Own this click merchant falcon and his boss gameranx. They really make some dumb videos. I also hate how they use non mainstream indie games and games from before 2001
Honestly what I was thinking of the whole time. That being said, as soon as I saw PT, i knew that it wasn't gonna be on the list. I think one of the worst parts about the doll house in RE8 was it takes away your weapons, so you KNOW deep down, its all just straight up horror. Aight no way you getting out of this without being terrified the whole time
I'm shocked that the Bioshock games never make it to these horror lists, there are some really unnerving places in those, especially in the Rapture ones.
Bioshock is rarely talked about in general, which is crazy because it's so unique and twisted while being super fun to play. The Bioshock games are super nostalgic for me.
So true. It's kinda like one long Horror game just with dozens of distinct Horror set-pieces all connected in an open world. It's actually my No.1 game of all time so maybe I oversell it but I don't think anything you or I have said isn't true.
I was waiting for them to bring up that part of the game where you're searching for the stores and you come into the mannequin area. It was just so unnerving waiting for someone to jump out at you or for them to move.
I'd argue that, despite Silent Hill 4 not being the best Silent Hill, the apartment in that game is one of the creepiest areas I have ever played a game in. The apartment constantly evolving into a creepier and more unsettling nightmare of a location. Combining this with the fact that the main villain thinks it's a living manifestation of his mother only makes it creepier.
That was probably the only good thing about that game lol. The fact that it was in first person, combined to the fact that in the beginning it's supposed to be your safe place, but it gradually becomes more and more haunted, was a very good piece of game design.
I don't know if someone else mentioned this, but you can escape from that Hospital room in Silent Hil 3. The moment when Heather's reflection freezes, that's when the door unlocks so you don't have to die in that room
I remember getting stuck in one section of Ravenholm and I swore it kept spawning in those scary skeletal fast zombies; you know, the ones that make the jittering noises as they scream and pounce on you.
"...you don't expect anything like this..." Unless you know that HP Lovecraft wrote a story called The Dunwich Horror. Once I saw the name of the building, I knew I was in for something creepy...
Exactly. As soon as I discovered it, I said to myself "well, better brace yourself and check your sanity cause this might take you a tiny wee bit outside your comfort zone". Okay, it didn't, since Lovecraft is my comfort zone.
NGL, I am "immune" to most horror after watching/playing it for like 30years or so. But the feeling of the hotel was really nice compared to most normal horror games and it was so unexpected :)
Fatal Frame's location is beyond creepy... more so if you linger around too long ghosts can randomly show up through walls heading right for you. And those "hidden" spots to take a photo off, accompanied by a scratching sound, can be quite scary to see nothing there till the photo reveals some ghost hiding under a table and touch staring right at you.
Yeah, Fatal Frame was spooky, I hated the one with the twisted neck. I also liked the 3rd one where the scares were a lot more subtle and happen in places you least expect. Just there, far away from the camera, watching....hiding....
Hellblade: Sunua's Saga - The part where you cannot see because it's dark, you're 100% relying on hearing and have to work your way through stealthily to get out Subnautica: The deeper you go... also, going out of bounds into deep waters. Are you afraid of the water? No? Do you want to be? Meeting a Ghost Leviathain and hearing it scream will make your spine stand on end. Metro Exodus: The Dead City. You encounter nuclear singularities that replay the life of the people right before they died, while giant gorillas and worms stalk you though halls that looks straight out of body horror. Dead Space 2: Return to the Ishamura - all of the stress from the previous game is there... till you finally get attacked.
Yeah! Senua's Saga! I had compose myself multiple times to get through it. That part was diabolical. No gore, no jumpscares, just the atmosphere, the sounds, the voices...
@@ronaldg6754 Especially the sound. Their use of Binaural audio was a masterstroke. If you're not playing this game with a pair of headphones, you're not playing it.
Cyberpunk also stood out to me with a few areas. Obviously namely that one path you can take in the DLC where you get stalked by an unkillable spider bot. Or that one abandoned building that is used for a side quest and also part of the main story.
YESSS! The hotel in Vampire The Masquerade Bloodline 2...I was hoping this place would get a mention. Man, that place was so creepy with some excellent jump scares.
@Soniclover3593 the simplest explanation without spoilers if you never finished the 1st game is you're playing a different person, someone she doesn't have an interest in. Plus, events at the end of the previous game made Alma angrier and more unhinged.
the fact they mentioned vampire the masquerade made me so happy and yes that level did catch you off guard and its not the only creepy one in that game. The vhs tape was also creepy, loved that game
I cannot express how hyped I am that you included the Ocean House Hotel from Bloodlines. It terrified the crap out of me as a teenager. Every time I played it again after my first, I had to use the console to no clip to the necklace you're supposed to get for the quest, then no clip out, and it was the only thing I would cheat in that game. The crack house full of sickly vampire zombies is also freaky.
I was waiting for the Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines one, it's one that sticks with me still, I don't even remember what the mission was, but I remember feeling really creeped out by it, and was so different from the rest of the game it felt like.
The funny part or the one from Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, is that the lady you received the quest from tells you 'oh yeah there's ghost, but they are harmless' and then you walk into a kitchen at some point during the quest and get obliterated by thrown objects.
The Manji Cult level from the original Tenchu takes the game on a very creepy turn. Those scary sounding/looking/moving zombie like enemies still haunt my dreams . More love for Tenchu!
The one that always gave me the worst creeps was in Dragon Age origins during the Anvil of the Void quest when Hespith is reciting the poem. Puts me on edge even now after playing it several times.
This. 💯 Not necessarily on edge, but just completely disgusted, the whole of the Deep Roads section is abhorrent, other than once, for 1 cheevo, the culprit is quickly dealt with on every other playthrough. Also Baldur's Gate 3, Moonrise Towers basement section always gives me a stomachache. 🤢
I wouldn't include them in this list, but RDR2's Bayou Nwa & Roanoke Ridge ambience are eerily sinister. You feel susceptible to anything at all times.
Walking through Blue Water Marsh at night is honestly terrifying. It wasn’t that scary in Country Pursuits because I had Dutch and Thomas, but doing it solo is a nightmare.
The guilty spark level in Halo CE, Ravenholm from HL2, New Hope from Gears 2, The scarecrow scene from arkham asylum, and the derelict ship from Republic commando all could have been on this list too.
Kinda surprising nothing from the Fear series was in the list. I was glad you at least added Alien Isolation, even if it's not in the top 20. If the list was bigger or had a few honorable mentions i would have also added the Ravenholm area from Half Life 2 and that whole Flood introduction in the first Halo.
Thanks Gameranx. Can forward these list to my friends that laugh at me for the jump scares when I play horror games. Glad to see I wasn't the only one, lol.
Good video Falcon, i usually don't like survival horror games like these but i played Alien Isolation not knowing it was that type of game. I ended up really enjoying the game and completed it wich is rare for me to do. I saw a couple here in the video im going to try. Thank you sir
I misssed "We Don't Go To Revenholm" from Half-Life 2. One of the few levels in a game that scared me back in the time, just beacuse i did not expect it. It was a very well designed level, good sound design, the pacing was excellent and the story telling was spot on. Just the fact that it managed to belivalble remove all your weapons excpet the gravity gun just before entering is almost unique in gaming history.
For me, I'd say the creepiest experience I had in gaming in the past couple years is House Wellows Manor in Octopath 2. So you IMMEDIATELY know something is up with this place because the moment you step into it, the music stops. Not just the background ambiance music, even the music that plays during battles stops. Furthermore, at the end of each battle, the characters are supposed to say a little quote and pose. But they don't. It's utter silence, as if the characters in your party KNOW they shouldn't be here. The only sound is the sound of your footsteps. There's creepy paintings around the manor, the house is decrepit with busted floors and staircases, there's only two enemies in the manor to fight, and it truly TRULY gives you a feeling of unsettling abandonment. Yet... As you explore, you just can't shake that something is wrong with this place. Something happened here, this is more than just an abandoned house in the woods. Something is wrong. Then, you switch the game to night mode. House Wellow's Manor remains silent, but now candles are inexplicably lit around the manor. People are staring at you from the floors below, but when you get there to speak to them, they're gone. Doors slam. Music plays inexplicably. People are laughing and talking. It is so unsettling that one particularly well-placed sound made me drop my switch. Honestly it only really exists to fulfill a side quest, but man, that side quest fleshes out the truth of what happened at the manor and it is unsettling and horrifying... especially since there are NPCs scattered throughout the land that connect back to the manor. It is a beautiful piece of horror in an otherwise fun RPG.
Im really glad yall brought up SWAT 4! The creepiness of storytelling just based on the set pieces of locations can be crazy. I highly recommend yall look into Ready or Not and the story lines they craft over multiple different levels without much being said from the protagonist or npcs. Just very deep world building and pre-reports at the beginning of missions.
SWAT 4 is a definitive must-play, there's even a big overhaul mod called Elite Force which improves on it without perverting its essence. However, I must call out Ready Or Not for the cash-grab that it is. They've rushed a 1.0 when the game was far from ready. While it technically looks great, the core of what made SWAT 4 what it was (i.e its writing, storytelling and A.I) is noticeably absent. It's pretty much a "Terrorist Hunt" game à la Rainbow Six Vegas. And I very much doubt they'll address that, so hold onto your money for now if you're reading this
So what's the specific location that is creepier than the rest of the game? I see three games listed but not one location. The list is about that, not just scary games.
Resident evil 4. The part when you control Ashley and go into the dark area with the suits of armor that come to life. Loved that game but that part was so creepy!
I hated that whole part. I had to play through it while streaming it to my then-bf over Discord so he could tell me to just keep going when I wanted to stay in a hidey hole for the rest of the night
in Theif, I don't remember what level but that insane asylum one...look in the keyhole before going in and you get an eyeball appearing...go on stage and behind the curtain, you see mannequins and when you walk past them to pick up something and once you turn around, the mannequins are right in your face
One of the Bioshock levels was like that. The one with the characters wearing rabbit masks. Coming out of a vigor machine, looking left and an NPC staring at you.
2:12 I appreciate how you guys flipflop back and forth between the original PS3 Demon's Souls and the PS5 Remake. No, I mean that in all seriousness, it's really nice and neat to see them compared side by side like that ☺
That thumbnail was so cool. They should have more games that do that, where they send you on follow missions, and there's little signs that tell you, "It's a trap!"
Are you serious? Did you really think that was in the game? Because it isn't, it's gameranx adding a horror element to a scene that is literally just two friends walking and talking to each other. If you've actually played The Last of Us 2 you'd realize the thumbnail is bullshit
The scary thing about The Cradle isn't that it's haunted by what's in it. It's that the building itself is an entity with thoughts and memories and intentions. When you enter it you aren't exploring a house, you're exploring its memories of you being there.
Swat 4 is an amazing coop game but sadly forgotten by the developers, even swat 3 had it moments but swat had such great atmosphere and different types of missions like the creepy sex offender
It's kinda comedic while being terrifying at the same time. I love how they made a puppet show to advertise RE8 and prove that it's not as scary as RE7
A Gameranx video is up there with that euphoric shot I'd get when a new episode of X-Play would air on G4 back in the day. Like a pinpoint of light in the dark tunnel of life.
Going way back to my childhood, I can remember jumping out at my brother while he was playing Doom. At night. Alone in the dark. During one of those down times in the game where you're just constantly expecting an ambush... I swear he hit the ceiling. 😅
I have a suggestion for one of these lists: Best/funniest lines of dialogue repeated over and over by enemies during firefights. Or if you want a more specific list: Best/funniest lines of "Oh, no! We are losing the fight!" dialogue by enemies during firefights. The 2013 Tomb Raider has "She's kicking our asses!" or Hit Man's "He's going for headshots!" or Fark Cry 3's "He's slaughtering us!" And (I can't remember the games name)'s "We're getting killed out here!"
Condemned and Condemned 2 are so good! Underrated horror games that I wish finished telling its story… never got that 3rd one sadly. Hopefully one day… if not, a remake of 1 and 2 would be welcomed as well 😌
The haunted bathroom in one of the original Hitman games really caught me off guard as a kid. Quake 4 was a great throwback. That scene creeped me out.
Interesting list. Didn't expect to see condemned here, I've played it loooong ago and it's terrifying. Many moments there are timed very well, first creating tension and resolving in absolute horror. But I've never seen anyone talking about it
STALKER devs nailed atmosphere, because the atmosphere is perfect in all its tonalities in STALKER games. Day, evening, morning, thunder, storm, rain, night, dawn, midday, sunny, cloudy. It looked great and could give you all the feels about all the weathers and locations, inside and out of the buildings. Half of the time or less than half, you could feel safe inside buildings, but mostly you didn't, but you still wanted to be inside buildings and structures because of monsters roaming around, even inside here and there that had spawn points.
Cyberpunk 2077's Cynosure facility, basically the only horror section in a game that's been 50+ hours of non-horror until you get to this mission. The sudden change in pace, the fact that your weapons do zero damage to the machine that's hunting you, and the fact that you can't even use your cyberware, make that section a really good horror piece. Add on to the fact that it's the only horror piece in Cyberpunk and I think that makes it even more effective.
I just visited Dunwich building yesterday dude. I never feels so creeped out visiting anyplace in FO3, but once i entered this building i just wanna burned the book quickly and grapped the bobblehead, and skedaddle out of the building 😂
Halfway through I was thinking to myself that i was going to have to comment about Thief's orphanage, so felt validated to see it in the list. Haven't even thought of that game in so long, but that level clearly left its mark.
Perhaps scary for some but The Rabbit Hole mission from Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway was really unexpected for me when i first played through that mission considering most of the missions in the game was just standard Ww2 shooting game.
The Blue Knees section in the game Madison really freaked me out. Being locked in listening to the creature's song and not knowing if it was gunna find you or not, the way it kinda glitched at you as it moved.
A few people already said it, but the Ravenholm chapter in Half-Life 2 has stuck with me for years. They foreshadowed it so well! I am sad we’ll never see Half-Life 3.
One of the scariest places in a game I played growing up was this tomb in Drakan the Ancients' Gates. There was no light unless you had a torch and skeletons with glowing eyes walking around. Freaked me out as a kid
The department store in Condemned was great! My buddy was playing it and his girlfriend was there. I remember she was like,"The mannequin...no!" as the maniquins all moved when the flashlight dimmed! We all worked at a haunted house at the time so we absolutely loved the scare. It was simply exquisite. A long set up with a gratifying payoff.
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I'm surprised Ravenholm (from Half-Life 2) was not mentioned! That place truly horrified me the first time I had to go through. I hated every street and every corner of that cursed town.
Regarding Thief, it wasn't just about you usually thriving in the shadows, but the game franchise was the first that took advantage of stereo sounds and you usually used it to help you to avoid guards, but in the horror levels, it just added to your paranoia!
The abysal woods from shadow of the erd tree dlc. It's not scary the next time you play through the area but it's scary the very time, from the messages left behind to those entities patrolling and how the game forces you to go into sekiro stealth mode, just brilliant.
The Doll House level from Resident Evil Village: Shadows of Rose DLC. Having to avoid those Mia Mannequins was by far more terrifying than having to avoid the giant fetus monster in the main game.
Surprised you didn’t mention the entire damn swamp from RDR2. At night, it’s like super creepy, which isn’t helped by a floating apparition crying out in pain and literal cannibals roaming deep in the marshes, with their recently sacrificed preys nailed to trees.
''You shouldn't go in alone!'' Dawg these games are singleplayer.
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But its dangerous to go on. Take this.
Sounds like a you problem
Own this click merchant falcon and his boss gameranx. They really make some dumb videos. I also hate how they use non mainstream indie games and games from before 2001
@@madridforever933yeah because the last of us 2 and demon souls are such underrated indie games…
@@Nathanmcvarnockyou just picked out two of the few mainstream games. Failed sneak diss junior.
The fact that resident evil 8’s doll house wasn’t on the list is a big shocker. That level traumatized me still to this day
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The big baby
Love resident evil but 7 is actually just to terrifying for me
Honestly what I was thinking of the whole time. That being said, as soon as I saw PT, i knew that it wasn't gonna be on the list. I think one of the worst parts about the doll house in RE8 was it takes away your weapons, so you KNOW deep down, its all just straight up horror. Aight no way you getting out of this without being terrified the whole time
I am disappointed too! I thought they would put it at #1.
0:00 Intro
0:18 Condemned
2:12 Demon Souls
4:21 Fallout 3
5:55 TLOU pt 2
7:25 Quake 4
8:54 Visage
10:07 Siren Blood Curse
11:40 The Evil Within
12:59 The Outer Wilds
14:20 Witcher 3
15:34 Silent Hill 2
17:01 Amnesia The Bunker
18:47 Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines
19:59 Dead Space
20:47 Swat 4
22:01 Bloodborne
23:30 Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
24:47 P.T.
26:17 Silent Hill 3
27:48 Thief 3
Thanks, you are the MVP.
I don't get, why they only use generic titles. We all have to watch the video anyway to get what they want to tell us.
Thank you🎉
Awesome, thanks a lot!
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i hate gameranx not putting this details on their timeline, damn ch in need of longer views
I'm shocked that the Bioshock games never make it to these horror lists, there are some really unnerving places in those, especially in the Rapture ones.
The plastic surgery area is pretty much a horror game.
Facts
Bioshock is rarely talked about in general, which is crazy because it's so unique and twisted while being super fun to play. The Bioshock games are super nostalgic for me.
So true. It's kinda like one long Horror game just with dozens of distinct Horror set-pieces all connected in an open world.
It's actually my No.1 game of all time so maybe I oversell it but I don't think anything you or I have said isn't true.
I was waiting for them to bring up that part of the game where you're searching for the stores and you come into the mannequin area. It was just so unnerving waiting for someone to jump out at you or for them to move.
I'd argue that, despite Silent Hill 4 not being the best Silent Hill, the apartment in that game is one of the creepiest areas I have ever played a game in. The apartment constantly evolving into a creepier and more unsettling nightmare of a location. Combining this with the fact that the main villain thinks it's a living manifestation of his mother only makes it creepier.
That was probably the only good thing about that game lol.
The fact that it was in first person, combined to the fact that in the beginning it's supposed to be your safe place, but it gradually becomes more and more haunted, was a very good piece of game design.
I am not personally a huge fan of 4, but DAMN if it wasn't genuinely terrifying.
That game was so scary, my friend and I would turn off the lights and shit out pants playing the DEMO lol
I don't know if someone else mentioned this, but you can escape from that Hospital room in Silent Hil 3. The moment when Heather's reflection freezes, that's when the door unlocks so you don't have to die in that room
I was gonna say this if no one else had 🙌
Exactly, no need to wait to die
Ravenholm from Half Life 2, man, those headcrab zombies scared me so much as a kid
I was shocked that wasn't in the list at all.
Me too...as "a kid" *cough*...
I remember getting stuck in one section of Ravenholm and I swore it kept spawning in those scary skeletal fast zombies; you know, the ones that make the jittering noises as they scream and pounce on you.
I still hear the howlers....
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"...you don't expect anything like this..." Unless you know that HP Lovecraft wrote a story called The Dunwich Horror. Once I saw the name of the building, I knew I was in for something creepy...
Lovecraft really knows how to f*** with the reader. Obsessed with his work but goddamn…
Exactly. As soon as I discovered it, I said to myself "well, better brace yourself and check your sanity cause this might take you a tiny wee bit outside your comfort zone". Okay, it didn't, since Lovecraft is my comfort zone.
That goddamn wraith in mansion in the Witcher
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@plameng2679 Geralt > Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
@@vuvuvu6291 I'm not talking about the boss there was another tough bastard in the attic or sum
Not the mansion itself but rather glancing a leahen just outside the house for the first time ever
Wait what?!
Playing it for the first time right now!!
Friends would laugh at me when I told them I got creeped out in Vampire the Masquerade hotel scene. Glad to see I wasn't the only one, lol.
NGL, I am "immune" to most horror after watching/playing it for like 30years or so. But the feeling of the hotel was really nice compared to most normal horror games and it was so unexpected :)
Nah fam that place is creepy af. You ain't the only one for sho
I made the (fortunate) mistake of playing the game in 5.1 surround. I think you can work out what happened next…
Bloodlines hotel is easily one of the creepiest levels in gaming. The werewolf evasion level was pretty good too
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Halo, the first time you encounter the Flood, was so unexpected and was just creepy
That's a funny way of spelling "panic-inducing."
Agreed
Definitely a huge shock. No one expected body horror, and parasitic aliens in a game about a war against another species of aliens.
Was about to type this lol
I remember me and my friend playing that together and running into the Flood, holy crap thr panic induced anxiety from that level was nuts.
Fatal Frame's location is beyond creepy... more so if you linger around too long ghosts can randomly show up through walls heading right for you.
And those "hidden" spots to take a photo off, accompanied by a scratching sound, can be quite scary to see nothing there till the photo reveals some ghost hiding under a table and touch staring right at you.
Funnily enough, I was literally playing the first game late last night. That is one game series I refuse to play with the lights out. FUUUUUUQ THAT
@@bronzin1445 exactly how I felt playing it way back 22 years ago 😅
Yeah, Fatal Frame was spooky, I hated the one with the twisted neck.
I also liked the 3rd one where the scares were a lot more subtle and happen in places you least expect. Just there, far away from the camera, watching....hiding....
Hellblade: Sunua's Saga - The part where you cannot see because it's dark, you're 100% relying on hearing and have to work your way through stealthily to get out
Subnautica: The deeper you go... also, going out of bounds into deep waters. Are you afraid of the water? No? Do you want to be? Meeting a Ghost Leviathain and hearing it scream will make your spine stand on end.
Metro Exodus: The Dead City. You encounter nuclear singularities that replay the life of the people right before they died, while giant gorillas and worms stalk you though halls that looks straight out of body horror.
Dead Space 2: Return to the Ishamura - all of the stress from the previous game is there... till you finally get attacked.
Yeah! Senua's Saga! I had compose myself multiple times to get through it. That part was diabolical. No gore, no jumpscares, just the atmosphere, the sounds, the voices...
@@ronaldg6754 Especially the sound. Their use of Binaural audio was a masterstroke. If you're not playing this game with a pair of headphones, you're not playing it.
It was exactly 4 years ago when I played the rat king part of the TLOU. Damn time flies.
It only flies faster as you get older
It’s ok. Life is the longest thing you’ll ever experience.
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"Life is the longest thing you’ll ever experience."
So basically you are telling us you have never been to a DMV in California.
@@Jeremy-ql1or haha. Well, you aren’t wrong.
That entire level is something I can’t go back to
You gotta dim the countdown number background gameranx. It's hitting my eyes like a flashbang at night
Cyberpunk also stood out to me with a few areas. Obviously namely that one path you can take in the DLC where you get stalked by an unkillable spider bot. Or that one abandoned building that is used for a side quest and also part of the main story.
Anything involving scavs always creeps me out so much in that game.
Oh right that one building
the one cyberpsycho thats a in the maelstrom sector will forever creep me out
YESSS! The hotel in Vampire The Masquerade Bloodline 2...I was hoping this place would get a mention. Man, that place was so creepy with some excellent jump scares.
VtMB 2 isn't even out yet (it may never come out tbh, but...yeah)
I finished Ailen Isolation back in january, and my gosh that game hasn't lost what makes it scary. Impressive to think that game is 10yrs old!
Curse that game! I'm at level one since 2019, that's how slow I move.
IT'S 10 YEARS OLD?!?!
WHY AM I ANCIENT 😭😭😭😅
Play it now with the AISolation and Alien Hunter mods in 4k or dldsr, still beautifully amazing how good it looks!
Ravenholme gave us no choice but to go alone
FEAR 2 had some good locations too. And it's scarier this time around because Alma is not on your side in this one.
The school.
Why is Alma not on your side in that one?
@Soniclover3593 the simplest explanation without spoilers if you never finished the 1st game is you're playing a different person, someone she doesn't have an interest in. Plus, events at the end of the previous game made Alma angrier and more unhinged.
the fact they mentioned vampire the masquerade made me so happy and yes that level did catch you off guard and its not the only creepy one in that game. The vhs tape was also creepy, loved that game
I cannot express how hyped I am that you included the Ocean House Hotel from Bloodlines. It terrified the crap out of me as a teenager. Every time I played it again after my first, I had to use the console to no clip to the necklace you're supposed to get for the quest, then no clip out, and it was the only thing I would cheat in that game. The crack house full of sickly vampire zombies is also freaky.
I was waiting for the Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines one, it's one that sticks with me still, I don't even remember what the mission was, but I remember feeling really creeped out by it, and was so different from the rest of the game it felt like.
The Mount Massive Asylum from Outlast still creeps me out to this day
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The funny part or the one from Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, is that the lady you received the quest from tells you 'oh yeah there's ghost, but they are harmless' and then you walk into a kitchen at some point during the quest and get obliterated by thrown objects.
The Manji Cult level from the original Tenchu takes the game on a very creepy turn. Those scary sounding/looking/moving zombie like enemies still haunt my dreams . More love for Tenchu!
Level 6!
The persistent crying baby sounds, those shambling zombie things, and then the freakish boss?!
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Dude. VTMB, SWAT 4, Stalker… you referenced some true classics in this one. Good work 👍
Man that part where the person ambushes you at the workbench in TLOU2 messed me up for the whole rest of the game
Playing that entire game gave me so many heart palpitations 😂
THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING VTM!!! That hotel still creeps me out.
These are all such good locations
The one that always gave me the worst creeps was in Dragon Age origins during the Anvil of the Void quest when Hespith is reciting the poem. Puts me on edge even now after playing it several times.
This. 💯
Not necessarily on edge, but just completely disgusted, the whole of the Deep Roads section is abhorrent, other than once, for 1 cheevo, the culprit is quickly dealt with on every other playthrough.
Also Baldur's Gate 3, Moonrise Towers basement section always gives me a stomachache. 🤢
I wouldn't include them in this list, but RDR2's Bayou Nwa & Roanoke Ridge ambience are eerily sinister. You feel susceptible to anything at all times.
The night folk
Walking through Blue Water Marsh at night is honestly terrifying. It wasn’t that scary in Country Pursuits because I had Dutch and Thomas, but doing it solo is a nightmare.
@@juliansandler6423 also the Murfrees and skinners
The guilty spark level in Halo CE, Ravenholm from HL2, New Hope from Gears 2, The scarecrow scene from arkham asylum, and the derelict ship from Republic commando all could have been on this list too.
Don't forget Professor Pyg's place in Arkham Knight, I probably wouldn't even be caught going down that same alley.
Kinda surprising nothing from the Fear series was in the list. I was glad you at least added Alien Isolation, even if it's not in the top 20. If the list was bigger or had a few honorable mentions i would have also added the Ravenholm area from Half Life 2 and that whole Flood introduction in the first Halo.
I think the more disturbing thing in dead space was in dead space 2 when you went back to the ishimura and NOTHING HAPPENED for a long period of time.
Thanks Gameranx. Can forward these list to my friends that laugh at me for the jump scares when I play horror games. Glad to see I wasn't the only one, lol.
Good video Falcon, i usually don't like survival horror games like these but i played Alien Isolation not knowing it was that type of game. I ended up really enjoying the game and completed it wich is rare for me to do. I saw a couple here in the video im going to try. Thank you sir
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I misssed "We Don't Go To Revenholm" from Half-Life 2. One of the few levels in a game that scared me back in the time, just beacuse i did not expect it. It was a very well designed level, good sound design, the pacing was excellent and the story telling was spot on. Just the fact that it managed to belivalble remove all your weapons excpet the gravity gun just before entering is almost unique in gaming history.
For me, I'd say the creepiest experience I had in gaming in the past couple years is House Wellows Manor in Octopath 2. So you IMMEDIATELY know something is up with this place because the moment you step into it, the music stops. Not just the background ambiance music, even the music that plays during battles stops. Furthermore, at the end of each battle, the characters are supposed to say a little quote and pose. But they don't. It's utter silence, as if the characters in your party KNOW they shouldn't be here. The only sound is the sound of your footsteps. There's creepy paintings around the manor, the house is decrepit with busted floors and staircases, there's only two enemies in the manor to fight, and it truly TRULY gives you a feeling of unsettling abandonment. Yet...
As you explore, you just can't shake that something is wrong with this place. Something happened here, this is more than just an abandoned house in the woods. Something is wrong. Then, you switch the game to night mode. House Wellow's Manor remains silent, but now candles are inexplicably lit around the manor. People are staring at you from the floors below, but when you get there to speak to them, they're gone. Doors slam. Music plays inexplicably. People are laughing and talking. It is so unsettling that one particularly well-placed sound made me drop my switch.
Honestly it only really exists to fulfill a side quest, but man, that side quest fleshes out the truth of what happened at the manor and it is unsettling and horrifying... especially since there are NPCs scattered throughout the land that connect back to the manor. It is a beautiful piece of horror in an otherwise fun RPG.
The Condemned games were SO good. I would love to se a remake or a sequel or, as you said, a spiritual successor
Shalebridge Cradle - 20 years old now. Rarely matched.
Gonna look it up
I might have suggested the Cathedral from the Original Thief Game
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Yep, I still remember that hotel from vampire the masquerade. Actually that's the only mission that I remember from that game.
Im really glad yall brought up SWAT 4! The creepiness of storytelling just based on the set pieces of locations can be crazy. I highly recommend yall look into Ready or Not and the story lines they craft over multiple different levels without much being said from the protagonist or npcs. Just very deep world building and pre-reports at the beginning of missions.
SWAT 4 is a definitive must-play, there's even a big overhaul mod called Elite Force which improves on it without perverting its essence.
However, I must call out Ready Or Not for the cash-grab that it is. They've rushed a 1.0 when the game was far from ready. While it technically looks great, the core of what made SWAT 4 what it was (i.e its writing, storytelling and A.I) is noticeably absent. It's pretty much a "Terrorist Hunt" game à la Rainbow Six Vegas. And I very much doubt they'll address that, so hold onto your money for now if you're reading this
Good list Falcon, so much variety to the games you pulled from, it speaks to your knowledge
Not having Dying Light in this list is a crime
And outlast
Or Fear
So what's the specific location that is creepier than the rest of the game? I see three games listed but not one location. The list is about that, not just scary games.
Dl 1 yes, dl 2 no
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I totally expected to see Ravenholm here, maybe too obvious, but creepy as hell.
Resident evil 4. The part when you control Ashley and go into the dark area with the suits of armor that come to life. Loved that game but that part was so creepy!
I hated that whole part. I had to play through it while streaming it to my then-bf over Discord so he could tell me to just keep going when I wanted to stay in a hidey hole for the rest of the night
OMG! Someone remember Thief 3 and THAT mission! That was hella experience! TY for reminding
Man, I wished they made a new Condemned (after giving us a remastered 1-2). I love those games!
in Theif, I don't remember what level but that insane asylum one...look in the keyhole before going in and you get an eyeball appearing...go on stage and behind the curtain, you see mannequins and when you walk past them to pick up something and once you turn around, the mannequins are right in your face
One of the Bioshock levels was like that. The one with the characters wearing rabbit masks. Coming out of a vigor machine, looking left and an NPC staring at you.
This is one of my favorite Gameranx videos in sometime. Great work putting this together yall.
2:12 I appreciate how you guys flipflop back and forth between the original PS3 Demon's Souls and the PS5 Remake. No, I mean that in all seriousness, it's really nice and neat to see them compared side by side like that ☺
Unfortunate that the sarcastic “I like how…” is so common that you have to clarify the times it’s said normally
That thumbnail was so cool. They should have more games that do that, where they send you on follow missions, and there's little signs that tell you, "It's a trap!"
Are you serious? Did you really think that was in the game? Because it isn't, it's gameranx adding a horror element to a scene that is literally just two friends walking and talking to each other.
If you've actually played The Last of Us 2 you'd realize the thumbnail is bullshit
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The scary thing about The Cradle isn't that it's haunted by what's in it. It's that the building itself is an entity with thoughts and memories and intentions. When you enter it you aren't exploring a house, you're exploring its memories of you being there.
Swat 4 is an amazing coop game but sadly forgotten by the developers, even swat 3 had it moments but swat had such great atmosphere and different types of missions like the creepy sex offender
Jake and Falcon ❤. Both are awesome.
Resident Evil 7 is still a game a refuse to play
I don’t blame you 😂😂 it’s a great game though
Can't handle horror for shit but i played it and honestly its more fun than scary
It's kinda comedic while being terrifying at the same time. I love how they made a puppet show to advertise RE8 and prove that it's not as scary as RE7
I’ve played through the intro maybe a dozen times but I just can’t bring myself to actually play through it
I played the demo and got to the house and quit out
20:24 "meat kudzoo" had me rolling😂😂
A Gameranx video is up there with that euphoric shot I'd get when a new episode of X-Play would air on G4 back in the day. Like a pinpoint of light in the dark tunnel of life.
I would also like to add Dathomir from Jedi: Fallen Order. Very creepy planet, especially with those Nightsister zombies
Going way back to my childhood, I can remember jumping out at my brother while he was playing Doom.
At night. Alone in the dark. During one of those down times in the game where you're just constantly expecting an ambush...
I swear he hit the ceiling. 😅
I have a suggestion for one of these lists: Best/funniest lines of dialogue repeated over and over by enemies during firefights. Or if you want a more specific list: Best/funniest lines of "Oh, no! We are losing the fight!" dialogue by enemies during firefights. The 2013 Tomb Raider has "She's kicking our asses!" or Hit Man's "He's going for headshots!" or Fark Cry 3's "He's slaughtering us!" And (I can't remember the games name)'s "We're getting killed out here!"
Condemned and Condemned 2 are so good! Underrated horror games that I wish finished telling its story… never got that 3rd one sadly. Hopefully one day… if not, a remake of 1 and 2 would be welcomed as well 😌
You should do a video of games that changed their genre after release (if that even exists) but I would be surprised if it has happened.
Not after release but sequel
Jak 1 to Jak 2
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Yeah, Capcom basically made RE7 because of PT and took all its concepts lol
The haunted bathroom in one of the original Hitman games really caught me off guard as a kid.
Quake 4 was a great throwback. That scene creeped me out.
That point in Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty when it becomes Alien Isolation out of nowhere...
30 minutes!?!? goatranx never runs out of ideas
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The most disturbing thing in the last of us 2 IS Abby. 😂
Interesting list. Didn't expect to see condemned here, I've played it loooong ago and it's terrifying. Many moments there are timed very well, first creating tension and resolving in absolute horror.
But I've never seen anyone talking about it
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sweet. glad you guys went with this topic.
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STALKER devs nailed atmosphere, because the atmosphere is perfect in all its tonalities in STALKER games. Day, evening, morning, thunder, storm, rain, night, dawn, midday, sunny, cloudy. It looked great and could give you all the feels about all the weathers and locations, inside and out of the buildings. Half of the time or less than half, you could feel safe inside buildings, but mostly you didn't, but you still wanted to be inside buildings and structures because of monsters roaming around, even inside here and there that had spawn points.
Hey Gameranx team, thanks for uploading another great entertaining video! Keep up the great work!
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i would add the "human farm" Place from Cyberpunk 2077 - those who played this quest know what i mean, this story is really on a different Level
Thank you for putting my favourite game of all time in the number one spot :)
Also The Rancor Pit in Jedi Survivor is another one, if you venture there on a higher difficulty youre gonna get killed in one hit
Cyberpunk 2077's Cynosure facility, basically the only horror section in a game that's been 50+ hours of non-horror until you get to this mission. The sudden change in pace, the fact that your weapons do zero damage to the machine that's hunting you, and the fact that you can't even use your cyberware, make that section a really good horror piece. Add on to the fact that it's the only horror piece in Cyberpunk and I think that makes it even more effective.
I’m surprised that heavy rains DLC : the taxidermist, didn’t get a mention, I still have nightmares from that place…
There was that anatomical display in the Ghostwire Tokyo DLC. Definitely one of the scariest moments in gaming history to me. That thing is relentless
I just visited Dunwich building yesterday dude. I never feels so creeped out visiting anyplace in FO3, but once i entered this building i just wanna burned the book quickly and grapped the bobblehead, and skedaddle out of the building 😂
Halfway through I was thinking to myself that i was going to have to comment about Thief's orphanage, so felt validated to see it in the list. Haven't even thought of that game in so long, but that level clearly left its mark.
Perhaps scary for some but The Rabbit Hole mission from Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway was really unexpected for me when i first played through that mission considering most of the missions in the game was just standard Ww2 shooting game.
Let’s not forget The Bunker from Uncharted Drake’s Fortune. Talk about putting a horror section in a non-horror game…
Damn I love these videos. Especially when it comes to creepy and horror elements.
The Blue Knees section in the game Madison really freaked me out. Being locked in listening to the creature's song and not knowing if it was gunna find you or not, the way it kinda glitched at you as it moved.
A few people already said it, but the Ravenholm chapter in Half-Life 2 has stuck with me for years. They foreshadowed it so well! I am sad we’ll never see Half-Life 3.
One of the scariest places in a game I played growing up was this tomb in Drakan the Ancients' Gates. There was no light unless you had a torch and skeletons with glowing eyes walking around. Freaked me out as a kid
The department store in Condemned was great! My buddy was playing it and his girlfriend was there. I remember she was like,"The mannequin...no!" as the maniquins all moved when the flashlight dimmed! We all worked at a haunted house at the time so we absolutely loved the scare. It was simply exquisite. A long set up with a gratifying payoff.
I'm surprised Ravenholm (from Half-Life 2) was not mentioned! That place truly horrified me the first time I had to go through. I hated every street and every corner of that cursed town.
Regarding Thief, it wasn't just about you usually thriving in the shadows, but the game franchise was the first that took advantage of stereo sounds and you usually used it to help you to avoid guards, but in the horror levels, it just added to your paranoia!
The abysal woods from shadow of the erd tree dlc. It's not scary the next time you play through the area but it's scary the very time, from the messages left behind to those entities patrolling and how the game forces you to go into sekiro stealth mode, just brilliant.
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The Doll House level from Resident Evil Village: Shadows of Rose DLC. Having to avoid those Mia Mannequins was by far more terrifying than having to avoid the giant fetus monster in the main game.
Bro abyssal woods in shadow of the erdtree is literally the definition of being forced to be alone.
Surprised you didn’t mention the entire damn swamp from RDR2. At night, it’s like super creepy, which isn’t helped by a floating apparition crying out in pain and literal cannibals roaming deep in the marshes, with their recently sacrificed preys nailed to trees.
Also in TW3WH, Deadwight Wood is seriously an untapped potential as one of the creepiest location for quests and exploration in the HoS expansion.
My two number 1 picks got left off. The pre-school from Dead Space 2, and the Surgery Hall from Baldurs Gate 3.