Scariest Game you Played this Year

[Toonces]

Ummmm...

Alien Isolation
STALKER
Soma
Outcast

You know, one of those myriad games mentioned in this thread that you haven't played before...   :P

[Gusington]

^I did play Stalker - was that actually mentioned above? You're drinking now eh...

[Toonces]

For this year, it was:

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl which I'm still playing. Still get goosebumps when radiated creatures come after me.
Penumbra: Black Plague. I still shudder when I think of some of the truly scary parts of that game. Glad I completed the game as it was worth the effort.

[Gusington]

OK - I was drinking.

[Toonces]

I'm not saying I wasn't...   :-[   :P

[Father Ted]

I remember there being a Headless Horseman in Skyrim somewhere. I think it was connected to one of the shipwrecks. Not that scary but cool.

When I was about 7 I saw a Disney interpretation of the Sleepy Hollow legend and it terrified me.  Needless to say I keep scary games at arm's length.

[Boggit]

Plague Inc Evolved, where you play a disease and have to wipe out humanity. OMG it could happen! Some of the most entertaining scenarios were the Necroa virus (Zombies), and the Simian virus (Planet of the Apes).

[Gusington]

^I've seen that game on Steam - looks interesting.

And there are some cartoons from my youth that still sort of haunt me...like Father Ted's Sleepy Hollow. Something about It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown also is kinda creepy...can't put my finger on it.

[Nefaro]

My Mom was great.  She introduced me to sci-fi properly as a kid.  That was the year Aliens came out and she wanted to see it in the theater, so there wasn't any waiting around.  I wasn't going to see the sequel without seeing the original first.

No matter how much it scared me I used to watch that film every chance I got when I was a kid.

That's awesome.  Mine was the same.  She took me to see Aliens in the theater when I was a kid.  I loved it.

The first movie I watched in a theater was the original Star Wars, only a few days after my 2nd birthday.  Mom was 7+ months pregnant, and bringing a 2-year old had potential disaster written all over it, but she refused to miss it despite the possible issues.  I don't really remember it but evidently I was staring, mouth agape, the whole time. 

Also recall her taking me to see stuff like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Conan the Barbarian at Drive-Ins later on.   

Must be in our genes, huh?

[Gusington]

^ I was three when the original Star Wars came out and my Grandma took me to see it!

According to family lore I watched the guy behind me the whole time and didn't look at the screen once.

[besilarius]

Everybody's a critic.

[Nefaro]

According to family lore I watched the guy behind me the whole time and didn't look at the screen once.

Ohhhh.  That explains it.  You were one of those kids.  Always staring at some select stranger your whole time in a public place.

[Sir Slash]

Hope it wasn't Star sitting behind him. My small town had no theater until about 1980 so I didn't get to see Star Wars, Jaws, and Close Encounters until much later than they debuted. We had a Drive-In but nobody knew or cared what was playing there.

[Grimnirsson]

I have this game on my radar, old school survival horror with the typical Japanese twist and according to many reviews scary enough :)

[Gusington]

I draw the line at Japanese horror and pr0n...too freaky.