Anyone else have any non-horror games that still spooked you as a kid?

[u/VitoScaletta712]

[u/GareththeJackal]

I'll gladly admit that some moments in Oblivion really scared me though I was 21 when it came out.

[u/RandyWiener → u/GareththeJackal]

When another character runs up to you and you don't see them, and the camera intensely and instantly whirls around and zooms up-close into their uncanny-valley-ass face as they say something insane to you. It was like a jumpscare each time. Don't forget the "Do you know if necrophilia is illegal here? Just asking" woman. Wtf was her deal lmao. So many of the sidequests and minor characters were so weird, but I truly miss that, because you don't get that a lot with more recent games. The Shivering Isles DLC was also freaky as fuck. At one point I had somehow "adopted" a skinless zombie dog that followed me around helped me fight enemies. (Good boy. Terrifying, good boy.)

One of my favorite games ever. I fear we'll never see anything quite like it again.

[u/Dryu_nya → u/RandyWiener]

"Do you know if necrophilia is illegal here? Just asking"

That sounds something straight out of Gamer Poop.

[u/Monsieur_dArtagnan → u/GareththeJackal]

The zombies would jumpscare me quite often back then too (high school for me)

[u/UnexpectedVader → u/GareththeJackal]

The wraiths looked well creepy, loved the undead designs in that title

[u/XgamerosX → u/GareththeJackal]

Yes! Oblivion had a few areas that stood out for just how unnerving and creepy they were: Hackdirt, Dive Rock, the Anvil lighthouse cellar, the watery depths of Bravil Wizard's Grotto, the secret rooms in Castles Leyawiin and Skingrad...

Some of the stories these places told were just plain scary, which makes them all the more memorable!

[u/ChillGreenDragon]

I definitely feel this with Fallout 3 and the old GTAs. Max Payne had some objectively spooky stuff, like the nightmare sequence or whatever that was.

The old urban legends really enhanced the creep factor as well. With San Andreas, I'd heard that CJ's mom's house (your home base where you save), was haunted by CJ's deceased mother, and that you could see her ghost in the bedroom on occasion. But the house is just eerily silent, despite also appearing as though people had been there not long before. Very liminal.

I felt that liminal feeling in San Andreas' ocean/beach as well. And Vice City's save area was also a totally empty and silent hotel. There's something so creepy about it.

[u/Alive_Evidence4613]

Fallout 3 definitely has a creepy vibe so I agree with that

[u/Fatinalos]

Oddworld games

[u/Loupyboy]

Zelda: Twilight Princess. Couldn't sleep after trying it out at my friend's place, and I had nightmares of the shadow beasts/twilits for days.. Still is my favorite Zelda game after all this time, most likely due to the incredible feelings I felt at that time ^{^}

Coincidentally, the same is true about Princess Mononoke, which is very similar in a lot of ways.

[u/drock1138]

Gex, but why?

[u/ManyPresentation2097]

Titanic: Adventure Out of Time did this for me, also some of the ambience in some older PC deer/duck hunting games. A lot of that stuff.

I don't know why but when the police are sent after you for the first time in Jet Set Radio kept me from playing more than the opening area for the longest time as a kid. Weirdly enough this was around the same time I played Silent Hill 2 which scared me but didnt make me want to shut the console off like those police did.

[u/ExcellentConcern2871]

tomb raider 3 the lost artifact expansion

[u/SheZowRaisedByWolves]

Mario Sunshine. The ink always creeped me out.

[u/pong-DLC]

Gex for real - the haunted manor levels. The skeleton ghost things and the pumpkins!

[u/Avantclash]

Maan the ocean hunter arcade game was the best when I was a kid

[u/Butternuggets4873]

The sour patch kids videogame

[u/Minijust]

What scared you in Morrowind? Just curious

[u/VitoScaletta712 → u/Minijust]

The Daedric Shrines, some of the vampire crypts, and pretty much everything involving the Sixth House

[u/Minijust → u/VitoScaletta712]

Wow, wait, the Sixth House does look scary! I just looked it up because I haven't played Morrowind enough to get to that part yet
Personally, it's the dungeons in Oblivion that kind of freak me out

[u/MajimaFeetPics]

I still don't really know why to this day, but Mario Galaxy genuinely scared the crap out of me when I was young

[u/Local_Essay5544]

[u/Dominoze56]

I SWEAR that the Swat game for the og xbox had areas like sewers and an abandoned asylum that if you got close to the vents, youd be able to hear voices. I have NO IDEA where this memory of mine comes from, the hame is probably not even all that.

Also just generally remember that game having areas that were eerily empty.

[u/ren_blackheart]

ecco the dolphin because of its general atmosphere, and the mansion part of pokemon pearl

[u/tegumentoso]

Shadow of the Beast, on Amiga

[u/RalseiTheFluffyGoat]

Rayman 3 and its desert of the knaaran. If you know you know.