Scariest monsters in video games
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Of course not. It wouldn't make someone unaware understand the joke anyway. Threads like this are superficial anyhow; even when the name of a game is posted rarely is it ever explained deeply how something makes someone feel the way they do, in this case particularly why a monster is scary. It's mostly just eye candy and bit of back and forth about it.
Crimson Heads from the same game get me even worse than Lisa Trevor. Remake is the scariest game I have ever played.
Wow, man. You still just won't do it.
You'd write a 5-paragraph defense before actually doing it, I bet.
RE4 Regenerators
I get flummoxed whenever someone makes the argument that RE4 isn't scary; it's just an action game. No it's not, it's terrifying. Regenerators especially but also the hand fight. Hell even the spooky ass monks and garadors and the dogs.
This is hilarious. And true.When you just stomping through a whole dungeon and this fuckin Deathmetal Lord Omega Draugr comes out of his tomb and shouts your ass out faster than mom when you talk back
One of the scariest encounters of my life.
That sound is forever burned into my brain. I tense up even watching other people fight them.
I definitely dreaded the basement level in TLOU. Once you fall down to its starting area, you immediately know shit is gonna go down.
I could do a lot of things in five paragraphs, but I don't think it would be worth it.
The upgraded Sectoids of XCOM 2 are worthy of this thread, I think. They are creepy, gross, and badass, and will fuck up your day up on day one worse than most things in the game ever will.
Probably the best visual design of a classic grey extraterrestrial I've seen.
Zefirs from Asheron's Call
running along minding your own business and they would appear out-of-nowhere to jump scare you and to one shot you.
running along minding your own business and they would appear out-of-nowhere to jump scare you and to one shot you.
From Hollow Knight: Grub Mimic. That first time you think you're freeing yet another cute Grub and suddenly this thing goes berserk and screams its head off.
Came for the Cazadors. Thanks for making it quick Opie.
I don't get as frightened over enemies in games as I used to, but the most recent would have to be Rom The Vacuous Spider of Bloodborne.
I don't usually have problems with spiders, but it's actually Rom's eyes/Eyes of spiders that unsettle me more than anything.
I wouldn't say it's Ommatophobia, but I've always had this uneasiness with any monster design with many dark eyes. It also didn't help that even if you try and strafe around Rom, she'll turn to always try and face you.
Shoutouts to Bloodborne's enemy design all around.
I don't usually have problems with spiders, but it's actually Rom's eyes/Eyes of spiders that unsettle me more than anything.
I wouldn't say it's Ommatophobia, but I've always had this uneasiness with any monster design with many dark eyes. It also didn't help that even if you try and strafe around Rom, she'll turn to always try and face you.
Shoutouts to Bloodborne's enemy design all around.
If you're in on it, you're in on it. If you're not, you're not. My post is a half-joke answer from a pretty well known game, and I was careful to choose an image that led me to the correct title in a reverse image search should someone be unaware of it. In addition, Lisa from PT who Voyevoda posted is something of a quickly risen cult icon who doesn't need context.
This is uhhh, something. Just label the fucking posts.
It's from Drakengard (called Drag-On Dragoon in Japan). It's from one of the bad endings. Definitely look up the story details. It's pretty unsettling in terms of plot and themes.
A Youtuber named Clemps did a great analysis on the game's plot and how that series leads into Nier and Nier Automata.
Probably my favorite JRPG plot just based on how weird and dark it is. Be sure to check out the two great Drakengard analysis videos that Clemps did on Youtube.
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__q_Nx9WbgY
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-7MVq08Ogg
Winner winner chicken dinner.
Only game (well, demo) that made me scream out loud in fear.
My mistake. I should've made it clear that I was talking about what Disgraced was referencing in his first sentence.
this is the most insanely disturbing thing in this thread.MLB The Show 17 face glitches
These are wicked awesome.
The Drakenguard GIF was from theofficefan99, actually. I haven't said anything about that game. I suppose that's something you could be in or not on too, but it's a little more obscure than Siege and PT are, so I think that one was actually warranting of a label a little more. I still don't think it's 100% necessary for someone to do that and the pedanticism some of you have here is a little over the top. I used to be kind of annoyed at unlabeled posts in threads like this too, but over the years I've accepted that it's part of the culture and humor in places like these and that it is often redundant in cases like ones here for some of the reasons I've stated. We probably shouldn't carry on this meta discussion though, although I'm happy to maybe continue it in private with anyone who disagrees.
Heaven Smile, from Killer7
- Invisible when entering a room
- Player has to "scan" the room to make them visible
- Walk/run towards you
- Scream and explode when they get close to you
The bear in Condemned 2 is more of a conventional baddie, but contextually it scared the bejesus out of me.
The only truly legit post here...besides pyramid heahead of course.
Isn't that what's novel about it? It's just a fucking bear. Bears ain't nothin' to fuck around with, but in media their portrayal is often fuzzy and cuddly. However, that has waned over the years. Still, that's an especially bad, mad, motherfuckin' scary bear C2 has.
My go to example is still this Shibito from Forbidden Siren 2. It still gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it:
Good point. Upon reflection, I got what I deserved from the C2 bear due to my paralysed bear rolling shenanigans in Oblivion.
Doom 3 was something, especially when the game has been released : three month before Half Life 2.
Half Life 2 was obviously a more polished and ambitious game, but D3 has let me scarier memories.
It was made during the explosion of the survival-horror and I think it is a part of the genre's history.
Half Life 2 was obviously a more polished and ambitious game, but D3 has let me scarier memories.
It was made during the explosion of the survival-horror and I think it is a part of the genre's history.
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I don't get as frightened over enemies in games as I used to, but the most recent would have to be Rom The Vacuous Spider of Bloodborne.
I don't usually have problems with spiders, but it's actually Rom's eyes/Eyes of spiders that unsettle me more than anything.
I wouldn't say it's Ommatophobia, but I've always had this uneasiness with any monster design with many dark eyes. It also didn't help that even if you try and strafe around Rom, she'll turn to always try and face you.
Shoutouts to Bloodborne's enemy design all around.
Bububut she was cute with all the chibi spiders she called to her help :'(
That other thing full of eyes that makes you go frenzy however is another thing... Brain of Mensis
Shoutout to the mutants from The Forest
The mutant babies of which some are alive and there are piles of dead ones
And Virginia, who appears to be 3 women fused together into some sort of spider woman
When I started this game I thought I was just gonna be fending off some ancient group of cannibals, but it turns out the horror goes much further than that.
The mutant babies of which some are alive and there are piles of dead ones
And Virginia, who appears to be 3 women fused together into some sort of spider woman
When I started this game I thought I was just gonna be fending off some ancient group of cannibals, but it turns out the horror goes much further than that.