 before it was removed from the store, you can't play the original experience anymore.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @stack_harder OP 12 Jan

didnt they do a silent hill 2 remaster?

14 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 12 Jan

Yea, came out last year.

This project was supposed to be a new installment called Silent Hills and ft. Norman Reedus. It got cancelled for some reason and Kojima pivoted and made Death Stranding, also with Reedus as the main character.

28 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 12 Jan

i might put that on my list, such a huge ass backlog tho !

15 sats \ 1 reply \ @ama 12 Jan

Does life counts as a game? If not, I guess Ghosts 'n' Goblings. I haven't played any other game that made me afraid, I'm afraid.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 12 Jan

i never got far enough with that to actually get scared because it was so insanely hard lol

14 sats \ 1 reply \ @Milkman9000 12 Jan

Easily the og silent hill for me

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 12 Jan

i never played that, would be keen to play the remaster though

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @7e6e393a56 12 Jan