What's the scariest thing you've run into in a video game?

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I was thinking of this after flying through Icecrown in World of Warcraft. There have been a few things in this game that I have found bone-chilling (and sometimes terrifyingly awesome) like the Fel Reaver, and those Bone Sentinels in Icecrown, reanimated skeletons of giants that actually have an angry look on their skulls, and are so large and heavy that their heads hang askew (for some reason this is more scary). All the undead giants seem creepier than the smaller ones, in fact.

My 5-year-old today had a taste while playing Spore. She's too young for it, absolutely, but she seemed to like making creatures and I hadn't realized she knew how to put one into an environment until I heard her terrified cries and ran in thinking she'd gotten her fingers stuck in something or had been bitten by a spider, guessing from the rising panic in her voice. Turns out her creature had come too close to a hungry predator! When I got there, she was holding down an arrow key, backing away from it as it charged and wailing that she couldn't kill it! I don't play so I couldn't help but fortunately it was in a window, so I clicked the X and saved her. It took her a few minutes to calm down and she swore off Spore. We'll see how long that lasts.

Oh, also, any game content that genuinely shocked you, however silly, is worth a mention. It's amazing how real the imaginary can be. I wonder what muddled memories the senior citizens of our generation will have years from now...

"Why, when I was your age, I took down three murlocs with one AoE, and didn't even break a sweat. But I never got over the loss of my beloved battle spider, Augie... You remember the day we went back in time to Atlantis the day before it sank?"

Anyway, I know I was genuinely shocked when LeChuck ran Guybrush through with his cutlass (was that the Cursed Cutlass of Kaflu?).

Everything on Silent Hill: Homecoming (I haven't played the others though)

I've been playing through "God of War" 1-3 on my PS3, and I just started the third game yesterday. These games have a lot of creepy and scary material from Greek mythology. For example, near the end of the first game the main character is trying to escape from Hades(hell), and there are screaming dead people falling all around him into the river Styx far below.

anything in a videogame that jumps out at you out of nowhere... I HATE those!

I am pretty easilly scared, I have beaten games like Silent Hill: Homecoming, Bioshock, and Dead Space, but I needed to be reading an online walkthrough at the same time, and I still jump at the scary bits. I have a strange habit of being really easilly scared, but still facinated by the worlds or creatures.

I was going to say Doom 3, but I just decided to give it a little play again, and it felt a little dated and not very scary, noted I am useing a God mode cheat. As games age their graphics can make them less scary, proably as we we are used to seeing more and more realistic graphics, we fill in less to make something feel real, and thus weaker graphics take away realism. Still find the Cherubs prettycreepy though.

I think most cases it is not so much a thing that is scary, but how it jumps out at you, I think the Plaster Spilcer's from Bioshock where especially scary as they did not make a sound, and could pop up right behind you, no warning can be scary. But on the other hand The Big Sisters who make a hell lot of noise can also be very scary, that screech just makes me panic as you wait for its apearance.

Going back a bit, but when the Rottweiler’s jumped through the windows in Resident Evil...

Actually, quite a lot of things that scared me happened in the Resi Series...up until Nemesis, at least.

A whole pack of Creepers in minecraft. Curse you creepers. Especially in dark caves.

The game that freaked me out the most on the First time playing was Half-life2 on the Ravenholm Level.

I knew about Silent Hill and Resident Evil, but I haven't played any of the ones mentioned! I would probably wet my pants with fear from games like that. I get a little edgy even being followed in traffic, much less stalked by undead hordes or serial killers, however fictional. But who's the green pixillated guy?

I've played mostly MMOs and adventure games. I was once murdered by Brad Dourif, another time by Malcolm McDowall, and marched at gunpoint by Tim Curry! So to speak. I've played a lot of those older "you are in the game" adventures with the video cutscenes of real actors. The mummy one, that was the one with Malcolm McDowall, I believe, had a sequence that scared me pretty bad... the whole place was caving in and you had to get out in time. But of course, you're traveling by the "click direction and wait for new room to load" mode of transport, and I think you could in fact get caught in the cave-in if you took a wrong turn. And my ability to suspend disbelief is rather advanced, so I was a basket case by the time I got out alive...

Scariest thing about games are some of the people playing them, but hey just as much chance you will run into them on the street.

The bathtub scene in Eternal Darkness. It freaked the shite out of me! I mean, I was only 13 when I played it! This scene made it to Game Informer's list of top 10 scariest video game moments.

Smashola glitch in Super Mario World... the one level when I was a kid where you have to spin jump on all the yellow blocks scared me because I had a cape, and I got killed by the glitch one time, then I was too scared to play the level. So I got my brother to find the secret exit (which was actually easy, wow I'm so dumb). I couldn't even watch him! Then a few years later, I had nightmares of randomly dying in the game for no reason. Then the remake came out on GBA, and I was sometimes scared to play it, especially that one level. I played the level anyway, as long as I didn't have a cape. A few years later, I just wasn't scared of it anymore. In fact, I found it funny trying to die in the level that way deliberately.

Yeah, my story is lame, but I have rarely played games that are meant to be scary.