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Hmmmm...what has scared me?
Well, being that I mostly play FPS games, I'd say the first time was probably the original Half Life...nothing makes you jump like that first head crab in the air duct...
Then of course you have first person horror games like F.E.A.R. and Clive Barker's Undying...now remember Clive was the one who gave us the Hellraiser movies...there are parts of that game that are just down right scary/creepy/freakish...
In S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl, there is a part when you go underground and run into a certain enemy...I won't spoil it for you but if you play it, you've been warned...
Finally, like many, I play games in the dark with the surround speakers turn up for that whole scary atmosphere...and one game series played this way will give you that scare and then some...in the first THIEF, there's a part where you're in an underground tunnel maze...you can hear them all around you...but you don't see them until...yep you guess it...BAM!...jump out of your seat scare...dang incredibly large spiders...
But even worse is the third game in the series...THIEF: Deadly Shadows...by far an excellent game...however there is one level which PC Gamer magazine has said might be PC gaming's greatest level ever made - The Cradle...it's a twisted story of child abuse, murder and depravity in an orphanage...told through by architecture and ghostly flashbacks...by this I mean when you first get there you go through the ruins of this orphanage which is just down right creepy...think Ghost Adventures or Ghost Hunters tv shows...but then you actually flashback to when it was all going on which includes those crazies which were locked up in certain rooms except now they're roaming free...
I swaer this one was like at the end of the hall...and then he somehow phased walked in the creepiest of ways right into my face on the monitor...had my heart racing and royally freaked me out to where I had to stop playing for a few minutes...was awesome...
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