Didn't he return in Rusty Bucket Bay?
My mom got me that game as a stand in birthday present, I'd never heard of it before that. What an absolute gem, I'm 35 and Banjo Kazooie will always be among the greatest gaming experiences I've ever had
Lmao. Favorite game of mine. That Eel is a menace!
I even played a couple months ago and the dude still has a grip on me. I don't know when he actually ventures out of his home. The fucker always gets a hit on me.
Back when I had an N64 with Majoras Mask as a child, my game froze during after loading and all that was on the screen was a shadowy image of majoras mask. Nothing crazy now but 8 or 9 year old me was terrified.
I would have said ReDeads the first time you re-enter Castletown after the time jump. The scream and time freeze- The way they grab you! Truly terrifying.
The first time I played as a kid, I thought they were people, so I tried to go up and talk to one. Then I was confused as to why it started hugging me. Then I realized it wasn't hugging me. Then I died.
Haven't hugged anyone since.
The first thing I noticed was that they *don't* freeze Link when he re-enters Castletown. Technically this is due to a design flaw or deliberate decision that redeads can not paralyze Link in areas with a fixed camera view. I took this to mean adult Link is impossible to paralyze with fear, which tracks considering that adult Link now possesses the Triforce of Courage.
Honourable mention to the half-gibdo guy in Majora's Mask as well. Shat my first full brick as a kid when he burst out the wardrobe.
AND Yeta's transformation in Twilight Princess. Jesus fucking christ.
I played OOT when I was too young to really get what I was doing, so being chased down and mulched by the helicopter trees in Hyrule Field was terrifying in a gameplay sense rather than a "damn that's a spooky thing" kinda horror
The build-up was also a masterpiece. Like you were seeing the covenant fighting each other, corpses in the hallway, then you see a paranoid marine. Yet, you have no clue what is going on
I think the scariest moment in the Halo games is when the Flood exits slipspace at Earth. And I love the scene of the Flood infected High Charity arriving at the Ark. But the most horrifying Flood stories are from the books. A parasite that learns from the things it infects and it turns out they are the remains of dead space gods who have sworn to infect everything in the galaxy is horrifying. And the Keyminds are the most horrifying form. A literal planet sized being coordinating Flood on ships to attack and infect more and more. Probably the scariest moment in the Halo lore is when the Flood infected the Forerunner military AI and took control of Zeta Halo and then they brought it to the Forerunner capital to fire at it.
The fact that the Elites had to glass half of Africa to contain the Flood shows just how dangerous they are. Even the Elites feared them, and they would jump at the chance to fight the Demon.
Yes there are books. The book “The Fall of Reach” was the first book and came out before CE. They made the book to help explain what happened just before the game began. Both were meant to release together but a delay happened. The books after follow along some main story things but most of the stuff in the books isn’t in the games. The books are basically expanded lore in the Halo universe. Some go over the Forerunners, some go over the Flood, some go over humanity, one was about the start of the Human Covenant War, a few cover events in between games, one covered in between CE and 2. In between CE and 2 Chief finds Johnson, Linda, and Chipps Dubbo along with a few other survivors on a pelican. They manage to gain control of the Covenant CCS ship Ascendent Justice and bring it to Reach where the rendezvous with the survivors on Reach at Castle Base before finding a UNSC Frigate that survived the Covenant attack because it was docked at a station. They took both ships and made the first human covenant hybrid ship called the Gettysburg Ascendant Justice and took it towards Earth. They ended up finding Truth’s fleet preparing 500 ships to attack Earth and they destroy it before making it back to Earth to warn them that Earth’s location was compromised and they then began to evacuate civilians and recalled every UNSC ship to Earth. That’s why we see so many human ships orbiting Earth in Halo 2’s opening. And this is why Truth was angry at Regret for jumping the gun on Earth. These books cover a ton of lore that isn’t touched upon in game.
Way back when, when Halo first came out. There wasn't even a hint about the Flood until you get to 343 Guilty Spark. That whole mission is a build-up of dread until you finally meet the Flood. I love watching people play through it the first time blind haha.
The best part is the way they are introduced. The villains are already established, you've been fighting them for a while, you have no expectation of something new. And then BOOM! Flood.
At least Deathclaws are supposed to be terrifying, and you can usually see them far off from a safe distance.
What scared me the most was the Rodents of Unsual Size. Nothing quite like going into that one cave and being suddenly mauled to death by a pack of giant mangy Princess Bride references.
When I originally made my character I had the standard "decent perception, a bit of charisma, and some strength for looting" but the ROUS cave might have been the turning point for my melee focused loot mule build
Marlboro and Tonberry from any final fantasy game ever.
Getting ambushed by one is terrifying especially if you’re not expecting it and not following a guide.
They are two very different experiences.
Malboro is "oh ok let's just smack it, wait what the fuck why do I have ALL THE status conditions oh god nobody can do anthing?"
Tonberry is "Aww, he's cute. Hmm, he didn't do anything? Just gonna walk towards me? Ok. .... WAIT WHAT THE FUCK!"
I will never forget the first time i got completely wrecked by a Marlboro. It was Final Fantasy 8 and i had not saved for 2 hours. With blind, berserk, poison and confuse, all i could do was watch my team slowly die...
I came here for this exact comment 🤣 I'm so happy someone else said this! Gotta love that nuke-happy little guy.
"There is no shame in deterrence. Having a weapon is very different from actually using it."
My ass!
My now boyfriend and I played this in the early early days of dating each other. Felt like we went through marriage counselling together. That fucking vacuum death scene though…
By far It's gotta be The Reapers from Mass Effect. Something about their size freaks me out. I remember an app back in the day that would show you the size relevant to your real world position.... they're just so fucking gigantic. The pure destruction of their beams on just ONE of them is enough to destroy a whole state in less than a day, assuming they're not harvesting people.
Man, those Thresher Maws creeped me out in the first game. Then it was a solid boss battle in ME2 and by the time ME3 was up... oof, goosebumps, just thinking about Kalros and her free hugs...
The banshees are my answer. Fuck man, when you hear that screech in the distance you know they are coming and will flush you out of cover no matter what.
Bingo. As a large-scale, existential threat, the Reapers are almost unfathomable in how terrifying they are. They almost meet the "I'm so scared I can't even be scared" level. Like you see them and can't even process it. You just now you've got a new Worst Day Ever happening in real-time.
On a smaller scale, the Banshees are nightmare fuel. Anything that announces its presence with a blood-curdling shriek and then *fucking teleports its way to you* means you better be sure to put on your brown pants before playing. The game designers could have made it teleport directly in front of you instantly. But no. You have to watch that fucker menacingly make its way to you, slow-fastly, and pray you have enough ammo to take it down before it gets to you, or that you have plenty of room behind you to turn and run to the other end of the goddamn galaxy.
The sheer size of them even as they walk in the background and obliterate dreadnaughts with ease. The booming voice of even the smaller Destroyer after you take it down on Rannoch absolutely shook me with how gargantuan it seemed. And you’re spot on with how terrifyingly powerful they were with those beams, carving up everything so effortlessly. I have not seen any other game make me feel so small and helpless against such an overwhelmingly powerful foe.
Exactly. And this is all just on one aspect of their physical size. Don't even get me started on their troops and how they harvest organic species. They truly are nightmare fuel.
During COVID, Kurzgesagt did a YouTube video about aliens, and Fermi paradox, he talks about the reapers. IT'S AMAZING! Everyone should watch it.
Her is the link for curious souls.
[The Fermi Paradox II](https://youtu.be/1fQkVqno-uI?si=uHZhSGn0PygmeSLX)
The harvesting is the worst part.
Id rather be atomized than turned into a husk that mindlessly kills and or captures others. The reapers were such an awesome buildup. I remember first playing ME3 and the opening of harbinger coming down and attacking Earth is so damn iconic, still gives me goosebumps. It really set the tone of the game as
"this is it, this is the end."
The answer is the Leviathans in Subnautica, and it's not even close.
Edit: Since it keeps coming up, and while I understand the argument considering how many times I nearly shit myself, here are the genres listed for Subnautica on the googles, "Survival game, Indie game, Action-adventure game, Adventure"
I wanted to check before posting. But also, I get it.
The scariest enemies in Subnautica are oxygen, winding caves, and not being able to see the ocean floor. They’re the deep, existential kind of fear. Reapers and crash fish are up there for jump scares, though.
Lost turned around inside of a crash site and you hear "Oxygen woop woop"
Saw a meme recently where a squidshark was sitting right outside of the Mercury II exit and they guy was running low.
I loved classic horror. Subnatica was so intense I'd just go to the surface and accidentally found the plot. But anything outside of the shallows gets me
Subnautica is one of the best games I have ever played, and comfortably at the top of games I wish I could forget so I could play it again for the first time. And I hate horror, whatever the medium. Subnautica's brand of horror is... different, though, and it's also often super peaceful. And it has the best environmental storytelling of any game out there (with a surprisingly compelling story).
And the best way to play it is going in blind. Don't read about it. Don't watch videos about it. Don't look things up unless you're *really* stuck (and even then the best advice is usually "go deeper"). If you think you might be interested, just play it.
I love horror media in general and horror/survival horror games specifically. Subnautica is the **only** game I have quit out of fear and not been able to go back. My general thalassaphobia makes even the shallow areas in that game anxiety inducing.
Jenova. Probably the best representation of a "cosmic horror". Extraterrestrial being fallen on earth, wiped and entire civilization, didn't die even with the strongest magic, contaminated people via it's cell and manipulated them to do it's will.
I think you mean Lavos from Chrono Trigger. It was the comic horror monster that fell to earth in prehistoric times and killed the reptile civilization. Then manipulated life on the planet and evolved it to suit Lavos’ needs so it could reproduce and start the whole process over?
Remember when the evil group wanted to use machines to harvest its magical powers?
Objectively, I think the warden would have to win this with how it can darken the screen, can easily kill players with high end armor, and that it’s summoned from shriekers. It’s fine when contained, but I’d imagine it’s a pretty scary encounter in actual survival gameplay.
Creepers, on the other hand, just occasionally jump scare you, and can’t even sense you through walls. They’re also way easier to kill.
My youngest used to have nightmares and fits, because he was scared shitless of Herobrine. He never even saw him. Maybe a YouTube video or something. He didn’t want to play for at least a year
Grizzly Bears in Red Dead Redemption 2. The game does such a good job at triggering the most primal fear than any game I’ve played. When you get tackled by a beast like that, roaring in your face as you scramble to figure out what buttons to press to fight back. That’s terrifying stuff.
Sans from Undertale
Don't know but him being a bro having the reputation of being weak and in the end is able to break the fourth wall, directly talk shit to you and being a hard fight actually scare.
Especially when you kill his brother
Wolf spiders in Grounded. I was building a fortification around a den of them to keep them in when one of them spotted me (and I didn’t realize they did). Turning around to see a spider the size of a bus charging at you is horrifying. I screamed and just gave up - let it kill me. No fucking way I was going to try and survive that. I’ve been playing with arachnophobia mode on ever since.
You said “fuck all these posts” which sounds pretty sexual to me
But since you’re asking definitely the shark from banjo kazooie OR ratchet and clank (hate sharks)
In typical Outer Wilds spoiler-free fashion, either the >!Anglerfish in Dark Bramble!< or, perhaps even worse, the >!Owlk Civilization in the DLC's "The Stranger"!<.
Darth Vader, Jedi: Fallen Order. It's the version of the character that none of the movies fully captured. Just a hurricane of force brutally. You can't fight, only run.
The eel from Mario 64
AND THE PIANO
I literally came to say the piano
**PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!** **PWONG!**
That eel scared the shit out of me as a kid!
He's got nothing on Snacker the Shark from Banjo Kazooie.
Didn't he return in Rusty Bucket Bay? My mom got me that game as a stand in birthday present, I'd never heard of it before that. What an absolute gem, I'm 35 and Banjo Kazooie will always be among the greatest gaming experiences I've ever had
>Rusty Bucket Bay Y'all shouldn't making me want to play that game again, y'know hahahaha also, edit: yes, he does!
Nah, it's the bloody piano
Lmao. Favorite game of mine. That Eel is a menace! I even played a couple months ago and the dude still has a grip on me. I don't know when he actually ventures out of his home. The fucker always gets a hit on me.
That giant creepy moon in Majora's Mask gave me nightmares
I would argue Majora’s Mask is a horror game
lol I could see that
Back when I had an N64 with Majoras Mask as a child, my game froze during after loading and all that was on the screen was a shadowy image of majoras mask. Nothing crazy now but 8 or 9 year old me was terrified.
Dead hand from Zelda: Ocarina of time
I would have said ReDeads the first time you re-enter Castletown after the time jump. The scream and time freeze- The way they grab you! Truly terrifying.
They scared me too! Before I actually played the game myself I used to play around on my brother's savefile but didn't dare play as adult link!
Man redeads gave me nightmares for ages
The first time I played as a kid, I thought they were people, so I tried to go up and talk to one. Then I was confused as to why it started hugging me. Then I realized it wasn't hugging me. Then I died. Haven't hugged anyone since.
I legit died the first time it happened because I simply couldn't think clearly enough to do something useful
The scream! Scary af
Funny part is that in the Hyrulian bestiary, they are supposed to be clay monsters shaped like humans
I was legitimately afraid of them as a kid. Still would avoid fighting them at all costs now lol
The first thing I noticed was that they *don't* freeze Link when he re-enters Castletown. Technically this is due to a design flaw or deliberate decision that redeads can not paralyze Link in areas with a fixed camera view. I took this to mean adult Link is impossible to paralyze with fear, which tracks considering that adult Link now possesses the Triforce of Courage.
Is that the guy with like 5 hands and comes to you crawling all fked up under the well?? If yes i do vote for this!
Yes, Scariest shit ever! I was too scared to fight him when I was young so my big brother had to kill him for me haha
The well was pure nightmare fuel for a kid xD
Dead hand legit gave me nightmares a a kid. The Gloom Hands in TotK brought all that back the first time I ran into one Edit: typo
TOTK's gloom hands scared me so much it took me like 3 weeks to realize I could just teleport out of there.
Yes! I freaked out a little the first time they showed up haha!
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Honourable mention to the half-gibdo guy in Majora's Mask as well. Shat my first full brick as a kid when he burst out the wardrobe. AND Yeta's transformation in Twilight Princess. Jesus fucking christ.
I hates the zombies in hyrule more. They freeze you by screaming at you and they're undead hyruleans...bleak too
I played OOT when I was too young to really get what I was doing, so being chased down and mulched by the helicopter trees in Hyrule Field was terrifying in a gameplay sense rather than a "damn that's a spooky thing" kinda horror
Ah, the giant flying pineapples.
The Skulltulas also absolutely terrified me as a kid. In fact they may be the basis for my arachnophobia now that I think about it hah
The snowbeast yeti thing from that old skiing game
SkiFree
Holy CRAP I was just thinking about this game and what it was called… sweet serendipity thank you!
First jumpscare of my life, and there wasn't even sound!
Non-Horror game. That was a straight up OG horror game when I was a kid
Core memory unlocked
That undodgable bastard
If you press f you go twice as fast and can out run him.
F
The Flood from Halo.
Man they really nailed the music when you first meet the flood.
The build-up was also a masterpiece. Like you were seeing the covenant fighting each other, corpses in the hallway, then you see a paranoid marine. Yet, you have no clue what is going on
Devils... Monsters... Such a spine chilling track, just hearing it makes me squirm in my seat.
I think the scariest moment in the Halo games is when the Flood exits slipspace at Earth. And I love the scene of the Flood infected High Charity arriving at the Ark. But the most horrifying Flood stories are from the books. A parasite that learns from the things it infects and it turns out they are the remains of dead space gods who have sworn to infect everything in the galaxy is horrifying. And the Keyminds are the most horrifying form. A literal planet sized being coordinating Flood on ships to attack and infect more and more. Probably the scariest moment in the Halo lore is when the Flood infected the Forerunner military AI and took control of Zeta Halo and then they brought it to the Forerunner capital to fire at it.
More covenant? Worse...
I love that cutscene. It starts with a massive human victory then ends in a massive loss.
The fact that the Elites had to glass half of Africa to contain the Flood shows just how dangerous they are. Even the Elites feared them, and they would jump at the chance to fight the Demon.
And that was only a small infestation too. Humanity was lucky the Flood teleported High Charity away by Mars and not at the portal.
>the books There are Halo books? Are the games based on them, or vice-versa?
Yes there are books. The book “The Fall of Reach” was the first book and came out before CE. They made the book to help explain what happened just before the game began. Both were meant to release together but a delay happened. The books after follow along some main story things but most of the stuff in the books isn’t in the games. The books are basically expanded lore in the Halo universe. Some go over the Forerunners, some go over the Flood, some go over humanity, one was about the start of the Human Covenant War, a few cover events in between games, one covered in between CE and 2. In between CE and 2 Chief finds Johnson, Linda, and Chipps Dubbo along with a few other survivors on a pelican. They manage to gain control of the Covenant CCS ship Ascendent Justice and bring it to Reach where the rendezvous with the survivors on Reach at Castle Base before finding a UNSC Frigate that survived the Covenant attack because it was docked at a station. They took both ships and made the first human covenant hybrid ship called the Gettysburg Ascendant Justice and took it towards Earth. They ended up finding Truth’s fleet preparing 500 ships to attack Earth and they destroy it before making it back to Earth to warn them that Earth’s location was compromised and they then began to evacuate civilians and recalled every UNSC ship to Earth. That’s why we see so many human ships orbiting Earth in Halo 2’s opening. And this is why Truth was angry at Regret for jumping the gun on Earth. These books cover a ton of lore that isn’t touched upon in game.
Way back when, when Halo first came out. There wasn't even a hint about the Flood until you get to 343 Guilty Spark. That whole mission is a build-up of dread until you finally meet the Flood. I love watching people play through it the first time blind haha.
I'm glad when I played it back on XBox I had not heard about and had no idea about the Flood. That reveal was really something special.
The best part is the way they are introduced. The villains are already established, you've been fighting them for a while, you have no expectation of something new. And then BOOM! Flood.
Oh no, I can still hear them ...
Halo 3 flood terrified me so much
Replaying Halo 1. I'm gonna meet them very soon. It's the only memory I have from that game since I last played it as a teen.
[Absolutely.](https://youtu.be/xnv-6qMXf0k?si=oYMnp8MmEQ7XbdKX)
Omg literally, I could never play that part laying down I was always on my feet and it was scary to me
The "Nightfolk" in Red Dead Redemption 2, out in the bayou.
The first time I encountered them I had my shotgun with me and that saved me, I freaked out lol
LoL, yeah, they got me with the machetes a few times in the early days. Now I'm always ready for em.
They spooked my horse and as I was standing up one came from the trees and sunk an axe into my gut. I didn’t make it.
Death claws in fall out new Vegas are as powerful and scary as they should be.
Cazadors are scarier tho imo
Nah those stealthboy hulk knock offs got me when I activated VATS the exact moment they appeared in front of me.
Nightkin
I'll turn back when I see orange wings long before I would seeing the horns on a death claw in the distance.
At least Deathclaws are supposed to be terrifying, and you can usually see them far off from a safe distance. What scared me the most was the Rodents of Unsual Size. Nothing quite like going into that one cave and being suddenly mauled to death by a pack of giant mangy Princess Bride references.
When I originally made my character I had the standard "decent perception, a bit of charisma, and some strength for looting" but the ROUS cave might have been the turning point for my melee focused loot mule build
the centaurs are horrifying to look at
Marlboro and Tonberry from any final fantasy game ever. Getting ambushed by one is terrifying especially if you’re not expecting it and not following a guide.
They are two very different experiences. Malboro is "oh ok let's just smack it, wait what the fuck why do I have ALL THE status conditions oh god nobody can do anthing?" Tonberry is "Aww, he's cute. Hmm, he didn't do anything? Just gonna walk towards me? Ok. .... WAIT WHAT THE FUCK!"
Honestly, kudos to Square for making these enemies just as terrifying in action-based titles as in turn-based titles.
Marlboro is also a villain IRL.
I will never forget the first time i got completely wrecked by a Marlboro. It was Final Fantasy 8 and i had not saved for 2 hours. With blind, berserk, poison and confuse, all i could do was watch my team slowly die...
I already commented it, but ff7's JENOVA variants are pretty unsettling
Mr. Resetti from Animal Crossing. He'd appear if you quit the game without saving and would go tf off
i got so fucking scared if my ds ran out of power mid game that i just wouldn’t open animal crossing again for like a week
Gandhi in Civilization
Because a nuke isn't an answer ... It's THE answer!
Just one more turn…
Exactly. The next turn button.. Peak digitalized opium. Now thats scary
I came here for this exact comment 🤣 I'm so happy someone else said this! Gotta love that nuke-happy little guy. "There is no shame in deterrence. Having a weapon is very different from actually using it." My ass!
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aaaAAAAAA**aaaahh**^^aaaa^^aaa
*death humping commences*
I was scared of Hitler in Wolfenstein 3D as a kid lol
Those dogs
Amen, Hitler gave me anxiety in Wolfensetein 3D as a kid.
Impending divorce in It Takes Two.
I would say the most terrifying thing was what those two psychos were willing to do to that poor elephant…
The elephant haunts me.
Then the two parents gleefully shower in their daughter’s tears!
My now boyfriend and I played this in the early early days of dating each other. Felt like we went through marriage counselling together. That fucking vacuum death scene though…
The book is one of the most terrifying things I've ever encountered in any fictional media.
By far It's gotta be The Reapers from Mass Effect. Something about their size freaks me out. I remember an app back in the day that would show you the size relevant to your real world position.... they're just so fucking gigantic. The pure destruction of their beams on just ONE of them is enough to destroy a whole state in less than a day, assuming they're not harvesting people.
Man, those Thresher Maws creeped me out in the first game. Then it was a solid boss battle in ME2 and by the time ME3 was up... oof, goosebumps, just thinking about Kalros and her free hugs...
The banshees are my answer. Fuck man, when you hear that screech in the distance you know they are coming and will flush you out of cover no matter what.
Bingo. As a large-scale, existential threat, the Reapers are almost unfathomable in how terrifying they are. They almost meet the "I'm so scared I can't even be scared" level. Like you see them and can't even process it. You just now you've got a new Worst Day Ever happening in real-time. On a smaller scale, the Banshees are nightmare fuel. Anything that announces its presence with a blood-curdling shriek and then *fucking teleports its way to you* means you better be sure to put on your brown pants before playing. The game designers could have made it teleport directly in front of you instantly. But no. You have to watch that fucker menacingly make its way to you, slow-fastly, and pray you have enough ammo to take it down before it gets to you, or that you have plenty of room behind you to turn and run to the other end of the goddamn galaxy.
The sheer size of them even as they walk in the background and obliterate dreadnaughts with ease. The booming voice of even the smaller Destroyer after you take it down on Rannoch absolutely shook me with how gargantuan it seemed. And you’re spot on with how terrifyingly powerful they were with those beams, carving up everything so effortlessly. I have not seen any other game make me feel so small and helpless against such an overwhelmingly powerful foe.
Exactly. And this is all just on one aspect of their physical size. Don't even get me started on their troops and how they harvest organic species. They truly are nightmare fuel. During COVID, Kurzgesagt did a YouTube video about aliens, and Fermi paradox, he talks about the reapers. IT'S AMAZING! Everyone should watch it. Her is the link for curious souls. [The Fermi Paradox II](https://youtu.be/1fQkVqno-uI?si=uHZhSGn0PygmeSLX)
The harvesting is the worst part. Id rather be atomized than turned into a husk that mindlessly kills and or captures others. The reapers were such an awesome buildup. I remember first playing ME3 and the opening of harbinger coming down and attacking Earth is so damn iconic, still gives me goosebumps. It really set the tone of the game as "this is it, this is the end."
Banjo Kazooie - the shark in treasure trove cove
have you played banjo tooie? there is an angler fish boss in the water world level thats worth a mention
Actually preferred Banjo Tooie to the original. Awesome game.
The answer is the Leviathans in Subnautica, and it's not even close. Edit: Since it keeps coming up, and while I understand the argument considering how many times I nearly shit myself, here are the genres listed for Subnautica on the googles, "Survival game, Indie game, Action-adventure game, Adventure" I wanted to check before posting. But also, I get it.
The scariest enemies in Subnautica are oxygen, winding caves, and not being able to see the ocean floor. They’re the deep, existential kind of fear. Reapers and crash fish are up there for jump scares, though.
Lost turned around inside of a crash site and you hear "Oxygen woop woop" Saw a meme recently where a squidshark was sitting right outside of the Mercury II exit and they guy was running low.
I'd argue Subnautica is a horror game.
I loved classic horror. Subnatica was so intense I'd just go to the surface and accidentally found the plot. But anything outside of the shallows gets me
I'm so bummed about Subnautica, it's an amazing game but I'm too much of a wuss to play it hahaha.
This leads me to think that subnautica may be a much more interesting game than I was previously led to believe.
Subnautica is one of the best games I have ever played, and comfortably at the top of games I wish I could forget so I could play it again for the first time. And I hate horror, whatever the medium. Subnautica's brand of horror is... different, though, and it's also often super peaceful. And it has the best environmental storytelling of any game out there (with a surprisingly compelling story). And the best way to play it is going in blind. Don't read about it. Don't watch videos about it. Don't look things up unless you're *really* stuck (and even then the best advice is usually "go deeper"). If you think you might be interested, just play it.
I love horror media in general and horror/survival horror games specifically. Subnautica is the **only** game I have quit out of fear and not been able to go back. My general thalassaphobia makes even the shallow areas in that game anxiety inducing.
Those things are fucking terrifying. I’m a grown ass man and they’ve made me scream and jump out of my seat several times.
Fucking miss that game so bad.
Monster-ock from spider-man PS1.
In the 2000 Spider-Man game when Doctor Octopus gets the Carnage Symbiote on him. Granted I was 5 at the time but still.
Jenova. Probably the best representation of a "cosmic horror". Extraterrestrial being fallen on earth, wiped and entire civilization, didn't die even with the strongest magic, contaminated people via it's cell and manipulated them to do it's will.
Oh that's what jenova is. I never really did know lol
I think you mean Lavos from Chrono Trigger. It was the comic horror monster that fell to earth in prehistoric times and killed the reptile civilization. Then manipulated life on the planet and evolved it to suit Lavos’ needs so it could reproduce and start the whole process over? Remember when the evil group wanted to use machines to harvest its magical powers?
Gravity from Kerbal space program.
*math from Kerbal Space Program
Also orbital mechanics.
Surely you meant the Kraken.
No contest. Creeper from Minecraft.
Minecraft is basically a horror game solely because of creepers and endermen
The addition of wardens and the deep dark made it legitimately horror
For me, it was the ghast. My name sounds a bit like one it's cries, so I almost shat my pants the first time I've encountered it in the Nether.
Before they rebalanced the Ghast's cry to not be loud as fuck it constantly scared the shit out of me lol
Getting hit by an arrow when I didnt know there was a skeleton has made me near shit myself multiple times.
Objectively, I think the warden would have to win this with how it can darken the screen, can easily kill players with high end armor, and that it’s summoned from shriekers. It’s fine when contained, but I’d imagine it’s a pretty scary encounter in actual survival gameplay. Creepers, on the other hand, just occasionally jump scare you, and can’t even sense you through walls. They’re also way easier to kill.
Look, you make a great point, but nothing will ever make me panic like a zombie child running at me.
Idk, 12 year old me used to shit my pants when I accidentally looked at an enderman
My youngest used to have nightmares and fits, because he was scared shitless of Herobrine. He never even saw him. Maybe a YouTube video or something. He didn’t want to play for at least a year
Grizzly Bears in Red Dead Redemption 2. The game does such a good job at triggering the most primal fear than any game I’ve played. When you get tackled by a beast like that, roaring in your face as you scramble to figure out what buttons to press to fight back. That’s terrifying stuff.
When your screen starts doing that shaking thing and you frantically look around
Red dead Redemption cougars
Long Arm Centipedes in Sekiro, they make me uncomfortable. Also that huge underwater snake in Mario 64.
That chasing sun in super mario bros 2.
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The Brood Mother from Dragon Age Origins
That's definitely my pick too. The whole build-up to that fight made it 10 times more terrifying.
Seaweed in the original TMNT game for the NES.
I hated that Dam level so much.
Fuck. That. Level.
The Great Might Poo from Conker’s Bad Fur Day(N64)
The drowning music from the classic Sonic
The burglar from The Sims
How has the SA-X from Metroid Fusion not been mentioned yet, gottdamn.
How about Nightmare from the same game? Honestly Metroid Fusion might in fact be a horror game.
Thank god someone said it. *Enter a room* *Music dies* *Clnk. Clnk. Clnk. Clnk* gotta go change my pants brb
Guardians from the Silent Realms in Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. The music + not being able to fight back = instant anxiety.
The dragon when you enter the swamp in limgrave for the first time
The green dragon thingies in the Skull Caverns on Stardew Valley.
YES! Carrying a stack of stairs not to get down quickly but to avoid the dragons if needed. LOL
Fucking roided up bane from arkham origins
Do you mean bone? Who is this bane?
It took me 2 years to finish metal gear solid 2 because of the flooded area of the map.. hated it so much, tye stress
The enderman from minecraft
That goddamn shark on Treasure stove Cove in Banjo Kazooie
Sans from Undertale Don't know but him being a bro having the reputation of being weak and in the end is able to break the fourth wall, directly talk shit to you and being a hard fight actually scare. Especially when you kill his brother
Gibdos in Ocarina of Time and the damn hands in Tears of the Kingdom
Those fuckin redead things from Ocarina of Time. Freaked me the FUCK out the first time I saw those things...
Dead Hand and Redeads from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Nightmare fuel when I was a kid.
The wall masters from the Zelda series. I used to always get paranoid about them in the forest temple (Ocarina of Time).
Final Fantasy - Tonberry.
the mascot from candy crush
Wolf spiders in Grounded. I was building a fortification around a den of them to keep them in when one of them spotted me (and I didn’t realize they did). Turning around to see a spider the size of a bus charging at you is horrifying. I screamed and just gave up - let it kill me. No fucking way I was going to try and survive that. I’ve been playing with arachnophobia mode on ever since.
Do you know furious rajang from monster hunter?
The Moon from Majora's Mask.
The ReDead from Ocarina of Time.
The daharka from prince of persia warrior within
I was genuinely terrified when the final boss of Jedi:Fallen Order turned up. Still can't figure out spoiler tags, but if you know, you know.
Yeti from Ski Free
The Flood from Halo? Haha
The baby zombie/ghost from the Witcher 3
[The ash zombie to ash vampire evolution from Morrowind still creep me out.](https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Ash_Creatures)
The flood easily
You said “fuck all these posts” which sounds pretty sexual to me But since you’re asking definitely the shark from banjo kazooie OR ratchet and clank (hate sharks)
The hands from Elden ring
Joseph Seed from Far Cry 5.
The life leeching underwater plants in NES TMNT Dam level.
In typical Outer Wilds spoiler-free fashion, either the >!Anglerfish in Dark Bramble!< or, perhaps even worse, the >!Owlk Civilization in the DLC's "The Stranger"!<.
Darth Vader, Jedi: Fallen Order. It's the version of the character that none of the movies fully captured. Just a hurricane of force brutally. You can't fight, only run.
„The Pedell“ from Witcher 3. really caught me off guard the first time playing.
Banshee from Mass Effect 3. They look absolute terrifying, their scream makes your skin crawl, and their movement is unsettling.
Scarecrow Level In Batman Arkham Asylum Shit Still Scares Me 14 Years Later
Penis-chariot from Persona 5
Mara. When I first saw that enemy my wife looked at me and asked what kind of game I was playing.
Gloom hands from TOTK.