randombullseye wrote:Ever under water too long in a Sonic game? Fucking terrifying.
LOL YES. poor old sonic. Traumatised me too in Sonic 2 on the game gear when i was small!
A game that terrified me was also on the Game Gear. It was prince of Persia when you would find those weird mirrors and another version of you (your twin?) would appear and run off. That used to make me crap my pants.
Also the whole Alien Versus Predator (the original). Amazing! Turned off the lights and used to pee a little in my underwear every time the beeps got faster.
I always found a few scenes in Final Fantasy VII creepy when I'd first played it. Namely, the trail of blood in Shinra's HQ, when your characters visit Nibelhiem for the first time outside of flashbacks, and pretty much everything about Jenova. Jenova was so lovecraftian, she/it totally had that "otherworldly cosmic horror" thing going on.
AppleQueso wrote:I always found a few scenes in Final Fantasy VII creepy when I'd first played it. Namely, the trail of blood in Shinra's HQ, when your characters visit Nibelhiem for the first time outside of flashbacks, and pretty much everything about Jenova. Jenova was so lovecraftian, she/it totally had that "otherworldly cosmic horror" thing going on.
Very much agreed. VERY creepy. Even Sephiroth was (and still is imo) one of the scariest end bosses in the whole game industry.
AppleQueso wrote:I always found a few scenes in Final Fantasy VII creepy when I'd first played it. Namely, the trail of blood in Shinra's HQ, when your characters visit Nibelhiem for the first time outside of flashbacks, and pretty much everything about Jenova. Jenova was so lovecraftian, she/it totally had that "otherworldly cosmic horror" thing going on.
Yeah, the music did not help at all. Very creepy atmosphere. I love that bit, my favourite part of the game.
The first time I played through Mega Man Legends (or Mega Man 64 I guess) I distinctly remember my trip through the Clozer Woods ruins. The whole place had I kind of creepy atmosphere, especially how the soundtrack would make hostile sounding noises. I also remember freaking out when the power went out, because then I was completely trapped in the ruins. Then, when I'm heading to the generator to turn the power back on, and Roll freaks out and yells "OH CRAP THERE ARE HUGE FREAKING MONSTERS ABOUT TO KILL YOU!" and the next thing I know there are 3 huge robot dogs charging straight at me out of the darkness. That scared me.
Also, I remember in the Lake Jyun ruins there was a big, ominous looking yellow cylinder in the room right before the refractor. The entire level I knew that when I grabbed that refractor, something was going to pop out of that thing and kill me. It still freaked me out when it appeared anyway.
I guess these things were also scary because the bosses were always way deep in the ruins, and dying meant you had to redo a good chunk of the dungeon. This also made the trips to get back out extremely hair raising, because you were weak from the boss battles (no life shield, anyone?) and even the slightest touch might send you to a gameover screen and big loss of progress.
the game also depicts a gruesome photo-realistic nature
At the beginning of the game, an eight-year-old boy is found murdered from gunshot wounds in a dumpster, close-ups of Hickman's body are revealed, and towards the end of the game, the player will find a severed head in a refrigerator before ultimately stumbling upon the killer, who is fondling a victim's corpse. It is believed the killer in the game is based on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, noted for keeping body parts from his victims inside his house.
At one point, the player visits a transgender nightclub in West Hollywood, and learns about his friend's secret life. The realism is complemented by a unique reaction for inappropriate use of items in the player's inventory, rather than a generic "I can't do that" statement.
The murders and realism of that game creeped me out when I was a teen.
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