I miss those games so much. The feeling when you realise that the witch you can hear is unavoidable and one of you is gonna have to be the one to wake it up.
For me it’s coming around a corner and hearing the snorts and grunts from the tank before it agros cause you sit there like “well I’m fucked either way so guess I better find out where he’s hiding.
Being a teen and playing that game with my closest friends is some of the fondest memories i have. Screaming "IM RELOADING" at each other and then bursting out laughing while trying not to die. *Sigh*
Tanks were so easy to deal with in L4D2; I always kept a Boomer Bile canister with me for just such an occasion. Paint the Tank with zombie guts, and let the horde do the work for you.
Nothing like fending off a swarm only to find out you have no anti-venom. Then you get the fun decision of do I die or is it worth dumping a dozen stimpacks in me to fend off the poison.
Why were they so fucking strong for no reason tho. It’s been a decade and I still vividly remember pulling up to the wrong neighborhood and getting decimated
While I never had diagnosed fear of the deep or anything, it always made me very uneasy. And I can tell you, even though Subnautica was very spooky at times, it was genuinely one of the best experiences I've had playing games, so if it's on sale and you ever feel like facing your demons, it's just amazing.
There’s this game called Inside, and in one part of the game you have to swim/submarine your way through some derelict underwater sewer thing. There’s this mutant girl creature thing with eerily white skin and long scraggly hair, and she tries to capture you every time you go in the water. Also it’s super dark and the only way to stop her is to point your submarines light at her. It’s so fucking scary lol.
Fast. And i cant stress this enough. You need to attack them from behind. So you need to wait for them to turn their back to you. Then run to them, pray you dont messed up the distannce you need to traverse and pray you kill them with one combo, so they dont turn around. I did it with the big sword which looked like a gravestone(?)...been a while...
Perfectly time a parry on them so that your frenzy bar tips over while you're in the visceral attack animation and you won't take damage from it and usually kill it depending on how low it is. Luckily they don't have a whole lot of health.
A bit DLC and build gated, but Simon's Bowblade is my favorite way to deal with them. Leveled up it makes mincemeat out of them, and you never have to go within harm's reach of them.
Yup. Even Minecraft spiders send me running. I hate games with spiders. The smaller the scarier too. The original resident evil had a room with 2 large spiders, and when you killed them, they let out a bunch of baby spiders. Makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.
Every new playthrough, every single one, that baby still gets me clenching like I'm holding in the worst farts at my mother's funeral. Capcom really sells that horror element too a T.
Legit. I do have to say though that I normally would hate enemies like that but the Resi 2 Remake I love so damn much and Mr. X just really adds to it. So good.
I remember completing a puzzle, running partway back down the hallway and he just bursts his way through the wall. I didn't even completely realise what happened, I saw leather and heard a music sting and I was running
Yes, exactly! Whoever decided to introduce fast running mini zombies that don't burn up in sunlight and have the same amount of HP clearly wanted to see the world go down in flames!
First time in that bit of the haligtree, just did a blind "scouting" run as i'd already died multiple times and had no coins to lose by that point, that wound up with me in a dead end with the last one of those fucking things with nowhere to go.
Headcrabs in Half-Life 2 in the "We don't go to Ravenholm" section. They were around every corner and would almost insta-kill you. It also didn't help that playing that game gave me motion sickness so I could only play it for an hour at a time.
Outlast... the whole thing... I play so many horror games but any game that has you defenseless and having to run away, making snap decisions as your being chased and then hide really gets me blood going
Dead hand is the name of the boss of the bottom of the well (and miniboss in the shadow temple). The hands that you're talking about in the forest temple that fall down and grab you are wallmasters (and the ones that don't fall but split into 3 when you kill them are floormasters)
Its in multiple games, but any enemy that keeps regenerating stresses me out like nothing else. Like if you gotta knock them down and then close a door or something. The one in the original Dead-Space particularly.
The only time that I completely run out of ammo and had to quit in hundreds of games was when you get jumped by a ton of them in like a gym or something. Fuck them
Back when subnautica was new the reaper leviatan made me feel fear id never felt before. Pure terror and feeling of having to get the fuck out of the water. Sadly once you understand its behaviour it becomes just a lil fella that you can stab to death with a toothpick.
These were fine but the Giant Ants? Now those can fuck right off, keeping fucking off until they get back here, and then fuck off again. I don’t have an insect phobia, but looking at those things threatened to give me one!!
Regenerators from resident evil 4. I don't care that I have finished the game over 30 times. If you play that sound for me my stomach drops and my heart races.
Elden Ring is SO funny. One of the worst early-game enemies is birds with swords taped to their legs ... then you get to Stormveil Castle and find birds with swords taped to their legs that are also carrying exploding barrels. It's stupid, I love it
How did I have to scroll for 5 minutes to find this? The sound of it chasing and gaining on you (especially with headphones on) sparks some kind of primal fear that I have never experienced in any other game. In fact, the only time I have felt that genuinely terrified before in my life was when I got chased by a huge dog while walking home at night when I was like 9 years old. I was never able to finish the game once the alien showed up. Fuck that feeling.
Fucking insane how they can instantly explode out of thr ground from behind you after getting shot from 500 yards away. Surprised mole rats and blood bugs have more votes in this thread, Radscorpions are so so so much worse.
I had legit fear of the big headed dog and the toothy crow in Elden Ring. They killed me constantly and thats about where my first attempt at it ended. My second go at it is when I realized they weren't that bad to fight I was just panicking when they came at me.
I’d have to say the reaper leviathan from subnautica. The first time I encountered that thing, I had 0 knowledge of its existence, and I merely heard a roar, then saw its shadow on the sand, at which point I was grabbed by it and may have shat myself when it happened.
Cyber demons in the original Doom games. The menacing Kachunk of them walking around still gets me, but it got me really bad as a kid. I love those games.
Those revenants like the picture. I’ve played Elden Ring for something like 190 hours between my two characters, and I only COMPETENTLY defeated one for the first time maybe last week
Volatiles in dying light 1. I have 200 hours in that game and can fight them easily, but the initial roar of a chase starting is the kind of thing that sends the lizard brain into jibbering fits of terror. The boosted sound of their footsteps behind you also freaks me the fuck out.
L4D2 tank, not even the thing itself but the music.
Dunno what you mean, I love
The howl before an oncoming horde from either being AFK, pressing a button, or hitting a car always got my adrenaline going
I miss those games so much. The feeling when you realise that the witch you can hear is unavoidable and one of you is gonna have to be the one to wake it up.
Adding on the witch. That moment when you first hear some light sobbing amidst all of the chaos always sent a chill down my spine
Especially when you turn a corner and its just there for no fucking reason out of nowhere
For me it’s coming around a corner and hearing the snorts and grunts from the tank before it agros cause you sit there like “well I’m fucked either way so guess I better find out where he’s hiding.
Lmao I instantly thought of the tank
I remember the map that throws like several tanks at you while you’re trying to defend the bridge.
Being a teen and playing that game with my closest friends is some of the fondest memories i have. Screaming "IM RELOADING" at each other and then bursting out laughing while trying not to die. *Sigh*
Tanks were so easy to deal with in L4D2; I always kept a Boomer Bile canister with me for just such an occasion. Paint the Tank with zombie guts, and let the horde do the work for you.
Mine is the super mutants in fallout when they go invisible 😭
Super Mutant Suiciders
Beep beep beep BEEP BEEP….
I always panic and never seem to figure out where they are coming from in time.
I read that as Super Mutant Spiders at first. Would still make me flee and scream in terror
Cazadors in New Vegas.
Its VATS or long range sneak attack criticals for them. No way am I hitting them while they’re flying 60mph
They give me more nuke or nuke response.
I have even installed the mod with the Cazador King.
Literally more so than deathclaws.
2 top comments are from the Fallout series which is interesting. Not that I disagree cazadors are freaking terrifying
These fuckers are the reason that I avoid playing new vegas anymore.
See if you had the OWB dlc it was a joke after. I could get stung by the entire horde of them north of the start after the DLC and they did nothing.
Nothing like fending off a swarm only to find out you have no anti-venom. Then you get the fun decision of do I die or is it worth dumping a dozen stimpacks in me to fend off the poison.
Why were they so fucking strong for no reason tho. It’s been a decade and I still vividly remember pulling up to the wrong neighborhood and getting decimated
Bulk detonators.
Rock and stone to the bone.
But when it's crassus detonator, greed > fear.
Bulk!
While we’re on the topic, also mactera grabbers. Especially the elite ones that fly at 90 miles an hour.
Cave leeches for me. That little chirrup sounds so gentle compared to what’s coming.
The guardian song that plays right before I am about to get eradicated in BOTW
Hahaha if you didn't know where you were being targeted from it was anxiety inducing af.
The first time you get caught off guard by a walking one while on foot….
Anything underwater. It's why I'll NEVER play Subnautica. Shit is terrifying.
The Reaper leviathan only wants to give you a hug.
Conquer your fear!
Its so much fun. Though If you do play it, the safest spot to mine materials is the back end of the aurora ship. Lots of good stuff there.
I've been terrified of deep water since Half-life 2
While I never had diagnosed fear of the deep or anything, it always made me very uneasy. And I can tell you, even though Subnautica was very spooky at times, it was genuinely one of the best experiences I've had playing games, so if it's on sale and you ever feel like facing your demons, it's just amazing.
That's a pity, Subnautica is one of my all time favourite games, and I've been playing computer games since the early 1980's!
Search up: Ghost Leviathan
There’s this game called Inside, and in one part of the game you have to swim/submarine your way through some derelict underwater sewer thing. There’s this mutant girl creature thing with eerily white skin and long scraggly hair, and she tries to capture you every time you go in the water. Also it’s super dark and the only way to stop her is to point your submarines light at her. It’s so fucking scary lol.
Ecco the Dolphin still makes me uneasy to this day.
It was the shark of Treasure Trove Cove in Banjo-Kazooie that began my irrational fear of bodies of water in video games.
Winter lanterns in Bloodborne... How do you even fight those things without turning mad?
Fast. And i cant stress this enough. You need to attack them from behind. So you need to wait for them to turn their back to you. Then run to them, pray you dont messed up the distannce you need to traverse and pray you kill them with one combo, so they dont turn around. I did it with the big sword which looked like a gravestone(?)...been a while...
Perfectly time a parry on them so that your frenzy bar tips over while you're in the visceral attack animation and you won't take damage from it and usually kill it depending on how low it is. Luckily they don't have a whole lot of health.
A bit DLC and build gated, but Simon's Bowblade is my favorite way to deal with them. Leveled up it makes mincemeat out of them, and you never have to go within harm's reach of them.
That damn bridge with 3 of them
Dead space enemies, That's all I'm going to say.
First time meeting them in space, without a sound cue I almost had a heart attack.
The Basilisk in DS1 and getting cursed!
Me trying to get over the 2 inch step and falling back down to the bottom of the tree over and over.
Honestly , the worst anyone else can do is kill you. But these fuckers will just ruin your game.
I had to face that fear. I needed a good farm for humanity and the rats in the sewers were my best option at the time
Seeing them come back in elden ring was interesting, I mean I still hate them but I did kinda miss them too
The little girl from F.E.A.R.
Alma Wade! When she popped up, you knew shit was fucked. Just run.
Spiders, from whatever game. And only flight response
Yup. Even Minecraft spiders send me running. I hate games with spiders. The smaller the scarier too. The original resident evil had a room with 2 large spiders, and when you killed them, they let out a bunch of baby spiders. Makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.
Play Grounded
How come no one said the fucking mutant baby in Resident Evil Village? That shit's nightmare fuel and I have played countless horror games.
I legit stopped playing for the night, after hiding in a locker and seeing it up close. A genuine "put the controller down" moment.
Very much this.
Every new playthrough, every single one, that baby still gets me clenching like I'm holding in the worst farts at my mother's funeral. Capcom really sells that horror element too a T.
This one too, that thing is true horror
Mr. X
I thought I had it figured out where he was by sound of his footsteps and planned my route back to a save room.
Legit. I do have to say though that I normally would hate enemies like that but the Resi 2 Remake I love so damn much and Mr. X just really adds to it. So good.
I remember completing a puzzle, running partway back down the hallway and he just bursts his way through the wall. I didn't even completely realise what happened, I saw leather and heard a music sting and I was running
baby zombies in minecraft.
Yes, exactly! Whoever decided to introduce fast running mini zombies that don't burn up in sunlight and have the same amount of HP clearly wanted to see the world go down in flames!
Fuck those enemies and fuck the five of them in a row at the Haligtree specifically.
The ones in Haligtree are put down there by the devil himself. Disappearing sonsofbitches.
I almost died fighting one
First time in that bit of the haligtree, just did a blind "scouting" run as i'd already died multiple times and had no coins to lose by that point, that wound up with me in a dead end with the last one of those fucking things with nowhere to go.
Headcrabs in Half-Life 2 in the "We don't go to Ravenholm" section. They were around every corner and would almost insta-kill you. It also didn't help that playing that game gave me motion sickness so I could only play it for an hour at a time.
Mmm those poison ones…
Haha try playing HL Alyx. Takes fighting headcrabs to a new level.
Molerats
Same here
The hazmat suit bombers from dying light. Their scream cause me to panic every time
Volatiles, man. Especially in the DLC with the buggy. Runners can get you pumped up but when a volatile spots you you gotta decide quick.
Deathclaws in New Vegas. Especially when I hear the footsteps of one charging at me when I didn't know it was there.
Creepers. I don’t want my ass eaten by a pile of leaves when I’m trying to get iron.
I always thought they were slimy
Great answer. They don’t scare me per say, but they sure as hell make me pounce away like a rabbit
Trolls in Skyrim
Especially the frost troll you encounter while trying to get the first dragonborn power lol
Cazadors and regenerators
Big Sisters as they always gave ma a whooping
Oh that's a good one. I would genuinely get chills when I would hear her coming. Clickers were seriously spooky too.
Outlast... the whole thing... I play so many horror games but any game that has you defenseless and having to run away, making snap decisions as your being chased and then hide really gets me blood going
I don't know how I even finished the first one. The second one I gave up early on. I am just not meant to deal with that much anxiety lol.
Most terrifying enemy in the game until you discover that healing spells wreck them.
What game is this?
Seriously?
Facehuggers in the original Aliens vs. Predator and AVP2.
I always thought that they got them right in the game because of this.
The fingercreepers in Elden Ring.
The dead hands in the forest temple in the ocarina of time.
Dead hand is the name of the boss of the bottom of the well (and miniboss in the shadow temple). The hands that you're talking about in the forest temple that fall down and grab you are wallmasters (and the ones that don't fall but split into 3 when you kill them are floormasters)
nightmare fuel
I came here to say the zombie things in the bottom of the well in OOT.
Mine are the zombies in OOT. That scream that paralyzes you. Awful
the revenants and hand enemies from elden ring for sure, also the albinaurics that crawl on the ground and scream
Leshens and Bruxae in Witcher 3.
Walking alone you encounter a hooded woman in the ruins of an old building.... nobody else around. Just you and "her"...
Bloodbugs and cave crickets in Fallout. Ugh.
For me it's Deathclaws. The moment I see one I'm gone.
Any spider enemies. Especially when they make those fucking scuttling sounds.
Its in multiple games, but any enemy that keeps regenerating stresses me out like nothing else. Like if you gotta knock them down and then close a door or something. The one in the original Dead-Space particularly.
After Malenia nothing now.
Special thanks go to Blackflame Friede, Slave Knight Gael, Orphan of Kos and Great Shinobi Owl too.
I forget the name of it or her. But from the evil within, the multilegged beast that comes up from the pools of blood made me run away. Lol.
Deathclaws.
As a kid, I was terrified of head crabs. Especially the poison ones
Trigents in the first Far Cry
the pack from dead space 2.
The only time that I completely run out of ammo and had to quit in hundreds of games was when you get jumped by a ton of them in like a gym or something. Fuck them
Andross from Star Fox 64
Fucking andross.
Volatiles in dying light. Especially in dying light 1. Nothing made me want to just alt f4 so hard.
The Atlas Battlemech. If you encounter a lance of those things, you're gonna have a bad time.
Ah, the Steiner Scout Lance 😉
I've been playing Generation Zero recently and the sounds of a distant Tank Class robot in the distance is pure terror.
The reaper leviathan
You ever heard one winged angel start playing?
Invaded by dark spirit Forlorn
The Fetus- RE Village
Reaper Leviathan in Subnautica! The warning before the visual. Don’t what is worse.
Headless Kamikaze.
These guys made me laugh so hard.
god i love serious sam
The bees from legend of Zelda.
Cloaker, even though i havent played payday 2 the sound thwy make is just.... Chilling to me
Back when subnautica was new the reaper leviatan made me feel fear id never felt before. Pure terror and feeling of having to get the fuck out of the water. Sadly once you understand its behaviour it becomes just a lil fella that you can stab to death with a toothpick.
These were fine but the Giant Ants? Now those can fuck right off, keeping fucking off until they get back here, and then fuck off again. I don’t have an insect phobia, but looking at those things threatened to give me one!!
Headcrab in Half Life
Regenerators from resident evil 4. I don't care that I have finished the game over 30 times. If you play that sound for me my stomach drops and my heart races.
Those stormhawk things in stormveil castle, elden ring. Good God if you don't have a weapon with reach... good luck
Elden Ring is SO funny. One of the worst early-game enemies is birds with swords taped to their legs ... then you get to Stormveil Castle and find birds with swords taped to their legs that are also carrying exploding barrels. It's stupid, I love it
The Xenomorph in Alien: Isolation
This right fricking here. That game scares me like no other. I literally have screamed while playing that.
How did I have to scroll for 5 minutes to find this? The sound of it chasing and gaining on you (especially with headphones on) sparks some kind of primal fear that I have never experienced in any other game. In fact, the only time I have felt that genuinely terrified before in my life was when I got chased by a huge dog while walking home at night when I was like 9 years old. I was never able to finish the game once the alien showed up. Fuck that feeling.
Primal aspids, from hollow knight. Even after finishing everything the game has to offer, you still fear that stupid shotgun things
The fetus monster from Resident Evil 8.
Dying light volatiles
Centaurs in fallout. They just creep me out
Radscorpions 😱
Fucking insane how they can instantly explode out of thr ground from behind you after getting shot from 500 yards away. Surprised mole rats and blood bugs have more votes in this thread, Radscorpions are so so so much worse.
G adults from Re2 remake
the nightfolk La Llorona in RDR2
For a while it was the guardians on BOTW
The music is perfect for their segments
Silent Hill: Homecoming , Scarlet was pretty scary
I had legit fear of the big headed dog and the toothy crow in Elden Ring. They killed me constantly and thats about where my first attempt at it ended. My second go at it is when I realized they weren't that bad to fight I was just panicking when they came at me.
Poison Head Crabs from Half Life 2
Regeneraters from RE4.
Invisible guys from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Too scared to look up their proper name
Regenerators from RE4. They're not even hard to kill, they're just really fucking unsettling. Dreading finding out what the remake does with them.
Blood suckers in stalker
The exploding skeletal pygmies from Diablo 2
Ah yes the Undead Stygian Doll
Bloodbugs in Fallout 4. All the fucking spindly legs, and the animation where they stick you with their proboscis. I can’t deal with it
Silent Hill 4's Twin Victim. Made me stop playing the game altogether. Same thing with Resident Evil 4's Regeneradores.
I’d have to say the reaper leviathan from subnautica. The first time I encountered that thing, I had 0 knowledge of its existence, and I merely heard a roar, then saw its shadow on the sand, at which point I was grabbed by it and may have shat myself when it happened.
My mom when she uses my middle name
The Regenerators from Resident Evil 4. Not sure why but they always got to me.
Handyman from Bioshock Infinite. They look and sound so unsettling and chase you relentlessly.
The half life 2 fast zombies always wigged me out pretty good.
ReDeads in Zelda games. The scream…
ReDeads from the Legend of Zelda
Big daddy's
Cyber demons in the original Doom games. The menacing Kachunk of them walking around still gets me, but it got me really bad as a kid. I love those games.
It's the howl for me. What a horrible creature that must make that sound.
Those revenants like the picture. I’ve played Elden Ring for something like 190 hours between my two characters, and I only COMPETENTLY defeated one for the first time maybe last week
Volatiles in dying light 1. I have 200 hours in that game and can fight them easily, but the initial roar of a chase starting is the kind of thing that sends the lizard brain into jibbering fits of terror. The boosted sound of their footsteps behind you also freaks me the fuck out.
Nightfolk in RDR2, honorable mention to the cougar.
Any character from Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.
If I hear the creeper hiss and I can't see a creeper my heart rate goes thru the roof.
Deathclaws from Fallout.
Anything larger than my character
The Red Death of Far Harbor.
Sharks in sea of thieves have gotten me a few times. Especially when you look around and don't see any until the last minute.
cloakers from payday 2
The children necromorphs in Dead Space 2
Have you ever been wandering around on your favorite tame in Ark and turned the corner to an aggro'd giga?
Or be playing PvP and hear a flying creature moving faster than it should but not know where its coming from
Yes.
The crows in Mohgwyn Palace. Fuck those things. Royal Revenants are a close second
I agree, not as much but also the Albinaurics with the ball on their head that sprint-crawl at you and scream
Nemesis from Resident Evil 3
Bloodsuckers from Stalker, damn invisible bastards and it doesnt help that you face your first one in a damn underground abandoned lab.
When I first played subnautica it was the repear leviathans.
A fucking random note at the final second of the song after you complete a long spinner and the music dies down…
Al-qaeda
Man I hated those things, I once found a ledge only barely big enough for myself to snipe it from and it still teleported on top of me.