Hi guys, I’m working on a webbased survivalhorror game in unity, I’m well on my way with concept art and such and I started to model the main character in 3ds max today, I will post pictures of the concept art and models soon.
Ive got the background story all figured out, but I’m really curious to know what moment in a survivalhorror game scared you the most?
The scariest moment for me, the first time I faced pyramidhead in silent hill 2, you know when he chases you, scary as hell, so much panic!
Well, looking forward to your answers, hope you are looking forward to see my what I’m about to post from my game soon!
The asylum in Fahrenheit (or Indigo Prophecy), when the lights go out. It left me with quite an impression, and it was properly built up by having you play another 1st person sequence with the same character, to get through to you that she was afraid of the dark.
Although the second time I played that sequence I found it pretty bad (maybe it was because the rest of the game was a big let down anyway )
Almost any scene in fatal frame 2, that game scared the crap out of me.
Pyramid head is definitely a good one as you said; just knowing that he was unstoppable made him all the more terrifying. The entire school scene in the first SH is pretty terrifying too.
Of course, the first time the dobermans jump through the window in Resident Evil.
The first time you meet Alma in FEAR.
The first time you encounter a ReDead in Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
I’m sure there’s lots more, that’s just the first few that came to mind.
One of the scariest was actually a mod not something made by a “professional” game developer. “Suran Horror Mod” by lightningflik. The level Butchery really creeped me out. One minute you’d be reading a scrap of paper found on a corpse and then you’d turn around to see this large black ghostly figure behind you ready to attack. Lightningflik did an awesome job of using sound and music throughout the mod including a twisted haunting version of a child’s song. The sound effects really set the mood for the horrible areas you were walking through. I learned a lot as an indie game developer just playing his mod.
“Suran Horror Mod” and “The Underground” should go in some hall of fame somewhere.
Somehow i always found the atmosphere in Berzerk kind of that something just wasn’t right, maybe slightly scary. But that’s rather abstract if you compare it to todays standards.
Recently I would say the only thing that made the hairs stand up on the back of me neck was the demo of FEAR 2 when all the lights start going off. In fact it stopped me buying the full version! (how many demo are meant to do that).
Old school panic was Hunchback on the C64… Trying to jump over those guards with fireballs coming at your feet.
Anytime you meet little girl Alma in F.E.A.R. 1. The moment you hear static in the radio and the lights flicker, you just know something is going to happen, and sometimes, there’s no such warning.
Not Pyramid Head but the scariest moments in Silent Hill 2 for me were the whole time in the underground prison complex, the feeling that you’re so deep underground and you might not get back out, and the part where you need to reach through a deep fist-sized hole in the wall to get a key, what if its a trap and my arm gets chopped off?
I love your answers, very interesting, it will give me alot of information for my game!
I am doing everything myself, im trying to combine 8 years exp of 3ds max, 5 years exp of photoshop due to my work as a webdesigner, and about 5 years in playing in a band and composing music for various things such as small commercials locally. So im going all out on this one, im very excited:) i will be posting soon in showcase.
Now to another terrifying experience that ruined my bed, not by pissing myself, but i spilled a large glass of red wine.
Me and my friend decided to play thru all of the silent hill games from team silent, and on the fourth installement ( Silent Hill 4: The Room ) there is a socalled cheap scare really, when you least expect it, you see a grotesqye mannequein reaching out her hand towards you, im not gonna spoil the surprise and tell you where it is in the game if you havnt played it, but holy crap.
A few moments after that my inmate who was a girl and had some friends over came into my room and said “Why the hell are you screaming like little girls!?!”
… and there we where, 2 grown men, scared shitless:) I love horror games!
Minecraft, while making an underground base, I had thought I had lit up the caverns enough so monsters wouldn’t spawn, and I was going on my way building up a wall of my underground house that was adjacent to lava when I hear the distinct ssssssSSSSS…
Metroid Prime 1. At home. Alone. At night.
For those of you that haven’t played Metroid Prime, it’s very immersive.
Walking through the dark depths of Chozo Ruins. Creepy music is playing.
I enter a room. Everything goes dark(er). Chozo Ghosts appear out of nowhere and the music explodes into this.
I jumped out of my skin and vowed to never again play that game at night.
The end of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 was pretty scary - the first time you play it.
A well-loved character you’ve come to like in the game dies in the cruelest way possible (in the Half-Life universe) and you actually can’t move the view away from it - you’re forced to watch him die.
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