Your scariest video game enemies.

[Nick]

What were the scariest things you've come up against in video games?


I'll start us off.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

scissorman

[ThrashO]

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Originally Posted by Nick

What were the scariest things you've come up against in video games?


I'll start us off.

Ecco the endboss?

Originally Posted by ThrashO

Zombies ate my neighbors?

[Nick]

Originally Posted by 10,000 Volt Ghost

Ecco the endboss?

Yep, that's the Vortex Queen. The bane of my childhood.

[k0k0]

The babies from silent hill 1.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

We used to call them the chili chitlins.

[Chojin]

Originally Posted by 10,000 Volt Ghost

scissorman

yeah this, scissorman was responsible for the only panic attack i've ever had

[Esuohlim]

Imagine being 3 years old and trying not to think of this fucker suddenly swooping in your room when you're trying to sleep at night

[Guitar Woman]

Fuck all of these assholes, especially the Shalebridge Puppets. It's bad enough that they're terrifying and make the lights flicker when they get close, but they're also impossible to kill without a shitload of expensive and impractical fire arrows, even on the standard difficulty setting.

The Thief games in general are full of goddamn terrifying shit, but I think 3 was the worst.

[k0k0]

Oh yeah, I forgot how freaky the zombies on thief 1 were when me and my bud were on acid.

[Guitar Woman]

I vividly remember playing Thief 2 as a child, and coming to a hole in the floor leading to a dark room full of moss arrows and loot. I dropped down, thinking it was empty, and found myself trapped with no way out in a 10x10 foot room with a fucking giant spider. I shut the computer off instantly.

Spoilered for people who haven't had the shit scared out of them by Thief yet

Spoilers!

Then there's the Hammer Haunts, the apparitions that shoot skulls at you and knock off half your health bar in one shot, the mantis men, the humans turned into half-apes by Pagan magic, and the Thief Gold exclusive ghost who's immortal, has a flaming head, and accelerates to retarded-fast speeds when you hit him, running off somewhere else in the level to pop up later when you're not expecting him. The Mechanist servants in Thief 2 are also creepy as hell, even if they can't hurt you. The cyborg ones wander around having arguements with themselves and speaking in a creepy, echoey whisper, and there's this tiny Cherub robot in "Life of the Party" who pops up behind you after you steal a plot-important piece of loot, and then runs off somewhere else into the level. The first time I saw it I chased after it and threw every goddamn explosive I had at it trying to kill it, even though it was completely harmless; it was just that much of a spooky bastard.

What the fuck, Looking Glass.

[Esuohlim]

Man, I knew someone was going to post ReDeads. I can't think of a more "holy shit" moment during a video game than when I left the future's Temple of Time for the first time

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Originally Posted by Chojin

yeah this, scissorman was responsible for the only panic attack i've ever had

Me and my friend used to play this together because we both refused to play it by ourselves. We were playing stage two as helen. There is a part where you investigate the fish tank, then the power flickers and scissorman pops out. The power went out in my house and I had the worst fucking panic attack. I locked the door in my room and grabbed the heaviest blunt object I could find.

[Guitar Woman]

They're deffo the worst. The Windwaker versions were creepy too, even if they looked like Dhalsim and sounded like elephants.

The ones in Twilight Princess were pretty disappointing, just like everything else in that game.

Vampire The Masquerade had that Snuff Film quest, which was pretty gruesome by itself, but then you had the sewers that were full of homoncului stitched together from random body parts, and that one giant boss monster made from a pregnant woman fused with her fetus. Yuck.

[Nick]

The Medusa from Ecco II was also horrifying to me. I'm a dolphin flying in the air being chased by a giant squid-like creature. WHAT AM I SUPPOSE TO DO?

[Tadao]

Wow, I know some people who are gonna get a My Melody nightlight for Christmas.

[King Hadas]

The Regenerators from RE4. The giant shark in REmake. And, even though it's a damn conventional choice, Pyramid Head.

[Sam]

Do you ladies need a phone call from your mommies every time you turn on a game console? JESUS CHRIST.

[k0k0]

Shampoo my crotch, sam. Some games are scary as shit.

[Tadao]

OH NO! LOUD NOISES AND FLASHING IMAGES FRIGHTEN ME!

[Guitar Woman]

None of these really involve loud noises or jump-out scares, j/s

[Chojin]

the zombies in resident evil 1 scared the shit out of me too. i'm also talking about the scissorman from the PS clock tower.

i think the common thing that was so frightening about these guys was their choppy framerate. they constantly moved the way you see people move under a strobelight, and i think it unintentionally triggered some sort of fear response in me

keep in mind all this shit scared me when i was like 12

[Guitar Woman]

I thought the zombies from the gamecube remake were worse, since they would come back to life and inevitably scare the shit out of you when you were backtracking somewhere.

And there's not nearly enough fuel to burn all of them, so...

[MarioRPG]

Only the first time. Iron Maidens were pretty bad too.