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| 22 FEB 2011 at 11:59am |
Mr Innocent.Journeyman
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Status : Offline | Starting up Leisure Suite Larry Box Office Bust.
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| 22 FEB 2011 at 12:09pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Location: SE, Stockholm
Status : Offline | The first half of Call of cthulhu: Dark corners of the earth plays out like an AG with action sequences, and that game has a rather creepy section, namely the sewers (right after the rooftop chase scene).
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| 22 FEB 2011 at 12:23pm |
walshSorcerer Apprentice
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Joined: 15 DEC 2010
Status : Offline | If you had asked me a year ago I would have had to think very hard before answering this question.
Now that I've played Amnesia: The Dark Descent, there is no need to even begin to think. No need to discuss 'moments', any time spent playing it left me shaking in terror. Each time I had to leave the computer in fear (quite often) it was with a beating heart, narrowed field of vision, feeling dizzy. Funnily enough, these were the same effects the in-game character got in the game.
For other adventure games, I remember Phantasmagoria being quite scary, along with Dark Seed. The 7th Guest and 11th Hour also left indelible marks on me as I was quite young when I played them.
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| 22 FEB 2011 at 1:10pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Fnord (22 FEB 2011 12:08pm)
The first half of Call of cthulhu: Dark corners of the earth .
I've never played an Adventure game that even approaches this game in creepiness. COCDCOTE is one of the creepiest games out there - sadly not a pure AG, though.
Scratches has a few moments and Penumbra is also reasonably creepy, though the latter is once again not a 'pure' AG.
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened has a pretty creepy moment, but I won't tell you where in the game it is, or I'll spoil the fun.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 22 FEB 2011 at 1:48pm |
MaumPrivate Detective
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Joined: 2 JUN 2007
Location: UK
Status : Offline | Agree with Scratches. They were some creepy moments in The Lost Crown as well.
I'm trying to think of an adventure game that completely freaked me out.
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Dishonored, The Witcher, Fallout 3, Deponia
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| 22 FEB 2011 at 2:32pm |
portiafimbriataIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 76
Joined: 12 FEB 2009
Status : Offline | Scratches. Furnace. 'Nuff said!
Cthulu loves me, this I know&&The Necronomicon tells me so
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| 22 FEB 2011 at 7:09pm |
colpetSchattenjger
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Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | Without a doubt, it was exploring the cave underneath the garage/barn in Dark Fall 1. It was the first time I was forced to use just the circle of light from the lantern to look around. I was sure something was going to jump out at me.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 22 FEB 2011 at 8:15pm |
InesrocksPrivate Detective
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Joined: 16 OCT 2008
Location: PT
Status : Offline | I never tried an "horror" game... played a bit of The Lost Crown one day but I eventually forgot about it (I must press on it and play it.. I know its worth it). Anyway... Black Mirror 2 got really creepy at the end, the music, Darren's psichological breakdown, the shadowy environments, I have to say it got me a bit scared
Playing: Skyrim (ongoing)
Last Finished: can't recall, been too long.
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| 22 FEB 2011 at 9:30pm |
chronotigger65Journeyman
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Joined: 23 FEB 2005
Status : Offline | Some games scared me a bit. The Lost Crown and Scratches had a number of scary moments. But only one ag ever gave me the creepes. I'm talking about the type of feeling one gets that you fear something is going to jump right out at you in the real world. The game that did this to me was Sanitarium. The first time I completed this game I ended up with the creepy feeling and had to take a break from the computer. I can play the game just fine without that bad feeling. But the first playthrough I'll never forget.
Aside from Sanitarium, only two other games have given me the creeps. Silent Hill once and Contra Hard Corps at least two or three times. The aliens from Contra HC looked like they came straight out of The Thing which is why the game creeped me out. As for Silent Hill, it's a survival horror game. I don't think I need to explain the reason it was creepy.
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| 22 FEB 2011 at 10:01pm |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By portiafimbriata30 (22 FEB 2011 2:31pm)
Scratches. Furnace. 'Nuff said!
That scene will haunt me for life.
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| 22 FEB 2011 at 10:03pm |
RaySorcerer Apprentice
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Joined: 21 OCT 2002
Location: US, CA
Status : Offline | During my first exploration of the house in Amber: Journeys Beyond, I went into the bathroom. Even though the house was deserted, the mirror was fogged up. As I stared at it, an invisible finger wrote in the condensation:
J o i n u s
I nearly had to go to the hospital.
Remember, procrastinate now. Don't put it off!!
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| 22 FEB 2011 at 10:40pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By portiafimbriata30 (22 FEB 2011 2:31pm)
Scratches. Furnace. 'Nuff said!
Especially the part where you crawl into the boiler. Not only do you have the creepiness of the situation, you have claustrophobia working on you too, and then...
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| 22 FEB 2011 at 11:09pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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It's amazing that AG developers can achieve such tension in a genre where your character ususally can't die like in shooters, RPGs and many other action games.
They have to rely on relatively modest means to create suspense through immersive storytelling and dense atmosphere.
Scratches certainly had its moments as have quite a few other PC AGs and I think it comes down to making you really care about the player-character/s. That takes talent as a writer, artist and producer.
Cheers, Terry
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| 22 FEB 2011 at 11:26pm |
markornikovJourneyman
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Status : Offline | The Dark Eye
Spoiler Alert
- being buried alive
- being bricked in
- Berenice's teeth
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| 23 FEB 2011 at 12:43am |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Jenny100 (22 FEB 2011 10:40pm)
Originally Posted By portiafimbriata30 (22 FEB 2011 2:31pm)
Scratches. Furnace. 'Nuff said!
Especially the part where you crawl into the boiler. Not only do you have the creepiness of the situation, you have claustrophobia working on you too, and then...
Oh, yes. I was already jumpier than a long tailed cat at a rocking chair factory, then THAT happened. You could have scraped me off of the ceiling.
Another memorable moment for me was the first time I quit 7th Guest and happened to have the volume up when Stauf yells "COME BAAAAACCCCK!!!!" Never saw that coming, and neither did my heart.
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| 23 FEB 2011 at 9:03am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | Did nobody get a fright in Scratches with the Spoiler Alertmask in the closet?
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 23 FEB 2011 at 11:30am |
DonaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Trav, I only felt suspense, and then was like "Oh, OK..." :/
The furnace part is the only time I actually jumped off my chair and screamed while playing a game. And I experienced all Silent Hills :\
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| 23 FEB 2011 at 1:09pm |
MaumPrivate Detective
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Joined: 2 JUN 2007
Location: UK
Status : Offline | Trav the mask in the closet incident totally freaked me out when I realised (first night?) that the closet was empty.
I didn't want to turn round cos I knew it was going to be right behind me...
The furnace made me jump.
There were some rather creepy moments in Darkness Within too. Those creaky old houses.... and the well in the cellar....
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Dishonored, The Witcher, Fallout 3, Deponia
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| 23 FEB 2011 at 1:55pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | When I first thought of Darkness Within, I didn't think to add it to the list, because at the point I stopped playing the game, I was vaguely bored with the game, but I have to say that exploring Clark Field's house was among the tensest gaming experiences I've ever had in an AG.
Just being in that house freaked me out with its scary atmosphere and those bloodstains or what looked like bloodstains and blood smear/drag marks.
Oh, yes, and that dark well was creepy.. [smiley=shudder.gif]
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 23 FEB 2011 at 2:21pm |
karlaAdministrator
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Location: US, Close to the Edge
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Andromus (23 FEB 2011 12:42am)
Originally Posted By Jenny100 (22 FEB 2011 10:40pm)
Originally Posted By portiafimbriata30 (22 FEB 2011 2:31pm)
Scratches. Furnace. 'Nuff said!
Especially the part where you crawl into the boiler. Not only do you have the creepiness of the situation, you have claustrophobia working on you too, and then...
Oh, yes. I was already jumpier than a long tailed cat at a rocking chair factory, then THAT happened. You could have scraped me off of the ceiling.
Ditto here! I don't scare too easily, and Agustin does it to me better than anyone. : I can't wait for Asylum.
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| 23 FEB 2011 at 2:38pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I don't know that I'd refer to it as scary, but Dark Fall - Lost Souls sure had a creepy atmosphere.
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| 23 FEB 2011 at 5:09pm |
portiafimbriataIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 12 FEB 2009
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By placeholder (23 FEB 2011 9:02am)
Did nobody get a fright in Scratches with the Spoiler Alertmask in the closet?
Oh, Trav how could I have forgotten that!? Sometimes I recall that scene on nights when I can't get to sleep and the closet is open just a crack.
Cthulu loves me, this I know&&The Necronomicon tells me so
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| 23 FEB 2011 at 5:12pm |
karlaAdministrator
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Location: US, Close to the Edge
Status : Offline | You should see what might be hiding under your bed.
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| 23 FEB 2011 at 8:41pm |
StilerJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Another vote for Amnesia The Dark Descent.
It plays out like an adventure, you have to explore, figure out puzzles and uncover the storyline. However it's also a survival horror game in which you CAN be killed and die. You don't fight, there is no "guns" or even melee weapons, you are just a real human and your best bet is hiding...in the shadows.
What makes the game unique is how it balances shadows and darkness. You NEED to be in light in order to not "lose it," the longer you are in darkness the more "Creeped out" you get, start losing it, hearing sounds, etc. So you have to know when to hide, when to use light, etc.
Here's a hilarious guys reaction to the game getting creeped out by it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loSzpvq73FY
Also while not "jump out scary/boo" type of a game, I think Sanitarium has some of the CREEPIEST atmospheres of any adventure game. The land with all the disfigured children, and their "friend," still creeps me out.
Highly recommend it if you haven't played it, a great point and click adventure game you won't regret.
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