(re: re: Am I just a wimp?) There has been only one game to truly scare me! And that is Alone in the Dark 1. I had just installed AitD and called a friend of mine to come over and play this game. While waiting for him to arrive I read the manual, got some coke and chips and put up the second chair. The bell rang, I opened the door we settled behind the computer cranked up the speakers and booted up the game. After the amazing intro (with truly amazing music) we selected a character and started the game. Remember the beginning? You start at the attic and you have to move a crate or box or something… The next scene scared the living hell out of us both!!! After you move the box , you hear some glass break and a creature flies in the attic which you have to fight. That scene scared us so much that we couldn’t even find the right to to kick the damn thing. Yeah we died… Man, that scene still scares the sh*t out of me!!! Amazing! That game was great! No other game had scared me since that game. There were some scenes in other games that made me jump out of my chair…
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Remember the first time you enter the barn in Phantasmagoria 1? Damn that cat to hell! Yeah there is still a dent in my ceiling… I also jumped another hole in the ceiling when Curtis gets slapped the first time when he’s working behind his computer… There have also been games that didn’t scare me but had a really great and terrifying atmosphere: Heretic and HeXen. These games had amazing music but also an amazing creepy atmosphere. Same goes for Undying. There haven’t been a lot of games that were succesfull in that department…
Ow there was another scene in a game that had me disgusted! Another SPOILER ahead. Anybody remember ACT II of Sanatarium? You have to play hide ‘n seek with the kids there. You find one of them hiding under rotting corpses… After a while you found every kid you met except for one… One guys little sister is no where to be found… Guess what… You have to dig her up! Great game…
