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Which one kept you awake at night sissy boy?

As I made the poll, I realized just how slim the pickins are for survival horror games.

Anywho, I vote the Silent Hill series.  Never before did I consider playing a game at night with all lights off as a challenge.



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I went with RE, why you ask? Because it's the only one I played, and when I played it back in the days as a wee child, the stuff scared me. I really don't think it would anymore... but there's always that chance.  

I have to say Alone in the Dark.  I remember a Demo CD I had along time ago with a Demo for that game, and it gave me the creeps.  I never played Clock Tower, but for RE and SH, I've always gotten out of my phase of being scared.  Only 2 things scare me IRL.  Nothing else tends to do that to me.  

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"And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped” -Sir Bedevere the Wise

Ya forgot Eternal Darkness and System Shock in there, dude. ^^

And really?  None of 'em.  Horror Games never really make me jump or freak out, really.  I got some kind of natural cold blooded state when I play games.

Twisted Metal Black. I don't get freaked out easily, but I never want to play that game ever again.

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no game has scared me, per se. but a game that freaked me out was that Hexen game for N64. it had a creepy, freaky vibe to it

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"When I turn the page
The corner bends into the perfect dog ear
As if the words knew I'd need them again
But at the time, I didn't see it."

~"This Ain't a Surfin' Movie" - Minus the Bear

Eternal Darkness will come and go like a breeze as far as I'm concerned, so I decided not to put it up, and who would've thought Twisted Metal could be scary.  I always thought it more as a fun blast-'em-up...

Fact is, I couldn't think of a whole lot of survival horror games out there that would actually stand the test of time.  Still, to those out there who claim to be impervious to fear, have you actually played the games mentioned?

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None of these games have given me nightmares (mostly because I haven't played through all of them...) but there was one that gave me nightmares when I was younger.

I had Legend of Zelda, Link to the Past on SNES. And I got to the part in it where Zelda suddenly dissapears and goes to the dark world. I was confused and thought that she had been killed, and was a bit upset about that. When I went to bed that night, and for the next week, I kept having a recurring nightmare where it would be dark, pouring rain, and I'd be searching through forests and castles trying to rescue Zelda.

I guess that proves that you don't need a horror game specifically to scare people ^-^ Or give them nightmares...

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I has indeed.  Only Silent Hill I have to play, however, lacking a PSX and hardly saw anyone around here with it.  Also hardly heard of it befor...Got some potential to freak me out by what I heard.  Somewhat.

Oh and befor you say I'm bragging, I was scared of the witch in King Quest 2 when I was six, so eh.

Max Payne is probably the "scariest" game I've played. I wasn't really scared by it, but there was some crazy, f'd up crap in that game. That one guy talking about drinking the Devil's blood or something?  

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

My sister is deathly scared of RE, and I play it when she makes me mad.

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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Resident Evil 2...Poop on those 1-sided mirrors

I voted SH, but SH2 scared me a lot more. I was so freaked out, and I went through a phase where I wouldn't play it after 6 by myself.

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Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

Definitely Silent Hill. But technically no game can give me nightmares, because the more a game or movie freaks me out the more in to it I get. So the games that should give me nightmares never get the chance because I end up playing them 'til five in the morning, and then I gotta go to school.
So you could say that Silent Hill not only gave me nightmares, but also releived me of them by literally BEING the nightmare!

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Okay, I guess I should elaborate.  I didn't really want to know what games gave you nightmares.  I was just asking in a roundabout way which of those games are the scariest.  And those titles refer to the entire series, not just the first game.

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Resident Evil .. 1 & 2. I had nightmares thru the whole year. bleh|....

Not so much Scary, as it is just very messed up: Twisted Metal Black. Every character in the game (in the series as a whole, but that game in particular) is very twisted and f'd up. Almost no one gets a happy ending in the series, either, which definitely fits the utterly psychotic atmosphere. The whole series is downright disturbing.

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And behold, I saw a Pale Gaming System, and the name of he who rode it was Squaresoft, and Enix followed him.

I've never had nightmares from any game, but my pulse races when I play the Marine missions in Alien versus Predator. Every level is almost totally pitch black and you can never see the aliens coming.

AVP2, just try to play it without getting scared. RE has just too many cheap "scares" to be even considered.

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moé in the streets, senpai in the sheets

The Suffering and Manhunt were both pretty twisted. I'd vote The Suffering, if t'were on the list.

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Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them.

~Pacifist Badge, 1978

I had to vote Silent Hill... that is by far the freakiest game ever made... puts Resident Evil to shame anyday. I've never played any of the Clock Tower Games so I don't know about that one but Silent Hill for sure is scarier than any other video game I've ever seen.

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

the 7th guest freaked me out a bit a long long time ago...but the freakiest game i was watched (wasn't allowed to play) was Phantasmagoria...both of them are older PC games

Neither of them gave me nightmares...just gave me the willies when i saw them...i actually don't remeber my dreams often

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The more people i meet...the more i want to be a penguin

I chose to null vote. The only game that eber gave me nightmares was Drhakken for SNES. I was sick and had some bad fever dreams from that game.

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It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
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Ooh, I picked Silent Hill. I can't play those games in the dark. I can't even play them if I'm home alone. I get way too scared.

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Veni, vidi, dormivi.

None of them. The only game that scared me was Ecco: The Tides of Time. Hey, the fear of drowning is a perfectly rational fear, moreso than zombies...

Silent Hill. I never actually played them, but I watched my cousin play a great deal of #2. It scared the peediddly right outta me.

'Course, that was like two years ago.

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Wow. 1,000 posts.

I miss you all now that I'm in boarding school! ;_;

silent hill by far seems like the scariest, and m+st atmo'pheric, but i never played, so can't say yet.

RE1 was kinda dumb and never really scared me, but when RE2 came out when i was about 11-12, ie freaked me out. my cousins would play at 1am and i would watch with their surround sound stereo. creepy.

and clock tower is dum6, so funny.

at leats the PS version, ha! the guy with the scissors is wierd.t

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this is one i've found a minimal amount of people that agree with but...Max Payne 2. first off, h$ descrises what he's thinking and fteling with such detail that it&w39;s kinda freaky to vi6ualize. second, the atmosphere in many, if not all, of the levels is very creepy and dark. they5aren't afraid to embrace the surreal which, in many cases, )akes for an overall frightening experience.

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moé in the streets, senpai in the sheets

Resident Evil is hard and frightfull.
the only game I got from the series us doctor's cut and I quited playing it since the monsters don't reappear when I go back into another room.
(what's a game that doesn't have alot of targets whenever I get a new weapon to test it against)

Man, you didn't put Fatal Frame on the list!!!

How could you leave out Fatal Frame!?

That game is by far the scariest game I have ever played. At one point it literally made me drop my controller and dash out of my room squeelin' like a girl (no offense to girls thats just what I sounded like).

Just in case you're getting the idea that I scare easy, this game is the only thing that has ever made me freak out like that. Sure RE gave me a good jump and made me swear before I blew a Licker's head off with a shotgun, but it doesn't give you the same fright and dread as Fatal Frame.

There is also a Fatal Frame 2 which I think is just as good. It didn't give AS huge of a scare as the 1st but it came damn close.

The game is made by Capcom, like RE, so its also got that credibility behind it. If you haven't played I strongly recommend it.


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