/vr/ - Retro Games

Let's get this one out of the way too

>>5630840
That piano ain't got shit on Unagi.

>>5630850
Eel sushi?

>>5630892
The giant eel in SM64, that's his name

>>5630895
eh, he's whatever. at least he doesn't chase you like this cunt right here.

Gotta be these fuckers in that gimmicky level of donkey long country, these fuckers are fast and un-killable but a fucking barrel that has stop and go written on it means they go to sleep like fucking babies, just think about how that functioned scared me

I haven't liked going in water in any FPS game since this son of a bitch

https://youtu.be/trZ4PNxftIk

Also the kamikaze from Serious Sam. In fact they still unnerve me greatly.

>>5630840
The Piano is just kind of goofy in retrospect. But damn if i didn't launch off my couch the first time that fucker suddenly came at me.

I legit had nightmares about this fucker

>>5632923
skulltulas are not scary, but i used to hear skulltula's noises when i tried to sleep after playing ocarina of time.

Most of Majora's Mask. OOT never managed to spook me.

>>5632958
There was a lot of messed up shit in MM. Part of why i liked it though.

>>5632332
These fucking guys...

>>5632747
That fucking spastic roaring...

>>5632923
>>5632932
I'll never understand why people make such a big deal over these. I was in the 5th grade when I first played OoT, and I never found it scary let alone had nightmares. Were you guys toddlers when you played it or just big pussies?

>>5633307
Here's a man right here. I too had a 16 inch dick and 9 pound balls when i was 10 years old, anon. We can be big dick buddies for life.

The sewer monster in StarWars: Shadow of the Empire.

The first time i played OOT as a kid i was scared shitless by these guys. Looking back it's so easy and and simple to get by them, but at the time i had never experienced anything like them in a game before. They intimidated the hell out of me.

>>5634826
forgot pic.

>>5634829
HAHAHAHHAHAA THATS WHAT SCARRED YOU? NIGGA U GAY

Seeing the facehuggers slowly crawl up the screen in Alien Trilogy made me turn my console off, take the disc out, and never play it again. The facehugger equivalents in Duke Nukem 3D have the same effect on me.

>>5634840
Yes i was extra gay, just like all kids are

>>5634826
Even the "scary" stuff above has a goofy cutesy edge to the design. There is nothing menacing in that game.

>>5631763
This one scared me

>>5634878
Maybe not now there isn't. Games these days have stuff like this everywhere to the point where i don't even blink. Back then was a mixture of me being young and OOT doing a lot of things i'd never had to think through before. Not much scared me on SNES (Maybe aside from a few things in Super Metroid) and most of what i played on n64 before it was fun/bouncy/silly. Ocarina of time had a different feeling to it overall, being on a serious adventure in a 3D world and having to think in dimensions i had never had before. Kind of overwhelming to a ten year old, thats why it was such a fun experience at the time.

The first area on Tawfret in Jet Force Gemini. All the zombified drones gave me nightmares as a kid. It was a mixture of the creepy music, the deformed bodies, and the ungodly noises they make when you shoot them. Didn't help that i didn't know how to kill them at first and they wouldn't die no matter how many machine gun rounds i pumped into them. I legit thought i just had to run away.

More unsettling than scary.

>>5635024
i agree, the sprite turning and looking at me right before it was just as fucked up, but...
>inb4 not retro

>>5634802
based

>>5630840
the piano made me laugh as a kid, i thought it was a very playful dog piano

>>5634802
underwater enemies like that have always made my skin crawl; somthing about your relative helplessness compared to how easily and quickly they just throw their fat, fishy ass all over your shit

>>5630821
>ITT: Kids who definitely got bullied for being pussies

Clue for snes. Terrifying music that abruptly cuts out to silence along with deadpan abnormal facial expressions.

>>5635716
Everyone watch out we got a bad ass over here

>>5630821
There was a red room near the beginning of one of the Fatal Frame games (I think it was the first one) where you find hints that one of the ghosts was a child killer (dolls maybe?) and on your way out its form flashes in front of you, hunched over and smiling with long fingers just for a second. Couldn't find it online anywhere. That's what did it for me, that and that damn stupid dog that crashed through the window in the first Resident Evil game for the PS1.

>>5634878
To be fair, the main reasons the moblins are scary in OoT is because of their loud as fuck roar when they charge at you.

>>5634929
The abandonded UFO was scarier.
Especially that soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQX_zJhTXuw

>>5630821
Alot of Shadows of the Empire, great soundtrack btw..

Clue on snes freaked me out.

>>5631769
He looks so goofy in the render, yet so menacing in the game. Shit's weird.

>>5632814
Game in pic?

>>5636903
Stronghold Crusader 1.

This fucker right there along with the loud sea vacuum in the first map actually made me consider stop movingout of fear of them appearing again
Even at the time I didn't undersood why a seahorse was so scary to me

The dianoga boss battle in Shadows of the Empire. I always got this feeling of dread when snorkeling in deep water, so I never went too far from the shelf. I always felt like something was going to come up at me from the darkness of the depths and pull me down. Then along comes shadows of the empire and makes my nightmare into a reality.

>>5632747
Jesus christ i still hate these guys. I generally try to blow the fuck out of everything when i play HL for fun, but whenever i encounter these i just get the fuck out of the water

>>5634802
And the fucking wampas.

>>5637727
I loved watching them fight each other

In OoT, the combination in Forest Temple of music + twisted corridors + rooms with wallmasters, was spooky to me as a kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmsZyC0UXUU

>>5637743
Oh god, i shouted "NO" at my screen the first time the wall master shadow appeared in OOT. I hated those fuckers so much in ALttP. Didn't scare me all that much, but i wasn't happy to seem them in the slightest.

>>5632747
Where's my fucking crossbow, WHERE'S MY FUCKING CROSSBOW?!

>>5634858

>>5634751
>16 inch dick and 9 pound balls when i was 10 years old

>>5632747
>Accidentally fall into the water in Opposing Force where there are two of these

>>5637460
Ecco never scared me as a kid though granted I never got that far in it. Instead it made me very sad when all his pals got sucked away :(

>>5630821
Some PS1 skater game where you had to reach a certain amount of points/clear objectives. Then at the end of each level you'd be chased by a police officer, and had to escape. But the camera would switch to his point of view, so you could easily fuck yourself up on some obstacle you missed, and get your ass tased.
It wasn't a scary game in any way, but that hunt just freaked me the fuck out for some reason.

>>5632814
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>5632747

>>5637754
they're easy to dodge roll though

>>5640785
Yeah they aren't tough at all, it was more one of those "Oh shit now these fuckers are in 3D" moments.

The Zelda series in general has been fun to watch enemies go from 2D top-down to 3D. Hinox and Lynels appearing in Breath of the Wild after all this time was pretty neat. Just wasn't expecting the Lynels to be turned into death machines.

FUCK

>>5640709
thrasher skate and destroy

>>5636631
Descent final boss was another 'big eye' that always freaked me out

>>5636470
This. I shrugged off Navi's warning thinking it was nothing I couldn't handle and got my ass beat for it. It's only really scary the first time, but it's effective.

The fucking giant spider miniboss in Donkey Kong 64. YUM YUM

this fuckin thing

>>5632996
Not me, but one time in 6th grade I was doing a co op run of OoT with a friend. He played through the shadow temple but when he got to bongo bongo he started panicking and handed me the controller and said I had to beat him.

>>5630821
Not me, but one time in 6th grade I was doing a co op run of OoT with a friend. He played through the shadow temple but when he got to bongo bongo he started panicking and handed me the controller and said I had to beat him.

this whole game was scary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yl04QwEErY

as a kid, this monster popping up with the sounds was scary as fuck

>>5641021
I remember the first time i saw this. "What the fuck, Rare?"

>>5641263
Today i have no problem with games in OoT's style, but the fear of "What's behind me" was so new and foreign at the time and it wasn't like an fps where i could just snap around and shoot. I was a dumb kid that didn't quite understand the whole side step peeking mechanic with Z very well at the time so my biggest fear with the moblins was stepping out to look and getting ass rammed from behind.

>>5642225
>IN LEGEND OF ZELDA, YOU SAW THAT SHIT!
>IN ALttP, YOU SAW THAT SHIT!
>IN OOT, OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS!
Sorry, it was the first thing that came to mind. I'll show myself out.

>>5632958
>>5632970
opinions like this will never make any sense at all to me.

you could have said Shadow Man 64. that would have been totally granted but you can't sell me that MM is crazy spooky, even for a kid.
it's PEGI 12+ game, so come on now.

I was starting random PC games up on my dads PC when I was 6ish and one of them was Hexen. The menu started playing with its creeping music and I was screaming for my dad to come close the game.

>>5642265
That is really cute and endearing. I bet you were a little angel.

>>5642257
I'm not gonna argue against that, but I think part of MM's spookiness also came from it being a Zelda game. I went in expecting lots of things and the world twisted in unimaginable directions time and time again and the way you could pretty much play god with the fates of people in the world was at times unnerving. It was an experience. This is why i find it odd people are always comparing it to OoT. OoT is a zelda game through and through. MM might as well be Alice in Deja Vu Wonderland featuring Link. They are hilariously different experiences.

>>5632796
That music played automatically

>>5634878
>There is nothing menacing in that game.
Especially considering things like Clock Tower and Resident Evil were already out before Ocarina of Time, absolutely this.

But I'm guessing this is the first game that a lot of these anons played that cite it, and they probably never saw a horror movie before playing it. I know I was unlucky and watched one part of John Carpterner's The Thing on TV when tied up guy's head splits in two and eats the other guy as a kid, so maybe Ocarina of Time just didn't seem that bad to me.

Scared me, but I fucking loved that level.

I can only imagine if I had played the game past this point as a kid and made it to the T-Rex.

>>5642238
I love how he ignores that a character outright tells you there's something around the corner, and even though you can't see them around the corner, you can hear them.

>>5642257
Majora's Mask isn't so much scary as it is moridly dark. Characters die, or have recently died more often than in other Zelda games, characters go through varying stages of grief and the fact that the villain's end goal is something you have to manually delay instead of only happening after you Game Over.
It's not a SCARY game, but the game negatively affecting somebody isn't unreasonable at all.

It's like the video game version of kids being traumatized by a Disney character dying.

>>5643808
Is this the Rex from Tomb Raider or another game with a dinosaur?

>>5643840
Tomb Raider, might be one the 2 Hidden Tyrannosaurs from the 1st level judging by the textures.

>>5632814
GOD this pot's hot

>>5630821
I even had nightmares about being chased by an invisible one

Anyone know where I can find the PAL iso for this? I really want that smooth-talking Gex for my playthrough, rather than... well you know.

A couple of Might and Magic 2's monsters used to creep me out. They all have a few frames of animation they repeat infinitely and some of their designs are pretty nightmarish.

>>5631763
these things still fucking unnerve me

>>5635486
Deep water is probably the most common fear humans have.

>>5643817
The T-rexes are a really well-hidden secret in that level, you can't find it by accident

>>5632796
What game is this? Looks comfy

>>5644583
The original Alone in the Dark

>>5644478
Phantasy Star 3 had similar enemies where you just look at them and ask yourself "what the fuck am I fighting get it away from me oh god"

>>5630821
This whole game in general scared me as a kid (but I was dumb so I kept going back). The death screens, the bad ends.

>>5630821
Anything from goddamn Waxworks.

>>5642221
This is such a good shot I wonder what was going through the REmake devs' minds when they redid this scene.

What the hell was that game where you were trying to survive out in the wild after a plane crash and the game over screen was your character burning in hell? The game looked similar to how Waxworks was structured, with 2D graphics and a hud that basically formed a border around the screen.

>WHAT THE FUCK THERE’S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE RANDOM BATTLES IN THE AIRSHIP

>>5646584
Robinson’s Requiem

>>5632747
i think the weird half life ai code is a lot of what makes them so scary. they're just so jittery and unpredictable. one second theyre on the other end of the pond seemingly ignoring you and the next they're taking a good chonk out of your ass before you could even turn around to check for them

>>5646645
Looks pretty comfy desu

>>5646676
Nigga what the fuck XD

>>5644219
Watch them sizzle!
Lets LYTE THEM UPP

>>5642059
interesting game, it's kind of a bloodrayne prequel and also kind of trying to be a hellboy game. theres a blair witch game thats also a sequel to this too

>>5630821
I saw your mom's anus one time and it scared and unnerved me, but I pounded that big butt anyway.

>>5635024
REEEEEE NOT RET-
>>5635071 oh.

>>5646593
Holy shit this.
The sky in FF games is supposed to be safe and you start flying in amazing Mode 7 in 6 and suddenly... a freaking FLYING ZOMBIE.

I was 7, switched that shit off and didn't come back for years.

>>5634929
holy shit this, i refused to play that level as a 7 year old

Not really retro,
but spooked the shit out of me as a kid after I chose the tresure

>>5647095
DE FUMES FRUM DIS POT ARE TARRABLE

>>5648703
Manning smelter
REPORTING FOR OYL DYUTI
REPORTING FOR OYL DYUTI
REPORTING FOR OYL DYUTI

>>5646676
What game is that? image search isn't helping

>>5632332
fuck these guys too

idk why tho

let me out
it hurts
make it stop
kill me now

>>5648880
Those guys creeped me out as a kid because I was terrified of Chucky.

>>5648930
"Ah, the WORLD will be my battleground!"

>>5648930
fucking based

>>5649226
>the conveyor belt scene in quake 4

This level gave me fucking nightmares, I remember shooting the blaster to light it in a panic until I ran out of ammo than just run around like a headless chicken until I died.

>>5646156
They were relying too much on the "BOOO SPOOKY!" Cliche thing that they were doing quite a bit during the beginning of the game with a thunderstorm outside of the mansion and you are stuck inside.

My answer, of course, is my...

>>5650061
based and peanus pilled

This music in Ninja Gaiden :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceMfXBQ2eD4

I always skipped the cut scene where it shows up at the start of Act 2, and hated how it plays all the way through 4-3.

Also, that timed maze pyramid puzzle in Banjo Kazooie with the spike death trap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxfDus6fK3U

The music speeding up as the timer runs out really increases the tension, and if you fail, you get brutally murdered by spikes. The way the camera shows the spikes falling down without Banjo making a sound was always very unnerving to me, more so than if they had showed the body or played a goofy death sound or something.

Also this >>5650035

>>5649505
pic semi related

>>5636521

that game had a really creepy atmosphere sometimes

>>5630840
I played this for the first time with my buddy back in the day and we started laughing like assholes when this goofy-ass piano monster attacked us
yet we were legitimately scared of King Boom Boo in SA2

>Where my true believers at?
>(lisp noises)

>>5646053
I forgot about the enemies in that game. I think it's the primitive design coupled with the simplistic animation that just makes them really surreal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq_xj5lXmO0

>>5630821
>>>/vr/

>>5636206

Fatal Frame caused me permanent fucking brain damage.

I'm dead fucking serious.

It's been a year since I played and beat that game.

I hear voices in my head now.

Is someone there..?

>>5630821
I gazed upon the broken orange logo of the CRT, black surrounding it, mocking me for attempting to get this disordered machine to work. When I attempted to pull the plug off after waiting several hours, I heard the gates of Hell whisper into my ears, chiming bells of the dead. Yearning me to dine in hell with them. Struck with fear, I could do nothing but keep on listening...to the fearful harmony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTQan-O3lNM

>>5655416
licensed by AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>5635024
Pursuit sections were messed up as a kid but laughable as adult

>it's been 9 days and no one has mentioned this

>>5656035
What is this from?

>>5630821

>>5631763
What the FUCK are those things

>>5656698
Doom ep 3 ending

>>5648842
Untouchables on NES

FUCK this wall